"The new fool of the White House got a painful slap across his face."

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Al Qaeda leader mocks 'the new fool of the White House' after Yemen raid

(CNN)Days after a raid on an al Qaeda compound in Yemen led to the first US military combat death under Donald Trump, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released an audio message taunting the new American President.

In an 11-minute recording, AQAP leader Qassim al-Rimi condemned the January 29 raid, saying, "The new fool of the White House received a painful slap across his face."
The message was released online Saturday and translated by the SITE Intelligence Group.

In the recording, Rimi also claimed "dozens of Americans were killed and wounded," a number starkly at odds with the US account, which reported the death of one Navy SEAL, Chief Petty Officer William "Ryan" Owens. Three additional SEALs also were wounded.
Rimi acknowledged the deaths of 14 men and 11 women and children in the raid, a joint counterterrorism effort between the United States and United Arab Emirates.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/politics/yemen-raid-al-qaeda/

“America is not respected around the world anymore.”

-Donald John Trump

[PearliePoo2]

1. This is just the beginning of the taunting the 'fool' is going to get. And it will set him off.

The thin-skinned, revenge-addicted 'fool' is also trigger happy. He can't stand to be mocked or laughed at.
All in all...a BAD recipe for the planet.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Drumpf will beat him with a tweet./nt

[putitinD]

26. thems nukin' words.

[gordianot]

3. Donald does not know the difference between fear and respect.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. Mr. Qassim al-Rimi seems to neither fear or respect him.

[gordianot]

6. Given his line of work a missile could fly through the window any given day.

Occupational hazard.

[Hugin]

5. He also confuses intimidation with leadership.

Seems to be a common trait in authoritarians.

[gordianot]

7. The world apparently does not work like Donald thought.

[raccoon]

44. IME, that's a common trait among bosses.

I've had some good bosses.

But IME and IMO many people think the way to be a boss is to be an asshole.

[Big Blue Marble]

8. Let's not gloat because

a man who would destroy us with nuclear weapons if he could obtain them
is mocking our president. We are better than this.

[leftynyc]

9. Whose gloating?

FYI - That sounds EXACTLY like what a right winger would claim.

[Big Blue Marble]

12. That is the best you have?

#Alternative Facts.

[leftynyc]

13. How about you answer my question

about who is gloating before you try to act all offended?

[Big Blue Marble]

23. Hey,

My, My, who is offended? Not me.

[leftynyc]

32. Of course YOU'RE not offended

Nobody made a disgusting charge about YOU. It was YOU that made it to fellow DUers and were asked to back it up which you STILL haven't done. Well? Where is your evidence? Are you ever going to show it or are you going to merely continue to deflect from YOUR charge?

[Big Blue Marble]

34. Hopefully it is just the stress of the last couple of weeks

that has you so on edge. Your response is way over the top; lots of
unsupported accusations without evidence. I will let it go given the
stressful times in which we live. Please give thought to being more
considerate to those with which you disagree. It will actually help
you feel like a nicer person.

[leftynyc]

36. LOL

YOU make a charge that fellow DUers are gloating over a repulsive terrorist who slammed the degenerate and were asked for evidence. Since then all you've done is deflect from YOUR disgusting charge and NOW you way I have made unsupported accusations. You - who make the charge in the first place. Sounds like right wing fantasy land where up is down.

But I've nicely proved my point and showed everyone where you're coming from so now I'm done with humiliating you as you made that far too easy for me.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. Can you point out where any members of our community have gloated over this incident?

Thank you in advance.

[Big Blue Marble]

11. Have you read the responses on this thread.

Qassim al-Rimi is a dangerous man. He wants to kill you. I will not weaponize
him to attack Trump.

[leftynyc]

14. WHO IS GLOATING?

Back up that RIDICULOUS claim with a link to ANY POST on this thread that is gloating.

[Big Blue Marble]

16. Perhaps this will help:

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gloating

to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction:

Maybe in this context you will reread the comments in this thread.

[leftynyc]

18. I hardly need lessons from you

about what things mean. Find a post, point it out and explain why you think it's gloating. Until then, you're just spouting off bullshit and expect people to swallow it. I'm not going to let you trash fellow Democrats like that. Back up your bullshit.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

21. This is Trump's problem.

The terrorists are not afraid to die. That alters the conduct of war. Trump fails to realize that.

[leftynyc]

33. Do YOU see anyone gloating here?

Am I missing something?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. Who is gloating?

Drumpf is learning the difference between campaigning and governing and that not every foe can be beat with a tweet.

[Big Blue Marble]

20. Trump will learn nothing and you know that.

We should not hate Trump so much that we take glee in seeing such a
dangerous man who most likely has or certainly might kill our countrymen,
attack our presidency. Otherwise we sink to the level of the ignorance on the right.

I certainly have no issue with your posting this important article so that
we might understand the implications and ramifications of this failed
raid. We cannot even be sure that the failure can be laid at Trump's door,
even though ultimately the CIC has to take the responsibility.

I do take issue with the simplistic facile and gleeful responses weaponizing
our enemy to attack someone we despise. If we are going to successfully
resist this crisis, we need to be better than this.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

24. All Trump's blustering does is empower them.

When you have an opponent who isn't afraid to die and almost welcomes death which he or she believes brings martyrdom you need to have a better solution than "beat the s--t out of them."

The goal should be to empower those Muslims who find terrorism abhorrent. Trump's attacks on Islam writ large is doing the opposite.

[Big Blue Marble]

29. I am totally in agreement that Trump's blustering approach

will likely fail and at unimaginable costs. And our enemies will use his
ineptitude and incompetence to their advantage. Our hope is that the
military and the IC will be able to minimize his damage to our country
and the successful fight against terrorism.

[leftynyc]

17. Well?

That was quite a disgusting charge you made against (supposed) fellow democrats and now that you've been asked for proof, you're awfully silent. Care to back up your bullshit?

[Big Blue Marble]

22. Your hostility is impressive.

High or low?

Do you always argue with personal attacks. It is really not that effective.
If your intent is to intimidate, I do not intimidate that easily.

[leftynyc]

31. Spare me the drama bullshit

YOU made a disgusting charge about fellow DUers that is so obvious a lie that instead of even trying to back it up you accuse me of intimidation merely for asking for proof of your charge. So as far as I see it, I've proved my point (over and over) and you're stuck trying to deflect from your disgusting charge. My job is done.

[MFM008]

35. Not my president

Never.
please don't say OUR.

[Big Blue Marble]

38. I should have said presidency.

I, too, have much difficulty in even seeing the man in the WH.

[Jake Stern]

37. Depends how you define gloating

Not encouraging it nor did I ask a terrorist to produce a video spanking the president BUT I don't feel the least bit sad that super duper big 'n' bad Trump is getting openly mocked in front of the world.

As for terrorists being empowered: they were empowered well before this shit went down. The USA's nonstop interventions in the Middle East have been their best recruiting tool.

[Big Blue Marble]

39. It is very expected that these terrorists

will mock our attempts to stop them. It is a great recruiting tool.

Trump is being mocked around the world; we do not need to
applaud our enemy, who is a member of the terrorist group that
has killed 1000's of Americans, who also mocks this man.


To do otherwise, only makes our resistance look weaker.

[Jake Stern]

40. Certainly not applauding Mr. Terrorist

But not going to tut-tut him for this video either.

Tired of the insinuation that if, heaven forbid, you even feel a bit of schadenfreude that epic Islamophobe and arrester of 5 year olds Donald Trump is being nose thumbed by a REAL fucking terrorist you're an ISIL/AQ symp.

That's the kind of either/or bullshit I expect out of the faux patriots at FR.

[NCTraveler]

19. Fuck you Qassim al-Rimi. Piece of shit. nt.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

25. Trump's demonization of Islam is empowering gangsters like him.

Trump is greasing the skids for another attack so he can increase repression at home and entangle us in a war against all of Islam.


Trump is Qassim al-Rimi's witting or unwitting accomplice as he is Vladimir Putin's.

[NCTraveler]

27. Qassim al-Rimi needs no empowering. At all. That isn't to say Trump won't empower others.

This lowlife piece of shit seems to know how Trump works. He gains an advantage by having more US troops fighting abroad. Trump isn't smart enough to figure this shit out. There really is a chance that people like this taunting Trump will be enough to get Trump to send even more troops overseas. Qassim al-Rimi, true scum of the earth, will gain in two ways by Trump reacting. First, it's easier and cheaper to kill Americans overseas than it is to get them into this country. Second, each one we kill overseas generates even more anti-American sentiment. It is a clearly losing strategy.

[Hortensis]

41. Two plus one more way. After all, ISIS is an end-times movement.

They need a final great battle against the west, its center in an area somewhere northeast of Syria and Turkey, the name of which I've forgotten, and which their god will of course make sure they win in his name.

It's hard to imagine that any people were happier than the embattled ISIS leadership when The Great Satan elected Donald Trump. Allah is great, etc.

[bullwinkle428]

42. Are you talking about the name of that town that ISIS had named

their magazine after? That was "Dabiq", and they've since changed the name to "Roumiya" after getting their asses run out of the town of Dabiq.

[Hortensis]

43. Yes, thanks, though I'm remembering an area there

even more. But, is Allah great or what? Trump is proof to those whose faith might have weakened that their holy cause will prevail.

[3catwoman3]

30. "America is not respected around the world anymore."

And Trump is going to big a big reason why.