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Re: Rightist massacres
DIR By: guest5
Date: March 18, 2021, 12:37 am
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If you could put a human face on Western civilization and
culture it would have to be Trump's face:
Trump Partly to Blame for Threats Against Asian Americans, Psaki
Says
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> Former President Donald Trump bears some responsibility for
threats and violence against Asian Americans during the
pandemic, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said, citing his
offensive descriptions of the virus and its origins.
>
> Psaki called out what she described as Trump’s “damaging
rhetoric” about the virus after a series of shootings at three
massage parlors in the Atlanta area on Tuesday in which a White
man allegedly killed six Asian women and two others.
>
> “There’s no question that some of the damaging rhetoric that
we saw during the prior administration, blaming -- calling Covid
the Wuhan virus or other things -- led to perceptions of the
Asian-American community that are inaccurate, unfair, have
raised threatening -- has elevated threats against
Asian-Americans,” Psaki said Wednesday at a briefing.
>
> Trump frequently blamed the pandemic on China and occasionally
described the virus in racist terms. Cases of the disease were
first observed in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, and the U.S. and
other countries have complained that the Beijing government has
not been forthcoming about the virus’s origin.
>
> A Trump spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to a request
for comment.
>
> President Joe Biden said earlier Wednesday that U.S.
investigators haven’t yet determined if the murders were a hate
crime against Asian Americans, but he called the shootings
“very, very troubling.”
>
> The president, speaking in the Oval Office during a video
meeting with Ireland’s prime minister, said he had been briefed
by Attorney General Merrick Garland and Federal Bureau of
Investigation Director Christopher Wray.
>
> Police arrested Robert Aaron Long, 21, in connection with the
murders. The Journal-Constitution reported that investigators
said Long didn’t cite a racial motive in interviews, and that he
frequented the kinds of businesses he allegedly attacked.
>
> Vice President Kamala Harris earlier Wednesday condemned the
violence in a St. Patrick’s Day virtual meeting with Irish Prime
Minister Micheal Martin.
>
> “We’re not yet clear about the motive,” Harris said. “But I do
want to say to our Asian American community that we stand with
you and understand how this has frightened and shocked and
outraged all people.”
>
> She added that “none of us should ever be silent on any form
of hate.”
>
> On a visit to South Korea, U.S. Secretary of State Antony
Blinken offered condolences to the friends and families of those
killed in the shootings.
>
> “We are horrified by this violence which has no place in
America or anywhere,” Blinken said ahead of a meeting with
Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong.
>
> Stop AAPI Hate, a group that tracks anti-Asian violence, said
it had received nearly 3,800 reports of hate incidents since
mid-March 2020, around the time that the Covid-19 pandemic
seized the U.S. More than 500 of those came in the first two
months of 2021.
>
> Former President Donald Trump frequently blamed the pandemic
on China and occasionally described the virus in racist terms.
Cases of the disease were first observed in Wuhan, China, in
late 2019, and the U.S. and other countries have complained that
the Beijing government has not been forthcoming about the
virus’s origin.
>
> In his first prime-time address to the country last week,
Biden called out what he said were “vicious hate crimes” against
Asian Americans since the start of the pandemic, saying that
people had been “attacked, harassed, blamed and scapegoated”
after the virus spread across the Pacific.
>
> “At this very moment, so many of them -- our fellow Americans
-- they’re on the front lines of this pandemic, trying to save
lives, and still -- still -- they are forced to live in fear for
their lives just walking down streets in America,” Biden said.
“It’s wrong, it’s un-American, and it must stop.”
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Re: Trump disapproval
DIR By: guest5
Date: March 20, 2021, 2:04 pm
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With Trump Acolytes Gone, Sen. WH Wants Answers On Kavanaugh
Probe And More
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> Rachel Maddow reports on a letter from Senator Sheldon
Whitehouse to newly confirmed Attorney General Merrick Garland,
requesting the DOJ follow up on several unresolved matters from
from the Trump era, including whether accusations against Brett
Kavanaugh were properly investigated by the FBI, and
reconsideration of the OLC memo that protects sitting presidents
from prosecution.
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Trump Facing Indictment?: Money, Criminal Probes Engulf 45
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> Citizen Trump faces growing legal pressure in New York and
Georgia. In this digital exclusive, MSNBC’s Chief Legal
Correspondent Ari Melber reports on 29 lawsuits Trump faces and
why protections he once had as President no longer exist. Melber
analyzes Michael Cohen’s role in the Manhattan District
Attorney’s probe and why investigators are asking about The
Trump Organization’s CFO Allen Weisselberg. Melber also reports
on Georgia’s criminal probe and the prosecutor tapping the
lawyer who put John Gotti behind bars.
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Cohen Assesses Prosecutors Have Enough To Charge Trump With Or
Without Weisselberg
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> Michael Cohen, former personal attorney for Donald Trump,
author of "Disloyal" and host of the Mea Culpa podcast,
discusses his eighth visit with the Manhattan District
Attorney's Office and what the millions of pages of Trump
Organization financial documents are showing them.
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Allen Weisselberg's Former Daughter-In-Law Speaks Out
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> NBC News' Tom Winter has an exclusive interview with Trump
Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg's former daughter-in-law.
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Re: Trump disapproval
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 29, 2021, 12:27 am
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Re: Trump disapproval
DIR By: guest5
Date: March 30, 2021, 9:23 pm
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Jealous Trump FACE-PLANTS Trying To Attack Fauci
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> Jealous Donald Trump rants on Fox News that he can't get over
Dr. Fauci.
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Re: Trump disapproval
DIR By: guest5
Date: April 1, 2021, 12:42 am
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Absence From Office No Relief For Trump As Legal Waters Heat Up
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> Rachel Maddow reviews a litany of bad legal news for Donald
Trump from only the past 24 hours, and not counting the flaming
bag of weirdness that is the story of close Trump ally Matt
Gaetz.
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A New Lawsuit Holds Trump Directly Responsible For The Capitol
Hill Riot
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> New York Times congressional reporter Luke Broadwater, former
acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal, and former assistant
secretary for threat prevention and security policy at DHS
Elizabeth Neumann discuss the lawsuit brought by two Capitol
Police officers, who were mauled and beaten on January 6th,
seeking to hold Donald Trump accountable for the riot.
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Re: Trump disapproval
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 2, 2021, 12:25 am
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Re: Trump disapproval
DIR By: Starling
Date: April 4, 2021, 5:28 pm
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The Republican Party Is Now in Its End Stages
The GOP has become, in form if not in content, the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union of the late 1970s.
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>
> We are living in a time of bad metaphors. Everything is
fascism, or socialism; Hitler’s Germany, or Stalin’s Soviet
Union. Republicans, especially, want their followers to believe
that America is on the verge of a dramatic time, a moment of
great conflict such as 1968—or perhaps, even worse, 1860. (The
drama is the point, of course. No one ever says, “We’re living
through 1955.”)
>
> Ironically, the GOP is indeed replicating another political
party in another time, but not as the heroes they imagine
themselves to be. The Republican Party has become, in form if
not in content, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of the
late 1970s.
>
> I can already hear the howls about invidious comparisons. I do
not mean that modern American Republicans are communists.
Rather, I mean that the Republicans have entered their own kind
of end-stage Bolshevism, as members of a party that is now
exhausted by its failures, cynical about its own ideology,
authoritarian by reflex, controlled as a personality cult by a
failing old man, and looking for new adventures to rejuvenate
its fortunes.
>
> No one thinks much about the Soviet Union in the late 1970s,
and no one really should. This was a time referred to by the
last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, as the vremia
zastoia—“the era of stagnation.” By that point, the Soviet
Communist Party was a spent force, and ideological conviction
was mostly for chumps and fanatics. A handful of party
ideologues and the senior officers of the Soviet military might
still have believed in “Marxism-Leninism”—the melding of
aspirational communism to one-party dictatorship—but by and
large, Soviet citizens knew that the party’s formulations about
the rights of all people were just window dressing for rule by a
small circle of old men in the Kremlin.
>
> “The party” itself was not a party in any Western sense, but a
vehicle for a cabal of elites, with a cult of personality at its
center. The Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was an utterly
mediocre man, but by the late 1970s he had cemented his grip on
the Communist Party by elevating opportunists and cronies around
him who insisted, publicly and privately, that Brezhnev was a
heroic genius. Factories and streets and even a city were named
for him, and he promoted himself to the top military rank of
“Marshal of the Soviet Union.” He awarded himself so many honors
and medals that, in a common Soviet joke of the time, a small
earthquake in Moscow was said to have been caused by Brezhnev’s
medal-festooned military overcoat falling off its hanger.
>
> The elite leaders of this supposedly classless society were
corrupt plutocrats, a mafia dressed in Marxism. The party was
infested by careerists, and its grip on power was defended by
propagandists who used rote phrases such as “real socialism” and
“Western imperialism” so often that almost anyone could write an
editorial in Pravda or Red Star merely by playing a kind of
Soviet version of Mad Libs. News was tightly controlled. Soviet
radio, television, and newspaper figures plowed on through
stories that were utterly detached from reality, regularly
extolling the successes of Soviet agriculture even as the
country was forced to buy food from the capitalists (including
the hated Americans).
>
> Members of the Communist Party who questioned anything, or
expressed any sign of unorthodoxy, could be denounced by name,
or more likely, simply fired. They would not be executed—this
was not Stalinism, after all—but some were left to rot in
obscurity in some make-work exile job, eventually retiring as a
forgotten “Comrade Pensioner.” The deal was clear: Pump the
party’s nonsense and enjoy the good life, or squawk and be sent
to manage a library in Kazakhstan.
>
> This should all sound familiar.
>
> The Republican Party has, for years, ignored the ideas and
principles it once espoused, to the point where the 2020 GOP
convention simply dispensed with the fiction of a platform and
instead declared the party to be whatever Comrade—excuse me,
President—Donald Trump said it was.
>
> Like Brezhnev, Trump has grown in status to become a heroic
figure among his supporters. If the Republicans could create the
rank of “Marshal of the American Republic” and strike a medal
for a “Hero of American Culture,” Trump would have them both by
now.
>
> A GOP that once prided itself on its intellectual debates is
now ruled by the turgid formulations of what the Soviets would
have called their “leading cadres,” including ideological
watchdogs such as Tucker Carlson and Mark Levin. Like their
Soviet predecessors, a host of dull and dogmatic cable outlets,
screechy radio talkers, and poorly written magazines crank out
the same kind of fill-in-the-blanks screeds full of delusional
accusations, replacing “NATO” and “revanchism” with “antifa” and
“radicalism.”
>
> Falling in line, just as in the old Communist Party, is
rewarded, and independence is punished. The anger directed at
Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger makes the stilted ideological
criticisms of last century’s Soviet propagandists seem almost
genteel by comparison. (At least Soviet families under Brezhnev
didn’t add three-page handwritten denouncements to official
party reprimands.)
>
> This comparison is more than a metaphor; it is a warning. A
dying party can still be a dangerous party. The Communist
leaders in those last years of political sclerosis arrayed a new
generation of nuclear missiles against NATO, invaded
Afghanistan, tightened the screws on Jews [a broken clock is
right twice a day] and other dissidents, lied about why they
shot down a civilian 747 airliner, and, near the end, came close
to starting World War III out of sheer paranoia.
>
> The Republican Party is, for now, more of a danger to the
United States than to the world. But like the last Soviet-era
holdouts in the Kremlin, its cadres are growing more aggressive
and paranoid. They blame spies and provocateurs for the Capitol
riot, and they are obsessed with last summer’s protests (indeed,
they are fixated on all criminals and rioters other than their
own) to a point that now echoes the old Soviet lingo about
“antisocial elements” and “hooligans.” They blame their failures
at the ballot box not on their own shortcomings, but on fraud
and sabotage as the justification for a redoubled crackdown on
democracy.
>
> Another lesson from all this history is that the Republicans
have no path to reform. Like their Soviet counterparts, their
party is too far gone. Gorbachev tried to reform the Soviet
Communist Party, and he remains reviled among the Soviet
faithful to this day. Similar efforts by the remaining handful
of reasonable Republicans are unlikely to fare any better. The
Republican Party, to take a phrase from the early Soviet leader
Leon Trotsky, should now be deposited where it belongs: in the
“dustbin of history.”
>
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Quoting Trotsky at the end... eh, it makes a point, but Trotsky
should also wind up in said dustbin.
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Re: Red coup
DIR By: guest5
Date: April 5, 2021, 2:47 pm
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A New Lawsuit Holds Trump Directly Responsible For The Capitol
Hill Riot
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> New York Times congressional reporter Luke Broadwater, former
acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal, and former assistant
secretary for threat prevention and security policy at DHS
Elizabeth Neumann discuss the lawsuit brought by two Capitol
Police officers, who were mauled and beaten on January 6th,
seeking to hold Donald Trump accountable for the riot.
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Re: Trump disapproval
DIR By: guest5
Date: April 5, 2021, 3:04 pm
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Trump Scams His Supporters Out Of MILLIONS
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> In heartbreaking stories, Donald Trump’s campaign schemes
surface.
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All A Scam: Trump 2020 Exposed For Defrauding Own Fans, Echoing
Trump U. Debacle
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> Donald Trump is under fire for conning over $100 million
dollars from his most loyal supporters. The New York Times has
released a new bombshell report busting his re-election campaign
for a scheme mixing some of Trump’s oldest con artist tricks
with his desperation during the election when he was clearly
trailing Biden in the money race. MSNBC’s Ari Melber explains
Trump's latest grift and discusses the significance of this
deception with journalists Max Boot and Joan Walsh.
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Re: Trump disapproval
DIR By: guest5
Date: April 7, 2021, 8:37 pm
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What internet sleuths spotted in Trump photo after his boycott
call
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> Internet users accused former President Trump of breaking his
own Coke boycott when they spotted what appeared to be a
half-hidden bottle on his desk.
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Has Trump ever actually been good at anything in his life other
than lying to himself and others, eating, and shitting?
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