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Friday, May 11, 2018
Left & Right May 9, 2018
Trump pulls out of Iran deal; Iran/Israel standoff; Gino defends the JCPOA. I trash it. Michael Avenati, attorney for Stormy Daniels raking up alleged evidence of Trump/Russia collusion. I claim the Deep State conspiring to bring down Trump. Obama, Clinton, et al involvement. Maine governor's race. Possible Trump impeachment if Dems take over the House.
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The "Deep State"!!! Ha ha....do you also talk about Bigfoot, and Sandy Hook being a conspiracy? When people have to resort to that kind of desperation to try and spin what is happening with their pathetic politicians of choice you know they are well beaten down! Oh, that Rosie O'Donnel and her minions are really being unfair with their "deep state" actions, huh? Thanks for the laugh.
Iran is a far superior country than Saudi Arabia by almost every measure: more democratic, more civil rights, more diversified economy. It has an executive branch, legislative branch, judicial branch just like us. But yes, there is a layer of religious clerics that sit above that structure which we in the more secular West may find unusual. Did you know that the CIA overthrew the government of Iran in 1953 because they nationalized their oil companies and then proceeded to put in a puppet dictator that terrorized and tortured his people with a secret police until the 1979 revolution? Did you know there are Jews that live in Iran? Did you know that there has been at least one Jew that has been a member of the Iranian parliament? I bet you didn't.
McLoughlin's religious beliefs make him very pro-Israel and thus anti-Iran. The creation of Israel was an attempt to solve the problem of European anti-semitism by creating a new state in the Middle East - but unfortunately it was created by stealing land from the Arabs that lived there. (There hadn't been a large population of Jews in the Jerusalem area since the Romans kicked them out 900 years ago!) This was absolutely going to cause trouble in the region from the beginning. President Truman's foreign policy advisors warned him against recognizing Israel but he overruled them. And we are still dealing with the mess. Iraq war. Syria war. Constant calls to go to war with Iran.
Israel has existed for 70 years now and it's not going to go away. We should all accept that reality. But how about if we used our resources to push for peace and stability in the region instead of for more war.
to Anonymous of first post,
The Deep State most certainly does exist. It may not be a centralized cabal but there is an unelected network of people, officials, think tanks, publishers, lobbyists, etc. that have way more say than the average citizen. And they hate Trump. see this Boston Globe article
https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/10/18/vote-all-you-want-the-secret-government-won-change/jVSkXrENQlu8vNcBfMn9sL/story.html
Like Trump and conservatives don't have their share of lobbyists, think tanks, and officials who also have more say than the average citizen?
There are two Mueller probes. There’s the one that exists in the Fox News-addled mind of President Trump and his supporters, which features dark conspiracy-mongering about a “Deep State coup” against Trump; out-of-control federal agents jackbooting poor, hapless Trump allies; and, of course, the corrupt failure to prosecute Hillary Clinton. Then there’s the one that exists in most mainstream news accounts, which features a team of investigators mostly going by the book, never leaking, methodically following the facts, albeit very aggressively, wherever they will lead.
The gaping disconnect between these two Mueller probes is driven home by two new pieces: one from New York magazine, which reports alarming new details about Trump’s addiction to Fox News and how that has shaped his perception of the Mueller investigation; and one from The Post, which paints a detailed picture of how the probe has actually been operating day in and day out.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/05/14/alarming-new-revelations-about-trumps-addiction-to-fox-news/?utm_term=.4679b355f84b
It seems undignified for a President to keep referring to himself as a "witch".
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