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BillW
 
  1  
Sat 8 Aug, 2020 11:21 pm
@Walter Hinteler,
His desire is to be an Oligarch in a Fascist system of government which is the same as the desire of the Republican party of the USA today. This is the same government as that of the current Russian system.
coldjoint
 
  -3  
Sat 8 Aug, 2020 11:35 pm
@BillW,
BillW wrote:

His desire is to be an Oligarch in a Fascist system of government which is the same as the desire of the Republican party of the USA today. This is the same government as that of the current Russian system.

Could you be anymore full of it? What fascist thing has Trump done?
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coldjoint
 
  -3  
Sat 8 Aug, 2020 11:37 pm
@Walter Hinteler,
Quote:
Trump might be a friend of Putin, but I would never call him a Communist.

Trump does not care what anyone calls him. He has that going for him.
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BillW
 
  3  
Sat 8 Aug, 2020 11:44 pm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/10/21/how-fascist-is-donald-trump-theres-actually-a-formula-for-that/

"He is semi-fascist: more fascist than any successful American politician yet, and the most dangerous threat to pluralist democracy in this country in more than a century, but — thank our stars — an amateurish imitation of the real thing."

A Fascist wanna be for sure! If he were given a free stage, you would be a comical but deadly Fascist!
coldjoint
 
  -3  
Sun 9 Aug, 2020 02:43 pm
Something I hope we see a lot more of.
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coldjoint
 
  -3  
Sun 9 Aug, 2020 04:12 pm
Quote:
Study Finds DC Journalists Are Living in a Bubble, Only Talking to Each Other
“raising additional concerns about vulnerability to groupthink and blind spots”

Studying the obvious, but a study, none the less.
Quote:
New Study Finds Reporters In DC Might Be ‘More Insular Than Previously Thought’

A new study of Twitter use by reporters based in Washington, D.C. finds that those journalists might be “more insular than previously thought.”

The study found that by observing the reporters interactions on the social media site those journalists congregate in even smaller “microbubbles,” according to the University of Illinois News in a piece published Wednesday.

The study looked at the online conversations of more than 2,000 D.C.-based journalists and found that Beltway journalism “may be even more insular than previously thought,” study authors Nikki Usher and Yee Man Margaret Ng shared.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/08/study-finds-dc-journalists-are-living-in-a-bubble-only-talking-to-each-other/
Builder
 
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Sun 9 Aug, 2020 09:41 pm
@coldjoint,
Quote:
D.C.-based journalists and found that Beltway journalism “may be even more insular than previously thought,”


Investigative journalism is dead in the west. And if anyone either looks like scratching the surface, rather than repeating stories they get fed "down the wire", they get snuffed.

Front-page news right now should be focused upon the global paedophile network exposed when Epstein got "sanctioned" while "in custody". His partner in crime gets arrested, supposedly, but no perp walk, and no arrest drama published; just a short story.

Nek minut, we got the covid global hoax-a-minute to fill up the airwaves and idiot box. How convenient.

At least all the other causes of death have now diminished drastically.

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goldberg
 
  -2  
Sun 9 Aug, 2020 09:57 pm
@glitterbag,
Color me unconvinced. Lots of articles written by far-left oafs and crusty nationalists in both America and China don't make sense at all. Some Chinese netizens even toss out the suggestion of declaring war on America with Russia's backing. They also argue that it's time for China to send ground troops to its border with India to have another military showdown with India, just like the 1962 Sino-Indian war , which saw Chinese and Indian troops scrabble around to seize control of Arunachal Pradesh.

This kind of rising nationalism or militarism , egged on by some ornery journalists in China, has been building up in China for years. Trump's hectoring only reinforces their strong convictions that it's time for China to project power instead of reverting to the craven tactic of burying its head into the sand. Which would mean the need to take on America head-on in terms of military might and economic clout.


Biden's black advisers don't care about America's alliances with its Western allies, although Biden is said to have proclaimed he will do his utmost to bolster such military alliances if he is the president.

Yet that's not gonna happen if Biden finds his party hijacked by black people who only want to promote black power in America. Biden is just wrong If the cocksure Biden thinks that he knows how to appease his black supporters once he gets elected. Why? Because self-assertive members of BLM won't stop fighting until it wrests power from white people with its own black troops.

Just read books concerning the history of Black Panther and Nation of Islam if you think it's a hoot. BLM is nothing new at all; it's just the resurgence of black radicalism. The paramount goal for BLM is to overthrow the white establishment and supplant with a government controlled by black power

It starts with the grassroots; Mao did that in China from the outset with guerilla warfare starting in rural places, which is called 农村包围城市 in Chinese. Yet America is different: rafts of Trump's supporters live in the sticks. So BLM's supporters decided to do the opposite: it starts with cities.

BLM won't go away until it turns America into South Africa. Just wait and see.



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goldberg
 
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Sun 9 Aug, 2020 10:01 pm
@RABEL222,
Yeah, I'm Russian. My name is Youruncleski
goldberg
 
  -1  
Sun 9 Aug, 2020 10:04 pm
@revelette1,
You can't see the truth because your mind has been distorted by your own prejudice as another far-left fanatic. Your thinking has nothing to do with classical liberalism.
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Builder
 
  0  
Sun 9 Aug, 2020 10:47 pm
@goldberg,
Quote:
Yeah, I'm Russian.


I have Russian underpants.

They're always rushing right up my crack.
goldberg
 
  0  
Sun 9 Aug, 2020 10:52 pm
@Builder,
Good for you. You could also wear kecks emblazoned with words like Putin Inside or Putin is a Pudding.
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goldberg
 
  -1  
Sun 9 Aug, 2020 10:56 pm
@Builder,
I only know two Russian words. I found it when reading a novel written by a British journalist. The Russian words are babushka and dacha . By the by, the British author rebukes Russia in his novel , saying it's a place beset by corruption and nepotism. The author used to cover Russia for The Economist.
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goldberg
 
  -1  
Sun 9 Aug, 2020 11:11 pm
One of his colleagues wrote another novel featuring Russia years ago. It's about the story of a British chap who meets two come-hither Russian lasses in the first chapter, whereupon the man gets enchanted by their va-va-voom and has sex with one of the girls. Then he finds himself caught up in a financial scam cooked up by the girls who simply use subterfuge to coerce him to lend money to an old Russian woman.

Disillusioned, he wanders around the streets in the final chapter, with snow flaking off, which reminds me the last chapter of The Rainbow, which is written by D H Lawrence.


In most cases, we are just clueless sorts looking for a place called home. And we also have to learn how to live with uncouth coolies who don't even raise a stink about social decadence and moral turpitude. That's why they are fans of TikTok and Youtube, thinking that watching goofy, lowbrow video clips is their life.

D H Lawrence would have been put off by this. It's shameful for mankind.
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izzythepush
 
  2  
Mon 10 Aug, 2020 06:32 am
Trouble in Belarus right now, rigged election that returned incumbent with 80% of the vote is being disputed.

Hard to see how Trump will react, he’s consistently shown a distaste for democracy and a love of despotism so he should support Lukashenko but Putin has been having problems with Belarus, and Trump does what his boss says.
goldberg
 
  -3  
Mon 10 Aug, 2020 08:38 am
https://www.foxnews.com/us/widespread-looting-reported-in-chicago-after-police-involved-shooting

You can find some black looters running around in the video clip.


From the Chicago Tribune

"Hundreds of people swept through the Magnificent Mile and other parts of downtown Chicago early Monday, smashing windows, looting stores, confronting police and at one point exchanging gunfire with officers, authorities said.

The officers had stopped several people on Lake Street near Michigan Avenue when shots were fired from a passing car around 4:30 a.m., nearly five hours into the widespread vandalism, according to police spokesman Tom Ahern. No officers were shot but a squad car was hit, he said. It was not known if anyone in the gunman’s car was shot.

Ahern said other officers were injured through the night. Earlier, an officer was seen slumped against a building by Grand and Wabash avenues as other other cops tended to him. It was unclear what had happened to him. Ahern had no details on the injuries.

The looting began shortly after midnight as people darted through broken store windows and doors along Michigan Avenue carrying shopping bags full of merchandise. Cars dropped off more people as the crowd grew. At least one U-Haul van was seen pulling up.

Police made “a lot of arrests” and recovered at least one gun, officials said. One woman with shopping bags in her hands fell on the sidewalk as an officer was chasing her. Another woman appeared to have been pepper-sprayed. A rock was thrown at a squad car.

The looting seemed to be centered in Streeterville and North Michigan Avenue, but some looting was reported on State Street in the Loop and on the Near North Side. By 4 a.m. police appeared to be getting things under control.

But some vandalism continued into the daylight hours, and the CTA suspended train and bus service into downtown during the morning rush, while the Illinois state police blocked off ramps from expressways. Bridges across the Chicago River were raised, except for the one on LaSalle Street for emergency vehicles.

People were seen running out of a PNC Bank, its windows smashed, at Huron and State streets. Down the block, other stores, including a Sally Beauty Supply, had been cleaned out by vandals. Other parts of downtown, including around Grand and Wabash avenues, were littered with trash.

Crowds repeatedly tried to bash in the windows of the Omega watch store at Delaware Place and Michigan Avenue.

“The watch store,” one officer said. “They’re gonna get it eventually.”

A group of people went in and out through a broken window of the Louis Vuitton store along Walton Place across the street from the Drake Hotel. A squad car drove by and the group ran away.

But as the car rode off, at least one person tried to go into the shop. The police returned.

“Go home!” One cop shouted.

“You go home!” Someone shouted, apparently back at the officer.

Stores on North Michigan were hit by looters less than three months ago during a weekend of protests after the police death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

It was not clear what sparked the latest vandalism, though in several spots graffiti against the police was seen.

Hours earlier, dozens of people faced off with police after officers shot and wounded a suspect Sunday afternoon in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.


The officers, responding to reports of a young man with a gun, spotted someone who fit the description near Moran Park in the 5700 block of South Racine Avenue around 2:30 p.m. He ran away and, while being chased by police, turned around and fired at them, authorities said. He was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center but his condition was not known.

More than an hour after the shooting, police and witnesses said a crowd of about 30 people faced off against officers holding a police line near 56th and Aberdeen streets. Aauthorities said someone fed false information to the angry group, including that police shot and wounded a child.

During a scuffle, one officer was hit with pepper spray and a second officer suffered a minor shoulder injury. Two people were arrested and a police car was shattered by a brick, police added.

A large number of officers cordoned off streets in nearly every direction until the mood of the crowd cooled off."

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engineer
 
  3  
Mon 10 Aug, 2020 10:58 am
Trump starting to make a habit of fleeing press conferences.

Quote:
It starts with a reporter, usually a female reporter, asking President Donald Trump hard, tenacious questions at a news conference. Rattled and dumbfounded by the questions that he can’t or won’t answer, Trump’s jaw seizes up, and he abruptly ends the presser by saying, “Thank you, very much” and stalking out of the room.

Trump threw such a fit on Saturday when CBS News reporter Paula Reid launched a volley of questions about why he once again took credit for passing a veterans program that the Obama administration pushed through in 2014. In late July, the same fight or flight response turned to flight again when CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins chased Trump with pointed, persistent questions about his retweets of a fringe doctor’s theories that masks were useless and hydroxychloroquine cured Covid-19. “Okay, thank you very much everybody,” Trump said as he backed off, truncating the news conference. In May, it was CBS News reporter Weijia Jiang and Collins again whose questions prompted Trump to crumble and skedaddle. And in April, when Playboy White House correspondent Brian Karem barrage the president with Covid-19 questions, a flustered Trump threatened a walk-off. “If you keep talking, I’m going to leave and you can have it out with them”—meaning the other reporters—Trump said.

Trump toughed it out that time, winding down the briefing down without yanking the ejection lever. But his increasingly skittish manner with the press marks a turning point in his presidency, a new moment where his usually reliable mouth almighty seems incapable of articulating a put-down or a blow-off response. Our two-fisted brawler of a president, always ready to smash the interlocutors from the press with a virtual folding chair, has replaced moxie with pouts. In the old days, he would have had a ready answer for the much-expected question from Reid, Collins and Jiang. But now he’s like the former alpha leader of the troop. He makes a show of maintaining his dominance by beating his breast, but when challenged by somebody superior, he takes his beating then slinks off to a dark, safe place to lick his wounds.
coldjoint
 
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Mon 10 Aug, 2020 11:00 am
@engineer,
Quote:
Trump starting to make a habit of fleeing press conferences.

Biden does have press conferences.
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coldjoint
 
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Mon 10 Aug, 2020 11:34 am
https://c1.legalinsurrection.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/03-Teach-Demands-LI-600a.jpg
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revelette1
 
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Mon 10 Aug, 2020 11:55 am
@BillW,
How did Americans become such Wimps? Silence as Trump kills tens of Thousands, Destroys Social Security and Post Office, Plots Election Fraud

Quote:
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nicole Winfield and Lisa Marie Pane at the Associated Press write at the unbelief with which Europeans are staring at the United States, as we head for 300,000 dead from the coronavirus and our economy shrank 33% on an annualized basis last quarter, and we just appear to be all right with that.

Not only are we perfectly willing to toss grandma in an early grave on Trump’s say-so, but we are supine as he openly engineers the destruction of social security and medicare, and of the post office, on behalf of himself and the billionaire class he represents. That is after we sat by while he completely gutted all environmental regulations that got in the way of corporations making money off poisoning us. I don’t think the neutering of the EPA has even been reported on daytime cable news, though the prime time magazine shows on MSNBC have at least brought it up.

Americans imagine themselves rugged individualists. A cartoonist did a satire on us showing brawny guys, shirts off, with the logo “Rugged individualism works best when we obey.”

In fact, Americans are masochistic sheeple who let the rich and powerful walk all over them and thank them for the privilege.

We have become wimps. The word wimp may come from “whimper.” It was used in a newspaper in 1920, and then not again until 1960. Since then it may have been influenced by the character of “Wimpy” in the Popeye cartoons, who did not have much gumption. He was only good at mooching off people in search of a hamburger.

I always thought Americans were the plucky Popeye, who knew how to get iron in their diets and show some spunk.

Turns out we have been reduced to begging for our meals.

The rich figured out in the 1980s that Americans are all form over substance, and if you put up for president a Hollywood actor like Ronald Reagan who used to play cowboys, they would swoon over him. In 1984 when Reagan ran against Walter Mondale, I saw a middle aged white Detroit auto worker interviewed who said he woudn’t vote for Mondale because he was a “panty-waist.” Reagan took away their right to strike and took away government services by running up the deficit and cutting taxes on the rich simultaneously, then claiming the government couldn’t provide the services the people had paid for because it is broke.

Reagan raised the retirement age from 65 to 67. Why? Most young people don’t realize that their health will decline in their late 60s and they often won’t actually get any golden years.

What did Americans do in response? They just bent over and took it.

Actually, it is the French who are much more like Americans imagine themselves to be. President Emmanuel Macron last December tried to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. I can’t understand why. France has persistently high unemployment as it is.

In response, all hell broke loose. Some 30 unions went on strike, and they supported each other. Trains were interrupted. Trucking was interrupted. Life was interrupted. A million people came out into the streets. But one poll had 61% of the French approving of the strikes. They went on for months, and were very inconvenient.


Much more well worth reading for those who are not closed minded "sheeple."

I put this in response to your post because it seems to continue the article you posted. Trump is only open about how republicans have been becoming for decades and the American people (voters) have just been willing to put up with it. I am not talking about the extremes some of the progressives want, but just get back to a functional government which serves all of us, not just the richest among us.
 

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