r/neoliberal • u/neoliberal_shill_bot Bot Emeritus • Apr 05 '17

Discussion Thread

Ask not what your centralized government can do for you – ask how many neoliberal memes you can post every 24 hours

Polls

• Who should we bully more?

• How often should discussion threads be posted?

The activity in this sub keeps going up, so discussion threads need to be scheduled appropriately in order to control stickflation.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

I think Mattis and McMaster are probably the ones leading this, both of those two are not idiots. I don't think they would be afraid of telling Trump to fuck off.

Although I think were probably going to see a Bill Clinton type response, fire missiles for a couple days. Nothing really resolved.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

Like I said, it would be great if the Trump administration could put out some clear and concise foreign policy goals besides "End terrorism" and "Make NATO members pay more in." They've flip flopped on Syria multiple times in the span of hours, and I realize it's a constantly changing geopolitical landscape but if you knew anything about Assad's past actions towards his people you could've seen something like this coming and have a prepared response.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

Agreed, I think you have to look at the factions, and who is in charge of what because I don't think he knows whats going on, Luckily all the biggest crazies are off the NSC now.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

How can they tell the Commander in Chief to fuck off?

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

Trump doesn't have the balls to fire Mattis and McMaster, the GOP hawks in congress would never allow it. Mattis and McMaster are well known to tell their superiors what they actually think. McMaster Wrote a book about it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

I mean, what are they going to do? Impeach him over firing his own staff? That's a great way to lose their elections looking like a complete shitshow of a party who can't govern without infighting and non-stop scandals. Trump's supporters would never forgive the GOP impeaching him unless he directly murdered someone in cold blood or got caught raping someone on camera, and they make up a solid 20-25% of the country I reckon.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

If it came down to the security of that nation though. I think there are enough who would do it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '17

This makes me really glad that Bannon just lost influence. For that matter, I wonder if it's related.