syria
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Dems Say Trump Has a ‘Meltdown’ After House Rebuke of His Syria Policy; Pelosi Says He Needs Prayer
Maybe it was seeing House Republicans give him the thumbs-down on his pullout game in Syria that pushed him over the edge, but Donald Trump reportedly had a “meltdown” while meeting Wednesday with Democratic congressional leadership after the vote. As CNN reports: “He was insulting, particularly to [House Speaker Nancy Pelosi]. She kept her cool…
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How Trump Got Punk'd Into Running From Syria, Explained
Military leaders, politicians and the U.S. allies were shocked by Donald Trump’s decision to side with brutal dictators and turn his back on one of America’s staunchest allies in the fight against Islamic State forces. But the president’s stunning departure from U.S. policy, historical precedent and the code of the streets appears to have been…
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Trump Orders Retaliation Strikes Against Syria
On Friday evening, Donald Trump announced that there would be precision missile strikes conducted against Syria in retaliation for alleged chemical weapons attacks that occurred on April 7 in Douma. The White House called for the press pool to gather shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Friday, and the president made his announcement from the White…
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Trump Is Not in Bed With Russia and He Proves It by Sending Mean Tweets!
At this point, if you aren’t laughing at the Trump administration, then you really are missing the fun in all of this. As the investigation into Donald Trump’s reported ties to Russia, and specifically Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election that gave Trump the White House, continued, Trump took to Twitter to continue this overly…
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Trump to Make Decision on Syria Soon. It Looks Like We ’Bout to Go to War, Y’all
On Monday, President Donald Trump condemned the chemical weapons attack that took place in Syria on Saturday, killing dozens of people, and added that he would be deciding which course of action to take as early as Monday evening. “We’ll be making that decision very quickly probably by the end of the day. But we…
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Sean ‘Spicy Facts’ Spicer Claims Hitler Did Not Gas Jews
Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer has done it now. During a White House press briefing in which the press secretary was trying to characterize Syrian President Bashar Assad and his connection with President TrumPutin’s play cousin Mother Russia, Spicy Facts decided to invoke Adolf Hitler’s name. Even Hitler “didn’t sink to using chemical weapons” during World…
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Did Syrian Children’s Light Skin Motivate Trump?
‘The White-Oriented News Media Avoid Race’ Trump Supporters’ Attacks Take Their Toll: Journalists Seek to Foil the ‘Contentious and Ugly’ Race Influences Policies on Opioids, Crack How a Series on Latinos Won the Top Pulitzer Prize Short Takes “This week, it was the images — gruesome photos of a chemical weapons attack on Syrian civilians…
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Please Stop Pretending You Have Any Clue Why Trump Bombed Syria, Because His Daft Ass Doesn't Know Either!
Interestingly enough, the most annoying byproduct of the reign of Darth Cheeto and the gaggle of sycophantic Nazi chiltins surrounding him isn’t actually the burgeoning genre of MAGA fanfic trying to explain the unconditional support he still receives from his followers — where writers, essayists, journalists, bloggers, and reporters spend thousands of words examining them when…
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A Conspiracy Theorist’s Guide to the US Attack on Syria
This lying-ass administration will make a conspiracy theorist out of the best of us. Because I don’t believe anything that anyone representing President Vladimir TrumPutin has to say, when word came out that the U.S. had bombed Syria, I was immediately skeptical. Sure, I’d seen the heartbreaking photos of children being killed in a reported…
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US Strikes Syrian Airfield in Response to Chemical Attack Earlier This Week
Cruise missiles reportedly cost $1.59 million each, and your president, who claims we don’t have enough money to fund health care, education or Meals on Wheels, just launched 50 of them at once at a Syrian military airfield Thursday. This is the first direct U.S. assault on the government of President Bashar Assad since Syria’s…