At least he delegated. Hillary just took it herself.And then again, trump's foreign policy advisers have been taking money from Putin's government.
At least he delegated. Hillary just took it herself.And then again, trump's foreign policy advisers have been taking money from Putin's government.
You, and most liberals conveniently miss the point. It's not where she sent the emails from, it's WHY she chose to send emails from a private server.
She's covering up a ton of shady shit. There's rumors that she's been selling state secrets, there's the Benghazi thing, the email thing, and God knows what else.
I'd rather have an idiot (that can be guided by people in the cabinet) than a fucking pathological lying, sneaking, stealing, killing whackjob like Hillary. Just look up how many people that were affiliated with the Clintons died mysteriously over the years, the body count is around 50 last I looked. Scary shit. Pretty sure Ambassador Stevens was one of them. He probably knew too much about something.
Then again, I don't like Trump either, but he's definitely less evil. He's small time compared to her.
No matter who wins, we lose. But how bad do you want to lose?
And then again, trump's foreign policy advisers have been taking money from Putin's government.
I voted for Bernie in the California primaries. Mainly because he's not a bad person. People are giving him shit for the Hillary endorsement, and I agree, it does feel like a total 180 from campaign rhetoric
Same here, Ki. I've followed Bernie's politics for about 15 years when he first started playing resident nutjob on Fox News. I recall many times looking at my wife and saying, "This guy is in our elected government. This guy. This crazy crazy socialist has people who willfully voted for him."
Cut to 15 years later and he hasn't changed a whole lot - and yet I seriously found myself in conversations advocating for people to throw their support behind him.
I don't loathe Trump for a lot of the reasons others do, but I do find him morally corrupt and while "straight talk" is appreciated, the hard truth is politics and political relationships DO require finesse and forward thinking. None of his actual policy comments have bothered me too much...until this week. The NATO comment is not something you use as a political wow factor talking point. That isn't something you even half-kid about. That single comment shows me, and I hope others, that he just isn't fit for this office. Love or hate our allies, they are our allies and to suggest we may not defend them, the core of this relationship, is one million percent unacceptable. I can't vote for him.
#potato4prez2016
The volume of the US defense expenditure effectively represents 73 per cent of the defense spending of the Alliance as a whole
I don't disagree with the idea behind Trump's NATO policy.
That alliance means nothing if the allies in it do not meet requirements for defense spending or keeping their own military able to defend themselves to some level. It just becomes the United States playing police for everyone.
It's not an alliance if nobody except America contributes even the minimum militarily.
Even OBAMA has said as much, when he called out European nations not contributing as "Free Riders":
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/
There are even NATO documents that show that many members fail to meet the minimum guidelines for their defense spending:
http://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/pdf_2016_01/20160129_160128-pr-2016-11-eng.pdf
So, the way I see it, we entered a contract with these other countries for mutual defense, and they're failing to hold up their end of the contract.
Trump isn't saying he wouldn't defend a country that needed help and couldn't meet their minimum 2% GDP defense spending obligations, but countries that are "doing very well" like Germany (1.2%), Norway (1.5%), Italy (1.3%), Canada (1.0%), or FUCKING BELGIUM (0.9%, SERIOUSLY??) can rightfully go fuck themselves for welshing on their agreement.
Meanwhile, France (2.1%) is meeting their requirements like a good ally. Good on you. Fuck, even Greece is doing their part (2.6%)
NATO #'s snip
The US spends more than the rest of the world COMBINED on "defense". Of course you're the biggest spenders in Nato.
Awesome sexism.