jakee

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  1. jakee
    Right, the withdrawal agreement Trump signed meant they knew there was no need to attack western soldiers anymore, it worked in their favour to leave us alone and just plan the defeat of the Afghan Army instead. The Taliban are uneducated but they're not stupid.
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    Aren’t you the guy who just said he wasn’t trolling, or was that another Brent?
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    You don’t need a criminal lawyer, you need a criminal lawyer!
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    Hopefully, continuing to hold on to them in his own house for months after they were suboenaed while claiming to have already returned anything relevant should stick a fork in that one.
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    The problem with these questions is that they literally can't be applied to the chaos that was the Trump White House. Like the very first one... you think there was a list? They were carting boxes of files out, in a panic, because they suddenly realised 2.5 months after losing the election that they were going to have to leave the Oval Office. And requests for records - as it stands it seems like many of these files were accumulated over long periods of time from briefings that were given to Trump. Now, if you give the President of the United States, in the Oval Office, a briefing folder and he tears out a couple of pages which he says he wants to read later, who in the room can tell him no?
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    That’s a no then.
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    Fox and Friends have hit the jackpot on this one. They’ve invoked the precedent of….. Nixon. Richard freakin Nixon is now their defence of Trump. You know, if I listen to alternative media today, oh, classified documents, no one is above the law, right? The rule of law applies to everyone. I'm curious. When it comes to classified documents, famously, President Nixon said, that if the president does it, that it is not illegal. Is that not truly the standard? I love these guys. The ‘alternative media’ jerks say that the rule of law applies to everyone, but Nixon said he could do whatever the fuck he wanted so obviously that’s what we’re going with!
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    Is there any kind of thought germinating in there somewhere?
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    I’m not sure you’re ready for hockey sticks. According to your argument in this thread you think this would be an example of a graph which shows that absolutely nothing is happening.
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    Yes the Tory leadership election campaigns would be hilarious if it wasn’t actually real. They’re both campaigning on how badly the country has been run yet they’ve both been in leadership roles in the Government for the past decade. The education secretary wrote a newspaper column backing Truss to ‘turn the ship around’ either without seeing the irony, or trusting that the true believers won’t see it despite it staring them in the face. Never mind that if you asked Truss for an example of how BoJo steered the ship in the wrong direction she’d say every decision he ever made was perfect and he regularly turned water into wine for them in Cabinet meetings!
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    I was amused by the idea that Afghanistan, a right wing Neo-Con war at every step, is now being blamed on CNN. What’s next, Bernie Sanders took us into Iraq?
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    I argued on here that the people who authorised that strike should go to prison. Still think so. Unfortunately many other posters on here represent most people in the western world, and don't quite understand that people on the other side of the world are still human beings.
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    So could you explain the logic behind your question?
  15. jakee
    Are you not aware that Al Qaeda and Afghanistan are two different things?
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    It’s not the same. Implying that Trump is just another lying politician like many others is a dangerous thing. Trump isn’t like other politicians. The scope and frequency of his lies, along with his absolute disregard for the norms and rules of behaviour in office is unprecedented, and any normalising of it just enhances the damage he’s done to democracy and to ethics in government. I think his major ‘discovery’ was that you should never backtrack, equivocate or apologise. When caught in a lie or falsehood, no matter how blatant, he’d simply double down, repeat it, elaborate on it, attack anyone else who dared question it. And that’s what made him more popular than anything else, among people who would otherwise always complain about the dishonesty of politicians.
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    Lots? Lots of prominent republicans were friends of Epstein and helped him avoid accountability for known child sex crimes.
  18. jakee
    It’s the detailed analysis that we’ve all been missing.
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    And now from the ranking Republican member of the House Intelligence committee - classified nuclear weapons information isn’t really classified because you could probably look it up on your phone anyway if you wanted. Also Trump’s own insane defence that he didn’t have any classified information because by definition anything he took with him was instantly declassified is undercut by the fact that his own chief of staff previously argued in court that just because Trump said he declassified something didn’t mean we should take him seriously. And there are still millions of people who think that degree of chaos and confusion is the best possible government there could ever be.
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    Lol, the obvious implication being that Trump had no intention or plan to leave until Jan 6th failed.
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    Holy shit, what is ‘Real America’? Every time some new right wing media like Newsmax or OAN appears that you think has hit an all time low, there always another waiting to come along and dig that rabbit hole just a little bit deeper.
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    Just to reinforce a point on this - one of the current Fox excuses is to blame the FBI… for Trump having the documents in his possession at all. “They should never have lost track of them in the first place!” Ignoring the fact that Trump simply took them. ”They should have taken them back when they visited his house before!” Ignoring the fact that you can’t seize things from someone’s home without a warrant. ”They should have just asked for them back!” Ignoring the fact that they were subpoenaed months ago And still withheld by Trump. These are the new right wing politics. When the facts against your guy are too bad to be excused, you simply change the facts.
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    And it isn't overly odd to think otherwise, but for soe reason you seem really opposed to anyone saying that. But please continue to demonstrate how much you want the last word.
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    Ukraine

    jakee replied to SkyDekker's topic in Speakers Corner

    Every nation was until the media evolved to the extent that it could show the populace in real time what was actually happening. Since Putin has near complete control over the media he doesn't have to worry anywhere near as much about that. In addition Russia has always been a country where life is cheap and the general population is nothing more than a resource to be used. They went almost directly from being ground under the heel of the Tzars, to the barbarity of the cvil wars, to the iron grip of Lenin and the insanity of Stalin, and it only got a little better than that before the rise of the Mafia state under Boris Yeltsin and his protege Putin.
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    Having two contradictory opinions still means you are contradicting yourself. I thought you would be capable of understanding that.