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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

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More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

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A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

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DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

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Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[LarryBnDC]

Big day on the forum

Heh.

Mattis-with 40 years of defense and national security expertise, resigns as Sec of Defense, as he can't work with a treacherous and dangerous idiot as commader in chief.

Discuss.

Discuss?
Sure.

US should never have been in Syria supporting with troops the Muslim rebels/Islamic State or whoever they were/are against the protector of the Christians Assad in the first place.
Assad and Putin had it sorted.
US v Putin and Assad … in Syria, the Middle East...big waste of time, money and possible American lives that one.

Troops home now!   for Christmas!
Still a few days left yet to get them home.

Trump is absolutely doing the right thing!

Because all the generals are wrong. ISIS is defeated, just like Trump says.

You and Kiiid make a great tag team. They made a couple movies about it, a while ago.

How many dead/maimed for life America troops are you prepared to sacrifice to continue the madness of fighting with the rebels/IS against Assad-Putin?
Madness it surely is.
Putin always wins...he never loses.

Death will have something to say about that, Bambi.

So far, the number of American troops killed in Syria is five.

More US soldiers die from suicide every day than that total from Syria.

The report shows the total is 20.6 suicides every day. Of those, 16.8 were veterans and 3.8 were active-duty servicemembers, guardsmen and reservists, the report states. That amounts to 6,132 veterans and 1,387 servicemembers who died by suicide in one year.

Honest, Bambi, stick to something you know something about. (There must be something, right?)

Five is five too many.

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/putin-welcomes-trump%e2%80%99s-syria-withdrawal-%e2%80%98donald%e2%80%99s-right%e2%80%99/ar-BBReiaB?OCID=AVRES000

Putin Welcomes Trump’s Syria Withdrawal: ‘Donald’s Right’

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday welcomed President Trump’s announcement of a withdrawal of American troops from Syria, calling it “the right decision.”

The Russian leader expressed skepticism, however that American forces would actually withdraw, as the United States had announced a pullout from Afghanistan by 2014 but still has forces in that country today.

“We don’t see any signs yet of the withdrawal of U.S. troops,” he said. “How long has the United States been in Afghanistan? Seventeen years? And almost every year they say they’re pulling out their troops.”

Regarding Syria, he said, Mr. Trump made the right decision because the American troops are in the country illegally, never having been invited by the Syrian government, as Russian forces were.

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Well there you go.
No degree from Harvard needed for this one either.

Trump made the decision because Turkey and Russia want to destroy the Kurds and not get blasted to hell in the process...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/world/middleeast/american-commandos-russian-mercenaries-syria.html

[josh]

Big day on the forum

Heh.

Mattis-with 40 years of defense and national security expertise, resigns as Sec of Defense, as he can't work with a treacherous and dangerous idiot as commader in chief.

Discuss.

Discuss?
Sure.

US should never have been in Syria supporting with troops the Muslim rebels/Islamic State or whoever they were/are against the protector of the Christians Assad in the first place.
Assad and Putin had it sorted.
US v Putin and Assad … in Syria, the Middle East...big waste of time, money and possible American lives that one.

Troops home now!   for Christmas!
Still a few days left yet to get them home.

Trump is absolutely doing the right thing!

Because all the generals are wrong. ISIS is defeated, just like Trump says.

You and Kiiid make a great tag team. They made a couple movies about it, a while ago.

How many dead/maimed for life America troops are you prepared to sacrifice to continue the madness of fighting with the rebels/IS against Assad-Putin?
Madness it surely is.
Putin always wins...he never loses.

Death will have something to say about that, Bambi.

So far, the number of American troops killed in Syria is five.

More US soldiers die from suicide every day than that total from Syria.

The report shows the total is 20.6 suicides every day. Of those, 16.8 were veterans and 3.8 were active-duty servicemembers, guardsmen and reservists, the report states. That amounts to 6,132 veterans and 1,387 servicemembers who died by suicide in one year.

Honest, Bambi, stick to something you know something about. (There must be something, right?)

Five is five too many.

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/putin-welcomes-trump%e2%80%99s-syria-withdrawal-%e2%80%98donald%e2%80%99s-right%e2%80%99/ar-BBReiaB?OCID=AVRES000

Putin Welcomes Trump’s Syria Withdrawal: ‘Donald’s Right’

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday welcomed President Trump’s announcement of a withdrawal of American troops from Syria, calling it “the right decision.”

The Russian leader expressed skepticism, however that American forces would actually withdraw, as the United States had announced a pullout from Afghanistan by 2014 but still has forces in that country today.

“We don’t see any signs yet of the withdrawal of U.S. troops,” he said. “How long has the United States been in Afghanistan? Seventeen years? And almost every year they say they’re pulling out their troops.”

Regarding Syria, he said, Mr. Trump made the right decision because the American troops are in the country illegally, never having been invited by the Syrian government, as Russian forces were.

#####

Well there you go.
No degree from Harvard needed for this one either.

Too true. No Harvard degree needed.

When your country's greatest foe is celebrating a decision that you've made, you know you have screwed up.

When the person making said decision is the fellow said foe worked hard to get elected, you know who the decision serves, and it is not your own country.

No Harvard degree needed. Just a little common sense.

Uncommon in you, Bambi.

[LarryBnDC]

Mattis said it is “either me or Putin” and Trump chose Putin.


https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/12/20/the-moving-parts-the-walls-come-down-around-trump/

[REDSTATEWARD]

As expected.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ethics-complaints-against-kavanaugh-dismissed-11545179488?mod=cx_picks&cx_navSource=cx_picks&cx_tag=undefined&cx_artPos=1#cxrecs_s

[josh]

As expected.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ethics-complaints-against-kavanaugh-dismissed-11545179488?mod=cx_picks&cx_navSource=cx_picks&cx_tag=undefined&cx_artPos=1#cxrecs_s

Yes.

Not because he was innocent of them, but because of lack of jurisdiction.

Picky, picky, picky.

[josh]

https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2018/12/18/crime-declines-in-americas-big-cities

Crime resumes its decline, after a couple years up.

[REDSTATEWARD]

As expected.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ethics-complaints-against-kavanaugh-dismissed-11545179488?mod=cx_picks&cx_navSource=cx_picks&cx_tag=undefined&cx_artPos=1#cxrecs_s

Yes.

Not because he was innocent of them, but because of lack of jurisdiction.

Picky, picky, picky.

LOL
The wisdom of Josh, the 4th grader.

[josh]

As expected.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ethics-complaints-against-kavanaugh-dismissed-11545179488?mod=cx_picks&cx_navSource=cx_picks&cx_tag=undefined&cx_artPos=1#cxrecs_s

Yes.

Not because he was innocent of them, but because of lack of jurisdiction.

Picky, picky, picky.

LOL
The wisdom of Josh, the 4th grader.

The reading ability of somebody a ton smarter than you choose to present yourself as being:

A panel of judges said the complaints were filed under a federal law that doesn’t apply to Supreme Court justices

From another (non-paywall) article:

The judges concluded that while the complaints "are serious," there is no existing authority that allows lower court judges to investigate or discipline Supreme Court justices.

They lacked jurisdiction over a SCOTUS Justice. What part of that are you failing to grasp, DimWard?

They didn't find him not guilty. They found themselves not bothering to investigate the serious allegations.

[facilitatorn]

As expected.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ethics-complaints-against-kavanaugh-dismissed-11545179488?mod=cx_picks&cx_navSource=cx_picks&cx_tag=undefined&cx_artPos=1#cxrecs_s

Yes.

Not because he was innocent of them, but because of lack of jurisdiction.

Picky, picky, picky.

LOL
The wisdom of Josh, the 4th grader.

The reading ability of somebody a ton smarter than you choose to present yourself as being:

A panel of judges said the complaints were filed under a federal law that doesn’t apply to Supreme Court justices

From another (non-paywall) article:

The judges concluded that while the complaints "are serious," there is no existing authority that allows lower court judges to investigate or discipline Supreme Court justices.

They lacked jurisdiction over a SCOTUS Justice. What part of that are you failing to grasp, DimWard?

They didn't find him not guilty. They found themselves not bothering to investigate the serious allegations.

We’re going to have to count on O’Kavanaugh’s liver and terrible judgement to get him off the bench. There’s a pretty good chance he wraps his car around a tree racing around somewhere mid bender.

[REDSTATEWARD]

As expected.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ethics-complaints-against-kavanaugh-dismissed-11545179488?mod=cx_picks&cx_navSource=cx_picks&cx_tag=undefined&cx_artPos=1#cxrecs_s

Yes.

Not because he was innocent of them, but because of lack of jurisdiction.

Picky, picky, picky.

LOL
The wisdom of Josh, the 4th grader.

The reading ability of somebody a ton smarter than you choose to present yourself as being:

A panel of judges said the complaints were filed under a federal law that doesn’t apply to Supreme Court justices

From another (non-paywall) article:

The judges concluded that while the complaints "are serious," there is no existing authority that allows lower court judges to investigate or discipline Supreme Court justices.

They lacked jurisdiction over a SCOTUS Justice. What part of that are you failing to grasp, DimWard?

They didn't find him not guilty. They found themselves not bothering to investigate the serious allegations.

Serious!
I can make any charge I want but if I don’t have the jurisdiction to do so it is useless.
But I can always say my baseless charge was “ serious “.

[luee]

SYRIAPublished 14 hours ago
---Why Trump's Syria withdrawal is the right move---

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trumps-syria-withdrawal-is-the-right-move

[luee]

Wow the donald has discarded losing republican advice of the recent past and is leaving beautiful backward Syria in the hands of   Assad and their invited allies. Does he protect Christians and other minorities, yes. Is he the biggest unyielding foe of the Isis horde, of course.

[josh]

As expected.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ethics-complaints-against-kavanaugh-dismissed-11545179488?mod=cx_picks&cx_navSource=cx_picks&cx_tag=undefined&cx_artPos=1#cxrecs_s

Yes.

Not because he was innocent of them, but because of lack of jurisdiction.

Picky, picky, picky.

LOL
The wisdom of Josh, the 4th grader.

The reading ability of somebody a ton smarter than you choose to present yourself as being:

A panel of judges said the complaints were filed under a federal law that doesn’t apply to Supreme Court justices

From another (non-paywall) article:

The judges concluded that while the complaints "are serious," there is no existing authority that allows lower court judges to investigate or discipline Supreme Court justices.

They lacked jurisdiction over a SCOTUS Justice. What part of that are you failing to grasp, DimWard?

They didn't find him not guilty. They found themselves not bothering to investigate the serious allegations.

Serious!
I can make any charge I want but if I don’t have the jurisdiction to do so it is useless.
But I can always say my baseless charge was “ serious “.

It was the COURT that said the charge was serious. Not the accusers.

Duh.

And you can say anything is baseless that you want when it isn't getting investigated, as the Senate so-called Judiciary Committee already illustrated.

But you are so far up the GOP's ass that you couldn't be honest about this if your life depended on it.

[josh]

https://www.businessinsider.com/theres-a-gofundme-to-buy-ladders-to-get-over-trumps-border-wall-2018-12?utm_content=buffere66fc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-politics

[kiiidcarter8]

My views on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues.  We must do everything possible to advance an international order that is most conducive to our security, prosperity, and values, and we are strengthened in this effort by the solidarity of our alliances. 

Because you have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects, I believe it is right for me to step down from my position.

Kind of amazing that Mattis articulates what should be a straightforward and given view on international policy and then basically says that Trump does not share that view.

Well sure.  This is what happens when your "President" is in Putin's pocket and honestly could not give two shits about the importance of America maintaining its standing in the world order.  The only interests Trump is interested in advancing are his own.

Has nothing at all to do with Putin.

You couldn’t connect the dots if they were numbered, kiidcarter8.

All those props you thought Trump deserved because he didn’t instantly trash the country...how’s that position looking right now?

Didn't instantly trash the country?

Bro, I thought you had a college degree.  Bring some of it to this forum on occasion, please.