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Trumps hillariously stupid plan to make our military great agai.

TheGoverness said:
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But he did not offer specifics.
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Does he ever?
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That usually is the case. "We will have a great, wonderful, fantastic (insert something here)" and release few, if any, details on how to achieve it.
 
The last navy carrier which just went into service and is having trouble launching planes cost $13b. It can be taken out with a couple of hypersonic over the horizon misses. A cruiser is about $3B same for a sub. The new destroyer clas is over a billion and it sucks. So he wants to build another 100 of these things?
 
TheGoverness said:
My favorite quote:



Does he ever?
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He doesn't need to offer specifics. All he has to do is make vague comments and his fanboys will think he's going to lead them to paradise. No questions asked.

It's almost scary. Like a cult.
 
MaggieD said:
I stopped reading when it said Trump doesn't pay any taxes. Garbage.
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People. Who can't be bothered to educate themselves on matters of policy are voting for trump in droves.
 
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TheGoverness said:
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Does he ever?
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I suggest you hear his speeches yourself and make that determination. Unlike the primary he seems to be very specific with his proposals as of late, IMO. Todays defense policy speech being a good example.
 
Rico Suave said:
People. Who can't be bothered to educate themselves on matters of policy are voting for trump in droves.
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Did you, yourself listen to his defense policy speech today? What I heard doesn't jive with that farce of an article.
 
When Daily KOS said this:

And he’ll expand the military—by getting rid of the military:
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I stopped reading, since that is nothing but spin.

(I try to avoid spin)
 
PirateMk1 said:
Did you, yourself listen to his defense policy speech today? What I heard doesn't jive with that farce of an article.
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Yes. The article mentioned each of his points verbatim.
 
PirateMk1 said:
I suggest you hear his speeches yourself and make that determination. Unlike the primary he seems to be very specific with his proposals as of late, IMO. Todays defense policy speech being a good example.
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The irony of that speech is that defense policy (as it relates to spending) would actually be the one thing I think a man like Trump - the shrewd and cheap businessman who engages in all sorts of gymnastics to avoid expenditures - would be good at. Unfortunately for him, he took a total 180 in this speech. The problem with the military isn't that we aren't spending enough money or building more ships and planes. The problem is that their record keeping is so bad that the GAO gave up trying to audit them YEARS ago, they submit falsified expense reports to the Treasury because they don't even know where 25% of the money is going so they make up expenses, and when they do ask for billions to build ships or planes they can never articulate to the Senate why they're needed - there are numerous C-SPAN clips to that effect available on youtube.
 
MaggieD said:
I stopped reading when it said Trump doesn't pay any taxes. Garbage.
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The article was written by an angry college student, most likely. The entire thing was childish and idiotic.
 
Bodhisattva said:
The article was written by an angry college student, most likely. The entire thing was childish and idiotic.
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To be fair to the author he was typing what Trump said....
 
Rico Suave said:
To be fair to the author he was typing what Trump said....
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Uh-huh... leave the cutesy games for those that swallow it. Your style is ridiculous...
 
Rico Suave said:
Yes. The article mentioned each of his points verbatim.
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It mentioned just a few of his points, not each of them. The parts of his speech they did quote shows lots of details. A fine example of the details he proposed the entire speech. The meme about him being vague and short on detail is only a bad reflection on those that keep using it.

The massive amounts of stupid in the DK article only served two purposes. The first was to prove why nobody considers them a serious source of information. The second was to expose the "Trump never gives details" meme for what it is.

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natsb said:
It mentioned just a few of his points, not each of them. The parts of his speech they did quote shows lots of details. A fine example of the details he proposed the entire speech. The meme about him being vague and short on detail is only a bad reflection on those that keep using it.

The massive amounts of stupid in the DK article only served two purposes. The first was to prove why nobody considers them a serious source of information. The second was to expose the "Trump never gives details" meme for what it is.

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Trump spoke incoherently for a while. The author focused on his proposal for force levels and wrote exactly what he said.
 
MaggieD said:
I stopped reading when it said Trump doesn't pay any taxes. Garbage.
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You should have kept going. The analysis got much better.

If you’re keeping score, that’s about a 50,000 person increase in the Army, and about a bajillion dollars of spending on ships, planes, and thingamabobs that the services themselves haven’t requested.
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You just don't get better analysis than that!!:lamo
 
if elected, he would give U.S. generals 30 days to present a plan to defeat the Islamic State.
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I don't understand. Trump said he knows more about ISIS than the generals.. So why does he need them to put a plan together to defeat ISIS?

The man is an idiot.
 
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