enhanced_deficit
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This whole thread sounds really familiar.
Rinse, repeat.
Trump: 'Just Kidding. We're Staying In Syria.'
04-05-2018
This whole thread sounds really familiar.
Yes. Yes! I see it now.
It's not Quantum Dark Energy Wormhole CHESS.
It's Quantum Dark Energy Wormhole Hokey Pokey!
Brilliant!
Well, Assad does owe Trump hugely,
It's not going to happen, it's completely impractical and I don't think Trump means it, he is just talking tough.
Oh Phuck Off..
Good Pot doesn't make you that stupid. WTF?
Maybe pot makes some people smart and others stupid.Good pot makes you smart.
If it wasn't for Trump, Assad would be dead.
Take that to the motherfuckin bank.
Take that to the motherfuckin bank.
Ron Paul...?
...doesn't ring a bell.
This is the new and improved liberty movement.
We believe in giant deficits and increased spending and harassing China and Iran.
...oh, and taking their oil (whoever's, doesn't matter).
Yea I don't think you get to invoke Ron Paul anymore buddy, see sig.
Yea, I don't think you ever had a firm grasp of libertarianism, or reality in general. For instance, you thought that a lifelong Democrat such as Donald Trump, who made all his money lying to people on television would make a good President. Nevermind that he was on record supporting a wide variety of radically anti-libertarian policies such as inflationary monetary policy (which he's currently promoting). People such as yourself, who don't actually have any clear ideas are easily mislead, aren't you?
I think the idea is they are securing the oil for Assad, so that the terrorists don't come in and grab it. Once things have settled down they should be able to leave.
I thought they told us that Assad was a terrorist lover and that's why we needed to spill blood and treasure Over There to remove him? Now we need to spill blood and treasure Over There to protect the oil for someone our government has been actively been trying to remove so that other bad guys (also funded by Our Guys) don't get the oil? US troops protecting Syrian oil? That authority must be somewhere in the all encompassing interstate commerce clause or something.
As Trump said, “We’ll be deciding what we’re going to do with it in the future.” In no other international power dynamic would this be considered a rational thing for anyone to say. The idea of another nation invading Texas and seizing control of its oil fields and then Xi Jinping or whomever saying “We’re controlling their oil and we’ll be deciding what we’re going to do with it in the future” is unthinkable, but a US president can just come right out and say this about a weaker nation and it won’t even be front-page news.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Donald Trump is the most honest US president of all time. By that I don’t mean that he’s an honest person; he of course lies constantly. I simply mean that while his predecessors have always made sure to dress their imperialist military campaigns up as benevolent humanitarian intercessions, Trump just stands there out in the open like “Yeah we grabbed their oil and it’s ours now, blow me.” There was once a time when claiming a war was really about oil got you branded a conspiracy theorist. Now the US president just outright says it.
And this is really the only reason establishment power structures dislike Trump. They don’t feel directly threatened by him, they just dislike the way he’s always saying the quiet part out loud. Status quo power has a vested interest in keeping a smiling mask on things and preventing people from thinking too hard about what’s really going on in the world, and Trump keeps ripping off that mask by telling everyone what he’s doing in plain English.
He is one of the only politicians of all time who has actually done what he promised.
How is his promise to eliminate the national debt in 8 years coming along?
Depends on what metric you use.
You don't understand how the world works at all, or you are here to be purposely deceptive, so you are definitely using the wrong metric.