USA Politics

[Jer]

handegg

I love this!

Only in the US could a domestic sports championship be named World Series ...

Well, there are some Canadian teams in the league, but point taken.

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

We’ve covered sport, now for the weather.

EPA emissions standards on coal to basically evaporate;
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...arbon-limits-on-new-coal-plants-idUSKBN1O519C

I honestly cannot fathom what Trump’s fetish with coal is.

Does he hold happy childhood memories of receiving a lump of it in his Christmas stocking each December?

Remember he's going to make sure it's really clean coal.

 

[Night Prowler]

The cleanest, the best, most tremendous coal.

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

The Stable Genius, yesterday: ISIS defeated in Syria, US military going home, well done boys.

The Stable Genius, today: Russia and Iran are mad because they'll have to fight ISIS in Syria without the US.

 

[Deleted member 7164]

I believe he also freed Deripaska's US assets.

 

[LooseCannon]

I read that too. Sounds like yesterday was about giving Vlad some Christmas presents.

 

[Deleted member 7164]

I'd also double check to see if Alaska is still where it were.

 

[LooseCannon]

Mattis is out.

 

[The Flash]

I read that too. Sounds like yesterday was about giving Vlad some Christmas presents.

Whether that's the driving influence or not, it's a good move to get out of Syria. Apparently Trump is cutting the amount of troops in Afghanistan in half as well, another good move. Mattis is almost certainly out because he objected to this.

 

[LooseCannon]

I disagree.

 

[The Flash]

Are you normally pro-interventionism? If not, that's an inconsistent position.

 

[LooseCannon]

Are you normally pro-interventionism? If not, that's an inconsistent position.

I don't think "interventionism" is a standpoint one has across the board, but I do support the interventions against ISIS and in Afghanistan.

 

[The Flash]

The US intervention in Syria has stopped being strictly about ISIS a long time ago. The US clearly favored PYD over FSA during the latter's campaign to liberate towns located on the west of Euphrates, and turned a blind eye against PYD expanding its area of control to Arab-majority areas and ethnically cleansing the Arab and Turkmen population, which goes to show you that defeating ISIS isn't their only goal in the region.

 

[LooseCannon]

I'm not going to pretend I'm as educated on the intervention as you seem to be.

 

[Mosh]

Government set to shutdown for the 2nd time in the year. This time, Trump is being much more aggressive toward border wall funding. Makes sense, this is really the last shot at a wall and it's starting to look like this could cost him re-election. The question now, to me, is if border wall proponents will forgive him if he shuts down the government over it and still doesn't get his wall money. In other words, can he successfully blame Democrats for stiffing him on his marquee campaign promise?

 

[Deleted member 7164]

This little fellows could go extinct if man builds such a barrier between Southern Texas and Mexico

How many "stolen jobs" is an one species worth?

 

[Brigantium]

Jaguarundi! I did read a public sector site that claims they haven't been positively identified in Texas for over a decade anyway, although hunting forums beg to disagree

 

[LooseCannon]

In other words, can he successfully blame Democrats for stiffing him on his marquee campaign promise?

I'm sure the base is blaming the Dems, but with that lovely clip of Trump saying he'd be proud to own a shutdown circulating, not many others.

 

[Black Wizard]

 

[Perun]

Shush, this is not the right time to mention what Trump said five years ago.