The [Current Year] General Political/Salma Hayek discussion thread, part 4!!!

[Kutnupe14]

Kut (approves of the Nixon comparison)

 

[Kutnupe14]

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[Kutnupe14]

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[Birds Away]

Kut (approves of the Nixon comparison)

Obama couldn't do a coin. He gave all of ours to Iran.

 

[BugI02]

You can't make this stuff up. The jokes write themselves.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...ouse-releases-trip-coin-for-north-korea-talks

I can't say, that I would have ever imagined seeing a murderous dictator sharing a "commemorative" space with a sitting American president, created by the American govt.

Kut (approves of the Nixon comparison)

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[bwframe]

I like the new narrative that influential conservatives are starting to use.

"The libs have to decide whether they hate Trump worse than they love America."

 

[nonobaddog]

Reminds me of this liberal logic.

 

[nonobaddog]

It is so ignorant to denigrate anybody for trying to stop a nuclear attack.


There are a lot of people around today that do not remember the nuclear arms race and the fallout shelter times. They have no personal knowledge. But if they were to try, they might be able to imagine living with the threat of the end of life as we know it. There is much written about these times so there is much information available for any who would care to learn and increase their understanding.


We were on the path to that again. Six months ago a rogue nation was building and testing nuclear bombs and building and testing intercontinental missile delivery systems. To defuse that is a great accomplishment. Give credit where credit is due.


It is a shame that people exist today in the media as well as individuals whose lives are so politically dominated and corrupted that they can deny the truth and do not have the personal honesty and integrity to admit this would be a great accomplishment. No honor.

 

[Kutnupe14]

It is so ignorant to denigrate anybody for trying to stop a nuclear attack.


There are a lot of people around today that do not remember the nuclear arms race and the fallout shelter times. They have no personal knowledge. But if they were to try, they might be able to imagine living with the threat of the end of life as we know it. There is much written about these times so there is much information available for any who would care to learn and increase their understanding.


We were on the path to that again. Six months ago a rogue nation was building and testing nuclear bombs and building and testing intercontinental missile delivery systems. To defuse that is a great accomplishment. Give credit where credit is due.


It is a shame that people exist today in the media as well as individuals whose lives are so politically dominated and corrupted that they can deny the truth and do not have the personal honesty and integrity to admit this would be a great accomplishment. No honor.

I disagree. I am fairly confident that North Korea is still testing and developing. I don't believe anything has been diffused. IMO, the most probable thing, given their history, is that they are trying to squeeze as much out of the rest of the world as they can. They've been legitimized via the Olympics, the South Korean meeting, China easing border controls, and Trump administration engagement. They are in a better place now than they have been in a very long time. Not to take away from the attempt... they should be engaged, but I think that optimism let this spin out of control way faster than it should have.

 

[Alpo]

Obama couldn't do a coin. He gave all of ours to Iran.

Ummm....wasn't it Iran's money that we returned to them?

 

[printcraft]

Ummm....wasn't it Iran's money that we returned to them?

Returned?

Yeah, that was money owed from before the 1979 attack and hostages.
Taking 52 American hostages for a year and a half pays that bill already.
**** em.

 

[actaeon277]

Returned?

Yeah, that was money owed from before the 1979 attack and hostages.
Taking 52 American hostages for a year and a half pays that bill already.
**** em.

Someone at work said the same thing.
I replied the same way.

Scary.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Sounds like reparations to me. Funny how that works. What's even funnier, is that the hostages got them. Paid out from companies illegally dealing with Iran.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Remind me what day Iran releases hostages? I bet trump knows

 

[Alpo]

Returned?

Yeah, that was money owed from before the 1979 attack and hostages.
Taking 52 American hostages for a year and a half pays that bill already.
**** em.

I suppose if you want to talk about retribution, you could go back to the 1950's when the USA installed the Shah in lieu of Mossadeq...but, since it was our team doing orchestrating the coup....

 

[Kutnupe14]

I suppose if you want to talk about retribution, you could go back to the 1950's when the USA installed the Shah in lieu of Mossadeq...but, since it was our team doing orchestrating the coup....

I used to always hear that democracies don't go to war with other democracies... well, that's actually true, democracies just overthrow them via clandestine means.

 

[printcraft]

I suppose if you want to talk about retribution, you could go back to the 1950's when the USA installed the Shah in lieu of Mossadeq...but, since it was our team doing orchestrating the coup....

Still not a reason to pay off a regime that is currently hostile to the United States.

**** em I say. Get on board or get bent.

 

[Alpo]

Let me know when the Senate confirms you as Sec of State.

 

[printcraft]

Let me know when the Senate confirms you as Sec of State.

lulz

 

[Spear Dane]

Still not a reason to pay off a regime that is currently hostile to the United States.

**** em I say. Get on board or get bent.

Yup. It's like lending ammo to the firing squad that came to shoot you.