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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Yeah, doing that would sully Ecuador's diplomatic reputation a ton. Probably better to put up with asshattery on a few members of the staff than screw over your entire diplomatic corps with this kind of backtracking. (Not to mention his supports would be unlikely to take that kind of insult sitting down. Erm...so to speak.)
edited 1st Sep '16 7:38:07 AM by megarockman
The damned queen and the relentless knight.Rafael Correa's trying to gain legitimacy among his fellow Latin American Chavists by flipping the West the bird. Kind of like Mahathir did. I doubt he'd even let Assange leave if he wanted to.
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotSo I've gotten around to watching Trump's immigration speech.
The first three minutes seem fine: standard vapid political dialogue and pseudo-inspiring platitudes, I assume things start getting crazy near the end.
Edit: Kicks into high gear around 20 minutes into the speech.
edited 1st Sep '16 8:38:32 AM by CaptainCapsase
Can anyone send me the link to Trump's new immigration speech?
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Sadly, we're at the point where both sides have split into camps where each considers the other's media to be useless and untrustworthy. I'd read an article from a conservative about how conservative media has become a disaster. He said he'd tell people that something wasn't true, and point to a news source that's not right-wing, and be told that it's full of shit because it's not a right-wing source. And because of this bubble, conservative politicians have to repeat things they know are full of shit because if they don't, they get accused of not being conservative enough.
Oh, and we got National Review, of all sources
saying that becoming "Fox News famous" hurts the right.
The result is a world in which many individual conservatives just keep failing up. Fox is the place where you can nurse grievances over failed arguments. It’s the place where you can make money after failed campaigns. Do you wonder why the GOP had 17 presidential primary candidates? In part because there were actually two primary contests — the race for the nomination and the auditions for Fox.
The conservative movement is a victim of Fox’s success. The network is so strong that conservatives who ignore it risk obscurity and irrelevance, even as it remains far too weak to truly transform the landscape. So long as Fox continues to make more than $1 billion per year, that’s unlikely to change. It will be up to conservative leaders to wean themselves off the cheap high and intentionally engage the vast majority of Americans who don’t turn on Fox, don’t follow Sean Hannity, and think “The Factor” sounds more like an old game show than the most-watched news program in America.
Trumps speech was a thing that killed what little Hispanic support he had:
“I was a strong supporter of Donald Trump when I believed he was going to address the immigration problem realistically and compassionately,” Monty told the news site. “What I heard today was not realistic and not compassionate.”
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Monty told the Texas Tribune that Trump’s speech was a “complete betrayal to Republican ideals and his [commitments] made” and that Republicans need to “reclaim our party from the [nativist] elements.”
When asked if he’d continue raising money for Trump, Monty replied, “No way José … It is pouring money down the drain.”
Monty was one of the Latino leaders who attended the Aug. 20 meeting in Trump Tower where the billionaire mogul reportedly softened his tone on illegal immigration.
“When we met [earlier in August], he was going to approach this issue with a realistic plan, a compassionate plan, with a plan that was not disruptive to the immigrants that were here that were not lawbreakers,” Monty told Politico. “He didn’t deliver any of that.”
Similarly, Alfonso Aguilar, the president of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, told Politico that he was “inclined” to drop his support for Trump after this week’s big speech.
“It’s so disappointing because we feel we took a chance, a very risky chance,” he said. “We decided to make a big U-turn to see if we could make him change. We thought we were moving in the right direction … we’re disappointed. We feel misled.”
Massey Villarreal, a businessman in Houston, told NBC Latino that he was finished supporting Trump after Wednesday night’s “awful” speech.

"But no, I meant Johnson was an unelected president who was also a notorious conniving bastard with an obsession for his own penis."
Yes on the penis obsession part, hello no on the "unelected" part. LBJ led the Democrats to one of its greatest Landslide Election victories, and was the last Democrat to win more than 480 electoral votes.
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