And it doesn’t seem to matter to his supporters how moronic he is.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/trump-transparent-border-wall-falling-drugs-mexico
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Or how…how…sorry, I can’t find the words for this one:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/14/15973464/white-house-election-integrity-doxx
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Do you not have any data protection laws?
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Do you think they might even matter to the current Administration?
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We even have an Emoluments Clause.
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But alas, there ain’t no sanity clause.
I know. I’ll see myself out…
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Come now, what laws have you so far seen applied to Trump and/or the Trump Administration? We have regulations and laws against perjury, against making false statements on the form that must be filled out to get a security clearance, against violating that security clearance once granted, laws requiring employees get paid, laws against fraud, laws against workplace sexual misconduct, the list goes on and on!
I see from your profile you hail from a country which has had its fair share of the wealthy and/or well-connected openly flaunting laws that would land a common person in serious legal trouble, even prison! You must know how it is.
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It’s rare I feel sorry for anyone at Faux News, but Shep Smith looks so lost:
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But, as @Crashproof notes, we also back the Saudis. So, we’re sort of playing off both sides here. We are most certainly anti-Assad, if nothing else, in part because of his strong Iranian ties. while we backed the shia led government in Iraq, we certainly did not want to see the backlash against sunnis as a result. We wanted a modern, secular government. But we’ve also spent years cultivating religiously-oriented parties across the region as a bulwark against the more secular, yet socialist leaning pan Arab movement of the 1960s.
I think the millions of refugees beg to differ there. Someone is at war with someone, because there is an actual war happening. The complicated nature of the alliances doesn’t mean that no one’s at war, but that the entanglements go deep and are very hard to parse.
I find that unlikely or if he attempted such he’d get MAJOR pushback. Again, the Iranian connections Assad has would make it pretty hard to switch. Israel sure as hell wouldn’t stand for that, and that’s the center of our policy in the region and has been for decades.
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Because brown people are scary to some white people.
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Who is running the release of such things, Julian Assange?
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No no no. “Scary” is the wrong terminology.
You need to say they “feel marginalized.”
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What @LearnedCoward said… and 20+ years of non stop hate machine propaganda against the person the other party ran.
Seriously there were a lot of peeps that were upset enough at a black man being president and it would just be worse if a woman was much less a woman carrying the rightwing hate propaganda Hillary did.
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The right-wing hatred for Clinton was more practiced than Obama Dementia Syndrome, but not much different in character or number of people afflicted. The difference was a little more voter suppression in a few more states and nearly zero effort by Clinton to credibly generate enthusiasm for herself. Instead, she fell back to focusing on the personal stupidity of Rump. She really let the policy and criminality fall by the wayside, thinking that would cost her the class-warfare support of the criminal rich. At least, that’s my assumption.
I’d rather give her the benefit of the doubt that it was strategy rather than incompetence. But I don’t care much either way right now.
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It is odd that there is so much fuss about the Russians and so little about AIPAC.
Reincarnation should be made possible so Balfour could be brought back to apologise for his Declaration. (We were discussing this sort of thing the other day - is the truth that politicians in the past have in fact been just as borderline demented as Trump, but that without Twitter and the like it had been possible for civil servants to conceal the fact? What would Churchill, Nixon or Stalin have done with Twitter?)
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ftfy. We all live in the same glass house, and we all like to throw rocks.
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Yup, I like to throw rocks, but those glass houses just get in the way of hitting those law-flouting one-percenters…
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There was a book about AIPAC and it’s influence, though. And israel isn’t the only country who has a lobbying group in the US. Both Turkey and Armenia have one, for example, as I’m sure do many other countries, especially those who aren’t developed countries and need to get US backing in some way.
A lot of people also agree with AIPAC’s general aims, which is a strong, militarily fortified Jewish state (some would take that at the expense of a democratic state, too), as our key ally in the region. Plus, worrying over AIPAC in a public manner smacks a bit too much of antisemitism for many - the whole idea of a secret cabel of Jews running the world.
The Russians have a long history of not really being our allies in the past 100 years (except during the second world war, and in that case, they wouldn’t have been had Hitler not turned on Stalin - he would have happily sat out the war, if he’d gotten his buffer zone).
Now I really hope that someone has a Stalin twitter feed, that talks about what was happening in Soviet history, but on the twitters. That’s a pardoy that needs to happen!
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I was being glib/snarky. There’s no official war declared, but it’s been a warzone for years.
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My bad. Sorry to misunderstand.
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