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Aug 30 2019 06:09pm
Quote (IceMage @ Aug 30 2019 08:01pm)
You think presidents should randomly tweet out high def pictures from American technology covering Iran?

C'mon man... you don't have to be a Trump critic like myself to be a little worried that he's just tweeting out surveillence photos from his PDB. This isn't partisan stuff... you don't have to defend every single thing he does.


lol

Everyone in this universe is aware that we spy on Iran. It's a picture, that's all. Showing them the photo literally does nothing unless it's some sort of 'we know what you're doing move' to instill fear.

If we were planning an operation against that site and he tweeted about it before i'd get the concern but this meh....
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Aug 30 2019 06:12pm
Quote (ofthevoid @ Aug 30 2019 08:09pm)
lol

Everyone in this universe is aware that we spy on Iran. It's a picture, that's all. Showing them the photo literally does nothing unless it's some sort of 'we know what you're doing move' to instill fear.

If we were planning an operation against that site and he tweeted about it before i'd get the concern but this meh....


And you think Trump should be the judge of whether a picture in his intelligence briefing can be tweeted? You don't think he should get an okay from the relevant experts and advisers?
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Aug 30 2019 06:16pm
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And you think Trump should be the judge of whether a picture in his intelligence briefing can be tweeted? You don't think he should get an okay from the relevant experts and advisers?


Idk how it works but i would assume his twitter handle goes through some sort of control. The more i think about it this has everything to do with letting them know that we know what they are up to which isn't necessarily a bad thing
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Aug 30 2019 06:19pm
Quote (ofthevoid @ Aug 30 2019 08:16pm)
Idk how it works but i would assume his twitter handle goes through some sort of control. The more i think about it this has everything to do with letting them know that we know what they are up to which isn't necessarily a bad thing


As I said:

Quote (IceMage @ Aug 30 2019 07:59pm)
If I was an optimist I would say that Trump asked his intel and military advisers about it, and coordinated with the relevant folk to tweet this out.

But I'm not an optimist.


If this was a coordinated effort to send some type of message, I'm cool. The problem is that with Trump's history, I don't know if it was coordinated. And the Iranians don't know either. Especially under Trump, a coordinated government effort has significantly more legitimacy than just an angry tweet.

This post was edited by IceMage on Aug 30 2019 06:20pm
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If I was Iran, and I saw a photo like that, I'd be seriously considering the wisdom of "pissing off the US".

Trump does have the power to declassify any federal document he wants too. He has that power ONLY because he IS the president.
Unlike Clinton who did it repeatedly, w/o the authority to do so.

Other than that...it's just a picture, and anyone that DOESN'T know we have an uber satellite system, probably shouldn't be playing on the international stage, until they get a clue.
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Not a real tweet.
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Aug 31 2019 12:28am
Is it just me or is this constant fake news just getting boring?
If all your smears are made up then it's hard to claim any moral high ground.
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Is it just me or is this constant fake news just getting boring?
If all your smears are made up then it's hard to claim any moral high ground.


It's just you.
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