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Roughly 3 weeks into Trump as PEOTUS...

Yet he's an illegal candidate.

I get the feeling this was a deliberate move to get rid of the concept of a civilian Secretary of Defense.

It's going to be interesting to see the treatment of Democrats who hold the line to follow the law compared to the treatment of Republicans who failed to fulfill their constitutional duty with respect to Garland.

You realize many past SecDefs served right? What difference does 2 years removes make from 7 years removed in terms of considering the person a civilian? It's not like he will be any less militarized if he waits 5 more years.
 
You realize many past SecDefs served right? What difference does 2 years removes make from 7 years removed in terms of considering the person a civilian? It's not like he will be any less militarized if he waits 5 more years.

The obvious answer is that in five more years a lot of the people who he has close relationships with in the military will no longer be around
 
Isn't this how Hitler took power? Lied to scare everybody?

Oh my God! When are we invading Poland? Oh wait, right after we sign a non-aggression pact with Putin. Holy Nostradamus! History is repeating itself. The end is near. Do we have to move to Canada before we can emigrate to Mars?
 
Oh my God! When are we invading Poland? Oh wait, right after we sign a non-aggression pact with Putin. Holy Nostradamus! History is repeating itself. The end is near. Do we have to move to Canada before we can emigrate to Mars?

As with Hitler, if it gets to that point it will be too late
 
Now Hillary is getting in on the act. Her and Kaine are going on a Thank You Tour. smh
 
Now Hillary is getting in on the act. Her and Kaine are going on a Thank You Tour. smh

Pretty sure she's not stopping by your house. You have nothing to be worried about.
 
You realize many past SecDefs served right? What difference does 2 years removes make from 7 years removed in terms of considering the person a civilian? It's not like he will be any less militarized if he waits 5 more years.

The obvious answer is that in five more years a lot of the people who he has close relationships with in the military will no longer be around

Yep. Feel free to take issue with the law, LK, but it is the law.
 
Thanks to the Wisconsin recount the race has tightened. After the first day of the recount Hillary has picked up one vote.
 
Yep. Feel free to take issue with the law, LK, but it is the law.

And Congress can legally pass another law granting a waiver. It would, after all, be "law."

Personally, I'd rather they just change the law itself. It's been done once already, reducing it from 10 to 7 years.

I don't have a problem with a recent military officer controlling our military apparatus (subordinate to the CiC anyway).
 
Thanks to the Wisconsin recount the race has tightened. After the first day of the recount Hillary has picked up one vote.

Dang. I wish it had been Trump that picked up the vote. That way we could have been treated to Macedonian teens pumping out fake news articles with titles like "EVIDENCE UNCOVERED THAT TRUMP VOTE COUNT WAS SUPPRESSED-- HUGE IF TRUE"
 
Dang. I wish it had been Trump that picked up the vote. That way we could have been treated to Macedonian teens pumping out fake news articles with titles like "EVIDENCE UNCOVERED THAT TRUMP VOTE COUNT WAS SUPPRESSED-- HUGE IF TRUE"

Hillary voters had no problem repeating fake news when it was screwing over Bernie.
Bernie Sanders’ Presidential Run Was Sabotaged by Fake News
The hysteria over Donald Trump’s election win has led the entirety of the mainstream media to search for culprits who committed this crime. Many of them have blamed fake news stories about Pope Francis endorsing Trump, R.E.M. suing Trump and articles by writer Paul Horner who told Rolling Stone he was actually trying to keep Trump out of the White House. Fake news may indeed have played a role in electing Trump, but no one in the media seemed to care when the the lies were benefiting Hillary Clinton—and attacking Bernie Sanders. In fact, fake news was propagated throughout the Democratic primaries in order to sabotage Sanders’ campaign, and distract from the challenge he posed to Clinton.

“Democrats would be insane to nominate Bernie Sanders,” “Bernie Sanders’s fiction-filled campaign,“ Bernie Bros Made Me Finally Recognize Misogyny in America,” “The Bernie Bros are out in full force harassing female reporters,” “Bernie Sanders’s real problem with black and Hispanic voters,” “Hillary Clinton Made History, but Bernie Sanders Stubbornly Ignored It” and “Stop sending around this photo of ‘Bernie Sanders’ “ were just some of the popular fake news headlines published during the Democratic primaries.

The Bernie Bros narrative has been largely debunked as a myth, and Sanders’ campaign was whitewashed to silence his diverse supporters. It wasn’t fake news outlets driving these narratives, but rather mainstream media outlets.

WikiLeaks emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Clinton campaign chair John Podesta implicated several mainstream media journalists in colluding with the Clinton campaign. Clinton was portrayed as the progressive who could get things done, and mainstream publishers endorsed her in droves. Reporters, columnists and political pundits pined for her centrist policy stances, while denigrating the far left and far right as falsely equivalent extremes. But the moderate center is rife with poor policy stances, predicated by the underlying theme of favoring corporations and the wealthy. And the mainstream media has increasingly fallen into the ownership and influence of these same corporations and wealthy interests.
http://observer.com/2016/11/bernie-sanders-presidential-run-was-sabotaged-by-fake-news/
 
Seems like Sarah Palin is unhappy she's been left out in the cold because she's coming out swinging about the Carrier deal.

Also, apparently the phone call with Taiwan is a fairly large deal?
 
So Trump causing international relations snafus already-- took phone call from President of Taiwan, China apparently incensed.
 
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