Conspiracy Theorist Rachel Maddow Puts Out a Conspiracy Theory So Insane Even the <i>Huffington Post</i> Is Calling Her Out

Conspiracy Theorist Rachel Maddow Puts Out a Conspiracy Theory So Insane Even the Huffington Post Is Calling Her Out

This person, who I think is a liberal because she has me blocked, pointed out the utter fabulism of Maddow's conspiracy theory that the travel ban caused the deaths of the troops in Niger.

Maddow's conspiracy theory goes like this: Chad was patrolling in southwest Niger, but pulled out in protest of the travel ban. This resulted, somehow, in a successful attack against US troops in the southeast corner of Chad -- a 24 hour trip, at the least, due to the distance and poor roads.

Furthermore, the Chadian troops were patrolling against Boko Haram -- it's unlcear why a reduced Chadian presence in Boko Haram-controlled areas would cause the "uptick" in ISIS attacks in a completely different area of the country, 700 miles away.

Even the Huffington Post thinks that everyone's least-favorite dowdy conspiratorial auntie has gone 'round the bend.

It was a vintage Rachel Maddow stemwinder. A deft, 25-minute weaving of carefully curated sound bites, screenshots of news reports, slick maps and graphics, all strung together to make the case that something fishy is afoot. It's a style Maddow has perfected, and it has propelled her to the top of the ratings heap.
There was just one problem. Maddow's theory was so flimsy that it could be debunked by a quick glance at a map, let alone a phone call with an expert.
Janet Malcolm of The New Yorker recently described Maddow's show as "a piece of sleight of hand presented as a cable news show. It is TV entertainment at its finest. It permits liberals to enjoy themselves during what may be the most thoroughly unenjoyable time of their political lives'"
Thursday night&'s entertainment came in an attempt to pin the ambush that killed four Green Berets in Niger earlier this month on President Donald Trump's newest proposed travel ban...
...
Maddow';s segment was designed to strongly suggest, without outright stating, that Trump's addition of Chad in his latest travel ban prompted the country to remove its troops from Niger, leading to an increase in extremist attacks and ultimately claiming the lives of four U.S. soldiers.
Chad's pullout from Niger"had an immediate effect in emboldening ISIS attacks"; Maddow said.
That appears to be false. According to the Council on Foreign Relations and accounts from local residents, the attacks that have increased can be traced back to militant group Boko Haram, which is based just across the border in Nigeria. A group of Boko Haram militants broke away and formed the Islamic State West Africa, Laura Seay, an assistant professor in Colby College's Department of Government, told HuffPost. But they are separate from the so-called Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, the group that reportedly carried out the ambush (although no group has claimed responsibility for the attack).

The pullout of Chadian troops happened on the opposite side of the country from where ISIS-affiliated militants attacked U.S. and Nigerien soldiers.
Chadian troops were present in Niger specifically to ward off the Boko Haram threat: "they had nothing to do with Islamic State in the Greater Sahara. They were also based almost 800 miles away, in an area called Diffa that's long been battling the group," Seay said.

Any expert asked about Chadian troops battling ISIS in Niger would have said "No, that's crazy," Seay added. "Everybody that I know is appalled by this. I would like to think that Maddow's researchers are more responsible."
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"By reducing the story to its mythic fundamentals," Janet Malcolm wrote earlier this month, "Maddow creates the illusion of completeness that novels and short stories create. We feel that this is the story as we listen to and watch her tell."
It's a tactic that right-wing hosts like Sean Hannity and Alex Jones have perfected...

Formatting fixed. Sorry about that.

BTW, progs seem to be claiming that Trump sent the troops to Niger.

Nope. That was Obama.

But you'll have to excuse them for not knowing that -- the media didn't report on Obama's many, many wars. It was too busy jerking off on to his Nobel Peace Prize (with the winner getting to lick it clean).

They also didn't cover troop deaths under Obama -- which you can now see is once again officially big news.

Wonder why.

Posted by: Ace at 05:49 PM

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1 How she even has 1 viewer blows my mind

Posted by: Cu'Chulainn at October 20, 2017 05:50 PM (vmsda)

2 Madcow is Madcow.

Posted by: rd at October 20, 2017 05:50 PM (4dz1m)

3 Does she pronounce it Ni-Jair?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at October 20, 2017 05:50 PM (oVJmc)

4 No Cashew ref?

Posted by: garrett at October 20, 2017 05:50 PM (2EFAu)

5 Sweep the Leg, Ace.

Posted by: garrett at October 20, 2017 05:52 PM (2EFAu)

6 Ponders as whether Madcow even knew that Chad and Niger even existed before this.

Posted by: Old Blue Sith Lord at October 20, 2017 05:52 PM (gEvQ8)

7 We all know Chad doesnt pull out.

Posted by: Cu'Chulainn at October 20, 2017 05:52 PM (vmsda)

8 I named my car Chad.

Posted by: Old Blue Sith Lord at October 20, 2017 05:53 PM (gEvQ8)

9 You loved your country...

Posted by: garrett at October 20, 2017 05:53 PM (2EFAu)

10 LISTEN TO ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!

Posted by: Ralphie Maddow at October 20, 2017 05:53 PM (O5Q3r)

11 "propelled her to the top of the ratings heap"? In what universe?

Posted by: FrostyTheDMan at October 20, 2017 05:54 PM (uXH5Q)

12 although I did hear Chelsea Handler say there were 3 Chadian Generals on her flight, en route to assist the American Generals with their 25th Ammendment 'issue'

Posted by: Cu'Chulainn at October 20, 2017 05:54 PM (vmsda)

13 This is a tweet on the top link loon's feed. "

Nobody is voiceless, nobody gives voice to the voiceless. Amplify the voices of the unheard rather than presuming to speak for them.

Posted by: dagny at October 20, 2017 05:54 PM (wqVha)

14 'Chadian' sounds stupid.

Posted by: garrett at October 20, 2017 05:54 PM (2EFAu)

15 This is all very confusing to me.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 20, 2017 05:54 PM (Mouru)

16 Even if Crazy Rach was sane, I could never watch her. She has the hair of a troll doll, but carefully groomed like a shrubbery. It's preposterous. I can't get past it.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at October 20, 2017 05:54 PM (ppBhU)

17 I have a conspiracy theory of my own. The mission was compromised by leaked intelligence...on purpose.and now lefties ate bludgeoning Trump to death..It's a trap!!

Posted by: Voter Dude at October 20, 2017 05:55 PM (4p+1F)

18 Chad Everett was role model for people who aspired to dick Angie Dickinson in the '70s.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 20, 2017 05:55 PM (Mouru)

19 Chadnese?

Posted by: garrett at October 20, 2017 05:55 PM (2EFAu)

20 Thank sonobi.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at October 20, 2017 05:55 PM (tbOMB)

21 C'mon, Rachel! Dance with me!! Pretend it's "Ellen"!

Posted by: Megyn Kelly at October 20, 2017 05:55 PM (O5Q3r)

22 Probably had a half hour sraff meeting on how to pronounce "Niger" without offending anyone.

Posted by: Xnycpeasant at October 20, 2017 05:55 PM (0PjM1)

23 Yikes, sorry for the monster comment, I don't know what caused that. There aren't any ampersands.

Posted by: dagny at October 20, 2017 05:56 PM (wqVha)

24 Comparing him to Sean Hannity and Alex Jones? THAT'S gonna leave a mark.

Posted by: T at October 20, 2017 05:56 PM (TnxsG)

25 Did she steal Beck's chalkboard?

Posted by: Bruce at October 20, 2017 05:56 PM (8ikIW)

26 "It's a style Maddow has perfected, and it has propelled her to the top of the ratings heap."

So Maddow's a nighttime fictional storyteller for Liberals and the insane.

Yeah, I could believe that. Pacifier companies should book ad time.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at October 20, 2017 05:56 PM (H8S+R)

27 Don't tell Maddow about the bridge between Gaza and the West Bank!

Posted by: buzzion at October 20, 2017 05:56 PM (z/Ubi)

28 It was a vintage Rachel Maddow stemwinder. A deft, 25-minute weaving of carefully curated sound bites, screenshots of news reports, slick maps and graphics, all strung together to make the case that something fishy is afoot.

So...early night for Trump?

Posted by: Max Power at October 20, 2017 05:57 PM (QCc6B)

29 Is this where the hanging chads went?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at October 20, 2017 05:57 PM (TdMsT)

30 Glad to be done with that last thread, though I still feel slimed by it.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka gumdrop gorilla at October 20, 2017 05:57 PM (K3Cm5)

31 She's flippin the lids of the lid flippers.

Posted by: Early Cuyler at October 20, 2017 05:57 PM (ppBhU)

32 Chad just hangs around.

Been doing so since 2001.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt, still loving the Cubs, sob..... at October 20, 2017 05:57 PM (8iiMU)

33 Posted by: Xnycpeasant at October 20, 2017 05:55 PM (0PjM1)

You joke, but some of the readiness assessment studies in the military right now are finding a ridiculous amount of time is being spent on repetitive stupid sensitivity and PC 'training.' That and responding to idiot congressmen asking idiot questions about the same idiocy.

Posted by: dagny at October 20, 2017 05:58 PM (wqVha)

34 So what you're telling me - yet again, it was muh Russia.

Damn you Putin!!!!

Posted by: Carlos Danger at October 20, 2017 05:58 PM (ce4vQ)

35 You gotta love the gratuitous Hannity smear the HufPo scribbler stuck in there right at the end.

(Alex Jones . . . yeah. But Hannity's not (IMHO) bright enough himself to weave that level of disingenuous bullshit. Hannity isn't exactly a "leading indicator" of *real* conservative thought, but I don't think he's nearly the conspiracy wacko that apparently the HufPo pinheads think he is.)

Posted by: filbert at October 20, 2017 05:58 PM (65kS9)

36 Could have been aliens from Xeranus.

Posted by: I'm a beautiful guy at October 20, 2017 05:58 PM (UdKB7)

37 Posted by: dagny at October 20, 2017 05:56 PM (wqVha)

I fixed it.

You owe me two ampersands.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 20, 2017 05:59 PM (wYseH)

38
We must be on the cusp of a singularity of Biblical proportions if HuffPo is calling out MadCow.

BRB: Time to stock the bomb shelter.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at October 20, 2017 05:59 PM (EgwCt)

39 'Member when Maddow showed the riots in Venezuela and blamed it on Trump. That was quite a moment.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka gumdrop gorilla at October 20, 2017 05:59 PM (K3Cm5)

40 "...I would like to think that Maddow's researchers are more responsible."

Ahahaha! Pull the other one...

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at October 20, 2017 06:00 PM (H8S+R)

41 Huh? Wut? I guess I am not smart enough to follow her train of 'logic'.

Posted by: IC at October 20, 2017 06:00 PM (a0IVu)

42 Ponders as whether Madcow even knew that Chad and Niger even existed before this.

Posted by: Old Blue Sith Lord at October 20, 2017 05:52 PM (gEvQ

Chad Niger would be a great actor's name.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 20, 2017 06:00 PM (NyJwR)

43 it's unlcear why a reduced Chadian presence in Boko Haram-controlled areas would cause the "uptick" in ISIS attacks in a completely different area of the country, 700 miles away.
___
All those Africans and Muslims look the same to me.

Posted by: Rachel Maddow at October 20, 2017 06:01 PM (Z8FFX)

44 Wait...did she come up with the Melania body double conspiracy as well?

Posted by: IC at October 20, 2017 06:01 PM (a0IVu)

45 Chad Niger would be a great actor's name.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 20, 2017 06:00 PM (NyJwR)

Tonight, on a very special Law & Order, SVU:

Chad Niger: Barrel Emptier

Posted by: filbert at October 20, 2017 06:01 PM (65kS9)

46 She's actually pretty smart. She knows that liberals love living in a fantasy land filled with Nazis and other evildoers, and there's nothing bigger than "raising awareness" of the fantasies because it gives satisfaction without having to take any action.

This story is a double win as they can curse Trump for getting soldiers killed and celebrate the soldiers getting killed at the same time.

Posted by: Meremortal at October 20, 2017 06:02 PM (maqrP)

47 Bungobungo

Bungobulungo

Bungogawee

That is African for "animatronic cashew".

Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 20, 2017 06:02 PM (2wRtc)

48 I knew I shouldn't have bothered to see what was going on in the world today. Just makes my blood boil.

Oh well, back to prepping for tomorrow's MoMee.

Posted by: Country Boy at October 20, 2017 06:02 PM (Jcg9Q)

49 You'd be less scornful if you knew how many Bothans died to bring Rachel this information.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at October 20, 2017 06:03 PM (ppBhU)

50 Um...OoooooK then.

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 20, 2017 06:03 PM (NWiLs)

51 How come we only find out that we have troops all over Africa when some of them get dead?

Do we have some sort of national consensus that our military should be everywhere, all the time, risking death?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 20, 2017 06:03 PM (gIRsn)

52 Rhinestone Cowpie was Awan IT scandal client.
===

flounder!

You can't drop DAT wit no linkage , brah!

Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 20, 2017 06:03 PM (2wRtc)

53 She's flippin the lids of the lid flippers.
Posted by: Early Cuyler at October 20, 2017 05:57 PM

Nah, bro. We're just chillin'

Say, got anything to munch on?

Posted by: Phileas Phreak in Colorado at October 20, 2017 06:04 PM (ctuyM)

54 49 You'd be less scornful if you knew how many Bothans died to bring Rachel this information.
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at October 20, 2017 06:03 PM (ppBhU)

New TV show idea: "Mon Mothma, the Car" starring Jerry Van DYKE.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 20, 2017 06:04 PM (mbhDw)

55 Oh well, back to prepping for tomorrow's MoMee.
Posted by: Country Boy at October 20, 2017 06:02 PM (Jcg9Q)

You've collated yesterday's porn movie names for a dramatic reading at the MoMee, I sincerely hope?

Posted by: filbert at October 20, 2017 06:04 PM (65kS9)

56 I had a country and I named it Chad.

Posted by: Dictator Chick at October 20, 2017 06:04 PM (dfVjB)

57 I thought it was only crazy people on the right who did conspiracy theories?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 20, 2017 06:04 PM (/tuJf)

58 Why are we there at all? What a waste.

Posted by: freaked at October 20, 2017 06:04 PM (UdKB7)

59 55 Oh well, back to prepping for tomorrow's MoMee.
Posted by: Country Boy at October 20, 2017 06:02 PM (Jcg9Q)

You've collated yesterday's porn movie names for a dramatic reading at the MoMee, I sincerely hope?
Posted by: filbert at October 20, 2017 06:04 PM (65kS9)

Ten Inches of Spades?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 20, 2017 06:04 PM (mbhDw)

60 Any empty barrels in the area?

Posted by: Phildirt at October 20, 2017 06:04 PM (mO1eR)

61 Rachel Maddow loved her first car,she named it Chad.

Posted by: steevy at October 20, 2017 06:05 PM (rmVvL)

62 Oh well, back to prepping for tomorrow's MoMee.
===

What is Val-U-Rite's per Barrel rate anyway?

Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 20, 2017 06:05 PM (2wRtc)

63 Bandersnatch: "Do we have some sort of national consensus that our military should be everywhere, all the time, risking death?"

Speaking on behalf of the nation, yes.

Posted by: John McCain at October 20, 2017 06:05 PM (H8S+R)

64 58 Why are we there at all? What a waste.
Posted by: freaked at October 20, 2017 06:04 PM (UdKB7)

Obama ordered it. Also, John Koskinen is still head of the IRS.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 20, 2017 06:05 PM (mbhDw)

65
Chad is next to Jeremy, IIRC.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 20, 2017 06:05 PM (mbhDw)

66 MAPS, HOW DO THEY WORK?

Posted by: The Madluggos at October 20, 2017 06:05 PM (oVJmc)

67 Just think. Maddox channel is Lil rocket man's favorite. It's where he gets his news from. That means he is as lost as they come on factual events taking place around the world.

Posted by: DRider at October 20, 2017 06:05 PM (HdKKm)

68 My big scoop tonight....... Trump paid his taxes.

Posted by: Rachel Maddow at October 20, 2017 06:06 PM (SkuXa)

69 Oh well, back to prepping for tomorrow's MoMee.
Posted by: Country Boy at October 20, 2017 06:02 PM (Jcg9Q)

You've collated yesterday's porn movie names for a dramatic reading at the MoMee, I sincerely hope?

Posted by: filbert at October 20, 2017 06:04 PM (65kS9)

Collated and filed alphabetically.

Tomorrow we decide which 'ette gets which part.

Posted by: Country Boy at October 20, 2017 06:06 PM (Jcg9Q)

70 And, in case anybody wonders, no that's not my usual hash . . . I'm inbound to Miami on a cruise ship and burning shipboard internet minutes . . . very, very EXPENSIVE shipboard internet minutes.

Because I'm just that kind of small white nut.

(And, Peaches, I read what you said about filberts a while back . . . I'm hurt. Very, very hurt.)

Posted by: filbert at October 20, 2017 06:06 PM (65kS9)

71 Chad Niger would be a great actor's name.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 20, 2017 06:00 PM

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Niger Chad at October 20, 2017 06:06 PM (ctuyM)

72 Who the hell uses Chadian troops for anything? Maybe getting coffee ... but even that ...

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 20, 2017 06:06 PM (8gDQu)

73 Then she wrecked Chad.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 20, 2017 06:06 PM (IqV8l)

74 Next will be Trumps tax return from.....1978.....It will be "breaking news".

Posted by: Colin at October 20, 2017 06:06 PM (bYgjr)

75 John Koskinen is still head of the IRS.
===

And Robert Mueller is still leading an investigation.

Straight into Hell.

Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 20, 2017 06:06 PM (2wRtc)

76 Do we have some sort of national consensus that our military should be everywhere, all the time, risking death?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 20, 2017 06:03 PM (gIRsn)

I don't know about that but I read a few years ago that we had active anti-terrorism related operations in 60 countries.

Posted by: Meremortal at October 20, 2017 06:06 PM (maqrP)

77 Lefties have been doing conspiracy theories longer.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy - Bunch Em If You Got Em at October 20, 2017 06:06 PM (5DBsn)

78 Oh wait I already did that.

Posted by: Rachel Maddow at October 20, 2017 06:06 PM (SkuXa)

79 This person, who I think is a liberal because she has me blocked,

++++

Maybe she's just a lesbian.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 20, 2017 06:06 PM (FUu/Z)

80 Niger would be banned from mention if they added a g...

Posted by: steevy at October 20, 2017 06:07 PM (rmVvL)

81 74 Next will be Trumps tax return from.....1978.....It will be "breaking news".
Posted by: Colin at October 20, 2017 06:06 PM (bYgjr)

She makes Jerry Rivers opening Capone's safe look like the live report of the Hindenburg crash.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 20, 2017 06:07 PM (mbhDw)

82 Bandersnatch: "Do we have some sort of national consensus that our military should be everywhere, all the time, risking death?"

Speaking on behalf of the nation, yes.

Posted by: John McCain at October 20, 2017 06:05 PM (H8S+R)

Ha!

I'm workin' him like a puppet now.

Watch this.

I'm gonna make him do the Chicken Dance in the Senate.

Posted by: Brain Cancer at October 20, 2017 06:07 PM (NyJwR)

83 Niger Bill's Canyon

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 20, 2017 06:07 PM (IqV8l)

84 79 This person, who I think is a liberal because she has me blocked,

++++

Maybe she's just a lesbian.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 20, 2017 06:06 PM (FUu/Z)

Maybe she hates baby goats?

Posted by: buzzion at October 20, 2017 06:07 PM (z/Ubi)

85 Check your premises.

No one on Maddows staff or MSNBC is interested in "responsible journalism ".

Posted by: blaster at October 20, 2017 06:08 PM (hxWs0)

86 This does make perfect sense; military resources are finite, of course. You never have enough of them, which is why forcing China to keep troops on the North Korean border, it lessens the probability that China will invade Taiwan. Just not enough soldiers to go around.

That's why we don't have troops in Germany. For one, they aren't needed since the USSR disintegrated.

Since we don't have troops in Germany, it means that we have to keep troops in Syria, and that means we don't have enough troops in Chad.

See? We need more troops in Chad, obviously. John McCain understands this.

/tilts head, raises one eye brow, quizzically.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 20, 2017 06:08 PM (m9X4Y)

87 Isn't Niger's capital Please?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable, Profoundly Unserious & Immature Scientifically at October 20, 2017 06:08 PM (3BFzK)

88 I'd bang Chad. In a heartbeat. *hic*

Posted by: Rachel Saddcow at October 20, 2017 06:08 PM (Tyii7)

89
Niger would be banned from mention if they added a g...
Posted by: steevy at October 20, 2017 06:07 PM

Gniger

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 20, 2017 06:08 PM (IqV8l)

90 >>Maybe she's just a lesbian.

Or a chick with a dick.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 20, 2017 06:08 PM (/tuJf)

91 Bring us a shrubbery!

Posted by: The Knights Who Say Ni-ger at October 20, 2017 06:09 PM (ctuyM)

92 LMAO at all the wussalumps on CNN with their gay-ass bandit "Neez-YAIR" pronunciation.

Say " Ny-GER" bitch.

Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 20, 2017 06:09 PM (2wRtc)

93 I seem to have heard this morning on Fox, from a former Green Beret, that we are actively engaged in more than sixty countries around the world at this time. Most of the activity is anti-terrorist. Usually embedded with national troops as advisors.

Posted by: Old Blue Sith Lord at October 20, 2017 06:09 PM (gEvQ8)

94 Niger, please.

Posted by: Rachel Madcow at October 20, 2017 06:09 PM (oVJmc)

95 This is not an official conspiracy until I hear from BSG. Has he weighed in yet?

Posted by: the guy across the street at October 20, 2017 06:09 PM (sf2BM)

96 I can't remember who caught it some time ago, but she has a distinct technique and way of how she presents things.

She will frequently look down at what the audience or interviewee assume are notes or a fact sheet, when in fact the camera cuts off what she's looking at - nothing.

It's meant to 'persuade' the audience that everything she says is substantiated with facts right in front of her, but it's a complete ploy.

After learning of this, I can see what little faith I had in her reportage in a different lens now - complete left wing crackpot.

>Oh how I relished in her learning what a tax filing was in real time earlier this year when she had the smoking gun of Trump's '2006 filing.' My sides are still sore from that one.

Posted by: Carlos Danger at October 20, 2017 06:09 PM (ce4vQ)

97 You know what's not a conspiracy?

That the entire spate of instability across the Sahel countries can be traced to the war in Libya which apparently just happened one day -- organically or something without resulting in a Somalia on the Mediterranean.

Totally mystery how that happened.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at October 20, 2017 06:09 PM (XrCyE)

98 what is not conspiracy theory, is in S Africa white folks are on the run, because Mandela was ALWAYS a war lord, and he joined with the commies long ago. But the left praised him, helped make him president ... and now his tribes are killing off all hope of the higher quality of life that the old "apartheid" Brits brought back in the day.

We had a marginal win in S Vietnam, the Dems turned our allies over to the commies to be slaughtered.

We had a possible win in Iraq after the surge, the Dems turned it over to Muslim terror for 8 years of terror, Christian churches there fora millennium burned, destroyed. Thanks Commie Obama.

Africa has to be fixed in Africa, not by importing their self destructive culture into the West. #Bring our girls back -- not gonna cut it.

Soros and the globalists are terrorists to the West. Deep State is "the mob".

W.A.R. ... get woke.

Posted by: Illiniwek at October 20, 2017 06:09 PM (/aIFg)

99 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopathy

Posted by: DaveA at October 20, 2017 06:10 PM (FhXTo)

100 61 Rachel Maddow loved her first car,she named it Chad.
Posted by: steevy at October 20, 2017 06:05 PM (rmVvL)

I'm thinking Cherry or Charlotte would be more fitting.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka gumdrop gorilla at October 20, 2017 06:10 PM (K3Cm5)

101
Forget all about that Niger shit and learn how to say Qatar.

Posted by: John Mellonhead at October 20, 2017 06:10 PM (IqV8l)

102 Why ... in the fuck ... are we putting small amounts of troops in Niger ?

Is Niger the latest hotbed of terrorism training ? If so - why do we not have a Carrier Group offshore while an MEU pathfinds for an Armored Brigade ?

Where's Chris Taylor ? I'm sure he can explain this. In reasoned, rational, JackPoint HollowStraw tones.

Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 06:10 PM (fiGNd)

103 Because prions travel faster than stupid.

Posted by: DaveA at October 20, 2017 06:11 PM (FhXTo)

104 Soros and the globalists are terrorists to the West. Deep State is "the mob".
==

But George and Laura Bush are "nice".

That's important.

Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 20, 2017 06:11 PM (2wRtc)

105 "Gniger"

Home of the Gnus. Snarling vicious Gnus.

Posted by: freaked at October 20, 2017 06:11 PM (UdKB7)

106 Gno gnus is good gnus.

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 20, 2017 06:12 PM (NWiLs)

107 Bertram Cabot, Jr.: "Gniger"

Ginger? Yeah, I'd invade that.

Posted by: General Dyslexia at October 20, 2017 06:12 PM (H8S+R)

108 Nigerg?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 20, 2017 06:12 PM (wYseH)

109 Waiting for Rhinestone Cowpie to comment on this....From the last tread, are there any trannies in the House?? Just wondering, the Dems seem to have just about every other type of creature.

Posted by: Colin at October 20, 2017 06:12 PM (bYgjr)

110 Because prions travel faster than stupid.
Posted by: DaveA at October 20, 2017 06:11 PM

Bwaaahahahahahahahah!

Posted by: The MSM at October 20, 2017 06:12 PM (ctuyM)

111 Posted by: Old Blue Sith Lord at October 20, 2017 06:09 PM (gEvQ

That makes two of us that heard that, though my info is a couple of years old.

Posted by: Meremortal at October 20, 2017 06:12 PM (maqrP)

112 The brown acid just doesn't agree with me.

Posted by: Rachel Saddcow at October 20, 2017 06:12 PM (Tyii7)

113 Collated and filed alphabetically.

Tomorrow we decide which 'ette gets which part.
Posted by: Country Boy at October 20, 2017 06:06 PM (Jcg9Q)

Okay, NOW I wish my travel plans had worked out to attend your MoMee.

I'd be interested in coordinating a Kansas City-based WaMoMoMe (or, what the hell, a KanMoMe with sufficient partnership) . . . I know Jewels is somewhere in the KCMO vicinity.

86 minutes left on my shipboard Internet plan.
Burnin', burnin', burnin', keep those minutes burnin';
Burnin', burnin', burnin', Rawhide!

Posted by: filbert at October 20, 2017 06:12 PM (65kS9)

114 Because prions travel faster than stupid.

Prions?

That sounds like a measure of pron consumption.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 20, 2017 06:13 PM (gIRsn)

115 ScoggDog @102- Why?
Because it's Niger. Remember that kenyo-indonesian guy ubama?

Posted by: Eromero at October 20, 2017 06:13 PM (zLDYs)

116 What stands out to me is that our army is not equipped to help the Nigerians against ISIS.

Can we send Frederica Wilson there instead? She could be like Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove. He was fond of cowboy hats, IIRC. Not quite as good looking.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at October 20, 2017 06:13 PM (/qEW2)

117 Ngiger. It's a Vietnamese colony.

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 20, 2017 06:13 PM (NWiLs)

118 But George and Laura Bush are "nice".

That's important.
Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 20, 2017 06:11 PM (2wRtc)

Well ... she was a Librarian. And "W" had good intentions. So watch your mouth. Lest you nausiate certain people.

Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 06:13 PM (fiGNd)

119 Have you heard the gnus? Can't afford no shoes.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 20, 2017 06:13 PM (IqV8l)

120 Why ... in the fuck ... are we putting small amounts of troops in Niger ?

Because Boko Haram kidnapped some girls and sold them into slavery. Mrs. Obama wants her girls back, and (then President) Obama is very much against slavery and white slave owners.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 20, 2017 06:15 PM (m9X4Y)

121 I grew up in SC. I remember In fifth grade social studies we had to do country reports on 2 countries and their flags and capitals and such.

I remember this guy picked Niger and Nigeria. He pronounced them with short is.

Posted by: blaster at October 20, 2017 06:15 PM (hxWs0)

122
Well ... she was a Librarian. And "W" had good intentions. So watch your mouth. Lest you nausiate certain people.
===

I've heard that the tea parties are lovely. And the manners, exquisite.

Hoisted pinkies all 'round.

Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 20, 2017 06:15 PM (2wRtc)

123
I think I'm going back to the prior thread and the sigmoid resectional sofa.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at October 20, 2017 06:16 PM (EgwCt)

124 Why ... in the fuck ... are we putting small amounts of troops in Niger ?

Is Niger the latest hotbed of terrorism training ? If so - why do we not have a Carrier Group offshore while an MEU pathfinds for an Armored Brigade ?

Where's Chris Taylor ? I'm sure he can explain this. In reasoned, rational, JackPoint HollowStraw tones.
Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 06:10 PM (fiGNd)

Obama Administration policy to attrit US special forces personnel by using SF and only SF to fight whatever the hell Obama thought was worth fighting about.

Posted by: filbert at October 20, 2017 06:16 PM (65kS9)

125 loser...why didn't she mention global warming?

Posted by: Witwickian Sage (muh IP code is at October 20, 2017 06:16 PM (RDd1I)

126 109 - Chuck Schumer is such a pussy that he arguably qualifies as transgender.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at October 20, 2017 06:16 PM (ppBhU)

127 Rachel is the Philip K Dick of journalism

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 20, 2017 06:16 PM (9XlAN)

128 Because it's Niger. Remember that kenyo-indonesian guy ubama?
Posted by: Eromero at October 20, 2017 06:13 PM (zLDYs)

Well ... he ain't there no more. "Our Guy" is going on eleven months now.

Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 06:17 PM (fiGNd)

129 M-O-O-N that spells Niger.

Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 20, 2017 06:17 PM (2wRtc)

130 "Rachel is the Philip K Dickless of journalism"

Fixed for accuracy

Posted by: freaked at October 20, 2017 06:17 PM (UdKB7)

131 I saw Stemwinder open for T Bone Burnett at the Vickery in '92.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at October 20, 2017 06:18 PM (rnAwa)

132 Randy Maddow wouldn't know his boko from his haram.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 20, 2017 06:18 PM (nUkMr)

133 Mr. Maddow is a pathetic piece of Prog shit that would love nothing better than to have us all put down.

But hey, she's probably really nice to kids so we should focus on the good and ignore the bad. Because that's how, you know, we prevail. Or something.

Posted by: Country Boy at October 20, 2017 06:18 PM (Jcg9Q)

134 I'm old enough to remember when contractors were heading to Chad to try to get in on development and it was only dangerous because of malaria.

Thanks Hillary.

Posted by: dagny at October 20, 2017 06:18 PM (wqVha)

135 124 Why ... in the fuck ... are we putting small amounts of troops in Niger ?

Is Niger the latest hotbed of terrorism training ? If so - why do we not have a Carrier Group offshore while an MEU pathfinds for an Armored Brigade ?

Where's Chris Taylor ? I'm sure he can explain this. In reasoned, rational, JackPoint HollowStraw tones.
Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 06:10 PM (fiGNd)

Obama Administration policy to attrit US special forces personnel by using SF and only SF to fight whatever the hell Obama thought was worth fighting about.
Posted by: filbert at October 20, 2017 06:16 PM (65kS9)

Green Berets original mission was to use native troops as force multipliers.... train them, help them... sometimes lead them.

This is a very typical Green Beret Mission...

Issue is, where is the OK from Congress? Where is the declaration of War? Heck... were is the mutual defense treaty we are supporting?

Posted by: Don Q. at October 20, 2017 06:18 PM (NgKpN)

136 Rachel is the ~~Philip K~~ Strap-on Dick of journalism

Posted by: Rachel Madcow at October 20, 2017 06:18 PM (oVJmc)

137 Chad's pullout from Niger "had an immediate effect in emboldening ISIS attacks," Maddow said
====

Bitch!

Posted by: Niger at October 20, 2017 06:19 PM (2wRtc)

138 "It's a tactic that" Ben Rhodes perfected and Bill and Hill developed and deployed in Whitewater, Monica, and Ben-(Rhodes)-ghazi.

Posted by: geoffb at October 20, 2017 06:19 PM (zOpu5)

139 Whore!

Posted by: Chad at October 20, 2017 06:19 PM (2wRtc)

140 102
...Where's Chris Taylor ?...
Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 06:10 PM (fiGNd)
-------------------------
Playing outfield for the Dodgers!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 20, 2017 06:19 PM (0jtPF)

141 I thought that I saw Joseph Kony at the IN-N-Out last week, maybe not. Could have been OJ on a stealth trip back here.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at October 20, 2017 06:19 PM (6Ll1u)

142
Mr. Maddow is a pathetic piece of Prog shit that would love nothing better than to have us all put down.

She's too busy singing to put anybody down.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 20, 2017 06:20 PM (IqV8l)

143 I proved my theory with geometric logic.

Posted by: Lt. Cmdr. Rachel Queeg at October 20, 2017 06:20 PM (FUu/Z)

144 I think Trump really wants to stamp out ISIS. Whether we should have troops all over creation is a valid point of discussion but if he can actually pull out a noticeable change then..shit lost my train of thought.

Posted by: Max Power at October 20, 2017 06:20 PM (QCc6B)

145 Bitch!
Posted by: Niger at October 20, 2017 06:19 PM (2wRtc)

Whore!
Posted by: Chad at October 20, 2017 06:19 PM (2wRtc)

Ladies, please...there's enough Ummah to go around.

Posted by: ISIS at October 20, 2017 06:21 PM (QDK5o)

146 Gotta draw attention away from the Clinton/Obama Uranium scandal any way she can...

Posted by: HamiltonNJ at October 20, 2017 06:21 PM (sCjDS)

147
Is Niger the latest hotbed of terrorism training ? If so - why do we
not have a Carrier Group offshore while an MEU pathfinds for an Armored
Brigade ?

Niger is the size of Texas so two brigades`especially an armored one would be next to useless

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at October 20, 2017 06:21 PM (PtOP4)

148 Seen plenty of explainations of WHAT Special Forces are doing in Niger.

Not one fucking good reason for WHY.

Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 06:21 PM (fiGNd)

149
There are probably US troops of some sort in just about every country on the damn planet. Doing something, lord knows what.

World's policeman, and all that.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at October 20, 2017 06:22 PM (8O3HH)

150 I'm sure those British and Hessian soldiers in the 1770's were nice people, they only had a job to do.

Why couldn't we have focused on the good and ignored the bad? No wonder why people hate us.

Posted by: Country Boy at October 20, 2017 06:22 PM (Jcg9Q)

151 Conspiracy Theorist
My conspiracy theory is that Trump's victory means 8 more years of troglodyte-con whooping while not acknowledging that their nonsense adds as little to the discussion as the communards. This is better than Felonia Von Pantsuit but still tiring.

Posted by: DaveA at October 20, 2017 06:23 PM (FhXTo)

152 Green Berets original mission was to use native troops as force multipliers.... train them, help them... sometimes lead them.

This is a very typical Green Beret Mission...

Issue is, where is the OK from Congress? Where is the declaration of War? Heck... were is the mutual defense treaty we are supporting?
Posted by: Don Q. at October 20, 2017 06:18 PM (NgKpN)

Agree . . . which is why your last paragraph leads me to consider the conspiracy-theory thought (since it's all the rage with the cool kids these days) that Obama by policy sought to kill off as many as America's finest warriors as he possibly could by intentionally and with malice aforethought putting them into harm's way . . . over and over and over again.

Posted by: filbert at October 20, 2017 06:23 PM (65kS9)

153 ScoggDog, I know he ain't there no more, but His treachery is.

Posted by: Eromero at October 20, 2017 06:23 PM (zLDYs)

154 McStain and his posturing knew when and why those troops went to Niger under Barky. His calling for a subpoena is total bullshit, but is facilitating these fuckwads.

Hey Juan, go finish your tell all book.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 20, 2017 06:24 PM (j8kuY)

155 DROP THE BOMB

EXTERMINATE THEM ALL

Posted by: Colonel Kurtz at October 20, 2017 06:24 PM (2wRtc)

156 did i miss something?

i could have sworn there was a thread earlier about some MFM asshole whining about people believing he and his fellow travelers are liars...

or do i have my blogs mixed up?

Posted by: Jefferson Aorplane at October 20, 2017 06:24 PM (woiyT)

157
I wonder if HuffPo realized that 'peak stupid' had been achieved and it was all downhill(ary) from here?

There's something happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at October 20, 2017 06:24 PM (EgwCt)

158 Distance from my house to Niger > 10 miles.

Posted by: Rachel Madcow at October 20, 2017 06:24 PM (oVJmc)

159 right-wing host Alex Jones??

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 20, 2017 06:24 PM (60v4h)

160 'Chadian' sounds stupid.

Posted by: garrett
________

How about Chadan?
Chadican?
Chadi?
Chadish?
Chadanian?
Chaduvian?

Posted by: FireHorse at October 20, 2017 06:25 PM (zkGZ8)

161 Hessians. These are great examples you guys keep spouting off, like Benedict Arnold, Hitler, and Satan from the earlier thread. I'm on the verge of being persuaded really.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at October 20, 2017 06:25 PM (ppBhU)

162 I'm sure those British and Hessian soldiers in the 1770's were nice people,

They think sleeping in on holidays is nice.

Posted by: George Washington at October 20, 2017 06:25 PM (rnAwa)

163 Maddow has Chad's tax returns.

Countdown clock: activated.

Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 20, 2017 06:25 PM (2wRtc)

164 Seen plenty of explainations of WHAT Special Forces are doing in Niger.

Not one fucking good reason for WHY.

-------

Training.
experience comes from experience. In order to gain experience, you have to go on missions.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 20, 2017 06:26 PM (m9X4Y)

165 DROP THE BOMB

EXTERMINATE THEM ALL
Posted by: Colonel Kurtz at October 20, 2017 06:24 PM (2wRtc)

I'd link to a youtube of Randy Newman's "Political Science" which is an awesome song even though RN himself it tiresomely leftist as usual, but . . .

72 minutes left on my Internet plan. Tick, tick, tick!

Posted by: filbert at October 20, 2017 06:26 PM (65kS9)

166 Let's end the Congressional softball game and do a traditional MMA dual meeting with 11 weight classes in lieu of the filibuster rule (composed of both Senate & Congressional Reps - the Senate is a retirement home).

The winner chooses if it's 2/3 or 51+ to pass legislation.

>My money's on Greg "Body Slam the Fake News" Gianforte over Al "Stuart Smiley" Franken

>Also Martha "Warthog" McSally over Fredericka "Empty Barrel" Wilson

Posted by: Carlos Danger at October 20, 2017 06:26 PM (ce4vQ)

167 Was Chad a girl before she was a boy?

I'm confused.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at October 20, 2017 06:26 PM (8/7n2)

168 There are US troops in every country in the world that will allow them. 190 or more right?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at October 20, 2017 06:26 PM (JubuX)

169 153 ScoggDog, I know he ain't there no more, but His treachery is.
Posted by: Eromero at October 20, 2017 06:23 PM (zLDYs)

Bull ... Shit.

Trump has been there almost a year. It's not THAT fucking hard to fire someone - even in Government. Not in the High Profile positions.

It was bullshit when Barry cried "W's Fault" for eight years. I'll be damned if I'll listen to "It's Barry's Fault" now.

Bull. Shit.

Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 06:26 PM (fiGNd)

170 off stupid hippie sock from yesterday's ONT.

Posted by: redc1c4 at October 20, 2017 06:27 PM (woiyT)

171 'Chadian' sounds stupid.

Posted by: garrett
________
How about Chadan?
Chadican?
Chadi?
Chadish?
Chadanian?
Chaduvian?
Posted by: FireHorse at October 20, 2017 06:25 PM (zkGZ

Fuzzy-Wuzzies works too.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 20, 2017 06:27 PM (nUkMr)

172 Within a half hour of the ambush, the French had aviation assets over the area. They were afraid to drop bombs because they could not differentiate between friendly and enemy forces. This must have been pretty close quarter combat.

Posted by: Old Blue Sith Lord at October 20, 2017 06:28 PM (gEvQ8)

173 'Chadese'

Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 20, 2017 06:28 PM (2wRtc)

174 "It can't be the bad guys who are bad--it has to be American Republicans who are responsible. What do I have to twist to get to this conclusion?"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 20, 2017 06:28 PM (l9m7l)

175 If Chad has a famine, does it become Hungary?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at October 20, 2017 06:28 PM (oVJmc)

176 You loved Chad
and then you totaled it.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 20, 2017 06:29 PM (60v4h)

177 Why they are there?

After all...these Nigerians are just like us and want to be like us by coming here and instantly becoming americans that you can't say shit about even if they're isis sympathizers.

fuck the world.

Posted by: Witwickian Sage (muh IP code is at October 20, 2017 06:29 PM (RDd1I)

178 It's the invasion from CHUD that you have to worry about.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at October 20, 2017 06:29 PM (oVJmc)

179 Training.
experience comes from experience. In order to gain experience, you have to go on missions.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 20, 2017 06:26 PM (m9X4Y)

Then I'd say the Training Plan fucked up. Because he's dead.

And I can't see anywhere in my Pocket Constitution where it gives the President an out from getting a Congressional Declaration of War just because the Troops look a little rusty.

Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 06:29 PM (fiGNd)

180
It was bullshit when Barry cried "W's Fault" for eight years. ==

What if Barry was (partially) right?

Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 20, 2017 06:30 PM (2wRtc)

181
Training.
experience comes from experience. In order to gain experience, you have to go on missions.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 20, 2017 06:26 PM (m9X4Y)

Ugh.... we've got Troops with 5 or more long deployments...

Our forces are actually being burned out by too many deployments... to the point where normal training regimens are out the window...

Same with the Fleet...

Posted by: Don Q. at October 20, 2017 06:30 PM (NgKpN)

182 EXTERMINATE THEM ALL

Posted by: Colonel Kurtz at October 20, 2017 06:24 PM (2wRtc)

========

I'm actually writing a book about this. Working title: Shart of Darkness.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 20, 2017 06:30 PM (/qEW2)

183 there is nothing wrong with terrorist strongholds that a liberal coating of VX would not fix.

just sayin'...

Posted by: redc1c4 at October 20, 2017 06:30 PM (woiyT)

184 The question as to why the left pulled this particular group of KIA needle's out of the haystack of GWOT casualties has to be timing.

The left is pulling out all the distractors to distract from:

Uranium One

Las Vegas

probably a buncha other stuff too.

Posted by: Witwickian Sage (muh IP code is at October 20, 2017 06:30 PM (RDd1I)

185 Greetings, all.

So, Madcow has gone Full Kohn, or vice versa?

Sally Kohn claims that Weinstein should "blame" Trump for "whipping up Hollywood against sexual assault in the first place." So maybe she's gone Full Maddow.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 20, 2017 06:31 PM (PY9jH)

186 Mista Seth Rich. He dead. *cackle*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 20, 2017 06:31 PM (/qEW2)

187 174 "It can't be the bad guys who are bad--it has to be American Republicans who are responsible. What do I have to twist to get to this conclusion?"

Wash
Rinse
Repeat

Posted by: Witwickian Sage (muh IP code is at October 20, 2017 06:31 PM (RDd1I)

188 Well, I didn't listen to ubama during those 8 years. But then, I didn't vote for him either. I did vote for Trump, though.

Posted by: Eromero at October 20, 2017 06:31 PM (zLDYs)

189 Hannity isn't exactly a "leading indicator" of *real* conservative thought, but I don't think he's nearly the conspiracy wacko that apparently the HufPo pinheads think he is.

Hannity is conservatism for dummies. He pounds very basic first principles, then points out how they apply to the news of the day.

He's great for people who are culturally conservative and are just now getting their feet wet in political discussions.

He's not the fastest on his feet, and he's not Cicero, but he's solid and I respect what he does because it's important. Culturally conservative people who haven't previously been involved in politics need to be able to vocalize their opinions in a practiced and logical way.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 20, 2017 06:31 PM (jhqr1)

190 Hey though, are we still without any motive at all for the Vegas shooting?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 20, 2017 06:31 PM (60v4h)

191 187 174 "It can't be the bad guys who are bad--it has to be American Republicans who are responsible. What do I have to twist to get to this conclusion?"

Wash
Rinse
Repeat

++++++++++++

boom, now I am a J-school grad

Posted by: Witwickian Sage (muh IP code is at October 20, 2017 06:31 PM (RDd1I)

192 I fixed the formatting and added an update

Posted by: Jake Tapper's All-Male Bitchring on Twitter, Proud Members of the Salon Hot 25 at October 20, 2017 06:31 PM (8rNrN)

193 Then I'd say the Training Plan fucked up. Because he's dead.

---
GI's die in training all the time.

you just never hear about it because the MFM doesn't consider it news, usually.

Posted by: redc1c4 at October 20, 2017 06:32 PM (woiyT)

194 ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 06:29 PM

President doesn't have to declare war to order troops to East Footfungus Transrail, or anywhere else. CinC gives order, you go.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 20, 2017 06:32 PM (m9X4Y)

195 The left is pulling out all the distractors to distract from:

Uranium One

Las Vegas

probably a buncha other stuff too.

Posted by: Witwickian Sage
===

The calm before The Storm.

Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 20, 2017 06:32 PM (2wRtc)

196 This is worse than Bengazi!

Posted by: The MSM at October 20, 2017 06:33 PM (s7y11)

197
I fixed the formatting and added an update

Posted by: Jake Tapper's All-Male Bitchring on Twitter, Proud Members of the Salon Hot 25 at October 20, 2017 06:31 PM (8rNrN)

And then you forgot to remove your sock. heh

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 20, 2017 06:33 PM (PY9jH)

198 He's not the fastest on his feet, and he's not
Cicero, but he's solid and I respect what he does because it's
important.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 20, 2017 06:31 PM (jhqr1)

All true, but....

1. Let not your heart be troubled.
2. You sir are a great American
3. Hearing about his martial arts training, nonstop.

Three reasons why I can't listen to him.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 20, 2017 06:33 PM (wYseH)

199 GI's die in training all the time.

you just never hear about it because the MFM doesn't consider it news, usually.

Posted by: redc1c4 at October 20, 2017 06:32 PM (woiyT)

56 have died this year in training accidents.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 20, 2017 06:33 PM (PY9jH)

200 Kets see if I got this right:

1) The first thing the Left did was close mental institutions and deinstitutionalize the inmates.

2) Let the country marinate in mentally ill homeless people and swamp the remaining mental institutions.

3) Let the MAIM (Mainstream Agit-Prop and Indoctrination Media) hire the mentally ill.

4) Give Maddow a prominent speaking platform to display mental illness.

5) Profit ?????

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 20, 2017 06:33 PM (hyuyC)

201 "I'm actually writing a book about this. Working title: Shart of Darkness. Posted by: Hillary Clinton"

You can finish it while you are up the river.

Posted by: freaked at October 20, 2017 06:34 PM (UdKB7)

202 I like to visit Niger. Their sweet mint tea is divine.

My wife likes Niger too because it doesn't have any Jews.

Posted by: Amb. Joseph "Mr. Valerie Plame" Wilson at October 20, 2017 06:34 PM (j+dfT)

203
Sally Kohn claims that Weinstein should "blame" Trump for "whipping up Hollywood against sexual assault in the first place."
===

Jane,

Sally Kohn has gone full Baba Wawa.

http://tinyurl.com/ya7tdx8c

Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 20, 2017 06:34 PM (2wRtc)

204 Distract them from this gaffe with some dancing, Rachel!

Posted by: Megyn Kelly at October 20, 2017 06:36 PM (wpC7C)

205 All true, but....

1. Let not your heart be troubled.
2. You sir are a great American
3. Hearing about his martial arts training, nonstop.

Three reasons why I can't listen to him.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 20, 2017 06:33 PM (wYseH)

He doesn't do that on his show at night anymore. My husband and I used to loathe his evening show, but he's pretty damned great right now. He's covering things that the other Fox hosts won't touch with a ten ft. pole.

I hope he has a remote starter for his car. And a food taster.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 20, 2017 06:36 PM (PY9jH)

206 >>>So, Madcow has gone Full Kohn, or vice versa?

What I want to know is, are people like Sally Kohn and Rachel Maddow attracted to each other? Or are they only attracted towards "femmes"? How do these people work?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at October 20, 2017 06:36 PM (/qEW2)

207 Our forces are actually being burned out by too many deployments...

----

Military resources are finite. You never have enough. You always need more.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 20, 2017 06:36 PM (m9X4Y)

208 They're calling it Trump's Benghazi.

So that means that the WH will stone wall the Congress, the press will help cover up what happened and nothing will be done about it?

Right?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Back from the Dead) at October 20, 2017 06:36 PM (12xou)

209 I wonder if Rach would rather jerk me off or go to a Trump rally. Would like to here her answer.

Posted by: redenzo at October 20, 2017 06:36 PM (5wSNN)

210 Okay, completely different question for the Horde:

Is a "double Manhattan" the same thing as two individual Manhattan cocktails?

The cruise line is trying to tell me that because I ordered a "double Manhattan" I should be charged for two individual Manhattan cocktails.

I mean . . . you know . . . um . . . one glass, instead of two? Two Marischino cherries instead of four, or whatever?

Come on, man?!?

Posted by: filbert at October 20, 2017 06:36 PM (65kS9)

211 56 have died this year in training accidents.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 20, 2017 06:33 PM (PY9jH)
---

slow year....

(which is a GOOD thing)

Posted by: redc1c4, 11H10 long, long ago at October 20, 2017 06:36 PM (woiyT)

212 boom, now I am a J-school grad

RIP your employment prospects and income level.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 20, 2017 06:37 PM (jhqr1)

213 He doesn't do that on his show at night anymore.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 20, 2017 06:36 PM (PY9jH)

Baseball is on at night.

Why would I watch Sean Hannity.

Jeez....you people.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 20, 2017 06:37 PM (wYseH)

214 [iPresident doesn't have to declare war to order troops to East Footfungus Transrail, or anywhere else. CinC gives order, you go.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 20, 2017 06:32 PM (m9X4Y)

And there lies Problem Number One. We accept this shit ... US Troops on Foreign Soil, In Combat.

That shit requires a Declaration of War. But No - that's too hard. So we just cheer For or Against - depending on if the Preezy is on "Our" political team.

And if we run out of volunteers ... the Love It Or Leave It Crowd will start talking shit about a Draft.

Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 06:37 PM (fiGNd)

215 OT, but for a whole new level of insanity, search for "Biological advantage of straight people to reproduce violates equality".

These people need their own planet. Venus, maybe, where global warming is real.

BoyNsea

Posted by: BoyNsea at October 20, 2017 06:37 PM (Kh5Q4)

216 Is a "double Manhattan" the same thing as two individual Manhattan cocktails?

The cruise line is trying to tell me that because I ordered a
"double Manhattan" I should be charged for two individual Manhattan
cocktails.

I mean . . . you know . . . um . . . one glass, instead of two? Two Marischino cherries instead of four, or whatever?

Come on, man?!?

Posted by: filbert at October 20, 2017 06:36 PM (65kS9)

It's in one glass, right? Then I'd think you're paying for one drink. What cruise line, if you don't mind my asking?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 20, 2017 06:38 PM (PY9jH)

217 You never have enough. You always need more.

Split each division in half, and call each new unit a division. Voila, instant doubling of divisional strength!

Posted by: zombie Adolf H. at October 20, 2017 06:38 PM (wpC7C)

218 Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 06:37 PM (fiGNd)

Are you lost?

Isn't there somewhere else you'd rather be?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Back from the Dead) at October 20, 2017 06:39 PM (12xou)

219 203
Sally Kohn claims that Weinstein should "blame" Trump for "whipping up Hollywood against sexual assault in the first place."
===

Jane,

Sally Kohn has gone full Baba Wawa.

http://tinyurl.com/ya7tdx8c
Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 20, 2017 06:34 PM (2wRtc)

My mind has gone full boggle. What? Is it something in the water?
So, now it's a butterfly died in the Amazonian rainforest today. Trump to blame.

When will the normals rise up?

Posted by: Northerlurker, Still Lurking After All These Years. at October 20, 2017 06:39 PM (nBr1j)

220 Is a "double Manhattan" the same thing as two individual Manhattan cocktails?

Posted by: filbert at October 20, 2017 06:36 PM (65kS9)

No, of course not.

They should charge more for the extra booze, but not double. That is offensive, and an affront to all professional drinkers.

Stand up for yourself!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 20, 2017 06:39 PM (wYseH)

221
Intersectional sigmoid resectional. The talking point that will win the White House back for the Democrats in 2020.

We're unprepared for this battle which will win the hearts and minds of 65 million voters.

Posted by: Truly Concerned Republican at October 20, 2017 06:40 PM (EgwCt)

222 Hey though, are we still without any motive at all for the Vegas shooting?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 20, 2017 06:31 PM (60v4h)

If the past is anything to go on, we should probably hear something late on Friday in the next week or so.

I thought it would be today but W and Oblabla's Fake Outrage obviously didn't create the flapdoodle they expected.

Maybe they'll throw someone else from Hollywood into the Media Mulcher.

That should work if he's big enough.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 20, 2017 06:40 PM (NyJwR)

223 Oh, fer shits sake. The left never even acknowledged Benghazi. How can- screw it , they are off the scale leftists, that's how.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 20, 2017 06:40 PM (j8kuY)

224 Gun running in Africa! We can't even...

Posted by: The MSM at October 20, 2017 06:40 PM (s7y11)

225 But Well Hell ... training accidents happen all the time. So honestly - I guess I over-reacted.

Trainees die all the time, I guess. Are we just pissed because one of the Varsity bit it this time ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 06:40 PM (fiGNd)

226 Baseball is on at night.

Why would I watch Sean Hannity.

Jeez....you people.

You ... you watch TV and listen to radio in real time? Savage.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 20, 2017 06:41 PM (jhqr1)

227 Please read the update for some of that majestic imagery we all come to the HQ for.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at October 20, 2017 06:41 PM (LWu6U)

228 It's in one glass, right? Then I'd think you're paying for one drink. What cruise line, if you don't mind my asking?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 20, 2017 06:38 PM (PY9jH)

Holland America, which otherwise is quite a good line. I expect that they'll go back and after harrumphing a while see things my way.

But this is the second cruise that I've had this little issue.

(Maybe I shouldn't drink so much . . . WHAT AM I SAYING!!!)

On the other hand, I'm raping the Neptune lounge's "honor bar" setup by basically pouring an entire glass of liquor and marking it down as (1), so in all honesty I can't bitch too much.

Posted by: filbert at October 20, 2017 06:41 PM (65kS9)

229 189---.....He's not the fastest on his feet, and he's not Cicero, but he's solid and I respect what he does because it's important. Culturally conservative people who haven't previously been involved in politics need to be able to vocalize their opinions in a practiced and logical way.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 20, 2017 06:31 PM (jhqr1)
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Yep.
It's like spreading the Gospel. You need preachers and teachers of all different kinds, operating on different levels, to have a widespread effect.
Hannity is very good at what he does.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 20, 2017 06:41 PM (0jtPF)

230 and rememba...the msms was all over russia because "our country was attacked!" and now it's all like "hey here's a random congress woman who, yes she's insane, has some interesting theories about stuff."

Posted by: Witwickian Sage (muh IP code is at October 20, 2017 06:41 PM (RDd1I)

231 They're calling it Trump's Benghazi.
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So it was all due to a video.

Easy peasy.

Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 20, 2017 06:42 PM (2wRtc)

232 Are you lost?

Isn't there somewhere else you'd rather be?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Back from the Dead) at October 20, 2017 06:39 PM (12xou)

Fuck ... Fuck ... Fuck ... You Got Me !!!

I was just breezing through here between Salon and CNN. Writing out a check to Moms Demand Action. And dying all my boxers purple.

Dude ... get out of my progressive head.

Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 06:43 PM (fiGNd)

233 Really, this all about keeping Bills and Hills, Russia, and Uranium One off the front pages. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Posted by: Old Blue Sith Lord at October 20, 2017 06:44 PM (gEvQ8)

234 223 Oh, fer shits sake. The left never even acknowledged Benghazi. How can- screw it , they are off the scale leftists, that's how.

++++++++++++++

this is how lefties think "you wingnutz like jesus, don't you??? well let's make up some jhesus stuff"

so here we have "you wingnutz were all like Benghazi for some reason we never looked into, so here's a benghazi thing..."

Posted by: Witwickian Sage (muh IP code is at October 20, 2017 06:44 PM (RDd1I)

235 You ... you watch TV and listen to radio in real time? Savage.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 20, 2017 06:41 PM (jhqr1)

Are you insane?

We know exactly when to start the recording so we can skip the commercials and arrive at the end of the game within a few minutes of its conclusion.

This is serious shit man....I do not fvck around.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 20, 2017 06:44 PM (wYseH)

236 I piss in the face of every leftist and I have a gale south wind

Posted by: Ben Had at October 20, 2017 06:44 PM (j8kuY)

237 Three reasons why I can't listen to him.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 20, 2017 06:33 PM (wYseH)

You sir are a great American.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt, still loving the Cubs, and dealing with the new reality at October 20, 2017 06:45 PM (8iiMU)

238 "Trainees die all the time, I guess. Are we just pissed because one of the Varsity bit it this time ?"

yeah. that's it. They "bit it". Such a turn of phrase that brings out the true meaning of what happened.

That we of course in your comment is rhetorical as from your words you could give a shit about anyone dying for their country.

And yes they died for their country in that they obeyed their orders which in many country's would not be the norm.

People don't really understand how atypical this country and it's military and it's freedoms truly is when compared to most of the other countries in this world.

His obedience was a form of dying for his country regardless of what country he died in.

He upheld the honor of the United States Serviceman by going where he was told he was needed and facing death and unfortunately meeting it.

Varsity or bench sitter.

Doesn't matter and you're an ass for phrasing it that way.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Back from the Dead) at October 20, 2017 06:46 PM (12xou)

239 Trump's Benghazi? Has anyone told Ambassador Reddick she's dead yet?

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at October 20, 2017 06:47 PM (hUqh+)

240 How she even has 1 viewer blows my mind
Posted by: Cu'Chulainn

Mothers tend to do things for their children that others find distasteful. So there's one viewer.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 20, 2017 06:47 PM (FZxI4)

241 Oh, fer shits sake. The left never even acknowledged Benghazi. How can- screw it , they are off the scale leftists, that's how.

++++++++++++++

this is how lefties think "you wingnutz like jesus, don't you??? well let's make up some jhesus stuff"

so here we have "you wingnutz were all like Benghazi for some reason we never looked into, so here's a benghazi thing..."
Posted by: Witwickian Sage (muh IP code is at October 20, 2017 06:44 PM (RDd1I)

This is what drives me particularly crazy about leftists/progressives.

They *know* they're lying and slinging bs.

It won't be long until they're all saying "of course Saint Hillary left those men to die in Bengazi . . . only an idiot would think otherwise."

And go along on their merry way of destroying all of Western Civilization.

Maddening.

Posted by: filbert at October 20, 2017 06:47 PM (65kS9)

242 232----And dying all my boxers purple.

Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 06:43 PM (fiGNd)
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Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 20, 2017 06:48 PM (0jtPF)

243 Trump lied Ben Ghazi died!

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein Brattleboro Vermont at October 20, 2017 06:48 PM (SkuXa)

244 Are you insane?

Lil bit.

We know exactly when to start the recording so we can skip the commercials and arrive at the end of the game within a few minutes of its conclusion.

Love watching sports this way. Only issue is if it's my local team, and they win, my neighbors celebrate the win with fireworks. Don't get me wrong, I love it when my team wins, it's just the suspense is a big part of the fun.

This is serious shit man....I do not fvck around.

Respect.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 20, 2017 06:48 PM (jhqr1)

245 Back in the 60's we lost about 7 guys on a damn Med Cruise. Not WesPac, the Med. Training can be dangerous. Apparently.

Posted by: Eromero at October 20, 2017 06:48 PM (zLDYs)

246 Saddam's agents used a gniger counter to look for yellow cake uranium in Nigeria.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at October 20, 2017 06:49 PM (ILitO)

247 Cowboy hats had a rough week.

Posted by: jsg at October 20, 2017 06:50 PM (L+0De)

248 Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at October 20, 2017 06:49 PM (ILitO)

a freudian slip there.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Back from the Dead) at October 20, 2017 06:50 PM (12xou)

249 So I'm on a frickin' cruise ship and I get to call NOOD?

Posted by: filbert at October 20, 2017 06:50 PM (65kS9)

250 they win, my neighbors celebrate the win with
fireworks.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 20, 2017 06:48 PM (jhqr1)

Oh hell....that's tough. I guess you could cut their cable a few minutes before the game starts, but eventually they would catch on.

Are they nice? Because if they aren't nice some C4 would work.

We know who to warn if they call. To certain people our first words will be, "We're watching on delay so don't say anything!"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 20, 2017 06:52 PM (wYseH)

251 We know exactly when to start the recording so we can skip the commercials and arrive at the end of the game within a few minutes of its conclusion.

This is serious shit man....I do not fvck around.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 20, 2017 06:44 PM (wYseH)

I have a cheap ass PVR -- which is a way to digitally record one station at a time over-the-air. Costs $31.00. Price keeps dropping. Actually, at that price I have a couple. Humble-brag, but short.

I record Iggles games at 1:00 pm. Start watching at 3:00 pm. FF through the shit. Catch up to real-time at the end of the game.

There's so much cool shit going on (and cheap as hell) that the non-cable-cutters are losing out on.

I used to rent a DVR from ComCrooks for almost that amount every month.

Posted by: Truly Concerned Republican at October 20, 2017 06:52 PM (EgwCt)

252 Doesn't matter and you're an ass for phrasing it that way.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Back from the Dead) at October 20, 2017 06:46 PM (12xou)

And you're an ass ... just because.

At the end of the day - you couldn't argue against a damn thing I said. So you went emotional.

Just like a Progressive.

Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 06:53 PM (fiGNd)

253 Ace, you consistently make me laugh, pretty much daily. Thank you for that.

Posted by: Mike in the Hinterlands at October 20, 2017 06:53 PM (FaCuG)

254 Hannity has the folks on that are exposing good stuff ... his repeating some things ... well OK, some need the fundamentals,repetition is a way of reaching some. But he covered things the others would not .. had his place .. cutting edge? well cutting as far as pushing some things into the 'mainstream' conversation maybe.

Martha is the most pleasant surprise. She's been pretty strong,while maintaining her "solid common sense, well-informed" persona. And she looks great (some episode showed her very close up, exposed she may have some wrinkles at 50+ God forbid ... lol). But she asks probing questions.

Tucker has been great .. I don't care to listen to him take down idiot leftists ... but that is a necessary thang.

Maria is good, Cavuto is good ... not quite on board with how far down the corrupt commie road we have gone ... but after his big heart problem ... maybe willing to go further out on a limb to save America from the leveraged stock guys at GS? Or so I hope.

And Laura Ingraham hasn't really premiered yet, selling her book, but she knows stuff ... could be really good.

pretty good lineup ... but we need Mueller/Rosenstein all the way to Hillary/Huma in prison for treason/sedition ... to make America great again. Stay tuned ... tick tock ... as Hannity says ... but the bad guys also are trying to blow us up.

Posted by: Illiniwek at October 20, 2017 06:56 PM (/aIFg)

255
And if we run out of volunteers ... the Love It Or Leave It Crowd will start talking shit about a Draft.
Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 06:37 PM (fiGNd)

The "Love It Or Leave It Crowd" aren't the ones constantly talking about The Draft II: Electric Boogaloo. It's the commie cocksuckers that keep bringing that shit up.

Not because there's a shortage of volunteers, but because without a draft, the Donks have a tough time getting young people to turn out by the hundreds of thousands for antiwar/antimilitary protests.

That fuckhead Charlie Rangel introduced a new draft bill to Congress EVERY YEAR. And he was VERY specific that he didn't give a shit about military preparedness, but that it was to piss off college age men so that they'd join the antimilitary movement.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 20, 2017 06:57 PM (eXA4G)

256 Name your price, Harvey- we need more names. They're getting too close on Russia and we can't let Vegas come back, either.

Posted by: Hillzebub! at October 20, 2017 06:58 PM (hSxPE)

257 The "Love It Or Leave It Crowd" aren't the ones constantly talking about The Draft II: Electric Boogaloo. It's the commie cocksuckers that keep bringing that shit up.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 20, 2017 06:57 PM (eXA4G)

I'll make sure you get copied ... next time the "We Need Conscription" chant gets started 'round here.

Compulsory Military Service fixes alot of Bad Attitudes. Or so I'm told.

Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 07:00 PM (fiGNd)

258 Just got the call . . . the "adjustment" for my double manhattan/2 single manhattan issue will be applied in tonight's shipboard accounting.

Victory! At Sea!

Posted by: filbert at October 20, 2017 07:02 PM (65kS9)

259 217,
"Split each division in half, and call each new unit a division. Voila, instant doubling of divisional strength!"

This is actually a Soviet method. They had divisions that were mostly just officers and top non-coms with some soldiers. When war happened they split that group and filled in the regular soldier slots with called up reserves and draftees. Gave them at least an experienced leadership to train the new guys up.

Posted by: geoffb at October 20, 2017 07:03 PM (zOpu5)

260 Why are they trying to say Niger is Trump's Benghazi? Niger was a military operation, and Benghazi was just a spontaneous protest over a youtube video, right?

Posted by: josephistan at October 20, 2017 07:05 PM (ANIFC)

261 Extra! Extra! Scoops Maddow here for all the ships at sea! Exclusive: CHAD is more than just the name of the guy who turned me into what I am today! Exclusive; How does Trump really say Niger? You know it's with an extra g! Exclusive: TAXES!!!!

Posted by: RGallegos at October 20, 2017 07:08 PM (cj1Xj)

262 Maddow's going to make a fabulous crazy aunt in the basement.

Posted by: aelfheld at October 20, 2017 07:08 PM (IxDhF)

263 >>Where's Chris Taylor ? I'm sure he can explain this. In reasoned, rational, JackPoint HollowStraw tones.

New job not going well or are you just being your normal dickish self?

As to why we are in Niger and many other places in Africa that questions was answered years ago. It's because the AUMF that was authorized after 9/11 gave the military the authority to go after terrorist groups affiliated with al Qaeda wherever they are.

And Trump has given the military far more latitude than they had under Obama so if you have an issue with the military going after al Qaeda and their affiliates in Africa take it up with the military. So far this year there have been something like 40 similar patrols in Niger. Why didn't you freak out then or are you just catching up now?

Not terribly difficult if you bother to read and pay attention.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 20, 2017 07:08 PM (/tuJf)

264 It's Trump's Benghazi?

That means it's a nothingburger.

That's what they called Hillary's Benghazi.

Posted by: Meremortal at October 20, 2017 07:14 PM (maqrP)

265 New job not going well or are you just being your normal dickish self?

Not terribly difficult if you bother to read and pay attention.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 20, 2017 07:08 PM (/tuJf)

Mirrors ? They have 'em in the NorthEast ?

So the Authorization given to "W" ... because a Declaration of War after Muslims knocked down two skyskrapers was just a Bridge Too Far ... is why we've got just enough people in Niger to get one of 'em killed ? But not enough people to really kick any ass ?

That's your answer, huh ?

I think the only thing I've ever heard out of you that ever made a lick of fucking sense was a link to the Jerry Garcia Band. Everything else ? Just a bunch of Go Team Bullshit.

Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 07:21 PM (fiGNd)

266 >>So the Authorization given to "W" ... because a Declaration of War after Muslims knocked down two skyskrapers was just a Bridge Too Far ... is why we've got just enough people in Niger to get one of 'em killed ? But not enough people to really kick any ass ?

>>That's your answer, huh ?

No. It's the answer that was given in testimony by the military in front of Congress and accepted. Years ago.

Why didn't you bitch then? It wasn't secret testimony, it was published and everything.

Nobody is happy when military personnel are injured or killed. But to pretend the issue of does the AUMF which is still in place doesn't give the military permission to go after al Qaeda and their affiliates wherever they are gathering is either ignorant or uniformed. You choose what you are.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 20, 2017 07:24 PM (/tuJf)

267 89
Niger would be banned from mention if they added a g...
Posted by: steevy at October 20, 2017 06:07 PM
Gniger
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 20, 2017 06:08 PM (IqV8l)

It wouldn't change the meaning, however, given that both words (and many more) have their origin in the Latin word for "black".

Hah! See what I did there? Worked in a reference to an earlier thread! [buffs nails smugly]

Posted by: The Inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at October 20, 2017 07:26 PM (QBrQE)

268 Why didn't you bitch then? It wasn't secret testimony, it was published and everything.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 20, 2017 07:24 PM (/tuJf)

I. Fucking. Did.

Sending troops around the world, without a Declaration of War, is too much power for any President.

Keeping them there is too much power too.

Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 07:30 PM (fiGNd)

269 >>Sending troops around the world, without a Declaration of War, is too much power for any President.

And yet, as I'm telling you for the 3rd time now, it was authorized.

You might not like it. I might not like it. But it was done.

So go rage at Congress and the military. I had nothing to do with it.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 20, 2017 07:32 PM (/tuJf)

270 So go rage at Congress and the military. I had nothing to do with it.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 20, 2017 07:32 PM (/tuJf)

But you're always First Hog at the Trough to defend anything done by Team Rino.

So bullshit ... screw your "I had nothing to do with it" Mea Culpa.

You chose to jump in and argue with me about this. Fuck a bunch of "I had nothing to do with it".

You chose to defend a bullshit position. So live with it.

Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 07:35 PM (fiGNd)

271 So go rage at Congress and the military.

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YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME

Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 20, 2017 07:38 PM (2wRtc)

272 YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME
Posted by: Mortimer - disappointed at October 20, 2017 07:38 PM (2wRtc)

But that's always the way it works, ain't it ?

Jump in, make an argument ... move an agenda when it's the same argument day in and day out ... but then, when shit get's too strong ?

"They Didn't Ask Me". "Not My Call".

Bullshit. Complete Bullshit.

Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 07:41 PM (fiGNd)

273 @ 270

Scogg, honest question for you--are you anti military, or do you have skin in the game and hate seeing what is done with/to them?

I don't remember reading one way or the other.

Posted by: irongrampa at October 20, 2017 07:41 PM (S/hVx)

274 Mad cow should stick to covering hanging Chad 's..

Posted by: Infidelishous at October 20, 2017 07:43 PM (swCSp)

275 Scogg, honest question for you--are you anti military, or do you have skin in the game and hate seeing what is done with/to them?

Posted by: irongrampa at October 20, 2017 07:41 PM (S/hVx)

That's a good question.

I'm ex-military ... but nothing special. One hitch. Honorable Discharge. No Combat Ribbons.

I hate, more than anything, the slack-jawed fucks that love to see Team America kick-ass on the six o'clock news.

They're no different than the slack-jawed fucks that love to watch College Football.

Posted by: ScoggDog at October 20, 2017 07:46 PM (fiGNd)

276
The movie that made the Green Berets famous was about a unit training Montagnard tribesmen to fight the VC at an isolated outpost that gets over run and everybody dies

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at October 20, 2017 07:48 PM (PtOP4)

277 I know I am super late, but "Boko Haram" (actually a slogan, not the name of the outfit) had declared itself a wilaya of the Islamic State a couple years back. Although, yes, it is far from the relevant part of Niger. And they've been having so much fun raping and killing people in Niger that they rarely sent troops outside their region.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 20, 2017 07:49 PM (6FqZa)

278 people in NigerIA, I meant.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 20, 2017 07:49 PM (6FqZa)

279 @ 275

I am former military and spent time on the very tip of the spear. We're in agreement about the slack jaws on the news.

None of them have an inkling. Anyway, thanks for your service, it makes no difference in what capacity, you deserve to be honored for it.

Posted by: irongrampa at October 20, 2017 08:03 PM (S/hVx)

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