The absolute state, we are now in a timeline where you can deliberately make a device look like bomb for media attention, be invited to the white house for media arsepats and virtue circlejerking handies, but don't you DARE have the same last name as the President...FFS.
I wish we got something like this from the shitposter in chief
Lowkey, this State Of The Union is probably the best speech Trump's ever delivered. Like seriously, he's genuinely delivering a really good speech right now.
It's going to suck really bad when the TDS comes on this one. I'm just imagining Seth Meyers trying to nitpick everything he says.
Today, CNN released a report about how vehicles and weapons sold to the Saudis to support their intervention in Yemen have fallen into the hands of Al Qaeda and Iran backed forces. This is obviously a pretty serious national security concern, potentially endangering the lives of deployed service members.
So here we have a sitting US Senator blaming Trump for sales of these vehicles. Let's take a quick look over the article, and see what it has to say! https://web.archive.org/web/2019020...active/2019/02/middleeast/yemen-lost-us-arms/
In 2015, Riyadh launched a coalition to oust Iranian-supported Houthi rebels from the country's capital and reinstate the internationally recognized government of President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi. The war split the country in two, and with it came the weapons -- not just guns, but anti-tank missiles, armored vehicles, heat-seeking lasers and artillery -- all flooding into an unruly and complex state.
Since then, some of America's "beautiful military equipment," as US President Donald Trump once called it, has been passed on, sold, stolen or abandoned in Yemen's state of chaos, where murky alliances and fractured politics mean little hope for any system of accountability or tracking.
Off to a great start! We manage to work Trump's name in right next to the words "passed on, sold, stolen, or abandoned", clearly linking Trump to the loss of military equipment in the mind of a casual reader. Except that the article clearly mentions in the preceding paragraph that the arms started flowing in 2015. But who knows, maybe the Obama administration kept a tighter leash on the Saudis? Digging further in the article will surely prove the evils of Trump.
Amid the chaos of the broader war, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) made its way to the frontlines in Taiz in 2015, forging advantageous alliances with the pro-Saudi militias they fought alongside.
One of those militias linked to AQAP, the Abu Abbas brigade, now possesses US-made Oshkosh armored vehicles, paraded in a 2015 show of force through the city.
Abu Abbas, the founder, was declared a terrorist by the US in 2017, but the group still enjoys support from the Saudi coalition and was absorbed into the coalition-supported 35th Brigade of the Yemeni army.
“Oshkosh Defense strictly follows all US laws and regulations relating to export control," the firm told CNN.
Oh, that's 2015. Well, that's just one of the examples in the article.
And there are deadlier forms of weaponry that have made their way into the city. In October 2015, military forces loyal to the government boasted on Saudi- and UAE-backed media that the Saudis had airdropped American-made TOW anti-tank missiles on the same frontline where AQAP had been known to operate at the time.
Local officials confirmed that the airdrop happened, but CNN's attempts to conduct further interviews were blocked and the team was intimidated by the local government. A local activist joked that the weapons had probably been sold on.
That's still pre-Trump! Ok, maybe the next one will be under the Trump administration.
Because a majority of American troop deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq are caused by IEDs, it is critical that knowledge of MRAP vulnerabilities does not fall into enemy hands.
But it's already too late.
In September 2017, a Houthi-run TV channel broadcast images of Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, the de facto rebel leader, proudly sitting behind the wheel of a captured US-made MRAP in the capital Sanaa, as a crowd chanted "death to America" in the background.
AHA! One vehicle in 2017! This is literally the only example in the article that took place under the Trump administration. In fact, the VERY NEXT two paragraphs are these:
CNN obtained an image showing the serial numbers of a second American MRAP in the hands of another senior Houthi official last year in Hodeidah.
The vehicle was part of a $2.5 billion sale to the UAE in 2014. The sale document, seen by CNN, certifies that "a determination has been made that the recipient country can provide the same degree of protection for the sensitive technology" as the United States.
This is literally every single example in the article with a year attached to it. Senator Murphy directly states, and CNN implies, that this is somehow Trump's fault, despite the fact that he was years away from being POTUS in 2014 & 2015.
But how many times does it mention the actual administration in charge during that timeframe?
Today, CNN released a report about how vehicles and weapons sold to the Saudis to support their intervention in Yemen have fallen into the hands of Al Qaeda and Iran backed forces. This is obviously a pretty serious national security concern, potentially endangering the lives of deployed service members. View attachment 658113
So here we have a sitting US Senator blaming Trump for sales of these vehicles. Let's take a quick look over the article, and see what it has to say! https://web.archive.org/web/2019020...active/2019/02/middleeast/yemen-lost-us-arms/
Off to a great start! We manage to work Trump's name in, right next to the words "passed on, sold, stolen, or abandoned", clearly linking Trump to the loss of military equipment in the mind of a casual reader. Except that the article clearly mentions in the preceding paragraph that the arms started flowing in 2015. But who knows, maybe the Obama administration kept a tighter leash on the Saudis? Digging further in the article will surely prove the evils of Trump.
Oh, that's 2015. Well, that's just one of the examples in the article.
That's still pre-Trump! Ok, maybe the next one will be under the Trump administration.
AHA! One vehicle in 2017! This is literally the only example in the article that took place under the Trump administration. In fact, the VERY NEXT two paragraphs are these:
This is literally every single example in the article with a year attached to it. Senator Murphy directly states, and CNN implies, that this is somehow Trump's fault, despite the fact that he was years away from being POTUS in 2014 & 2015. View attachment 658133
But how many times does it mention the actual administration in charge during that timeframe?
I would rate this horrifying, because I feel bad for the people who are probably believing this shit, but whatever. Manipulating the news stream is "good for business" , I guess. Don't care about the people and fucking shit, hardy-har-har....
I would rate this horrifying, because I feel bad for the people who are probably believing this shit, but whatever. Manipulating the news stream is "good for business" , I guess. Don't care about the people and fucking shit, hardy-har-har....
Mr. Bame and I watched UHF again recently, and when we got to the part where R.J. Fletcher starts spouting about how much he hates the city his news station serves and thinks of them as idiots, I felt like this had stopped being a parody.
Today, CNN released a report about how vehicles and weapons sold to the Saudis to support their intervention in Yemen have fallen into the hands of Al Qaeda and Iran backed forces. This is obviously a pretty serious national security concern, potentially endangering the lives of deployed service members. View attachment 658113
So here we have a sitting US Senator blaming Trump for sales of these vehicles. Let's take a quick look over the article, and see what it has to say! https://web.archive.org/web/2019020...active/2019/02/middleeast/yemen-lost-us-arms/
Off to a great start! We manage to work Trump's name in right next to the words "passed on, sold, stolen, or abandoned", clearly linking Trump to the loss of military equipment in the mind of a casual reader. Except that the article clearly mentions in the preceding paragraph that the arms started flowing in 2015. But who knows, maybe the Obama administration kept a tighter leash on the Saudis? Digging further in the article will surely prove the evils of Trump.
Oh, that's 2015. Well, that's just one of the examples in the article.
That's still pre-Trump! Ok, maybe the next one will be under the Trump administration.
AHA! One vehicle in 2017! This is literally the only example in the article that took place under the Trump administration. In fact, the VERY NEXT two paragraphs are these:
This is literally every single example in the article with a year attached to it. Senator Murphy directly states, and CNN implies, that this is somehow Trump's fault, despite the fact that he was years away from being POTUS in 2014 & 2015. View attachment 658133
But how many times does it mention the actual administration in charge during that timeframe?
Trump congratulated a bunch of people working through America's hardship and how we will achieve greatness through those hardships. He went on a whole nearly 2-hour rant going from congratulating the efforts of the economy to immigration to talking about the AIDS epidemic. I'm sure that people are going to be calling him a homophobe more often after his AIDS talk.
The sky isn't blue, it's just all of the other colors combined absorbing the other colors and then the color that doesn't absorb is the one we see. So, no Trampster's not a racist yet. Sawwy, but the bad ol' putty tat's don't fall down yet.
The sky isn't blue, it's just all of the other colors combined absorbing the other colors and then the color that doesn't absorb is the one we see. So, no Trampster's not a racist yet. Sawwy, but the bad ol' putty tat' s don't fall down.
It's crazy how these people neglect the fact that Trump literally brought two Holocaust survivors who survived a mass shooting a few months ago. Yet they have the gall to charge him with anti-Semitism? My brain hurts...
