Schmidt has been making statements about the t rump for years now, that go straight to the heart of the t rump’s criminal incompetence and inadequacies.
This is just one of Steve’s most recent statements. https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/schmidt-trump-s-betrayal-to-u-s-troops-is-impossible-to-overstate-86950469766
Every statement by him on the t rump that I have heard over the years is worth listening to, IMO.
I thought for a long time, how trump has proven that Oaths Of Office don’t mean shit in this country anymore.
We've had incompetent presidents, and dumb presidents, and dishonest presidents.But we’ve never had a faithless president, who is faithless to his oath, who refuses to defend the country from a hostile foreign power, whether it’s an attack on the lives of our military or it’s an attack on our election process, which so many hundreds of thousands of Americans have died to preserve and protect.
It’s a shameful, shameful despicable hour in the history of the American presidency, and of all of his degradations and desecrations of his office, this is the most severe. It’s the most scandalous and it’s should shock the conscience of every American.
We have never had a president who refuses to fulfill their oath when it comes to being the Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States quite like Donald Trump.
Oh but it doesn’t seem to shock anyone but the usual suspects, or ?
Has this changed anyone’s mind on trump?
Or have all his minions simply absorbed it into their new normal?
Schmidt has been making statements about the t rump for years now, that go straight to the heart of the t rump’s criminal incompetence and inadequacies.This Schmidt guy is one of those people who - apart from other personal motivations - want to keep pushing America into endless wars. The American citizen has been forced to fight and pay for foreign wars that have nothing to do with defense of the nation. War is evil. It's that simple. Trump refuses to be goaded, and that's a good thing. If Russia has been paying bounties to kill US soldiers, then we should get our troops home and out of harm's way asap. Isn't this better than sending bombers to flatten Moscow?
What is your proposal?
This Schmidt guy is one of those people who – apart from other personal motivations – want to keep pushing America into endless wars.Can you show evidence that Steve is a warmonger? I don't see it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Schmidt
His most infamous mistake is when he initially pushed for Sarah Palin to be McCain’s running mate, only to realize belatedly that she was unfit for the job.
What is your proposal (to limit US involvement in wars)?1st, get rid of the t rump. His administration got us within a hair's breadth of a major deadly conflict with Iran. We were only saved from that by the chance occurrence of no troops killed by the Iranian counterstrike to our killing of an Iranian hero (only dozens of brain damaged US troops).
The t rump is major war waiting to happen with his impulsive whims, his frequent boasting and bluffing threats re: the damage that he will do with our military. And his general incompetence is making us less able to respond to threats, hence the likelihood of attacks that we will have to respond to, goes up.
1st, get rid of the t rump. His administration got us within a hair’s breadth of a major deadly conflict with Iran. We were only saved from that by the chance occurrence of no troops killed by the Iranian counterstrike to our killing of an Iranian hero (only dozens of brain damaged US troops).You are a coward. Iran's GDP is less than $500 billion. At $20 trillion, we are 40 times more powerful economically. You are like a guy, weighing 200 pounds, who thinks it is a deadly conflict to pick a fight with a 5 pound zygote.
You must be retired by now. What the hell were you doing for a living?
You are a coward. Iran’s GDP is less than $500 billion. At $20 trillion, we are 40 times more powerful economically. You are like a guy, weighing 200 pounds, who thinks it is a deadly conflict to pick a fight with a 5 pound zygote.? A coward? Slow down on the whiskey, pardner. You are not making sense. 1st you advocate us staying out of wars, now you advocate destroying Iran, just because we can? That is perfectly insane. War with Iran would not be pretty for either side or for the world. It would not likely affect me directly, at my age. I am far more likely to be killed by COVID.
You are not making sense. 1st you advocate us staying out of wars, now you advocate destroying Iran, just because we can? That is perfectly insane. War with Iran would not be pretty for either side or for the world.We don't have to go to war with Iran, just don't cower; especially, when confronted by a chicken whose neck you can wring. War with Iran would not be pretty for Iran, period. Even Israel can take Iran out because she wiped the floor with all of them when they ganged up on her in 1967. The US has been cowering in the face of everything that moves since WW2. We don't have hawks. We have chickens crafting foreign policies.
War with Iran would not be pretty for IranNor for the USA. Nor for the rest of the world. Our Doofus in Chief should not have killed their national hero on a whim.
We don’t have to go to war with Iran, just don’t cower;Sree will never be able to explain this. It is the thing that conservatives have the most problem with, walking softly but carrying a big stick. For example with Native Americans. We made the treaties with reservations because the only options were to wipe them out or continue to deal with them as a insurgents and dissidents. Imagine any other country in the world attempting to wipe out it's indigenous population. It would be a world crisis. Americans have come to defense of populations like that many times. But the current right wing of the right wing can't look at themselves objectively and can't see that is what they are proposing. Same with the countries we call "terrorists". Most of the people there are just trying to live, but once a few cause problems, the conservative brain labels the whole country and wants to nuke it.
Our Doofus in Chief should not have killed their national hero on a whim.Do you really believe that Trump as Commander-in-Chief has the same power, over the US Military, that Genghis Khan had over his Mongol army? When will you folks ever wake up? That nuclear football he carries around is for your benefit. Do you think that the US Military establishment really hands over power to doofuses like you who get to vote which doofus among them gets to play with that football every four years? Soleimani's head was already on the platter by the time Trump was shown the dinner menu. Trump is not Genghis Khan. He, as well as, anyone who gets into the White House, is more akin to Puyi, the Last Emperor of China.
Sree, Your imagination based assessment of the power of the CinC with the military, is a bit confusing, but that’s ok, I am pretty sure that it is nonsense, anyway. Here is something by someone who can make clear statements, a Mr Steve Schmidt, when speaking about the t rump’s whim to assassinate Soleimani, in the days after that event.
(Schmidt) claimed that Trump is using the tension between the U.S. and Iran to distract people from the ongoing impeachment process.“I don’t think his actions in this case are volatile and erratic,” Schmidt explained. “I think they’re entirely predictable. And what’s predictable- looking at the Ukraine issue, looking at every issue- is he over and over again acts in his own political interest. Looking at impeachment, what he did for sure is survey the situation and understood that with this action, with this strike, that he would create a giant smokescreen that clouds and distracts around the issue of impeachment.”
“This is a political act that has endangered the country,” Schmidt continued. “Once again, this is Donald Trump acting in the international arena detrimental to American security interests, now exceeding the outrageousness in Ukraine by an order of magnitude for self. And the result of this is a more dangerous world where Americans will be killed that otherwise would not have been killed.”
What actually transpired, if you recall, is that the Iranian backlash, fortunately for us all, resulted in no fatalities, at the time. Only dozens of our troops with various levels of, literally, “shell shock”, aka, neurological damage.
Thanks t rump. Do you care about our troops, at all, except as campaign fodder? I mean, if the Russians did something like offer bounties to the Taliban to kill our troops, you wouldn’t just blow that off would you?
I mean, if the Russians did something like offer bounties to the Taliban to kill our troops, you wouldn’t just blow that off would you?Yes, I would for two reasons. Firstly, the US soldier is professionally trained and armed by the most powerful military in the world. The Taliban is an underfed Afghan goatherd. And secondly, we have no business occupying Afghanistan and it's high time we brought our troops home.
...the US soldier is professionally trained and armed by the most powerful military in the world...Ok. They still die when Taliban kill them for a bounty.
The Taliban is an underfed Afghan goatherd.Is that so? Strange that they can never seem to be defeated, by the world's most powerful militaries. Oh, I see. Your spell correct replaced your attempt to spell "undefeated" with the word "underfed".