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MyOwnPeace

(16,927 posts)
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 06:54 PM Jun 2020

BunkerBoy is all Bluff and Bullshit!

Today's column from Dana Milbank shows a history of BunkerBoy's threats and outcomes:

"Friends and foes alike have learned that his threats are hollow. When Trump in 2018 threatened Iran with “CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED,” the Iranian president said there was no need to respond to “empty threats.” North Korea continues its nuclear program without Trump’s threatened “fire and fury.” During trade negotiations, Trump said a deal with China was contingent on respecting Hong Kong’s status. China made the trade deal and is now quashing Hong Kong’s autonomy.

When Trump declared that “American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China,” nobody paid him much mind. And when Trump said he has “the absolute right” to send illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities and “we hereby demand” that they be taken in, states and cities ignored him, and nothing came of it."


More here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/02/spiraling-nation-cries-out-steady-leadership-trump-offers-empty-threats/?utm_campaign=wp_follow_dana_milbank&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_danamilbank

Nothing but BULLSHIT - and a RepubliCon Party surrounding him and letting him get away with it (yeah, I'm talking to YOU, Moscow Mitch McTurtle!!!).

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BunkerBoy is all Bluff and Bullshit! (Original Post) MyOwnPeace Jun 2020 OP
I hope so Mike 03 Jun 2020 #1
He's a physical coward. 11 Bravo Jun 2020 #2
THAT is not a vision...... MyOwnPeace Jun 2020 #3

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
1. I hope so
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 06:57 PM
Jun 2020

He's made good on a lot of threats too, for example shutting down the government in December 2018, sending troops to the border, and yanking our troops out of Syria and leaving the Kurds to be slaughtered by the Turks, and getting "his revenge" following the Impeachment trial in the senate by firing exceptional public servants, and declaring an emergency to build parts of his shitty wall, and blowing up a national monument here in Arizona to build it, and revoking Top Secret clearances from great patriots, and rolling back four decades of environmental protections, and so forth.

But of course I hope he's bluffing about this.

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