Must admit if I were the Taiwanese government, I'd be sorely tempted to potter around quietly putting remote-control bombs in all the chip assembly lines. "Sure, China. Invade. Boom. Good luck getting new machines or spare parts from the Netherlands."
I think the whole arms buy was harmless. Drumpf thought he was the incarnation of Bob Barker and he was hosting the latest "The Price is Right" game show. Drumpf invited Xi to "Come on down!" and bid on certain items: a package of nine Patriot missiles first, then a new Drumpf-designed battleship. The final Grand Prize would be awarded Xi if he guessed the cost of a pair of new F-47 stealth fighters. Xi went over the actual costs so he didn't win anything this time, which is why the White House said there wouldn't be any arms sale. A new round of the game show will be coming up right after the mid-term elections.
Pfft. US law prohibits Trump from what? At least some Republicans back in the Nixon days had the courage to tell that bag of cat litter that he would be impeached.
Uhhhh, don't we freak out whenever some military hardware crashes near China because we don't want them to get our tech. I guess all our tech is free to the highest bidder now. No, no Bond. Stand down that's not Goldfinger selling US secrets, it's just the Trump version of "diplomacy".
Right in our faces. His Ambassador tells Fox entertainment that we offered to sell arms and then they come out saying Nuh Uh! Don’t you dare believe we would ever do that.
Don’t believe what your lying eyes and ears tell you.
Ta, Evan. I saw a video on bluesky yesterday of Ukrainians dismantling one of Russia's new and more deadly drones. They can fly higher and faster, and communicate with each other. Many of the parts were Chinese, but the motherboards were from fucking Texas Instruments.
We have to vote out all the fucking Republicans from every elected office, everywhere. Have you checked your voter registration? Please do so while there's time to fix it; deadlines for each state are available at iwillvote.com where you can also find your polling location. We *all* have to vote a straight Democratic ticket, and do our best to convince others of that. When we vote, we WIN!!
Can you just imagine the media shitstorm that would have ensued if it leaked that Obama or Biden had casually suggested selling our military technology to the Chinese? JFC.
Now? The press corpse reaction has been pretty much: Lol! Trump has dementia, so wev! Also, we wish he would let us back in to cover the White House, and even if he screams racist and sexist insults at us, it's cool.
Xi flew all the way to the U.S. to engage in elder abuse. Okay, Xi was invited to fly all the way to the U.S. to engage in elder abuse. Of course, give the elder in question, I would be fine with it if it didn't also mean fucking over the entire country.
So drumpf hates communists, whatever he thinks that word means, unless they have power; I guess we knew that already. He’ll even suck up a little to American “communists,” if they get elected mayor of New York or something. Let’s do that some more!
It’s the best way to achieve comity and bipartisan cons…😅
I suppose it's a waste of time to point out that "offering aid and comfort" to our enemy is the very fucking definition of treason, but I'll say it anyway.
Not necessarily. It only says "in time of war" without specifying which enemy. And the "war" in Korea never ended - there was an armistice and a de-militarized zone - but the "war" continues... These are times of war.
“US law prohibits arms sales to China and there is no offer or plan to sell arms to China.”
That's never stopped him before!
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Must admit if I were the Taiwanese government, I'd be sorely tempted to potter around quietly putting remote-control bombs in all the chip assembly lines. "Sure, China. Invade. Boom. Good luck getting new machines or spare parts from the Netherlands."
Scorched-earth tactics for the 21st century.
I think the whole arms buy was harmless. Drumpf thought he was the incarnation of Bob Barker and he was hosting the latest "The Price is Right" game show. Drumpf invited Xi to "Come on down!" and bid on certain items: a package of nine Patriot missiles first, then a new Drumpf-designed battleship. The final Grand Prize would be awarded Xi if he guessed the cost of a pair of new F-47 stealth fighters. Xi went over the actual costs so he didn't win anything this time, which is why the White House said there wouldn't be any arms sale. A new round of the game show will be coming up right after the mid-term elections.
"US law prohibits . . . "
Pfft. US law prohibits Trump from what? At least some Republicans back in the Nixon days had the courage to tell that bag of cat litter that he would be impeached.
The cool thing is Xi heard Trump say it and his profile on what a dangerous fool Trump is just got a hell of a lot more enriched.
"Turns out they're not eating our lunchhhh!"
Hair Furor always wets his beak with arm sales. That's all this is about really. His relentless greed.
Uhhhh, don't we freak out whenever some military hardware crashes near China because we don't want them to get our tech. I guess all our tech is free to the highest bidder now. No, no Bond. Stand down that's not Goldfinger selling US secrets, it's just the Trump version of "diplomacy".
Right in our faces. His Ambassador tells Fox entertainment that we offered to sell arms and then they come out saying Nuh Uh! Don’t you dare believe we would ever do that.
Don’t believe what your lying eyes and ears tell you.
When Trump offered to sell Xi American weapons, he was just teasing.
Ah, yes, the old, “I was just making a joke”.
Ta, Evan. I saw a video on bluesky yesterday of Ukrainians dismantling one of Russia's new and more deadly drones. They can fly higher and faster, and communicate with each other. Many of the parts were Chinese, but the motherboards were from fucking Texas Instruments.
We have to vote out all the fucking Republicans from every elected office, everywhere. Have you checked your voter registration? Please do so while there's time to fix it; deadlines for each state are available at iwillvote.com where you can also find your polling location. We *all* have to vote a straight Democratic ticket, and do our best to convince others of that. When we vote, we WIN!!
O goody. China is undermining us on two fronts. Do Xi and Putin facetime and toast each other every day for taking down America?
(… palms face…)
I figure at the climax of this farce he winds up swinging from a rope he sold.
A fitting end, I hope we get to see it.
Can you just imagine the media shitstorm that would have ensued if it leaked that Obama or Biden had casually suggested selling our military technology to the Chinese? JFC.
Now? The press corpse reaction has been pretty much: Lol! Trump has dementia, so wev! Also, we wish he would let us back in to cover the White House, and even if he screams racist and sexist insults at us, it's cool.
Xi flew all the way to the U.S. to engage in elder abuse. Okay, Xi was invited to fly all the way to the U.S. to engage in elder abuse. Of course, give the elder in question, I would be fine with it if it didn't also mean fucking over the entire country.
So drumpf hates communists, whatever he thinks that word means, unless they have power; I guess we knew that already. He’ll even suck up a little to American “communists,” if they get elected mayor of New York or something. Let’s do that some more!
It’s the best way to achieve comity and bipartisan cons…😅
Okay I’ll stop.
He kicked out the press and now he's having attention withdrawal.
I have had to stop explaining to folk what the words 'socialism' and 'communism' actually mean.
I suppose it's a waste of time to point out that "offering aid and comfort" to our enemy is the very fucking definition of treason, but I'll say it anyway.
We would have to be in a declared war with China for it to actually be treason, IIRC.
Not necessarily. It only says "in time of war" without specifying which enemy. And the "war" in Korea never ended - there was an armistice and a de-militarized zone - but the "war" continues... These are times of war.