The Trump Presidency 13: The (James) Baker's Dozen

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Like on AM radio of yesterday, "The hits just keep on comin'!"
A summary of an intelligence briefing read to The New York Times said that Boeing, General Electric Aviation and T-Mobile were among the recent targets of Chinese industrial-espionage efforts. The companies all declined to discuss the threats, and it is not clear if any of the hacks were successful. Chinese cyberespionage cooled four years ago after President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping of China reached a landmark deal to stop hacks meant to steal trade secrets...But the 2015 agreement appears to have been unofficially canceled amid the continuing trade tension between the United States and China, the intelligence officials and private security researchers said. Link

"My meeting in Argentina with President Xi of China was an extraordinary one," Trump said on Twitter. "Relations with China have taken a BIG leap forward! Very good things will happen."


Sad!
 
Like on AM radio of yesterday, "The hits just keep on comin'!"


"My meeting in Argentina with President Xi of China was an extraordinary one," Trump said on Twitter. "Relations with China have taken a BIG leap forward! Very good things will happen."


Sad!
Two possibilities here.
Either he doesn't know that the "big leap forward" he refers to was a catastrophe that killed millions... or he does.

Either option is unsettling at best.
 
Two possibilities here.
Either he doesn't know that the "big leap forward" he refers to was a catastrophe that killed millions... or he does.

Either option is unsettling at best.
There's no way he knows that.
 
Trump Tweets

I ask every member of the Maduro regime: End this nightmare of poverty, hunger and death. LET YOUR PEOPLE GO. Set your country free! Now is the time for all Venezuelan Patriots to act together, as one united people. Nothing could be better for the future of Venezuela!

The people of Venezuela are standing for FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY – and the United States of America is standing right by their side!
 
Trump Tweets

We are here to proclaim that a new day is coming in Latin America. In Venezuela and across the Western Hemisphere, Socialism is DYING - and liberty, prosperity, and democracy are being REBORN.
 
Trump Tweets

We are here to proclaim that a new day is coming in Latin America. In Venezuela and across the Western Hemisphere, Socialism is DYING - and liberty, prosperity, and democracy are being REBORN.

But he loves socialism if it is juche and Kim is going to turn North Korea into an economic powerhouse.
 
Which one? There are now 32 active National Emergencies. Seven of them are old enough to drink, and one of them is old enough to become President.
How many of them led to the President being sued, in the 9th Circuit, it shouldn't have been the 9th Circuit, the President knew the law better than anybody ever, shouldn't have been the 9th Circuit, got a bad result, very wrong, the President knew the law better than anybody ever, got sued again, more bad results, conspiracy, coup, Fake News, and is still going through the courts and Congress?

I hadn't realised this sort of event was so mundane in the US. Nothing to see, then, I guess.
 
Juche isn't socialism, it's transcendent, uncategorizable, uniquely Korean and thus superior to any other conceivable philosophy.
This lady agrees with you and wants to subscribe to your magazine.

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Which one? There are now 32 active National Emergencies. Seven of them are old enough to drink, and one of them is old enough to become President.
I guess I mean the one where there are hordes of Mexican MS-13 Muslim rapists swarming across the Rio Grande to murder sweet American babies and take all your jobs while voting for Hillary's emails so you need a 700-foot tall ICE-wall paid for out of Puerto Rican recovery funds. That National Emergency.

Has it gotten bad enough that he has to give up another round of omelettes golf in Florida?
 
This lady agrees with you and wants to subscribe to your magazine.

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She's bringing sexy back!




I mean she's bringing sexy out back, where sexy will be executed by anti-aircraft gun.
 
Okay since it's become a topic of the 32 (or 36 depending on how you look a it) current National Emergencies in affect in the United States.

Almost all of them of them are sanctions, basically minor variations on "You can't buy, sell, or otherwise do business with" and/or freezing the assets of various governments and groups including but not limited to parts or all of; Iran, various terrorist groups, narcotics traffickers, Sudan, parts of the Western Balkans, Zimbabwe, Syria, Iraq, Belarus, the Congo, Lebanon, North Korea, Somalia, Libya, various criminal organizations, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Venezuela, Cyber Terrorist, People involved in "Serious human rights violations," People involved in "interference with the United States election process," and Nicaragua.

Of the others one is about the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, one has to do with the invoking of maritime laws, another about export control on weapons and related systems, one declared in response to 9/11, and the development of an Iraqi legal fund.

And then there's Trump's wall.

The other four are not valid (since they have to be renewed annually by the President and these weren't) but never had an order officially revoking them and have to do with trading gold or silver with an enemy, the end of the Korean War, some complicated economic stuff about the value of the dollar, and a Postal Strike in the 1970s.
 
Which one? There are now 32 active National Emergencies. Seven of them are old enough to drink, and one of them is old enough to become President.
In addition to what was pointed out above, none of them were enacted by power-hungry, corrupt, incompetent, and Russia-compromised demagogues such as Trump.
 
Most of the National Emergencies still in effect involve "Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons" that are (or were) contributing to conflicts in Somalia, Yemen, Ukraine, South Sudan, etc. Obama enacted thirteen, Bush twelve. None are anything remotely close to what Trump is doing. Below is a link to a CNN news article that lists them all.

CNN link
 
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