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North Korea
« on: June 11, 2018, 10:05:00 PM »
Well...



Whatever else you might say about it, or what might or might not come of it, that's an historic handshake that is bursting progressive brains across the country, if not the world.
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Re: North Korea
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2018, 10:30:28 PM »
Oh but haven't you heard? He had absolutely nothing to do with it. :facepalm:
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Re: North Korea
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2018, 10:44:33 PM »
I'm going to say that now that he's met and talked with Lil' Kim there's a 20% chance that the forces of TDS will now say that Trump is on the moral hook for the evils of the Nork regime.

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Re: North Korea
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2018, 04:53:32 AM »
Currently watching the news conference with President Trump in Singapore. Watching this and reading some articles online, the left is losing their minds that this is happening and they are trying everything to see this fail.
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Re: North Korea
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2018, 06:07:24 AM »
Meanwhile, CNN consults with and spends 23 minutes (I want to watch this train wreck) interviewing the foremost American Expert on Best Korea.....Dennis Rodman !!!!  While he's wearing a MAGA hat, a "Potcoin" T-shirt, gives a "Shout Out" to Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam and then crys on TV.  To quote one twitter user:

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I'm tripping balls, aren't I?


https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/06/11/chris-cillizza-has-a-reminder-for-those-hating-on-cnns-interview-with-dennis-rodman/
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Re: North Korea
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2018, 07:46:35 AM »
Oh but haven't you heard? He had absolutely nothing to do with it. :facepalm:

Of course not. It was all accomplished by our lord and savior, His Holy Muslimness Barak Obama...
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Re: North Korea
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2018, 08:51:30 AM »
Of course not. It was all accomplished by our lord and savior, His Holy Muslimness Barak Obama...

Obama and Kim will no doubt share a Nobel Peace for this historic meeting.
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Re: North Korea
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2018, 09:38:27 AM »
Obama and Kim will no doubt share a Nobel Peace for this historic meeting.

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Re: North Korea
« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2018, 09:51:00 AM »
Actually, I doubt if Obama would get another one because he screwed the committee over so hard when he pretty much did nothing that he promised regarding their views on "world peas," such as releasing all of the detained terrorists, closing Gitmo, pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan immediately, and basically surrendering the US to a benevolent, kind, tolerant, and loving combination of UN authority and Sharia law.

I have absolutely NO doubt that if things actually happen as Kim said, he'll win his little Nork ass a peace prize. It's impossible for a Republican president to win a peace prize from those *expletive deleted*ing socialist statists.

Nixon didn't get one for normalizing relations with China/ending the Vietnam War, Reagan didn't get one for helping ensure that the US and Soviets didn't play a game of lob the A bomb (but Gorbachev got one for dissolving the Soviet Union), etc.

Unless you're the socialist equivalent of the whore of Babylon, NO PEACE PRIZE FOR YOU!
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Re: North Korea
« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2018, 09:56:27 AM »
I thought this was interesting:

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The summit, which almost didn’t happen, represented a remarkable turnaround from the tension between Washington and Pyongyang last summer when Trump and Kim exchanged a war of words, with the American president warning the dictator of “fire and fury.”

Trump told Fox News, though, that “without the rhetoric we wouldn’t have been here.”

“So I think the rhetoric, I hated to do it, sometimes I felt foolish doing it, but we had no choice,” he said.

This is the first time I've heard Trump allude to his tweets and rhetoric being, as many of us have wondered, a planned strategy versus 100% "the Trump personality". If true, that certainly makes me feel a little better about his tweets, etc. Especially as I'm one of the people who complains about his tweets.
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Re: North Korea
« Reply #10 on: June 12, 2018, 10:20:04 AM »
Meanwhile, CNN consults with and spends 23 minutes (I want to watch this train wreck) interviewing the foremost American Expert on Best Korea.....Dennis Rodman !!!!  While he's wearing a MAGA hat, a "Potcoin" T-shirt, gives a "Shout Out" to Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam and then crys on TV.  To quote one twitter user:


https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/06/11/chris-cillizza-has-a-reminder-for-those-hating-on-cnns-interview-with-dennis-rodman/

 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Re: North Korea
« Reply #11 on: June 12, 2018, 10:22:55 AM »
What do you all think about the "agreement" reached?

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Re: North Korea
« Reply #12 on: June 12, 2018, 10:23:58 AM »
Remember back in the 1980s the left was going off its collective nut about Regan's warmongering and pushing the Soviet Union to a confrontation.

Forge ahead 30 years and it's the same thing...

AH MAH GERDS! You can't push the Norks! We'll all die in atomic fire! They'll never come to the negotiating table! You'll kill us all!

I *expletive deleted*ing hate the left.

Anyone hear from Chuck Schumer? He was screaming about scuttling the summit outcome if it wasn't exactly what he wanted...

I think Trump could come back with a plane load of Nork a bomb materials and he'd be screeching about it. And the 9th Circus Court of Squeals would rule that it had to be returned to the Norks.
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Re: North Korea
« Reply #13 on: June 12, 2018, 10:26:28 AM »
What do you all think about the "agreement" reached?

It's an agreement. I think it's far better than what anyone was expecting. I know the left wasn't expecting it. In fact, I think they were hoping that nothing would come out of it because they hate Trump, and want him to fail, more than they want the possibility of peace.

The reality is that the Norks have reneged on every agreement they've ever signed. So, when they reneg on this one, which I expect they will, the left will crow with delight.
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Re: North Korea
« Reply #14 on: June 12, 2018, 10:34:00 AM »
More reason to hate the left...

Just look at this "expert analysis" from CNN...

Holy crap, these people are *expletive deleted*ing lunatics...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/12/opinions/trump-kim-us-north-korea-summit-reactions-opinion/index.html
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Re: North Korea
« Reply #15 on: June 12, 2018, 10:36:40 AM »
Remember back in the 1980s the left was going off its collective nut about Regan's warmongering and pushing the Soviet Union to a confrontation.

Forge ahead 30 years and it's the same thing...

AH MAH GERDS! You can't push the Norks! We'll all die in atomic fire! They'll never come to the negotiating table! You'll kill us all!

I *expletive deleted*ing hate the left.

Anyone hear from Chuck Schumer? He was screaming about scuttling the summit outcome if it wasn't exactly what he wanted...

I think Trump could come back with a plane load of Nork a bomb materials* and he'd be screeching about it. And the 9th Circus Court of Squeals would rule that it had to be returned to the Norks.

*And the USS Pueblo.
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Re: North Korea
« Reply #16 on: June 12, 2018, 11:15:01 AM »
More reason to hate the left...

Just look at this "expert analysis" from CNN...

Holy crap, these people are *expletive deleted*ing lunatics...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/12/opinions/trump-kim-us-north-korea-summit-reactions-opinion/index.html

They certainly don't live in and operate by the rules of this reality...
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Re: North Korea
« Reply #17 on: June 12, 2018, 11:25:19 AM »
More reason to hate the left...

Just look at this "expert analysis" from CNN...

Holy crap, these people are *expletive deleted*ing lunatics...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/12/opinions/trump-kim-us-north-korea-summit-reactions-opinion/index.html

President Donald Trump produced a summit that likely exceeded his own: historic visuals; a joint signed statement and a way forward to end the Korean war and negotiate North Korea's nuclear program.

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Ceasing the U.S.-South Korea war games is a significant concession, and to receive in return only a "complete" denuclearization—rather than the complete, verifiable, and irreversible kind to which the Trump administration has been referring in the entire lead-up to these talks—is not quite enough, at least in the immediate term

Soooo, we should have asked for super, extra, deluxe complete denucleariization....got it.

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YJ Fischer: Trump's North Korea deal likely won't be as good as Obama's Iran deal

Kim handing Trump a pile of dog *expletive deleted*it while pictures were being taken would be better then Obama's Iran deal.

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Juliana Silva and Bill McGowan: Who won the optics of that first meeting?

Because the actual substance of the summit doesn't matter.

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I'm confused by the summit, as is everyone. I have no sweeping conclusions, only incomplete thoughts:

Then sit down and shut up.  Or at least read the joint statement.   Here's the short version.  It's a start to end the war and remove nukes from the peninsula.

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Add to Trump's warm approach to Kim the President's recent brutal treatment of America's closest allies -- Canada. France, Germany etc. --

Because they've been *expletive deleted*ing us on trade.  We're saps for being the only ones for free trade, while they jack up tariffs on US made goods.




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Re: North Korea
« Reply #18 on: June 12, 2018, 11:32:56 AM »
What do you all think about the "agreement" reached?

I won't go so far to call it an agreement. It's the prelude to an agreement, which I think is just fine. The fact that they were able to civilly discuss topics for an agreement and next step is, to use the term, "Huuuge".

I think it's important to not expect miracles and big results. The left is praying for that so when it doesn't happen, they can dance. If this can be a "business agreement" that just keeps the midget from pressing his big red button because it benefits him not to do so, I'll call that an initial win. The big win would be NK opening itself up to trade (eventually) to allow it's citizens to benefit from the wonders of capitalism.
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Re: North Korea
« Reply #19 on: June 12, 2018, 11:41:28 AM »
As far as I'm concerned the biggest win Trump has had with NK was getting those 3 detainees released. That has actually come to pass and he deserves some credit for that. Everything else so far is very much 'wait and see' - it may turn out good it may just be another ploy.
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Re: North Korea
« Reply #20 on: June 12, 2018, 01:34:33 PM »


Not to mention the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.   But TRUMP!!!!!  BLARGHARGLE ARGLE BLAHARGLE ARGLE !!!!!!!!!
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Re: North Korea
« Reply #21 on: June 12, 2018, 02:43:53 PM »
From what I remember growing up, we were constantly having meetings and summits with the Soviet Union.  Most of them seems pretty useless.  However, if we can eventually get to the point that NK lifts some of the burdens and oppression on its own people, I think that will be the beginning of the end.  It might take a decade for this to all settle out, but this seems to be a good start. 
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Re: North Korea
« Reply #22 on: June 12, 2018, 03:27:09 PM »
Well you know:

CNN global affairs analyst Max Boot chalked up the meeting as something that “any previous president could have done,” while MSNBC regular Jon Meacham claimed “just because something hasn't happened before, doesn't mean it's historic.”

 :facepalm:

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/06/12/anti-trump-media-members-turn-into-bitter-bettys-over-historic-summit-with-kim-jong-un.html


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Re: North Korea
« Reply #23 on: June 12, 2018, 07:02:14 PM »
Only a Republican would sit down and talk with a murderous dictator - a Democrat NEVER would.

Trump won in 2016. Democrats haven't been so offended since Republicans came along and freed their slaves.
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Re: North Korea
« Reply #24 on: June 12, 2018, 07:16:07 PM »
Unless you're the socialist equivalent of the whore of Babylon, NO PEACE PRIZE FOR YOU!

I didn't know Hillary Clinton won a Peace Prize.
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