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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.
 
Relevant to current Trump / MAGA attempts to whitewash history



“… As statues commemorating figures from Joseph Stalin to the founder of the Bolshevik secret police are erected across the country, many Russians have responded with little more than a shrug.

One person told a BBC reporter that Stalin is “unfairly hated”; another said that “Stalin is our history,” adding that “nobody’s perfect.”

Of course, history is never fixed, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has used this to his advantage. His regime has embarked on a major project to recast the past (and especially the Soviet era) to legitimize its rule, justify the invasion of Ukraine, and market itself as an anti-colonial power to the global south….”
 
Mulberry Heel said:
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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Your average American idiot didn’t encounter Soviet propaganda without context back in the day, whereas social media (and US right-wing propaganda networks) have put current Russian propaganda directly in front of a lot of stupid Americans with assurances that it’s legit.
 
SnoopRob said:
Your average American idiot didn’t encounter Soviet propaganda without context back in the day, whereas social media (and US right-wing propaganda networks) have put current Russian propaganda directly in front of a lot of stupid Americans with assurances that it’s legit.
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No doubt, and of course the technology has changed. If the old KGB had access to internet troll farms no doubt the Soviets could have done far more damage to us than they did, even with a more neutral news media. Although no doubt the changed "news" (and I use that term loosely) media landscape has also played a major role as you said.
 
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nycfan said:
Relevant to current Trump / MAGA attempts to whitewash history



“… As statues commemorating figures from Joseph Stalin to the founder of the Bolshevik secret police are erected across the country, many Russians have responded with little more than a shrug.

One person told a BBC reporter that Stalin is “unfairly hated”; another said that “Stalin is our history,” adding that “nobody’s perfect.”

Of course, history is never fixed, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has used this to his advantage. His regime has embarked on a major project to recast the past (and especially the Soviet era) to legitimize its rule, justify the invasion of Ukraine, and market itself as an anti-colonial power to the global south….”
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Not defending what the Russians have done, but many Americans (especially Southerners) have done the same with US history, especially when it comes to the Civil War. My old hometown has a stone monument erected within the last thirty years which praises the bravery of Confederate soldiers who "defended their Southern homeland against Northern aggression. May their bravery, loyalty, honor, and Christian virtues continue to live" in all county residents. No mention of slavery or secession or the fact that the county actually voted against secession in 1861 and a good many residents opposed the Confederacy and that some men in the county actually fought for the Union. It is remarkable at how that war has been so successfully mythologized and romanticized by conservatives over the generations.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Not defending what the Russians have done, but many Americans (especially Southerners) have done the same with US history, especially when it comes to the Civil War. My old hometown has a stone monument erected within the last thirty years which praises the bravery of Confederate soldiers who "defended their Southern homeland against Northern aggression. May their bravery, loyalty, honor, and Christian virtues continue to live" in all county residents. No mention of slavery or secession or the fact that the county actually voted against secession in 1861 and a good many residents opposed the Confederacy and that some men in the county actually fought for the Union. It is remarkable at how that war has been so successfully mythologized and romanticized by conservatives over the generations.
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Are you from western NC? It kills me when I see confederate flags in that part of the state. Most of the folks who lived there in the 1860s were Union sympathizers. Then again, I’ve also seen confederate flags in Pennsylvania and New York.
 
Icky Mettle said:
Are you from western NC? It kills me when I see confederate flags in that part of the state. Most of the folks who lived there in the 1860s were Union sympathizers. Then again, I’ve also seen confederate flags in Pennsylvania and New York.
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I’ve seen plenty in Ohio, home of Grant and Sherman.
 
Icky Mettle said:
Are you from western NC? It kills me when I see confederate flags in that part of the state. Most of the folks who lived there in the 1860s were Union sympathizers. Then again, I’ve also seen confederate flags in Pennsylvania and New York.
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Yes, the NC foothills. And it also leads me to shake my head at the number of Confederate flags I see there whenever I go home to visit my parents or other relatives. Most of the flags, frankly, are hanging from old trailers or broken-down homes, although some newer and nicer places have them as well. And I'm sure that the vast majority of these people would be shocked to learn that some of their ancestors likely opposed secession and fought for or at least supported the Union in the conflict. As you said, Anti-Confederate feeling was pretty widespread in the NC mountains and foothills counties during the war, but you'd never know it based on the number of Confederate flags and other crap you see up there. Just another sign of the enormous success of conservatives in framing the history of that war to their liking.
 
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Calheel said:
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.
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Even while America is the hottest country in the world!!!
 
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