President Trump: Making America Great Again...

[Jeff Lebowski]

I do not believe that would ever happen. Nobody wants that.

Yeah, that was DOA.

[BlueK]

Yeah, that was DOA.

Understood. Mostly I'm just surprised at how it would get any support whatsoever within the GOP congress.

[falafel]

Jeff Flake is going to retire, cites direction of GOP under Trump's leadership. Might also be that his reelection efforts aren't looking too great.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/power...=.28b8ca2ad149

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) will retire from the Senate at the end of his term, saying he was out of step with his party in the era of President Trump.

The senator’s surprise announcement came after more than a year of criticism of Trump and the direction he had taken the party, culminating this year in a book called “Conscience of a Conservative.” Polls in Arizona found Flake trailing likely Democratic nominee, Rep. Krysten Sinema (D-Ariz.), as well as potential primary challengers, if he sought a second term next year.

[Pelado]

Jeff Flake is going to retire, cites direction of GOP under Trump's leadership. Might also be that his reelection efforts aren't looking too great.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/power...=.28b8ca2ad149

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) will retire from the Senate at the end of his term, saying he was out of step with his party in the era of President Trump.

The senator’s surprise announcement came after more than a year of criticism of Trump and the direction he had taken the party, culminating this year in a book called “Conscience of a Conservative.” Polls in Arizona found Flake trailing likely Democratic nominee, Rep. Krysten Sinema (D-Ariz.), as well as potential primary challengers, if he sought a second term next year.

Interesting book title selection, hearkening back to an earlier senator from Arizona:

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[LVAllen]

Agree. She is an idiot. And after John Kelly explained his feelings, I really cant believe that Trump and the representative went back at it. They deserve each other, but the families do not deserve to have that in the press.

Better to use his buffoonery as cover rather than risk a public discussion or an in-depth analysis of how and why the soldiers had no shot in the firefight - because the military of Chad, arguably one of our most solid allies in the region in trying to prevent ISIS from spreading, took its ball and went home after said Buffoon-in-Chief stuck Chad on the banned-country list.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/21/opinio...ion/index.html

[BlueK]

Jeff Flake is going to retire, cites direction of GOP under Trump's leadership. Might also be that his reelection efforts aren't looking too great.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/power...=.28b8ca2ad149

I would have preferred he'd announced he was switching parties to the Libertarians instead.

I wish the non-Trumpist Republicans wouldn't just give up. I think the republicans over-estimate the hardcore pro-Trump voters. Chances are the extreme Bannonists if they do prevail in a senate primary would lose to the dems anyway in the general election. Moore in Alabama, for example, is actually trailing to the dem in the polls right now in a state where a GOP senate candidate should win with 70% or more.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I would have preferred he'd announced he was switching parties to the Libertarians instead.l.

Switching to the Libertarian party is effectively the same as retiring.

[Walter Sobchak]

Better to use his buffoonery as cover rather than risk a public discussion or an in-depth analysis of how and why the soldiers had no shot in the firefight - because the military of Chad, arguably one of our most solid allies in the region in trying to prevent ISIS from spreading, took its ball and went home after said Buffoon-in-Chief stuck Chad on the banned-country list.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/21/opinio...ion/index.html

Better take. Why the fuck does the US have 800 soldiers in Niger and 6,000 troops in 53 nations in Africa? (There are 54 nations in Africa, FYI.)

McCain, being a maverick again:

McCain told reporters Monday that he and the Armed Services panel’s top Democrat, Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, are working on a proposal to update the broad war powers Congress gave the commander in chief after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

[BlueK]

Switching to the Libertarian party is effectively the same as retiring.

Yes, but not exactly the same.

[creekster]

Better to use his buffoonery as cover rather than risk a public discussion or an in-depth analysis of how and why the soldiers had no shot in the firefight - because the military of Chad, arguably one of our most solid allies in the region in trying to prevent ISIS from spreading, took its ball and went home after said Buffoon-in-Chief stuck Chad on the banned-country list.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/21/opinio...ion/index.html

Except there is no link between the movement of chadian troops and the attacks. Unless you subscribe to Maddow's claims. Further, I really think you are giving Trump to much credit. His buffoonery is exactly what it is. It isn't being used as a cover. It is just Trump being trump.

[BlueK]

Except there is no link between the movement of chadian troops and the attacks. Unless you subscribe to Maddow's claims. Further, I really think you are giving Trump to much credit. His buffoonery is exactly what it is. It isn't being used as a cover. It is just Trump being trump.

Buffoonery in office should be considered an impeachable offense.

[Commando]

The silver lining about Flake retiring is that I can still vote for a BYU grad to take his spot.

[Pelado]

Buffoonery in office should be considered an impeachable offense.

You probably meant baboonery or gibbonery.

[BlueK]

The silver lining about Flake retiring is that I can still vote for a BYU grad to take his spot.

Who?

[Commando]

Who?

Kyrsten Sinema. (D)