President Trump's First Hundred Days

MeAgain.

The president is commander-in-chielf of our military. He is responsible for prosecuting war. Our military must obey orders of the commander-in-chief. Our military has no authority to declare war or act independently of our president.

The War Powers Act, which has become impotent, authorizes the president to deploy our military under what were to be specific conditions without congress declaring war, which is its constitutional authority.

In my opinion, there were only three wars we should have fought: the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Mexican-American War. The latter was another false flag war (When president Lincoln was a congressman, he called it a false flag war.), I'm good with it because it gave us the American West, crucial for protecting our country.

Our military has become a version of Louis Lepke and Meyer Lansky's Murder, Inc., because our politicians have used it for illegitimate purposes. Our soldiers must obey the president. Our most recents presidents were/are bought stooges of foreign interests. Bush 41 lied us into Operation Desert Storm. His motivation was to protect the Kuwaiti Royal Family's FIVE TRILLION BUCKS and bankers and industrialists who make fortunes off of our forced reliance upon foreign oil.

One of the most bitchen things Trump has said was that if foreign countries want to use our military, they're going to have to pay for it. In that statement, he forced politicians to admit that our military has become a hired gun; hence, a version of Murder, Inc. Our military does not protect our country from foreign threats. It protects politicians' foreign homies and monied interests of bankers and industrialists. That, my friend, is an absolute fact. If it disgusts you, I'd recommend your writing your US representative.

There is no doubt in my mind that had Hillary prevailed, she'd of had us in another bullshit war, this time with Iran. Liberals and neocons want to force their version of the world upon peoples of what we know as the Middle East. That would be another illegitimate military excursion. We have no constitutional, legal, or other responsibility to democratize the world. That is a recent construct of liberals and neocons who use democracy as an excuse to protect interests other than the security of our country. What if another country does not want our version of how it ought to operate? If you're good with the USA democratizing the world, you'd have to accept another country imposing its preferred political construct upon us.

Our servicemen ought to risk their lives protecting and defending the USA and only the USA. It was never meant to become a hired gun. And we were not intended to become an empire. Our Founding Fathers gave us a republic, as Benjamin Franklin admonished, if we can keep it.

Your Utopian definition of globalism is incorrect. In fact, you might be commingling globalism with commerce. Globalism implies global governance, which compromises -or worse- American sovereignty. While American businessmen might do business with other countries, we're not dependent upon them. We were supposed to be an independent, sovereign country, not a satellite vassal of global government.

This excellent book will remove all doubt that our military has become a version of Murder, Inc.: https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Heroin-Southeast-Asia/dp/0060129018

As President Trump has indirectly stated, our military has become a version of Louis Lepke and Meyer Lansky's Murder, Inc. I am disgusted by it. In no way does it impute negativity upon our soldiers. It does reveal the extent graft has contaminated our government. President Trump is going to drain the swamp that our government has become. Godspeed, President Donald J. Trump.

I hope this makes sense to you.

 

Yes, there are good corporations and bad corporations. A corporation could be a very, very good thing. Imagine if people who had the ability to accumulate great wealth had a conscience. But we can clearly see that they don't, because we can see the suffering of billions. I don't care what the dictionary says. What corporatism has come to mean is a lifestyle that says give in to the hedonistic ways that we are all occasionally guilty of. I would totally be on board for a different definition of corporatism. A corporatism that said "Give it all away, even at unreasonable personal expense to yourself."

In essence, I think I can say that every corporation is a scumbag dictatorship, as I'm not aware of any CEO who is giving it all away. No, they all have to satisfy their own egos. To accumulate and to experience, above and beyond. While little children literally lie on the ground surrounded by vultures who await their meal. Where is the billionaire who is imploring us all to get out there and do good in the world? I have yet to see him. Maybe Donald Trump will be that man, I don't know. Maybe Donald Trump's whole persona until this point has been dictated by his accumulation of power, and now that he has the ultimate power, his true shining soul will come through and he'll tell us all to be good to each other. I doubt it, but maybe he won't be able to help himself. Maybe his ego is so great that he'll want to be Jesus Christ to the public.

Thank you for your words. They are non-person entities to some extent. But there are always those who are responsible as well. Those who get off on the fact that they've got a non-person to take all the blame while raking in billions. It's ironic, but I also read about, all the time now, "corporate citizens". Like I'm just supposed to take for granted that corporations are citizens. They have all of our rights and none of our moral responsibilities.

Dictators don't seize power by exploiting people's proclivities for greed. They seize power by exploiting people's proclivities for good. They don't come along promising individuals the world; they come along promising everyone the world. And if it wasn't for everyone being promised the world, most individuals wouldn't have it. As you ought to understand, being anti-Clinton. But I get it, you genuinely think people are out there thinking, "Clinton says she's gonna get me free stuff! All right!" No. The vast majority of these liberals who have supported Clinton are the best of the best, and they didn't do it for greed. They did it because they genuinely want to help the less fortunate. People genuinely do, believe it or not, want a world in which people sacrifice to care for one another, even at their own personal expense. They're willing to give a dollar here and there for some lazy bum who can't get off his ass, just because they're that fucking nice and don't feel like fighting anymore.

 

Give me a single example of a dictator exploiting people's natural proclivity for good.

Your statement is a classic oxymoron because a dictator is never good.

 

Okay, Hitler. Telling the German people that the world was theirs, and that if they just stood up for themselves they could have it all. That they weren't the scum of the Earth the world was telling them they were after World War 1. Make no mistake, he was telling them they were something positive. And they could never fucking conceive that he was a brutal fucking megalomaniac until it was too late.

 

Excuse me. Are you calling me Hitler?

Do you have a clue of how Hitler attained power?

Hitler manipulated a minority of disgruntled Germans.

 

More proof that Trump's not a "real" republican. He's something entirely different. Obama initiated our shifting political paradigms by coming in as an outsider (with insider connections). Trump bullied his way into the GOP, probably because he could see how easily they are beaten. For the last dozen years all we have seen from republicans is guys who throw in the towel at the last minute. Heck, even GHW Bush did it.

Our military has been for sale all along as near as I can tell. I would even speculate that the Flying Tigers were an illegal military intervention that China ultimately paid for. I don't think we'll ever see a true tally on the issue. Taxpayers are still told a hammer is $500.

What I want to see is the US bases closed outside of our borders. Our military is modern enough to be reduced by well over half. And why in the hell do we still allow "military families"? That's a cruel joke.

 

I read the wikipedia page on the Hart-Celler Act; well skimmed it really. Thus I gather you want to see changes in what types of people are allowed to immigrate into the United States. What skill levels they have? It's quite a bit of material. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965

It also made some adjustments to previous laws that would have limited immigration:

What are your thoughts on the Hart-Celler Act?

 

Will The World, look the other way as it did with Ukraine.

 

MeAgain,

Tutoring you in American history would require extensive work.

I agree. My bad.

However, citing Hitler as a representative of anything other than bad is not wise.

 

The Republican Party has been co-opted by neocons who've turned it in to the war party.

Wilson (D) got us into WWI after he campaigned on keeping us out
FDR (D) got us into WWIII
Truman (D) got us into the Korean War
LBJ (D) transformed JFK's limited Vietnam operation into war
Bush 41 (N)* Got us into Desert Storm
Bush 43 (N) Got us into 2 wars
Obama (D) expanded Middle East military forays

*N = neocon, which is an erstwhile liberal Democrat

 

I just watched an excerpt from an interview with 60 minutes about Trumps 1st 100 days in office or something. In the interview he was asked about policy on immigration and replied that his first priority is securing our borders.

 

Whys everyone upset at that by the way?

 

Speaking of borders...
There are around 150 immigrants (all younger men, all from Afghanistan and Pakistan) at the Serbo-Croatian border right now. They are not allowed to cross the border, but refuse to leave to a center, and will wait until they are allowed to enter Croatia, so they could go to Germany.
Apparently a woman called Angela invited them.
What's the situation, you guys want them? Ja? Nein?

And there are around 6000 more in Serbia.
I am sure one of these days they will get sick of waiting too and will walk to the border too.

I really don't understand what is Croatia waiting with the fence.
Slovenia built one. Hungary too.

Secure the borders, they exist for a reason!
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Stalin. He was a master of exploiting idealistic dupes in the United States and other countries. The stars in their eyes prevented them from seeing him as the monster he was.

 

MeAgain,

You are devoid of facts as evidenced by intentionally taking posts out of context in perverted effort to lie your way into validity. It ain't working for you. Try another strategy...like truth.

 

Laguna..... You can't handle the truth, apparently.

 

From the Leslie Stahl interview of Trump, it looks like the "Wall" might now be a fence, Obamacare might be "replaced" by something pretty much like it, and Hillary will not be prosecuted cuz she's a nice person. Off to a good start? Wait and see. Former Breitbart editor, bastion of the AltRight/White Nationalist conspiracy mill, is now Trump's top policy advisor. Talk about mixed signals! A lot may depend on whether or Republicans can make it to the 60 seats needed to block a Senate filibuster.

 

Because they have empathy for the shitty situations people come from, I would imagine