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Old 06-13-2018, 10:45 PM
 
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Lol I wish we didn’t have to politicize everything today. Why can’t we just be excited at the prospect of something good potentially happening. Is that too much to ask in 2018?
To liberals? Hell yeah..They hate America so much, that its total destruction is a fair price to pay to get Trump out of office. Its pathetic, and so are they.
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Old 06-13-2018, 10:47 PM
 
Location: On the Great South Bay
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Do you get that NK has promised to denuclearize a dozen times before and broken that promise every time? We are not even an inch closer to this happening than we've been before.

I never thought I'd see the right be so anti-reality and ignore documented facts and history. Nope, that's a lie, I know you all swallow Trump's BS claims as if they are manna from Heaven and believe whatever lies he spews
I share your caution but I am also more optimistic. The difference from earlier administrations is that Trump is putting heavy pressure on China and other nations, which has a huge amount of influence on North Korea. This includes threatening to put major tariffs on China, sending defensive missile systems to South Korea and Japan, and possible accepting a nuclear armed Japan - something China does not want to see.

There has been indeed intense international diplomacy going on behind the scenes. As I noted on another thread, literally a couple of weeks after the USA announced it was going to raise tariffs on steel and aluminum in early March, South Korean President Moon agreed to meet with North Korean Kim and at the same time the USA announced that South Korea would be exempt from the tariffs.

Now I realize that many people do not like Trump personally but his willingness to threaten tariffs, get his hands dirty and take all the heat and controversy is a significant advantage for American diplomacy. So was his threat to use force, something Obama would not have done.

Speak softly but carry a big stick is a lot more effective than just speak softly.
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Old 06-13-2018, 10:52 PM
 
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There's a special place in hell for that backstabbing coward, the democratically elected leader of our closest ally, but the sociopathic, murdering dictator of North Korea is a terrific guy with a great sense of humor.

Trumplings - how do y'all even look in the mirror with a straight face anymore? Traitors. Traitors, every one of you, to allow this.
Who is the back-stabbing coward who is the democratically elected leader of our closest ally?

And "allow this"?

Does anyone have any idea what "this" is?

I have no idea what you're taking about.
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Old 06-13-2018, 11:06 PM
 
Location: The 719
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The complete idiots in the Fakestream Lamestream Blamestream Media, some of y'all, the Democrats, deepstate, etc. never saw Trump coming, just like they never saw the North Korea Summit coming.

Y'all waited around to see Trump embarrass himself or Kim Jung Un to call him a dotard... Remember that one?..., but Kim said, Let's move forward from the past.

Kim Jung Un is smarter and more classy than these media clowns, anti-American idiotic clowns.

We're shoving right down your throats and just wait until the IG Report... Tictoc... Tictoc...

President Trump gets the Report at 3:00 to 4:00 pm.

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Old 06-13-2018, 11:07 PM
 
Location: North Pacific
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Seeing is believing. But hey, if you all believe what these two are selling, I'm thinking I could get you all some really great real estate.
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Lol I wish we didn’t have to politicize everything today. Why can’t we just be excited at the prospect of something good potentially happening. Is that too much to ask in 2018?
That statement isn't politicizing ... have you ever played chess? It's a great game that one must use their strategy ... in order to win.
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Old 06-13-2018, 11:09 PM
 
Location: London
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I think he knows that vocally condemning him would obliterate all chances of diplomatic relations, but in knowing that, he overcompensated by taking the opposite approach.

He has a Google images-worthy case of "foot in mouth" disease, but I don't think he was trying to express admiration for NK's regime.
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Old 06-13-2018, 11:35 PM
 
Location: Caverns measureless to man...
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I think he knows that vocally condemning him would obliterate all chances of diplomatic relations, but in knowing that, he overcompensated by taking the opposite approach.

He has a Google images-worthy case of "foot in mouth" disease, but I don't think he was trying to express admiration for NK's regime.
Yet that's exactly what he DID express. When are people going to stop with the "he doesn't really mean what he says" excuses for this ignorant, barbaric lout?
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Old 06-14-2018, 12:17 AM
 
Location: My House
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Kim basically signed his own death warrant because now Trump has a license to destroy North Korea if Kim fails to impress with his denuking.
Trump can flatten North Korea and then say "You can't say I didn't give peace a chance...."
Either way Trump wins.
So... starting a war with NK is "winning?"

You realize this will cost American lives and likely destroy South Korea, right? To say nothing of the innocent civilians in NK that Kim is already starving to death.

And, that's not all, but I'll just leave it at that.
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Old 06-14-2018, 12:17 AM
 
Location: My House
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The complete idiots in the Fakestream Lamestream Blamestream Media, some of y'all, the Democrats, deepstate, etc. never saw Trump coming, just like they never saw the North Korea Summit coming.

Y'all waited around to see Trump embarrass himself or Kim Jung Un to call him a dotard... Remember that one?..., but Kim said, Let's move forward from the past.

Kim Jung Un is smarter and more classy than these media clowns, anti-American idiotic clowns.

We're shoving right down your throats and just wait until the IG Report... Tictoc... Tictoc...

President Trump gets the Report at 3:00 to 4:00 pm.
Of course we saw Trump coming. He was even more ridiculous than I anticipated, honestly.
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Old 06-14-2018, 12:18 AM
 
Location: My House
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How about if the two Koreas just decided to sign an armistice ending the Korean War right here and now ?

Would that not be the best outcome for everyone involved ?
Yes.
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