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3/9/2017

Did Trump Apologize to Heidi Cruz Last Night?

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 8:15 am



Last night Ted and Heidi Cruz had dinner with Donald and Melania Trump. Ted Cruz tweeted this morning:

Not addressed: whether Donald Trump apologized to Heidi Cruz for this tweet, which remains on Donald Trump’s Twitter timeline to this day:

Yesterday a reporter asked Sean Spicer if Trump planned to apologize for that tweet — or for suggesting that Ted Cruz’s dad was involved with the Kennedy assassination. Spicer pointedly did not answer the question:

I’m guessing there was no apology.

[Cross-posted at RedState and The Jury Talks Back.]

115 Responses to “Did Trump Apologize to Heidi Cruz Last Night?”

  1. Cruz/Patterico/2020

    mg (97d997)

  2. “Yesterday a reporter asked Sean Spicer if Trump planned to apologize for that tweet — or for suggesting that Ted Cruz’s dad was involved with the Kennedy assassination. Spicer pointedly did not answer the question:”

    Hell the question doesn’t DESERVE an answer. You don’t tell people that you apologized to someone else. You keep your yap shut and let the person you apologized too say “Yes, he apologized very nicely”. Or not, if he’s petty.

    C. S. P. Schofield (99bd37)

  3. this is so

    crucial

    in a way

    if you think about it

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  4. something something goldie sackie

    Leviticus (efada1)

  5. They’re probably working on a plan to privatize all the prisons. Trump Correctional Center and Casino for the Criminally Insane?

    nk (dbc370)

  6. Can I get a harumph?

    nk (dbc370)

  7. i like the giraffe

    i saw a baby one at disney

    adorbs!

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  8. 5.They’re probably working on a plan to privatize all the prisons. Trump Correctional Center and Casino for the Criminally Insane?

    Actually nk, I like that. Has a ring to it. Imagine all the jobs created.

    Rev. Hoagie® (785e38)

  9. since Cruz was my paisan, one would hope that he apologized, as

    narciso (d1f714)

  10. still circling

    they have to be feeling a lil anxious i would think

    what with all the circling

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  11. and we’re bleeding off some altitude

    dropped a thousand feet in the last couple minutes

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  12. That one’s carrying bane.

    narciso (d1f714)

  13. they have our intrepid little boeing jet holding at 10,000 feet

    maybe doing one more circle before trying to set down at khujand airport?

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  14. You know that’s not real time, right? Anything on the news?

    nk (dbc370)

  15. something went wrong from the gitgo cause this little guy was never ever on his way to moscow

    oh.

    nobody tells me anything

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  16. nope no news yet

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  17. Again, Cruz is a professional politician. He has to accept the reality in his party. God knows that he stood apart as long as he could, but he had to make nice, or go home.

    Still, he probably isn’t going to be on board with high-speed rail, and he’s going to be working for a less statist replacement for Obamacare.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  18. What most probably happened is that both Ted Cruz and Donald Trump pretended it never happened.

    I always felt that Donald Trump originally had something more accusatory in mind, maybe dealing with Goldman Sachs, and backed off in the only way he was willing to back off, by substituting something much more prosaic – his tweet of pictures of his and Ted Cruz’s wives, comparing and contrasting them.

    As a reporter asking Spicer a question yesterday brough up, there was actually something worse Donald Trump did with regard to Ted Cruz last year:

    Speculating on what a putative connection (based on a blurry picture published by the National Enquirer) between Lee Harvey Oswald and Rafael Cruz meant.

    Sammy Finkelman (4a6ffc)

  19. ikes

    Flight 7J645 is currently not tracked by Flightradar24. It’s either out of coverage or has already landed.

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  20. Again, Cruz is a professional politician. He has to accept the reality in his party. God knows that he stood apart as long as he could, but he had to make nice, or go home.

    Shame on Ted Cruz (who I supported with donations and voted for).

    Anyone who “makes nice” with Donald Trump should go home.

    He nailed it the first time:

    I’m going to tell you what I really think of Donald Trump. This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth. And in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology textbook, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying.

    He accuses everybody on that debate stage of lying. And it’s simply a mindless yell. Whatever he does, he accuses everyone else of doing. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist. A narcissist at a level I don’t think this country has ever seen.

    Donald Trump is such a narcissist that Barack Obama looks at him and goes, ‘Dude, what’s your problem?’ Everything in Donald’s world is about Donald. And he combines being a pathological liar, and I say pathological because I actually think Donald, if you hooked him up to a lie detector test, he could say one thing in the morning, one thing at noon and one thing in the evening, all contradictory and he’s pass the lie detector test each time. Whatever lie he’s telling, at that minute he believes it.

    Dave (711345)

  21. Anyone who “makes nice” with Donald Trump should go home.

    Thank you, we have enough Democrats demanding people not make nice with Donald, we don’t need anyone else.

    Point is, Ted Cruz had responsibilities to the people of Texas. To carry them out, he will need to work with the man who is President of the United States and most important person in the GOP, whatever his personal feelings are. Which requires at least superficial politeness and amiability now matter what sort of person is currently in the Oval Office.

    kishnevi (94a358)

  22. and we’re back to circling

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  23. still more circling

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  24. Tune in next week to “The Real Housewives of teh Washington, DC Beltway”…

    Colonel Haiku (f0e797)

  25. I’m guessing you don’t have a clue about what the parties exchanged last night at dinner.

    Pure troll bait here. Bullseye hit on the site’s credibility.

    shipwreckedcrew (56b591)

  26. Trump could easily remove this from the realm of speculation by apologizing publicly, as he ought to do.

    Leviticus (efada1)

  27. Can’t believe Cruz would let his daughters anywhere near that slime-ball.

    Leviticus (efada1)

  28. The President had the meatloaf.
    Heidi had the crow.
    Tedtoo had the nothingburger.

    Happy Meals w/t stuffed giraffe for the kiddies.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  29. Cruz tweeted the President and First Lady were “warm and gracious.” Too bad our host would rather grind his axe than follow Cruz’s example and show the good manners expected of gentlemen from the Lone Star state.

    ropelight (bbf9bc)

  30. Tedtoo should apologize for selling out his principles so cheaply. But then, he’s a Canadian at heart, eh.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  31. Cruz tweeted the President and First Lady were “warn and gracious.”

    So were the green eggs and ham in the chaffing dish. No takers. Them nothingburgers are yummy.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  32. Trump insulted the man’s wife and father in public. He did this to demean the conservatives in the party. By winning, I guess he verified the GOP’s contempt for conservatives. Public insult should mean public and gracious apology, but I doubt there was any apology.

    I agree with Kishnevi that Cruz is just trying to serve Texans here. I’m not sure what difference it makes. Trumpcare shows that Cruz has no input right now.

    Sad times.

    Dustin (ba94b2)

  33. Why not write an air b&b app for criminals? Bernie Madoff can stay in a connex in my backyard for $200 a day.

    Pinandpuller (72c2eb)

  34. this idea that either harvardtrash Ted or his poor fragile harvardtrash sacky wife needs to be all snowflakey and butthurt about a retweet is very demeaning to her both as a woman and as a person

    which, ok, I’m on board with that

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  35. “21. Shame on Ted Cruz (who I supported with donations and voted for).
    Anyone who “makes nice” with Donald Trump should go home.”

    How can anybody be serious about politics and not know that “politics isn’t beanbag”?
    I sometimes wonder, do these same people go up to Tiger Woods and tell him that he should have play the 9-iron instead of the 7?

    “22. Ted Cruz had responsibilities to the people of Texas. To carry them out, he will need to work with the man who is President of the United States and most important person in the GOP, whatever his personal feelings are.”

    See? Some people understand it.

    “28. Can’t believe Cruz would let his daughters anywhere near that slime-ball.”
    Aaaaaand some people don’t.

    fred-2 (ce04f3)

  36. They’re probably working on a plan to privatize all the prisons. Trump Correctional Center and Casino for the Criminally Insane?

    nk (dbc370) — 3/9/2017 @ 9:18 am

    That earns you style points, NK. Take the income from that to pay for the Wall, perhaps?

    Bill H (383c5d)

  37. Good for Mr Ted publicly demonstrating that coalescing in order to defeat The Left trumps holding onto bruised egos and hurt feelings about nasty things that were said in the heat of a primary campaign a year ago.

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  38. I agree with Kishnevi that Cruz is just trying to serve Texans here.

    More like self-serve.

    Gather round while I sing you of Canadian Cruz,
    A man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience;
    Call him unprincipled for changing his views,
    “Principles,schminzables” coos Canadian Cruz

    Don’t say that he’s hypocritical,
    Say rather that he’s quite political;
    “Once the dinner is served, by next week it’s old news!
    What’s for dessert?!” coos Canadian Cruz

    Some have harsh words for his bait-and-switch ruse,
    But some say their attitude should be one of gratitude;
    Like the wife and the father; their honor abused,
    So easily betrayed by Canadian Cruz

    To become a conservative hero;
    Just show Texans you’ll stand up for zero;
    “In Calgary ‘oder’ Houston, I have proved I can lose,
    And I’ll prove it again,” coos Canadian Cruz.

    Apologies to the great Tom Lehrer.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  39. Heidi Cruz is plucky and sassy like Melanie Griffith in Working Girl. She’s gonna make it after all.

    I worked for this place about eight years ago that had an incredibly generous Christmas Party every year. They rented out a bowling alley and gave out a lot of drink vouchers. It may as well have been an open bar.

    This obnoxious drunk coworker sat down next to my wife and started sh*t talking her so she hip checked him flat onto the floor like a rag doll.

    That’s for the benefit of the “How would you like it if your wife…” crowd.

    And she threw a barbeque at a different drunk guy before I could intervene either way.

    Pinandpuller (72c2eb)

  40. I like it how Mr. Donald the Trump is giving a lot of butthurt to the pervy poofter boys who thought he’d be on their side on pervy poofter boy social issues but he isn’t except when his dollar-signs-for-eyes pole dancer daughter makes him because she needs to have the pervy poofter boy shmatte makers design and market her shlock overseas sweatshop shmattes so I think that Mr. Ted the Cruz and Mr. Donald the Trump maybe had a good giggle about that and maybe even told a pervy poofter boy joke or two out of the hearing of the ladies and the children of course.

    nk (dbc370)

  41. Lovely bunch of coconuts you hang with p@p.

    ropelight (bbf9bc)

  42. 41… 86ed… no more martinis for you.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  43. Scurry back into your loathsome hole, It’s the supper hour.

    ropelight (bbf9bc)

  44. Ropelight

    I would keep your coconut comments to yourself around my wife lol.

    In college she lived on the top floor next to the landing in a quadplex. An ex bf decided to knock on her door and call her names. She told him to leave and he slapped her so she pushed him down the stairs. Some people are tactile learners.

    Pinandpuller (72c2eb)

  45. Mr President Donald Trump has arrested three times the pervs Obama did in eight years according to an article I read on the Internet.

    Pinandpuller (72c2eb)

  46. Who was Heidi wearing on the Red Carpet?

    Pinandpuller (72c2eb)

  47. Point taken p@p. For most of us learning comes only through suffering. The fortunate can learn from books. The attentive can learn from watching it done. But the rest of us just have to go ahead and piss on the electric fence and see for ourselves.

    ropelight (bbf9bc)

  48. Obama arrested his hundreds, Trump his thousands. And the border is trickling before the wall is built. And there’s an underground railway to Canada.

    Pinandpuller (72c2eb)

  49. Ropelight

    You reminded me of a brief story about my grandpa who was a practical joker.

    He hooked a fence charger to an aluminum snow shovel and then grounded and isolated it appropriately. My dad said he would throw scratch mix on it and the chickens would peck in time to the charger interval.

    Pinandpuller (72c2eb)

  50. Know any hoop snake stories?

    ropelight (bbf9bc)

  51. that desk is very fancy

    Mr. Trump has a very fancy desk

    eagles are involved plus symbolic elements (eg justice)

    and the top is very shiny

    and clean!

    you could eat spaghettiOs off that goddamn desk

    who needs chinette

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  52. We have always been at war with eastasia

    http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=368785

    narciso (d1f714)

  53. Ropelight
    I had to Google that-first time I ever heard of a hoop snake. They probably eat jackalopes, fur bearing trout and giant grasshoppers where I come from.

    Pinandpuller (72c2eb)

  54. Point is, Ted Cruz had responsibilities to the people of Texas. To carry them out, he will need to work with the man who is President of the United States and most important person in the GOP, whatever his personal feelings are. Which requires at least superficial politeness and amiability now matter what sort of person is currently in the Oval Office.

    “Superficial politeness and amiability” is a far cry from going on Twitter to fellate the guy who smeared your wife and father and is now in the process of running your country into the ground. And I have a hard time believing that this has anything to do with Ted’s “responsibilities to the people of Texas.” It is a crass (and humiliating) attempt to protect his own political career by sucking up to a man that he KNOWS to be an evil, ignorant and mentally-ill bigot.

    Dave (711345)

  55. Aw, c’mon Dave, don’t be so hard on yourself. Jesus loves you.

    ropelight (bbf9bc)

  56. A correction, the Times changed the headline from wiretapped to intercepted.

    narciso (b87980)

  57. Sounds like Dave is proj citing again.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  58. Projecting

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  59. Dave, to some people, being on the receiving end of name-calling is not the worst thing in the world, you jerk! (LOL)

    Mr Ted is able to move beyond his family being called mean names in order to achiever greater goals, such as defeating The Left.
    This is what serious adults do.

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  60. 58.narciso (b87980) — 3/9/2017 @ 8:52 pm

    A correction, the Times changed the headline from wiretapped to intercepted.

    RFush Limbaugh said that on his radi show today.

    We;re talking about the headline on the Jan 19 story – one source for Trump’s source(s) about his ohones being tapped.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/politics/trump-russia-associates-investigation.html

    Intercepted Russian Communications Part of Inquiry Into Trump Associates

    …The F.B.I. is leading the investigations, aided by the National Security Agency, the C.I.A. and the Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit. The investigators have accelerated their efforts in recent weeks but have found no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, the officials said. One official said intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the White House….

    A version of this article appears in print on January 20, 2017, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Wiretapped Data Used in Inquiry of Trump Aides.

    I saw thia a few days ago. At that time a form of the word “wiretsp” was in the headline.

    This really should be in the New York Times thread.

    Sammy Finkelman (4a6ffc)

  61. Dave, to some people, being on the receiving end of name-calling is not the worst thing in the world, you jerk! (LOL)

    I’ll remember that the next time our game-show host president takes time out of his busy golfing schedule to hate-tweet an SNL skit…

    Dave (711345)

  62. It is pretty interesting when the standards for how forgiving a person should be are so much higher for random internet dude versus leader of the free world.

    Dustin (508aba)

  63. ooh look madonna are do a feminism

    the warbling lesbian in chapter three (4:20) is kinda intriguing who is this warbling lesbian

    hoochie got some pipes plus also some cheekbones on her

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  64. ok Libby Larkin is her name

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  65. Now the pervy poofter boys, as in The Daily Beast, are going after the NRA, as in National Rifle Association, with a “Russian Connection”. Sometimes, you do have to pick a side and maybe it should be the side whose goals are closer to yours, eh?

    nk (dbc370)

  66. Or you can pick the side Nelini Food Stamp is on.

    nk (dbc370)

  67. Idiots at the Daily Yeast (Infection) never should have went down the NRA feminization path. Way to lose possible reluctantTrump skeptics, especially on the heels of:
    http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170309/BLOGS02/170309855/emanuel-lauds-trumps-new-anti-crime-move

    Slippery slope be greased!

    urbanleftbehind (d209d7)

  68. “Demonization” path

    urbanleftbehind (d209d7)

  69. “Whatever sticks” their strategy is.

    nk (dbc370)

  70. this is by far the most awesome thing you will see all day

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  71. You made my morning, happyfeet!

    nk (dbc370)

  72. 72. Hilarious Happyfeet!

    Tillman (a95660)

  73. Back at you, with the story behind your circling plane. The circles were so that it could dump its fuel before attempting an emergency landing.

    nk (dbc370)

  74. oh thank you – i was wondering about those guys

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  75. Heh… “IVORY AND IVORY: TCU Invites Shaun King to Speak During ‘Unity Week’ ”

    https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/259388/

    Colonel Haiku (f0e797)

  76. Talcum x as a friend calls him:
    savingtherepublic.com/blog/2017/03/investigate-reporters-confirm-obama-admin-2-investigations-trump

    narciso (d1f714)

  77. nobody’s talking about how joe biden’s son just dumped his wife for his widowed sister-in-law
    he must be one of those clean articulate good-looking types if he can successfully pull that stunt

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  78. The problem is the solo’s kid according to the ex wife is on tiger blood, I don’t need to elaborate do i?

    narciso (d1f714)

  79. On that note, Narciso, there’s an urban rumor that Magic Johnson isnt really even HIV positive, that he was encouraged to embellish a rough strain of VD/STD so that the HIV-P community could have a hetero playboy male as a new mascot.

    urbanleftbehind (5eecdb)

  80. frpm the link @67

    ….one of the largest organizations supporting Trump was cozying up with a sanctioned Russian in Moscow,” said Rep. Eric Swalwell, who is the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee panel that oversees the CIA.

    I think it was rather the reverse:

    A sanctioned Russian in Moscow was cozying up with a large organization. They weren’t supporting Trump at that time, so what is the argument here – the Russians plotted with the National Rifle Association? (and according to Louise Mench they also killed Andrew Brietbart, in order to place Stephen Bannon in control??!)

    Was this their only meeting? The NRA was indeed against one sanction imposed after the anexation of Crimea: The ban on the importation of Kalashnikov firearms.

    Sammy Finkelman (4a6ffc)

  81. Yrs but according to mensch, who really should cut back onnthe brown acid, the Russians were also part of wiener mishap.

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/09/honeymoon-speaker-paul-ryan-targets-republicans-not-democrats-ads-healthcare

    narciso (d1f714)

  82. 75. nk (dbc370) — 3/10/2017 @ 7:12 am

    The circles were so that it could dump its fuel before attempting an emergency landing.

    SO if the plane crash landed – and a lot of emergency landings are because of trouble with the airplane – it wouldn’t burst into flames. The protocol for an emergency landing calls for dumping fuel.

    Sammy Finkelman (4a6ffc)

  83. #87 narciso, after louise mensch has another few drinks, we may be hearing about how the russians fixed the super bowl

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  84. That’s not necessary if the cause of the emergency landing is a disruptive (but non-dangerous) passenger. There was an incident the other day in the United States on a flight from Las Vegas to Hawaii, where the plane made an emergency landing in Los Angeles, California.

    http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017/03/08/passenger-disturbance-over-cost-of-12-blanket-forces-hawaii-flight-to-land-at-lax/

    The disruptive passenger was very angry because he was surprised they wanted to charge him $12 extra for a blanket, which he considered a necessity, and then used some sharp language about the management of the airline that could be construed as a threat against somebody not on the airplane.

    Sammy Finkelman (4a6ffc)

  85. I know people who were widowed or divorced and subsequently married in-laws. Propinquity and already knowing and trusting the other person. It was an issue only for Henry VIII and a pretextual one at that. In the Bidens’ case, nobody’s business but theirs.

    nk (dbc370)

  86. urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 3/10/2017 @ 8:37 am

    there’s an urban rumor that Magic Johnson isnt really even HIV positive,

    That’s what I thought since maybe the day he announced he was HIV positive – maybe I should say a year later. No way is he still alive if that was true. Glad to see that people are at last catching up with me – or maybe the cover-up is increasingly difficult to maintain.

    https://patterico.com/2014/04/26/illiterate-usa-today-writer-expounds-on-possible-racism-by-clippers-owner-donald-sterling/

    Comment number 57:

    18. Comment by Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/26/2014 @ 6:29 pm

    Johnson hasn’t made much sense since he “attained” teh HIV virus…

    I’ve always been convinced that was a phony story.

    I think he retired suddenly in order to stop and investigation into something (probably involving gambling) and an AIDS diagnosis was his explaination for his sudden retirement.

    Sammy Finkelman (6ee5be) — 4/27/2014 @ 10:26 am

    urbanleftbehind:

    that he was encouraged to embellish a rough strain of VD/STD so that the HIV-P community could have a hetero playboy male as a new mascot.

    No that’s nonsense.

    He probably wanted to cut short an investigation into his taking money for shaving points. He needd to retire quickly, but had to have a good reason. That’s what I’ve thought now for 20 years or more. He must really have been in deep.

    Sammy Finkelman (4a6ffc)

  87. narciso @85 re: Yemen raid

    No bad military decisions, but probably faulty intelligence in Yemen raid. They’re basically saying nobody made a mistake, but they’re reviewing what happened so they don’t make mistakes like that again.

    Sammy Finkelman (4a6ffc)

  88. I’m obliged to give the opposing view point,

    http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/yemen-death-al-ghayil

    narciso (d1f714)

  89. That’s nothing. The better question is did Cruz apologize for saying the President will nuke Scotland?

    Jcurtis (0d7a5c)

  90. Actually, jcurtis, criticizing the national security implications of electing a weird, unpredictable, temperamental man is within the bounds of normal politics, but going after family with grade school ugliness is below the belt.

    Dustin (a8150f)

  91. Well, if you say so, but I’ve never heard someone say that the president would nuke an ally and then the President invites him and the family over for dinner. Rather magnanimous of him.

    Jcurtis (0d7a5c)

  92. Perhaps because given the ugliness Trump showed to Cruz’s parents and wife, he realized that nothing Cruz had said was even remotely as nasty. Or perhaps because Trump needs Cruz pretty badly as his administration is sinking in scandals and broken promises as it veers desperately to the left.

    Dustin (ba94b2)

  93. Those things were nothing compared to saying your primary opponent will bring nuclear holocaust onto the allied nation of Scotland. It doesn’t even belong in the same conversation.

    Jcurtis (0d7a5c)

  94. Some miss Obama, although all that’s left of him is an imploding healthcare system and the wunnerful Iran deal.

    Good riddance to bad rubbish.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  95. Yeah, Trump can be a jerk. Got it. That’s why I didn’t vote for him. But he’s the President now and I’m not going to keep harping on it.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  96. Those things were nothing compared to saying your primary opponent will bring nuclear holocaust onto the allied nation of Scotland. It doesn’t even belong in the same conversation.

    Jcurtis

    This is even funnier than I initially thought.

    I think an obvious joke that makes reference to the implications of putting a nutjob in charge of the military is just normal politics, and bashing someone’s family that aren’t in any way a legitimate point of discussion is absolutely about a billion times worse.

    You clearly aren’t using normal human morality to evaluate Trump’s conduct, which is typical of Trump’s defense force. Just deflection deflection deflection.

    Trump bashed Cruz’s dad as complicit in murdering JFK and bashed Cruz’s wife as ugly. And you defend that. There’s no reasoning with a clown.

    Dustin (ba94b2)

  97. And it’s great to see you back, Steve!

    Dustin (ba94b2)

  98. We
    L its a socialist redoubt which is probably providing sanctuary to nessie? But I think they deserve an ultimatum first, as withthr calexit which seems to a proxy Russian move ironic no.

    narciso (d1f714)

  99. Steve57 101

    reads like common sense
    which is all too uncommon
    we’re better for it

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  100. narciso @85 re: Yemen raid

    No bad military decisions, but probably faulty intelligence in Yemen raid. They’re basically saying nobody made a mistake, but they’re reviewing what happened so they don’t make mistakes like that again.

    Sammy Finkelman (4a6ffc) — 3/10/2017 @ 9:22 am

    Peopled get killed in war. Nimitz, my personal hero, said after bloody Tarawa, that the burden of command was knowing you were sending men to their deaths.

    I believe he answered every “you killed my son” letter.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  101. So she was a riyadh Al salih, (black widow) who was valuable enough to be traded for a Saudi diplomAT who had been nabbed by a returning detainee

    http://english.aawsat.com/mounir-al-mawri/news-middle-east/yemens-qaeda-arwa-anas-baghdadi-killed-baida-operation

    narciso (d1f714)

  102. @105, coronello, I couldn’t get away with anything as a kid. My Monsignor had captured 11 NORKs at pistol point. This guy gave me a job.

    http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Jack-Macy-Korean-War-vet-dies-3171579.php

    You want to talk about common sense? I don’t know how common sensical it is.

    As a Marine, Jack Macy took that “leave no man behind” thing very seriously.

    In the first days of the Korean War, he ran through withering fire to pull wounded comrades to safety, and he tried unsuccessfully to retrieve the body of a dead Marine.

    They had to order him not to go back for the body.

    How my dad the sainted Coastie Senior Chief didn’t end up as a red smear on a white hull, I’ll never know.

    And have you met my DI?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=19&v=415HQ1t2ZNI

    Pressure Point (1990)

    What I’m saying, coronello, is I’ve obviously been the victim of bad influences.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  103. Dustin, I whole heartedly appreciate the greeting. But I didn’t go anywhere. I just didn’t feel I had anything to say.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  104. My DI wasn’t as warm and human in real life like he appears in the video. He made me perform unnatural acts on an M1 Garand.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  105. I know how to clean a gun. Scrubbing it with oven cleaner ain’t it.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  106. I forget what it was but it was a chemical that should never touch metal.

    Steve57 (0b1dac)

  107. “ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER:

    “The Deep State Is a Figment of Steve Bannon’s Imagination.”

    —Headline, the Politico, Thursday.

    “Rogue Twitter Accounts Fight to Preserve the Voice of Government Science.”

    —Headline, The Intercept, yesterday.

    As Melissa Mackenzie of the American Spectator tweets, “Find them. Fire them,” adding, “Dear President Trump, It’s time to go Sherman on these unelected government bureaucrats. Sincerely, Taxpayers.”

    Faster, please.”

    https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/259599/

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  108. Oddly ms Schulman was sen advisor to Susan rice, quadren review advisor to gates, just folk you know.

    narciso (b80f14)

  109. Btw,
    There is absolutely no medical reason to doubt Johnson is HIV positive.
    Repeat that as many times as you wish, it is true.
    Somebody will need to email me if I have to explain.

    MD in Philly (20438e)


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