Trump: The First Year

[Legalsteel]

@loppar

Stopping Saudi/Gulf funding is much, much more important that moronic travel bans

This cannot be understated. They are the root of this poison tree. They need to be made a pariah state post haste.

[Mufasa]

@Legalsteel

“…They need to be made a pariah state post haste…”

OH!

A little too late for that, LS, isn’t it?

Didn’t Trump just stroke some weird globe with the Saudi’s; assure them billions in arms sales; do the “Sabre/White Boy” Shuffle with them; and assure them that we are staunch “ALLIES”?

(Who needs enemies, right?)

[Legalsteel]

@Mufasa

OH!

A little too late for that, LS, isn’t it?

Didn’t Trump just stroke some weird globe with the Saudi’s; assure them billions in arms sales; do the “Sabre/White Boy” Shuffle with them; and assure them that we are staunch “ALLIES”?

(Who needs enemies, right?)

It was grotesque. In keeping with US cold war foreign policy, but we aren’t there anymore.

No more globe touching. Sanctions and account freezing. Their money does not enter the West. No more Saudi mosques, no more Saudi Madrasas.

Their influence should end at the borders of Arabia. And if we could shrink it further than that, fantastic.

[Legalsteel]

My father walks London Bridge every day. My mate and his wife are a tube stop away from London Borough.

I have walked both of these streets, my friends and family walk these streets. Not in a compromising mood today.

[therajraj]

[quote=“thunderbolt23, post:920, topic:229190, full:true”]
And it’s worked pretty good. When something succeeds, we should do more of it (and improve what we’re doing).[/quote]

As usual you just assert random garbage.

@therajraj

The war on terror started over a decade ago and now there are more terrorists than ever.

[quote=“thunderbolt23, post:920, topic:229190, full:true”]
I don’t believe that to be true, but it was always a long game to play. [/quote]

Wrong. The terror watch list has steadily grown since the war on terror began.

U.S. Terror Watch List Surpasses 900,000 Names, ACLU Estimates - UPDATED

@therajraj

More neoconservative nonsense.

@thunderbolt23

You wouldn’t know whether it was or wasn’t - you merely repeat garbage you read in internet fever swamps.

I do know 22 US veterans commits suicide per day. I do know a million people have died in Iraq.

It’s amazing that knowing these facts people still push for the War on terror. You must be a genocidal maniac

[thunderbolt23]

@therajraj

Wrong. The terror watch list has steadily grown since the war on terror began.

This article is dated 2008 - it’s nine years old. I no idea what the correct answer is, but an article almost a decade old doesn’t either.

@therajraj

I do know 22 US veterans commits suicide per day.

Tragic? Yes. Relevant? No.

@therajraj

You must be a genocidal maniac

Interested in getting rid of races? Gosh no. That’s your thing.

[therajraj]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/national-security/terror-watch-lists-have-grown-dramatically-since-911/2016/06/17/a6f04c42-34cc-11e6-8758-d58e76e11b12_story.html

That’s from 2016

[therajraj]

@Legalsteel

@therajraj

Trump is the only leader in the West to my knowledge to have actually acknowledged what the problem is.

Victor Orban, Bibi Netanyahu, Witold Waszczykowski, Beata Szydło & Milos Zeman I could find in a few minutes.

I was referring to the West, but yes that’s correct

[thunderbolt23]

@therajraj

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/national-security/terror-watch-lists-have-grown-dramatically-since-911/2016/06/17/a6f04c42-34cc-11e6-8758-d58e76e11b12_story.html

That’s from 2016

I thought the Washington Post was fake news and can’t be trusted?

[Legalsteel]

@therajraj

I was referring to the West, but yes that’s correct

You wouldn’t consider Poland or Hungary west? Surely Japan would be? Shinzo Abe seems to have his head screwed on.

[therajraj]

@thunderbolt23

@therajraj

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/national-security/terror-watch-lists-have-grown-dramatically-since-911/2016/06/17/a6f04c42-34cc-11e6-8758-d58e76e11b12_story.html

That’s from 2016

I thought the Washington Post was fake news and can’t be trusted?

You like the Washington post, this is evidence for you.

Anyways I’m not going to keep posting links, I saw other sites posting this same information but you’ll just continue to ignore it.

Who cares right? So long as no one calls you a racist

[therajraj]

@Legalsteel

@therajraj

I was referring to the West, but yes that’s correct

You wouldn’t consider Poland or Hungary west? Surely Japan would be? Shinzo Abe seems to have his head screwed on.

No? When I think of the West I think of North America and western Europe

[Legalsteel]

@therajraj

No? When I think of the West I think of North America and western Europe

I would consider the larger Occident area and Treaty allies in the mix. But I can’t say your definition is strictly incorrect either, so fair enough.

[antiquity]

@therajraj

Wrong. The terror watch list has steadily grown since the war on terror began.

This is interesting; I wasn’t aware of that. Could you tell me:

1. How is this list assembled?
2. Does a growth of the names on the is actually correlate with a growth in the number of terrorists?

(This is outside of expertise, so I really don’t know these answers).

[hugh_gilly]

My mother and I look after French kids when they come over on school holidays and they are all to scared to come because they go to London.

We had French girls on the London Eye as the Westminster attack took place.

[hugh_gilly]

Part and Parcel

[therajraj]

@antiquity

@therajraj

Wrong. The terror watch list has steadily grown since the war on terror began.

This is interesting; I wasn’t aware of that. Could you tell me:

1. How is this list assembled?
2. Does a growth of the names on the is actually correlate with a growth in the number of terrorists?

(This is outside of expertise, so I really don’t know these answers).

1. when I’ve read articles on the list they never really explain how the list is assembled. My guess would be this is on purpose as they probably don’t want to make it easier for terrorists to avoid the list.

2. terror related cases have been on the rise since 9/11 so probably

[loppar]

MCGA? As John Oliver said, it seems that Trump is finally keeping one of his campaign promises about creating jobs. Too bad those newly created jobs will be in China.

China will plow 2.5 trillion yuan ($361 billion) into renewable power generation by 2020, the country’s energy agency said on Thursday, as the world’s largest energy market continues to shift away from dirty coal power towards cleaner fuels.

The investment will create over 13 million jobs in the sector, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said in a blueprint document that lays out its plan to develop the nation’s energy sector during the five-year 2016 to 2020 period.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-energy-renewables-idUSKBN14P06P

[SkyzykS]

Did he also cause them to build the Three Gorges Damn?

You can’t act like this is an all of the sudden response to Trump pulling out of the Paris debacle of wealth distribution when China has been working on renewable energy for just as long as anybody else has.

Its one thing to be partisan, but don’t be stupid.

[Despade]

My ultimate takeaway is that as a world leader (and understanding that the Paris agreement was non-binding concerning consequences) that we should probably not denounce something that seems to have a large amount of evidence, there is already an anti-science movement (meaning people “believe” or “don’t believe” science, as they see fit) and what I can see happening is that, “Hey, our leader, the leader of one of the most powerful nations on earth, has decided to publicly announce that he does not believe what science is telling us.” It’s just a concerning message to be sending to the folks at home and abroad, in my opinion.