Is Donald Trump losing control?
Nah.
He knows when to push the buttons all around him.
Trump Retweets Inflammatory Anti-Muslim Videos, and Britain’s Leader Condemns Them
Trump retweets anti-Muslim videos
President Donald Trump retweeted Wednesday morning three inflammatory videos from a British far-right account rife with anti-Muslim content.
The videos, posted by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, a far-right and ultra-nationalist political group, depict purported Muslims assaulting people and, in one video, smashing a statue of the Virgin Mary.
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Fransen reacted jubilantly online, touting that the videos had been shared with Trump's nearly 44 million followers. "GOD BLESS YOU TRUMP!" she wrote in all caps.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders defended Trump's retweets, telling reporters that he shared them to start a conversation about border security and immigration.
"I think his goal is to promote strong borders and strong national security," Sanders told a small group of reporters after appearing on Fox News.
Sanders also downplayed questions about whether the videos were authentic, because "the threat is real."
What questions?
It's not like the media themselves haven't provided an ocean of video of Muslims doing such things and far worse.
And does she not make a valid point?
"That is what the President is talking about, that is what the President is focused on, is dealing with those real threats, and those are real no matter how you look at it," she said.
Well, no, actually he's just pushing buttons at a time when distractions from real news are needed.
Sanders said she didn't know how Trump came across the videos, but conservative commentator Ann Coulter, who is one of the 45 accounts Trump follows, had retweeted Tuesday one of the clips shared by Fransen.
Not a surprise.
She wants the wall, she wants mass deportations, and she liked the Muslim travel ban.
She has been filled with uncontrolled rage against the entire world of Islam since a personal friend was killed on 9/11, to which her reaction was that we should invade all of the Muslim lands and give them the choice to convert or die - the choice Muslims historically gave conquered peoples who were neither Christian nor Jewish.
She was fired for that from National Review.
Fransen was found guilty of religiously aggravated harassment in November 2016 after abusing a Muslim woman wearing a hijab while she was with her four children.
Fransen was fined by the court and ordered to pay costs.
In a separate development, Fransen was also charged over using "threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior" during a speech she made in Belfast in Northern Ireland.
She is set to appear at Belfast Magistrates Court on December 14.
New missile test shows North Korea capable of hitting all of US mainland
Soon, they will be able to deliver a functioning nuke to any city in the US.
So, what's the plan?
The time to decide is before they can do that.
If we are going to suck it up, to accept as a new normal that North Korea can nuke us, then we are on the right path, given the evident futility of diplomacy and sanctions.
The alternative is a pre-emptive war that needs to be started before they can nuke us.
Starting a war with North Korea after they can nuke us is obviously out of the question.
And our guarantee to SK that we will fight to defend them against the North will lack credibility, since as soon as it looked like we were doing well enough in such a war to put the NK regime in danger they would nuke us, given they just don't give a shit what actually happens to the people of the peninsula, north or south.
So, do we think Bozo has a plan?
Really?
Who is the man most likely to do the stupidest thing possible in a crisis, if we put him in the White House?
Oh, wait.
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