Sup42
Contributor
No wonder Covid fucked us.
The sooner the new world order, or the Jewish, or the illuminati, or the great reset save us from these freaks the better.
bruce
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Analysis: Donald Trump (yet again) proves there's no bottom
Roughly 24 hours after the death of Colin Powell, Donald Trump proved, again, that he is utterly incapable of empathy, grace or even common decency.
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Just gotta say...Trump is a moron for saying this the day he died...but I never accepted Powell's story of bad intelligence.
He was clearly bullied into making the speech by Rumsfeld and Cheney. A guy with his experience and knowledge must have had doubts about the WMD narrative. They used him because of his credibility, nobody would have believed the other two. So he sold out...to his eternal shame.
Cheney made millions out of the Iraq war, and his company hundreds of millions. They wrecked a country and caused heartache for millions of people in the Middle East, all to get hold of the oil concessions.
How ironic that it is Cheney's daughter who is leading the fight for democracy against Donald Trump.
Worried2Death
Wonder if Steve Q Bannon will flip on Trump, the noose is tightening for some of these billionaires as the Maxwell trial gets closer.
www.rawstory.com
Steve Bannon contacted Jeffrey Epstein over worries about what he would reveal about Trump: new book
According to a report from Business Insider, former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon had a conversation with billionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein where he admitted that, during the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, he feared Epsten would run to the press with stories about...
www.rawstory.com
bruce
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I think they want to charge Bannon to make an example of him.Wonder if Steve Q Bannon will flip on Trump, the noose is tightening for some of these billionaires as the Maxwell trial gets closer.
Steve Bannon contacted Jeffrey Epstein over worries about what he would reveal about Trump: new book
According to a report from Business Insider, former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon had a conversation with billionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein where he admitted that, during the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, he feared Epsten would run to the press with stories about...
They will be going after the other three to flip. Mark Meadows is just a dick and Patel is already talking to them. The other one even tried to hide from the subpoena servers so he isn't very tough.
Remember Nixon never got charged, but pardoned, but all his arse lickers did time, the whole lot including his AG.
Gizzyfan
Colin Powell was a man who rose from the gutter to tge top. Unfortunately his legacy was ruined by Rumsfeld, Cheney and co, although he does have to carry some blame. Powell was a man of honour, for Trump to be compared it shows that not only cream rises to the top, so does scum.
bruce
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I agree totally, and his reputation was well earned.
However because of him and especially his reputation, the UN went along with Merka and farked the Middle East.
He dies with that horrible legacy.
Gizzyfan
The thing for me is, I believe you can just look at guys like Rumsfeld, Cheney and Trump and know immediately they are arseholes.
bruce
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Being an arsehole is actually part of being a politician.
Rumsfeld was just a gung ho war monger with no understanding of other cultures...and a war criminal.
Cheney was a devious servant of corporate greed.
Trump is the strange one, just a psychologically challenged , totally self absorbed, head case...
but he didn't start any wars.
Who is the worst...don't ask any Iraqi.
Hadyn
Gees Bruce I've finally seen the day...that is ,he day that you and I are in total lockstep .
Finally you and I agree on something politically int hat who'd really ever be a politician.I for one couldn't be bothered..
As a politician If you're honest with your true thoughts and feelings you are bound to be pissing off 60% of the population and then getting hassled constantly because of it.
You are then forced to compromise yourself to be over the magical 50% mark to get re-elected.
To my way of thinking Politicians have got something missing in their DNA that the rest of us have got.
They need constant reinforcement and desire to be centre of attention, liked ,popular and fawned over by their supporters......think Muldoon,Lange,Key,Clintons,Bushes,Johnson,Trump,Biden,Pelosi,AOC,Cuomo,DeBlasio,.Ardern,Rudd,Howard,...you name them they've all got the same disease..I personally couldn't be bothered ..most people couldn't.
bruce
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Times have changed.
Back in the day politicians were real people. Muldoon was an accountant who fought as a corporal in Italy in WWII. Many of his cabinet were veterans who were farmers as well.
So they had a grounding in life.
It is an international trend that modern politicians often start out as political interns and researchers. Just like Cindy. She hasn't had a real job since school.
They really lack the understanding of ordinary people, and have learned that spin is what you need.
Many people are saying that is Biden's problem. His staffers are all the university educated life time political types.
They have never had to face real life issues.
Sup42
Contributor
Maddow ends up chuckling at the end of this item such is the extent of Trumps criminality.
It is pretty funny what a idiot crook he is.
It is pretty funny what a idiot crook he is.
Gizzyfan
Who would you choose as a leader
A drunken racist empire builder
A fraudulent liar
A teetotal vegetarian who was loved by children
Churchill, Roosevelt and Hitler
Sup42
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bruce
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No Republicans except Cheney and Kinzinger voted for it. They are all scared shitless of Trump.
That story about them making Trump house speaker if they win the mid terms next year will be interesting.
Kevin McCarthy definitely wants that job so it will be interesting.
Worried2Death
Narcissistic personality disorder, but I'm convinced the most successful politicians are clinical psychopaths.
Gizzyfan
ALL politicians are motivated by power, control, greed and ego, doing public service is just bullshit masking.
Gizzyfan
bruce
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I have just been reading many tweets about Woodward and Costas book Peril, and other information.
There is clearly enough evidence now to charge Donald Trump with insurrection.
FFS it even extends to free bus trips and accommodation in Washington organised by the wife of that useless Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas.
Many are asking why the DOJ have not already charged Trump, including Glenn Kirschner who is a restrained commentator, very legalistic.
My guess is both the DOJ, and the Jan6 Committee are going slowly, and softly to both maintain public interest, slowly win over the moderates, and make the GOP representatives involved start to want to save their own skins with a plea deal.
It will come down to are they more scared of Trump, or a jail cell? Some of these namby pamby GOP types would shit themselves after one night in a cell.
They need the GOP to break ranks, then attack. That must be their plan.
There is clearly enough evidence now to charge Donald Trump with insurrection.
FFS it even extends to free bus trips and accommodation in Washington organised by the wife of that useless Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas.
Many are asking why the DOJ have not already charged Trump, including Glenn Kirschner who is a restrained commentator, very legalistic.
My guess is both the DOJ, and the Jan6 Committee are going slowly, and softly to both maintain public interest, slowly win over the moderates, and make the GOP representatives involved start to want to save their own skins with a plea deal.
It will come down to are they more scared of Trump, or a jail cell? Some of these namby pamby GOP types would shit themselves after one night in a cell.
They need the GOP to break ranks, then attack. That must be their plan.
