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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 04:57 AM Jun 2016

GOP Senators assure Asia that Trump won't actually do what he says he will do

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/south-korea-republican-senators-223800#ixzz4ARnQw9Jb

Just as pressure is mounting on Republican elected officials to fall in line behind Trump, Sens. Joni Ernst of Iowa, Cory Gardner of Colorado and Dan Sullivan of Alaska are in South Korea undercutting Trump's bluster with assurances that the U.S. is not about to renege on trade agreements or demand its allies pay more to support American forces on Korean soil.

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Gardner, the only one of the three senators on the four-country Asia tour who has yet to officially endorse Trump, also assured South Korea, one of the most important U.S. allies in the region, that America has no intention to renegotiate trade agreements, regardless of Trump's declarations that he will tear up the Trans-Pacific Partnership and negotiate a better deal for the U.S. as part of his "America first" foreign policy.
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Rex

(65,616 posts)
1. Asia says, 'rrrrrriiiiggggghhhttt' as it backs away slowly.
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 05:00 AM
Jun 2016

Looking for the nearest exit strategy.

 

Voice for Peace

(13,141 posts)
2. it's looking deadly certain that Trump's plan in his first 90 days is to dismantle the
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 05:09 AM
Jun 2016

Checks & Balances system, possibly delete the Senate altogether except
for a few people he decides to keep. The ones who love him.

He'll then be able to proceed unconstrained to launch a nuclear war,
destroy the world economy, have all dark skinned people except beautiful
women killed, have all unnattrative people resettled in Siberia; claim all
the national parks for himself and build mansions with golf courses on
all of them for private residences. He'll make the Chinese pay for it.
And he's going to fire the little guy in North Korea, take away his rockets.



 

Voice for Peace

(13,141 posts)
4. but he'll have already arrested and killed them all, according to some, so he won't be impeachable
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 05:36 AM
Jun 2016

He will find the One Ring that Rules them All and we are done done done

everything will turn dark and there will be Orcs with hair like Trump

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pampango

(24,692 posts)
6. That's quite a candidate you have there, GOP. The best you can say is that he is lying all the time.
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 07:00 AM
Jun 2016

That's a great thing to say about your chosen guy.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
7. the real comedy in all this...trump has never been controlled and watching the GOP
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 07:17 AM
Jun 2016

having to twist and turn in every direction is so frickin precious

 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
9. Obama pushed Fast Track through, which means limited debate, and means the TPP cannot
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 08:10 AM
Jun 2016

be changed, added to, or deleted from. He has enough GOP buddies and DINOs to push the TPP through right now, but evidently many are considering how the TPP looks to us inconsequential-except-for-votes-and-contributions voters.

They are not considering, not for an instant, whether the TPP will be bad for us, understand, but are considering how it may effect reelection.

Hillary traveled the world shilling for it, and called it the gold standard in her last book. Now she is trying to backtrack. I would imagine she is hoping Obama will push it through and sign it quickly, so she can panderingly criticize it. If she were president, she would sign it with a grin - Third Way triumph.

sendero

(28,552 posts)
10. And people wonder....
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 08:53 AM
Jun 2016

...why a certified goofball like Trump can mount a serious challenge to the establishment (HRC in this case).

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