Tag: Donald Trump

The reactions to the recent presidential election in the news and on social media would have you believe that we live in a fiercely divided nation full of passionate political views and even more passionate political action.  Protests in the streets, crashing Canadian immigration sites, and the social media atmosphere would have you believe Donald […]

At just after 3 AM, Donald Trump took the stage and announced victory for his campaign in the presidential election.  I was asleep at the time. Seven or so hours earlier, I spoke to my brother as he left the voting booths.  He had barely made it, but was relieved to find the polls still […]

What I really love about America, is that when the citizens of this country are fed up, and really had enough with something, our system of government, albeit not perfect, still allows the people to rise up and affect change. Like it or not, Trump winning was this in action and there was nothing career politicians […]

I will be the first to concede that I was wrong about this election, and not just me, but so were the professional statisticians that I was paying attention to.  Donald Trump won the 2016 election in a political upset that will be studied by the political science community for decades to come.  He broke […]

Well, the day is finally upon us. Tuesday, November 8, 2016, is election day. I know, I know…you are so happy it is almost over, both candidates are terrible, you want a meteor to destroy the earth, yada yada yada. We have pretty much heard it all by now. We all just want the misery […]

…Hold up. I can’t just come out and say it in the first sentence, since that will show up in the Facebook preview and keep people from clicking on the story, and I just can’t have that. Let us discuss some salient points and background for this insane election season first. First, a few caveats. […]

Check out this video as Michael Moore talks about how electing Trump is a big F-U for the system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcXUf49HXKg&feature=youtu.be Image courtesy of NBC News

Donald Trump calls the U.S. military “depleted.” It urgently needs more planes, ships, troops and nuclear weapons, he says, to ensure American predominance in the world. Hillary Clinton has a much different view of the defense and military challenges facing the next president. Her prescriptions are largely echoes of the Obama administration. She begins with […]

Like many Americans, I was taken slightly aback when Hillary Clinton mentioned that it takes four minutes from the time the President decides to launch nuclear weapons to the time that the missiles fire from their silos and submarines in a war that is thankfully hypothetical at this time.  Information surrounding America’s nuclear warfare capabilities are […]

For Jeffrey Epstein and his famous friends, the Aughts were a simpler time, when the businessmen, academics, and celebrities who counted themselves among the playboy philanthropist’s inner circle could freely enjoy the fruits of his extreme wealth and connections. Epstein’s little black book and flight logs read like a virtual Who’s Who: Bill Clinton, Donald […]

Looking largely “over there.” Both nominees are focused on transnational terrorism, especially the threat from the Islamic State group. Clinton proposes ongoing air strikes, working with local forces in Iraq and Syria, and collaborating with allies to dismantle “the global network of terror that supplies money, arms, propaganda, and fighters.”

Trump wants to “bomb the shit out of them,” and as he said in his terrorism speech, “aggressively pursue joint and coalition military operations to crush and destroy [the Islamic State group], international cooperation to cut off their funding, expanded intelligence sharing and cyberwarfare to disrupt and disable their propaganda and recruiting.”

Even their plans for the Islamic State group are nearly identical. When it comes to counterterrorism, the Democratic and Republican nominees are presenting the same ideas, couched in language tailored to different parts of the electorate. And therein lies a much more troubling fact – it’s not just what they’re saying; it’s what they’re not saying.

How disingenuous. Morell and Clinton were both serving in the Obama administration during the rise of the Islamic State. We now know that the CIA was, in fact, training the rebels who ultimately joined ISIS or one of the other terrorist groups that plague the region.
Just when you think American foreign policy couldn’t possibly get any worse, we might get to see what Clinton, emboldened by interventionist enablers in the CIA and State Department, could do with unfettered executive power.