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On October 21 2017 11:12 GoTuNk! wrote:
http://www.dailywire.com/news/22540/trump-was-right-gold-star-widow-releases-trumps-ryan-saavedra?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=062316-news&utm_campaign=dwbrand#

So this settles it? Everything was fabricated, and Trumps sounds more of a decent human being than he ever has.



Video on the link.

On October 21 2017 11:21 KwarK wrote:

To put this in terms you might understand

FAKE WIDOW!

SAD!

On October 21 2017 11:28 Plansix wrote:
He is a charismatic, completely shameless conman. He sounds like he cares, but turns on people the instant they don't play along.

On October 21 2017 12:19 oBlade wrote:

So he was a politician the whole time, big revelation here.

On October 21 2017 12:19 oBlade wrote:

So he was a politician the whole time, big revelation here.

On October 21 2017 12:48 Sermokala wrote:
Politicians have a gameplan behind their actions and the forethought of how it will beifit them longterm in their actions. Trump doesn't understand anything past the few minutes his attention span is.

On October 21 2017 13:38 Danglars wrote:

I'd say more midterm projection. Hillary didn't see past the next speech or kickback payback. I mean chalk it up to universal failings of human beings, but that is not a long term strategy. Clinton banging prostitutes and interns on the side and lying about it wasn't long term thinking. This isn't a Trump defense because he simply doesn't deserve one on thinking, but a universal critique of politicians.

On October 21 2017 14:14 harodihg wrote:
a specific point that Trump isn't the only one

On October 21 2017 13:38 Danglars wrote:
a universal critique of politicians.

On October 21 2017 13:38 Danglars wrote:

I'd say more midterm projection. Hillary didn't see past the next speech or kickback payback. I mean chalk it up to universal failings of human beings, but that is not a long term strategy. Clinton banging prostitutes and interns on the side and lying about it wasn't long term thinking. This isn't a Trump defense because he simply doesn't deserve one on thinking, but a universal critique of politicians.

On October 21 2017 14:44 Sermokala wrote:

This is wrong. The problem with the clintons is that they planned far too ahead and lost the plot along the way on how to win today to survive long enough to see your plan turn out. "The era of big government is over" is an amazing slogan for a democrat trying to rally the base back after the reagon years seemed to cast them out into the desert. But the time was always going to come when people questioned why the liberal party wasn't that liberal anymore. Clinton was playing to win her 2nd term in the middle of the campaign for her first. Tramping out the progressives from the party is smart long term but is dumb beacuse you'll lose short term and those gains from tramping out the progressives will never show.

On October 21 2017 14:14 harodihg wrote:
Huh? I rarely read this thread but from my point of view he's just providing a specific point that Trump isn't the only one that lacks forethought

On October 21 2017 14:59 LegalLord wrote:

Ok, humor me. Why?

On October 21 2017 15:09 Danglars wrote:

We're getting to mystical here. Planning for her second term and basically assuming she gets queened the first time around is a terrible long term strategy because it relies on faulty assumptions. This is on par with Trump's short sightedness. Campaign aides said the campaign was worried about losing the popular and winning electoral, so they put more stops in California to run up the totals. I would argue that losing the plot in the super long term is ignoring the long term ... something politicians actually do suck at. I will add some caveats:
If your long term plan is a cushy lobbying job and not a legacy of some notoriety, maybe long term bad policy decisions work out for your other long term goal. Corruption does pay off on K street.
If your long term plan is gaining power and becoming a kingmaker of sorts, it doesn't hurt the plan to abandon all principle and just transactional politics your way around.


It was a quick example to explain what I mean.

On October 21 2017 11:09 Plansix wrote:

These mother fuckers are going to deploy my brother to some unknown part of the world, get him killed and not tell my family for a month. Jesus fucking Christ. They can't even above lying about who he called, or just admit he didn't call everyone. Every moment of this gets me more pissed off.

On October 21 2017 13:38 Danglars wrote:

I'd say more midterm projection. Hillary didn't see past the next speech or kickback payback. I mean chalk it up to universal failings of human beings, but that is not a long term strategy. Clinton banging prostitutes and interns on the side and lying about it wasn't long term thinking. This isn't a Trump defense because he simply doesn't deserve one on thinking, but a universal critique of politicians.

Air Force could recall as many as 1,000 retired pilots to address serious shortage

WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order Friday allowing the Air Force to recall as many as 1,000 retired pilots to active duty to address a shortage in combat fliers, the White House and Pentagon announced.

By law, only 25 retired officers can be brought back to serve in any one branch. Trump's order removes those caps by expanding a state of national emergency declared by President George W. Bush after 9/11, signaling what could be a significant escalation in the 16-year-old global war on terror.

"We anticipate that the Secretary of Defense will delegate the authority to the Secretary of the Air Force to recall up to 1,000 retired pilots for up to three years," Navy Cdr. Gary Ross, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement.

But the executive order itself is not specific to the Air Force, and could conceivably be used in the future to call up more officers and in other branches.

The Air Force needs about 1,500 pilots more than it has. Bonus programs and other incentives have not made up the shortfall.

The Air Force has been at the forefront of the Pentagon's battle against the Islamic State, flying most of the combat sorties in Iraq and Syria since 2014.

In June, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., labeled the pilot shortage a crisis that would prevent the Air Force from fulfilling its mission.

“This is a full-blown crisis, and if left unresolved, it will call into question the Air Force’s ability to accomplish its mission,” said McCain, chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

Richard Aboulafia, an aviation analyst and vice president of the Teal Group, said the shortage stemmed from a number of issues.

"One is competition from commercial airlines," Aboulafia said. "Another is delays and funding shortfalls in training. And, due to military operations, utilization of the aircraft and crew has been higher than expected."

On Capitol Hill, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and a member of Armed Services Committee, said that the fight against Islamic State and al-Qaeda linked terrorists will be expanding. He spoke to reporters while speaking about the four U.S. soldiers killed Oct. 4 in Niger.

Counter-terrorism rules under President Obama had been too restrictive and ineffective, Graham said.

“The war is morphing," Graham said. "You’re going to see more actions in Africa, not less. You’re going to see more aggression by the United States toward our enemies, not less. You’re going to have decisions made not in the White House but out in the field. And I support that entire construct.”

Last month, President Trump became the third president to renew the post-9/11 state of national emergency, which allows the president to call up the national guard, hire and fire officers and delay retirements.

Those extraordinary powers were supposed to be temporary. But even after 16 years, there's been no congressional oversight of the emergency.