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Trump talks like a strongman. Good thing he’s governing like a weak man: Analysis | Toronto Star

 

It appears Usain had a false start on this one. He'll be back with a fair enough.

 

Seems like an important detail:

Memo reveals details of Hillary Clinton-DNC deal

 

No, but ... why would there be?

 

Isn't that the pretext of the GOP's desire to cut the corporate tax rate?

 

One of the frustrating things about the whole Bergdahl saga: the amount of bullshit swirling around it is staggering. What Bergdahl did is indefensible, but people made up a whole story to try to make it worse.

Right off the top of that article it alleges that (a) Bergdahl was trying to defect to the Taliban and (b) six Americans died searching for him. Both allegations are false.

No one even remotely close to Bergdahl -- even those who hate him -- think he was defecting. He was trying to hike to a camp 20 miles away to report what he felt was inappropriate behavior by his superior officers. And there has never been an American death even tangentially tied to his disappearance. Every time someone tries to argue there is, the argument turns into "well, we were told to keep an eye out for him while on our regular missions, and someone died on the mission, so it's Bergdahl's fault." It's a fake argument. He undeniably put them in a very dangerous spot, but no one died looking for him.

I'm not particularly defending Bergdahl, and I'm not entirely sure what I think of the sentence. At the very best, Bergdahl was a complete idiot, hopelessly naive, and put his fellow soldiers at risk. He also was fully unfit to serve in the Army, which the Army absolutely knew when he enlisted -- he has just gotten kicked out of Coast Guard boot camp when he had a complete mental breakdown. They took him anyway.

Because of what he did, he was held captive and tortured by the Taliban for 5 years. He loses his veteran benefits. He's a pariah. I'm not sure anything is served by a prison sentence, but the arguments in favor of one are certainly valid.

That the Commander in Chief is trying to disrupt the process is reprehensible.

 

Maybe that's how it's being sold. That's not why it'd be a good idea.

 

It is totally how it's being sold, because tax cuts for corporations are very unpopular on their own. Not arguing their merit or lack of same, but they poll like cholera.

 

Why would it be a good idea?

 

Cleaning up a shitpile of deadwood in the economy.