Reply 1 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 10/10/2025 6:35:43 PM (No. 2015138)
I just checked. I don't appear to be melting at all. How 'bout y'all?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 10/10/2025 6:42:05 PM (No. 2015141)
Nope. Me neither.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 10/10/2025 6:51:49 PM (No. 2015145)
Sooooo...who here is a member of Lucianne from way back...as in having been a regular poster the morning of September 11.
Anyone? A few? Some? Many?
Any of you understand WHY some people are concerned?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/10/2025 6:55:49 PM (No. 2015147)
I have been here for decades. I don't like this at all.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 10/10/2025 6:58:54 PM (No. 2015149)
Don't believe everything you read. We are not snowflakes, and we are not melting. Like most things I know little about at first, I try to read up a little before spouting off.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 10/10/2025 7:00:44 PM (No. 2015150)
I don't think this is a good idea, but I'll wait and see what it really means. And i am not melting down.
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Not only no, but HELL NO.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 10/10/2025 7:25:40 PM (No. 2015154)
Poster #3, I've been here since April 2001. And I don't know why he's giving Qatar an Air Force Base in Idaho. But let's wait and see what happens.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas 10/10/2025 7:32:44 PM (No. 2015155)
I'm not melting and it is certainly grab my attention, but I'm with 5. President Trump has earned the right to be heard first. It may be that the media outlets have blocked him, or that there is an acceptable reason for it. Clearly, he would know this would provoke this kind of response and would want to get out in front of it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 10/10/2025 7:35:19 PM (No. 2015156)
Why does Qatar need an air force base in the US?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
minuteman 10/10/2025 7:35:22 PM (No. 2015157)
I have been here since 1999, I think.
Qatar is a very rich Muslim snake and I do not like this at all.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
privateer 10/10/2025 7:37:00 PM (No. 2015158)
I've been posting since Kilinoon's second run at Pres. I cant' see any reason for this. It sounds very much like a bribe to keep Qatar on board with a peace settlement. Did this stupid giveaway include them throwing the Hamass billionaire leaders out of their country? I thought not. Kick Qatar to the Gatar.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
chumley 10/10/2025 7:42:11 PM (No. 2015160)
I've been here since late 1999, and while not melting down, I am very concerned. What is with American politicians wanting those Moslem troglodytes here? In what way do they benefit our society or culture in any way? They will metastasize in Idaho just like they have done everywhere else they've been defecated out. And the more that cancer spreads the harder it will be to remove.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
philsner 10/10/2025 7:42:57 PM (No. 2015161)
Consider the source.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Catherine 10/10/2025 7:48:47 PM (No. 2015162)
I don't remember the year I started reading here but I'd seen Miss Lucianne on Geraldo's show and that's how I learned about this site. I guess it was during the Clinton administration.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Turninggrey 10/10/2025 8:04:09 PM (No. 2015164)
I do not know why this is a problem. We already have Singapore at Mountain Home AFB training in the F-15. Although Qatar has had a hand in terrorism, they are running the fine line all Muslim nations run between appeasing the Islamist hordes and progress. It seems they may be choosing moderation AND most of this deal was already done by the auto pen administration.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
petelehman13 10/10/2025 8:16:40 PM (No. 2015166)
Look, one the source is sketchy - people who are already mad that Trump had a great day. Two, so Qatari pilots train here...they probably already do anyway. Be at peace, be vigilant, but calm down.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Citoyen 10/10/2025 8:18:28 PM (No. 2015168)
I am not melting down. President Trump has determined that our country needs to hedge its bets in the Middle East. We have Israel as a strong ally. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Jordan, have been useful in pursuing mutual goals. Why not coax Qatar into that fold? As the article says Singapore also has a training base here in our country. Trump seems to be moving from "Israel is everything" or "Israel is nothing," as espoused by the last two Democrat presidents, towards a Middle East comprised of Israel and the functioning Arab lands finally coexisting, if not in love but at least in peace.
Mark Levin is absolutely livid about this and he may be right, although his judgement is compromised by his almost personal hatred of Qatar, similar to his hatred of Putin. I trust our president to see the big picture unclouded by personal animus.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
volksford 10/10/2025 8:21:38 PM (No. 2015169)
No one is giving Qatar an Air Force base ,this kind of joint training has been going on for many years. Notice the base is hosting pilots and training.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 10/10/2025 8:22:03 PM (No. 2015171)
From a CBS article: "Later Friday, Hegseth clarified that Qatar would not have its own base in the U.S., writing on X: "The U.S. military has a long-standing partnership w/ Qatar, including today's announced cooperation w/ F-15QA aircraft. However, to be clear, Qatar will not have their own base in the United States-nor anything like a base. We control the existing base, like we do with all partners."
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
stablemoney 10/10/2025 8:24:24 PM (No. 2015172)
This is a dumb idea. I don't see how this can be legal. I know Congress will never approve it.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 10/10/2025 8:35:13 PM (No. 2015175)
Relax. UNtil we get more informaton.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
mc squared 10/10/2025 8:35:42 PM (No. 2015176)
Sounds like the Babylon Bee. Otherwise, a vary bad idea
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
qr4j 10/10/2025 8:55:45 PM (No. 2015182)
What a load of old cobblers! Not melting. Who’s melting? Dems who can’t give Mr. Trump any credit for bringing peace to the Middle East?
And they horse they road in on!!!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 10/10/2025 8:56:18 PM (No. 2015184)
New Republic article is full of lies, half truths and endless slurs against Trump.
We did NOT give them a base. They will have some of their training aircraft at a US base, and train there.
Common practice for customers who buy US aircraft.
A family member taught Iranian pilots under the Shah in US aircraft, part of the deal buying Phantoms and F-14s.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
hershey 10/10/2025 9:08:25 PM (No. 2015186)
NEVER give a muslim a foothold in this country...don't these people know what they are all about??? You can't coexist with someone who wants to cut your head off...
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Sofia 10/10/2025 10:17:30 PM (No. 2015200)
Base for Qatar, missiles for Pakistan, neither country supports liberty and justice for all, neither is democratic, one of them hosted osama for years.
Who are we pissing off? A natural democratic ally in India, whose constitution is based on the US constitution and is an actual functioning democracy. Why? Because they didn’t nominate Trump for the Nobel.
How are we going to explain this away?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Kate318 10/10/2025 11:14:36 PM (No. 2015211)
This indious interpretation of this story is getting way more traction than it deserves. The Qataris are not building a base here. It is an existing U.S. base that will stay a U.S. base and will be used to train their pilots on the equipment that we are selling them. This happens with US bases all over the world.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 10/10/2025 11:17:44 PM (No. 2015213)
Notwithstanding the content of the article, which is disquieting to me, I'm grateful to #3 for asking something I've been thinking a lot about lately. I've been posting here since November, 2000, when my father read my increasingly frantic emails about Al Gore"s attempted post-election coup and said "There's a web site you might want to visit." I've been here (with one self-imposed three year gap) ever since.
As an old time L-Dotter, I've often wondered how many of us are left. #3, #4, #8, #11, #12, #13, and #18 are all well known and welcome screen names to me. I don't know how long #6 has been here, but we have much in common. And while he's not on this thread, I search and read everything Hazy posts because he writes so well.
As a long-time L-Dotter, I'm well aware of the site rules against chatting, so I won't tell everyone above, and all those who have left or we have lost, how grateful I am for this site and the fellowship I've found here.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
govlawyer 10/11/2025 3:03:22 AM (No. 2015230)
The New Republic spinning our "anger" is laughable (and I was here back in the days when we called Killary PIAPS and Chelsea "the spawn of Satan"); I'm not melting until I get an authoritative source explain why I need to.
The Qataris don't have an airforce, which is why they built us a base a while ago. If all we're doing is allowing them to set up a training facility and train with our people, what is the issue.
Don't let the libs and NR (house journal of the GOPe) tell us what to think.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/11/2025 4:44:38 AM (No. 2015236)
Donald Trump has done a spectacular job thus far. I will trust him on this action as well. It's like people are asking, "What have you done for us today?"
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
mifla 10/11/2025 4:53:59 AM (No. 2015239)
The art of the deal. Trump is removing Qatar from the terrorist chessboard.
Qatar may be more worried about Iran and would like to have a military that is good enough to stop them.
Perhaps Qatar, like other Arab countries has finally determined that Hamas creates more problems than they solve. We shall see.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/11/2025 5:42:04 AM (No. 2015263)
The F-15 is now considered old technology, having been around since 1976 and is in use all over the world. I would not doubt that they could be remotely disabled but you did not hear that here.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
5 handicap 10/11/2025 5:42:52 AM (No. 2015265)
"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer". O don't know who originally said that, but it makes a lot of sense to me! I do not know for sure where Qatar fits into that metric but this move by the Donald might be a well thought out strategy comprised of many similar moves. Chess anyone?
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Amoeba 10/11/2025 5:56:04 AM (No. 2015272)
the 8th beast of the Bible wins another front in its battle against Judah and the lost tribes. Trump is getting bad advice from someone. But I aint melting. I know how it all ends.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 10/11/2025 6:26:33 AM (No. 2015284)
Blessed to have been here since Miss Lucianne told Monika to not have the ‘blue dress’ dry cleaned...
Also met ‘Engraved on His Hands’ and his wife at the LDot Gathering many years ago one weekend in Tennessee.
Question 1 is this source, who is The New Republic?
Question 2 is if you bought a new model plane, wouldn’t it be a good idea to get a few lessons on flying it?
Also, above all, have read so much about SecDef Pete Hegseth, he’s a trustworthy Prince among men.
TBIYTC
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Red Jeep 10/11/2025 6:26:48 AM (No. 2015285)
Why can't Quatar train at an existing military base?
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Msquared112 10/11/2025 6:53:24 AM (No. 2015290)
#3 & Co, while I think everything Trump has done so far is outstanding, I have a really bad feeling about this Qatar thing. I hope I'm wrong, so yes, I'm "melting down" over it. History has shown that deals with Arabs and Muslims are iffy at best, but to have a military Arab/Muslim entity on our own soil is jarring. Whose idea was this? If Hegseth, hmmm, not as much confidence as I'd have if it were Trump's idea.
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I'm going with "consider the source" here. I see that Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling is an associate writer covering breaking news at The New Republic. Her work has also appeared in The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Gothamist and The Real Deal.
Trump has done this country a world of good. However, there is nothing wrong with doubting Trump's judgement on this site. We are critical thinkers, no lemmings. He was wrong on pushing the covid vaccine and vents, and I believe he is wrong on funding AI.
(I've been around for a long time too.)
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Tanker76 10/11/2025 7:43:49 AM (No. 2015303)
This is nothing new. As a young Armor Captain, detailed to the Foreign Liaison Office at Ft Knox, while waiting, for my course to start, I was tasked with greeting foreign officers and their families at the airport, transporting them to Ft Knox and getting them settled in. There were Jordanians, Saudies, Qataris (including the crown prince), Egyptians, Greeks, Pakistanis, and Norwegians, among others, in my class alone. And this was back in 1980.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Daisymay 10/11/2025 8:25:18 AM (No. 2015320)
I have been here since the Monica Lewinsky Scandal. I think that was 1997-98 No, I'm not melting, but I am worried! Don't see any advantage for our Country. Lots of advantages for Qatar!. We already have MN and Dearborn, do we need more?
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Adam 10/11/2025 8:42:17 AM (No. 2015339)
Poster #3 Yes and yes
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
JackBurton 10/11/2025 9:18:51 AM (No. 2015371)
The money shot from the article: “The freak out around this is of course totally unwarranted since this is actually a pretty common practice with countries that buy and operate a lot of U.S. military aircraft. Singapore has a similar facility and detachment for its F-15 training unit at this very same airbase,” Caldwell said.
We have this arrangement with about a dozen countries including Italy, Germany, Sweden and Japan. But the people writing the article forgot to include that.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Phantomll 10/11/2025 9:41:15 AM (No. 2015391)
Very misleading article. Back in the 50s, there were Italians in my USAF pilot training class; in the early 70s we trained student pilots from South Vietnam, Iran, Turkey, Venezuela, and Denmark; and in the early 90s we trained German F-4 pilots. All of this training took place on active USAF bases.
BTW, the F-15 is a jet fighter NOT a "fighter jet." Better yet, just call it a fighter; I don't think there are any more non-jet fighters around these days.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Venturer 10/11/2025 9:48:30 AM (No. 2015395)
I am not melting, but it is a mistake IMO.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
bighambone 10/11/2025 9:54:38 AM (No. 2015397)
No sense getting discombobulated over what will be a training base for Qatari Air Force pilots learning to fly the F-15 fighter aircraft that Qatar purchased from the USA. The German Air Force also has such a training base at a base in West Texas. Years ago went I was in Nebraska I remember that there were about ten British Royal Air Force jet bombers and a couple of aerial tankers stationed at a base just South of Omaha.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
jdano 10/11/2025 10:03:21 AM (No. 2015401)
Terrible idea. A Muslim is a muslim. They are incompatible with civilization. We all know what their goal is. Islam in it's entirety needs to be banned in western nations.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
bpl40 10/11/2025 10:07:25 AM (No. 2015406)
Look at the other side. Qatar has not got this for free. Not out of PDT the deal maker. I am sure the price has been extracted in terms of putting pressure on Hamas.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 10/11/2025 10:36:28 AM (No. 2015427)
I've been here since the first whore squirrel! ;)
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
Starlifter Nav 10/11/2025 10:39:14 AM (No. 2015428)
Please pay a attention to no. 19 and no. 44. No one is "giving them a base". We had German, Iranian ND Egyptian students in my flying training class in the mid 70s. They are training alongside Ameicans at Mountain Home AFB, an existing base which I had on my "dream sheet" in 1974. Maybe they'll have a small building for their students and some support personnel. Hardly any sort of "foothold".
Besides which, The New Republic is a leftist rag rivaling "The Nation" and not quite a "Mother Jones".
There's really not much to see here folks.
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
Socio 10/11/2025 10:40:25 AM (No. 2015429)
Maybe I am not seeing the forest for the trees here;
Why would you allow a country who's primary religion Islam teaches world domination at all cost, to have a military foothold of any kind within your borders?
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
Golden Goose 10/11/2025 10:52:27 AM (No. 2015434)
I’ve been here since the days when 10% of all posts were acuto making fun of motp. I’ve just changed usernames a couple of times.
I’m not melting down. I hope it’s only us throwing them a bone for a limited time.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 10/11/2025 11:44:32 AM (No. 2015454)
"What could possibly go wrong?"
Someone needs to fire Pete Hegseth.
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
Twinkle93 10/11/2025 12:26:38 PM (No. 2015474)
A little false reporting. They are not being given an air force base.
They are going to an air force base for training like many foreign pilots have done over many years.
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
Italiano 10/11/2025 12:28:38 PM (No. 2015475)
If it were Obama, Biden, Harris, Blinken, Fat Albert Austin, Rice, Sullivan, sure, it would be suicidal and worthy of a meltdown and retribution.
With these guys, I'm more concerned about the Omar's, Tlaib's, that POS Mamdani, et. al. The proven Enemies Within who need to be dealt with.
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 10/11/2025 1:05:23 PM (No. 2015491)
We believe Trump is doing this military agreement with Qatar here in Idaho because it is a reward in helping with the peace deal with the Israel Gaza settlement. We don't live very far from Mt. Home where this base is situated, so it's a bit un-nerving. However, close by we have new buildings of Meta from Mark Zuckerberg that we're not happy about. Idaho seems to be the place of new growth and an explosion of new population.
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
GoldwaterGal 10/11/2025 1:09:12 PM (No. 2015492)
Now, this serious post has me thinking about some of our old valuable members. Been here since I found our lovely hostess on Drudge. So enjoyed "Lakerman","querty" and
"granddadfor6" plus several others. We have been blessed with so many witty and wise contributors through the years. Non of them melted but sadly some did fade away.
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
Hazymac 10/11/2025 1:16:26 PM (No. 2015493)
The New Republic (TNR), which I used to subscribe to long ago, introduced me to the writings of Dr. Charles Krauthammer, always worth my time. But the magazine went too far left, and is now somewhere in the fever swamps. I wouldn't believe anything TNR prints. Leftist liars, no better than CNN.
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
Felixed 10/11/2025 2:06:25 PM (No. 2015506)
Same old same old - a Woke/Prog propaganda machine claims to speak for someone, telling the world ALL about how that someone thinks - yet refuses to expose their "offering" to public discussion, any response at all from those they purport to speak for,
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Reply 60 - Posted by:
TXknitter 10/11/2025 2:25:15 PM (No. 2015512)
Thank you #3, I agree. I am a proud salon member since Bill and Monica days too.
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
Geoman 10/11/2025 3:55:12 PM (No. 2015520)
If I recall correctly, this site didn't achieve its current form as a predominately conservative news aggregation website until 2003. The longest running handle that I can remember from the early days is Dreadnaught, a trusted poster, who still contributes fairly regularly. On the Qatari issue, evidently Sec. Hegseth signed a 'letter of acceptance' yesterday, allowing the construction of a "Qatari air force facility" at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho. So it is a "facility" requiring construction but not a separate "base." On Sept. 29, Trump issued an executive order guaranteeing the security and territorial integrity of Qatar. The order stated that any attack on Qatar would be considered a threat to U.S. national security and may be met with a U.S. military reprisal. He never issued an order like that on behalf of Israel, the object of Islamic warfare and terrorism against the civilian population since Israel's inception. Qatar has been cultivating Trump, and not the U.S. per se, at least since May, when they gave him a 747 for his new A.F. 1. I guess the problem of hostile foreign entities buying land near U.S. military bases has been addressed by openly installing them within an active U.S. military base. What could possibly go wrong having the military of an Islamic hereditary monarchy from a country whose legal system is based on Islamic law, building their own military facility located within a U.S.A.F. base, that is a part of our Air Combat Command?
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Reply 62 - Posted by:
NYbob 10/11/2025 4:31:06 PM (No. 2015528)
Wow. Lucianne has been a beacon of reason for decades. Yes, I measure years by tens now. There have always been a percentage of posters who believe the clickbait, while never learning that media has been amped up tabloid fake news for a long time. Maybe read all the posts before commenting. You will get a broader education and actual facts from the comments here, than you will by the kind of 'shaped' news from new republic propagandists. I don't know the master plan, and neither does Ellie or many posters here, but I am more than happy with President Trumps second term so far, so I will see where this goes, and trust this administration to continue to upset new republic hacks and others. Meanwhile, I would really, really, like EVERYONE to get a clue and stop Chinese or Chinese proxies, from buying one square inch of land in the USA. THAT is worth getting upset about.
BTW, been here so long, I remember when Luciannes son was still sane.
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Reply 63 - Posted by:
MickTurn 10/11/2025 6:38:48 PM (No. 2015554)
Keep your friends CLOSE and your enemies Closer.
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