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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I clicked the link. The article is garbage, and two of the related ones were titled "In Defense of Maria Butina" and "Trump is a man of Peace".
Thanks for giving me another site to avoid, I guess.
Also, link dropping without a quick summary is against forum rules.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.On Trump compromising the identities of spec-ops troops just before a clandestine operation... Shouldn't this be a crime that the POTUS ought to be taken to court over?
I had completely forgotten the religious roots of the holiday, good point.
No? It's not even worse than things he's done in the past. If we did something about this, then we would have done something about his just plain giving out higher-than-Top Secret info to Russia without any vetting. And most people don't even remember that.
From the Fact Checker site:
Factual Reporting: HIGH
Notes: The American Spectator, is a conservative U.S. monthly magazine covering news and politics, edited by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. and published by the non-profit American Spectator Foundation. Primarily focuses on economics with a right wing bias. Although the American Spectator is biased and uses loaded language especially in headlines, we could not find any failed fact checks from credible sources. (7/18/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 4/5/2017)
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.....But did No. 45 actually declassify the information? I mean, there's a process that any other government entity would go through to declassify information, and, more importantly, it would be vetted first to make certain releasing that intelligence doesn't endanger current operations. Certainly the President did not show that depth of understanding.
I would stand by the argument that the President may have made that information *public*, but that he failed to declassify it.
While it should have been obvious to anyone with a brain, George Nader reportedly has told the Special Cousel that the Seychelles meeting between Erik Prince (of Darkness) and Kirill Dmitriev (the head of a sanctioned Russian investment fund), was set up in advance to try to set up a back-channel between the Trump Campaign and Russia.
This directly contrdicts Erik Prince of Darkness’ testimony he gave in the House’s Sham investigation that the meeting was completely by chance, after they were introduced by other potential investors.
Edited by megaeliz on Dec 28th 2018 at 2:13:01 PM
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Presidental declassification powers are massively broad. A sitting president can declassify anything at any time with no process. Simply by making information public a President has declassified it. If Trump woke up tomorrow and tweeted out some military secret (like he just did) that information would technically have been declassified.
Perhaps something we should look into changing, but that’s the rules as they stand.
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. It’s a bit of a running gag here, but he deserves it.
He founded Blackwater
, and is a big advocate for privatizing the military. Other people here could tell you more, but he’s definitely an evil guy.
Edited by megaeliz on Dec 28th 2018 at 2:25:18 PM
He's also the younger brother of Betsy Devos. The current Secretary of Education who is currently doing her best to dumb down the children of the USA.
Of all the Cabinet members, she's the one I found the most abhorrent. To add insult to injury, I am constantly reminded she exists because the place where I live in Taiwan has an Amway branch practically next door to me.
Disgusted, but not surprisedSomething I found on the FiveThirtyEight Twitter feed here
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In more news of diplomatic incompetence, Trump lifts sanctions on Turkey despite Americans still being detained.
It's a long article and I'm on mobile, so the short of it is that sanctions were lifted for the release of pastor Andrew Brunson, even though numerous Americans are still imprisoned and Turkey tends to capitulate when we put the screws to them.

Read it. Short version: Late night comedians have an unhealthy obsession with Mueller. Not the investigation, the man himself. And they aren't as subversive as they think they are since everyone already hates Trump.
Edited by Parable on Dec 28th 2018 at 3:43:50 AM