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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm wondering how long G is going to keep up this stupid line of thought?
Going on days now of just posting the same stupid bullshit over and over again.
Which "stupid bullshit?"
The, "Trump is a racist lying sack of shit?" part?
Maybe if you keep saying it and wishing on a star it will become true.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Donald Trump Loves Conspiracy Theories
Donald Trump built his political career on a conspiracy theory: The false claim that Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States.
But it’s not the only conspiracy theory he’s indulged.
Over the years, Trump has called everything from climate change to Russian meddling in the 2016 election a hoax. According to a recent report in the New York Times, he’s told associates that the Access Hollywood video of him bragging about touching women without their consent is also a hoax — even though he admitted making the remarks when it came out.
http://time.com/5050621/donald-trump-conspiracy-theories/
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Maybe if you keep saying it and wishing on a star it will become true.
Or just yanno, read and use your brain:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/05/31/trumps-li
es-about-the-russia-probe-devolve-into-absurdity/
THE MORNING PLUM:
This morning, President Trump floated a series of big lies about the Russia investigation. They aren’t normal or conventional lies. They are profoundly absurd exercises in up-is-downism — that is, enormous, preposterously audacious falsehoods that run directly contrary to facts that are widely known and ascertainable with great ease.
Which is the whole point.
First, Trump quoted Rush Limbaugh saying that the FBI never told Trump that the Russians tried to infiltrate his campaign, which Trump called a “hoax.” This is something that Trump has repeatedly floated in various forms, to push the idea that the FBI was actually spying on his campaign, rather than contacting Trump officials out of concern that his campaign risked being compromised by a hostile foreign power. Then Trump claimed that “I never fired James Comey because of Russia!”
The second of these, of course, is contradicted by the fact that Trump went on national television and flatly acknowledged that when he fired Comey as FBI director, he was thinking that “this Russia thing” is a “made-up story.” But the first statement deserves more attention, because it’s central to the narrative that Trump and his allies have fixed upon to discredit the original investigation (which has become special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe) as an Obama administration spy-ops effort to derail the Trump campaign."
Hey - you don't even have to read! A funny video just for you:
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That wuz halarious!
But its sad that he haz turned America into a joke.
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
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Originally posted by JO753:
That wuz halarious!
Yep, two thumbs up!!!
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Oh, I just don't see CC as a leftist. I think of him as a pro-Hillary Deep State propagandist - a neocon in Drag.
That's the funny thing about Leftists. There really isn't much difference between them.
I'm not talking about classical Liberals.
Unlike JSF, I don't just cast a wide net and call everyone left of Center a Libtard.
You need to recalibrate your Center Detector.
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Quote:He was just distracted by his urgent need to void his head with a bowel movement.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by JJ:
Those here always defending Trump G are void of class.
The word you're looking for, genius, is devoid.
A pretty comical statement coming from you.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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If there is any lasting benefit from the Trump era, it will lie in the Great Unmasking: the revelation of just how much bad faith pervades modern conservatism.
Some of us, of course, knew this all along, and are not surprised. Conversely, many centrists and much of the news media simply refuse to face up to the asymmetry of our politics and will persist with bothsidesism even as one side drives us into the abyss. But one can at least hope that the constant revelations of past hypocrisy will have some impact.
These revelations come on many fronts. Pious invokers of fiscal responsibility and hysterical debt alarmists are perfectly OK with tax cuts that explode the deficit. Professors who denounce campus political correctness as the greatest threat we face to free speech collude with right-wing activists to conduct opposition research on left-wing students.
Rather oddly, some of the few people on the right who really seem to believe what they were saying are foreign-policy neoconservatives. They misled us into a disastrous war; but they appear to have been sincere about their national security concerns, and are among the few Republicans who remain steadfast in their Never Trumpism. (Curse you, Donald Trump, for making me feel some respect for Bill Kristol!)
But almost everyone else on the right is revealing his true face. And now comes energy and environmental policy.
Over the past 40 years or so conservatives have become ever more strident in their attacks on environmental protection. They questioned the science; they insisted that any attempt to limit emissions would greatly damage economic growth; they denounced government intervention and declared the sanctity of free markets (even though Econ 101 calls for intervention in the case of negative “externalities” like pollution.)
But none of it was sincere. GOP climate skeptics have repeatedly given the game away, for example by touting new studies that they insisted would refute global warming, then rejecting those studies when they confirmed it. GOP economists who tout the limitless ability of markets to cope with change suddenly proclaim them utterly incapable of adapting to a carbon tax.
And now all that talk about free markets is revealed as the sham it always was.
Ten years ago the big debate . . . more at www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/opinion/coal-cash-and-bad-faith.html
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Originally posted by second:
If there is any lasting benefit from the Trump era, it will lie in the Great Unmasking: the revelation of just how much bad faith pervades modern conservatism.
Some of us, of course, knew this all along, and are not surprised. Conversely, many centrists and much of the news media simply refuse to face up to the asymmetry of our politics and will persist with bothsidesism even as one side drives us into the abyss. But one can at least hope that the constant revelations of past hypocrisy will have some impact.
These revelations come on many fronts. Pious invokers of fiscal responsibility and hysterical debt alarmists are perfectly OK with tax cuts that explode the deficit. Professors who denounce campus political correctness as the greatest threat we face to free speech collude with right-wing activists to conduct opposition research on left-wing students.
Rather oddly, some of the few people on the right who really seem to believe what they were saying are foreign-policy neoconservatives. They misled us into a disastrous war; but they appear to have been sincere about their national security concerns, and are among the few Republicans who remain steadfast in their Never Trumpism. (Curse you, Donald Trump, for making me feel some respect for Bill Kristol!)
But almost everyone else on the right is revealing his true face. And now comes energy and environmental policy.
Over the past 40 years or so conservatives have become ever more strident in their attacks on environmental protection. They questioned the science; they insisted that any attempt to limit emissions would greatly damage economic growth; they denounced government intervention and declared the sanctity of free markets (even though Econ 101 calls for intervention in the case of negative “externalities” like pollution.)
But none of it was sincere. GOP climate skeptics have repeatedly given the game away, for example by touting new studies that they insisted would refute global warming, then rejecting those studies when they confirmed it. GOP economists who tout the limitless ability of markets to cope with change suddenly proclaim them utterly incapable of adapting to a carbon tax.
And now all that talk about free markets is revealed as the sham it always was.
Ten years ago the big debate . . . more at www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/opinion/coal-cash-and-bad-faith.html
I guess there is nothing left to do but write poor sportsmanship articles like this when the Democrats have no power, look to gain no power in the 2018 elections, and seemingly have no game plan for winning the presidential elections in 2020 either.
There are no "revelations" here. This is all stuff that Democrats have said about Republicans since forever.
The author even smugly admits that in the second sentence.
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Some of us, of course, knew this all along, and are not surprised.
Here's a quarter. Go call somebody who cares.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:And that is why you lean Republican, 6ixStringJack. You don't care. It's the defining characteristic of a certain kind, no, make that a majority of Americans. I'll give you two more things not to care about. The first thing happens with American police (a thing that those who lean Republican will deny happens) and the second happens with American military. Again, Americans deny the military did what they did and other Americans who weren't there deny it could ever happen, even:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Here's a quarter. Go call somebody who cares.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
At the beginning of Seymour Hersh’s new memoir, “Reporter,” he tells a story from his first job in journalism, at the City News Bureau of Chicago.
City News stationed a reporter at Chicago’s police headquarters 24 hours a day to cover whatever incidents were radioed in. Hersh, then in his early 20s, was responsible for the late shift. One night, he writes, this happened:
Two cops called in to report that a robbery suspect had been shot trying to avoid arrest. The cops who had done the shooting were driving in to make a report. … I raced down to the basement parking lot in the hope of getting some firsthand quotes before calling in the story. The driver obviously did not see me as he parked the car. As he climbed out, a fellow cop, who clearly had heard the same radio report I had, shouted something like, “So the guy tried to run on you?” The driver said, “Naw, I told the nigger to beat it and then I plugged him.”
What happened then? Did Hersh, who would go on to uncover the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and become one of the greatest investigative journalists in U.S. history, sprint to his publication and demand that it run this explosive scoop?
No. Hersh spoke to his editor, who told him to do nothing, since it would be his word against the police. He didn’t try to interview the responsible cop or his partner, or dig much further. Instead, he gave up on it and soon headed off to do his required service in the Army, “full of despair at my weakness and the weakness of a profession that dealt so easily with compromise and self-censorship.”
If Hersh were a superhero, this would be his origin story. Two hundred and seventy-four pages after the Chicago anecdote, he describes his coverage of a massive slaughter of Iraqi troops and civilians by the U.S. in 1991 after the Persian Gulf War ended. America’s indifference to this massacre was, Hersh writes, “a reminder of the Vietnam War’s MGR, for Mere Gook Rule: If it’s a murdered or raped gook, there is no crime.”
Despite Hersh’s reputation as a man devoted to tearing down American institutions, he actually emphasizes how many honest people can be found inside them if you go looking. At least in the past, he writes, Congress was “overflowing with members and staff with integrity and courage.” He has extensive contacts in the military whom he deeply admires. He says of senior intelligence officials that “there are many good ones who deserved my respect.”
The most startling story in “Reporter” may be one that is never explicitly told: that America was once a place where someone like Hersh could come from nowhere to terrify everyone at the pinnacle of national power.
Hersh’s father owned a dry-cleaning store and died when Hersh was 18. Because of his father’s illness, Hersh barely made it out of high school and enrolled in a two-year junior college with no admission requirements. His first choice was to go work for Xerox, but they weren’t interested. He got his start in journalism largely by accident, in a series of events involving a late-night poker game and a gigantic helping of happenstance. Yet his name has been discussed with fear in corporate CEO suites, at CIA headquarters, and in the Oval Office.
“I’ve spent most of my career writing stories that challenge the official narrative,” he writes in the last paragraph, “and have been rewarded mightily and suffered only slightly for it.”
https://theintercept.com/2018/06/02/
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