I've decided I don't want to be within 100 miles of Whollary Clinton on January 20, 2017.

Just in case she goes Yellowstone Volcano.

I'm listening to Kilmead and Friends on the radio and he just said that USMC General "Mad Dog" Mattis is being vetted, possibly for secretary of defense...

Tony.

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Originally posted by cjevans:

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Originally posted by thumperfbc:
On Sunday one of the Deputies at my agency was executed by a tweaker with a contact shot to the head (after first catching a round in the throat).

President Trump called the now widow to pay respects and offer condolences.

No word from the current squarer in the White House. Maybe tomorrow, eh?

... ar crap thumper ... condolences to the widow and for losing the 20 year vet. Hope you catch the dirtbag; or maybe his Kia will fail him and you catch him ...

Shit...my deepest sympathies

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Originally posted by benny6:
I'm listening to Kilmead and Friends on the radio and he just said that USMC General "Mad Dog" Mattis is being vetted, possibly for secretary of defense...

Somehow I suspect that the Iranians would quickly become more compliant and friendly if this were to happen.

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Originally posted by Tonyny:

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Originally posted by cjevans:

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Originally posted by thumperfbc:
On Sunday one of the Deputies at my agency was executed by a tweaker with a contact shot to the head (after first catching a round in the throat).

President Trump called the now widow to pay respects and offer condolences.

No word from the current squarer in the White House. Maybe tomorrow, eh?

... ar crap thumper ... condolences to the widow and for losing the 20 year vet. Hope you catch the dirtbag; or maybe his Kia will fail him and you catch him ...

Shit...my deepest sympathies

You, the fallen and their families have my sincerest condolences. Prayers and comforting thoughts out...

Tony.

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Originally posted by benny6:
I'm listening to Kilmead and Friends on the radio and he just said that USMC General "Mad Dog" Mattis is being vetted, possibly for secretary of defense...

Tony.

that would be fun - he'd need a waiver, as he only retired in 2013.

Solid signal to the perfumed princes that the US military is going back to fundamentals.

Plus - for all his "mad dog" reputation, the other aspect is that Mattis during his service years was considered something of an intellectual among the upper ranks, with his personal library numbering more than a thousand volumes. Major General Robert H. Scales (ret.)(PhD), described him as "....one of the most urbane and polished men I have known." Reinforcing this intellectual persona was the fact that he carried on his person a copy of the "Meditations of Marcus Aurelius" throughout his deployments.

He is nicknamed "The Warrior Monk" because he devoted his life to studying and fighting war.

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Originally posted by TigerDore:
I think you have him read correctly.

In that spirit, I remember Reagan was famous for having drinks with Tip O'Neill after 5pm. They supposedly put aside partisanship after hours and built a relationship of mutual respect.
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And the mutual personal affection between Scalia and Ginsberg.

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Originally posted by benny6:
I'm listening to Kilmead and Friends on the radio and he just said that USMC General "Mad Dog" Mattis is being vetted, possibly for secretary of defense...

Tony.

You remember all of Trump's references to Patton and MacArthur during the campaign? Well, here are some seemingly like-minded quotes from Gen. "Mad Dog" Mattis . . .

1. “I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.”
(San Diego Union Tribune)

2. “The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot.”
(Business Insider)

3. “I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all.”
(San Diego Union Tribune)

4. “Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they’re so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.”
(San Diego Union Tribune)

5. “Marines don’t know how to spell the word defeat.”
(Business Insider)

6. “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”
(San Diego Union Tribune)

7. “The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.”
(San Diego Union Tribune)

8. “You are part of the world’s most feared and trusted force. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.”
(Mattis’ Letter To 1st Marine Division)

9. “There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.”
(Business Insider)

10. “No war is over until the enemy says it’s over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.”
(Defense News)

11. “There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.”
(San Diego Union Tribune)

12. “You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it’s going to be bad.”
(San Diego Union Tribune)

13. “You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. Actually it’s quite fun to fight them, you know. It’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right up there with you. I like brawling.”
(CNN)

14. “I’m going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.”
(San Diego Union Tribune)

15. “Demonstrate to the world there is ‘No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy’ than a U.S. Marine.”
(Mattis’ Letter To 1st Marine Division)

16. “Fight with a happy heart and strong spirit”
(Mattis’ Letter To 1st Marine Division)

Link

Although I have never been able to find the original source reference, Patton is credited with saying, "“Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.” The left seems cynical about the courage and grit of things like Mad Dog's statements. Pssst . . . how long should this kind of stuff be kept from the snowflakes? If Trump's victory took them to Play-Doh, this would surely send them to a pacifier and womb-wrapping.

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Savor the victory, and save your indignation for people with triple digit IQs.

Perfect!

"Peter Thiel and others working on the Donald Trump transition have launched a secret database called the 'Plum List' to screen out disloyal Trump administration applicants and recruit prospective hires from outside the traditional Beltway channels, sources tell the DailyMail.com.

Insiders said the Plum List, which is being run outside of the official Trump transition, will serve as a central database to help wade through the thousands of incoming applications and identify key talent.

Sources said the list is being spearheaded by Thiel, who was appointed to a top spot on Trump's transition team last Friday. …"

https://www.google.com/amp/www...outside-Beltway.html

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Originally posted by entropy:
Which is one of the main reasons we should go nuclear on these folks in the legislature and courts. We will NEVER again have such an opportunity. They have clearly shown their disdain for this Country, its people, and the Constitution. Its time we took off the gloves. Vanquish these idiots. Drive them into the dustbin of socialist failures. I want to see Reid and Pelosi's faces on milk cartons in the Senate cafateria.

This is especially true as regards the court appointments. We need to purge the federal courts of the liberal nut-job judges at every opportunity and appoint conservatives who will be on the bench for a generation.

24/7 LIVE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...15pC5CU2FNWjcpLxqHtQ
This will help you relax for the next 62 days till that pos leave.

looked up some details of Mike Pompeo (selected for CIA Director)

Mike Pompeo 52 y.o.
Graduate West Point (first in class 1986)
Army 1986-1991

Harvard Law School

House Representative from Kansas (2011 to now)
Member of Tea Party movement within the Rep Party

Committees:
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Committee on Energy and Commerce
Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade
Subcommittee on Energy and Power
Subcommittee on the CIA
House Select Committee on the Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi

Pompeo is a lifetime member of the NRA

A Trump Doctrine — ‘America First’


By Patrick J. Buchanan

However Donald Trump came upon the foreign policy views he espoused, they were as crucial to his election as his views on trade and the border.

Yet those views are hemlock to the GOP foreign policy elite and the liberal Democratic interventionists of the Acela Corridor.

Trump promised an “America First” foreign policy rooted in the national interest, not in nostalgia. The neocons insist that every Cold War and post-Cold War commitment be maintained, in perpetuity.

On Sunday’s “60 Minutes,” Trump said: “You know, we’ve been fighting this war for 15 years. … We’ve spent $6 trillion in the Middle East, $6 trillion — we could have rebuilt our country twice. And you look at our roads and our bridges and our tunnels … and our airports are … obsolete.”

Yet the War Party has not had enough of war, not nearly.

They want to confront Vladimir Putin, somewhere, anywhere. They want to send U.S. troops to the eastern Baltic. They want to send weapons to Kiev to fight Russia in Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea.

They want to establish a no-fly zone and shoot down Syrian and Russian planes that violate it, acts of war Congress never authorized.

They want to trash the Iran nuclear deal, though all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies told us, with high confidence, in 2007 and 2011, Iran did not even have a nuclear weapons program.

Other hardliners want to face down Beijing over its claims to the reefs and rocks of the South China Sea, though our Manila ally is talking of tightening ties to China and kicking us out of Subic Bay.

In none of these places is there a U.S. vital interest so imperiled as to justify the kind of war the War Party would risk.

Trump has the opportunity to be the president who, like Harry Truman, redirected U.S. foreign policy for a generation.

After World War II, we awoke to find our wartime ally, Stalin, had emerged as a greater enemy than Germany or Japan. Stalin’s empire stretched from the Elbe to the Pacific.

In 1949, suddenly, he had the atom bomb, and China, the most populous nation on earth, had fallen to the armies of Mao Zedong.

As our situation was new, Truman acted anew. He adopted a George Kennan policy of containment of the world Communist empire, the Truman Doctrine, and sent an army to prevent South Korea from being overrun.

At the end of the Cold War, however, with the Soviet Empire history and the Soviet Union having disintegrated, George H.W. Bush launched his New World Order. His son, George W., invaded Iraq and preached a global crusade for democracy “to end tyranny in our world.”

A policy born of hubris.

Result: the Mideast disaster Trump described to Lesley Stahl, and constant confrontations with Russia caused by pushing our NATO alliance right up to and inside what had been Putin’s country.

How did we expect Russian patriots to react?

The opportunity is at hand for Trump to reconfigure U.S. foreign policy to the world we now inhabit, and to the vital interests of the United States.

What should Trump say?

“As our Cold War presidents from Truman to Reagan avoided World War III, I intend to avert Cold War II. We do not regard Russia or the Russian people as enemies of the United States, and we will work with President Putin to ease the tensions that have arisen between us.

“For our part, NATO expansion is over, and U.S. forces will not be deployed in any former republic of the Soviet Union.

“While Article 5 of NATO imposes an obligation to regard an attack upon any one of 28 nations as an attack on us all, in our Constitution, Congress, not some treaty dating back to before most Americans were even born, decides whether we go to war.

“The compulsive interventionism of recent decades is history. How nations govern themselves is their own business. While, as JFK said, we prefer democracies and republics to autocrats and dictators, we will base our attitude toward other nations upon their attitude toward us.

“No other nation’s internal affairs are a vital interest of ours.

“Europeans have to be awakened to reality. We are not going to be forever committed to fighting their wars. They are going to have to defend themselves, and that transition begins now.

“In Syria and Iraq, our enemies are al-Qaida and ISIS. We have no intention of bringing down the Assad regime, as that would open the door to Islamic terrorists. We have learned from Iraq and Libya.”

Then Trump should move expeditiously to lay out and fix the broad outlines of his foreign policy, which entails rebuilding our military while beginning the cancellation of war guarantees that have no connection to U.S. vital interests. We cannot continue to bankrupt ourselves to fight other countries’ wars or pay other countries’ bills.

The ideal time for such a declaration, a Trump Doctrine, is when the president-elect presents his secretaries of state and defense.

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:

Plus - for all his "mad dog" reputation, the other aspect is that Mattis during his service years was considered something of an intellectual among the upper ranks, with his personal library numbering more than a thousand volumes. Major General Robert H. Scales (ret.)(PhD), described him as "....one of the most urbane and polished men I have known." Reinforcing this intellectual persona was the fact that he carried on his person a copy of the "Meditations of Marcus Aurelius" throughout his deployments.

He is nicknamed "The Warrior Monk" because he devoted his life to studying and fighting war.

Good edit. A fellow of the Pacific Council on International Policy wrote, “Patton was incredibly well-read, probably the most historically well-read officer the Army has ever produced . . ..” Link Yet, Patton was very aggressive on the battlefield and did not mince words.

When Trump referenced Patton and MacArthur, he did so in the context of ISIS and his preference for generals who would engage hard. General Mattis fits that description.

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How would you propose to accomplish that?

Support term limits, write your senators and congressmen and ask them to support a bill that would provide for term limits of course they will have to agree to self terminate basically but why not ask.

While we'll lose some R the D will lose the hard core leftist entrenched power people, they will have to put in new people, as will we and perhaps in 20 years it will settle down and become a reasonable congress vs two divided congress parties hell bent on destroying each other because they are led around by entrenched establishment problem people.

Long live the Mad Dog, long live the USA.

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Originally posted by benny6:
I'm listening to Kilmead and Friends on the radio and he just said that USMC General "Mad Dog" Mattis is being vetted, possibly for secretary of defense...

Tony.

Trump is going to make a lot of vets happy with that pick if it happens.

Let the Russkies contemplate that for a bit.

Savoring the victory.




Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmnOJSUkjrA