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January 24, 2020

Remember when a group of House republicans tried to barge there way into

Schiff's Committee Impeachment investigation even though at least 5 of them were already invited? Well here is the other half of the stage play:


https://theweek.com/speedreads/890740/white-house-counsel-falsely-claims-adam-schiff-blocked-republicans-from-attending-classified-impeachment-meetings

"SNIP....

The fact checkers came out quickly in response to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone on Tuesday.

In his opening remarks at President Trump's Senate impeachment trial, Cipollone argued that Trump faced unprecedented violations of due process while the House was conducting its impeachment inquiry last year. He said House Democrats were running the investigation from a "basement" and accused House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) of blocking his Republicans colleagues from entering the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.

....SNIP"

They are so running a staged truth line. Total BS. And the GOP base watching will only remember desperate republican House members trying to get in with great emotion and cameras on. That is all they know. They weren't told about the staging by fox. That many in the dam the barricades crew had seats inside. Disgusting (and psychopathic). This is a many act play.

January 20, 2020

Did not know he was AEI guy. Yikes. This article spoke to me

because liberal democracy is a human construct and you can either believe it and live within its rules or not live in it metaphorically. Trump is tearing it down and not living in it - he wants kaos where might wins. That is what Yuval Noah Harari and other thinkers are talking about. Sounds like this guy was trying to get out in front of the discussion and blame it on legislaters other than Trump and the right wing who have been dismatleling liberal democracy for 40 to 50 years. I will delete. And thanks for the heads up. I believe every issue should be looked at from various vantage points but i was wrong to post this op.

January 17, 2020

Did Trump know? I mean did the generals keep the info from him

so he would not escalate the war?

January 6, 2020

It is a Skinny plan that the GOP want for the working and middle class.

Congress did not vote for skinny plans. Republican leaders like them because they make not being upper middle class or more a very precarious existance. At some point being middle class will be so frightening in terms of schooling, healthcare, meat inspection and any goods and services you can buy, and of course no government service of any quality, that rich liberals will vote republican to save their position at access to the only decent products and services and help pull up the ladder to all but other republicans. In india they kill family members because of caste issues they are so panicked by position in society. And i thought the right wing was modeling themselves on saudi arabia. It is looking more and more like india is their model. Plus this ties people to their church instead of government or Obamacare.

January 5, 2020

Yes. And maybe is islam is at war with refugees streaming into europe

from climate disasters and war in the ME and africa, Europe will become less liberal and the world will be the white supremacist one putin wants.

January 5, 2020

Trump trashed the Iran deal which led to Iran acting out and then

Trump killed Soleimani. And he did all this when the middle east was becoming more secular or at least less radically religeous after the ISIS years. Now Trump is planning to bomb cultural places in Iran if they retaliate. What if it reradicalizes islam? Do they care?

January 5, 2020

They want people to get their sense of healthcare safety from the church,

not government or obamacare. That would be my guess.

December 31, 2019

And who knows if Russia will see massive, desperate, migration of people

from africa to europe as a fun way to destabilize europe again like Putin did by stopping anyone from winning against Assad in Syria. Nothing stopping him from encouraging wars to get big and go on and on again. This time in Africa. Why would Putin, and Trump for that matter, not want refugees to create intolerance in europe like the syrian exodous did. Intolerance and white supremacy is their game. But they can't quite rule the planet if europe remains liberal.

December 19, 2019

Don't tell the rich right wing or they'll develop antibiotics only for themselves.

Two tier education. Two tier healthcare (with 'skinny' insurance plans like what the GOP tried to pass). Two tier packages for the sale of 737 Max jets (apparently staying in the air is a luxury when updating software for jets).

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/business/boeing-safety-features-charge.amp.html

How they plan to 'capture' rich liberals into their voting block: by making everything middle class awful and make it a matter of life or death which side of the divide you are on. In canada Trudeau started a Ministry of Middle Class Prosperity in his government and Conservatives started howling. Who does that?

December 7, 2019

Well then it was vague. There was a problem with coprehention. Biden

did not lie as "you sent your son there" happened when Obama was president and the reporter was vague, perhaps intentionally so, and Biden assumed the wrong president was being referenced. So no lie.But i bet ya the GOP use coprehension games to attack our candidates. Maybe being intentionally vague is a thing with the GOP now. I speak in a vague way as i have conduction aphasia. It was used against me to lead to misleading narratives by a gang of psychopaths. Joe heard a very vague question and assumed more than usual (understanding vagueness requires more assumptions by its very nature) and assumed the reporter was talking about Obama. You said Joe was wrong and he was not. It was a misunderstanding.

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