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Posted on 06/21/2019 4:33:26 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Huh. Guess he must have been hanging out with Bill Clinton. – Joe Biden’s wayward son, Hunter Biden, was sued yesterday by a 28 year-old woman in Arkansas for refusing to accept responsibility for the son he allegedly fathered with her. This is not a case of ancient history coming back to haunt him, either, as the child is just 10 months old. Even more disgustingly, the fathering of the child came during a time when the horndog Hunter was involved in a relationship with the widow of his late brother, Beau Biden.
Holy cow.
The lawsuit comes at a rather inconvenient time for Hunter, who became fabulously wealthy while his Pop was selling his influence as Vice President – no doubt emulating the Hillary Clinton game plan – as Hunter just recently got married, but to yet another woman named Melissa Cohen.
A quick Google search indicates this scandalous news – which would justifiably be above-the-fold, massive headlines were it about the son of any Republican – was not reported by the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC 0r CBS. Imagine that.
Tired of all this WINNING yet? – The S&P 500 closed at yet another all-time high on Thursday. Donald Trump says, “you’re welcome.”
Speaking of President Donald Trump, be glad he’s in that office. – The Pantsuit Princess, who famously cackled and bragged about taking out Mohamar Gadaffi (and thus throwing Libya into a seemingly endless civil war), would have been getting our military personnel killed in yet another Middle East war with Iran long ago, and would still have us fiddling around doing nothing much effective with ISIS in Syria.
Lindsey Graham is no different. His years of following John McCain around like a little puppy dog come out every time anyone in the Middle East so much as shouts boo!, so yesterday’s downing of a U.S. drone by Iran’s radical Islamic government threw Bad Lindsey into a fit of McCain-like war-mongering. Here’s what he told reporters in an impromptu press gaggle yesterday:
“My ‘red line’ is if there’s any more disruption of shipping in the Strait of Hormuz that’s linked to Iran,” the South Carolina Republican said. “Take out their navy, bomb their refineries if there’s any more attacks on American interests.”
Oh. Well, hey, at least he didn’t go where McCain always went, and recommend putting 200,000 or more U.S. soldiers on the ground:
“Go after Iran so that they’ll…feel pain,” he continued. “I’m not talking about invading Iran, I’m not talking about a land invasion. If they go back into the enrichment business at a level that would lead to a nuclear weapon, we need to sit down with Israel and other allies and come up with a way to stop it.”
Glad he’s not talking about McCain’s longed-for ground invasion, but he is talking about putting our fighter and bomber pilots at great risk, given that Iran just proved its air defenses can shoot down a drone that typically operates at 60,000 feet. Are we really all ready to see Americans start coming back home from that god-forsaken part of the world in body bags again? Isn’t it enough that we still see this happen occasionally due to our continued presence in the sh*thole country that is Afghanistan after 18 long years?
Donald Trump was not elected to get us involved in more wars – he was elected to end the ones he inherited from the war-mongering 16 years that preceded his Inauguration. When he took office, President Trump inherited a situation in which the U.S. military was actively involved in no fewer than seven different civil wars across the Middle East and Africa. Although we still remain in Afghanistan with a diminished presence, he has otherwise greatly reduced U.S. involvement, destroying ISIS in Syria before dramatically reducing our presence in that unalterable sh*thole as well.
Despite the constant drumbeat by or fake news media that he is somehow himself a “war-monger”, the truth is that Trump’s conduct of foreign affairs has dramatically scaled back international tensions all over the world. There is no magic to this – this is what has always happened whenever a Republican president has projected U.S. policy from a position of strength.
Where the Coughing Crooks of the world delight in throwing entire nations into interminable chaos with ill-advised (and illegal) assassinations, and neo-cons like Graham invariably knee-jerk to screaming for bombing runs, the truth is that President Trump has an array of options for responding to Iran’s latest provocation that do not involve getting our own people killed. Thankfully, while every craven politician in both parties knee-jerks to inflammatory talking points, he’s taking the time, the President is calmly taking the time to consider all of his options before jumping to a response.
Trump may ultimately decide that taking out some Iranian refineries and gunships is the appropriate response here, but everyone screaming for that that particular escalation of the conflict must understand that that will inevitably result in a spike in oil prices, which will in turn drive up gasoline prices at the pump. The price for crude has already jumped up 10% this week – are you really ready for another 20% or even more?
Or maybe the President might decide to cool the rhetoric – which he was already doing yesterday, if you were paying attention – and authorize the conduct of cyber-attacks on Iran’s digital infrastructure, which could be done completely behind the scenes and could be devastating to the Mullahs’ regime.
What President Trump is not going to do is be bullied by aggressive advisors or Lindsey Graham or Chuck Schumer or anyone else into sending our armed forces into harm’s way unless he is 100% certain that he doesn’t really have another choice. If he does choose that route, you should expect his response to be disproportionately large and extremely effective.
Whatever action he takes, you can be sure he will take it because it is best for America. Because that is what he was elected to do, and this President, unlike his recent predecessors, keeps his promises.
That is all.
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God rest in our POTUS and guide his heart, words and actions in Jesus name
Yes, a massive cyber attack, shutting down EVERYTHING in Iran would do wonders for the attitude of the Mullahs....
Just sayin.
They are pushing him to war.
He is kicking thier asses.
I think Trump did the right thing. Kerry’s mission to Iran was to sucker us into a war so Trump loses in 202.
Replace Drones w/ Manned P3 Orion planes w/ fighter escort stay in international air space and see if they shoot at us again. If so you eliminate that threat of an anti aircraft SAM by laser guided bombing of SAM & Radar bases, avoid civilian areas so end result is that you eliminate 90% of their air defense on their southern border.
F22 & F35 (prove itself?) stealth planes followed by carrier based F18s should do the job
Kill Irans leaders.
Trumps response... tweeting about his decision not to strike just before stocks open...will give it bump and he’ll brag about record breaking numbers. This mornings tweets alone should really get him re-elected.
The only argument I have here is target selection.
Americans are very direct about announcing their intentions, and selecting obvious targets that they are most concerned about, which give their enemy a lot of time to prepare.
However, in the British army, when some punkish rogue attacked them, they would always respond indirectly, hitting targets valued by the enemy, but not directly related to the original aggression. It was very effective in keeping their enemy off balance.
So, for example, if America wanted to emulate this, instead of going after AAA radars and missile sites, it might instead target an Iranian submarine or hydroelectric dam, and do so with “plausible deniability”.
That is, their submarine just disappears, or their dam just catastrophically collapses.
We might even use the opportunity to create animosity between Iran and another one of our enemies, like China or Russia.
Trumps first concern is to make himself look good. It’s Trump first, America second with him.
I’m glad he’s waiting to verify exactly where the Drone was when it was shot down. We need to have the International Community confirm this as well in that way we won’t be in the wrong. Trump has to make sure it’s a correct response.
You phrase that as a negative; I see it as a positive. Along the lines of in order to love others you first have to love yourself.
Like lie’n Ted would do any better.
“”Dear Iran...”Beware the Fury of a Patient Man...” John Dryden...Let this be a Warning....Trump is not a do nothing sit by and watch man as Obama was...He will not be sending your plane loads of UNTRACEABLE SWEDISH MONEY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT........TAKE THIS RETRACTION AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE....A PLANNED WARNING!!!””
Blog post.
Trumps first concern is to make himself look good. It’s Trump first, America second with him.
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...and you know this HOW??? YOU sitting in the Oval Office??? You are a Hitler News Reporter??? Are YOU related to Costa???
Until you know what your talking about, go some where else!!!
TROLL ALERT...TROLL ALERT...TROLL ALERT...TROLL ALERT...
You got that right.
Hunter —who has THREE kids— married this Cohen woman TEN DAYS AFTER MEETING HER..!
And she was living with another guy just two weeks before she went through with it.
Ever hear of something THAT stupid outside a trailer park..?
Take your troll drive off Cruz control. You’re in serious Trump Country and need to park it. Quit wearing the checker board on your head. You look silly and it impairs your vision. Trump plays chess and we’re delighted to watch him do it, for America. Shad up and learn what the game master is doing.
WINNING! MAGA!
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