SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 22, 2018 10:10:21 GMT -5
Max Boot, neocon and former Republican who had the good sense to quit the party of Putin. He demonstrates a capacity for reason and logical thought that most Trump supporters apparently lack; nor can they articulate such support other than "I support his agenda.": How I miss Barack Obama. And I say that as someone who worked to defeat him: I was a foreign policy adviser to John McCain in 2008 and to Mitt Romney in 2012. I criticized Obama’s “lead from behind” foreign policy that resulted in a premature pullout from Iraq and a failure to stop the slaughter in Syria. I thought he was too weak on Iran and too tough on Israel. I feared that Obamacare would be too costly. I fumed that he was too professorial and too indecisive. I was left cold by his arrogance and his cult of personality. Now I would take Obama back in a nanosecond. His presidency appears to be a lost golden age when reason and morality reigned. All of his faults, real as they were, fade into insignificance compared with the crippling defects of his successor. And his strengths — seriousness, dignity, intellect, probity, dedication to ideals larger than self — shine all the more clearly in retrospect. www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/07/20/how-i-miss-obama/?utm_term=.a3242013990c
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 22, 2018 12:12:47 GMT -5
The GOP -- hypocrites who impeached Clinton over lying about a BJ in the Oval Office support this guy: For Trump’s apologists, the revelation creates a new wave of angst. (The Los Angeles Times reported, “ ’We all knew there were going to be a lot of women cropping up with allegations and that it was Michael’s job to take care of it,’ said an associate of Cohen’s, speaking on condition of anonymity.”) If there are a flock of women — those whose names have already surfaced in association with Trump or others we have yet to hear about — who received similar payments, it will be hard to avoid the conclusion that there was a conspiracy to avoid reporting embarrassing and possibly illegal campaign donations. While Trump’s evangelical lackeys gave him a “mulligan” on his payoff to Stormy Daniels, it’s not clear a wider audience will countenance a president who got through a campaign by secretly paying off gobs of women, especially if any of those women claimed to have been the victims of non-consensual sexual conduct. www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/07/22/the-hush-money-payoffs-how-many-more-are-out-there/?utm_term=.76132e560960
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Post by hoya9797 on Jul 22, 2018 12:40:34 GMT -5
Max Boot, neocon and former Republican who had the good sense to quit the party of Putin. He demonstrates a capacity for reason and logical thought that most Trump supporters apparently lack; nor can they articulate such support other than "I support his agenda.": How I miss Barack Obama. And I say that as someone who worked to defeat him: I was a foreign policy adviser to John McCain in 2008 and to Mitt Romney in 2012. I criticized Obama’s “lead from behind” foreign policy that resulted in a premature pullout from Iraq and a failure to stop the slaughter in Syria. I thought he was too weak on Iran and too tough on Israel. I feared that Obamacare would be too costly. I fumed that he was too professorial and too indecisive. I was left cold by his arrogance and his cult of personality. Now I would take Obama back in a nanosecond. His presidency appears to be a lost golden age when reason and morality reigned. All of his faults, real as they were, fade into insignificance compared with the crippling defects of his successor. And his strengths — seriousness, dignity, intellect, probity, dedication to ideals larger than self — shine all the more clearly in retrospect. www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/07/20/how-i-miss-obama/?utm_term=.a3242013990cSee the problem is that Obama will always be black and for the agenda supporters like Ed, that will always be a deal breaker.
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Post by EasyEd on Jul 22, 2018 18:29:36 GMT -5
Max Boot, neocon and former Republican who had the good sense to quit the party of Putin. He demonstrates a capacity for reason and logical thought that most Trump supporters apparently lack; nor can they articulate such support other than "I support his agenda.": How I miss Barack Obama. And I say that as someone who worked to defeat him: I was a foreign policy adviser to John McCain in 2008 and to Mitt Romney in 2012. I criticized Obama’s “lead from behind” foreign policy that resulted in a premature pullout from Iraq and a failure to stop the slaughter in Syria. I thought he was too weak on Iran and too tough on Israel. I feared that Obamacare would be too costly. I fumed that he was too professorial and too indecisive. I was left cold by his arrogance and his cult of personality. Now I would take Obama back in a nanosecond. His presidency appears to be a lost golden age when reason and morality reigned. All of his faults, real as they were, fade into insignificance compared with the crippling defects of his successor. And his strengths — seriousness, dignity, intellect, probity, dedication to ideals larger than self — shine all the more clearly in retrospect. www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/07/20/how-i-miss-obama/?utm_term=.a3242013990cSee the problem is that Obama will always be black and for the agenda supporters like Ed, that will always be a deal breaker. That is blatantly false. I don't give a crap whether Obama or Trump or anyone else is black or white. But this is a favorite tactic of you liberals: call them a racist.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2018 7:33:01 GMT -5
"You liberals" should stop labeling people. That's rich.
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Post by hoya9797 on Jul 23, 2018 8:04:42 GMT -5
See the problem is that Obama will always be black and for the agenda supporters like Ed, that will always be a deal breaker. That is blatantly false. I don't give a crap whether Obama or Trump or anyone else is black or white. But this is a favorite tactic of you liberals: call them a racist. You are an enthusiastic supporter of a racist president and a racist agenda. You can think whatever you want about yourself but your actions tell me all I need to know about you. And, forgive me for being skeptical that a racist would be ok with a black president.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2018 8:34:38 GMT -5
The Pentagon has been caught flat-footed after Trump's meeting with Putin this week, with defense officials struggling to explain statements coming out of Moscow that the two leaders reached agreements involving military issues. "At the Pentagon, as press officers remained unable to answer media questions about how the summit might impact the military, the paucity of information exposed an awkward gap in internal administration communications."
Sounds like a healthy environment...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2018 8:50:48 GMT -5
The Pentagon has been caught flat-footed after Trump's meeting with Putin this week, with defense officials struggling to explain statements coming out of Moscow that the two leaders reached agreements involving military issues. "At the Pentagon, as press officers remained unable to answer media questions about how the summit might impact the military, the paucity of information exposed an awkward gap in internal administration communications." Sounds like a healthy environment... And now they have to mobilize for a potential war with Iran. Cool. Or maybe the Iran thing goes the same route as North Korea: saber-rattling on Twitter, then nice words, then some more veiled threats on Twitter, then a scheduled summit, then a potentially canceled summit, then the summit is on again but it's really a photo op, then some BS about a "great deal" that's been reached, then Pompeo is jilted when he travels to Tehran to follow up, then Iran doesn't really come close to doing what Trump said they'll do, and our President gets played like the fiddle that he is... Did I miss anything?
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Post by EasyEd on Jul 23, 2018 8:58:43 GMT -5
That is blatantly false. I don't give a crap whether Obama or Trump or anyone else is black or white. But this is a favorite tactic of you liberals: call them a racist. You are an enthusiastic supporter of a racist president and a racist agenda. You can think whatever you want about yourself but your actions tell me all I need to know about you. And, forgive me for being skeptical that a racist would be ok with a black president. You are entitled to your opinion but your facts and your opinions are wrong. End of my participation in this conversation. Now go off and bash religion some more.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2018 9:06:53 GMT -5
The Pentagon has been caught flat-footed after Trump's meeting with Putin this week, with defense officials struggling to explain statements coming out of Moscow that the two leaders reached agreements involving military issues. "At the Pentagon, as press officers remained unable to answer media questions about how the summit might impact the military, the paucity of information exposed an awkward gap in internal administration communications." Sounds like a healthy environment... And now they have to mobilize for a potential war with Iran. Cool. Or maybe the Iran thing goes the same route as North Korea: saber-rattling on Twitter, then nice words, then some more veiled threats on Twitter, then a scheduled summit, then a potentially canceled summit, then the summit is on again but it's really a photo op, then some BS about a "great deal" that's been reached, then Pompeo is jilted when he travels to Tehran to follow up, then Iran doesn't really come close to doing what Trump said they'll do, and our President gets played like the fiddle that he is... Did I miss anything? Sounds about right.... Manufacture a crisis, create an event to solve the crisis you created, get played/accomplish nothing, whine loudly on twitter that liberals don't want to give you credit for NOT solving the crisis you created. Oh and... Meanwhile Putin created a video that showed him nuking Florida and President Tough Tweets said nothing... Very strong that Putin...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2018 10:23:16 GMT -5
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On a side note:
No accountability whatsoever coming out of Washington. Just corruption, incompetence, and unethical behavior.....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2018 14:07:25 GMT -5
On Brand....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2018 9:30:18 GMT -5
*After all the walk backs.... And gave Putin a White House invite...
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 24, 2018 12:17:06 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2018 12:58:09 GMT -5
Kudos to Ivanka for MAGAing by taking jobs away from China. #WINNING
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 24, 2018 13:07:13 GMT -5
OTOH, feckless GOP caves to Trump: By JOHN HENDEL 07/20/2018 01:31 PM EDT Updated 07/20/2018 02:13 PM EDT Republicans have agreed to water down legislation designed to punish Chinese telecom company ZTE, delivering a victory to President Donald Trump, according to a person close to negotiations in Congress. Lawmakers reconciling House and Senate versions of a must-pass defense bill chose to go with the House approach of excluding ZTE from U.S. government contracts but leaving it free to do business with private companies in the United States. The Senate-passed version of the defense bill would have restored a full U.S. ban on ZTE that the Trump administration imposed but then lifted. www.politico.com/story/2018/07/20/congress-zte-ban-trump-734955
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Post by EtomicB on Jul 24, 2018 13:57:29 GMT -5
Wonder if he'll push for tougher sanctions on Russia to send a message?
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 24, 2018 15:24:13 GMT -5
Wonder if he'll push for tougher sanctions on Russia to send a message? Nah, just another big lie.
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 24, 2018 16:32:55 GMT -5
Will there be a perjury investigation opened up on Ross? Lock him up! Lock him up! A cache of documents released by the Commerce Department overnight provides further evidence that Secretary Wilbur Ross was pushing to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census far more actively, and much earlier, than his later sworn testimony indicated. The documents, released as part of a multistate lawsuit against the addition of the question, also reveal deeper involvement of senior administration officials in pushing for the question than earlier indicated, and attempts to drum up support from experts in the face of overwhelming criticism from former Census Bureau directors and the bureau’s own chief statistician. In a May 2, 2017, email to Earl Comstock, director of the department’s Office of Policy and Strategic Planning, Ross wrote: “I am mystified why nothing have [sic] been done in response to my months old request that we include the citizenship question. Why not?” This appears to contradict Ross’s testimony in March before the House Ways and Means Committee saying that the Justice Department had initiated the request for the question. www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/wilbur-ross-actively-pushed-to-add-citizenship-question-to-2020-census-documents-show/2018/07/24/5601b3b6-8f65-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html?utm_term=.eb19ccfc8a97
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 24, 2018 20:47:04 GMT -5
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