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I don't see Debbie complaining about the atrocities of ISIS, ya know?

There is no Muslim threat, there is no radical Islam.

There's a special place in hell reserved for [Paul Ryan] ... and he's just one name on a very long list ....

I am a talented interior designer

Those bases in ... Diego Garcia aren't cheap.

...that afternoon Trump issued perhaps the most incendiary statement of his Presidency: a tweet calling the news media “the enemy of the American people.” The proclamation alarmed liberals and conservatives alike. William McRaven, the retired Navy admiral who commanded the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, called Trump’s statement a “threat to democracy.” The President is known for tweeting impulsively, but in this case his words weren’t spontaneous: they clearly echoed the thinking of Caddell, Bannon, and Mercer. In 2012, Caddell gave a speech at a conference sponsored by Accuracy in Media, a conservative watchdog group, in which he called the media “the enemy of the American people.” That declaration was promoted by Breitbart News, a platform for the pro-Trump alt-right, of which Bannon was the executive chairman, before joining the Trump Administration. One of the main stakeholders in Breitbart News is Mercer.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

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What france needs is more muslims, eh?

oh god oh god, the commies are coming, the commies are coming!!!

That is you folks in a nutshell, layman. There is no Muslim threat, there is no radical Islam. There are a few individuals who are rightly very angry about all the illegal invasions, the murder of their kith and kin, the lies blaming them all for something none of them did.

If there truly was the threat your wild rants envision, there would be hundreds or thousands of Americans and other westerners killed daily, hourly. Remember from your nutty right wing talking points, Muslims must kill the infidels.

Why haven't all the Muslims who live next door to millions of Americans risen up in the night to do their religious duty?

You folks really are believers in the most ludicrous of fantasies, and guess who is your leader - none other the president of the phucking United States of America.

It isn't too late to start thinking, you kno w, layman, Baldimo, georgeob1, finn, McGentrix, ... ,have I missed anyone?

OK slaves buildt the White House, but you had no slaves in the northern states.

Potter, a Republican, sees Mercer as emblematic of a major shift in American politics that has occurred since 2010, when the Supreme Court made a controversial ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. That ruling, and several subsequent ones, removed virtually all limits on how much money corporations and nonprofit groups can spend on federal elections, and how much individuals can give to political-action committees. Since then, power has tilted away from the two main political parties and toward a tiny group of rich mega-donors

Private money has long played a big role in American elections. When there were limits on how much a single donor could give, however, it was much harder for an individual to have a decisive impact. Now, Potter said, “a single billionaire can write an eight-figure check and put not just their thumb but their whole hand on the scale—and we often have no idea who they are.” He continued, “Suddenly, a random billionaire can change politics and public policy—to sweep everything else off the table—even if they don’t speak publicly, and even if there’s almost no public awareness of his or her views.”.

Patterson also recalled Mercer arguing that, during the Gulf War, the U.S. should simply have taken Iraq’s oil, “since it was there.” Trump, too, has said that the U.S. should have “kept the oil.” Expropriating another country’s natural resources is a violation of international law. Another onetime senior employee at Renaissance recalls hearing Mercer downplay the dangers posed by nuclear war. Mercer, speaking of the atomic bombs that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, argued that, outside of the immediate blast zones, the radiation actually made Japanese citizens healthier.