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Post by jdredd on Jun 21, 2019 2:03:53 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/opinion/venezuelas-dictatorship-maduro.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"To help countries overcome dictatorial rulers, the international community must first take off its rose-tinted glasses. Positive thinking has almost become an ideology in foreign policy circles. But only when we begin to account for all the things that can go wrong, can we prepare to successfully tackle negative outcomes ahead of time. Understanding how illiberal and criminal regimes function is also crucial, instead of assuming they will respond to the same incentives that motivate us. Hoping for the best won’t rescue nations from political backwardness. To achieve a democratic transition in Venezuela requires more than wishful thinking." Gosh, for a minute there I thought he was talking about the USA.
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Post by Turk on Jun 25, 2019 9:24:53 GMT -5
I saw a Trump bumper sticker in Spain
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Post by jdredd on Jun 25, 2019 19:56:30 GMT -5
I saw a Trump bumper sticker in Spain Did he have a Franco sticker on the other side?
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Post by Turk on Jun 26, 2019 17:46:44 GMT -5
I saw a Trump bumper sticker in Spain Did he have a Franco sticker on the other side? I'm in their country, respecting their belief system. So I just listen. From the limited political engagement I've had with Spaniards they don't like their system. As far as Franco is considered, he was the instigator to their demise. Spain is a very interesting country. Barcelona is the pick-pocket capital of the world, if you steal 400 Euros or less you penalty is 100 Euros. Crime pays.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 27, 2019 10:52:00 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/politics/supreme-court-gerrymandering.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against the challengers opposed to partisan gerrymandering, the practice in which the party that controls the state legislature draws voting maps to help elect its candidates. The vote in two cases was 5 to 4, with the court’s more conservative members in the majority. The court appeared to close the door on such claims. The drafters of the Constitution, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority, understood that politics would play a role in drawing election districts when they gave the task to state legislatures. Judges, the chief justice said, are not entitled to second-guess lawmakers’ judgments." Thanks, SCOTUS, let's amp up partisanship another couple of notches.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 30, 2019 23:10:35 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/06/30/us/alabama-woman-marshae-jones.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=undefined"PLEASANT GROVE, Ala. — In the days since police officers arrested Marshae Jones, saying she had started a fight that resulted in her unborn baby getting fatally shot, the hate mail has poured in. “I will encourage all U.S. business owners to boycott your town,” a woman from San Diego wrote on the Facebook page of the Pleasant Grove Police Department. “Misogynist trash,” wrote another. “Fire the chief and arresting officers,” wrote a third. But Robert Knight, the police chief, said his officers had little choice in the matter. “If the laws are there, we are sworn to enforce them,” he said. “That’s what we’re going to do.” Around the country, the case of Ms. Jones — who was indicted by a grand jury for manslaughter — has served as a stark illustration of how pregnant women can be judged and punished when a fetus is treated as a person by the justice system." Alabama sinks to new depths of backwardness. This is what is in store for the whole country if the Republicans have their way.
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Post by Turk on Jul 11, 2019 19:06:43 GMT -5
I Slick Willy going down for his numerous visits to Pedophile Island?
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Post by jdredd on Jul 17, 2019 1:55:02 GMT -5
I wish I had more time to spend enjoying the battle of Trump vs The Squad, but it's Comic-Con week. At least Ms. Pelosi figured out what side she was on. I think.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 25, 2019 2:26:49 GMT -5
Mueller who? Who gives a sh&t?
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Post by jdredd on Aug 2, 2019 9:26:57 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/opinion/peter-thiel-google.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"A little curiosity about China would have gone a long way, since the Communist Party is not shy about declaring its commitment to domination in general and exploitation of technology in particular. Of course, any American who pays attention and questions the Communist line is accused by the party of having a “Cold War mentality” — but this very accusation relies on forgetfulness and incuriosity among its intended audience. Since 1971, the American elite’s Cold War attitude toward China’s leaders has been one of warm indulgence. In the 1970s and 1980s, that meant supporting China against a greater adversary, the Soviet Union. What is extremely strange is that this policy of indulgence continued and even deepened after the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. A few years after the Cold War ended, American leaders started treating China the way they had treated West Germany and Japan. We tolerated punishing trade deficits in the 1970s and 1980s to support those two allies, and we had strategic reasons to do it. As for building up China in the 1990s and 2000s, America’s generosity was supposed to somehow lead to China’s liberalization. In reality, it led to the transfer of our industrial base to a foreign rival." Today's right wing blowhard in the NYT is well know Trump ass-kisser Peter Thiel. Ever since Trump was elected, the NYT has showered us with commentary from Fox Land. Here, how much more commentary bashing China do we need? Well, we are going to get more and more to stimulate another Cold War, with one purpose: $$$$$$$. And who else better to promote it than a greedy billionaire?
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Post by Turk on Aug 10, 2019 17:04:34 GMT -5
Another one bites the dust, score Clinton's. Epstein was under suicide watch, in jail that means 24/7 surveillance. Nothing is beyond or can stop the Clinton's. Slick Willy's encounter with a 14 year old is now safe.
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Post by Turk on Aug 10, 2019 17:10:51 GMT -5
You can escape the long arm of the law but you can not escape the long arm of the Clinton’s
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Post by jdredd on Aug 13, 2019 14:25:36 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/business/economy/china-tariffs.html"The Trump administration on Tuesday narrowed the list of Chinese products it plans to impose new tariffs on as of Sept. 1, delaying levies on cellphones, laptop computers, toys and other goods to spare shoppers from higher prices during the back-to-school and holiday seasons. Stocks soared on the news. The move, which pushed a new 10 percent tariff on some goods until Dec. 15 and excluded others entirely, came as President Trump faces mounting pressure from businesses and consumer groups over the harm they say the continuing trade war between the United States and China is doing. Mr. Trump’s earlier tariffs on Chinese imports were carefully crafted to hit businesses in ways that everyday Americans would mostly not notice. But his announcement this month of the 10 percent tariff on $300 billion of Chinese goods meant consumers would soon feel the trade war’s sting more directly." This shows who Trump's trade war will hurt: consumers. Fine with me. Those gluttonous zombies addicted to ever more cheap goods need to cut back.
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Post by Turk on Aug 16, 2019 14:42:49 GMT -5
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Post by Turk on Aug 30, 2019 21:41:36 GMT -5
Thank god she's not president. Just think what a lard she would be with free food.
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