Alright, so by happenstance.  Which is good.

I framed my 1st response in that way b/c I just found it humorous how the conversation leap-frogged from *THE EVENT* that just happened to..."here's how pathetic Trump was during/after *THE EVENT*."  Not just from your comment, mind you.  I can't help but think some in MSM are conjuring up new strategies to get around Trump announcing the leader of ISIS is confirmed dead. 

"Goddammit...and we were one year out!" 

It's not because it was his free time.  I even think he should be free to golf.  

The laughable part about the above is that the White House staged a picture pretending that he wasn't golfing.  

Really i do not care what he does in his free time,it is not really thoughtful to criticize him on that imo and if you do it for him you can do it for all of us.

This 100 million times.

I'm not saying Trump was or was not directly involved, or should be completely praised for this, or anything of the sort. But rather than talk about a huge success for the United States, not a single post was made referring to this success. Instead, it was figuring out how to yet again destroy Trump.

It is why I've for the most part stopped talking in this thread. As I've said a million times, I'm not the biggest fan of Trump, but this thread simply isn't "The Official US Politics OT". It is the exact same thing as every other political news story draped across storylines lately "The Official How Can We Shit on Trump". I'm not even going to say the guy hasn't made it relatively easier than prior presidents to do this (his Twitter rampages, and just downright stupid act sometimes, etc)...but that doesn't mean we can't still recognize a good event happening.

I've tried moving the topic to other major US discussion points (that don't necessarily have anything to do with Trump), and unfortunately, everything goes right back to the exact same things the news is talking about, and more things to shit on Trump for.

That is because Trump put himself in the story 100%. He lied about everything. At every point.

Yeah not so sure about that

The story wasn't "We got a really bad guy" it was all Trump.

Not cool

It was here is a picture. That was staged because he was golfing during it.

From Snopes: "Idlib, Syria, was six hours ahead of Eastern time on the day the raid occurred, so if the operation was indeed unfolding between 11:00 p.m. and midnight in Syria, that would correspond to the interval from 5  p.m. and 6:00 p.m. in Washington, D.C., at a time when the situation room photograph’s metadata indicated it was snapped."

Edit - wasn't there a long flight to the compound?  They leave at 3:30 EASTERN time and get there by 5 with Trump back at the White House by 4:18 PM?

The "he died like a dog" was all crap because they only had an overhead view and NO audio.

Could be, where are you getting the info on what view(s) they had?

The "I know bin laden was going to do 9/11 a year before" was just him randomly mentioning the name. He made no predictions or analysis there.

Trying to claim he was a bigger thread than Bin laden?

Ignoring that a lot of the intel we got was from the kurds. Who he didn't give credit to and instead almost jeopardized the mission forcing it to rush ahead of schedule BECAUSE he doesn't give a damn about the kurds.

They took the last window they had according to the NY times article you posted earlier. They had aborted a couple of times before this. To call it "RUSHED AHEAD OF SCHEDULE" is false

He wanted his Obama moment. He wanted to be the big bang President of the united states. And he wanted all the attention. Well he got that attention - and with every lie falling apart.

Outside of the "with every lie falling apart"  part I think you are likely right

And that is without going to the points like that he thanked Russia first, and informed randomly republicans and Russia, but not the gang of 8 or the THIRD most powerful person in the US.

I don't know who was told when what is your source on this one?

This right here.

Based on this, I nor a few billion, should worry about global warming, cooling, climate change, or whatever they call it next. Where we live is fine and people in our locations won't really have to worry for a very, very long time for the most part. Will it impact other places around the globe or even us eventually? WHO CARES? That's another issue to deal with for whoever, whenever that time comes. Sure we put CO2 into the air today, but it was basically gone tomorrow, so wherever it went, and whatever time period it becomes an issue, oh well. Different situation, in a different place, at a different time. Guess we don't need to take it into consideration right now. What a relief.

But wait... climate change is a major concern that everyone needs to pay attention to now, because everything is interconnected, not just through climate either, and so it all needs to be taken into account? Well if that's true then... or if it's false then...

Are you sure America deciding where and when it wants to help the rest of the world isn't a problem?