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He can't figure it out

by Chalky

Oct 22, 2017

That's funny!

"Officials behind the now discredited "Dossier" plead the Fifth. Justice Department and/or FBI should immediately release who paid for it."

@realDonaldTrump was just tweeting about it yesterday.

http://time.com/4992612/lindsey-graham-trump-russia-sanctions/

Lindsey Graham: White House Has a 'Blind Spot' on Russia

"Mr. President, go after Russia because they're coming after us"

Bob R/CA It's not a blind spot. It's intentionally deceptive behavior. When it becomes obvious there's some "there" there, and he continues to deny and deflect from the exposed thread, that's not an accident, that's not stubbornness - that's a guilty actor doing everything he can to evade getting caught.

Oct 22, 2017

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T.E.C. - Iowa Okay, I have written that Russia is not the big issue in our elections, so this is about the sanctions. They did not work with Cuba when we used them for seventy years, and they are a failure everywhere else - except for creating suffering, and in turn hatred for America, by the average citizen in said country.

Beyond that, if you go to th...See MoreOkay, I have written that Russia is not the big issue in our elections, so this is about the sanctions. They did not work with Cuba when we used them for seventy years, and they are a failure everywhere else - except for creating suffering, and in turn hatred for America, by the average citizen in said country.

Beyond that, if you go to the article, "Economic Sanctions Against Russia Flop" you find that our sanctions cost our friends in the EU 100 billion dollars and it is said to cost Russia 55 billion, but that number is false, because it includes the costs due to the fall in the price of oil. That means our sanctions cost our friends more than double what it cost Russia, but we do not care. We want our sanctions against Russia no matter who it hurts!

Then the sanctions may help Russia. Russia has beefed up its own agriculture and its ties to Southeast Asia to meet its needs. This not only means the EU could be permanently hurt, but the article also goes on to say, "Washington's economic sanctions against Russia could thus end up producing a net plus for Russia, on a long-term basis."

So why is America going forward with this unsuccessful policy? IMHO, it is arrogance! America thinks anything we do to punish others will be successful. Thus, in our arrogance, we do not bother to analyze anything. We do not analyze the impact of what sanctions do to our friends, and we do not analyze the other factors that screw over our elections. We are like a child throwing a tantrum - a tantrum motivated by a media driven distain for the president with the intention of keeping Americans from thinking about real issues.

Frankly, it would be great if China sanctioned the US. Then Americans would have to start building their own stuff, and we would find life in America is better. Simply put, sometimes it is better to do things for yourself rather than sit on your butt, buy from others, and create a huge balance of payments deficit.

PS: This is what the report said happened in Russia, "As in many other countries targeted by sanctions, there was a 'rally around the flag' reaction, which led the population to accept the inconveniences caused by the unilateral coercive measures."

PPS: And this is who was impacted, "the sanctions were more political than economic, they have led in the process to a regrettable deterioration of the standard of living of the most vulnerable population groups in the Russian Federation and have also adversely affected smallholder farmers in Europe."

As I said, we do not care who we hurt!

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/09/economic-sanctions-russia-flop.html

Oct 23, 2017

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Trump administration admits Russia interfered in election

by Chalky

Oct 19, 2017

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/19/politics/nikki-haley-russia-warfare/index.html

Nikki Haley: Russian cyberinterference is 'warfare'

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Thursday that Russian cyberinterference in American elections is "warfare."

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Chalky Possibly true. But it's doesn't negate the fact that we should defend our country from interference from Russia or any other country who wants to undermine our system.

Oct 21, 2017

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T.E.C. - Iowa I find it funny that you persist! You persist when you know you, as an American, are, in fact, "the pot calling the kettle, black!" Worse, the Russians, whatever they may have done or not done, are small potatoes compared to Citizens United, gerrymandering, caging, electronic voting machines, voter suppression laws and more - which you seem to igno...See More

Oct 22, 2017

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What's so darn funny?

by Bob R/CA

Oct 22, 2017

I wanna know. And in answer to those Texas billboards, yes. Finally, I do miss Bush.

https://youtu.be/t6l8IpHmPgs

Bush cracks joke to Obama while Clinton makes a speech

YouTube | youtube.com

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#LyingTrumpAdministration

by Chalky

Oct 19, 2017

"We did not make an assessment of the impact that Russian activities had on the outcome of the 2016 election," the report said. U.S. spy agencies are "charged with monitoring and assessing the intentions, capabilities, and actions of foreign actors," the report said, but do "not analyze U.S. political processes or U.S. public opinion."

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CIA director distorts intelligence community’s findings on Russian interference

Pompeo’s remarks were his latest downplaying of Russia’s role in the presidential election.

Washington Post | washingtonpost.com

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Weinstein and Capitalism!

by T.E.C. - Iowa

Oct 19, 2017

In response to the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse, the author below suggests a Hollywood "union", with lawyers, supported by wealthy actresses that could "redress, at least in part, the power of these male producers and directors." Yet, despite writing the quote below, he seems to miss the point. The bigger problem is what capitalism does to a socie...See More

Harvey Weinstein and the Politics of Hollywood

Why women need to organize... There is something truly exasperating about digesting the steady flow of horror stories relating to Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. In part, of course, it is because the reports that Weinstein allegedly raped and sexuall

Common Dreams | commondreams.org

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After all of their faux outrage over Trump mocking someone..

by Tim Finnegan

Oct 17, 2017

Leave it to CNN ... Daniella Diaz put out a tweet mocking the "hand lock" of Trump and McConnell when the President was helping McConnell down some stairs. I cannot believe that a reporter who works for a network that spends as much time as possible attacking Trump for mocking a reporter would then mock a polio survivor. I guess it's OK when you're...See More

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Chalky There you go again with the bashing of another woman.

:::sigh:::

Oct 18, 2017

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Tim Finnegan I notice you didn't comment on my bashing of Weinstein...

Again, what are you claiming?

Did this person not mock someone who survived polio? I know you see everything as black and white, or male and female. How is calling her out for her ugly tweet bashing a woman? She is the one who made fun of a polio survivor.

Oct 18, 2017

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