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@oralloy,

oralloy wrote:

Finn dAbuzz wrote:
Olivier5 wrote:
I wish the Kurds will make Turkey pay a very big price for that invasion. I also wish somebody with planes (Trump, Macron or Putin, I don't really care who does it) will bomb the mezze out of their invading army.

We agree!!

Make that three of us.

Turkish genocide update:
Ancient Syria temple damaged in Turkish raids.

http://twitter.com/AFPphoto/status/958300006477455361
http://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/DUyIPs-XUAE6SZI.mp4

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@hightor,

hightor wrote:

Anytime the candidate of one party and his visible supporters actively work to insult and marginalize members of a particular voting bloc is it surprising that members of that group tend to support the opposition?

The Republicans used to be smarter. Bush II got lots of support from hispanic voters by reaching out to them and showing concern in a meaningful way. The right wing of the party has since done all it could to drive hispanics into the Democratic camp.

"Hispanics," you say? Hardly. Trump and his party welcome, support, and love all American citizens. It's true that they don't cater to the illegitimate DEMANDS of foreign citizens. They don't play identity politics, sorry.

America First, Baby!

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@revelette1,

revelette1 wrote:

I agree with this guy digby. The presidents behavior in the Russian probe as been nothing but unethical to say the least from the very beginning. Kelly is beginning to be the biggest enabler.

Gosh. It must be so difficult being a McCarthyist witch hunter in a country where your victims are allowed to speak out in their own defense. I really feel for your plight here.

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@hightor,

hightor wrote:

Well, yeah, something like that.

Trump isn't the war criminal type.

hightor wrote:

Or just declare victory and leave.

Trump is not about to stop defending against those who seek to commit genocide against us.

hightor wrote:

It's still costing us buku $$$ and we're still losing troops there.

I'm not aware of the price, but I'm sure we can afford it.

We're not losing very many troops.

hightor wrote:

The Afghan army is hemorrhaging and the insurgents can escape to safety in Pakistan. The Taliban controls more of the country than they did a year ago, and it looks like they're cooperating with the I.S. fighters now. Sooner or later the Afghan army, like the Afghan government, will be reduced to helplessness and guess who'll be doing the heavy lifting?

So long as we keep training them and giving them air support, they should be able to continue as they are currently doing forever.

hightor wrote:

Hey wait a second — we live thousands of miles away across an ocean, we've got the most heavily-armed civilian population in the world, and we're working to ban Muslims from even entering the country. So what are we afraid of?

I'm not sure if fear is the right term, but we're trying to avoid being murdered by genocidal fanatics.

We're not banning Muslims. The ban only covers places where people favor committing genocide against us.

hightor wrote:

"Home of the brave", my ass.

The notion that "we are not brave unless we welcome genocidal fanatics into the country to kill us" is ludicrous.

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Blacks only voted for previous GOP candidates 1 or 2 percentage points more than they voted for Trump, but Trump did lose some Hispanic voters.

https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN13I10B

Trump was elected with 8 percent of the black vote, 28 percent of the Hispanic vote and 27 percent of the Asian-American vote, according to the Reuters/Ipsos Election Day poll.

Among black voters, his showing was comparable to the 9 percent captured by George W. Bush in 2000 and Ronald Reagan in 1984. But Bush and Reagan both did far better with Hispanic voters, capturing 35 percent and 34 percent, respectively, according to exit polling data compiled by the non-partisan Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.

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Blacks have been almost exclusively in the Dem Sure Thing column since...Johnson? I’ll check.

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Pretty much Johnson and Kennedy. I definitely understand the mass vote for Johnson, but when you look at continuing disparities for black Americans, you have to wonder if they feel their long-term allegiance is misguided.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/476190/

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@Lash,

Lash wrote:

...you have to wonder if they feel their long-term allegiance is misguided.

LBJ wrote:

These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for two hundred years.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson

He said that in 1957 and ya gotta give him credit: For 60 years, at least, he's been right.

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@Lash,

Lash wrote:

you have to wonder if they feel their long-term allegiance is misguided.

Dr. Alveda King (MLK's niece), who voted for Trump and doesn't believe he is racist, is among those who are wising up. She makes a lot of sense here about seeking solutions rather than just stirring up emotions to cloud thinking.

"We will no longer accept the racist bait and switch rhetoric [play the] race card situation."

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"The President is NOT A RACIST. I've been with the president quite a bit lately...."

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Nobody seems to be talking about the memo and the release of Andrew McCabe...

I think we’re finally knocking on the door of the shadow government holding sway at the FBI.

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@Lash,

Nobody ever seems to be talking about anything pertinent/uncomfortable/... , Lash. But that is how Americans are. Get out of the safe confines of the propaganda bubble and they are lost.

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@Lash,

Lash wrote:

Nobody seems to be talking about the memo and the release of Andrew McCabe...

You mean here? Has been done.
You mean in the media? Was in the headlines/news/opinions everywhere, worldwide.

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@Lash,

Quote:

I think we’re finally knocking on the door

Finally, Lash?!? Surely you jest.

The deep secrecy of the US government makes Dishonest Abe's quote one of the biggest lies ever. You know the "government of the people ..." total bullshit.

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it. - Woodrow Wilson.

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@Walter Hinteler,

Did you the the memo on the TPS report?

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@blatham,

Daniel Dale - now on #45 duty with TorStar was the reporter who brought down RoFo.

I'm hoping someone similar will be on DoFo duty. DoFo hasn't lived in Ontario for some time (lived in Chicago, now he's in Boston) so I hope he gets the Ignatieff treatment.

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@Lash,

Lash wrote:

Nobody seems to be talking about the memo and the release of Andrew McCabe...

The FBI director reads the memo one day and the next day, presto! McCabe's sorry ass has disappeared, forever.

Just some wild-ass coincidence, ya figure?

I don't think so! Homey don't play dat.

We'll find out, soon enough, I guess.

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@blatham,

blatham wrote:

Frankly, I think it is driven by the dynamics of the American war industry.

this

interesting bit on CBC radio last night on how much money Cheney made from Halliburton in and around his war gov gigs

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Quote:

Paul Ryan calls to 'cleanse' the FBI

“Let it all out, get it all out there. Cleanse the organization,” Ryan, R-Wis., said. He added, “I think we should disclose all this stuff. It’s the best disinfectant. Accountability, transparency -- for the sake of the reputation of our institutions.” He said problems at the FBI and Justice Department should be cleaned out, and “covering up mischief would be worse.”

Nuthin new here, of course, but ya get the idea that McCabe aint gunna be the onliest one to go, eh?

It was reported a long while back that McCabe is the one who met with Steele and agreed to pay him $100,000 in taxpayer money to get more dirt on Trump.

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@ehBeth,

Quote:

interesting bit on CBC radio last night on how much money Cheney made from Halliburton in and around his war gov gigs

This is the same guy who made all this money off his voluminous 911 lies. The same guy who said OBL had nothing to do with 911.

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@layman,

Gowdy said that, during the months the FBI was stonewalling congress, when they asked where the "dossier" had come from, the FBI's answer was "we think it came from the Republicans."

Yeah, right, eh? Not a word of that was invented until Clinton, et al, hired Steele through Fusion.

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@layman,

Yeah right, Ryan.

Opening up America's voluminous dirty dirty secrets to its world leading gullible sheeple will never happen. There's far too much that has been invested in the world's largest and most successful propaganda system.

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