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  • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
    How you fit all of them inside?
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    • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

      I will go to Korea.
      - D.D. Eisenhower

      "Good Idea!"
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      • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

        Trump is so desperate to do just one thing without farking it up, he'd to to NK go discuss breakfast food and claim it was the most important diplomatic accomplishment in the last 100 years. He's too needy and would be too unprepared to do anything but embarrass himself.

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        • Originally posted by burd View Post
          Trump is so desperate to do just one thing without farking it up, he'd to to NK go discuss breakfast food and claim it was the most important diplomatic accomplishment in the last 100 years. He's too needy and would be too unprepared to do anything but embarrass himself.
          tD needs to study this:

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          • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

            Originally posted by burd View Post
            Trump is so desperate to do just one thing without farking it up, he'd to to NK go discuss breakfast food and claim it was the most important diplomatic accomplishment in the last 100 years. He's too needy and would be too unprepared to do anything but embarrass himself.
            Pretty much. We'll see what happens, but based on America's history with the Norks over the past 60 years, I rate this as a convenient distraction that will amount to little, if anything. And that's the best case scenario.

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            • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

              Cripes! He only lasted 1.155 threads!
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              1 granddaughter (EML 4/18)

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              - Benjamin Franklin

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              • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

                Originally posted by joecct View Post
                Cripes! He only lasted 1.155 threads!
                The Story

                President Trump has ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and plans to nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him as the nation’s top diplomat, orchestrating a major change to his national security team amid delicate outreach such as possible talks with North Korea, White House officials said Tuesday.

                Trump last Friday asked Tillerson to step aside, and the embattled diplomat cut short a trip to Africa on Monday to return to Washington.

                Tension between Trump and Tillerson has simmered for many months, but the president and his top diplomat reached a breaking point over the past week, officials said.

                The reason for the latest rift was unclear, but Trump and Tillerson have often appeared at odds over policies such as the nuclear deal with Iran and the tone of U.S. diplomacy. A spokesman for Tillerson said the secretary of state “had every intention of staying” in his job and was “unaware of the reason” for his firing.
                Jesus this is getting crazy...
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                • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

                  Originally posted by Handyman View Post
                  The Story



                  Jesus this is getting crazy...
                  Yeah, I think it's time to be afraid of what Trump and the Republicans may do to the country.
                  **NOTE: The misleading post above was brought to you by Reynold's Wrap and American Steeples, makers of Crosses.

                  Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
                  Originally Posted by First Time, Long Time-Always knew you were nothing but a troll.

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                  • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

                    Here's the real reason he got fired. From NY Times.

                    Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain “an egregious act” and added, “It appears that it clearly came from Russia.”
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                    Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
                    Originally Posted by First Time, Long Time-Always knew you were nothing but a troll.

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                    • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

                      What's obvious is that Tillerson, for all of his faults and criticisms, was trying to hold things together with spit and glue, whereas Trump wants us to throw everything out the window and get chummy with autocrats.

                      Whatever agreement they come to with North Korea, no doubt influenced by China and Russia, is likely going to be a major, perhaps even total abdication of America's power and role in the APAC region. The next POTUS and SOS are probably going to have to go to war if they want to undo it.

                      EDIT: What Scooby posted is clearly the straw that broke the fat orange turd's back, but this runs deeper than that. Tillerson has long-since figured out that Trump is an imbecilic fraud.

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                      • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

                        Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
                        Yeah, I think it's time to be afraid of what Trump and the Republicans may do to the country.
                        "Time"? Now?

                        This is the great crisis.

                        One of the (many) things we need is full documentation -- get everyone who serves in any capacity in this clown show on the record -- so that historians and sociologists can understand how dictatorships develop so we can study this and we can guard against them better in the future. We need armies of analysts gathering the data that will be sifted for the next century, assuming anybody literate is left.

                        By the 2:7:1 rule only 10% of people are evil, yet in the US evil has gained complete control over our government. Those numbers are probably very similar to the Nazis, the Bolsheviks, and the Khmer Rouge. From those cases we have clear precedent that that 10% can put all 100% of us into mortal danger, not to mention all the external people who get in the way as targets, deflections, or just bystanders.

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                        • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

                          Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
                          Here's the real reason he got fired. From NY Times.
                          Wow...he **** near baited Trump to fire him saying that
                          "It's as if the Drumpf Administration is made up of the worst and unfunny parts of the Cleveland Browns, Washington Generals, and the alien Mon-Stars from Space Jam."
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                          • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

                            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                            "Time"? Now?

                            This is the great crisis.
                            Oh, I was afraid day one. I'm trying to convince others.
                            **NOTE: The misleading post above was brought to you by Reynold's Wrap and American Steeples, makers of Crosses.

                            Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
                            Originally Posted by First Time, Long Time-Always knew you were nothing but a troll.

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                            • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

                              Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                              "Time"? Now?

                              This is the great crisis.

                              One of the (many) things we need is full documentation -- get everyone who serves in any capacity in this clown show on the record -- so that historians and sociologists can understand how dictatorships develop so we can study this and we can guard against them better in the future. We need armies of analysts gathering the data that will be sifted for the next century, assuming anybody literate is left.

                              By the 2:7:1 rule only 10% of people are evil, yet in the US evil has gained complete control over our government. Those numbers are probably very similar to the Nazis, the Bolsheviks, and the Khmer Rouge. From those cases we have clear precedent that that 10% can put all 100% of us into mortal danger, not to mention all the external people who get in the way as targets, deflections, or just bystanders.

                              The March of the Morons isn't just funny, it's also a menace.
                              2-7-1 rule?
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                              • Re: US Foreign Policy 2.0: Have you read Kipling, Mr. Tillerson?

                                Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                                2-7-1 rule?
                                20% of people are good.

                                10% of people are bad.

                                The rest of us are just scuffling along, doing the best we can with what we were given.
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