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Postby Sane Outcasts » Tue Feb 19, 2019 1:22 pm

Trump Administration is Trying to Transfer American Nuclear Technology to Saudi Arabia

The Trump administration sought to rush the transfer of American nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia in potential violation of the law, a new report from the House Oversight and Reform Committee alleges.

Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings' staff issued an "interim staff" report Tuesday, citing "multiple whistleblowers" who raised ethical and legal concerns about the process.

"They have warned about political appointees ignoring directives from top ethics advisers at the White House who repeatedly and unsuccessfully ordered senior Trump administration officials to halt their efforts," the report states. "They have also warned of conflicts of interest among top White House advisers that could implicate federal criminal statutes."

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Postby Trumptonium1 » Tue Feb 19, 2019 1:26 pm

ridiculous if true
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Postby Page » Tue Feb 19, 2019 1:39 pm



If the Iranian government was smart they'd launder money through Trump's hotels like the Saudis do and they too could purchase nuclear secrets.
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Tue Feb 19, 2019 1:44 pm

Confederate States of German America wrote:I've made it a point before to explain that Nuclear Warfare, as ironic as it sounds, is a very survivable event in the modern day. Make a plan, seek the information needed to do such, and then be prepared; don't automatically assume instant death in the event it all goes to hell.

I live in a major west coast city with bases and military research in and around where I live so that even if I try and make a break for it in my VW Bus I'm heading from one target to another target.

If things 'go to hell' I'm just going to get a catchers mitt.
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Postby Genivaria » Tue Feb 19, 2019 1:44 pm

Sane Outcasts wrote:Trump Administration is Trying to Transfer American Nuclear Technology to Saudi Arabia

The Trump administration sought to rush the transfer of American nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia in potential violation of the law, a new report from the House Oversight and Reform Committee alleges.

Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings' staff issued an "interim staff" report Tuesday, citing "multiple whistleblowers" who raised ethical and legal concerns about the process.

"They have warned about political appointees ignoring directives from top ethics advisers at the White House who repeatedly and unsuccessfully ordered senior Trump administration officials to halt their efforts," the report states. "They have also warned of conflicts of interest among top White House advisers that could implicate federal criminal statutes."

Link to the report for the curious

If this is true then there's actually a case for outright fucking Treason.

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Postby Valrifell » Tue Feb 19, 2019 1:45 pm

Genivaria wrote:

If this is true then there's actually a case for outright fucking Treason.


Worse or better than Iran-Contra? About the same?
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Postby Bear Stearns » Tue Feb 19, 2019 4:14 pm

What if Trump didn't fill his cabinet with establishment neocons who fuck him at every turn and actually picked like-minded nationalists?

The wall would've been built before the midterms.
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Postby Vassenor » Tue Feb 19, 2019 4:20 pm

Bear Stearns wrote:What if Trump didn't fill his cabinet with establishment neocons who fuck him at every turn and actually picked like-minded nationalists?

The wall would've been built before the midterms.


:rofl:

The Cabinet has been packed to the rafters with Yes Men who've bent over backwards to enable him.
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Postby The Greater Ohio Valley » Tue Feb 19, 2019 4:22 pm

Bear Stearns wrote:The wall would've been built before the midterms.

Probably not.
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Postby Vassenor » Tue Feb 19, 2019 4:22 pm

The Greater Ohio Valley wrote:
Bear Stearns wrote:The wall would've been built before the midterms.

Probably not.


What's the current projection on how long the Wall would take to build if it started tomorrow?
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Postby Bear Stearns » Tue Feb 19, 2019 4:23 pm

Vassenor wrote:
Bear Stearns wrote:What if Trump didn't fill his cabinet with establishment neocons who fuck him at every turn and actually picked like-minded nationalists?

The wall would've been built before the midterms.


:rofl:

The Cabinet has been packed to the rafters with Yes Men who've bent over backwards to enable him.


He wouldn't be firing them all the time if that was true. Most of the people here hired were opportunists, not true believers of the cause.
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Postby Valrifell » Tue Feb 19, 2019 4:25 pm

Bear Stearns wrote:What if Trump didn't fill his cabinet with establishment neocons who fuck him at every turn and actually picked like-minded nationalists?

The wall would've been built before the midterms.


His cabinet can't get his wall funded.
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Postby Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States » Tue Feb 19, 2019 4:27 pm

Bear Stearns wrote:What if Trump didn't fill his cabinet with establishment neocons who fuck him at every turn and actually picked like-minded nationalists?

The wall would've been built before the midterms.

Congress would indeed have been more likely to get the approval of Congress if he alienated the Republicans as well :roll:
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Postby The Greater Ohio Valley » Tue Feb 19, 2019 4:27 pm

Vassenor wrote:
The Greater Ohio Valley wrote:Probably not.


What's the current projection on how long the Wall would take to build if it started tomorrow?

IIRC 10-15 years.
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Postby Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States » Tue Feb 19, 2019 4:28 pm

Bear Stearns wrote:
Vassenor wrote:
:rofl:

The Cabinet has been packed to the rafters with Yes Men who've bent over backwards to enable him.


He wouldn't be firing them all the time if that was true. Most of the people here hired were opportunists, not true believers of the cause.

What’s the cause? Besides Making America Great Again.
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Postby Austria-Bohemia-Hungary » Tue Feb 19, 2019 4:28 pm

Bear Stearns wrote:What if Trump didn't fill his cabinet with establishment neocons who fuck him at every turn and actually picked like-minded nationalists?

The wall would've been built before the midterms.

And what makes you think far-right nationalists posses any actual ability to "govern" other than by rampant corruption and nepotism?
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Postby Shazbotdom » Tue Feb 19, 2019 4:28 pm

Sane Outcasts wrote:Trump Administration is Trying to Transfer American Nuclear Technology to Saudi Arabia

The Trump administration sought to rush the transfer of American nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia in potential violation of the law, a new report from the House Oversight and Reform Committee alleges.

Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings' staff issued an "interim staff" report Tuesday, citing "multiple whistleblowers" who raised ethical and legal concerns about the process.

"They have warned about political appointees ignoring directives from top ethics advisers at the White House who repeatedly and unsuccessfully ordered senior Trump administration officials to halt their efforts," the report states. "They have also warned of conflicts of interest among top White House advisers that could implicate federal criminal statutes."

Link to the report for the curious


Yeah. That's not right at all. The Saudi Government has worked against us on several thing. Do we really need to give them NBC weapon Tech?

Bear Stearns wrote:What if Trump didn't fill his cabinet with establishment neocons who fuck him at every turn and actually picked like-minded nationalists?

The wall would've been built before the midterms.


Umm. The Cabinet doesn't work like that. It would still have had to go through congress.

Good try, though.
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Postby Valrifell » Tue Feb 19, 2019 4:28 pm

Bear Stearns wrote:
Vassenor wrote:
:rofl:

The Cabinet has been packed to the rafters with Yes Men who've bent over backwards to enable him.


He wouldn't be firing them all the time if that was true. Most of the people here hired were opportunists, not true believers of the cause.


The cause is opportunism, my guy.
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Postby Western Vale Confederacy » Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:36 pm

Vassenor wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Trump confirmed puppet of the gay agenda.

Holy shit, why are the Christian right allowing this?

Ah, so they can stick it to the Muslims. Gotcha.


Well yeah. Conservatives only care about LGBT rights when it's a stick they can use to hit their opponents with.


You people are never happy, aren’t you?

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Postby Internationalist Bastard » Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:38 pm

Western Vale Confederacy wrote:
Vassenor wrote:
Well yeah. Conservatives only care about LGBT rights when it's a stick they can use to hit their opponents with.


You people are never happy, aren’t you?

Probably cuz we continue to have oppression here and he’s pulling out a bullshit initiative we know doesn’t mean anything
You think Trumps gonna pressure Saudi Arabia?
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Postby Western Vale Confederacy » Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:41 pm

Internationalist Bastard wrote:
Western Vale Confederacy wrote:
You people are never happy, aren’t you?

Probably cuz we continue to have oppression here and he’s pulling out a bullshit initiative we know doesn’t mean anything
You think Trumps gonna pressure Saudi Arabia?


In an ideal world, yes.

In reality, no, not really. He’ll probably be pointing the gun at Iran and sub-Saharan Africa, though.

The Western World has this fondness for not denouncing its barbaric allies.

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Postby Ism » Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:42 pm

Internationalist Bastard wrote:
Western Vale Confederacy wrote:
You people are never happy, aren’t you?

Probably cuz we continue to have oppression here and he’s pulling out a bullshit initiative we know doesn’t mean anything
You think Trumps gonna pressure Saudi Arabia?


Well he’ll get around to America’s issues with the LGBTQ community later. It’s all part of his new motto: America Eventually!

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Postby Confederate States of German America » Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:43 pm

The Greater Ohio Valley wrote:
Confederate States of German America wrote:I've made it a point before to explain that Nuclear Warfare, as ironic as it sounds, is a very survivable event in the modern day.

Maybe, depends on where you live and also depends on if there will be a large amount countervalue strikes. Regardless, hundreds of millions, if not billions of people will die in the event of a nuclear war, if not in the immediate exchange then for sure in the resulting radioactive fallout & pollution, starvation from famine, irradiated water supplies, infrastructure & governmental collapse, radiation sickness from previously mention fallout & pollution, etc. You act like nuclear war would be some walk in the park where most people would walk out a-okay like any other kind of war.


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Postby Confederate States of German America » Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:44 pm

Zurkerx wrote:Flynn-backed plan to transfer nuclear tech to Saudis

Great, just what we need, another Middle Eastern Power with nuclear capabilities... and it maybe illegal.


How so?
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Postby Senkaku » Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:44 pm

Sane Outcasts wrote:Trump Administration is Trying to Transfer American Nuclear Technology to Saudi Arabia

The Trump administration sought to rush the transfer of American nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia in potential violation of the law, a new report from the House Oversight and Reform Committee alleges.

Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings' staff issued an "interim staff" report Tuesday, citing "multiple whistleblowers" who raised ethical and legal concerns about the process.

"They have warned about political appointees ignoring directives from top ethics advisers at the White House who repeatedly and unsuccessfully ordered senior Trump administration officials to halt their efforts," the report states. "They have also warned of conflicts of interest among top White House advisers that could implicate federal criminal statutes."

Link to the report for the curious

giving the country that produced the 9/11 hijackers the bomb? what could possibly go wrong

It's like they're doing everything they can to get the Iranians to start up their nuclear program again (because really the world just needs more violent nuclear-armed theocracies I guess)...
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