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(65,227 posts)They should have said chicken hawk
tblue37
(65,227 posts)Watch a WH Reporter On Hot Mic Sum Up Pompeo-Mnuchin Presser: God Almighty, That Was a Sh*tshow!
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One reporter summed up a press conference following the dismissal/resignation of President Donald Trumps national security adviser John Bolton by exclaiming God almighty, that was a shitshow!
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Tanuki
(14,914 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Okay, maybe a reputable news outlet wouldn't use the term "shitshow," but it would enhance their credibility substantially to explain to their audience that a White House press availability wasn't exactly Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
Off topic, but thank you Mediaite, for the 30 second commercial you ran ahead of the 12 second clip. I realize advertising pays the bills, but damn, at least match the running time of the commercial with the running time of the clip.
wiggs
(7,810 posts)middle eastern countries are our new best friends (taliban is sunni, as are UAE, Qatar, SA, Egypt)...and that the west, nato are not? At every turn, Trump seems to be trending toward a new world order in which he supports them and they support him. With Russia thrown in as the power broker in Syria (mostly sunni) and Iran (shia).
I imagine Seth Abramson will put the bolton firing in the context of his grand bargain/new world order observations....maybe Bolton wasn't as down with selling out to UAE and SA and Russia as Trump, Pence, Pompeo, and McConnell are
zentrum
(9,865 posts).....put Stephen Miller in charge of everything and be done with it?