Here's the president calling the Iran Deal a complete catastrophe. :0003
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Here's the president calling the Iran Deal a complete catastrophe. :0003
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Iran carried out further missile tests during an annual military exercise, a day after President Donald Trump imposed fresh sanctions on a raft of individuals and companies in response to the country test-firing a ballistic rocket last week.
The country successfully tested a range of land-to-land missiles and radar systems during the drills in a 35,000 square-kilometer stretch of desert in the northern Iranian province of Semnan, the semi-official Tasnim agency reported Saturday, citing Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps? aerospace division.
"If the enemy falls out of line, our missiles will pour down on them," the brigadier general was cited as telling reporters on the sidelines of the military trials, without referring to any particular nations. Any threats made by the U.S. against Iran were "nonsensical,? Tasnim cited him as saying.
The Treasury Department published a list Friday of 13 individuals and 12 entities facing new restrictions for supporting the missile program, having links to terrorism or providing support for Iran?s hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The entities include companies based in Tehran, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and China.
In response, Iran ?will take action against a number of American individuals and companies that have played a role in generating and supporting extremist terrorist groups in the region or have helped in the killing and suppression of defenseless people in the region,? the Foreign Ministry said in a statement published by the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency. The targets of its sanctions will be named later, it said.
Harder Line
The Trump administration has sought to take a harder line on Iran, banning its citizens from entering the U.S. and accusing the nation of interfering in the affairs of U.S. allies in the Middle East. But the U.S. sanctions announced Friday were limited in scope, serving mostly as a warning signal.
?These are not major players,? Sam Cutler, a sanctions lawyer at Horizon Client Access in Washington, said of those on the list. ?It seems to be a follow-up on a previous action that the Obama administration took in terms of identifying people in existing networks that had been previously sanctioned. I see this as consistent with prior policy rather than anything new, the rhetoric notwithstanding.?
the increase in sanctions, the perception that the U.S. might be rolling back on the Iran deal -- and the anti-Iran mood that is emerging in Washington -- will further empower hardliners in Iran, where the rhetoric will be, ?we told you so -- these people cannot be trusted,? said Maha Yahya, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center.
A second administration official said the sanctions were pulled together after extensive consultation between various government agencies and the National Security council. The official said the U.S. wants to work with Iran when it abides by its international commitments, but will continue to pressure Iran to change its behavior.
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was that a red line drawn in the sand
WWIII right around the corners boys
The country successfully tested a range of land-to-land missiles and radar systems during the drills in a 35,000 square-kilometer stretch of desert in the northern Iranian province of Semnan, the semi-official Tasnim agency reported Saturday, citing Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps? aerospace division.
"If the enemy falls out of line, our missiles will pour down on them," the brigadier general was cited as telling reporters on the sidelines of the military trials, without referring to any particular nations. Any threats made by the U.S. against Iran were "nonsensical,? Tasnim cited him as saying.
The Treasury Department published a list Friday of 13 individuals and 12 entities facing new restrictions for supporting the missile program, having links to terrorism or providing support for Iran?s hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The entities include companies based in Tehran, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and China.
In response, Iran ?will take action against a number of American individuals and companies that have played a role in generating and supporting extremist terrorist groups in the region or have helped in the killing and suppression of defenseless people in the region,? the Foreign Ministry said in a statement published by the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency. The targets of its sanctions will be named later, it said.
Harder Line
The Trump administration has sought to take a harder line on Iran, banning its citizens from entering the U.S. and accusing the nation of interfering in the affairs of U.S. allies in the Middle East. But the U.S. sanctions announced Friday were limited in scope, serving mostly as a warning signal.
?These are not major players,? Sam Cutler, a sanctions lawyer at Horizon Client Access in Washington, said of those on the list. ?It seems to be a follow-up on a previous action that the Obama administration took in terms of identifying people in existing networks that had been previously sanctioned. I see this as consistent with prior policy rather than anything new, the rhetoric notwithstanding.?
the increase in sanctions, the perception that the U.S. might be rolling back on the Iran deal -- and the anti-Iran mood that is emerging in Washington -- will further empower hardliners in Iran, where the rhetoric will be, ?we told you so -- these people cannot be trusted,? said Maha Yahya, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center.
A second administration official said the sanctions were pulled together after extensive consultation between various government agencies and the National Security council. The official said the U.S. wants to work with Iran when it abides by its international commitments, but will continue to pressure Iran to change its behavior.
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was that a red line drawn in the sand
WWIII right around the corners boys
Although tensions between Washington and Tehran have risen, US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said he was not considering raising the number of US forces in the Middle East to address Iran's "misbehaviour", but warned that the world would not ignore the country's activities.
As for Mr Trump's comments that "nothing is off the table" in dealing with Tehran, the commander of Iran's ground forces said that the country has been hearing such threats since its 1979 revolution.
"The defence capability and the offensive prowess of Iran's armed forces would make America or any other enemy regretful of any incursion," Ahmad Reza Pourdastan was quoted as saying .................................
well thanks for not getting alot more troops ready for boots on the ground.
If its to Iran you better count on 500,000
The Revolutionary Guard will formidable and will not stay in Iran, they will reach out and touch
As for Mr Trump's comments that "nothing is off the table" in dealing with Tehran, the commander of Iran's ground forces said that the country has been hearing such threats since its 1979 revolution.
"The defence capability and the offensive prowess of Iran's armed forces would make America or any other enemy regretful of any incursion," Ahmad Reza Pourdastan was quoted as saying .................................
well thanks for not getting alot more troops ready for boots on the ground.
If its to Iran you better count on 500,000
The Revolutionary Guard will formidable and will not stay in Iran, they will reach out and touch
(CNN)The US wrestling team looks set to compete at the 2017 Freestyle World Cup after Iran has reversed its decision to deny entry visas, according to state media.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi told the country's state-run IRNA news agency on Sunday that Iran has decided to issue the visas after a US federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's immigration executive order, and because of requests to admit the team made by the International Wrestling Federation (IWF) and the Iranian Wrestling Federation on behalf of the US wrestlers.
Iran's Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, also weighed in on the matter on Twitter.
"Following the court ruling suspending #MuslimBan & the requests from Iranian Wrestling Federation & FILA, US Wrestlers' visa will be granted."
An earlier decision by Iran to deny entry visas to the US team was described as a "reciprocal measure" following Trump's order banning entry to nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, to the United States.
Noting the travel restrictions, the United World Wrestling had been attempting to find a solution with the organization's president Nenad Lalovic appealing for unity ahead of the event on February 16 in Kermanshah.
He made clear his position on the matter, urging authorities to ensure fans would see, "American and Iranian wrestlers on the same mat again in the very near future."
The two-day event plays host to some of the world's best wrestlers at a tournament which is considered one of the sport's most prestigious annual competitions.
The US wrestling team has been in Iran for tournaments 15 times since the Iranian Revolution, while Iranian wrestlers have made 16 visits to the US since the 1990s.
Iran last hosted the competition in 2013 and has won the event five years in a row.
The 2017 US Freestyle World Cup delegation to Iran will feature 13 athletes, two coaches, a referee, a medical staff member and a videographer, plus other official delegates.
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Lets face it, Iran is evil and we have known it for a long time. There is nothing more they would rather do than get us into a war so they can unleash their fury on the hated Jews.
This wrestling team is entering a perfect storm.
Iran will do something provocative while they are there and then hold them hostage so Trump will be unable to fuck with them while they make their nukes over the next few years.\
remember how sports teams seem always involved in this type shit.
Warning America
Iran to do the dirty
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi told the country's state-run IRNA news agency on Sunday that Iran has decided to issue the visas after a US federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's immigration executive order, and because of requests to admit the team made by the International Wrestling Federation (IWF) and the Iranian Wrestling Federation on behalf of the US wrestlers.
Iran's Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, also weighed in on the matter on Twitter.
"Following the court ruling suspending #MuslimBan & the requests from Iranian Wrestling Federation & FILA, US Wrestlers' visa will be granted."
An earlier decision by Iran to deny entry visas to the US team was described as a "reciprocal measure" following Trump's order banning entry to nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, to the United States.
Noting the travel restrictions, the United World Wrestling had been attempting to find a solution with the organization's president Nenad Lalovic appealing for unity ahead of the event on February 16 in Kermanshah.
He made clear his position on the matter, urging authorities to ensure fans would see, "American and Iranian wrestlers on the same mat again in the very near future."
The two-day event plays host to some of the world's best wrestlers at a tournament which is considered one of the sport's most prestigious annual competitions.
The US wrestling team has been in Iran for tournaments 15 times since the Iranian Revolution, while Iranian wrestlers have made 16 visits to the US since the 1990s.
Iran last hosted the competition in 2013 and has won the event five years in a row.
The 2017 US Freestyle World Cup delegation to Iran will feature 13 athletes, two coaches, a referee, a medical staff member and a videographer, plus other official delegates.
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Lets face it, Iran is evil and we have known it for a long time. There is nothing more they would rather do than get us into a war so they can unleash their fury on the hated Jews.
This wrestling team is entering a perfect storm.
Iran will do something provocative while they are there and then hold them hostage so Trump will be unable to fuck with them while they make their nukes over the next few years.\
remember how sports teams seem always involved in this type shit.
Warning America
Iran to do the dirty
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A Republican Party official in northern Michigan has issued what amounts to a death threat against American college protesters, calling for ?another Kent State? in the wake of protests at the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired on unarmed Kent State University students protesting the U.S. incursion into Cambodia. Guardsmen killed four students and wounded nine, including one who was paralyzed for life.
Dan Adamini, former chair and current secretary of the Marquette County Republican Party, indicated that a single death might be sufficient to end student protests this time around.
?I?m thinking another Kent State might be the only solution protest stopped after only one death,? he posted on Facebook on Thursday. ?They do it because they know there are no consequences yet.?
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what the fuck is wrong with these people
when a life of a student ceases to be important , America is truly doomed.
I am sure hedge would be proud of this guy
In 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired on unarmed Kent State University students protesting the U.S. incursion into Cambodia. Guardsmen killed four students and wounded nine, including one who was paralyzed for life.
Dan Adamini, former chair and current secretary of the Marquette County Republican Party, indicated that a single death might be sufficient to end student protests this time around.
?I?m thinking another Kent State might be the only solution protest stopped after only one death,? he posted on Facebook on Thursday. ?They do it because they know there are no consequences yet.?
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what the fuck is wrong with these people
when a life of a student ceases to be important , America is truly doomed.
I am sure hedge would be proud of this guy
President Trump said Sunday that it could take ?sometime into next year? until his ObamaCare replacement plan is ready, a slower timetable than he and other Republicans have put forward in the past.
Fox News?s Bill O?Reilly asked Trump in an interview before the Super Bowl if Americans can ?expect a new healthcare plan rolled out by the Trump Administration this year.?
?Yes, in the process and maybe it?ll take till sometime into next year but we?re certainly going to be in the process,? Trump replied.
?You have to remember Obamacare doesn?t work so we are putting in a wonderful plan,? he added.
?It statutorily takes a while to get. We?re going to be putting it in fairly soon, I think that yes I would like to say by the end of the year at least the rudiments but we should have something within the year and the following year.?
In contrast, last month, Trump said he would be putting forward a plan shortly after his nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), is approved by the Senate, a far faster timetable.
?We're going to be submitting, as soon as our secretary is approved, almost simultaneously, shortly thereafter, a plan,? Trump said then.
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) likewise said last week that he wanted to move ObamaCare legislation by the end of the ?first quarter,? meaning by the end of March.
Trump on Sunday, though, acknowledged that the work to replace ObamaCare is ?very complicated.?
Trump has called for repealing and replacing the law ?essentially simultaneously.?
If he sticks by that, pushing a replacement plan into next year could mean delaying passing a repeal bill as well.
Republican congressional leaders, though, have put forward the idea of passing repeal with just some pieces of a replacement attached and then passing a series of other, small bills later on as part of a replacement plan.
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:142smilie:142smilie
they have nothing to offer
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as usual
Fox News?s Bill O?Reilly asked Trump in an interview before the Super Bowl if Americans can ?expect a new healthcare plan rolled out by the Trump Administration this year.?
?Yes, in the process and maybe it?ll take till sometime into next year but we?re certainly going to be in the process,? Trump replied.
?You have to remember Obamacare doesn?t work so we are putting in a wonderful plan,? he added.
?It statutorily takes a while to get. We?re going to be putting it in fairly soon, I think that yes I would like to say by the end of the year at least the rudiments but we should have something within the year and the following year.?
In contrast, last month, Trump said he would be putting forward a plan shortly after his nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), is approved by the Senate, a far faster timetable.
?We're going to be submitting, as soon as our secretary is approved, almost simultaneously, shortly thereafter, a plan,? Trump said then.
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) likewise said last week that he wanted to move ObamaCare legislation by the end of the ?first quarter,? meaning by the end of March.
Trump on Sunday, though, acknowledged that the work to replace ObamaCare is ?very complicated.?
Trump has called for repealing and replacing the law ?essentially simultaneously.?
If he sticks by that, pushing a replacement plan into next year could mean delaying passing a repeal bill as well.
Republican congressional leaders, though, have put forward the idea of passing repeal with just some pieces of a replacement attached and then passing a series of other, small bills later on as part of a replacement plan.
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:142smilie:142smilie
they have nothing to offer
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as usual
The new first family?s decision to stay in New York City, as previously reported, was estimated to cost NYC about $1 million a day.
While Melania and Barron remain living at Trump Tower, President Trump is expected to commute back and forth to the White House.
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a million a day
where is the outrage ?
hedge, skul ????
While Melania and Barron remain living at Trump Tower, President Trump is expected to commute back and forth to the White House.
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a million a day
where is the outrage ?
hedge, skul ????
Whats
I was reading a article today on Steve Bannon.
He believe in the fourth apocolypse . Like a huge war is coming and America will be restarted. He was espousing this in speechs in 2016
and he is Cheney to Trump
and Trump aint rocking on all cylinders.\
:scared
White House press secretary Sean Spicer raised eyebrows Wednesday when he argued that anyone questioning the success of a controversial U.S. military raid in Yemen last month was dishonoring Chief Petty Officer William ?Ryan? Owens, the Navy SEAL who died in the operation.
Amid reports about a lack of adequate intelligence and sufficient ground support, the White House has faced mounting pressure to justify its authorization for the Jan. 29 operation against suspected al Qaeda militants in Yemen?s al Bayda province. The raid claimed the lives of Owens and several civilians, including women and children. Three other Americans were wounded, and a U.S. aircraft was lost.
The surprise attack, the first counterterrorism operation President Donald Trump authorized since taking office, was supposed to gather intelligence about al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Despite the heavy loss of life, the White House has insisted that the raid was ?highly successful.? Spicer doubled down on that assessment during Wednesday?s White House press briefing, suggesting that whoever was saying otherwise was not only wrong, but also doing a disservice to Owens.
?Anyone who would suggest otherwise doesn?t fully appreciate how successful that mission was,? Spicer said in response to a question from NBC?s Kristen Welker. ?Anyone who undermines the success of that raid owes an apology to the life and service of Chief Owens.?
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, had told reporters on Tuesday after receiving a briefing on the operation that he would not call the raid a success.
McCain responded to Spicer?s comments on Wednesday by relaying a story from his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. The senator told NBC News: ?Many years ago, when I was imprisoned in North Vietnam, there was an attempt to rescue the POWs. Unfortunately the prison had been evacuated but the brave men who took ― risked their lived in an effort to rescue us prisoners of war were genuine American heroes. Because the mission failed did not in any way diminish their courage and willingness to help their fellow Americans who were held captive. Mr. Spicer should know that story.?
The U.S. military says it is still investigating whether ?there were any still-undetected civilian casualties in the ferocious firefight.? Meanwhile, the administration has revealed few details about the crucial intelligence it says was gathered during the operation.
On Friday, the U.S. military took down a video it said had been an example of the assets captured during the raid, upon realizing the video had been filmed in 2007. A Pentagon spokesperson later said that while the video was indeed several years old, it had been found during last month?s raid.
Yemen is among the seven Muslim-majority nations targeted by Trump?s immigration and travel bans, which are now blocked in federal court. Swathes of the Yemen?s south are held by AQAP, al Qaeda?s affiliate there. Other parts of the country, including the capital Sanaa, are held by Shiite Houthi rebels.
The deaths of several women and children in the operation has sparked outrage in Yemen. Among the dead is the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al Awlaki, the preacher and U.S. citizen who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2011. Yemeni officials said on Wednesday they had expressed concern about the January operation to the Trump administration. However, they denied reports of having revoked permission for future special operations ground missions.
?We have not withdrawn our permission for the United States to carry out special operations ground missions. However, we made clear our reservations about the last operation,? a senior Yemeni official told Reuters.
Spicer said during the press briefing Wednesday that the White House had been in touch with Yemeni officials.
?They understand the fight and commitment that we both share,? Spicer said.
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Dont question military raids where Americans are killed. You are dishonoring the soldier that was killed.
Oh shit ., how about Benghazi what was questioned for years.
Spicer is a shitbowl
Amid reports about a lack of adequate intelligence and sufficient ground support, the White House has faced mounting pressure to justify its authorization for the Jan. 29 operation against suspected al Qaeda militants in Yemen?s al Bayda province. The raid claimed the lives of Owens and several civilians, including women and children. Three other Americans were wounded, and a U.S. aircraft was lost.
The surprise attack, the first counterterrorism operation President Donald Trump authorized since taking office, was supposed to gather intelligence about al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Despite the heavy loss of life, the White House has insisted that the raid was ?highly successful.? Spicer doubled down on that assessment during Wednesday?s White House press briefing, suggesting that whoever was saying otherwise was not only wrong, but also doing a disservice to Owens.
?Anyone who would suggest otherwise doesn?t fully appreciate how successful that mission was,? Spicer said in response to a question from NBC?s Kristen Welker. ?Anyone who undermines the success of that raid owes an apology to the life and service of Chief Owens.?
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, had told reporters on Tuesday after receiving a briefing on the operation that he would not call the raid a success.
McCain responded to Spicer?s comments on Wednesday by relaying a story from his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. The senator told NBC News: ?Many years ago, when I was imprisoned in North Vietnam, there was an attempt to rescue the POWs. Unfortunately the prison had been evacuated but the brave men who took ― risked their lived in an effort to rescue us prisoners of war were genuine American heroes. Because the mission failed did not in any way diminish their courage and willingness to help their fellow Americans who were held captive. Mr. Spicer should know that story.?
The U.S. military says it is still investigating whether ?there were any still-undetected civilian casualties in the ferocious firefight.? Meanwhile, the administration has revealed few details about the crucial intelligence it says was gathered during the operation.
On Friday, the U.S. military took down a video it said had been an example of the assets captured during the raid, upon realizing the video had been filmed in 2007. A Pentagon spokesperson later said that while the video was indeed several years old, it had been found during last month?s raid.
Yemen is among the seven Muslim-majority nations targeted by Trump?s immigration and travel bans, which are now blocked in federal court. Swathes of the Yemen?s south are held by AQAP, al Qaeda?s affiliate there. Other parts of the country, including the capital Sanaa, are held by Shiite Houthi rebels.
The deaths of several women and children in the operation has sparked outrage in Yemen. Among the dead is the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al Awlaki, the preacher and U.S. citizen who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2011. Yemeni officials said on Wednesday they had expressed concern about the January operation to the Trump administration. However, they denied reports of having revoked permission for future special operations ground missions.
?We have not withdrawn our permission for the United States to carry out special operations ground missions. However, we made clear our reservations about the last operation,? a senior Yemeni official told Reuters.
Spicer said during the press briefing Wednesday that the White House had been in touch with Yemeni officials.
?They understand the fight and commitment that we both share,? Spicer said.
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Dont question military raids where Americans are killed. You are dishonoring the soldier that was killed.
Oh shit ., how about Benghazi what was questioned for years.
Spicer is a shitbowl
Bannon, who?s now ensconced in the West Wing as President Donald Trump?s closest adviser, has been portrayed as Trump?s main ideas guy. But in interviews, speeches and writing ? and especially in his embrace of Strauss and Howe ? he has made clear that he is, first and foremost, an apocalypticist.
In Bannon?s view, we are in the midst of an existential war, and everything is a part of that conflict. Treaties must be torn up, enemies named, culture changed. Global conflagration, should it occur, would only prove the theory correct. For Bannon, the Fourth Turning has arrived. The Grey Champion, a messianic strongman figure, may have already emerged. The apocalypse is now.
?What we are witnessing,? Bannon told The Washington Post last month, ?is the birth of a new political order.?
DREW ANGERER VIA GETTY IMAGES
President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Jan. 28, 2017, with national security adviser Mike Flynn, center, and Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, at right.
Strauss died in 2007, and Howe did not respond to requests for comment. But their books speak for themselves. The first, Generations, released in 1991, set forth the idea that history unfolds in repetitive, predictable four-part cycles ― and that the U.S. was, and still is, going through the most recent cycle?s tail end. (In Generations, Strauss and Howe became perhaps the first writers to use the term ?millennials? to describe the current cohort of young people.)
Strauss and Howe?s theory is based on a series of generational archetypes ? the Artists, the Prophets, the Nomads and the Heroes ? that sound like they were pulled from a dystopian young adult fiction series. Each complete four-part cycle, or saeculum, takes about 80 to 100 years, in Strauss and Howe?s reckoning. The Fourth Turning, which the authors published in 1997, focuses on the final, apocalyptic part of the cycle.
Strauss and Howe postulate that during this Fourth Turning crisis, an unexpected leader will emerge from an older generation to lead the nation, and what they call the ?Hero? generation (in this case, millennials), to a new order. This person is known as the Grey Champion. An election or another event ? perhaps a war ? will bring this person to power, and their regime will rule throughout the crisis.
?The winners will now have the power to pursue the more potent, less incrementalist agenda about which they had long dreamed and against which their adversaries had darkly warned,? Strauss and Howe wrote in The Fourth Turning. ?This new regime will enthrone itself for the duration of the Crisis. Regardless of its ideology, that new leadership will assert public authority and demand private sacrifice. Where leaders had once been inclined to alleviate societal pressures, they will now aggravate them to command the nation?s attention.?
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this wouldnt be so scary except Trump is sitting on this guys lap behind the oval desk.
:scared:scared
In Bannon?s view, we are in the midst of an existential war, and everything is a part of that conflict. Treaties must be torn up, enemies named, culture changed. Global conflagration, should it occur, would only prove the theory correct. For Bannon, the Fourth Turning has arrived. The Grey Champion, a messianic strongman figure, may have already emerged. The apocalypse is now.
?What we are witnessing,? Bannon told The Washington Post last month, ?is the birth of a new political order.?
DREW ANGERER VIA GETTY IMAGES
President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Jan. 28, 2017, with national security adviser Mike Flynn, center, and Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, at right.
Strauss died in 2007, and Howe did not respond to requests for comment. But their books speak for themselves. The first, Generations, released in 1991, set forth the idea that history unfolds in repetitive, predictable four-part cycles ― and that the U.S. was, and still is, going through the most recent cycle?s tail end. (In Generations, Strauss and Howe became perhaps the first writers to use the term ?millennials? to describe the current cohort of young people.)
Strauss and Howe?s theory is based on a series of generational archetypes ? the Artists, the Prophets, the Nomads and the Heroes ? that sound like they were pulled from a dystopian young adult fiction series. Each complete four-part cycle, or saeculum, takes about 80 to 100 years, in Strauss and Howe?s reckoning. The Fourth Turning, which the authors published in 1997, focuses on the final, apocalyptic part of the cycle.
Strauss and Howe postulate that during this Fourth Turning crisis, an unexpected leader will emerge from an older generation to lead the nation, and what they call the ?Hero? generation (in this case, millennials), to a new order. This person is known as the Grey Champion. An election or another event ? perhaps a war ? will bring this person to power, and their regime will rule throughout the crisis.
?The winners will now have the power to pursue the more potent, less incrementalist agenda about which they had long dreamed and against which their adversaries had darkly warned,? Strauss and Howe wrote in The Fourth Turning. ?This new regime will enthrone itself for the duration of the Crisis. Regardless of its ideology, that new leadership will assert public authority and demand private sacrifice. Where leaders had once been inclined to alleviate societal pressures, they will now aggravate them to command the nation?s attention.?
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this wouldnt be so scary except Trump is sitting on this guys lap behind the oval desk.
:scared:scared
I am Donald J. Trump, man of action.
Though I don?t really care what I do,
I do lots of it, all of it loudly;
If you?re calm no one notices you.
See me banging my spoon on my highchair,
Hear me shrieking the words in my head:
I?m terrific terrific terrific,
I will not I will not go to bed.
I like making a pile of rubble,
I don?t care what the rubble once was.
I like smashing a plaything to pieces
Just because just because just because.
I like hollering what I am saying,
I don?t think about what I have said.
What?s the point of just sitting there thinking
When you could have been screaming instead?
I am Donald J. Trump, man of bedlam,
And the bedlam?s ambition enough.
I?m a doer; not any of my fault
That there?s all of this breakable stuff.
Though I don?t really care what I do,
I do lots of it, all of it loudly;
If you?re calm no one notices you.
See me banging my spoon on my highchair,
Hear me shrieking the words in my head:
I?m terrific terrific terrific,
I will not I will not go to bed.
I like making a pile of rubble,
I don?t care what the rubble once was.
I like smashing a plaything to pieces
Just because just because just because.
I like hollering what I am saying,
I don?t think about what I have said.
What?s the point of just sitting there thinking
When you could have been screaming instead?
I am Donald J. Trump, man of bedlam,
And the bedlam?s ambition enough.
I?m a doer; not any of my fault
That there?s all of this breakable stuff.
Yesterday, Sean Spicer referenced terrorist attacks in Boston, Atlanta and San Bernadino. Atlanta? This is the second time they have made up an attack. And this guy wants to berate the media about accuracy?
A Michigan investigation into voting irregularities in the November election has found that discrepancies between the numbers of voters and ballots cast were due to human error. It found no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
As President Donald Trump calls for a national investigation into voter fraud, the Michigan investigation, released Thursday, highlights how easy it is to have unintentional voting irregularities that aren?t nefarious at all. While Trump has claimed there was widespread voter fraud in the election, the Michigan probe found potential instances of fraud to be extremely rare.
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what a waste of time and money
more lie's
nothing to it . mouth moves , lie
As President Donald Trump calls for a national investigation into voter fraud, the Michigan investigation, released Thursday, highlights how easy it is to have unintentional voting irregularities that aren?t nefarious at all. While Trump has claimed there was widespread voter fraud in the election, the Michigan probe found potential instances of fraud to be extremely rare.
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what a waste of time and money
more lie's
nothing to it . mouth moves , lie
Trump Again Falsely Insists He Would Have Won New Hampshire If Not For Voter Fraud
There?s no evidence to support his claim that thousands of people voted illegally in the state.
President Donald Trump falsely insisted again Thursday that widespread voter fraud in New Hampshire cost him and former Sen. Kelly Ayotte the state in the November election.
Trump made the comments in a private meeting with Ayotte and a group of senators that was meant to be a bipartisan discussion to build support for Neil Gorsuch, Trump?s pick for the Supreme Court.
According to a source briefed on the discussion, Trump told Ayotte that she would have won re-election had she not been critical of him during the course of the campaign. He then alluded to thousands of people who supposedly went into New Hampshire illegally to vote against both him and Ayotte, saying they both would have won ?if there hadn?t been voter fraud? in the state. The source called the exchange ?uncomfortable.? It was first reported by Politico and independently confirmed by The Huffington Post.
Though he?s been president now for three weeks, Trump remains preoccupied with the idea that he was robbed of a win in the popular vote. He has mentioned it with senators before, and his spokesperson, Sean Spicer, has confirmed it is a genuine belief of his. There is no evidence at all to support the claim, as confirmed by state authorities across the nation.
?I can say that the number of election related matters coming out of the general election is relatively ordinary and does not indicate a widespread scheme to bring thousands of voters from out of state,? Brian Buonamano, an assistant attorney general in New Hampshire, said in an email. ?We have no evidence or indication that there existed a scheme to bus in thousands of people to illegally vote in NH.?
Trump has claimed voter fraud in New Hampshire before. In November, weeks after his electoral victory, he tweeted that there was ?serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California.?
Though they lack validity, Trump?s claims are still harmful. They stoke distrust in the nation?s political system and provide lawmakers with a basis ― however specious ― for taking steps to make it harder for people to vote.
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can you say nutcase
There?s no evidence to support his claim that thousands of people voted illegally in the state.
President Donald Trump falsely insisted again Thursday that widespread voter fraud in New Hampshire cost him and former Sen. Kelly Ayotte the state in the November election.
Trump made the comments in a private meeting with Ayotte and a group of senators that was meant to be a bipartisan discussion to build support for Neil Gorsuch, Trump?s pick for the Supreme Court.
According to a source briefed on the discussion, Trump told Ayotte that she would have won re-election had she not been critical of him during the course of the campaign. He then alluded to thousands of people who supposedly went into New Hampshire illegally to vote against both him and Ayotte, saying they both would have won ?if there hadn?t been voter fraud? in the state. The source called the exchange ?uncomfortable.? It was first reported by Politico and independently confirmed by The Huffington Post.
Though he?s been president now for three weeks, Trump remains preoccupied with the idea that he was robbed of a win in the popular vote. He has mentioned it with senators before, and his spokesperson, Sean Spicer, has confirmed it is a genuine belief of his. There is no evidence at all to support the claim, as confirmed by state authorities across the nation.
?I can say that the number of election related matters coming out of the general election is relatively ordinary and does not indicate a widespread scheme to bring thousands of voters from out of state,? Brian Buonamano, an assistant attorney general in New Hampshire, said in an email. ?We have no evidence or indication that there existed a scheme to bus in thousands of people to illegally vote in NH.?
Trump has claimed voter fraud in New Hampshire before. In November, weeks after his electoral victory, he tweeted that there was ?serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California.?
Though they lack validity, Trump?s claims are still harmful. They stoke distrust in the nation?s political system and provide lawmakers with a basis ― however specious ― for taking steps to make it harder for people to vote.
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can you say nutcase
North Korea fired an unidentified projectile early on Sunday into the sea off the east coast of the Korean peninsula, the South Korean military said.
The object was launched from an area in North Korea?s western region, the South?s Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a short statement. It did not provide further details.
A State Department official told CNN: ?We are aware of reports and monitoring the situation carefully.?
Earlier, the country?s Yonhap news agency reported in a short dispatch that the North had fired a ballistic missile.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in his New Year speech that the country was close to test-launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and state media have said such a launch could come at any time.
That prompted a vow of an ?overwhelming? response from U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis when he traveled to South Korea earlier this month.
North Korea has conducted two nuclear tests and a number of missile-related tests at an unprecedented rate since early last year and was seen by experts and officials to be making progress in its weapons capabilities.
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Geezz dont Kim Jong Un know that he is to be put on notice.
Trump is going to Tweet the shit out of Korea tonight about 3 am
I think this definately calls for sanctions.
and the Japanese leader is with Trump !
Holy shit.
no respect for America
The object was launched from an area in North Korea?s western region, the South?s Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a short statement. It did not provide further details.
A State Department official told CNN: ?We are aware of reports and monitoring the situation carefully.?
Earlier, the country?s Yonhap news agency reported in a short dispatch that the North had fired a ballistic missile.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in his New Year speech that the country was close to test-launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and state media have said such a launch could come at any time.
That prompted a vow of an ?overwhelming? response from U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis when he traveled to South Korea earlier this month.
North Korea has conducted two nuclear tests and a number of missile-related tests at an unprecedented rate since early last year and was seen by experts and officials to be making progress in its weapons capabilities.
.............................
Geezz dont Kim Jong Un know that he is to be put on notice.
Trump is going to Tweet the shit out of Korea tonight about 3 am
I think this definately calls for sanctions.
and the Japanese leader is with Trump !
Holy shit.
no respect for America
