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Leghorn21

(13,526 posts)
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 08:34 PM Apr 2017

Malcolm Nance tweet from a few hours ago re: North Korea

@MalcolmNance

1. Last 24 hours seen 3 major intell indicators of escalating US threat to strike NK. Haley's threat, UNSC & Senate to WH. Trouble inbound.
1:14 PM - 24 Apr 2017

https://mobile.twitter.com/MalcolmNance/status/856664623185108992?p=v

He was dead-on about Syria strikes...just a heads up, my friends, and hopefully all stays copacetic...

- - update of sorts - Obsessively checking his feed, of course; quiet for now, but i just found that he posted this a couple hours before the above:


@MalcolmNance

#BREAKING This unprecedented briefing on NK is a grave indicator of poss imminent action by US. Will Trump ask for war powers to attack? twitter.com/reuterspolitic…

11:37 AM - 24 Apr 2017

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Malcolm Nance tweet from a few hours ago re: North Korea (Original Post) Leghorn21 Apr 2017 OP
This is REALLY FUCKING BAD onecaliberal Apr 2017 #1
Oh yeah, no doubt about it. He and his team are guilty of espionage, Eliot Rosewater Apr 2017 #26
This doesn't bode well GP6971 Apr 2017 #2
Duck and cover time? GliderGuider Apr 2017 #3
Just a really bad strategy to keep Gov. from shutting down MedusaX Apr 2017 #4
hopefully the senators leave the white house mopinko Apr 2017 #5
this dweller Apr 2017 #6
We just fucking never learn! nikibatts Apr 2017 #7
The pressure of 100 days vs accomplishments (lack of) is strong... desperation, bad decisions, liberalla Apr 2017 #8
Zactly. nt Duppers Apr 2017 #19
Good thing I don't give a fuck anymore. nt retrowire Apr 2017 #9
You picked a bad day to quit giving a fuck. randome Apr 2017 #27
Lol nt retrowire Apr 2017 #29
Trump thinks he can solve N Korea in 93 days when he can't even repeal one piece of legislation. Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2017 #10
If Trump's toolkit consists of a hammer, every problem looks like a nail even when some are tigers. Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2017 #11
No matter what kind of game tRump is playing elmac Apr 2017 #12
Don't forget Trump is surrounded by end timers starting with Mike Pence nt maryellen99 Apr 2017 #13
That's true- and I'm sure that by his own calculation, Trump believes he would/will be fine in the Still In Wisconsin Apr 2017 #14
Apparently the Fux News round table of morons is in favor Ilsa Apr 2017 #15
Gutless wonders, like draft-dodger 45, TxVietVet Apr 2017 #16
The number of lives he might destroy was my 1st thought. Duppers Apr 2017 #20
If Trump starts a hot war on the Korean peninsula, impeachment will be insufficient jmowreader Apr 2017 #17
every person killed cynical_idealist Apr 2017 #24
An international tribunal should prosecute non-US citizen deaths jmowreader Apr 2017 #25
Senate got gonads to say "No" plus "You/DRUMPF come here, not us there." What's "trouble inbound"? UTUSN Apr 2017 #18
I thought Drmph's comment to Haley was beyond the pale. So dismissively insulting. She should have northoftheborder Apr 2017 #30
I have limited access to the www tonight, but latest scan of Mr. Nance and various other Leghorn21 Apr 2017 #21
Senate does not grant war powers... Wounded Bear Apr 2017 #22
The Senate 'alone' doesn't. The Constitution says "congress"... WePurrsevere Apr 2017 #37
Running scared I think. Demtexan Apr 2017 #23
The only way something would happen is if NK made a pre-emptive attack, and they still_one Apr 2017 #28
"...a grave indicator of poss imminent..." What a contradictory, nonsensical sentence. randome Apr 2017 #31
There is no rational basis Alpeduez21 Apr 2017 #32
Bad. Very bad. H2O Man Apr 2017 #33
It is odd that Nance is not talking about China HoneyBadger Apr 2017 #34
Yes, who needs a wall anyway...when we can VigilantG Apr 2017 #35
I think we all know trump would get us in a war sooner rather than later FloridaBlues Apr 2017 #36

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)
26. Oh yeah, no doubt about it. He and his team are guilty of espionage,
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 04:27 PM
Apr 2017

they will do whatever they can to take focus off that.

GP6971

(31,220 posts)
2. This doesn't bode well
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 08:43 PM
Apr 2017

even if it's a gambit to just send a message to the dprk. The dprk doesn't interpret such messages so well.

MedusaX

(1,129 posts)
4. Just a really bad strategy to keep Gov. from shutting down
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 08:59 PM
Apr 2017

And attempt to re-focus a nation ...

Who knew Treason would be so hard to get away with?

mopinko

(70,239 posts)
5. hopefully the senators leave the white house
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 09:00 PM
Apr 2017

w a fire under their ass to get the russia investigation rolling.

liberalla

(9,264 posts)
8. The pressure of 100 days vs accomplishments (lack of) is strong... desperation, bad decisions,
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 10:14 PM
Apr 2017

drastic action... Who knows what he'll do to distract and change the conversation? This is precisely the type of situation that terrifies me.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
27. You picked a bad day to quit giving a fuck.
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 04:30 PM
Apr 2017


Or a good day. I guess it depends.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"
[/center][/font][hr]

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,045 posts)
10. Trump thinks he can solve N Korea in 93 days when he can't even repeal one piece of legislation.
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 10:19 PM
Apr 2017

Mid-East peace might take a little bit longer, maybe 97 days?
 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
12. No matter what kind of game tRump is playing
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 10:30 PM
Apr 2017

its just smoke and mirrors, cover up his impending failures this week. Maddow reported on this tonight also.

 

Still In Wisconsin

(4,450 posts)
14. That's true- and I'm sure that by his own calculation, Trump believes he would/will be fine in the
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 10:47 PM
Apr 2017

event of a nuclear war. You know- a luxury bunker with hot women, Fox News, and the most beautiful pieces of chocolate cake you have ever seen. And Pence- yeah, he'll be with Jay-ah-sus!

Ilsa

(61,698 posts)
15. Apparently the Fux News round table of morons is in favor
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 10:57 PM
Apr 2017

of a nuclear strike, so I bet dt thinks he has thr go-ahead.

TxVietVet

(1,905 posts)
16. Gutless wonders, like draft-dodger 45,
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 11:28 PM
Apr 2017

have to try to prove they are warriors by creating a war even on false pretenses.
If 45 starts his bu$hit warrior actions on N. korea, Seoul will be toast and all the US troops on the DMZ will be slaughtered. Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans are within range of Communist N. Koreans artillery and a million NK troops on the DMZ.

Duppers

(28,127 posts)
20. The number of lives he might destroy was my 1st thought.
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 11:59 PM
Apr 2017

Anything to make himself look good with his base and throw up a smoke screen for all the trouble he's in - that's evil personified.


jmowreader

(50,566 posts)
17. If Trump starts a hot war on the Korean peninsula, impeachment will be insufficient
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 11:36 PM
Apr 2017

He will need to be charged with capital murder for the deaths of every US citizen killed due to his incompetence.

jmowreader

(50,566 posts)
25. An international tribunal should prosecute non-US citizen deaths
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 04:25 PM
Apr 2017

I'm thinking Nuremburg Tribunal-level stuff here.

We are currently speaking of the possible deaths of 10,000 men and women whose only crime was pissing off their branch managers badly enough to get them assigned to the 2d Infantry Division. If that's not worthy of reopening the Fort Riley Correctional Custody Facility* to house these assholes, then I don't know what is.

* The Fort Riley CCF will go down in infamy. In the Old Days there were two jails on an Army base: the stockade and the Correctional Custody Facility. CCF is the jail a company commander can sentence you to. The one at Fort Riley was being run by the worst assholes on base, none of whom had correctional officer training, and were killing from five to ten percent of the troops who got sent there. Not even Arpaio was this bad.

UTUSN

(70,744 posts)
18. Senate got gonads to say "No" plus "You/DRUMPF come here, not us there." What's "trouble inbound"?
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 11:39 PM
Apr 2017

&, my, how *GIDDY* the Nikki was sitting next to DRUMPF while he "joked" about how easy it would be to replace her. Selling out ain't hard to do, not that she was some really principled somebody.

northoftheborder

(7,574 posts)
30. I thought Drmph's comment to Haley was beyond the pale. So dismissively insulting. She should have
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 04:35 PM
Apr 2017

slapped him, but I guess with the TV cameras and the UN members there she just had to laugh it off.

Leghorn21

(13,526 posts)
21. I have limited access to the www tonight, but latest scan of Mr. Nance and various other
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 12:14 AM
Apr 2017

knowledgeable sources reveal no further word on this...for once, just once, I would like for Malcolm to be 100% wrong about something!

Bon soir, mes amis -

Wounded Bear

(58,721 posts)
22. Senate does not grant war powers...
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 01:13 AM
Apr 2017

that would be the House. I don't doubt that this could be a bad omen, but if Trump wants a new war powers act, he's asking the wrong group.

WePurrsevere

(24,259 posts)
37. The Senate 'alone' doesn't. The Constitution says "congress"...
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 05:26 PM
Apr 2017

and the word congress is used to refer to the legislative branch in general, aka both the House and Senate.

Article 1 Section 1 of the Constitution defines "congress":
All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives


To get his war on Trump legally needs to kiss up to both and since it's a fairly close split the Senate will probably be the harder one to persuade.

Demtexan

(1,588 posts)
23. Running scared I think.
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 06:21 AM
Apr 2017

The Russian scandal is getting closer and closer. I hope democratic senators spit on his eyes. We have him ropes.

still_one

(92,422 posts)
28. The only way something would happen is if NK made a pre-emptive attack, and they
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 04:32 PM
Apr 2017

aren't going to do that

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
31. "...a grave indicator of poss imminent..." What a contradictory, nonsensical sentence.
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 04:37 PM
Apr 2017

Hardly anything to get the vapors about.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"
[/center][/font][hr]

H2O Man

(73,623 posts)
33. Bad. Very bad.
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 04:40 PM
Apr 2017

I have great respect for Mr. Nance. I really wish that he was serving in a democratic administration right now.

Recommended.

 

HoneyBadger

(2,297 posts)
34. It is odd that Nance is not talking about China
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 04:44 PM
Apr 2017

I think that China could take NK without a shot being fired. The US would probably still man the DMZ.



http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/International-Relations/Beijing-s-quandary-over-North-Korea-fuels-digital-chatter-in-China



The Chinese are in a quandary. A rumor is currently swirling that China is suspending oil exports to North Korea. The latter country largely depends on its large neighbor for its crude oil consumption, and a cut in this lifeline would greatly impact the North Korean economy.

The rumor was sparked by a report from the North Korean correspondent of the Global Times. In the article the reporter said, "I was not able to fill up my tank at a gas station in an area where embassies are located in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang." His report said that he was told that the petrol station was "out of gas." The story also mentioned possible gas price rises in the country.

FloridaBlues

(4,008 posts)
36. I think we all know trump would get us in a war sooner rather than later
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 04:54 PM
Apr 2017

The Republicans just can't help themselves but this orange agent is really nuts at the helm

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