@oralloy,
oralloy wrote:This is why it is so important to vote for Republicans. The Democrats are labeling large swathes of the American populace as mentally ill just so they can violate their rights.
How is the procedure that someone gets the legal status of being "mentally ill" in the USA? Just labelled by a political party to be it seems a bit ... against medical knowledge, irregular ...
@Walter Hinteler,
Walter Hinteler wrote:How is the procedure that someone gets the legal status of being "mentally ill" in the USA?
I'm not sure that there even is such a legal status in America. However, a court can order someone to be committed to psychiatric care because they are a danger to themselves or others. The law reasonably allows for such people to be prohibited from having guns.
Walter Hinteler wrote:Just labelled by a political party to be it seems a bit ... against medical knowledge, irregular ...
Yes, but when the Democrats think up a new way to violate our rights, they don't hesitate.
If labeling the entire nation as being mentally ill will give the Democrats a path to seizing our guns, then that is fine with them.
The only thing that stopped them was the election of Donald Trump.
Dismal Voucher Results Surprise Researchers as DeVos Era Begins
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/upshot/dismal-results-from-vouchers-surprise-researchers-as-devos-era-begins.html
What??? Parents don't want their kids indoctrinated by private charter schools and their freak religious zealots? (cynical)
@georgeob1,
Golly, that means we can only destroy the world 20 times over. Damn but that makes me feel so much better.
Former Acting CIA Director Calls Russian Interference In Election ‘The Political Equivalent Of 9/11’
http://linkis.com/huffingtonpost.com/cXYIJ
@TheCobbler,
Quote:Former Acting CIA Director Calls Russian Interference In Election ‘The Political Equivalent Of 9/11’
Do you think that false flag will have as much productive propaganda value as the 9-11 false flag?
@oralloy,
Quote:We haven't targeted "cities" in a very long time.
Wrong. Cities, towns, villages, men, women, children. It's all the same to the invaders.
@RABEL222,
I don't know about 20 times over, but back in the fifties when I served in the USAF, we had enough nukes then to destroy the major cities of the world.
We have since then developed intercontinental missiles. Who knows how much damage they can do to this world between a war between Russia and the US and our allies.
I designed the 37th Aviation Depot Squadron patch while stationed at Walker AFB in New Mexico.
http://ericsusafpatches.nl/supporting%20units/squadrons-flights/squadrons-flights%201_50.htm
1. He called Hillary Clinton a crook. You bought it. Then he paid $25 million to settle a fraud lawsuit.
2. He said he’d release his tax returns, eventually. You bought it. He hasn’t, and says he never will.
3. He said he’d divest himself from his financial empire, to avoid any conflicts of interest. You bought it. He is still heavily involved in his businesses, manipulates the stock market on a daily basis, and has more conflicts of interest than can even be counted.
4. He said Clinton was in the pockets of Goldman Sachs, and would do whatever they said. You bought it. He then proceeded to put half a dozen Goldman Sachs executives in positions of power in his administration.
5. He said he’d surround himself with all the best and smartest people. You bought it.
He nominated theocratic loon Mike Pence for Vice President. A white supremacist named Steve Bannon is his most trusted confidant. Dr. Ben Carson, the world’s greatest idiot savant brain surgeon, is in charge of HUD. Russian quisling Rex Tillerson is Secretary of State.
6. He said he’d be his own man, beholden to no one. You bought it. He then appointed Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, whose only “qualifications” were the massive amounts of cash she donated to his campaign.
7. He said he would “drain the swamp” of Washington insiders. You bought it. He then admitted that was just a corny slogan he said to fire up the rubes during the rallies, and that he didn’t mean it.
8. He said he knew more about strategy and terrorism than the Generals did. You bought it.
He promptly gave the green light to a disastrous raid in Yemen- even though all his Generals said it would be a terrible idea. This raid resulted in the deaths of a Navy SEAL, an 8-year old American girl, and numerous civilians. The actual target of the raid escaped, and no useful intel was gained.
9. He said Hillary Clinton couldn’t be counted on in times of crisis. You bought it. He didn’t even bother overseeing that raid in Yemen; and instead spent the time hate-tweeting the New York Times, and sleeping.
10. He called CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times “fake news” and said they were his enemy. You bought it. He now gets all his information from Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, and InfoWars.
11. He called Barack Obama “the vacationer-in-Chief” and accused him of playing more rounds of golf than Tiger Woods. He promised to never be the kind of president who took cushy vacations on the taxpayer’s dime, not when there was so much important work to be done.
You bought it. He took his first vacation after 11 days in office. On the taxpayer’s dime. And went golfing. And that’s just the first month.
- Robert Reich
@TheCobbler,
He also pushed the birther issue against Obama for five years, and claimed he was not qualified to be our President. The irony, of coarse, is that Obama has one of the highest approval ratings, and Trump's first weeks in office shows him at the bottom.
Trump is also a
racial bigot, liar, and scammer of many.
Even a republican commenter called Trump a "racial bigot and misogynist."
https://mediamatters.org/video/2016/10/06/cnn-republican-political-commentator-trump-bigot-he-racist-he-misogynist/213575
@TheCobbler,
The Democrats have no power to do anything but whine.
I do support their right to whine, but I advise that people pay no attention to their whining. Better to focus on something that actually matters.
@TheCobbler,
Quote:He promptly gave the green light to a disastrous raid in Yemen- even though all his Generals said it would be a terrible idea. This raid resulted in the deaths of a Navy SEAL, an 8-year old American girl, and numerous civilians. The actual target of the raid escaped, and no useful intel was gained.
I question the truthfulness of the claim that all his generals opposed it.
I also note the fact that Obama viewed the raid favorably and only left it for Trump to deal with because it was not a new moon yet.
It is indeed a shame that the soldier was killed. Unfortunately that can happen in war.
Collateral damage = BONUS POINTS
The intelligence was useful. It might not have given the government a trail directly to Zawahiri, but that doesn't mean it wasn't useful.
@oralloy,
US military sources criticize Trump's approval of Yemen strike.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/02/u-s-military-sources-criticize-trump-approved-yemen-strike.html
Quote:New questions have emerged about what went wrong in the U.S. military raid against Al Qaeda in Yemen last weekend. Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens, a Navy SEAL, was killed in the operation and three other U.S. service members were injured. Nawar Al-Awlaki, the 8-year-old daughter of American Al Qaeda leader Anwar Al-Awlaki, was also killed, and local reports say as many as 30 people died. The raid was the first operation approved by President Trump.
@cicerone imposter,
cicerone imposter wrote:US military sources criticize Trump's approval of Yemen strike.
What military sources are these?
Making sure that the raid was adequately prepared is the job of the generals, not the president. If the generals failed to do their job, they should shape up and start doing better.