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Raoul said:
When you're interviewing a known anti-interventionist, its generally good to question from the opposing side of their views.
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It is a poor argument though, even taking a devil's advocate position. Why not argue about the complexities of geopolitics and the US's strategic alliance with the Saudis? To use employment as a counterpoint to mass murder in Yemen seems detached from any normative logic. Someone like Bill Buckley would have gone into the complexities of the entire arrangement, and he was the prototype for the new conservative. The media has been dumbed-down beyond recognition.

Wolf is stealing a living.
 
Mciahel Goodman said:
It is a poor argument though, even taking a devil's advocate position. Why not argue about the complexities of geopolitics and the US's strategic alliance with the Saudis? To use employment as a counterpoint to mass murder in Yemen seems detached from any normative logic. Someone like Bill Buckley would have gone into the complexities of the entire arrangement, and he was the prototype for the new conservative. The media has been dumbed-down beyond recognition.

Wolf is stealing a living.
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Definitely agree, but then again its Wolf. You're not going to get high level academic questions out of him.
 
That'll get the democratic base excited. Bush was a famously moral person who never lied to launch two of the worst judged wars in recent decades that led to the destruction of several countries. His ethics lawyer running for senate will surely lead to progressive baby boom.

For fecks sake. The domestic terrorists in the GOP have played a blinder in the last two decades. The Bush's political allies shouldn't have a realistic chance to get one of the best political positions as fecking democrats.
 
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Silva said:
That'll get the democratic base excited. Bush was a famously moral person who never lied to launch two of the worst judged wars in recent decades that led to the destruction of several countries. His ethics lawyer running for senate will surely lead to progressive baby boom.

For fecks sake. The domestic terrorists in the GOP have played a blinder in the last two decades. The Bush's political allies shouldn't have a realistic chance to get one of the best political positions as fecking democrats.
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And it's not like Alabama, this is Minnesotta which should be a Democratic victory with no need to pander to the right.
 
I think Painter has a great chance of winning. He's got a fairly visible national profile from all the shows he's been over the past year and is on the right side of most Dem issues.
 
Silva said:
Great news for republicans though, in a few years they'll be able to postpose their primaries to actual election days.
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It's already here:
He announced last month that he was forming an exploratory committee. At that time, he said he was unsure whether he would run as a Republican, Democrat or independent.

"I need to think about whether there's a place for me" in the GOP, he said at the time. "I'm going to be considering any and all options." He described himself as "a centrist in many ways — right up the middle." He said he has supported Democrats.
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The broader picture, however, is that this is about Russian espionage inside the United States. And that's the big difference with Nixon. I mean Nixon may have been a crook, but at least he was our crook. He wasn't a Russian agent. He was actually tough on communism and on Russian expansionism.

And this is a very different situation. This involves our national security. It's a serious threat to our country from a foreign power and the administration continues to engage in a cover up. Andi don't think it's in the interest of the Republicans. I've been a Republican for 30 years. I - there's no way that I would want to see the Republican Party stand up for covering up for Russian espionage and whoever in the United States has been helping the Russians. It's going to be a disaster for the Republicans. It's going to be a disaster for our country.
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Silva said:
He's also a republican pretending to be a democrat. Fingers crossed people have learned that being on the news a lot doesn't qualify you for public office.
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Not really. His policies match up very well with Democratic platform.
 
I'm sure the likes of Feinstein,Pelosi,Schumer are salivating over the prospect of a Republican switching sides. Time to purge these donor driven dinosaurs out of the Democratic party. Cory Booker ,Kirsten Gillibrand and now Kamala Harris have joined Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Saunders in not taking CPAC .They are beginning to understand that the Democratic Party needs to change.
 
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Drifter said:
I'm sure the likes of Feinstein,Pelosi,Schumer are salivating over the prospect of a Republican switching sides. Time to purge these donor driven dinosaurs out of the Democratic party. Cory Booker ,Kirsten Gillibrand and now Kamala Harris have joined Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Saunders in not taking CPAC .They are beginning to understand that the Democratic Party needs to change.
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Booker and Gillibrand will say whatever they need to say to get progressives to support them. It is not happening. Loads of people I speak to do not like these two. They are not getting the nomination, that was never in doubt. It will be one of Bernie, Biden, Newsom, Rourke.

Booker and Gillibrand will revert to their old ways after the primary when they know they aren't getting into the white house.
 
Documents show ties between university, conservative donors


Virginia’s largest public university granted the conservative Charles Koch Foundation a say in the hiring and firing of professors in exchange for millions of dollars in donations, according to newly released documents.

The release of donor agreements between George Mason University and the foundation follows years of denials by university administrators that Koch foundation donations inhibit academic freedom.

The newly released agreements spell out million-dollar deals in which the Koch Foundation endows a fund to pay the salary of one or more professors at the university’s Mercatus Center, a free-market think tank. The agreements require creation of five-member selection committees to choose the professors, and grant the donors the right to name two of the committee members.

The Koch foundation enjoyed similar appointment rights to advisory boards that had the right under the agreements to recommend a professor’s firing if he failed to live up to standards.
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https://apnews.com/0c87e4318bcc4eb9b8e69f9f54c7b889

Cultural Marxists running wild
 
NEW BIPARTISAN BILL COULD GIVE ANY PRESIDENT THE POWER TO IMPRISON U.S. CITIZENS IN MILITARY DETENTION FOREVER

ONE OF THE most outrageous acts of Barack Obama’s presidency was his failure to veto the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2012.

The fiscal year 2012 NDAA included provisions that appeared to both codify and expand a power the executive branch had previously claimed to possess — namely, the power to hold individuals, including U.S. citizens, in military detention indefinitely — based on the Authorization to Use Military Force passed by Congress three days after 9/11.

The New York Times warned that the bill could “give future presidents the authority to throw American citizens into prison for life without charges or a trial.” Not surprisingly, Obama’s decision generated enormous outcry across the political spectrum, from Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, on the right to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on the left.

However, the NDAA did provide some weak restraints on the executive branch’s ability to use this power. In theory, the NDAA’s provisions only apply to someone involved with the 9/11 attacks or who “substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces.”

But now, incredibly enough, a bipartisan group of six lawmakers, led by Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., is proposing a new AUMF that would greatly expand who the president can place in indefinite military detention, all in the name of restricting presidential power. If the Corker-Kaine bill becomes law as currently written, any president, including Donald Trump, could plausibly claim extraordinarily broad power to order the military to imprison any U.S. citizen, captured in America or not, and hold them without charges essentially forever.
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https://theintercept.com/2018/05/01/ndaa-2018-aumf-detention/


 
In light of Rubio's comments. I would like to know how the Americans on here have been impacted by the tax cuts. Is it the general feeling that the cuts have benefited the working class?
 
The shit these clowns spout.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...tive-thought-process-of-veterans-in-dem-party

GOP candidate questions 'cognitive thought process' of veterans in Dem Party
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A Republican running for the Senate in Wisconsin on Wednesday questioned the "cognitive thought process" of veterans who align with the Democratic Party.

Kevin Nicholson, himself a Marine Corps veteran, suggested during a radio interview on the "Steve Scaffidi Show" on Wisconsin's WTMJ that the mere act of joining the military is fundamentally conservative.

"And just because some people that don't call themselves conservatives and don't always act conservative do something conservative — like, let's talk about John Kerry — and signed up to serve this country, that doesn't mean that that's not a conservative thing to fundamentally protect and defend the Constitution," he said in the interview, highlighted by CNN.

"I'll tell you, the Democrat Party has wholesale rejected the Constitution and the values that it was founded upon," he said.

"So I'll tell you what: Those veterans that are out there in the Democrat Party, I question their cognitive thought process because the bottom line is, they're signing up to defend the Constitution that their party is continually dragging through the mud."

Nicholson is among a handful of Republicans seeking the party's nomination to challenge Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) in November.

In an email to CNN, Nicholson campaign spokesman Brandon Moody said the candidate was expressing the belief that the Democratic Party has acted disrespectfully toward veterans.

"Kevin made clear that all members of the military — regardless of their political party — sign up to defend and protect the Constitution and its principles," Moody told the outlet. "But Kevin also believes that the Democrat Party has become unmoored from the Constitution and has lost its way. Kevin left the Democrat Party years ago and became a conservative, in part, because liberal Democrats and the policies they promote have shown overt disrespect to our veterans."
 
Adisa said:
In light of Rubio's comments. I would like to know how the Americans on here have been impacted by the tax cuts. Is it the general feeling that the cuts have benefited the working class?
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In a way its too soon to tell I can tell you it doesn't make much of a difference on your average paycheck but the bulk of the package won't come into play until we file our 2018 taxes. I did do some quick math for myself already and it seems like this whole not having to itemize anymore because of the standard deduction going up won't help me one bit.

The infamous conservative mental gymnastics make it not matter to many whether it helps the worker or not - my father in law is conservative as they come and after debating him a bit he acknowledged it won't help us plebs much - but wait! Trump is all about bringing big business to America and the richer they are the more they will pay the workers right?! - ... *SIGH*
 
mav_9me said:
There has to be penalties for such blatant dishonesty
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Donald Trump is president. All of the pieces of shit in the media and the government who helped destroy Iraq are gearing up to do the same to Iran. Henry Kissinger is a member of the Washington elite. Even joy reid is still a valued member of the resistance and she got caught lying literally a week ago.

There are zero consequences for dishonesty in the American political sphere.
 
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