Posted on 04/15/2018 4:30:31 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
April 15th, 2018
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis.; Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Haley; Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va.
THIS WEEK (ABC): White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders; Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine; Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sen. Anus King, I-Maine; Preet Bharara, a former U.S. attorney in New York; Michael Avenatti, lawyer for Stormy Daniels.
Alternatively, Comey could be an idiot. (An idiot with a planet-size ego, but an idiot nevertheless.)
Rarely do subordinates ask their boss: "WTF are you THINKING????" It tends to work against career longevity in business, never mind in government.
Not in Russia or not in the Czech Republic.
You misunderstand my remark. Holder was active at protecting Obama. Your complaint is that Sessions is the opposite of active, he is no Holder.
I'm just letting you know that I don't share your opinion (which is the prevailing one here at FR) of Sessions. In the interest of keeping the peace, I find it better to leave discussion on the point there, without explanation.
Thanks bud. This week is particularly tough since consensus on the strike by the US is less than 100%. Clarice Feldman has some great stuff from the French intel. But, I still question why would Bashir Assad gas his own people with Trump announcing in Cleveland he wants to get out of Syria. Makes no sense to me.
It’s a question of what I missed and where.
I had similar reservations, but this really wasn't about chemical attacks. It was about sending a global message to our adversaries especially China, Iran, and NK that we will do what we say.
I watched Wallass and his interview with Nicky Haley. She did an outstanding job despite the stupid questions from Wallass. They are making a big deal about our lack of strategy and involvement in Syria. #NeverTrumper Goldberg (he revealed his wife works for Haley!) and other Trump haters like Lane blame a lack of strategy and not getting involved in stopping the slaughter.
Trump had a limited strike. It is encouraging to see that he has reduced significantly the import of Syrian refugees into the US, which Wallass tried to portray as a negative. Why haven't the countries in the region done more in that regard? We can't afford to be the world's policeman. Our national interests are paramount.
Trump is being attacked from all sides for his actions. IMO he did the right thing. It was significant but proportionate. We don't want to get involved in the Syrian civil war or the removal of Assad. Who knows who would replace him? A jihadi? Libya should be the lesson of what happens when you allow war rhetoric to replace sound judgement.
Even a blind squirrel finds a broken clock once in a while.
Hey Anus!
Suppose those "chemical weapons" could be some of Saddam Hussein's leftovers from his mysteriously missing stockpile???
Thanks for the comments!I’m searching for stuff this week,trying to find what I missed.
You are leaving out a simmering story right before that second review.
That Carlos Dangerous, online pedo name of Anthony Wiener, had his laptop he used to contact underage girls filled with Clinton emails his wife stored on it. As I remember, so NYC cops and lower staff but still honest FBI agents were threatening to go public.
The news had leaked out and the bleeding over it had to be stopped. A stupid way to do, from the perspective of a tighter race than all of the drivebys would ever admit to, but that is why.
No, from a historical perspective what you have is the same people who would be despotic kings, and their minions doing their best propaganda to obfuscate and lie.
This has been going on since the beginning of the Republic.
The most notable recent case is the N.Y.Slimes reporting on Stalin's Potemkin villages in the 1930s
What these people love is POWER and control over other human beings.
History simply keeps repeating itself . Timeless stories that represent the human condition.
Why can’t some of these political hacks stand up and do the
right thing? Oh, they were not put in those positions because
of integrity. They were placed there to push the party line.
Great post right to the core of the problem.Our side is not perfect but their side is absolutely corrupt.Not much choice.
For Comey the head of the FBI to say he didn’t know if the prostitutes peeing on the President was true is an outrageous lie. He is the only person in the world that still believes that made up story. The story has been disproven six ways from Sunday and he still wants people to believe it.
Then he says he doesn’t know if he should have told the President the story came from the Hillary campaign? Such a hack who makes hacks look professional.
TWO people from the same state on Fox News? What happened to diversity? Maybe Fox should have added Rep James Clyburn to be fair and balanced.
Well, it’s possible Assad is just another dum bass.
The ongoing fighting is very near Damascus, right in the suburbs I believe and the fighting can be house-to-house and block-to-block, so who knows what the ground commanders and upwards are thinking?
Maybe they couldn’t take out who was in the building after multiple attempts and thought no one would be looking, and since Trump is pulling out... Now’s the time to roll up all these little beds of resistance.
Who knows or can explain their thinking?
We know one thing about Muslim dictators: They’re brutal as #%%$# and killing a whole bunch of innocents is no more than you or me swatting flies or gassing roaches.
Some say the whole Saddam not releasing his WMD when he really didn’t have them was a ploy to keep us and others from treating him like the degraded military beggar Iraq had become and then being overthrown by his own people for not protecting them. And think of what Iran wanted to do to him... So Saddam had his own logic working here that utterly failed him and actually led to his downfall.
So, not our kind logic to be sure.
Did we hit an Aspirin factory /s or some Fluorine manufacturing facilities? Israel took out Assad's Russian build nuclear plant some years back.
And the positive side effect - the Russians and the Iranians cleared out. And in addition Assad's Russia provided missile defenses proved to be piss-pour.
If the Russian military equipment is any reflection on what a despotic Commie regime manufactures, the Chines best be worried.
I would suspect that the Chines military, while manned by Billions and Billions of kulaks, has real problems with their military technology for the same reason that any Commie dictatorship.
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There are other political hacks who have been revealed.
Comey wants to get his two cents in before the other
hacks are in the spot light. Comey will be overshadowed
by other political operatives, trying to use the networks for
free promotion.
So true. Injecting chemical weapons that are also are flammable into a building full of women and children. Been there done that so it’s no might happen it’s been done covered up and promotions and awards given out.
Thanks for reminding us all.
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He is all for both Huber and Congress finding and making known all the facts about the treatment of the secret server investigation and exoneration of Hillary, etc.
The Peter principle is a concept in management theory formulated by Laurence J. Peter in which the selection of a candidate for a position is based on the candidate's performance in their current role, rather than on abilities relevant to the intended role. Thus, employees only stop being promoted once they can no longer perform effectively, and "managers rise to the level of their incompetence."
I have seen this in play even in my own career. When I became a SMSgt in the USAF I could no longer do technical things but had to meetings, write papers, do staff work, and listen to upper level officers drone on and on... I had to and I did alright but that wasn't where I felt as competent.
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