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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:34:04 PM EDT
[#1]
I refused to vote in the last presidential election because I saw this coming and I'm tired of settling for the lesser evil. I really hope Mattis runs for president in 2020 because I will vote for him in a heartbeat.
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:35:25 PM EDT
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The Marine Corps tested the crap out of that idea and concluded it was a bad idea. Doable. But bad. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: https://taskandpurpose.com/mattis-female-infantry-combat-2/ Basically, his position is that there are too few women in infantry to make a proper assessment. More are needed to see if it's a good thing or a bad thing.  Doable. But bad.  Attached File |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:35:40 PM EDT
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Yeah, fuck them - only losers need allies, amirite? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Oh, and that letter says we need allies and such. Sounds like new world order. Bring them all home now. Even GD knows this. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:35:41 PM EDT
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Fuck Mattis. Hit the bricks faggot.
Maybe now he can go crawl into Obama’s lap like a good pet. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:36:19 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:36:22 PM EDT
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Cabinet members regularly come and go, this is normal unless the MSM thinks your "Literally Hitler" and sensationalizes everything. Though I would side with Mattis over Trump in most maters of international intervention and occupation...  Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The wheels are coming off the Trump train. I’m officially off of it, but I’ll still vote for him against a democrat in 2020, if he makes it that far.... Though I would side with Mattis over Trump in most maters of international intervention and occupation... |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:36:25 PM EDT
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How many trannies are there in the US armed forces? How many trannies are impeding the ability of the armed forces to do its job?
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:37:08 PM EDT
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Yeah surrendering the world to Russia, china, Iran, etc. What could go wrong?  Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Read the letter. He says in no uncertain terms why he resigned, and how his beliefs were at odds with the ideas and actions of the President. Trump is a fool. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:37:56 PM EDT
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I'll sure he will be replaced with some anti gun retard. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:38:10 PM EDT
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Fuck Mattis. Hit the bricks faggot. Maybe now he can go crawl into Obama’s lap like a good pet. 
The man has done more for this country than 99.999% of it's residents. You may not agree with him on everything, I don't either, but he is due some respect. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:38:15 PM EDT
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Fuck Mattis. Hit the bricks faggot. Maybe now he can go crawl into Obama’s lap like a good pet. He spoke truth to power and was fired for it. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:38:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: MadDog 2020 "When you absolutely, positively, have to kill every motherfucker in the room" |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:38:57 PM EDT
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If the dnizens of Sand Land want to slice each other into tiny bits I don’t really care. We’re been at war in that part of the world since I was in 3rd grade. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Stephen Miller just basically said that Isis isn't our enemy and we shouldn't have to fight them. Oil is kind of important you know. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:39:24 PM EDT
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The crown jewel of Trump’s cabinet is leaving.
Bump stock ban, no wall, 10b in aid to South America and Mexico, unhinged Twitter rants, the economy is cooling fast, etc 2020 is looking bleak. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:39:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We should have closed our base in Turkey after the coup attempt. Turkey is no longer a trusted allie They have not done shit since Korea. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:40:03 PM EDT
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How many trannies are there in the US armed forces? How many trannies are impeding the ability of the armed forces to do its job? |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:40:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It's because the anti Trump threads draw the shills and DU trolls like moths to a flame. Most on GD just skip past this crap because they know it's going to be dominated by the resistance. I like the Mattis persona, but in practice he was / is a Globalist and supported the SJW crap. Trump allowed it because he could up until a point. Now it's time to go full bore MAGA and it's not worth having Mattis dragging his heels at every move. Get out of Syria, Get out of Afghanistan, put the diplomatic hammer down on Iran, use the Military to secure our southern border. All things Mattis was not on board with. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:40:32 PM EDT
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I refused to vote in the last presidential election because I saw this coming and I'm tired of settling for the lesser evil. I really hope Mattis runs for president in 2020 because I will vote for him in a heartbeat. (Haters gonna hate.) |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:40:39 PM EDT
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Your name calling and childish behavior says a lot more about you than it does me. Insulting me, accusing me of being a traitor to the country I serve, being a liar and/or lazy. You really got me figured out there, hoss. Why don't you do yourself a favor and take a break from reading things you disagree with for awhile? I do my own research and you have no idea what I know, who I am or where I am from. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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A. You are a propagandist. B. You are stupid. C. You have such an axe to grind that you knowingly push BS. D. You have such an axe to grind as to be intellectually lazy. Why don't you do yourself a favor and take a break from reading things you disagree with for awhile? I do my own research and you have no idea what I know, who I am or where I am from. But the fact that your accertations are bullshit remain and this can be established via simple research. Adnani’s statement in 2014 reminding Iran of their agreement to cooperate is a good example along with reference to Iran’s support to the organization prior to being renamed ISIS. Who is Adnani? Or add ‘Abu Dua’ to your search results. What was ISIS prior to being ISIS? (I’ll give you a clue, drop one letter.). |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:40:46 PM EDT
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The crown jewel of Trump's cabinet is leaving. Bump stock ban, no wall, 10b in aid to South America and Mexico, unhinged Twitter rants, the economy is cooling fast, etc 2020 is looking bleak. And a point I made months ago. If Mattis was fired or resigned, that was the end for me. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:40:57 PM EDT
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So Bolton, Mattis and those against aren’t in the know? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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He wouldn't have made that call without a massive intel briefing by those who are in the know. Something else is going on behind the scenes and I'm sure some back channel deals were made that we will be hearing about later on. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:42:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Matt is thinks Global Warming is a thing. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:42:26 PM EDT
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Big difference between retiring and resigning
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:42:32 PM EDT
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Probably the same amount as during “don’t ask don’t tell “ always some undercover pole smokers and turd burglars hiding Quote HistoryQuoted:
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How many trannies are there in the US armed forces? How many trannies are impeding the ability of the armed forces to do its job? Now it's a different story, and is the military better for it? |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:44:46 PM EDT
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Good points can be made against our going into Iraq in 2003. So let’s say that it was 100% a mistake. That doesn’t mean that Obama’s sudden and precipitous withdrawal was a good idea. Trumps decision is just as bad. Our small footprint in Syria is part of a much larger strategy that is all about NOT being bogged down. Maintaining strong alliances is about having THEIR troops near the burden. Mattis is right. Trump is wrong. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Read the letter. He says in no uncertain terms why he resigned, and how his beliefs were at odds with the ideas and actions of the President. Trump is a fool for ignoring Mattis. But I don't care if the majority of the US disagrees with him. Most people are idiots. Im reasonably sure I'm not an idiot and I don't believe we need to be in Syria, so I disagree with him. I respect his service and accomplishments but I haven't seen an explanation of why we need to be there. At least I haven't seen an explanation with an actionable end state. That doesn’t mean that Obama’s sudden and precipitous withdrawal was a good idea. Trumps decision is just as bad. Our small footprint in Syria is part of a much larger strategy that is all about NOT being bogged down. Maintaining strong alliances is about having THEIR troops near the burden. Mattis is right. Trump is wrong. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:45:39 PM EDT
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No blood for oil right? Don't you have a hippy protest to go to? Oil is kind of important you know. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Stephen Miller just basically said that Isis isn't our enemy and we shouldn't have to fight them. Oil is kind of important you know. Can they do it? No. Can they do a lot of damage? If we let them regroup the can. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:45:54 PM EDT
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Good. Mattis didn’t do shit to end the blatant SJW policies within the DoD. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:46:00 PM EDT
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For those of you who don't know why we have troops in Syria, please refresh your memories. ISIS started in Syria. They used the Syrian civil war as an opportunity to grow in strength and seize territory for their caliphate. When the US pulled out of Iraq, they struck (exactly as Bush predicted) and seized more territory for their caliphate. They began functioning as a state, pumping and selling oil, implementing Islamic law, exercising control over the population and of course slaughtering people by the thousands. They became an international terrorist organization, gaining allegiance from other groups and inspiring vicious attacks all over the world. Our troops attacked in Syria while the Iraqis attacked in Iraq. Today ISIS is a shell of it's former self, but it is not yet destroyed. If we pull up they will regroup, rebuild and try again. This is a huge mistake and America will have to go after these animals again. Sure as Hell. Quote HistoryQuoted:
For those of you who don't know why we have troops in Syria, please refresh your memories. ISIS started in Syria. They used the Syrian civil war as an opportunity to grow in strength and seize territory for their caliphate. When the US pulled out of Iraq, they struck (exactly as Bush predicted) and seized more territory for their caliphate. They began functioning as a state, pumping and selling oil, implementing Islamic law, exercising control over the population and of course slaughtering people by the thousands. They became an international terrorist organization, gaining allegiance from other groups and inspiring vicious attacks all over the world. Our troops attacked in Syria while the Iraqis attacked in Iraq. Today ISIS is a shell of it's former self, but it is not yet destroyed. If we pull up they will regroup, rebuild and try again. This is a huge mistake and America will have to go after these animals again. Sure as Hell. I'll let John Kerry answer for you since you don't have a single clue of what the plan was. "Well, the problem is the Russians do not care about law, and we do. And, we don't have a basis -our lawyers tell us- unless we have a U.N. Security Council resolution, which the Russians can veto and Chinese, OR unless we are under attack from the folks there, or unless we are invited in. Russia was invited in by the legitimate regime, well, it's illegitimate in our mind, by the regime. And so, they were invited in and we're not invited in." "We're flying in airspace there, where they can turn on the air defense and we have a very different scene. The only reason they're letting us fly is because we're going after ISIS. If we were going after Assad, those air defenses, we'd have to take out all those air defenses, uh, and we don't have a legal justification, frankly, for doing that unless we stretch it way beyond the law on a humanitarian basis, which some people argue we should by the way." "Uh, but so far American legal theory has not gone into these so called "right to protect", uh, and we don't even have what we had in Kosovo where we had an, you know, an existing resolution and so forth. Uh, even though we went alone." Please tell me what we accomplish by sitting in NE Syria with the Kurds, who have zero power at the UN because they don't have a country. The majority of Europe is absolutely useless, and it's why we're going hard on NATO's borders and strengthening those ties. If the Europeans want to spread democracy in the ME, then let them bleed for it and pay for it. We're being super nice to Muslims to appease other muslims so we can have friends, and we're letting them turn our country into a weak as fuck push over to muslims and their SJW radicalized BS. The democrats woke up one day and simly decided to start being nice to muslims and want open borders, it just so happens to coincide with the BS happening in Syria. They sold us out for muslim rebel help in Syria. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:46:35 PM EDT
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I think that it's obvious now that they didn't have a plan. They didn't have any realistic objectives but they didn't want to leave either, and when Turkey said that it wasn't going to tolerate a Kurdish state on its borders none of Trump's advisers had a solution. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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He wouldn't have made that call without a massive intel briefing by those who are in the know. Something else is going on behind the scenes and I'm sure some back channel deals were made that we will be hearing about later on. Turkey has NEVER wanted a Kurdish State on its border. That fact does not require a solution. It is the status quo. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:46:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Your name calling and childish behavior says a lot more about you than it does me. Insulting me, accusing me of being a traitor to the country I serve, being a liar and/or lazy. You really got me figured out there, hoss. Why don't you do yourself a favor and take a break from reading things you disagree with for awhile? I do my own research and you have no idea what I know, who I am or where I am from. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:47:02 PM EDT
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I think at least 3/4 of the people on this forum are bipolar.
"Look at all the liberals cry, we didn't cry when Obama was in office wrong. We put our big boy panties on and went back to work LOL" "Waaaaaa. Drumpf is bringing the boys home. Waaaaaa!!! I should have voted for hilliary! " Honestly, some of y'all need meds. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:48:38 PM EDT
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So what was Mattis' plan to stabilize Syria, protect the Kurds and not lock US troops in Syria for 5-10 years? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Read the letter. He says in no uncertain terms why he resigned, and how his beliefs were at odds with the ideas and actions of the President. Trump is a fool for ignoring Mattis. But I don't care if the majority of the US disagrees with him. Most people are idiots. Im reasonably sure I'm not an idiot and I don't believe we need to be in Syria, so I disagree with him. I respect his service and accomplishments but I haven't seen an explanation of why we need to be there. At least I haven't seen an explanation with an actionable end state. That doesn’t mean that Obama’s sudden and precipitous withdrawal was a good idea. Trumps decision is just as bad. Our small footprint in Syria is part of a much larger strategy that is all about NOT being bogged down. Maintaining strong alliances is about having THEIR troops near the burden. Mattis is right. Trump is wrong. Mattis managed to use that tiny footprint to slaughter Russians and ISIS. Economic and lethal. Now the rug is pulled out, without letting the commanders have input. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:48:45 PM EDT
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The leadership came from Iraq, but they went to Syria as a safe haven and gathered support and territory until the US pulled out of Iraq. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:48:47 PM EDT
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I think at least 3/4 of the people on this forum are bipolar. "Look at all the liberals cry, we didn't cry when Obama was in office wrong. We put our big boy panties on and went back to work LOL" "Waaaaaa. Drumpf is bringing the boys home. Waaaaaa!!! I should have voted for hilliary! " Honestly, some of y'all need meds. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:49:19 PM EDT
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I think at least 3/4 of the people on this forum are bipolar. "Look at all the liberals cry, we didn't cry when Obama was in office wrong. We put our big boy panties on and went back to work LOL" "Waaaaaa. Drumpf is bringing the boys home. Waaaaaa!!! I should have voted for hilliary! " Honestly, some of y'all need meds. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:49:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And they were required to keep their sexual preferences out of the mission, preserving unit cohesion. One of the few things that Clinton got right. Now it's a different story, and is the military better for it? |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:49:52 PM EDT
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Meh, he stayed in the job about as long as other SECDEFs.
I don't remember the nashing of teeth when Obama's 4 SECDEFs left their position.  Attached File |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:50:55 PM EDT
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Because Trannies in the .mil and women in infantry is cool. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I refused to vote in the last presidential election because I saw this coming and I'm tired of settling for the lesser evil. I really hope Mattis runs for president in 2020 because I will vote for him in a heartbeat. (Haters gonna hate.) 
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:50:59 PM EDT
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The senior leaders were always in Iraq, be they Zarqawi, AAM, AUAB, or Abu Dua. Kalaf and Ghadiya, etc, were always subordinates. The AQ nexus formed in Iraq and then Assad established relationships with AQ to form a facilitation network in Syria. This was part of the dog he thought he had on a leash that resulted in the Syrian Civil War. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The leadership came from Iraq, but they went to Syria as a safe haven and gathered support and territory until the US pulled out of Iraq. AQI became ISIS. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:51:42 PM EDT
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How the hell was he supposed to roll that back? That doesn’t happen overnight Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Good. Mattis didn’t do shit to end the blatant SJW policies within the DoD. I had high hopes for him, but what exactly has he done to improve the Obama military??? Trannies are still being pushed, women are still being pushed into jobs they're not qualified for (and for sure not the best qualified) and as far as I can tell the SJW crap is still as bad as during Obama. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:51:44 PM EDT
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I have found no evidence supporting the allegation that Secretary Mattis is a democrat, whether closet or flamboyant. Where are you all getting this information that he's a leftist?
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:52:00 PM EDT
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The crown jewel of Trump’s cabinet is leaving. Bump stock ban, no wall, 10b in aid to South America and Mexico, unhinged Twitter rants, the economy is cooling fast, etc 2020 is looking bleak. Outside of the Dow sliding this week what are you referring to on the economy? |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:53:45 PM EDT
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I have found no evidence supporting the allegation that Secretary Mattis is a democrat, whether closet or flamboyant. Where are you all getting this information that he's a leftist? |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:54:28 PM EDT
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People seem to have forgotten that Trump campaigned in the primary on bringing the troops home, and think that there will be some kind of conservative revolt now that Trump has started doing it. Trump will get attaboys from both sides on this. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I see some of GD is back on the impeach Trump train. Truly a high water mark in GD Logic. This place is going to come apart at the seams in 2020. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:54:36 PM EDT
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I have found no evidence supporting the allegation that Secretary Mattis is a democrat, whether closet or flamboyant. Where are you all getting this information that he's a leftist? |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:54:36 PM EDT
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For those keeping track. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:54:38 PM EDT
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I can't deal with this right now.
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:55:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Exactly. AQI became ISIS. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:55:17 PM EDT
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I'm getting tired of Trump's ego forcing out everyone competent in his administration. |
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Posted: 12/20/2018 8:56:03 PM EDT
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