#abc interview

“You know, getting back into theater, after “Thrones” ( yes, please, Kit!!!) I’d love to do another TV series. I’ve really enjoyed it, and it’s been very important to me. The thing I’m not going to try  and do is complete with success of “Thrones”. You only get something like that once in your life. To try and chase that success, whatever that was, is a mistake”

“Cowboy sounded like a great place to go next... the first thing you do when you’re a kid is playing around, pick up cowboy guns and shoot your friends with them” (On Brimstone)

(my gif)

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/kit-harington-talks-emotional-end-game-thrones-movie/story?id=46042038

Alec Baldwin Says He ‘Didn’t Pull the Trigger’ in Interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Since Rust Shooting

Alec Baldwin is giving his first televised interview following the fatal shooting on the set of Rust, and ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos says he’s never experienced anything like it in his career, stating that “This was the most intense I’ve ever experienced.” (more…)

Swiftie everywhere:

In my last post, I included this line:

You can’t put the fear of Trump into Iraq by saying you want to take their oil, and then get, say, Pakistan to help you fight ISIS in Iraq.  

There is a ton to unpack here, so I decided to do it in a separate post.  Most of this info comes from two segments on the Rachel Maddow show.  

Iraq is one of the two countries where ISIS has the strongest presence.  It’s also one where the US has troops on the ground, right now, fighting ISIS alongside Iraqi troops.  The US troops are very few in number compared to the Iraqi ones; they act as advisers, provide air support, things like that.  Many of us probably have mixed feelings about their being there, but it’s an incontrovertible fact that they’re there, they’re in harm’s way, and they’re making progress. 

Example--they (meaning Iraqi troops with US help) just liberated the eastern half of the city of Mosul.  Mosul is Iraq’s second-largest city, and it’s been in ISIS control for years.  All the schools were shut down, people were afraid to go out in the streets, food supplies were limited, people were burning their furniture to keep warm, the whole bit.  Now half of it--the part east of the Tigris river--has been liberated, schools are reopening, they’ve definitely still got problems, but things are better.  Plans are being made to cross the river and liberate the other half, too.  

Pretty much simultaneously with this great thing happening, Trump stands up in front of the CIA and says, “We should have kept the oil--maybe you’ll get another chance.”  

First thing to note here is that what Trump is proposing is a war crime.  At that link, you can see the actual text of provisions it violates in the 1907 Hague Convention, the 1947 Geneva Convention, and a 1974 UN resolution. This proposal (which Trump also made several times during the campaign and before) is not business savvy, it is a war crime, full stop.  

So, yeah.  Instead of the US and Iraq working together to fight ISIS (and winning!) we now have Iraqis wondering if US troops are really there to steal oil, and and US troops watching their backs in case Iraqi troops decide to preemptively stop them from doing so.  

What’s ISIS doing, meanwhile?  Whatever the hell they want.

Trump thinks he’s making himself look strong by talking tough.  What he’s actually doing is threatening an ally, endangering US troops, and increasing tensions in an already volatile region.  

In his ABC interview a day or two later, after he’d had time to become informed about how dangerous it was for a President to say what he said, he was given the opportunity to walk it back.  Instead, he repeated “we should have kept the oil,” and waved off the dangers by saying that the world, and Muslims in particular, are already “as angry as it gets,” and couldn’t get angrier.  

President Trump held his first White House interview this week with ABC’s David Muir. The whole interview was a disastrous mess, with Trump saying one stupid thing after another.

But Trump couldn’t end the interview without repeating his lies about the crowd at his inauguration. In a very creepy moment, Trump tried to convince the world that he had huge crowds watching him take office.

The interview started with a discussion of the Chicago violence, then meandered through more Trump lies about torture and the Iraq war. One couldn’t help but feel unsettled by the end of the interview.

Then Trump decided to show Muir several White House pictures. The last picture showed Trump being sworn in.

Trump tried to use the picture to justify his claim that his inauguration crowd was the largest one ever. Trump’s ego can’t stand the fact that he had such a small crowd compared to past presidents, and he can’t let this lie go.

Trump said, “Now, the audience was the biggest ever, but this crowd was massive. Look how far back it goes.”

Then Trump got really creepy by saying, “But when you look at this tremendous sea of love…it’s really something special that all these people traveled here from all parts of the country, maybe the world…they loved what I had to say, but more importantly, they’re gonna love the result.”

Trump bases his claims on a cropped shot of a small portion of the inauguration crowd. The full pictures show the crowd was tiny compared with President Obama’s inauguration crowd.

But Trump can’t be reasoned with. In his reality the crowd was huge, everyone loves him, and the whole country was cheering him on.

This man is completely divorced from reality. This is supposed to be the leader of the free world and the keeper of the largest nuclear arsenal in the world.

Trump is mentally unfit to be president, which should terrify everyone. Please help fight Trump’s lies by sharing this story on Facebook.

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