CURRENT EVENTS July 31-Sept 27

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Patb78 said:
Such a petty little man. Hanks’ works in Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers has done a 100x more to promote Veterans Affairs than anything that POS has done.
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I don't blame Trump. I blame the West Point alumni association. Just like I blame enlisted and veterans currently for not speaking up. I'm perilously close to giving up on a lifetime of veteran advocacy and donations because I'm sickened with them overall as a community right now. Bowing at the feet of a wanna-be dictator like Trump and abandoning the Constitution they swore to defend are too much for me.
 
wmheel1287 said:
I don't blame Trump. I blame the West Point alumni association. Just like I blame enlisted and veterans currently for not speaking up. I'm perilously close to giving up on a lifetime of veteran advocacy and donations because I'm sickened with them overall as a community right now. Bowing at the feet of a wanna-be dictator like Trump and abandoning the Constitution they swore to defend are too much for me.
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A lot better said than what I posted.
 
altmin said:
not going so well in Australia either.


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It seems as if most Western nations are going through a wave of very powerful, very frightening nativism and xenophobia right now. Just an absolute fear and loathing of (mostly) darker-skinned immigrants by (mostly) white people in nation after nation. And it's eating away at the democratic institutions in nearly every one of these nations. Dark times for global democracy.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
It seems as if most Western nations are going through a wave of very powerful, very frightening nativism and xenophobia right now. Just an absolute fear and loathing of (mostly) darker-skinned immigrants by (mostly) white people in nation after nation. And it's eating away at the democratic institutions in nearly every one of these nations. Dark times for global democracy.
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Result of 20+ years of Putin destabilizing the Mideast and Africa through support of religious extremists with the end goal of destabilizing centrist democracies. In the end the Soviet Union might win the Cold War.
 
altmin said:
Result of 20+ years of Putin destabilizing the Mideast and Africa through support of religious extremists with the end goal of destabilizing centrist democracies. In the end the Soviet Union might win the Cold War.
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Only after evangelicals sedated America with the opiate of religion. It's becoming harder for me to accept that any "Christian" that buys into evangelicalism really believes in either democracy or America. It's a sham like car wrap on a Cyber Truck.
 
wmheel1287 said:
I don't blame Trump. I blame the West Point alumni association. Just like I blame enlisted and veterans currently for not speaking up. I'm perilously close to giving up on a lifetime of veteran advocacy and donations because I'm sickened with them overall as a community right now. Bowing at the feet of a wanna-be dictator like Trump and abandoning the Constitution they swore to defend are too much for me.
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vets are no diff than than the tens of millions other americans who have been con'd by the trump grift. i wont let myself give up on the vets who are against trump. i wont punish them because of the idiot magas.
 
wmheel1287 said:
I don't blame Trump. I blame the West Point alumni association. Just like I blame enlisted and veterans currently for not speaking up. I'm perilously close to giving up on a lifetime of veteran advocacy and donations because I'm sickened with them overall as a community right now. Bowing at the feet of a wanna-be dictator like Trump and abandoning the Constitution they swore to defend are too much for me.
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I agree... except... I also blame Trump
 
just a follow up on the Lisa Cook "firing " and a plea for the media to focus on Pulte's motivation for finding dirt on her and getting her fired...

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Irony oozes from Trump's latest self-made scandal

Bill Pulte is the head of Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the agency that oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He has been in the news recently over his allegations that prominent opponents of President Donald Trump committed mortgage fraud. Most recently, Pulte has put Federal Reserve...
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heelinhell said:
too many squiggly lines for an old codger who has been drinking since 7am...

can you distill the takeaway from this chart ?
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Trump has had the misfortune of facing 10 times more emergencies than all of his predecessors, and it has been especially bad in his second term.

It is just bad luck for Trump that he would be forced to deal with so many unforeseen emergencies.
 
altmin said:
Result of 20+ years of Putin destabilizing the Mideast and Africa through support of religious extremists with the end goal of destabilizing centrist democracies. In the end the Soviet Union might win the Cold War.
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I've posted this before, but the Russians under Putin have done more to successfully divide and damage America than the old KGB and USSR ever did. As it turns out, Putin's Russian internet troll farms are better at fooling (some) Americans than Soviet spies and propaganda ever was.
 
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