View Full Version : President Trump Lacks Intelligence.....No Really....
Nbadan
12-09-2016, 04:39 PM
See no evil, hear no evil: Donald Trump is turning away his intelligence briefings
Source: Salon
Donald Trump has a disturbing habit of declining his daily intelligence briefings, and that’s causing politicians to be concerned.
“We find it particularly troubling that President-elect Trump has mostly declined to take the daily intelligence briefing,” wrote Sens. Ben Cardin of Maryland and Dianne Feinstein of California, both Democrats, in an editorial for USA Today on Thursday. “Presidents and presidents-elect going back decades have begun their day this way — understanding national security threats and opportunities, asking probing questions, and making tough decisions.”
The senators continue, “The information and analysis that our intelligence community provides to decision-makers is invaluable for developing a full and nuanced picture of the world.”
Read more: https://www.salon.com/2016/12/09/see-no-evil-hear-no-evil-donald-trump-is-turning-away-his-intelligence-briefings/
Oh yeah, this is gonna go well....anyone remember the last President to ignore intelligence briefings...hmmmm....
tlongII
12-09-2016, 04:48 PM
lol salon
lol salon
Does it make it any less true coming from somewhere else? I mean, point me to your favorite news site. It will probably be there as well.
SnakeBoy
12-09-2016, 06:09 PM
Report: Obama Has Missed over Half His Second-Term Daily Intel Briefings
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/09/29/report-obama-has-missed-over-half-his-second-term-daily-intel-briefings/
Report: Obama Has Missed over Half His Second-Term Daily Intel Briefings
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/09/29/report-obama-has-missed-over-half-his-second-term-daily-intel-briefings/
:lol Breitbart always does this counter bullshit stories.
:cry but but Obama also missed meetings.
Work out the differences..
CosmicCowboy
12-09-2016, 06:14 PM
Report: Obama Has Missed over Half His Second-Term Daily Intel Briefings
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/09/29/report-obama-has-missed-over-half-his-second-term-daily-intel-briefings/
Don't worry. He watches CNN.
TheSanityAnnex
12-09-2016, 06:20 PM
:lol Breitbart always does this counter bullshit stories.
:cry but but Obama also missed meetings.
Work out the differences..
How did they do a counter story for Trump over two years ago?
How did they do a counter story for Trump over two years ago?
Generally speaking. They have been doing this for over a year now.
For example a couple of weeks ago it was that Trump wanted to put people in jail for burning the flag. A day later, they came out with an article about Hillary wanting the same in defense of Trump.
Always with the but but excuse.
TheSanityAnnex
12-09-2016, 06:45 PM
Generally speaking. They have been doing this for over a year now.
For example a couple of weeks ago it was that Trump wanted to put people in jail for burning the flag. A day later, they came out with an article about Hillary wanting the same in defense of Trump.
Always with the but but excuse.
You weren't generally speaking though, the article you quoted was not a counter story to the OP. Even funnier you did this in a thread about lacking intelligence.
You weren't generally speaking though, the article you quoted was not a counter story to the OP. Even funnier you did this in a thread about lacking intelligence.
How would you know I wasn't? You're always trying to tell people what they mean when they post. Stick to pedo posting TSA. You're not going to drag me down to one of your inane arguements. Your shtick is a tired and boring one.
TheSanityAnnex
12-09-2016, 06:57 PM
How would you know I wasn't? You're always trying to tell people what they mean when they post. Stick to pedo posting TSA. You're not going to drag me down to one of your inane arguements. Your shtick is a tired and boring one.
Did you know the article you quoted was over two years old?
Generally speaking. They have been doing this for over a year now.
For example a couple of weeks ago it was that Trump wanted to put people in jail for burning the flag. A day later, they came out with an article about Hillary wanting the same in defense of Trump.
Always with the but but excuse.
lol gas lighting in the political forum. You're a coward.
Generally speaking. They have been doing this for over a year now.
For example a couple of weeks ago it was that Trump wanted to put people in jail for burning the flag. A day later, they came out with an article about Hillary wanting the same in defense of Trump.
Always with the but but excuse.
Lol you just called out someone for lol saloning only to lol breitbart in very slightly less obvious way.
And always with the puffy holier than thou deflection, too. Basically calling out one partisan hack for calling out your partisan hack because they called out your partisan hack for calling out their partisan hack... . . . . ...
Spurminator
12-09-2016, 09:02 PM
Missing a daily status update is a little more understandable when you've been on the job for a while. For the most part, you're caught up, and most days probably don't contain drastic changes in intelligence. Any pertinent issues would still make their way to the President. It's not like they're going to put off urgent issues of national security because they didn't have their daily briefing.
lol @ comparing it to starting a new job and needing to get caught up on everything going on. Especially when you're starting from scratch (likely worse than scratch.)
boutons_deux
12-09-2016, 09:07 PM
Missing a daily status update is a little more understandable when you've been on the job for a while. For the most part, you're caught up, and most days probably don't contain drastic changes in intelligence. Any pertinent issues would still make their way to the President. It's not like they're going to put off urgent issues of national security because they didn't have their daily briefing.
lol @ comparing it to starting a new job and needing to get caught up on everything going on. Especially when you're starting from scratch (likely worse than scratch.)
Trash is too busy giving his conned supporters a chance to adulate him on his "Love Me Again!" tour to think about NatSec, ISIS, etc.
Trash is all about, above ALL ELSE Trash himself, not about USA.
TeyshaBlue
12-09-2016, 10:06 PM
Missing a daily status update is a little more understandable when you've been on the job for a while. For the most part, you're caught up, and most days probably don't contain drastic changes in intelligence. Any pertinent issues would still make their way to the President. It's not like they're going to put off urgent issues of national security because they didn't have their daily briefing.
lol @ comparing it to starting a new job and needing to get caught up on everything going on. Especially when you're starting from scratch (likely worse than scratch.)
The dude is behind scratch. This is a real problem in that it points to a very narcissistic viewpoint...(I don't need anytime to tell me what I already know).
Clipper Nation
12-09-2016, 10:09 PM
Salon = fake news.
Spurminator
12-09-2016, 10:11 PM
Yeah I don't know why I qualified this with "likely." This is a guy whose literacy of current events is, at its BEST, illustrated by tweets that are predictably timed following FOX News segments on the topic of his tweet... at worst, illustrated by a propensity to take InfoWars news as fact.
TheSanityAnnex
12-09-2016, 10:16 PM
Yeah I don't know why I qualified this with "likely." This is a guy whose literacy of current events is, at its BEST, illustrated by tweets that are predictably timed following FOX News segments on the topic of his tweet... at worst, illustrated by a propensity to take InfoWars news as fact.
Would it be better if he read the Washington Post?
Spurminator
12-09-2016, 10:17 PM
Would it be better if he read the Washington Post?
Well, yeah, that would be better than InfoWars.... but ideally it would be intelligence briefings and a balanced variety of news sources.
pgardn
12-09-2016, 10:22 PM
Trump better do a lot of delegating then.
Even though there is a lot about his personality I don't like, he certainly is not stupid. Definitely a compelling, interesting fellow. This will be a unique 4 years. So far he is all over the place. I am becoming more convinced that calling him a Republican is not a good fit.
TeyshaBlue
12-09-2016, 10:23 PM
Well, yeah, that would be better than InfoWars.... but ideally it would be intelligence briefings.
They should conduct them on twitter.... he'd be all over that.
pgardn
12-09-2016, 10:29 PM
Would it be better if he read the Washington Post?
I guarantee you he reads both the Washington Post and the NYTimes. They have things to say about him and both have reputations as very good on foreign affairs. He has already admitted to the editor on the NYTimes he thought it was perhaps the best paper in the world. NPR interview. But also that the NYTimes had been rough on him. The editor told him that he considered this doing their job. NYTimes got plenty of flack from Hillary dems about the Clinton foundation. By far the most legit story on the type of people and cronyism within this organization along with conflict of interest.
boutons_deux
12-09-2016, 10:40 PM
"both have reputations as very good on foreign affairs"
yep, both hyped the Repug LIES justifying invading Iraq for BigOil
TheSanityAnnex
12-09-2016, 10:48 PM
Well, yeah, that would be better than InfoWars.... but ideally it would be intelligence briefings and a balanced variety of news sources.
WaPo has sunk to the level of InfoWars, possibly worse since InfoWars has always been a joke.
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgracefully-promotes-a-mccarthyite-blacklist-from-a-new-hidden-and-very-shady-group/
TheSanityAnnex
12-09-2016, 10:50 PM
I guarantee you he reads both the Washington Post and the NYTimes. They have things to say about him and both have reputations as very good on foreign affairs.
:lol https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgracefully-promotes-a-mccarthyite-blacklist-from-a-new-hidden-and-very-shady-group/
Nbadan
12-09-2016, 10:53 PM
They should conduct them on twitter.... he'd be all over that.
:lol
Spurminator
12-09-2016, 10:54 PM
We get it, you have it out for the Post... Shit, you've shared that Intercept article like a dozen times.
That's why a variety of sources is important. WaPo has been rightfully called out on it. Rogue sites that regularly publish poorly sourced, and sometimes altogether fake, news don't have the same accountability filters.
Nbadan
12-09-2016, 10:55 PM
The dude is behind scratch. This is a real problem in that it points to a very narcissistic viewpoint...(I don't need anytime to tell me what I already know).
Ths statement which he made the he was smarter than the Generals kinda lends to that narrative too...
TheSanityAnnex
12-09-2016, 10:57 PM
We get it, you have it out for the Post... Shit, you've shared that Intercept article like a dozen times.
That's why a variety of sources is important. WaPo has been rightfully called out on it. Rogue sites that regularly publish poorly sourced, and sometimes altogether fake, news don't have the same accountability filters.
Probably like 5 times, but the opportunity was there for the taking. And the NYT is no better these days. Mainstream media is in its death throes, it's a beautiful thing to watch.
Spurminator
12-09-2016, 11:00 PM
Probably like 5 times, but the opportunity was there for the taking. And the NYT is no better these days. Mainstream media is in its death throes, it's a beautiful thing to watch.
NYT and WaPo will be fine for a long time. Sorry to burst your post-truth bubble.
pgardn
12-09-2016, 11:01 PM
:lol https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgracefully-promotes-a-mccarthyite-blacklist-from-a-new-hidden-and-very-shady-group/
Theintercept
"If you want the truth, don't ask the official sources"
Right up your crock o shit alley..
florige
12-09-2016, 11:01 PM
Ths statement which he made the he was smarter than the Generals kinda lends to that narrative too...
Maybe he really plans on Pence running the show officially while he runs around the country using the Presidency as a marketing tool. More and more it seems like he has no real interest in being Pres. Seems to me he had more fun campaigning. Now he seems like he can't get out of campaign mode . Lol
pgardn
12-09-2016, 11:02 PM
Probably like 5 times, but the opportunity was there for the taking. And the NYT is no better these days. Mainstream media is in its death throes, it's a beautiful thing to watch.
Sure thing pizza guy...
Nbadan
12-09-2016, 11:06 PM
Maybe he really plans on Pence running the show officially while he runs around the country using the Presidency as a marketing tool. More and more it seems like he has no real interest in being Pres. Seems to me he had more fun campaigning. Now he seems like he can't get out of campaign mode . Lol
Let's hope that Pence is no Dick Cheney if this is true...
Nbadan
12-09-2016, 11:11 PM
Seriously, Obama never lacked in information before he made decisions....the decisions he made may be questionable, but not the lack of information he based his decision on...Trump did not know, or care to understand, the nuanced relationship between China-the US-Taiwan...
boutons_deux
12-09-2016, 11:33 PM
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TheSanityAnnex
12-09-2016, 11:43 PM
Theintercept
"If you want the truth, don't ask the official sources"
Right up your crock o shit alley..now the intercept is shit? :lol
Hmmm....Glenn Greenwald or pedophile protector CEO NYT Mark Thompson
Hmmm....Glenn Greenwald or the WaPo and PropOrNot
Spurminator
12-09-2016, 11:57 PM
now the intercept is shit? :lol
Here's an Intercept article you'll enjoy.
https://theintercept.com/2016/12/06/disinformation-not-fake-news-got-trump-elected/
an online conspiracy theory for which there is no evidence — that the restaurant is a front for child sex abuse involving Hillary Clinton
The gunman, Edgar M. Welch, surrendered after telling the police (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/05/us/document-Edgar-Welch-Criminal-Complaint-Comet-Ping-Pong.html?_r=0) that he had discovered that there were no child sex slaves being held at the pizza place, Comet Ping Pong, despite the lurid fantasies he had read online about a made-up scandal known as “PizzaGate (https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/fever-swamp-election?utm_term=.bbaGd9AXM#.djyxoWZgQ),” which surfaced just before Election Day.
Those who had worked diligently to spread the hoax — and others who had a hard time accepting that it was obviously not true — had by Sunday night started to claim that Welch himself was part of the plot.
Flynn’s willingness to adopt the default position of conspiracy theorists — demanding that the rest of us prove that the wild fantasies they have concocted without evidence are not true — matters
but it is important to realize that the phenomenon we are confronting here is not simply fake news of the sort peddled for profit by apolitical entrepreneurs (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11/17/facebook-fake-news-writer-i-think-donald-trump-is-in-the-white-house-because-of-me/?utm_term=.fa9029df5f5b) on Facebook. This is something different: a hoax created and released into the darker reaches of the internet for the express purpose of damaging the reputation of the Democratic candidate for the presidency.
Thread
12-10-2016, 12:01 AM
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the old tired ass list:::he's a Nazi, he's a racist, he's a fascist, he's a racist, he's a liar, he's a racist...on & on.
You didn't get it. You thought you was gonna get it, but, you did not get it.
ha, ha.
boutons_deux
12-11-2016, 07:22 PM
Trump says it’s OK if he skips intelligence briefings because he’s ‘a smart person’
Trump said he gets briefings “when I need it” because
“I don’t have to be told — you know, I’m, like, a smart person. I don’t have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years.
Could be eight years — but eight years. I don’t need that.”
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-intelligence-briefings-smart-person-82553641164c#.lkgpg477d
He's already counting on, or just expecting, 8 years? :lol
Here's an Intercept article you'll enjoy.
https://theintercept.com/2016/12/06/disinformation-not-fake-news-got-trump-elected/
Oooooh the darknet.. heavy shit.
StrengthAndHonor
12-11-2016, 09:34 PM
:lol Breitbart always does this counter bullshit stories.
:cry but but Obama also missed meetings.
Work out the differences..
How did they do a counter story for Trump over two years ago?
Reck is such a dumbass, I really mean it.
Thread
12-12-2016, 10:27 AM
He's already counting on, or just expecting, 8 years? :lol
He's adorable. Tells that story about election nite when the kids were calling him. "Dad, it doesn't look good." LMAO!!!
SnakeBoy
12-12-2016, 07:38 PM
:lol Breitbart always does this counter bullshit stories.
:cry but but Obama also missed meetings.
Work out the differences..
:lol
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/75/09/12/75091244e53ab5e646e867e888e1f701.jpg
boutons_deux
12-13-2016, 11:51 AM
PUTIN AGREES TO RECEIVE INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS IN TRUMP’S PLACE
http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Borowitz-PutinAgreestoReceiveIntelligenceBriefingsinTrumpsP lace-1200.jpg
NEW YORK — In what Donald Trump’s transition-team members are calling a further example of international coöperation (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-to-split-time-between-trump-tower-and-kremlin), Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to receive daily U.S. intelligence briefings in the place of the President-elect.
Trump, who had earlier decided that he did not need the briefings and had assigned Vice-President-elect Mike Pence to receive them, said on Tuesday that Putin was a “much better choice.”
“No offense to Mike, but Vladimir Putin is just a terrific, terrific guy to do this,” he said. “He knows all the players.”
Trump said that, while he was “totally uninterested” in receiving the briefings, Putin appeared to be “extremely interested.”
“He’s just terrific,” he said.
Trump also touted his deal-making prowess in securing the Russian President’s services.
“The American people are getting an amazing deal here,” he said. “Putin is doing this totally for free.”
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/putin-agrees-to-receive-intelligence-briefings-in-trumps-place?intcid=mod-latest
Clipper Nation
12-13-2016, 11:53 AM
Does this Borowitz hack pay you to spam every single one of his unfunny "satire" (read: "butthurt masquerading as humor") articles on here?
spurraider21
12-13-2016, 09:17 PM
:lmao...
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15390975_1908095906077281_5127767420841599105_n.pn g?oh=bb7d5b67a7a78cca617749d3b07ebe42&oe=58B8A24C
spurraider21
12-15-2016, 02:33 AM
Clipper Nation
boutons_deux
12-15-2016, 08:31 AM
Does this Borowitz hack pay you to spam every single one of his unfunny "satire" (read: "butthurt masquerading as humor") articles on here?
fooled ya again,huh? :lol
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