Where is/can Donald Trump take US (sic)?

[basilio]

The US undertook a $250m war game back in 2002 on what might happen if they faced off against Iran in a war situation. Very sobering outcome. .. Iran would have taken a keen interest in the results.

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Millennium Challenge 2002 (MC02) was a major war game exercise conducted by the United States Armed Forces in mid-2002. The exercise, which ran from July 24 to August 15 and cost $250 million, involved both live exercises and computer simulations. MC02 was meant to be a test of future military "transformation"—a transition toward new technologies that enable network-centric warfare and provide more effective command and control of current and future weaponry and tactics. The simulated combatants were the United States, referred to as "Blue", and an unknown adversary in the Middle East, "Red", with many lines of evidence pointing at Iran being the Red side.[citation needed].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/03/the-officer-who-predicted-saddam-s-moves.html

 

[kahuna1]

If I may chirp in ....

Iran, whilst Mullahs seem ... well ... not nice. Each religion has its own beliefs. Its words at times about USA and Israel, the latter, contains 2 of the 4 top Islamic worship sites. Let alone holy christian ones.

In 1981, Israel, once friendly with Iran bombed their sole nuclear facility then.

In the 1980-88 Iraq led invasion of Iran .... Iraq and Saddam sponsored and supported by the USA .... a Conservative MID range estimate is 1 million died in that war. Iran, was the innocent party.

Iran eventually despite Iraq having a much better military started winning. Iraq .... used 300 times ... WMD's not just poison gas .... nerve agents.

100,000 of the dead Iranians, most civilians via nerge agents out of the 500,000 they lost.

Not some fantasy, or pet theory ... sad fact.
Iran went to UN and complained, they verified both the USE .... and scale.

Here is the Low end estimate via Wikipedia ...
current estimates are more than 100,000,
Iran asked the UN to engage in preventing Iraq from using chemical weapon agents, but there were no strong actions by the UN or other international organizations. UN specialist teams were dispatched to Iran at the request of the Iranian Government, in March 1984, April 1985, February–March 1986, April 1987, and in March, July and August 1988.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_attacks_against_Iran#Casualties

Iran, and dialogue was .... it was some third rate power. Outside the 8 nuclear superpowers, there is no more capable nation to defend itself.

If a single facility were to be bombed ... by the USA or likely say 5 .... the response whilst not threatening USA directly, Iran, already a victim of WMD's ... can and clearly just demonstrated that it can shoot down a top shelf drone, I sadly suspect .... all hell will break loose.

One only has to look at say Iraq and when Saddan was actually letting WMD inspectors on the ground, denying he had any ... USA did not believe it. It invaded on the pretense it had WMD.s and well a million dead latter in Iran .... another 500k regional via Syria and Libya and 1 million both sides 1980-88 ... what would you do ?

Iran is not Iraq.

 

[SirRumpole]

You might need to do a double-take on this one,

Americas super rich want to pay more tax. (or some of them at least).

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06...ultra-rich-urge-president-candidates/11245146

 

[kahuna1]

There is sadly, a more confronting one I will share latter.

Astounding and telling on many levels. It is an admission, so awful, that I am trying to wrap my mind around it.

 

[basilio]

You might need to do a double-take on this one,

Americas super rich want to pay more tax. (or some of them at least).

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06...ultra-rich-urge-president-candidates/11245146

That is a seriously interesting story. The fact that "once upon a time " Donald trump himselfsuggested and supported such a tax is also fascinating.

 

[basilio]

How many woman have accused the Rapist in Chief of abuse ?
Another woman spoke up a few days ago and said Donald Trump assaulted her in a woman dressing room 20 years ago. The woman in question is E J Carroll a long time advice columnist in Elle magazine.

Anyway... So what ? Everyone knows Donald Trump has raped, groped, abused , destroyed more woman than anyone can count.
And everybody knows he has routinely denied each and every instance, and for good measure has kicked the women in their teeth to let them know who's boss now.

So in 2019 another very credible rape allegation ends up being slid over by almost everyone because the Teflon Don is now impregnable to just another charge of criminal assault on a mere woman.

What does this say about the US at the moment that nothing will happen ?

Another Allegation—And Trump’s Allies Just Don't Care
Inside the president’s orbit, the gravity of sexual-assault accusations against him no longer seems to register.

“What was she, like, the 28th or something?” one former White House official pondered to me. In a separate conversation, another offered a different guess: “Twenty-two? Twenty-three?”

They were talking about E. Jean Carroll, the longtime Elle advice columnist who, for the first time last week, publicly accused Donald Trump of assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room more than 20 years ago. And what they were trying to do was locate the latest number of women who have accused the president of sexual misconduct. (The answer: at least 22.)

For these former officials, the apparently incalculable magnitude of this number did not cause them to reconsider Trump’s every denial of the varied allegations—to wonder, for example, about the likelihood that 22 or 23 or 28 women were all lying in their stories of harassment, groping, unwanted kissing, and, in Carroll’s case, sexual assault.

Rather, for them, the increase in the number of women seemed to mirror the increase in their indifference. Another accusation, they seemed to say, was like another dollop of numbing cream. “I didn’t read it,” the second former official told me, referring to Carroll’s written account in New York, which was an excerpt from her forthcoming book. “We’re just kind of numb to it all at this point.”

• One current White House official said that “the only thing” that “caught my eye” was Trump’s dismissal of Carroll’s claim. Speaking to reporters from The Hill on Monday, the president addressed her allegation from behind the Resolute desk: “I’ll say it with great respect: No. 1, she’s not my type. No. 2, it never happened. It never happened, okay?”

“Like, what are you gonna do?” the official said. “This is the guy you got.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...lies-react-e-jean-carrolls-allegation/592870/

 

[basilio]

E.J Carroll revealed the sex assault incident in an article in The New York Times. It's actually just one incident of a list of Hideous Men she has encountered.

Its a great read and an interesting insight into the world E.J Carroll grew up.


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Donald Trump Assaulted Me, But He’s Not Alone on My List of Hideous Men

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Hideous Men
Donald Trump assaulted me in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 23 years ago. But he’s not alone on the list of awful men in my life.
By E. Jean Carroll Photograph By Amanda Demme

E. Jean Carroll. Photo: Amanda Demme for New York Magazine
My first rich boy pulled down my underpants. My last rich boy pulled down my tights. My first rich boy — I had fixed my eyes on his face long enough to know — was beautiful, with dark gray eyes and long golden-brown hair across his forehead. I don’t know what he grew up to be. My last rich boy was blond. He grew up to be the president of the United States.

The first rich boy’s name was James. He was raped by his grandfather. He was raped by his uncles. He was beaten by his father. My mother told me the stories much later. When James was 6, he was taken away from his father and given to a rich couple, Arthur and Evelyn. Arthur and Evelyn were best friends with my parents, Tom and Betty. One day my parents gave a party. Everyone brought their kids. Arthur and Evelyn drove up from Indianapolis with James to the redbrick schoolhouse where we lived, deep in the hills north of Fort Wayne. As the parents drank cocktails in our big yard with the scent of the blooming wads of cash infusing every inch of Indiana just after WWII, the kids played up on the hill beside the schoolhouse.

https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/donald-trump-assault-e-jean-carroll-other-hideous-men.html

 

[wayneL]

How many woman have accused the Rapist in Chief of abuse ?
Another woman spoke up a few days ago and said Donald Trump assaulted her in a woman dressing room 20 years ago. The woman in question is E J Carroll a long time advice columnist in Elle magazine.

Anyway... So what ? Everyone knows Donald Trump has raped, groped, abused , destroyed more woman than anyone can count.
And everybody knows he has routinely denied each and every instance, and for good measure has kicked the women in their teeth to let them know who's boss now.

So in 2019 another very credible rape allegation ends up being slid over by almost everyone because the Teflon Don is now impregnable to just another charge of criminal assault on a mere woman.

What does this say about the US at the moment that nothing will happen ?

Another Allegation—And Trump’s Allies Just Don't Care
Inside the president’s orbit, the gravity of sexual-assault accusations against him no longer seems to register.

“What was she, like, the 28th or something?” one former White House official pondered to me. In a separate conversation, another offered a different guess: “Twenty-two? Twenty-three?”

They were talking about E. Jean Carroll, the longtime Elle advice columnist who, for the first time last week, publicly accused Donald Trump of assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room more than 20 years ago. And what they were trying to do was locate the latest number of women who have accused the president of sexual misconduct. (The answer: at least 22.)

For these former officials, the apparently incalculable magnitude of this number did not cause them to reconsider Trump’s every denial of the varied allegations—to wonder, for example, about the likelihood that 22 or 23 or 28 women were all lying in their stories of harassment, groping, unwanted kissing, and, in Carroll’s case, sexual assault.

Rather, for them, the increase in the number of women seemed to mirror the increase in their indifference. Another accusation, they seemed to say, was like another dollop of numbing cream. “I didn’t read it,” the second former official told me, referring to Carroll’s written account in New York, which was an excerpt from her forthcoming book. “We’re just kind of numb to it all at this point.”

• One current White House official said that “the only thing” that “caught my eye” was Trump’s dismissal of Carroll’s claim. Speaking to reporters from The Hill on Monday, the president addressed her allegation from behind the Resolute desk: “I’ll say it with great respect: No. 1, she’s not my type. No. 2, it never happened. It never happened, okay?”

“Like, what are you gonna do?” the official said. “This is the guy you got.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...lies-react-e-jean-carrolls-allegation/592870/

Isn't it curious they are all Democrat activists, bas?

 

[Knobby22]

Isn't it curious they are all Democrat activists, bas?

As soon as they speak up they obviously are activists.
They obviously don't like Trump in power and would rather someone else so that makes them Democrats as that is how the US system works. Quite correct.

 

[basilio]

Isn't it curious they are all Democrat activists, bas?

And who said they were all Democrat activists ? Or is that just another Trumpism from the Liar in Chief?
And are you suggesting that they are all (therefore) just making this up ? That the piece of merde currently sliming up the White House doesn't in fact behave exactly the way he said he did when he was big noting himself about his aggressive behaviour to women ?

So why did you make absolutely no comment about the credibility of E.J Carroll ? Was she just making up all the stories of hideous men or just the Trump episoide ? Were the two friends she spoke to afterwards about the incident who confirmed her story also in on the Big Lie ?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...d26847eeed4_story.html?utm_term=.cfed8b3a26e5

US election: Full transcript of Donald Trump's obscene videotape

 

[Dark Knight 2.0]

I thought "the liar in chief" was good but "the rapist in chief" is on a whole new level
Bet the Don rues the day he ticked off Bas

 

[wayneL]

EJ is quite obviously right off her trolly, bas.

Credibility -1,000,000,000

 

[DB008]

Imagine if Obama did this, it would be on every network for a weeks straight

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[basilio]

The ongoing narcissism of Donald Trump.
Setting up a National Independence Day event with The Don and A Ton of Military hardware as center stage.

Trump Wants Tanks on the National Mall. What Could Go Wrong?
A show of military might to gratify the president’s ego—on Independence Day, no less—is yet another blow to republican virtue.

Hello, comrades! Happy Fourth of July, or should I say, Happy 45th President of July! How fortunate we are to see our Tremendous Nation’s military hardware as we celebrate the 240th-ish anniversary of something or the other, and the third year of our Amazing President! Of course, our Great Hero Farmers are going bankrupt and our Treasonous Justice Department is engaging in ongoing Presidential Harassment, but at least our New Sherman Tanks will be on parade!

Unless, of course, our Sherman tanks (after their arduous trip through the Time Tunnel) plunge through the Arlington Memorial Bridge and we have to fish them out of the Potomac. In which case, it will clearly be the result of sabotage by wreckers determined to ruin yet another celebration of the Most Abused President in All of Human History.

If only this were more of a parody. In fact, President Donald Trump’s plan to turn the Fourth of July into a gigantic ritual of reassurance for his spun-glass ego has now fully matured from a crackpot idea into an expensive, authoritarian, and truly weird hijacking of our most important national holiday. Armored vehicles have already been moved through the streets of the District, and we can only be relieved that there aren’t any Minuteman III nuclear-armed ICBMs near Washington, or Trump would probably be ordering the Air Force to cart one of those down Constitution Avenue, as well.

Instead of observing the Fourth like a normal president and engaging in some quiet ritual of civic virtue—swearing in new citizens, or visiting our troops, or perhaps just watching the fireworks and leaving his fellow citizens alone for a day—Trump has decided to order up a spectacle. Rather than honoring the day on which the Founders risked being hanged as traitors in order to proclaim a new republic, Trump will preside over a show of might meant to quiet the constant thunderclaps of insecurity that fill his every waking moment.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...july-is-a-cheap-version-of-patriotism/593248/

 

[kahuna1]

I would add .....

USA media ... and this is amusing ... how Obama was treated and he was as bad as George W ... despite his better PR ... but FOX and how they treated him v Trump ...




Since Donald is running his own parade .... just like Putin and Kim Ill ...

Its amusing ... sad and scary ..

 

[wayneL]

Peak TDS.

Get help

 

[basilio]

Peak TDS.

Get help

Peak denial. You can't see anything wrong here ? Beyond help.

 

[kahuna1]

Peak ?

The sadly sick, mentally, have no boundaries .... none at all.
Sadly so. Not being mean but without an off button, a stop button .... a conscience, remorse, regret and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound ... or in the very ill ... deny and actually believe lies they deny having done on camera 5 minutes ago ....

Tim Apple, instead of Tim Cook from Apple was a classic .... NO I didn't say that, despite 5 cameras catching it from 5 different TV networks.

Not suggesting he is a psychopath .... like say Hannibal Lector ... from silence of the lambs, but similar. So when he met one ... recently and they had chemistry ... Kim Ill from North Korea ... Kim, who ordered his brother murdered, was thinking how he could get the fake tan out when he killed the idiot and what wine he would have.

Donald ... delusional in his belief ... of his power and presence was admiring his own image in every reflection, his voice, his body. Or was he trying to distract us from the rape allegation ... but already history rewritten on that ,,,, his victory in 2016 ... biggest every ... despite loosing the overall vote 49 % to turkey and 51% to Hillary.

Ooohhh ... I have a better one ... chemistry with the Queen a 92 year old hottie ... she is such a good Queen able to convince a person, a narcissist that she is not vomiting when she leaves his majesty's presence. Tee heee .... 2020 will be fascinating.

 

[wayneL]

Recognizing you have a problem is key.

Sadly, it is evident that hasn't happened for you guys yet.

2020 will probably precipitate it.

 

[wayneL]