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Post by SSHoya on Oct 12, 2018 10:42:44 GMT -5
Oh... He's a US Resident, so it doesn't matter. Thanks for the clarification Donald... Aside from the fact that the $110 billion is not real. The Trumpistas are still too ignorant to understand this. Most of the publicly announced items had been previously announced by the Obama administration and there appeared to be few, if any, signed contracts. Rather, many of the announcements were MOIs — memorandums of intent. There were six specific items, adding up to $28 billion, but all had been previously notified to Congress by the Obama administration. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/11/trumps-billion-arms-sales-saudi-arabia-still-fake/?utm_term=.0880c5ae6af3
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Post by TC on Oct 12, 2018 10:54:46 GMT -5
And Mr. Faulkner, apparently, believes that Trump's federal budget doesn't exacerbate high homicide rates, underperforming schools and high poverty rates? Odd. That's a political belief. In my opinion it's a terrible one, but whatever. He's entitled. Defending a guy who jumped on a table yesterday at an Apple Store to "deliver a keynote" and saying it's just political haters? We need people who need help to get help. Enabling the mentally ill for political gain - basically what Faulkner is doing here - is societally dangerous.
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Post by TC on Oct 12, 2018 11:05:43 GMT -5
And Mr. Faulkner, apparently, believes that Trump's federal budget doesn't exacerbate high homicide rates, underperforming schools and high poverty rates? Odd. FWIW, Faulkner wants to run for Mayor of Memphis. His mentor has been Rich Armitage (former Deputy Secretary of State) as he plays in a Saturday morning basketball pickup game with him and Craig Esherick. Armitage, along with George Tenet, was a huge Hoya fan during the Esherick era. Armitage also helped Faulkner secure a direct commission as Naval officer (PAO like Sean Spicer) perhaps to help him in his political ambitions. Interestingly, Armitage publicly stated that he voted for Hilary Clinton. And he writes for The Federalist? thefederalist.com/author/omarifaulker/He's going to run for Mayor of Memphis as a MAGA Republican? That seems like a bold strategy Cotton, let's see if it pays off for him.
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 12, 2018 11:09:17 GMT -5
FWIW, Faulkner wants to run for Mayor of Memphis. His mentor has been Rich Armitage (former Deputy Secretary of State) as he plays in a Saturday morning basketball pickup game with him and Craig Esherick. Armitage, along with George Tenet, was a huge Hoya fan during the Esherick era. Armitage also helped Faulkner secure a direct commission as Naval officer (PAO like Sean Spicer) perhaps to help him in his political ambitions. Interestingly, Armitage publicly stated that he voted for Hilary Clinton. And he writes for The Federalist? thefederalist.com/author/omarifaulker/He's going to run for Mayor of Memphis as a MAGA Republican? That seems like a bold strategy Cotton, let's see if it pays off for him. That's what I hear from a participant in the basketball game. Sounds a bit strange to me as well but I've reached out to my source to make sure I'm hearing this correctly. EDIT: Source (who is a strong anti-Trumper but likes Faulkner and thinks he is genuinely a "nice guy") confirms that Faulkner has been genuinely sympathetic to Trump from the beginning. Didn't mention mayor of Memphis specifically but hints at elective office: "Armitage has dialed him back a bit but he is very ambitious so maybe he’s running in Tennessee someday!"
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 12, 2018 11:25:00 GMT -5
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Post by TC on Oct 12, 2018 11:28:15 GMT -5
EDIT: Source (who is a strong anti-Trumper but likes Faulkner and thinks he is genuinely a "nice guy") confirms that Faulkner has been genuinely sympathetic to Trump from the beginning. Didn't mention mayor of Memphis specifically but hints at elective office: "Armitage has dialed him back a bit but he is very ambitious so maybe he’s running in Tennessee someday!" This seems like a total Kevin Millen move, but maybe he's just doing it to increase his name recognition so he can level up his grift : deadspin.com/5609504/former-basketball-player-ends-congressional-bid-crazily
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 12, 2018 11:33:23 GMT -5
EDIT: Source (who is a strong anti-Trumper but likes Faulkner and thinks he is genuinely a "nice guy") confirms that Faulkner has been genuinely sympathetic to Trump from the beginning. Didn't mention mayor of Memphis specifically but hints at elective office: "Armitage has dialed him back a bit but he is very ambitious so maybe he’s running in Tennessee someday!" This seems like a total Kevin Millen move, but maybe he's just doing it to increase his name recognition so he can level up his grift : deadspin.com/5609504/former-basketball-player-ends-congressional-bid-crazilyFaulkner strikes everyone who knows him as intelligent and thoughtful. For example, Faulkner volunteers as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) in the court system to assist courts in dealing with abused and neglected children. My source suggested that perhaps Faulkner's position as a "privileged athlete" has shielded him from the more odious discrimination suffered by others. I don't buy that as an explanation. I'm a bit more cynical but perhaps Faulkner has some concept of running for office as a conservative African-American like Tim Scott?
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Post by TC on Oct 12, 2018 11:37:52 GMT -5
He's writing for The Federalist. That's not Tim Scott territory. Faulkner seems like a grifter.
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 12, 2018 12:59:43 GMT -5
If nothing else, you have to give the Trump administration and the Republican Party credit for thoroughness in their quest to subvert fundamental democratic institutions and ideals. If there’s a foundation stone of our system that they haven’t gotten around to at least attempting to undermine, just give them some time. That effort is what requires us to talk about the census, which in a different time one might expect not to be manipulated for partisan advantage. But that’s exactly what the administration is trying to do. Not only that, it has been lying about what it’s up to — not just to the public, but under oath. www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/10/12/trumps-effort-to-rig-the-census-is-a-deepening-scandal/?utm_term=.0f1e236e8deb
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 12, 2018 13:14:09 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 13, 2018 9:24:55 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2018 10:24:35 GMT -5
Why would the Presidents son engage in actively trying to smear and justify Jamal's probable death?
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 14, 2018 10:30:53 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 14, 2018 15:17:58 GMT -5
The greatest threat to U.S. national security -- Putin's BFF, Draft Dodger-in-Chief Trump. And you fake tough guy Trumpistas here give him a pass. . . Russia has become so good at information warfare that American and allied military leaders are (rightfully) starting to freak out about it. “The Russians are really good at this. Better than us,” UK Army Maj. Gen. Felix Gedney said at the AUSA Conference, according to Defense One. “We saw a very clever, assiduous information campaign aimed at discrediting the campaign of the coalition [in Iraq and Syria]. And I would argue [that] in many of our nation’s capitals, we didn’t realize we were being played.” As was the case during the 2016 election, Russia is sometimes better at stoking division among ordinary Americans than your uncle at Thanksgiving dinner — through the coordinated use of bot networks, fake social media profiles, and production of misleading or partisan content that gets widely shared. taskandpurpose.com/russia-information-war/
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 14, 2018 17:15:57 GMT -5
Robert E. Lee IV slams Racist-in-Chief Trump (but the Dems have Al Sharpton!!): A descendant of Robert E. Lee said in a video tweet Saturday that he was “disheartened” to hear President Donald Trump praise the Confederate general, saying Trump is supporting an “idol of white supremacy and hatred.” "Last night I was disheartened to hear Donald Trump, our president, make comments about Robert E. Lee as a great general, as an honorable man. These were far from the truth,” said Robert Lee IV, who is the great-great-great-great nephew of the general. “Robert E. Lee fought for the continued enslavement of black bodies. It was for state’s rights, yes, but it was for state’s rights to own slaves,” added Lee, who is an ordained minister. Trump’s comments made Lee “saddened by the state of our nation,” he said. “But I’m encouraged because we are going to work to end this,” he added. “We are going to vote. We are going to show Donald Trump that white supremacy has no place in ... our government. We are going to show him who the people are and what really matters in this nation.” Lee also criticized his ancestor as an “idol of white supremacy, racism, and hate” when he was invited to speak at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards in the wake of the Charlottesville violence. www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/robert-e-lee-descendant-slams-trump-for-praising-confederate-general_us_5bc2a93de4b040bb4e82d9b6?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000008
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 14, 2018 18:22:23 GMT -5
Corrupt amateur hour in the White House. When President Trump chose Riyadh to make his debut on the world stage last year, he was placing a bet on Saudi Arabia, which serenaded him with military bands, dazzled him with a flyover of fighter jets and regaled him with a traditional sword dance. The mastermind behind that wager — the White House adviser who convinced Trump to visit Saudi Arabia for his maiden foreign trip and who choreographed a veritable lovefest between the new president and the desert kingdom’s white-robed ruler, King Salman bin Abdul Aziz — was Jared Kushner. Nevertheless, anxiety grew among some U.S. spies when they learned that foreign officials in at least four countries had privately discussed ways to manipulate Kushner by taking advantage of his complex business dealings, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience, according to current and former U.S. officials familiar with the intelligence about those discussions. One of the countries was the United Arab Emirates, a key Saudi ally. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/two-princes-kushner-now-faces-a-reckoning-for-trumps-bet-on-the-saudi-heir/2018/10/14/6eaeaafc-ce46-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html?utm_term=.02bab7aea7ca
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Post by Elvado on Oct 14, 2018 18:27:32 GMT -5
Robert E. Lee IV slams Racist-in-Chief Trump (but the Dems have Al Sharpton!!): A descendant of Robert E. Lee said in a video tweet Saturday that he was “disheartened” to hear President Donald Trump praise the Confederate general, saying Trump is supporting an “idol of white supremacy and hatred.” "Last night I was disheartened to hear Donald Trump, our president, make comments about Robert E. Lee as a great general, as an honorable man. These were far from the truth,” said Robert Lee IV, who is the great-great-great-great nephew of the general. “Robert E. Lee fought for the continued enslavement of black bodies. It was for state’s rights, yes, but it was for state’s rights to own slaves,” added Lee, who is an ordained minister. Trump’s comments made Lee “saddened by the state of our nation,” he said. “But I’m encouraged because we are going to work to end this,” he added. “We are going to vote. We are going to show Donald Trump that white supremacy has no place in ... our government. We are going to show him who the people are and what really matters in this nation.” Lee also criticized his ancestor as an “idol of white supremacy, racism, and hate” when he was invited to speak at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards in the wake of the Charlottesville violence. www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/robert-e-lee-descendant-slams-trump-for-praising-confederate-general_us_5bc2a93de4b040bb4e82d9b6?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000008That would be horrible except that Trump actually was praising Grant. NBC actually retracted its customarily erroneous reporting.
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 14, 2018 18:47:10 GMT -5
Referencing a correction (that Trump was referring to Lee as "incredible") that has nothing to do with the criticism that the descendant of Robert E. Lee leveled at Trump which was that he was a "great general" -- yes, if you consider a traitor to his country "great" but I guess if you consider General Flynn a good man and "great" it fits:
Trump on Friday did praise Lee as “a true great fighter and a great general,” which drew criticism from some viewers, including Robert Lee IV, a descendent of the Confederate general.
“Last night I was disheartened to hear Donald Trump, our president, make comments about Robert E. Lee as a great general,” Lee IV, the general’s great-great-great-great nephew, tweeted Saturday. “Robert E. Lee fought for the continued enslavement of black bodies. It was for state’s rights, yes, but it was for state’s rights to own slaves.”
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 14, 2018 18:59:03 GMT -5
As a historian specializing in the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and Europe in the era of the world wars, I have been repeatedly asked about the degree to which the current situation in the United States resembles the interwar period and the rise of fascism in Europe. I would note several troubling similarities and one important but equally troubling difference. If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell. He stoked the hyperpolarization of American politics to make the Obama presidency as dysfunctional and paralyzed as he possibly could. As with parliamentary gridlock in Weimar, congressional gridlock in the US has diminished respect for democratic norms, allowing McConnell to trample them even more. Nowhere is this vicious circle clearer than in the obliteration of traditional precedents concerning judicial appointments. Systematic obstruction of nominations in Obama’s first term provoked Democrats to scrap the filibuster for all but Supreme Court nominations. Then McConnell’s unprecedented blocking of the Merrick Garland nomination required him in turn to scrap the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations in order to complete the “steal” of Antonin Scalia’s seat and confirm Neil Gorsuch. The extreme politicization of the judicial nomination process is once again on display in the current Kavanaugh hearings. www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/10/25/suffocation-of-democracy/
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 15, 2018 5:01:45 GMT -5
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