[“But Conservos made zero, ZERO arguments regarding the constitutionality of what Trump has been doing…” One of our liberal commenters sought to make a curious point with this statement re Trump being impeached. There is nothing in the Constitution about a president’s ‘abuse of power’ or ‘obstruction of Congress’ – these are political charges fashioned entirely out of whole cloth by Democrats desperate to somehow cripple the president going into the 2020 election. Therefore, ‘constitutionality’ need not even enter into any defense argument. Just pointing out the Democrats’ political perfidy is enough to indict their motives. gjr]
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352 responses to “Sandbox – 13dec19”
Too little too late or just in the nick of time? –
According to a report by the Tampa Bay Times, Florida high school students will be required to take a civics course in order to qualify for graduation. The course will teach students about the values that have shaped American political history.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/12/14/florida-will-require-all-high-school-students-to-take-civics-course/
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Should we expect to hear this from the socialist dems in Nov 2020? Probably. –
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/12/13/far-left-french-leader-blames-israeli-networks-corbyn-defeat/
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To our LIBS, this is an impeachable offence.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/14/5-9-million-individuals-off-food-stamps-under-trump/
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WOW!!!! Our LIBS little ECO princess just went full Marxist.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/14/greta-thunberg-world-leaders-against-the-wall/
“Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg told a group of protesters Friday in Turin, Italy that they would “put world leaders against the wall” if they “run away from their responsibilities” on climate change.”
WE will execute you, if you don’t do as we say……
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If they do it @ 513 they may be right –
According to a survey conducted by the American Jewish Committee, 54% of Orthodox Jews said that they voted for Trump in 2016. One year into his presidency, 71% of Orthodox Jews supported him, and that was before he commuted the sentence of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin and recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Then in 2018, in a Tri-State-area poll commissioned by Ami Magazine, 82% of respondents said that they would vote for Trump in 2020. And as this year’s Ami poll reveals, support for the president has now hit a whopping 89%. What this upward trajectory makes abundantly clear is that more and more Orthodox Jews are fans of the 45th president of the United States.
Turx concludes: “It is support that he has rightfully earned because of three years of hard work and genuine results.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/12/trumps-support-among-orthodox-jews-has-risen-from-54-to-89/
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Here is what it sounds like when the chi coms squeal as the walls close around them and their games are nutered. –
If Germany were to take a decision that leads to Huawei’s exclusion from the German market, there will be consequences,” Ambassador Wu Ken said Saturday at a Handelsblatt event. “The Chinese government will not stand idly by.”
President Donald Trump’s administration has sought to enlist U.S. allies in squeezing out Huawei as a 5G supplier. A lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission this month marked Huawei’s latest attempt to fight U.S. sanctions and curbs that threaten the world’s largest networking business.
While the German legislation doesn’t explicitly name Huawei, it’s tailored to the Chinese company and comes after months of debate about 5G security. Huawei has repeatedly rejected allegations of its equipment’s potential for espionage and sabotage.
The ambassador said Huawei has no legal obligation to provide data to the Chinese government, then reminded the audience that German manufacturers account for a quarter of the 28 million cars sold in China last year.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/china-threatens-germany-retaliation-huawei-230924698.html
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Another DEM actually thinks for himself.(self preservation?)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/14/democrat-rep-collin-peterson-confirms-hell-vote-against-impeaching-trump/
So who will be the few that will get that impeachment vote to pass by just one vote? That’s how the LIBS play the game.
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Oh great. Another thing to get all worked up and outraged about. Secret Decoder Dog Whistles.
Media Smears Army, Navy Cadets, Accuses Them Of Flashing White Power Symbols
https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-smears-army-navy-cadets-accuses-them-of-flashing-white-power-symbols?
Where is Eric Holder and pink-tie Carter Page when they need them most?
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Hmmm. I see the Midshipmen are 10-2. Maybe next year, Dr. Rebane.
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New Jersey; ‘Tlaib’s Confusion, and Ours’
“Let’s insist, for a moment, upon the Occam’s razor explanation for the New Jersey massacre, undertaken by two now-deceased African-American suspects, one of whom had alleged ties to the Black Hebrew Israelites and a history of anti-Semitic and anti-police activity online. Simplicity stipulated, the explanation should be clear enough: Two African-American assailants harbored some amalgam of anti-Semitism and anti-police fervor, which culminated in their slaying a police officer and several Jewish citizens. It’s possible that such an explanation is not true. It’s possible that the pair were suffering a heretofore unreported psychotic break. It’s possible that the two woke up on Tuesday and decided to kill four random people, three of whom, by stochastic accident, just so happened to be either Jewish or a police officer. It’s possible that the two were operating under some false conciousness foisted upon them by the clandestine forces of “white supremacy,” and that — if you really think about it — their actions were enabled by a broader “climate of hate” enabled by Donald Trump, the Republican party, Jeff Sessions, Brett Kavanaugh, and the 2017 tax reform.”
It’s probably the anti-Semitism and anti-police stuff, though.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-jersey-shooting-rashida-tlaibs-confusion-and-ours/
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A labor guy explaining why Boris won. Note the prelude to Trump 2020
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G0nIhL4v6bY
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Adam the Schiff gets a rude reception!
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-14/adam-schiff-armenian-town-hall
“As Schiff began speaking, a man and two women held up signs reading,”Don’t Impeach.” When they were asked to take down the signs, they refused.
Then, about a dozen people scattered throughout the auditorium began yelling, “Liar.”
When some in the audience asked them to refrain from yelling, scuffles broke out throughout the room. The audience members who were yelling at Schiff removed their jackets, revealing shirts supporting Trump.
After about 15 minutes, the scuffles settled down, and the event continued.”
Think Schiffty got the message?
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Barry @ 6:59 am
Prelude to 2020 indeed. One could substitute Boris for Trump with ease. Such events do not some out of nowhere, nor are a sudden flash in the pan. It’s been building for decades.
Good article, IMHO
https://quillette.com/2019/12/13/britains-labour-party-got-woke-and-now-its-broke/
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https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-13-at-3.22.58-PM.png?w=1160&ssl=1
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The IG Report. Circling the wagon one mo’ time. Following the roadmap Durham is on, the road from here to there.
“FARRELL: Obama Wanted To Know Everything His Trump Spies Were Doing, And It Looks Like He Did”
https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/13/farrell-obama-crossfire-hurricane/
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,,,18 years of idiocy in Afghanistan,,,love” that projection of power”…
,,,and crickets from the ra ra hoooaaahhh boys here,,,
…let’s give the military some more money!!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/documents-database/
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A DIRTY COP SPEAKS
“James Comey appeared for a 15-minute interview by Chris Wallace on FOX News Sunday this morning. When it comes to the FISA warrants whose verification and alleged facts he swore to, Comey asserted, he doesn’t know anything. As Director of the FBI he wasn’t familiar with the details; as the director, he’s “not kept informed.”
And he never oversaw investigation of the Trump campaign or of President Trump — just four individuals associated with the Trump campaign (two of whom were no longer associated with the campaign at the time).
And the Steele Dossier — it may have had its problems, but he’s not giving up on it. It’s not bunk.
How dirty is this cop? Very dirty. He nevertheless seems quite confident that he faces no consequences for his misconduct, and who can say he is wrong?”
Quotable quote: “There were mistakes I consider more consequential than this during my tenure.”
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What did Horowitz say? Something like a utter failure in the chain of command, top to bottom. What else did Horowitz say? Something like no one who touched the FISA warrant and spying on the Trump campaign (Trump) is ventilated. No one.
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@9:15 am
Opps. “No one is vindicated”….not one.
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Castaneda 909am – Crickets about what??
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The Business of Climate Change
“Then there’s the psychology of herding, whereby CEOs are fearful of being hung out to dry if they don’t sign the latest statement pledging their company to save the world from climate breakdown. All this might remind readers of two groups in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged: the Moochers, comprising, in this example, the craven CEOs and their in-house CSR crowd; and the Looters, the environmental NGOs. Their ultimate victim is capitalism, the only economic system ever to have produced durable, transformative economic growth.”
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2019/12/12/the_business_of_climate_change.html
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Did love how AOC endorsed Corbyn with such passion.
“Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: “This video is about the UK, but it might as well have been produced about the United States. The hoarding of wealth by the few is coming at the cost of peoples’ lives. The only way we change is with a massive surge of new voters at the polls. UK, Vote!”
The video attacks wealthy people in the U.K., Conservatives, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, stating at the end: “The Conservatives have been in power for 10 years. We can’t survive another 5. On your side. For the many not the few. Vote Labour 12 December.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-meddles-in-foreign-election-endorses-notorious-anti-semite
Blame the Jews.
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Comey just threw McCabe, Page, and Strzok under the bus. Shit just got real.
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Posted by: Barry Pruett | 15 December 2019 at 11:17 AM
Comey just threw McCabe, Page, and Strzok under the bus…..
I’m so surprised at this …….!
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The chi coms are starting to learn that they are not special in any way. There is a new sheriff in town. –
WASHINGTON — The American government secretly expelled two Chinese Embassy officials this fall after they drove on to a sensitive military base in Virginia, according to people with knowledge of the episode. The expulsions appear to be the first of Chinese diplomats suspected of espionage in more than 30 years.
American officials believe at least one of the Chinese officials was an intelligence officer operating under diplomatic cover, said six people with knowledge of the expulsions. The group, which included the officials’ wives, evaded military personnel pursuing them and stopped only after fire trucks blocked their path.
The episode in September, which neither Washington nor Beijing made public, has intensified concerns in the Trump administration that China is expanding its spying efforts in the United States as the two nations are increasingly locked in a geopolitical and economic rivalry. American intelligence officials say China poses a greater espionage threat than any other country.
In recent months, Chinese officials with diplomatic passports have become bolder about showing up unannounced at research or government facilities, American officials said, with the infiltration of the military base only the most remarkable instance.
The expulsions, apparently the first since the United States forced out two Chinese Embassy employees with diplomatic cover in 1987, show the American government is now taking a harder line against suspected espionage by China, officials said.
Recent episodes of suspected spying add to the broader tensions between the United States and China, the world’s two largest economies and biggest strategic rivals. That conflict is heightened by a trade war that President Trump started in July 2018 and that shows only tentative signs of abating.
On Oct. 16, weeks after the intrusion at the base, the State Department announced sharp restrictions on the activities of Chinese diplomats, requiring them to provide notice before meeting with local or state officials or visiting educational and research institutions.
At the time, a senior State Department official told reporters that the rule, which applied to all Chinese Missions in the United States and its territories, was a response to Chinese regulations imposed years ago requiring American diplomats to seek permission to travel outside their host cities or to visit certain institutions.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-secretly-expelled-chinese-officials-suspected-of-spying-after-breach-of-military-base/ar-AAK8JgO
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“This is not political”…… And just who do you think believes that for one damned second?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nadler-brushes-off-van-drews-planned-jump-to-gop
“Nadler on Sunday, however, argued that the impeachment process is a bigger issue than just party politics.
“This is not political,” he said. “We should not be looking at those things. This is the defense of our democracy. Do we stay a democratic republic or do we turn into a tyranny?” ”
(says the tyrant)
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Rebane: “Crickets about what?”
Feigned ignorance is a craft Trump has reverted to time and again, yet so, so transparent. How many times has Trump claimed to have “never met” that guy. Then photographs of them together fall like mana from heaven. Give up the “who me” schtick.
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For those who want to surprise the Grandkids with something special, Here is a good one.
Cut up a few hotdogs and take spaghetti (pre cooked of course) and (about five looks good) skewer the hotdog chunks about two inches apart, then boil.
Douse in Marinara sauce. Even the grown kids will be impressed.
The kids will wonder how you did that. “Did Gramma use a big needle?”
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CarlH 1211pm – Huh?! With that kind of a ‘reasoned’ response to my 944am, you may have stumbled onto the wrong blog. You need to be with like-minded people who can connect the kind of dots that tumble from your brain.
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“Democrats’ Diversity Blues
The party’s leadership class cares much more about identity politics than its voting base does.”
“It’s not the first time, and probably won’t be the last, that the Democratic political class has failed to heed the message that those who live by identity politics often die by identity politics.”
https://www.city-journal.org/democrats-identity-politics
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Quotes:
“Democrat and former CIA officer Bryan Dean Wright: “Prince Andrew’s interview went better than Comey’s.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-wallace-shreds-disgraced-former-fbi-director-james-comey-in-devastating-interview?
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“Because Nancy’s teeth were falling out of her mouth, and she didn’t have time to think!” Trump added on Twitter:”
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Hey Y’all, we have questions:
1. If Comey knew the Dossier was fake before meeting with Trump in Jan 2017, was Comey wearing a wire?
2. Comey knew the Dossier was fake & still met with Trump, was Comey trying to entrap Trump?
3. Why didn’t Comey tell FISA about the Dossier?——Diamonds and Silk
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Ted Gowdy: “Comey’s admission comes too late”
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Buck sez:
https://twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1206354280162189312?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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And finally…..
Lindsey Graham Invites Rudy Giuliani To Deliver Findings From Ukraine Visit To Senate Panel
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@417 From Comey’s lips to Gods ear –
After being thoroughly picked apart by Wallace, Comey concluded by saying that he has had members of his family, after listening to what happened under his watch, become convinced that he is going to prison.
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Boy, did Eastwood evrr hit a nerve.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/reporters-enraged-over-media-portrayal-in-richard-jewell/
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For your reading pleasure:
Support for impeaching President Donald Trump hit a record high of 54% in a Fox News poll that was released on today.
Fox News Poll is pretty grim for Trump. Trump says he’s “surging” in the polls. Can anyone here name the polls he’s referring to?
https://www.scribd.com/document/439839999/Fox-December-8-11-2019-National-Topline-December-15-Release#from_embed
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Impeachment is a forgone conclusion. The trial and exoneration in the Senate is what will be important.
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Schifflips to Liars rehab?
“We have come to know Schiff as something of a pathological liar. Nunes now seeks to conduct an intervention. In the letter captured in the tweet below, Nunes invites Schiff to undertake rehab. The first step is admitting he has a problem: “As part of your rehabilitation, it’s crucial that you admit you have a problem—you are hijacking the Intelligence Committee for political purposes while excusing and covering up intelligence agency abuses.” Schiff’s enablers will nevertheless insulate him from the consequences of his exposure. Indeed, they are his accomplices.
Quotable quote: “I understand taking action on this issue will be difficult for you, as it will be an implicit acknowledgment that you were wrong to deny these abuses and that you were complicit in the violation of an American’s civil liberties. I also understand that such an acknowledgment is made even more difficult by the fact that you’ve already been discredited by your years-long false claim that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to hack the 2016 presidential election.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/12/we-now-know-full-of-schiff.php
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Don @ 5:11 pm. I can’t get enough of the IG Report’s good stuff
Not bad for Fox News Network.
“Horowitz report spotlights little-known FBI agent’s role in Russia probe, Flynn case”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/horowitz-report-spotlights-fbi-agent-role-russia-probe-flynn
Hmmm. Not little know if one has followed the Flynn case. 🙂
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The world rejoices because of the Prez and Brexit –
https://www.breitbart.com/news/european-stocks-surge-on-johnson-election-triumph-us-trade-deal/
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The brit socialist who lost massively is channeling shrillary! LOL
he Independent
Anger as Jeremy Corbyn claims he ‘won the arguments’ in general election after Labour’s devastating defeat
December 15, 2019, 12:41 AM PST
https://www.yahoo.com/news/anger-jeremy-corbyn-claims-won-084100298.html
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Nuff said. It speaks for itself.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/watch-ig-exposes-democrats-lies/
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Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán: Europe’s Solitary Defender of Persecuted Christians
“The fate of Eastern Christians and other minorities is the prelude to our own fate,” said former French Prime Minister François Fillon recently. Like it or not, “illiberal” Orbán understands it. His liberal critics do not.“
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15285/viktor-orban-persecuted-christians
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Mullah, Mullah, Mullahs and Leftwing journalism.
NEWSWEEK PARROTS THE MULLAHS’ LINE
“Iranian propaganda, straight from the mullahs’ representative, leavened with a little left-wing dorm room chatter. That’s Newsweek, overpriced at $1”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/12/newsweek-parrots-the-mullahs-line.php
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From a new book by Peter Bergen
” Donald Trump called for the population of Seoul to be moved during an Oval Office meeting when tensions between the US and North Korea were at their height, according to a new book about the president’s relations with the US military.
In Trump and his Generals: The Cost of Chaos, the national security and counter-terrorism expert Peter Bergen also gives new details of Trump’s demands that the families of US service members in South Korea be evacuated, which the North Korean regime would have interpreted as a clear move towards war.”
And to think this man is our Commander and Chief………
https://www.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/e9jmky/trump_called_for_seoul_evacuation_at_height_of/
The predictable response of “fake news” is headed this way.
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PaulE 959am – Paul, have you read the classic ‘Failsafe’. Would love to hear of your take on the described sacrifice of NYC.
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Of course George I’ve read it and seen the movie. What does that have to do with Trumps stated position on moving Seoul?
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Paul, there is a big disconnect between the book quote, that Trump called for the evacuation of Seoul, and the Reddit citation that was clear… Trump called only for US families to come home from Seoul.
Why lie about it, Punch?
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Little Rocket Man said he was going to wipe South Korea off the map. Trump called his bluff. Now, the FKU is all butt hurt that the December meeting between the two countries never materialized. Probably something to do with not keeping their end of the bargain or maybe impeachment.
The little Hermit Kingdom Rocketman is a high maintenance child, demanding all the attention. He is truly a self centered attention whore.
I remember when Trump came into office the first year and all the news in the fall was filled with nuclear war with North Korea. When would the Fat Fuk launch this attack on South Korea and Japan? We are on the brink of war!!!! Calmer heads said it would not be until after the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang in Feb, 2018.
Well, after Rocketman got the attention he demanded, he cooled the rhetoric for awhile. Now he is back. LOOK at me, look at me. You better give me attention.
And Trump is a Putin-Kim Jong-un Dictator lubber! Trump is buddies with dictators because he want to be one!!! Trump loves dictators because he is one!!!!!!!!!
Pulling Americans out of South Korea? Oh heavens. Reminds me what Alexander the Great’s generals said when they invaded the land of Vlad the Impaler (Romanian Vlad III Drăculea). Seeing the impaled citizens lining the road entering the kingdom, the advancing army up and turned back, saying “If that is how he treats his own people, imagine what he will do to us.” A true madman.
Pulling US citizens out of South Korea? Unheard of! If that is how Kim Jong-un treats his own countrymen, imagine what he will do to the South Koreans.
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Saw this and thought of pearl clutching Bobbie Sue. The Dictator for Life!
“Paranoid Much? Joy Reid Scared Trump Will Refuse to Leave Office”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2019/12/15/paranoid-much-joy-reid-scared-trump-will-refuse-leave-office
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If you would have read the quote I cited from Bergens book you would have seen that he used the word ALSO when refering to the evacuation of US families from Seoul. To make it wimple for you I will repost the quote. Hope this is helpful.
” Donald Trump called for the population of Seoul to be moved during an Oval Office meeting when tensions between the US and North Korea were at their height, according to a new book about the president’s relations with the US military.
In Trump and his Generals: The Cost of Chaos, the national security and counter-terrorism expert Peter Bergen ALSO gives new details of Trump’s demands that the families of US service members in South Korea be evacuated, which the North Korean regime would have interpreted as a clear move towards war.”
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sp “simple for you”
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Good article. Too many nuggets to quote. The Dem candidates, the IG Report, the i peach enz. progress all rolled into one. VDH
“Such antipathies have translated into the most far-left Democratic agendas in modern memory: Medicare for all, health care for illegal aliens, the Green New Deal, open borders, a wealth tax, a 70-90 percent top income tax rate, slavery reparations, free college tuition, and late-term abortions if not permissible infanticide. None of these issues warrants 51 percent public support; all are the wages of Trump hatred.
Nihilism is the theme: abolish ICE! Abolish student debt! Abolish the Electoral College! Abolish border security! Abolish the idea of Medicare for seniors! These are the highbrow versions of left-wing street nihilism from toppling statues to wiping out murals and the names of buildings and streets.
The antipathy to Trump has unhinged the candidates themselves to the point that so-called prior moderate candidates (such as Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Corey Booker, Kamala Harris) either sought to shed their prior records and careers or went full socialist as in the case of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth”
https://amgreatness.com/2019/12/15/when-hate-becomes-an-agenda/
Trump is destroying the public’s faith in our institutions. Righttttt.
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Paul, your brain’s difficulty with the concept of “quoting” is showing.
The only quote of Trump’s words say he was talking about Americans, not evacuating Koreans from Korea.
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Raul read the transcript and came away saying he asked Ukraine five or six times to investigate Biden. We see his lack of understanding in what he reads in his every post. Maybe he and Schiff are bubba’s?
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Meanwhile WINNING! –
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/16/homebuilder-confidence-jumps-to-highest-level-in-20-years.html
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