pacino wrote:Trump wanted to ban those now dead children from fleeing to the US.

CalvinBall wrote:

pacino wrote:Trump wanted to ban those now dead children from fleeing to the US.

Yeah, the total lack of care and consistency in his positions is breathtaking.

Pretty remarkable seeing so many RTs of Sean Hannity to Republican members of Congress saying no way to Syria action a few short years ago to now praise.

jerseyhoya wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:

pacino wrote:Trump wanted to ban those now dead children from fleeing to the US.

Yeah, the total lack of care and consistency in his positions is breathtaking.

Pretty remarkable seeing so many RTs of Sean Hannity to Republican members of Congress saying no way to Syria action a few short years ago to now praise.

I emailed JON RUNYAN and my very short lived Republican Senator asking them to support what the Obama administration wanted. There's documented proof on BSG.

CalvinBall wrote:It isn't that I think it is a bad response. It's that I am confident Donald Trump and his minions have no idea what they are doing. There is no plan going forward.

jerseyhoya wrote:We actually had a hell of a debate back then. My post about contacting my representatives, but there's stuff before (and probably in another thread I am too lazy to find) and it goes on for a long way after. I made a lot of long posts on this. Grad school was a hell of a thing with the free time.

slugsrbad wrote:US official says there were Russians at the base we attacked. Sweet.

CalvinBall wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:US official says there were Russians at the base we attacked. Sweet.

Still confused if we warned them. Seems like we did, but tillerson made a point to say we didn't consult them on whether or not to attack. Is that correct?

slugsrbad wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:US official says there were Russians at the base we attacked. Sweet.

Still confused if we warned them. Seems like we did, but tillerson made a point to say we didn't consult them on whether or not to attack. Is that correct?

That's my current understanding. We had the backing of a "wide range" of nations, but either did not seek or did not get Russian approval.

Warszawa wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:US official says there were Russians at the base we attacked. Sweet.

Still confused if we warned them. Seems like we did, but tillerson made a point to say we didn't consult them on whether or not to attack. Is that correct?

That's my current understanding. We had the backing of a "wide range" of nations, but either did not seek or did not get Russian approval.

I'm sure tillers has all this under control

slugsrbad wrote:US official says there were Russians at the base we attacked. Sweet.

For the second time in just eight weeks, Donald Trump has issued an Executive Order changing the line of succession at the Department of Justice. He keeps changing the hierarchy based on office, not by naming the names of specific people – but in both instances it’s directly impacted who may end up in charge of prosecuting Trump’s Russia investigation. And this latest move suggests he may now be attempting to remove U.S. Attorney Dana Boente from the Russia scandal.

Trump’s first Executive Order on the matter was issued on February 9th (source: whitehouse.gov). It ensured that if Attorney General Jeff Sessions had to vacate his office or recuse himself from a case, those duties would be assumed by the “United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia” – in other words Dana Boente.

Subsequently, Sessions did recuse himself from the Russia investigation after he was caught having lied to the Senate under oath about his own meetings with the Russian Ambassador. Accordingly, Dana Boente became the decision maker for the Trump-Russia investigation. But then FBI Director James Comey testified before the House Intelligence Committee on March 20th that he had been authorized by the Department of Justice to publicly disclose that the FBI is currently investigating the Donald Trump campaign and Russia. If Trump moved Dana Boente up in the DOJ line of succession with the expectation that Boente would have prevented such a thing from happening, then the move clearly didn’t work.

Now Trump has issued a second Executive Order on the matter, dated March 31st (source: whitehouse.gov). It keeps Boente’s Eastern Virginia office in its current position in the hierarchy. But just below Boente, the “United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois” has now been swapped out for the “United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina.”

As it turns out, the North Carolina office is currently occupied by John Stuart Bruce (source: Justice Department), an Obama appointee who was never confirmed and still holds the position in an acting capacity. Under federal law, that office will become vacant about a month from now (source: Cornell University Law School), meaning that Donald Trump can appoint anyone he likes.

thephan wrote:I am not sure why we did not make a mess out of the runways. It seems logical that cratering the runway and mashing the aircraft shelters would be part of the mix.

drsmooth wrote:

thephan wrote:I am not sure why we did not make a mess out of the runways. It seems logical that cratering the runway and mashing the aircraft shelters would be part of the mix.

sheesh, you're missing the point.

the point is, missiles were fired at something. drumpf's taken a page out of Yong-Un's playbook

thephan wrote:As predicted by one of you, Tulsi Gabbard tweeted against actions in Syria. Although consistent, her stance remains puzzling.