Not only do we put our soldiers, citizens, and affiliated members at risk in the country, we embolden greater discord among our reckless client states. {SEE "Trump’s Qatar Blunder" by TAC writer Daniel Larison}

Today, we also find out that the Saudi Weapons deal is also BS.

So what we have is a president and executive office lead by people who have no idea what they are doing, are running headlong from crisis to crisis, and are only lucky that the world is too afraid of getting in the way of these people doing stupid things that they haven’t fallen on their face and risked the lives of many people. We are one Hurricane away from realizing how bad things really are. […]

TAC Reader:
It matters not whether Trump’s condition is genetic or due to accelerating sclerosis, it puts our nation in peril. Hopefully the private discussions of 25th amendment disability will quickly become more public and be acted upon. […]

TAC Reader:
Putin must be smiling. The reason the Russians like to destabilize the Middle East is their economy requires the highest possible oil prices.

The Saudis like expensive oil, too. But their regime is less robust so their tolerance for political/social turmoil is lower than Russia’s.

I’ll bet the US national security apparatus learned about Trump’s move pretty much the same way we did — by reading about in the news.

One more crisis like this and Trump’s removal from office will be a serious possibility. This is getting dangerous. […]

BREAKING: "Trump’s Saudi Arms Deal Is Actually Fake"

Excerpts:

Remember President Trump’s big, triumphant arms deal in Saudi Arabia? It turns out it didn’t really happen. It was Trump’s own fake news, a feat of supply chain vertical integration and more importantly for the MAGA agenda repatriating jobs from Russia. In all seriousness, at the end of the day it didn’t happen. There are no contracts or sales. At all.

So how could this be? The story comes from Bruce Riedel, a longtime CIA and national security official, now at Brookings. The Potemkin deal turns out to be remarkably similar to the Trump jobs announcements we’ve grown accustomed to. Trump takes a bunch of jobs or investments which either already exist or have already been announced and rebrands them as new economic growth driven by Trump Power. In this he usually has a compliant and complicit CEO, happy to go along with the charade to curry favor with the US President.

Here’s what Riedel discovered …

"I’ve spoken to contacts in the defense business and on the Hill, and all of them say the same thing: There is no $110 billion deal. Instead, there are a bunch of letters of interest or intent, but not contracts. Many are offers that the defense industry thinks the Saudis will be interested in someday. So far nothing has been notified to the Senate for review. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the arms sales wing of the Pentagon, calls them “intended sales.” None of the deals identified so far are new, all began in the Obama administration."

As I said, this turns out to be remarkably similar. The $110 price tag advertised by the Trump White House includes no actual contracts, no actual sales. Instead it is made up of a bundle of letters of intent, statements of interest and agreements to think about it. In other words, rather than a contract, it’s more like a wishlist: an itemized list of things the Saudis might be interested in if the price of oil ever recovers, if they start more wars and things the US would like to sell the Saudis. […]

Full read: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/breaking-trum…

H/T: TAC

1. He began his response by assuming we're all "liberals" on this site.

2. He then launches immediately into a BLATANT lie that Pres. Obama made us a "laughingstock of the world.". Notice he provided NO facts to back up that foolishness. It's just his opinion and that of millions of Obama HATERS. But let's move on…………

3. He then follows up that nonsense with a heavier dose of nonsense in his complaint about " all the stupid shit and especially the lies that came out of {Obama's} mouth." Again, he provides NOTHING to back up his claims. He simply spews it because??? But let's move on……….

4. He then quickly pivots into a tirade about "your criminal candidate Hillary."

Now mind you, we all know NOW that the Trump campaign WAS AND REMAINS under federal investigation for possible collusion with the Russians to interfere with Our elections AT THE TIME of the elections. We also now know that that investigation has WIDENED and become a full-blown Criminal investigation into all sorts of possible criminal actions. But let's move on……

5. He then goes on the immediate attack again with "news flash for you brain dead sheep"…..yada, yada. yada……

Get the picture?

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Hopefully the readers of THIS great site never takes the bait.