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Re: We just not gonna talk about this?
Jan 29, 2017, 8:45 PM
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In Trump we trust.
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All-In [41917]
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Sounds good...
Jan 29, 2017, 8:48 PM
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1. Barring immigration from certain nations: Great for national security!
2. Demoting the joint chiefs and putting a blogger ahead of them on national security issues: Also great for national security!
Makes sense.
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Legend [16207]
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I think I'm going with "just a blogger" vs "just a T-netter"
Jan 30, 2017, 11:19 AM
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jus' sayin' 
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Heisman Winner [112363]
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I thought I replied to you earlier post about this..........
Jan 29, 2017, 8:46 PM
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Maybe I didn't.
If he wants to put Bannon on the NSC fine. But to leave the Joint Chiefs of Staff off is stupid!
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Orange Blooded [4959]
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So according to the article
Jan 29, 2017, 8:55 PM
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Bannon will "join high-level discussions about national security".
The horror.
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All-In [41917]
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Here, allow me to help.
Jan 29, 2017, 8:59 PM
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"President Donald Trump is reshuffling the US National Security Council (NSC), downgrading the military chiefs of staff and giving a regular seat to his chief strategist Steve Bannon."
"The director of national intelligence and the joint chiefs will attend when discussions pertain to their areas.
Under previous administrations, the director and joint chiefs attended all meetings of the NSC's inner circle, the principals' committee."
Reading the whole article helps. He's demoting the joint chiefs, giving them more limited roles, and giving Bannon a seat at every meeting.
More reading for your pleasure, if you like.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/us/politics/stephen-bannon-security-council.html
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Which is worse, a Marxist or a Leninist?
Jan 29, 2017, 9:29 PM
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I heard last week that because Trump, as the govt, has participated in direct intervention in capitalist markets he is a Marxist (this is apparently different from general policy of past presidents because he interferes with specific companies directly although I seem to remember others doing the same through bailouts etc) and I saw today where Bannon proudly claimed to be a Leninist I'm wondering which is worse.
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Lot o points [155518]
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I don't condone Marxism, or any ism for that matter.
Jan 29, 2017, 9:40 PM
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Isms, in my opinion, are not good. A person should not believe in an ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, “I don’t believe in ‘Beatles’, I just believe in me.” Good point there. After all, he was the Walrus. I could be the Walrus, I’d still have to bum rides off of people.
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CU Guru [1813]
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I wasn't sure if Trump was totally off the rocker until this
Jan 30, 2017, 12:10 AM
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I mean the terrorist state immigration suspension is one obviously misguided thing, but there is just no defending this. He is obviously completely incompetent at a fundamental level if he thinks putting this wife-abusing, conspiracy-theory peddling, white supremacist crazy person with no experience whatsoever in the situation room while at the same time diminishing the roles of two key, established individuals with eons of experience and knowhow. I thought the reports of him clinging to Fox News and social media all day long were exaggerated but now I'm starting to believe it. I hope Republicans stand up to this nonsense. This is disturbing and shameful.
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Oculus Spirit [93585]
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I'm giving him a broad range of latitude.
Jan 30, 2017, 4:28 AM
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Mostly because I agree with just about everyth...nah, no sense BSing you. Trump knows what he's doing.
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Much ado about nothing
Jan 30, 2017, 1:15 AM
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You guys are going to have to learn to pick your battles. You can't keep making everything out to be the worst thing in the world.
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lulz***
Jan 30, 2017, 2:26 AM
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Lot o points [155518]
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That's my thought too.
Jan 30, 2017, 7:51 AM
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The sky is falling on every single move Trump makes for these people. It's downright unhinged.
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Orange Blooded [2053]
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Seems awfully familiar to act like everything the opposition
Jan 30, 2017, 4:23 PM
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does will lead to the end of times.
Where have we seen that before? Gee...
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Oculus Spirit [93585]
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It's called presidential discretion.***
Jan 30, 2017, 4:25 AM
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Re: We just not gonna talk about this?
Jan 30, 2017, 6:03 AM
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The muslim ban served as a nice distraction.
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Oculus Spirit [93585]
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TU from me to balance you out to a 50% ratio.
Jan 30, 2017, 6:54 AM
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Neither side likes truth but I consider you might be right, Fordperfect might agree.
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This appears to make it clear who he's listening to
Jan 30, 2017, 8:01 AM
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and who he's not listening to.
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This is highly disturbing to me. Very troubling.***
Jan 30, 2017, 8:21 AM
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If I picture President Trump having an angel on one shoulder
Jan 30, 2017, 8:23 AM
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and a devil on the other, Bannon is that devil. Please, please, Mr. President. Get him far, far away. I trust you 1000 times more than I trust him.
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Re: We just not gonna talk about this?
Jan 30, 2017, 8:34 AM
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I think it is a mistake, especially the roles he is downgrading to optional. However, I don't think I would have as big an issue if it were someone sane being promoted to permanent status...Bannon is obviously very intelligent, but in a Hannibal Lecter kind of way.
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did you have a problem with David Axelrod sitting in
Jan 30, 2017, 9:16 AM
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on Security Council? because he did and he's purely political. Bannon has a military background. I have no problem with this at all
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Lot o points [155518]
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naw, Cata said he was just a blogger.
Jan 30, 2017, 11:10 AM
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Bannon couldn't have been special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon. What? He was? Oh.
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Legend [16207]
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Cata just got POWNED!
Jan 30, 2017, 11:17 AM
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LOL!
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Re: naw, Cata said he was just a blogger.
Jan 30, 2017, 1:41 PM
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Oh, so that makes him qualified to serve on this board and have the military leaders demoted?
If Obama had done this with the Huffington chick, y'all would be running naked through the streets with rage.
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Lot o points [155518]
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I'm not saying I agree with the move, but I'm
Jan 30, 2017, 1:43 PM
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also not reacting to your fire-alarm pulling until I know more about it, and I started by looking into his background to see if he was more than a "blogger".
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All-In [41917]
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He's unqualified, pure and simple...
Jan 30, 2017, 2:45 PM
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And should not have more say than the joint chiefs.
And it's not just the left side of the aisle pointing this out.
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When you read that inaccurate drivel and believe it...
Jan 30, 2017, 3:00 PM
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...I can understand you confusion.
No one was demoted. Some of the military folks were given an option on attending the non-military topics. Their choice to attend or not...not removed.
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Surely not, but this isn't some kind of crazy move***
Jan 30, 2017, 12:19 PM
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Well, you can't reach that conclusion based on Axelrod.***
Jan 30, 2017, 12:35 PM
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Oculus Spirit [80935]
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Are you saying it's not a valid comparison?***
Jan 30, 2017, 12:49 PM
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To quote camcgee: "Surely not."***
Jan 30, 2017, 2:10 PM
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the days of all talk, no action are over
Jan 30, 2017, 12:48 PM
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Trump don't play dat.
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CU Medallion [60204]
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I think one source of the hyper-angst is
Jan 30, 2017, 1:10 PM
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the fact that the Obama revolutionaries or "progressives", who were all ready with "Hope and Change" on the vow to "reinvent America" got almost nothing in 8 years except the Obamacare monstrosity and a ton of racial strife. Remember the folks who paraded in the streets proclaiming Obama would be paying their bills and buying them cars (how'd that work out?).
Now, these folks are seeing a real, actual revolution happening before their eyes, but one where THEY are the mainstream being revolted against, not the agents of change they have always imagined themselves to be. And that's NOT a happy place. It's a very bitter place. Yet they - and the benevolent media they adore - STILL can't figure out why this is happening.
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All-In [28802]
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Oh, please
Jan 30, 2017, 1:10 PM
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The only way in which you're right is that this administration doesn't seem interested in talking at all before taking action.
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Legend [16207]
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Sean Spicer just debunked this myth
Jan 30, 2017, 2:13 PM
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Just schooled the media on this. Wow, I'm embarrassed for the media that ran with similar stories.
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Oh thank goodness. I thought Bannon was really on the NSC.***
Jan 30, 2017, 2:19 PM
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