Has anyone thought to GRILL the President or Don Jr. on what the end game of all these discussions are if they are about adoption? Trump and team seem hard at work at it. So where's the action on all this talk? I'm sure we'll get one of his lame excuses that there's a great, great plan/announcement coming in two weeks and then never does.

I wouldn't put it past Russia to lift the ban just to give credence to this load of shit. Or not. Who knows at this point.

tblue37

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7. Trump's two weeks to an announcement is like the Friedman Unit in the

Reply to NCDem47 (Reply #4)

Thu Jul 20, 2017, 08:56 PM

Jul 2017

Iraq War:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_Unit

Friedman Unit

The Friedman Unit, or simply Friedman, is a tongue-in-cheek neologism. One Friedman Unit is equal to six months, specifically the "next six months", a period repeatedly declared by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman to be the most critical of the then-ongoing Iraq War even though such pronouncements extended back over two and a half years.

History

The term is in reference to a May 16, 2006, article by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) detailing the repeated use by columnist Thomas Friedman of "the next six months" as the period in which, according to Friedman, "we're going to find out... whether a decent outcome is possible" in the Iraq War. As documented by FAIR, Friedman had been making such six-month predictions for a period of two and a half years, on at least fourteen different occasions, starting with a column in the November 30, 2003, edition of The New York Times, in which he stated: "The next six months in Iraq—which will determine the prospects for democracy-building there—are the most important six months in U.S. foreign policy in a long, long time."

In tribute to Friedman's recurring prognostications, blogger Duncan Black (Atrios) coined the eponymous unit.

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