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In reply to the discussion: German minister just said what no foreign politician dares to about Ivanka Trump [View all]calimary
(81,230 posts)44. Welcome to DU, onit2day!
The media is extraordinarily timid about this stuff. Only lately have they gone as far as calling a lie a lie.
I remember being infuriated by a headline in one of the major papers during bush/cheney, regarding the lies about the Iraq war: "Prevaricating President?" OHFORCRYINGOUTLOUD!!! Just say he's lying, people. Because that's what he's doing! That's almost all bush/cheney did, period! But heavens-to-pearl-clutching, we simply CAN'T say the president lies! Well, that particular "L-word" has finally been liberated, now in the trump era. It is not unheard of to read and hear talking heads come flat out and say trump lies. It's a widely-acknowledged and by now normalized thing.
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German minister just said what no foreign politician dares to about Ivanka Trump [View all]
kpete
May 2017
OP
no Republicans have been smearing America with their presidents crap for almost two years now.
Sunlei
May 2017
#7
Half of America would be OK with exterminating the other half, at this point.
Eliot Rosewater
May 2017
#26
I always thought that the one's that scream the loudest about FEMA death camps
That Guy 888
May 2017
#38
If Obama had appointed a 16th cosuin 11 times removed to help with White House maintenance
rpannier
May 2017
#42
"Funke" is the press-agency he was talking to. He is Minister of Foreign Affairs Sigmar Gabriel.
DetlefK
May 2017
#10
Glad you pointed that out. It was such an embarrassment to see her sitting by Christine La Guarde.
Alice11111
May 2017
#50
I heard, tv, her face just showed up on a billboard in Manila promoting Trump Tower there,& DT
Alice11111
May 2017
#51