Get Out of Afghanistan

https://theintercept.com/2017/08/22/donald-trump-new-afghanistan-plan-promises-more-killing-and-little-else/

As simple as it seems, Trump does not understand this basic premise: If you kill people, their families and friends tend to not like you.  So much for fighting terrorism.  Get out of Afghanistan.

“But in Afghanistan, Trump’s plan for more killing — and little else —ignores a crucial point: The frenzied pace of killing under the Bush administration was what led to a nearly defeated Taliban’s resurgence, bogging the U.S. down in an endless war. Trump is either forgetting the mistakes of recent U.S. history in Afghanistan or, worse, he simply doesn’t care.”

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/22/nkys-gop-rep-thomas-massie-rips-trump-afghan-policy-tweetstorm/588901001/

Read Thomas Massie’s tweets on Afghanistan.  We don’t have the money to fight these wars.  This is precisely why so many people in America are struggling. We pay to build other nations (I know this is counter to what Trump claims this war is for) and keep our own poor on welfare. Get out of Afghanistan.

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-looked-at-eclipse-without-glasses-6-times-1029427267592

This is the dumb world we live in.  A headline counting the number of times President Trump looked at the sun during the eclipse.  MSNBC is every bit as bad as CNN.  On a scale from 1-100, with 100 being the highest quality news that is helpful, nonpartisan and informative, I put both under 10 and Fox at a 10 even. 

https://fee.org/articles/amazon-destroys-jobs-really/

“For a president to openly condemn a company for outperforming the competition is antithetical to the free market that Trump pretends to support.”

Shame on Trump.

“Unfortunately for Trump, he has chosen to attack a mighty monument of consumerism. Amazon’s services are just too good and too plentiful to fall victim to Trump’s attacks. In fact, Amazon Prime’s 80 million subscribers outnumber the 57.6 million people who voted in the 2016 election. Sorry President Trump, consumers have already voted with their dollars and they choose Amazon.”

Watch out Trump.

https://mises.org/blog/ron-paul-reacts-trumps-afghanistan-speech

Read this twitter stream  I’m certainly with Ron Paul on this one.

“Terrorism is one thing, but what about massive collateral damage?  Killing civilians creates more terrorism.  Round and round we go.”

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/08/no_author/natural-disasters-really-natural/

An interesting theory that most “natural” disasters really are the fault of governments.

“There’s nothing “natural” about corruption and mismanagement. That’s what’s really responsible for most disasters, and that’s what really caused the flooding in New Orleans in 2005, and in 2017.”