*The United States Presidential Election * (III)

Easy to do when you are as big a jibberer as Trump.

Speaking of alternative facts

http://www.golf.com/tour-news/2017/01/25/donald-trump-backed-his-claim-voter-fraud-bizarre-bernhard-langer-story

Just heard excerpts the Pom PMI's speech to the republican conference. Pretty nauseating stuff....special relationship...snort snort...we defeated the Hun, twice..snort drool..we created the UN and IMF...drool, drool... Together we did smite communism....oh Donnie....now, now, now......so special.

Hmmmm ...... I note that various boffins are concerned in light of some of the presidential campaign announcements now that DT is in a position to act on them.

In the words of Private Frazer -

We're all dooooooomed

One bomb the seppos dropped on Japan was called "Little Boy". Wonder if there will be a Presidential Decree requiring all nukes to be named "Small Hands".

Lots on uncertainty about people born in the 7 black list nations and their ability to get into or stay in the US, despite having left their home country years ago. One example is Australian Sudanese-born NBA player Thom Maker; the other is the Iranian director of one of the films nominated for an Academy Award.

JGK wrote:Lots on uncertainty about people born in the 7 black list nations and their ability to get into or stay in the US, despite having left their home country years ago.   One example is Australian Sudanese-born NBA player Thom Maker; the other is the Iranian director of one of the films nominated for an Academy Award.  

Oh, and Sir Mo Farah.

Mo Farah
1 hr ·
On 1st January this year, Her Majesty The Queen made me a Knight of the Realm. On 27th January, President Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien.

I am a British citizen who has lived in America for the past six years - working hard, contributing to society, paying my taxes and bringing up our four children in the place they now call home. Now, me and many others like me are being told that we may not be welcome. It’s deeply troubling that I will have to tell my children that Daddy might not be able to come home - to explain why the President has introduced a policy that comes from a place of ignorance and prejudice.

I was welcomed into Britain from Somalia at eight years old and given the chance to succeed and realise my dreams. I have been proud to represent my country, win medals for the British people and receive the greatest honour of a knighthood. My story is an example of what can happen when you follow polices of compassion and understanding, not hate and isolation.

Well said, Mo.

Your move, Donald.

The Donald has been in office for 5 minutes and he's already creating a new generation of terrorists:

US raid on al-Qaeda compound in Yemen Donald Trump's first military engagement as president

Mohammed Ghobari and Phil Stewart

Washington, DC: A US commando died and three others were wounded in a deadly dawn raid on the al-Qaeda militant group in southern Yemen, which was the first military operation authorised by US President Donald Trump.

The US military said 14 militants died in the attack on a powerful al-Qaeda branch that has been a frequent target of US drone strikes.

The Pentagon on Sunday confirmed the death of a U.S. service member in a raid in Yemen targeting al-Qaeda, marking the first American combat death under the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Medics at the scene, however, said around 30 people, including 10 women and children, were killed.

The gunbattle in the rural Yakla district of al-Bayda province killed a senior leader in Yemen's al-Qaeda branch, Abdulraoof al-Dhahab, along with other militants, al-Qaeda said.

Eight-year-old Anwar al-Awlaki, the daughter of US-born Yemeni preacher and al- Qaeda ideologue Anwar al-Awlaki, was among the children who died in the raid, according to her grandfather. Her father was killed in a US drone strike in 2011.

"She was hit with a bullet in her neck and suffered for two hours," Nasser al- Awlaki told Reuters. "Why kill children? This is the new (US) administration - it's very sad, a big crime,"

The US military said in a statement that the raid netted "information that will likely provide insight into the planning of future terror plots".

The American elite forces did not seize any militants or take any prisoners offsite, said a US military official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The three commandos who were injured were hurt when a military aircraft experienced a hard landing and was "intentionally destroyed in place," the Pentagon said.

"The operation began at dawn when a drone bombed the home of Abdulraoof al- Dhahab and then helicopters flew up and unloaded paratroopers at his house and killed everyone inside," said one resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"Next, the gunmen opened fire at the US soldiers who left the area, and the helicopters bombed the gunmen and a number of homes and led to a large number of casualties."

A Yemeni security officer and a local official corroborated that account. Fahd, a local resident who asked that only his first name be used, said several bodies remained under debris and that houses and the local mosque were damaged in the attack.

In a message on its official Telegram messaging account, al Qaeda mourned al- Dhahab as a "holy warrior" and other slain militants, without specifying how many of its fighters were killed.

Reuters

Is Trump playing with fire?

"Trump ban is boon for ISIS recruitment, former jihadists and experts say.

President Donald Trump's travel ban on seven Muslim-majority nations will be used by ISIS as a recruitment tool, giving the militant group a major propaganda boost, former jihadists have told CNN.

The executive order, which blocks all immigrants and visa holders who are citizens of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia, reinforces ISIS' narrative, according to former jihadi Abu Abdullah.

"It can play into their propaganda, to make it clear for anyone who could be in doubt, that it's a war on Islam and all Muslims," Abdullah told CNN over a messaging service. The names of the now-defected foreign fighters in this story have been changed to protect their identities."

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Meanwhile, he asks the Military to perform miracles

"Last week, Trump has signed an executive order asking his national security team to prepare an action plan within 30 days to defeat ISIS.

US President Donald Trump is taking decisive steps to “defeat and destroy” ISIS, the White House said on Tuesday, terming the destruction of the dreaded terror group’s capabilities a “humanitarian imperative”. “The United States must take decisive action, and the President is taking the necessary steps,” the White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters at his daily news conference."

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Smells like WWIII to me.

Fire up your barbies in the mid east ....can we get Russian agreement for both to drop some 'claen' nukes

He's just nommed the next supreme. Another "black letter" judge who likes to use the "original intent" of the framers. So another mind reader who should recuse himself from any decision requiring constitutional interpretation.

skully wrote:

The Donald has hotels (and probably a stable) in Bethlehem and Nazareth so JC was excluded from the moozie ban

Normally a political leader is castigated for not fulfilling their campaign promises.

Here we have the opposite.

this made my day ..
donald anyday
donald everyday

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2764543/donald-trump-blasts-australian-pm-during-phone-call-before-hanging-up-35-minutes-early/

Obama left Trump a shitbomb

Turnbull was happy to get rid of a load (that Rudd had left lying around for him)

Trump will overturn the deal if he can legally

In the meantime he has told Turnbull he knows he has a shitbomb from australia ...and dont expect any favours without bending over first

embee wrote:Obama left Trump a shitbomb

Turnbull was happy to get rid of a load (that Rudd had left lying around for him)

Trump will overturn the deal if he can legally

In the meantime he has told Turnbull he knows he has a shitbomb from australia ...and dont expect any favours without bending over first

And now he's told the world:

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/827002559122567168

Hard to know if the deal is a good one or bad one because we don't actually know what the deal is.

good for Oz to get rid of the nauru / manus mess left by rudd and gillard

bad for trump to have to accept 1200+ people from countries he has banned because of someone else's deal (most likely done with the purpose of ****** over the next POTUS )

Aren't we getting some of the US's version of Nauru in return?

We can take refugees in return as we said we would

We cant re-settle the Nauru/Manus/Arrive by boat reffos that Rudd encouraged