PDJT holds rally in Dallas - declare war on Turkey, hmm maybe not

PDJT held a massive rally in Dallas last night.  Though it was mostly a boiler plate campaign pitch, it was far, far, far more interesting than the Dope debate earlier in the week.

PDJT never got the word that the Dopes don’t want to talk about Slow Joe and his doper son who was “kicked out of the Navy like a dog” Biden.  Trump savaged the Biden crime mob who lined their pockets peddling dumbazz Slow Joe’s position overseeing Ukraine and China.  Slowest of all Joes, ever so insecure that the dumbazz had to brag about his criminality on tape and was caught red handed using US money to protect his loser son from the Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating the corrupt gas company ripping off the Ukrainian people and whose board the unqualified doper sat on.

PDJT going into blue Dallas was fine.  I’d have preferred that Trump go to deep blue Austin.

Today’s JG rant
RE: JG editorial “Banks’ vote of conscience” of Oct 18, 2019

The JG OpEd harps on a Wall Street Journal headline – “Kurds 354, Trump 60” referring to a House vote to condemn PDJT’s decision to pull US troop from northern Syria.  354 is about the size of a reinforced rifle company.  The 354 can get a flight to Syria this afternoon, join up with Kurdish YPG by Monday and be in the fight of this centuries old war by Tuesday. They could do that, but it’s just so much easier to be a virtue signaling #NeverTrumper weasel from the comfort of a Caligula, D.C. congressional office than put your own butt on the line in any real way.

My own 3^rd district congressman Jim Banks opined, “’It's kind of like pulling the pin out of the grenade,’ Banks said in a WOWO-AM interview Thursday. ‘All of the ingredients were there for an explosion, so when we pulled the pin out – in pulling the troops back – that created the window for the Turks to invade northeast Syria.’”

Holy smokes Jimmy B, who knew that the Middle East was so unstable that any military move the US makes there would cause a problem with one faction or another in that 12 way fight?  When did all of that happen?

Jimmy B goes on, “No matter how you look at this, this is a terrible situation,’ Banks said. ‘Not just with our Kurdish allies dying but with what we're seeing with a resurgence and return of ISIS to the region. ... They pose a serious threat to the homeland of the United States of America, and that's why we were there to begin with.’”

Wow, Jimmy B, that sounds like the perfect reason for the US to go to war with someone.  Do your constitutional duty.  Offer a declaration of war on whoever you think is hurting “our Kurdish allies” – that would be our NATO ally Turkey I suppose.  Is that a problem?  You already have 354 votes for a declaration of war, right.  I’m sure the JG editorial page would support such a declaration.  Do your job.

It’s just so much easier for moral cowards like Banks to support a meaningless resolution than to take the real actions required by our constitution to address serious threats to the homeland.  They are nothing more than posturing weasels.   

Friday, October 18, 2019 1:00 am

Banks' vote of conscience

“Kurds 354, Trump 60” reads the headline on a Wall Street Journal editorial Thursday. Third District Rep. Jim Banks, we're pleased to note, stood with the Kurds in a House vote to condemn the president's decision to pull troops from northern Syria.

The congressman generally is an unapologetic supporter of President Donald Trump, so it was refreshing to see him join 225 Democrats and 128 of his fellow Republicans in denouncing the military pullout and calling for the White House to present “a clear and specific plan for the enduring defeat of ISIS.”

Three Indiana Republicans, Reps. James Baird, Trey Hollingsworth and Greg Pence, sided with the president.

Banks, who served as a supply corps officer in the Navy Reserve and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2014, would know better than most of his colleagues of U.S. troops' vital role in the region.

“It's kind of like pulling the pin out of the grenade,” Banks said in a WOWO-AM interview Thursday. “All of the ingredients were there for an explosion, so when we pulled the pin out – in pulling the troops back – that created the window for the Turks to invade northeast Syria.”

Banks said he didn't see the vote as a rebuke of the president, calling the situation “complex,” but said he wished Trump had made it clear the U.S. would not stand for Turkey's invasion of Syria.

“No matter how you look at this, this is a terrible situation,” Banks said. “Not just with our Kurdish allies dying but with what we're seeing with a resurgence and return of ISIS to the region. ... They pose a serious threat to the homeland of the United States of America, and that's why we were there to begin with.”

We can agree to disagree over whether or not the resolution represented a rebuke to the president, but we're pleased the congressman supported it.