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Call it remedial vigilance. In a nutshell, let’s play catch-up. Here in the land of the free, the indicted, and the still-at-large, Big Blonder rode to power on two of Benito Mussolini’s pet slogans. One, “Drain the Swamp.” Two, “Make [This Country]...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 12:09 PM PDT
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— — Hot off the presses as they used say ... Ukraine war latest updates: Russia’s intelligence chief claims U.S., U.K. and Ukraine were behind Moscow terrorist attack by Holly Ellyatt, cnbc.com — Mar 26, 2024 Top Russian officials, including President...
by jamess
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 10:41 AM PDT
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Turkey continues to obstruct Western goals in Ukraine and other parts of the world. Ankara said that it would stop two minehunter ships given by Britain to Ukraine from passing through its waters en route to the Black Sea. The Turks based their move on...
by tony a
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on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 05:31 PM PST
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The number of comments I see across sites, led by the GOP insurrection and Putin appeasement caucus, in reference to Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine to include those auditioning to be RT News presenters is deeply saddening. Frightening, too. Many...
by DrLou
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on Wed Oct 04, 2023 at 02:49 PM PDT
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Unraveling the Influence of the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex and Turkey’s American Mercenary Warriors The Washington Post's endorsement of the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, despite acknowledging Erdoğan's authoritarian rule, egregious human...
by tony a
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on Sat Jul 08, 2023 at 07:39 AM PDT
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Ten years ago, at a phone bank in Sterling, Virginia, I called registered Dems to whip them (in the political sense) to the polls on 11/06/2012. For the most part, enthusiasm on the other end of the line ran high. When it flagged, I pointed to some...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Wed Nov 23, 2022 at 11:30 AM PST
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The 30 Dems who want Biden to negotiate with Putin to end the war in Ukraine are ignorant of history. Munich, 1938, gave away part of Czechoslovakia, (leaving it defenseless) for “Peace in our time” to quote Neville Chamberlin. Sure worked didn’t it....
by oldcrow
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on Tue Oct 25, 2022 at 10:17 AM PDT
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The following is the third of a three-part series. In the final essay we examine the potential cost of appeasing insurrection. In the first part the role of the big lie of the stolen election was examined. The second part discussed how economic...
by Frank Cocozzelli
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on Tue Feb 16, 2021 at 01:17 AM PST
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In February 1861 the nation was on the eve of the Civil War. Another insurrectionist faction that disliked the outcome of an earlier presidential election was about to choose violence as a reaction to the ballot box. Those who equated individual...
by Frank Cocozzelli
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on Sun Feb 14, 2021 at 08:26 AM PST
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The following is the second of a three-part series. In this essay we examine the movement and its motivation of the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection.
In the first part of this ...
by Frank Cocozzelli
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on Thu Feb 11, 2021 at 01:15 AM PST
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Lead story on CNN states that McConnell and Schumer are close to a power sharing agreement on CNN. See: www.cnn.com/… I’m so irate I can barely type! Schumer, do you think GA dems stood in line for hours so you could share power with a...
by Penthesilea
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on Mon Jan 18, 2021 at 04:07 PM PST
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Here We Go Again: Biden signals he will "look forward not backward," let Trump escape accountability Welp, it begins. Joe Biden has signaled loud and clear that he intends to let Trump walk, as holding him accountable for his crimes would be too “divisive:” www.nbcnews.com/... Biden hopes to avoid divisive Trump investigations, preferring...
by deadpan
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on Tue Nov 17, 2020 at 09:07 AM PST
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Because, clearly, archaic Senate traditions that the GOP no longer observes are more important than protecting democracy. “I have never heard a problem. No one has — in 26 years — brought me a problem on blue slips,” Feinstein said. “I’m not aware of...
by deadpan
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on Mon Sep 14, 2020 at 08:42 AM PDT
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Has there ever been, in history, a more appeasing world leader than Donald Trump?
Regardless, Trump’s appeasement of Russian leader Vladimir Putin is definitely unprecedented.
Just look at all ...
by AlyoshaKaramazov
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on Tue Jun 30, 2020 at 11:42 AM PDT
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Currently reading Persepolis Rising book seven of The Expanse. The following caught my attention, “she’s saying we should kill them. Only she’s phrasing it so it sounds like it’s just the natural consequence of their choices and not also ours.” “I’m...
by Fffflats
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on Sun Jun 28, 2020 at 11:34 AM PDT
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While the Squatter in the Oval Office might have aspirations to be an authoritarian dictator like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Putin, the Kim family, and many other murderous monsters from the past and present, his actions in relation to the ones he’s...
by pcn8229
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on Sat May 16, 2020 at 07:27 PM PDT
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Dear Community. Please help. I’m terrified. This week, a NY Times op-ed tried to look to history for parallels to declare Agent Orange’s actions as “not impeachable.” To me, the closest parallel that we are watching are the German Enabling Acts. The...
by smartcookienyc
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on Fri Jan 24, 2020 at 08:42 PM PST
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You ever just have a day? A day that, to quote Ma Kelly from the great gangster spoof Johnny Dangerously, really sucks? America had a day like that on Thursday.
Johnny Dangerously (which I didn’
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sun Oct 20, 2019 at 10:00 AM PDT
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In the Fall of 1938, the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich with his “piece of paper” outlining the agreement that ceeded to Hitler the “living room” in the Sudetenland he had demanded. Eighty one years later Donald Trump...
by Lib Dem FoP
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on Wed Oct 16, 2019 at 07:10 PM PDT
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Did you catch it?
he should work with us for humane immigration policy that reflects American values
The prez most certainly will not. As evidenced by his viciously racist characterization of Latinos during the very first minutes of his...
by Simplify
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on Mon Jul 15, 2019 at 04:28 AM PDT
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