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Roughly 3 weeks into Trump as PEOTUS...

jhmd2000 said:
Shoo lacks the capacity to appreciate its greatness.

It takes all types here on Earth.
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I can tell you will JCD this administration the whole way jhmd. I'm disappointed in you. Of all right leaning posters here I expected more from you.
 
DistrictDeacon said:
Can we stop wasting time worry about one posters opinion on what happened 10 years ago and focus on the fact that:

Trump just supported the extrajudicial killing of drug offenders in the Philippines.
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LAW. AND. ORDER.
 
P4nthers11 said:
Are you serious? He did this accidentally and is now playing it off like he meant to. He is having off the cuff conversations with foreign leaders without going through State channels and without any briefing materials. If Trump wants to change policy-- fine. But do it competently. Think it out and use proper channels. Our president elect just veered away from established foreign policy protocol on a topic of utmost sensitivity to the second most powerful country in the world-- and he did it via random phone call where he likely had no idea who he was talking to and just riffed and showered platitudes about how terrific they are.
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He then took to Twitter!
 
WakeandBake said:
I can tell you will JCD this administration the whole way jhmd. I'm disappointed in you. Of all right leaning posters here I expected more from you.
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Settle down. I am just enjoying how much Shoo is not enjoying this. It's great.
 
tintinisahottie said:
Much like "feelings" and "post truth", social media is a medium that dems had a stranglehold on and Trump has done better
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Meh, tweeting on these topics is a punk move for the POTUS. Get his dick out of your mouth for a moment.

Tweet about the World Series or thanksgiving, not controversial foreign policy topics.
 
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Shooshmoo said:
So it got your dick hard too, huh? Tough talk doesn't move me, sweetie. Does Trump's tough talk give you a little boner too?
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Nah, Trump leaves me pretty flaccid. Mattis, on the other hand, is a great American.
 
tintinisahottie said:
Didn't y'all praise Obama re:Cuba
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Yeah because Cuba =/= Taiwan. The purpose of the whole boycott of Cuba had ended. It made sense to stop it. And stopping it didn't jeopardize our relationship with another major world power.

It's an apples and oranges situation. We don't treat Taiwan like we do because we have something against Taiwan. We do it because we need the relationship with China.
 
Obama was extremely pragmatic. I'm not sure Trump knows enough to be pragmatic.

The main benefit I see is that Trump could do more because Republicans can claim a win from whatever Trump does.

I can't read it for free unless you know a way.
 
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PhDeac said:
Obama was extremely pragmatic. I'm not sure Trump knows enough to be pragmatic.

The main benefit I see is that Trump could do more because Republicans can claim a win from whatever Trump does.

I can't read it for free unless you know a way.
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With all due respect, I really am not going to get into all the ways Obama is the anti-thesis of pragmatic. Obama has a lot of good qualities. Pragmatism, at least from my standpoint, was not remotely on that list. As someone who has spent his entire career in academia, you simply are not going to grasp things from the same framework as me. And having debated with you for years I also know full well you won't acknowledge what you can't see. And that's fine.
 
DeacMan said:
With all due respect, I really am not going to get into all the ways Obama is the anti-thesis of pragmatic. Obama has a lot of good qualities. Pragmatism, at least from my standpoint, was not remotely on that list. As someone who has spent his entire career in academia, you simply are not going to grasp things from the same framework as me. And having debated with you for years I also know full well you won't acknowledge what you can't see. And that's fine.
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Shouldn't be hyphenated. Just saying...
 
I think you need to look up pragmatic. Shooting from the hip without being briefed on complex issues you are not up to speed on is not pragmatic, and in fact is the antithesis of the definition of pragmatic.

If anything, Obama is too pragmatic and lacks gut instinct. You have it backwards
 
WakeandBake said:
I think you need to look up pragmatic. Shooting from the hip without being briefed on complex issues you are not up to speed on is not pragmatic, and in fact is the antithesis of the definition of pragmatic.

If anything, Obama is too pragmatic and lacks gut instinct. You have it backwards
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Glad you read the article. LOL.
 
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