As I’m sure you already know, that’s the problem so often, especially with those who use opinion journalists on Fox as their only news source. (The proper journalists on Fox are actually okay, but they don’t get a lot of air time.) Someone like Tucker Carlson, Jesse Walters etc says something and their viewers assume it’s true, and they repeat it. Because of the source, no one checks the facts. That’s what makes Sean Hannity and Judge Janine et al so dangerous. They speak with authority and are trusted by those who listen to them. Often too the people who watch Fox talk amongst themselves and the false info gets reinforced that way.

Didn’t know about CNN, thought I was posting something quite unknown.
If you hear his opponents, one would get the opposite impression, as if he issued more EO’s than any other president. In fact I was shocked to learn it just because of these opponent telling blatant lies, something so easily checked as being false.

I remember that statistic being repeated frequently by CNN every time a Republican complained about his EOs. The thing that annoyed me the most is that he was only using them because the GOP in general, and Mitch McConnell in particular, refused to negotiate with him because they didn’t want him having any wins. I don’t think I’ll ever forget that McConnell speech about the GOP’s primary job being to make sure Obama was a one-term president. Absolutely appalling. So much for governing the country!

The YPG is the armed wing of the PYD (Democratic Unity Party), which is allied to the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers Party, which has been outlawed in Turkey.
The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Northern Iraq is dominated by the KPD, which is led by the Barzani clan (which are Iranian Kurds).
The PKK and the Barzanis (KPD) are not really lovebirds, to put it mildly.

Thanks for mentioning that about Mattis being told he has to go on 1 Jan. I meant to add it into the post and forgot.

I like the H-D version. I’ve got a cartoon somewhere with Trump as Humpty Dumpty and another version. The trouble is Trump is such a good target for the cartoonists I have literally thousands of cartoons saved now and finding it would be a mission in itself. I save them according to what they were about rather than what the pic is. I nearly couldn’t find the one at the bottom of this post, then I remembered is was under “Mattis” (along with about 10 others on the subject).

Apparently there’s a general who was sacked because he asked how would he know if the president was sane when he gave an order to launch a nuclear attack? I don’t know whether that’s urban myth or a real thing, but it could be argued that anyone who launches a nuclear attack is insane.

Here are a couple of YouTube videos. The first is about the US nuclear football. The second is a very sobering TED Talk about the effects of nuclear war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edDiPmMEAm0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7hOpT0lPGI

And when it comes right down to it, I wonder if Trump even knows why he pulled the US out of Syria. Or perhaps it’s as simple as Putin or Erdogan “asked” him to.

I’d like to add that Mattis was to leave at the end of February, but after Fox explained to Trump the implications of the letter, he ended Mattis’ post Jan. 1.

I know Trump has said he likes chaos and likes to be the center of chaos, but I think the chaos is beginning to crack him like an egg. Add to his Syria debacle: Mueller, Individual 1, Pelosi, government shutdown, children dying at the border (which he is tweet blaming democrats for…wtf?), an unstable and perhaps bear stock market, a massive staffing problem, a massive lawyer problem (namely he can’t get any good ones), no f’n wall ever, his lowest approval rating/highest disapproval since Charlottesville, Trump Foundation gone (will his ugly portrait end up in the WH?), Democratic House and the impending investigations (though I’m not sure Trump understands how screwed he is yet)…this is not going to end well for any of us,

President Trump sat on a wall,
President Trump had a great fall.
All his cult members
And all his henchmen
Couldn’t put Trump together again.

I should have made it clear about the different Kurdish military groups and not lumped them all together. The group that’s made the deal with Syria is the YPG.