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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2019 23:37:14 GMT
NPR..
”More than 2,000 Kurdish Syrians have crossed into Iraq since Turkey began its assault on northeastern Syria last week.
Aid officials are bracing for the arrival of as many as 50,000 refugees.”
trump...
“Think of how many lives we saved in Syria and Turkey by getting a ceasefire yesterday. Thousands and thousands, and maybe many more!”
He rants and raves about the migrants that come to our Southern Border to get away from the destruction in their own countries.
Now we can say he is responsible for pushing migrants out of their country into another country to get away from the destruction he caused.
#MAGA
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Oct 19, 2019 1:23:59 GMT
It truly does help to PAY your bills! I know, your grandmaster doesn't pay his, but you need to! Wonder if they have thought about the possibility that dt doesn't really care about them? Trump supporters cry bitter tears after bus company they never bothered paying leaves them strandedPublished 11 hours ago on October 18, 2019By Brad Reed Hundreds of Trump supporters this week were left stranded by bus company U.S. Coachways after the organizers for a “March for Trump” rally in Washington D.C. failed to pay them.The Daily Beast’s Will Sommer reports that the Trump supporters had expected U.S. Coachways to pick them up and bring them to D.C. where they were set to rally against House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. After the buses never showed up, however, Trump supporters claimed that the bus company was part of a “deep state” conspiracy aimed at silencing their voices. In reality, U.S. Coachways’ chief marketing officer Joseph Heap tells Sommer, the company withheld the buses because multiple credit card payments made by Trump rally organizers were declined.“We want to get people down there,” he said. “But unfortunately, payment is required.” This did not stop Trump supporters from claiming that the company was part of a sinister plot to silence them, however. “We are incredibly disappointed at US Coachways, their actions prevented hundreds of Americans from exercising their first amendment rights and to have their voices heard,” Women for America First, the organized behind the anti-impeachment rally, said in a statement. Sommer reports that some Trump supporters took to social media to accuse U.S. Coachways of being part of a diabolical plot to overthrow in American government. “Guess what, you lefty, soy-drinking latte pieces of sh*t: You’re not taking this country,” said one Trump supporter in a YouTube video posted this week. “It ain’t going to happen.” ** www.rawstory.com/2019/10/trump-supporters-cry-bitter-tears-after-bus-company-they-never-bothered-paying-leaves-them-stranded/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1762
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Post by hop2 on Oct 19, 2019 1:37:35 GMT
It truly does help to PAY your bills! I know, your grandmaster doesn't pay his, but you need to! Wonder if they have thought about the possibility that dt doesn't really care about them? Trump supporters cry bitter tears after bus company they never bothered paying leaves them strandedPublished 11 hours ago on October 18, 2019By Brad Reed Hundreds of Trump supporters this week were left stranded by bus company U.S. Coachways after the organizers for a “March for Trump” rally in Washington D.C. failed to pay them.The Daily Beast’s Will Sommer reports that the Trump supporters had expected U.S. Coachways to pick them up and bring them to D.C. where they were set to rally against House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. After the buses never showed up, however, Trump supporters claimed that the bus company was part of a “deep state” conspiracy aimed at silencing their voices. In reality, U.S. Coachways’ chief marketing officer Joseph Heap tells Sommer, the company withheld the buses because multiple credit card payments made by Trump rally organizers were declined.“We want to get people down there,” he said. “But unfortunately, payment is required.” This did not stop Trump supporters from claiming that the company was part of a sinister plot to silence them, however. “We are incredibly disappointed at US Coachways, their actions prevented hundreds of Americans from exercising their first amendment rights and to have their voices heard,” Women for America First, the organized behind the anti-impeachment rally, said in a statement. Sommer reports that some Trump supporters took to social media to accuse U.S. Coachways of being part of a diabolical plot to overthrow in American government. “Guess what, you lefty, soy-drinking latte pieces of sh*t: You’re not taking this country,” said one Trump supporter in a YouTube video posted this week. “It ain’t going to happen.” ** www.rawstory.com/2019/10/trump-supporters-cry-bitter-tears-after-bus-company-they-never-bothered-paying-leaves-them-stranded/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1762shuckso well, there’s one problem I hadn’t thought of. My Dr said no soy milk for health reasons. I so want to be a soy latte drinking lefty POS but I can’t. that sucks
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Oct 19, 2019 1:58:34 GMT
FOX shows her how well the ceasefire is working!!
Good job Stephanie Grisham, our hiding Press Secretary speaks!!
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Post by ComplicatedLady on Oct 19, 2019 5:34:52 GMT
Because this isn’t at all embarrassing.
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Post by Merge on Oct 19, 2019 11:36:39 GMT
It truly does help to PAY your bills! I know, your grandmaster doesn't pay his, but you need to! Wonder if they have thought about the possibility that dt doesn't really care about them? Trump supporters cry bitter tears after bus company they never bothered paying leaves them strandedPublished 11 hours ago on October 18, 2019By Brad Reed Hundreds of Trump supporters this week were left stranded by bus company U.S. Coachways after the organizers for a “March for Trump” rally in Washington D.C. failed to pay them.The Daily Beast’s Will Sommer reports that the Trump supporters had expected U.S. Coachways to pick them up and bring them to D.C. where they were set to rally against House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. After the buses never showed up, however, Trump supporters claimed that the bus company was part of a “deep state” conspiracy aimed at silencing their voices. In reality, U.S. Coachways’ chief marketing officer Joseph Heap tells Sommer, the company withheld the buses because multiple credit card payments made by Trump rally organizers were declined.“We want to get people down there,” he said. “But unfortunately, payment is required.” This did not stop Trump supporters from claiming that the company was part of a sinister plot to silence them, however. “We are incredibly disappointed at US Coachways, their actions prevented hundreds of Americans from exercising their first amendment rights and to have their voices heard,” Women for America First, the organized behind the anti-impeachment rally, said in a statement. Sommer reports that some Trump supporters took to social media to accuse U.S. Coachways of being part of a diabolical plot to overthrow in American government. “Guess what, you lefty, soy-drinking latte pieces of sh*t: You’re not taking this country,” said one Trump supporter in a YouTube video posted this week. “It ain’t going to happen.” ** www.rawstory.com/2019/10/trump-supporters-cry-bitter-tears-after-bus-company-they-never-bothered-paying-leaves-them-stranded/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1762shuckso well, there’s one problem I hadn’t thought of. My Dr said no soy milk for health reasons. I so want to be a soy latte drinking lefty POS but I can’t. that sucks My Starbucks has almond milk. (I’m an almond milk drinking, yoga-doing, vegan lefty POS. )
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2019 14:28:37 GMT
"Banking on the public's collective amnesia about every single thing that happened in the past twenty years, the GOP is now screaming bloody murder about the closed door impeachment hearings being held in the House. Yesterday a group of Tea Party loons attempted to storm the hearing room during witness testimony like they were liberating the Bastille. And House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is moving to censure Adam Schiff for treasonous paraphrasing and running a "Soviet-style" investigation which will execute poor, innocent Donald Trump without due process or the right to confront his accuser. Truly, if it wasn't for bad faith, Republicans would have no faith at all. Tea Party -- sorry, "Freedom Caucus" -- chair Andy Biggs led the charge yesterday, attempting to barge into the conference room where House Foreign Affairs, Intel, and Oversight members were interviewing Mike Pompeo's former deputy Michael McKinley. Neither Biggs nor the rest of the Moron Squad -- Louie Gohmert, Debbie Lesko, and John Ratcliffe -- sit on any of those committees. And indeed the parliamentarian ruled that Matt Gaetz's freakishly big head had to go when he tried this same stunt on Monday. But these Gippers have a storyline to flog about sneaky Democrats holding illegitimate, secret hearings, and by Mammon they're going to do it. Here on Planet Earth, closed-door witness interviews are absolutely bog standard procedure in the House. Aside from the 11-hour interrogation of Hillary Clinton, every single witness in the Benghazi investigation was interviewed in private. Darrell Issa held closed door hearings in the Fast and the Furious investigation, and was himself ejected from the Benghazi hearings by Trey Gowdy when he attempted an unauthorized entry. And Devin Nunes just presided over eleventy hundred hours of sealed hearings in the Russia investigation. But GO OFF, Louie!... Both the Clinton and Nixon impeachment investigations were conducted behind closed doors in the early phases, not just to promote actual fact-finding over camera-ready histrionics, but also to prevent witnesses from coordinating their stories. This rationale goes doubly for embargoing the transcripts, with pikers like Gordon Sondland, who is testifying as we type, throwing up five different trial balloons in the week before his appearance testing out which version of the "truth" the public -- particularly the portion of it that might be looking to patronize boutique hotels in Portland, Oregon -- will find least offensive.... Yessir, Republicans are flat out disgusted by this entire process. But not disgusted enough to boycott those hearings, where they're taking their time to interview each witness and get their points on record. Which is exactly as much process as is due, as the GOP knows damn well." www.wonkette.com/closed-door-hearings-bad-now-declares-benghazi-travelgate-fastnfurious-party
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2019 15:56:44 GMT
Rep. Andy Biggs...
”🚨 173 Members of Congress now cosponsor my motion to condemn and trump censure Adam Schiff.
🚨 🚨 A vote on my motion is expected for Monday night.
trump 🚨 🚨 🚨 We must hold Mr. Schiff accountable for misleading the American people.”
These guys have no shame. So I made A few changes.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2019 16:21:01 GMT
How about that...
MSNBC..
Kurds are saying Turkey is not allowing them to leave.. more to come I’m sure.
It would appear that don the con got conned. Which would be funny if people weren’t dying because of trump’s decisions.
It occurred to me on how these foreign leaders have no problem showing just how dumb trump is.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Oct 19, 2019 18:09:52 GMT
Kurds are saying Turkey is not allowing them to leave.. more to come I’m sure. I can't find the article I read this morning but included was a picture, actually a map showing the strip of land 'between' Turkey and Syria where the Kurds have been. There is a section now in the middle of the stip that as been taken over, I guess by Turkey, so the Kurds in the left/west section cannot get through the middle section trying to go in/through East section to get out of the area completely. Surely there is the possibility that Turkey has expanded their actions to block more areas to prevent the Kurds from moving out at all. I would not put it past them!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2019 2:02:30 GMT
trump...
”I thought I was doing something very good for our Country by using Trump National Doral, in Miami, for hosting the G-7 Leaders. It is big, grand, on hundreds of acres, next to MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, has tremendous ballrooms & meeting rooms, and each delegation would have...”
”its own 50 to 70 unit building. Would set up better than other alternatives. I announced that I would be willing to do it at NO PROFIT or, if legally permissible, at ZERO COST to the USA. But, as usual, the Hostile Media & their Democrat Partners went CRAZY!”
“Therefore, based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility, we will no longer consider Trump National Doral, Miami, as the Host Site for the G-7 in 2020. We will begin the search for another site, including the possibility of Camp David, immediately. Thank you!”
Question. How in heavens name is trump using his property good for our country???
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2019 2:35:42 GMT
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Post by birdgate on Oct 20, 2019 4:00:05 GMT
So Pelosi and a Congressional delegation are in Jordan right now for an unannounced meeting with the King. Hmm....? I know Jordan always has good intelligence to share with us and they definitely wouldn't share it with dimwit.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2019 4:56:07 GMT
Prickstarter
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Post by lucyg on Oct 20, 2019 6:07:19 GMT
Prickstarter I would pawn my wedding rings to contribute my share, and be proud of it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2019 13:15:32 GMT
President Grown-Up is gonna LOVE this....
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2019 13:48:54 GMT
GOP is already losing their minds about Nancy and the bi-partisan Congressional group meeting w/foreign head of state.
Hmmm
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2019 13:49:16 GMT
trump...
”Mark Esperanto, Secretary of Defense, “The ceasefire is holding up very nicely. There are some minor skirmishes that have ended quickly. New areas being resettled with the Kurds.” USA soldiers are not in combat or ceasefire zones. We have secured the Oil. Bringing soldiers home!”
Mark Esper.
It would appear donnie dimwit doesn’t know the name of Secretary of Defense. Not surprised, he’s had so many employee changes and a lot of temps. The very definition of stability.
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Post by dewryce on Oct 20, 2019 14:12:55 GMT
trump... ”Mark Esperanto, Secretary of Defense, “The ceasefire is holding up very nicely. There are some minor skirmishes that have ended quickly. New areas being resettled with the Kurds.” USA soldiers are not in combat or ceasefire zones. We have secured the Oil. Bringing soldiers home!” Mark Esper. It would appear donnie dimwit doesn’t know the name of Secretary of Defense. Not surprised, he’s had so many employee changes and a lot of temps. The very definition of stability. That and the soldiers aren’t coming home, they’re going to Western Iraq according to Mark Esper.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Oct 20, 2019 14:15:05 GMT
Prickstarter I would pawn my wedding rings to contribute my share, and be proud of it. How much do I NEED to send and where!??!?!?!?! I can do this!! Trouble is, he would keep changing how much we would have to give him!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2019 14:15:28 GMT
trump... ”Mark Esperanto, Secretary of Defense, “The ceasefire is holding up very nicely. There are some minor skirmishes that have ended quickly. New areas being resettled with the Kurds.” USA soldiers are not in combat or ceasefire zones. We have secured the Oil. Bringing soldiers home!” Mark Esper. It would appear donnie dimwit doesn’t know the name of Secretary of Defense. Not surprised, he’s had so many employee changes and a lot of temps. The very definition of stability. That and the soldiers aren’t coming home, they’re going to Western Iraq according to Mark Esper. Well then it’s clear trump got his information from Mark Esperanto and not the Secretary of Defense. 😀
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Oct 20, 2019 14:20:30 GMT
GOP is already losing their minds about Nancy and the bi-partisan Congressional group meeting w/foreign head of state. Hmmm See the difference?!?! BI-partisan= working GOP only= visiting And we paid for the GOP MOB to go, WHY?!? Many in that group don't look too happy!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Oct 20, 2019 14:24:26 GMT
Well then it’s clear trump got his information from Mark Esperanto and not the Secretary of Defense. 😀 Esperanto must be one of his nameless 'many' , so he made up a sort of similar name so his base would think he knows what he is talking about and that he had talked to the real guy!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2019 14:27:58 GMT
Washington Post...
“Hamilton pushed for impeachment powers. Trump is what he had in mind.”
“He wanted a strong president — and a way to get rid of the demagogic ones.
President Trump has described the impeachment proceedings as a “coup,” and his White House counsel has termed them “unconstitutional.” This would come as a surprise to Alexander Hamilton, who wrote not only the 11 essays in “The Federalist” outlining and defending the powers of the presidency, but also the two essays devoted to impeachment.
There seems little doubt, given his writings on the presidency, that Hamilton would have been aghast at Trump’s behavior and appalled by his invitation to foreign actors to meddle in our elections. As a result, he would most certainly have endorsed the current impeachment inquiry. It’s not an exaggeration to say that Trump embodies Hamilton’s worst fears about the kind of person who might someday head the government.
Among our founders, Hamilton’s views count heavily because he was the foremost proponent of a robust presidency, yet he also harbored an abiding fear that a brazen demagogue could seize the office. That worry helps to explain why he analyzed impeachment in such detail: He viewed it as a crucial instrument to curb possible abuses arising from the enlarged powers he otherwise championed.
Unlike Thomas Jefferson, with his sunny faith in the common sense of the people, Hamilton emphasized their “turbulent and changing” nature and worried about a “restless” and “daring usurper” who would excite the “jealousies and apprehensions” of his followers. He thought the country should be governed by wise and illustrious figures who would counter the fickle views of the electorate with reasoned judgments. He hoped that members of the electoral college, then expected to exercise independent judgment, would select “characters preeminent for ability and virtue.”
From the outset, Hamilton feared an unholy trinity of traits in a future president — ambition, avarice and vanity. “When avarice takes the lead in a State, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall,” he wrote as early as the Revolutionary War. He dreaded most the advent of a populist demagogue who would profess friendship for the people and pander to their prejudices while secretly betraying them. Such a false prophet would foment political frenzy and try to feed off the confusion.
So haunted was Hamilton by this specter that he conjured it up in “The Federalist” No. 1, warning that “a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that . . . of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.”
Throughout history, despots have tended to be silent, crafty and secretive. Hamilton was more concerned with noisy, flamboyant figures, who would throw dust in voters’ eyes and veil their sinister designs behind it. These connoisseurs of chaos would employ a constant barrage of verbiage to cloud issues and blur moral lines. Such hobgoblins of Hamilton’s imagination bear an eerie resemblance to the current occupant of the White House, with his tweets, double talk and inflammatory rhetoric at rallies.
While under siege from opponents as treasury secretary, Hamilton sketched out the type of charlatan who would most threaten the republic: “When a man unprincipled in private life[,] desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . . despotic in his ordinary demeanour — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the cry of danger to liberty — to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion — to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day — It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.’ ” Given the way Trump has broadcast suspicions about the CIA, the FBI, the diplomatic corps, senior civil servants and the “deep state,” Hamilton’s warning about those who would seek to discredit the government as prelude to a possible autocracy seems prophetic.
At the time of the Constitutional Convention, foreign powers, notably Britain and Spain, still hovered on America’s borders, generating fear of foreign interventions in our elections. Hamilton supported the electoral college as a way to forestall these nations from seeking “to gain an improper ascendant in our councils. How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?” He prophesied that competing countries would try to clip the wings by which America “might soar to a dangerous greatness.” That Trump was so cavalier about Russian meddling in the 2016 election and then invited Ukraine to furnish defamatory material about his political rival Joe Biden would have shocked Hamilton and the other founders, all of whom were wary of “the insidious wiles of foreign influence,” as George Washington phrased it in his farewell address.
In defending impeachment in two “Federalist” essays, one might have expected Hamilton to engage in close textual analysis, parsing the exact meaning of “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” Instead he couched his defense in broad political language, stating that impeachment should “proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.” In short, the president didn’t need to commit a crime per se. “If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers,” the people must “take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.” Trump’s telephone call with the Ukrainian president would seem to suggest a clear abuse of power and possibly a campaign finance violation, although we will need a fair and impartial inquiry to confirm this. As Hamilton wrote, “Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.”
Knowing that impeachment would be divisive, arousing violent party agitation, Hamilton never wanted it used lightly or capriciously, but neither did he want it relegated to mere window-dressing. It was a tool intended for use as conditions warranted. “If there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolutions or commands which pretend to be laws will, in fact, amount to nothing more than advice or recommendation,” he wrote. For Hamilton, each branch of government required a mechanism to check encroachment by the others. He discerned a perfect symmetry between the president’s veto over legislation, constraining congressional overreach, and presidential impeachment, curbing executive excess. In his notes for the New York state convention to ratify the Constitution, he jotted down: “Legislative in the Congress, yet checked by negative of the Executive. Executive in the President, yet checked by impeachment of Congress.”
Throughout his “Federalist” essays, Hamilton foresaw impeachment as a possible two-step process and noted multiple times that after removal from office, an impeached president would “be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law.” He was adamant that the Senate should hold a trial, with the chief justice presiding, and pointed out that other Supreme Court justices should be excluded in case the ousted president then became a defendant for his misdeeds in the regular court system.
Our constitutional system, with its separation of powers, is an exquisitely calibrated mechanism. James Madison, one of Hamilton’s “Federalist” co-authors, noted that no single branch of government “can pretend to an exclusive or superior right of settling the boundaries between their respective powers.” But that is exactly what the president is doing by trying to shut down Congress’s powers of executive oversight.
In the last analysis, democracy isn’t just a set of institutions or shared principles, but a culture of mutual respect and civility. People must be willing to play by the rules or the best-crafted system becomes null and void, a travesty of its former self. We are now seeing on a daily basis presidential behavior that would have been unimaginable during more than two centuries of the American experiment. Not only is Trump himself on trial, but he is also testing our constitutional system to the breaking point. In his worst imaginings, however, Hamilton anticipated — at least in its general outline — the chaos and demagoguery now on display in Washington. He also helped design and defend the remedy: impeachment.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Oct 20, 2019 15:24:37 GMT
Our constitutional system, with its separation of powers, is an exquisitely calibrated mechanism. James Madison, one of Hamilton’s “Federalist” co-authors, noted that no single branch of government “can pretend to an exclusive or superior right of settling the boundaries between their respective powers.” But that is exactly what the president is doing by trying to shut down Congress’s powers of executive oversight. IF there were a normal, honest Congress and Justice Dept this would not be a problem, but they, at the moment, appear to be as corrupt as dt is!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2019 15:40:21 GMT
com·pas·sion noun sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.
trump removed the Esperanto tweet and replaced it with this one. He got the Secretary of Defense’s name right in this one but once again trump shows what is important to him.
“The ceasefire is holding up very nicely. There are some minor skirmishes that have ended quickly. New areas being resettled with Kurds. U.S. soldiers are not in combat or ceasefire zone. We have secured the Oil.” Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense. Ending endless wars!”
People died because of actions and what is important to him is that we know “we have secured the oil”.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2019 15:55:09 GMT
Correction, it appears trump is still getting his information from “Secretary of Defense Esperanto”
Idrees Ali...
”I’m not sure who Trump is referring to, but I’m travelling with Defense Secretary Esper and cant recall the quote Trump is using. While speaking with us Enroute to Afghanistan, Esper also made no mention of new areas being resettled with Kurds or oil.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Oct 20, 2019 16:44:10 GMT
Correction, it appears trump is still getting his information from “Secretary of Defense Esperanto” Idrees Ali... ”I’m not sure who Trump is referring to, but I’m travelling with Defense Secretary Esper and cant recall the quote Trump is using. While speaking with us Enroute to Afghanistan, Esper also made no mention of new areas being resettled with Kurds or oil.” Ok, good, I think. (and yes, my screen just got a good cleaning) Is this a possible lead in to everyone calling him out on misinformation?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2019 17:02:36 GMT
Disclaimer.. I’m not a fan of Sanders or AOC and wish they would join trump and just go away.
And this is one of the reasons why. I’m willing the bet the majority of Americans could care less about Zuckerberg or Facebook and if Facebook disappeared tomorrow I doubt there would more than a moment of silence and then folks would move on.
Nor do I understand how “Mark Zuckerberg is making decisions over my life”. He certainly isn’t influencing what I chose to believe, that’s all on me. He isn’t forcing me to go on Facebook. So how exactly is Zuckerberg making decisions over my life?
As to her “public systems” that means “government run” as opposed to privately run systems which sets up its only set of issues.
This is “stupid talk” and it’s not how you win elections. IMO
Newsweek.
“ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ BLASTS FACEBOOK'S MARK ZUCKERBERG AT BERNIE SANDERS RALLY”
“New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted Facebook Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg during her speech on October 19 in which she endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont for president of the United States.
Ocasio-Cortez, who represents New York's 14th congressional district, endorsed Sanders at a "Bernie's Back" rally in New York City.
There, in front of an estimated crowd of 20,000 she lauded Sanders's support for causes such as tackling the student loan debt crisis and establishing Medicare for All.
The remark was characteristic of Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described Democratic socialist, who has previously railed against companies for what she sees as their disproportionate influence on American politics.
"The future, and our future, is in public systems, and it's in publicly owned systems, because we need to take power over our lives again," Ocasio-Cortez said. "I don't know about you, but I don't want Mark Zuckerberg making decisions over my life."
Ocasio-Cortez was likely referencing statements that Zuckerberg made earlier this month when he delivered an address at Georgetown University on October 17. At that event, the billionaire entrepreneur defended Facebook's policy of not fact-checking political ads posted on the platform, following criticism that Facebook had allowed President Donald Trump's re-election campaign to pay for ads that promoted inaccurate or false information.
"I don't think it's right for platforms to censor politicians or the news in a democracy," Zuckerberg said. "And we're not an outlier here. The other major internet platforms and the vast majority of media also run these same ads."
Zuckerberg also implied that people who criticize Facebook's policies are not necessarily prioritizing the dissemination of truth, but rather seeking ways to promote their own agendas.
More people across the spectrum believe that achieving the political outcomes that they think matter is more important than every person having a voice and being heard," the Facebook CEO said. "And I think that that's dangerous."
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, another contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, posted a false advertisement to Facebook earlier this month that claimed Zuckerberg had endorsed Trump for re-election. The ad was a bid to critique Facebook for its policy of not fact-checking ads.
"We intentionally made a Facebook ad with false claims and submitted it to Facebook's ad platform to see if it'd be approved. It got approved quickly and the ad is now running on Facebook," Warren wrote in a Twitter post to explain the experiment.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Oct 20, 2019 18:55:06 GMT
Baltimore is having a very bad week.............. Thomas D'Alesandro III, the brother of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and former Baltimore mayor, died Sunday at age 90. Pelosi said in a statement that her family is "devastated" by the loss of her "beloved brother." “Tommy was the finest public servant I have ever known," Pelosi said in the statement. "His life and leadership were a tribute to the Catholic values with which we were raised: faith, family, patriotism. He profoundly believed, as did our parents, that public service was a noble calling and that we all had a responsibility to help others." D'Alesandro died at his Baltimore home after experiencing complications from a stroke, The Baltimore Sun reported. Pelosi commended her brother for dedicating "his life to our city." “All his life, Tommy worked on the side of the angels," the Speaker's statement said. "Now, he is with them. With his commitment to his family and public service, his life has truly blessed America." D'Alesandro, Pelosi's oldest brother, served as mayor during a turbulent period for the city that saw the 1968 riots and strikes by city workers, bus drivers and symphony musicians, according to the Sun. The mayor took office promising to "root out every cause or vestige of discrimination." ** thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/466644-thomas-dalesandro-iii-brother-of-nancy-pelosi-dies-at-90
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