In the wake of a preposterous allegation by BuzzFeed and CNN regarding Trump and Russia, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski slammed the other networks.
For background to this story please see Trump Feuds With CNN, Calls BuzzFeed “Failing Pile of Garbage”
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You can say the same thing to some news organizations: What’s the real story?
Is there a story there or is there not a story there that they want to put out there because they hate him [Trump] so much.
Or is the intelligence community literally putting the screws to Donald Trump because he insulted them? There are so many layers happening here, lots of possibilities.
But it is so outlandish that we have to be so careful. … When you can triple-source it and you have evidence, you have a story. Right now there is no story here.
And I think the people who are going with it at this point, and even if we continue this conversations we are part of it, but the two outlets that are actually going with this and releasing it, are continuing to make the same mistakes that they have made in the run-up to this election, which is to let their bias get in the way of actually finding out what facts are and putting them out there. The whole thing has felt wrong from the beginning.
Kudos to Brzezinski
Kudos to Mika Brzezinski for a delivering a well deserved smack-down to CNN and BuzzFeed for biased reporting against Trump.
As noted before, Senator John McCain wanted Hillary in the White House, not Trump.
I also repeat my claim, McCain has Blood on his Hands for his role in events that led to disastrous consequences in Ukraine and the Mideast.
Still No Evidence
There is still not a smidgen of evidence Putin was involved in the US campaign. Yet, mainstream media keeps parroting that statement as if it was a fact.
Daily Koz founder, Markos Moulitsas, went so far as to bring up the word “treason” over Trump’s lawyer allegedly meeting Kremlin officials in Prague.
That bit of insanity was retweeted 1,840 times and liked by 3,969 fools. Congratulations.
Now we know this:
OOPS. Treason Not!
But not another peep from Moulitsas.
Sure It’s Russia?
On January 9, I asked Is Israel, Not Russia, to Blame for Hillary’s Election Loss?
I just asked. And I still ask. I have as much evidence on Israel as the intelligence agencies released in their report on Russia: None.
But the implication is an important one: Any person or country that preferred Trump over Hillary may have done it.
Several readers accurately pointed out that someone in the UK may have preferred Trump because of Brexit, and some in Canada may have preferred Trump because of the pipeline.
Back on the Israel meme, in July 2014 the International Business Times asked Did Israeli PM Netanyahu Try to Blackmail President Clinton over Lewinsky Sex Tapes? two tenets of
Accusations, Nothing But Accusations
The alleged case on Russia is solely based on accusations.
- Russia did it
- No one else wanted to
- Nothing in Russia happens without Putin
Until proof against Putin is given, the thinking person is right to question the known CIA Liars, Torturers, Murderers.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Hi, Mike,
I’ve heard since the CIA put a fan-fiction story from 4chan in their report, they are considering adding a couple of Kipling’s “Just So Stories” and “Fifty Shades of Grey” to their next anti-Trump report.
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“When you can triple-source it and you have evidence, you have a story.”
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If Trump, who shoots BS from his mouth and via Twitter at the drop of hat with no concern for veracity or verification, then why should anyone else writing about him be held to more stringent standards? “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander”, goes the old saying.
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Except Mr. Trump is right. All your asshat, grossly unprofessional, presstitute heroes are losers. Shame on you.
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Joe, you still keep trying.
Is correct the record paying you for anti-trump and pro-hillary opinions like they were paying millions of dollars before the election to pro-clinton fake-commenters or are you just a true believer that Hillary Clinton is next from god?
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Are you aware of the difference between tweeting an opinion and presenting an undocumented story as factual?
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Is Trump’s tweets fake news?
Joe has choked on the Kool Aid, desperately grasping for rationality.
This has been a constant attack on Trump, with virtually none of it backed with verifiable FACTS, but in the HOPE that they can create a false consensus of his “guilt” by simply repeating and reinforcing the same and similar LIES.
I have never doubted their intent because they have repeatedly told us, just like those organizing the inauguration protests, stating publicly that their INTENT is to STOP the inauguration.
It’s just pitiful that some like Joe continue to pretend they are using factual rational arguments. Pitiful.
Just tell the truth, declare your agenda like your fellow minions already have. Democracy has failed you because you believe democracy is ONLY credible IF it provides the proper result. Progressives do NOT believe in equality of opportunity, ONLY in equality of RESULT. Results are all that matters, not the rules of the game, not fairness or even (especially) the constitution, Simple scrap of paper that should be ignored anytime it defies their agenda.
we have watched Obama overstep his authority to a massive scale, and that was alright because it was perceived that he was furthering THEIR agenda. BUT, the thought of Trump with those same powers is NOT acceptable, and he WILL be denied if it is in any way possible.
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Ha ha ha! Golden showers to you!
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Republicans Have No Good Reason Not To Impeach Donald Trump
Alex Pareene
10 Jan 2016
It’s been fun, but it’s about time for Republicans to admit that the great Donald Trump experiment isn’t going to work out—for them.
One hypothetical version of President Trump—the ideal version, for Republicans, and one that many convinced themselves he would become, given practice and training—is a new Reagan: a mouthpiece for the ideas and policies inserted into his empty head by members of an ascendant conservative movement riding his television-mastery to power. Surround this version of Trump with good party men like Reince Priebus and Mike Pence, and he takes care of entertaining the masses—and distracting the opposition—while true-believing conservatives actually run the country, enacting their entire agenda too forcefully and quickly for anyone to effectively fight them.
We could still get some twisted version of this, especially since Trump is still going to outsource all actual governing and policy decisions to others, but what Trump showed today, in his unhinged press conference, is how quickly and impetuously he can (and will) undermine and sabotage their efforts.
Another version of Trump—the nightmare for liberals and not one conservatives would welcome either—could be a second Nixon, with no real political philosophy, but a willingness to do anything to maintain his grip on power. Not just through unethical and criminal means, like the Watergate break-in or the sabotage of the Vietnam peace talks, but also in his willingness to do decidedly un-conservative things if they’d benefit him politically—like the wage and price controls he implemented, to great popular acclaim, in 1971. This is the model Steve Bannon likely hopes to emulate.
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http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/republicans-have-no-good-reason-not-to-impeach-donald-t-1791087483
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Joe scrapes the bottom of the barrel in posting the opinion of an ex-Gawker, committed anti-Trump hack, like Alex Pareene.
“Pareene has been a frequent critic of presidential candidate Donald Trump, …. At varying times Pareene has referred to Trump as a “fictional television clown tycoon,” “a living freak show” and “a weird attention-hungry idiot.”[11][12][13]”
“On August 15, 2012 Trump criticized Pareene on Twitter as a “lightweight reporter” who is a “total joke in political circles.”[14][15]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Pareene
In more credible news, Mike Cernovitch tweets, “Director of National Intelligence James Clapper tells Trump that the CNN-Buzzfeed report was garbage!”
https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/224-press-releases-2017/1469-dni-clapper-statement-on-conversation-with-president-elect-trump
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” —Søren Kierkegaard
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Joe scrapes the bottom of the barrel in posting the opinion of an ex-Gawker, committed anti-Trump hack Alex Pareene.
“Pareene has been a frequent critic of presidential candidate Donald Trump, …. At varying times Pareene has referred to Trump as a “fictional television clown tycoon,” “a living freak show” and “a weird attention-hungry idiot.”[11][12][13]”
“On August 15, 2012 Trump criticized Pareene on Twitter as a “lightweight reporter” who is a “total joke in political circles.”[14][15]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Pareene
In more credible news, Mike Cernovich tweets, “Director of National Intelligence James Clapper tells Trump that the CNN-Buzzfeed report was garbage!”
https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/224-press-releases-2017/1469-dni-clapper-statement-on-conversation-with-president-elect-trump
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” —Søren Kierkegaard
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Keep tokin’, Uncle Joe. It’s all you have left.
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Joe – shame on you.
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MSNBC needs market share so badly that it’s attacking it’s liberal sister cable news network in an effort to heist a couple rating percentage points.
During the presidential election campaign season MSNBC was the king of unsubstantiated propaganda.
Now Dracula is calling out Frankenstein!
Classic!
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Morning Joe was mostly professional during the election season and sometimes Joe and Mika hit Trump and sometimes Joe and Mika hit Hillary according to news of the moment and according to facts like journalists are supposed to do.
Morning Joe is the ONLY watchable program on MSNBC.
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Rest of MSNBC is dailykosian hysterical insanity with a twist of liberal/democratic version of Infowars mixed in fake news where anything goes as long as it makes Trump look bad and Hillary look good.
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Mika Brezinski has stated on air that MSNBC received demands from democrats to take her off the air because democrats throught Mika was anti-Clinton when reporting news and facts about Hillary Clinton.
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And they may still get their wish if she keeps it up. It’s not healthy to even be polite to Trump in public.
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Don’t know if you’ve seen the latest news (it’s about that time), but it was the WRONG Michael Cohen. And nobody, not even the news media or the FBI, CIA, or whatever, actually thought to just call and ask him if he was ever in Prague. Apparently when he was supposed to be in Prague, he was actually in California with his son for a baseball tryout.Jeez, I wonder how hard that would have been to confirm.
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The “alternate news” sources already had the “wrong Michael Cohen” story yesterday. It was easy to check up on, but obviously too much for the Trump haters. Typical.
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Why be responsible when malignant laziness is so much easier and more profitable?
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Research just gets into the way of a good story. No time for that.
Fake news is nothing more than a form of active measures (an Info Operations term) that targets the fact that many of the facts surrounding the story are either not available to the average person, or place the story in an unknowable context.
So, whenever you see a story based on “anonymous sources” or second hand sources (which is hearsay) you should be very skeptical from the first moment.
Not all fake news is produced for nefarious motives, but the best fake news hides within the genre of that created for comedy.
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The Obama administration has reinforced this by prosecuting more whistle blowers than any other. They have created a REASON why NO ONE would want to identify themselves, especially if it is not in the administration or media’s service. Anonymous is their middle name.
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Phil R – I’ll bet they already knew Michael Cohen was in California, not Prague. Their objective is just to hammer Trump, smear him, lies and all. They are desperate to stop Trump, and they’ll use any means necessary. Oh, they’ll write a retraction a month later, which no one will see. This is war.
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“Politics is the continuation of war by other means.” — C.P.G. Von Clausewitz
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Bad journalism is a cover for propaganda.
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Yes, it is all propaganda all the time now. Really crazy. They’re not even pretending anymore. Never seen anything like this in my life. Even GWB was simply mocked and ridiculed before 9/11, not the subject of witch hunts and non-stop libel.
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“Pulp Fiction” was a great movie; this pulp fiction repetition in the MSM is stupid. You can assume anyone who works for CNN, buzzfeed, WaPo et al is an idiot.
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I was worried that once Trump took office that he would sanitize his speech/behavior and start acting presidential. Today’s press conference indicate that my fears were unfounded.
We love you just the way you are, Donald. We voted for the package you demonstrated on the campaign trail. Don’t let the establishment pigs change you. Be yourself.
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Trump needs to:
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-Build the wall and make it a REAL WALL (no BS like lyin’ Paul Ryan proposing just a “fence” and no TOTAL BS like braindead Kevin McCarthys demands of not even a fence at parts of the border with just “drones” watching as illegal immigrants stream across.)
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-deport 2 million criminals and gang members quickly lowering violent crime and destroying the current gang strucxtures in USA of MS.13 and others.
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-stop sanctuary cities by taking away all federal funds from them and charge politicians who demand sanctuary city policies as accomplices for all the rapes and murders committed by illegal immigrants in their sanctuary city.
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-stop idiotic “refugee” programs bringing somalis and syrians etc. to USA
(syrians brought to USA were already outside Syria so they were safe and should have been just given some monetary assistance through the countries hosting them since they already had water and tents and food paid by UNHCR or the host countries, Somalis are SAFE in 90% of Somalia because Al-Shabaab has control of only about 10% of Somalia because African Union troops and somalian government troops or semi-independent Somaliland or Puntland troops have control of the rest and 90% of Somalia is SAFE)
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– make it a law that e-verify is MANDATORY and and employer who does not e-verify their future and current employees gets hit with million dollar fines and jail time if not following e-verify for another time.
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-STOP the farmers who are lobbying for more illegal immigrants by making it clear that currently the american tax-payers are paying and subsidizing their cheap labor because the families of illegal immigrants cost taxpayers money through free healthcare, free schooling, through welfare and through section 8 and through food stamps.
Create a temporary visa category for agricultural workers to come for max of 6 months per year with the employer responsible for all healthcare costs and no-entitlement for food stamps or any other kind of welfare.
The families of farm workers need to stay in Mexico and the temporary worker returns home after 6 months ends and can come back next year if they did not drive drunk or seek any welfare or commit any crimes.
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Long term full time farming jobs need to go to americans and if the farms have trouble finding employees they need to what one does in a free market economy when one has trouble filling jobs: RAISE WAGES until you find employees.
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-Trump needs to demand that european countries cancel citizenships from terrorists, ISIS supporters and jihadists and supporters of extremism like Sharia law so they can not threaten USA with the use of their european country passports to travel to USA visa-free.
Then europe needs to deport these people back home and also all failed asylum seekers need to be deported back home and the asylum process should be strict and stop the “almost everybody gets asylum” insanity caused by Sweden and Germany and the swedish inspired EU boondoggle called EASO making swedish loose system the european standard.
Italy has to stop PUSHING people north by not registering them as asylym seekers after luring them by picking them up from the Libyan coast.
Italy has to stop PUSHING people north by quickly giving almost 100% asylum after France and other italian neigbors put some border controls on their italian borders. Because Italy gives NO welfare and asylum given by Italy givers free movement inside EU most asylum seekers given asylum by Italy quickly move to other EU countries with generous welfare systems thereby Italy is INCENTIVIZED to quickly give asylum to almost everybody.
Italy should reject 90%+ of asylum seekers and return them back home and in the long term give rides from people found at sea straight to Tunisia or Marocco or other countries outside of Europe to stop the drownings and stop the people smugglers profits
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-Trump needs to demand that Europe stops luring millions of asylum seekers with no limits on people taken in and generous welfare like Sweden and Germany did during the nightmare of 2015 and until March 2016 when Austria and Slovenia closed their borders thereby closing the balkan route from SAFE Turkey to Greece and from Greece through open borders to welfare paying europe that was luring people to come.
As an example of Merkels total incompetence she was DEMANDING that Austria and Slovenia and others keep their borders open in February 2016 when even asylum seeker luring Sweden had closed their borders in the end of December 2015.
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-Trump needs to demand that Europe stops politically correct insanity and stops increasing the amount of radical muslims by demanding language studies in local language from muslims already there and mandatory courses on freedom of speech and freedom of religion and respecting women for all muslims already arrived.
Further the family re-unifications to welfare have to be stopped so the only option for muslims in Europe is marry another europeanized muslim and not to continually bring backwards muslim wifes and husbands from home countries with no language skills and no prospects in job markets and no useful educations to live on european welfare like has happened for years in incompetent Europe.
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Plus:
Re-interpret birthright citizenship to it’s original meaning which was that those living LEGALLY in USA had their children automatically become US citizens when born.
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Illegal mexican immigrants babies have NO right to birthright citizenship, Chinese birth tourists babies have NO right to birthright citizenship.
This should be handled so that NO more birthright citizenships will be given to these groups babies and ALL previous birthright citizenships given to those groups since 1960’s are also cancelled but those currently living in USA are given a permanent residence permit and they can apply for citizenship after 5 years provided they are not on welfare and have committed no crimes.
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The Teddy Kennedy insanity that re-interpreted birthright-citizenship as a right for children of illegal immigrants and children of birth tourists from China was among the things causing the current mess that was luring people to come to USA.
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I would support mandatory e-verify as long as an employer is held harmless from any FUTURE reassessment of their citizenship or lawsuits for discrimination.My fear has always been that even though we get verification of citizenship, it does not shelter us from later judgements. Call the IRS and ask for verification on your tax liabilities…they will tell you that their advice is in NO way a legal defense. Also if E-Verify tells you they are illegal and as such you refuse to hire them, the employer should not be subject to any kind of discrimination claims.
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For the 10-20 million illegal immigrants who are not criminals or gang members: they should be allowed to sell their possessions in the US and return voluntarily to their home country after mandatory e-verify and laws making employing illegal immigrants a crime punishable by huge fines and jail if repeated are put into place.
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After e-verify is mandatory all welfare including food stamps (EBT-SNAP), section-8 housing assistance, tax credits, and states welfare systems should be made available ONLY to americans and LEGAL immigrants making staying in USA impossible and encouraging most of the people to leave orderly and voluntarily.
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There should be no house to house searches but instead just cut in job opportunities and benefits and voluntary returns back to their home countries.
For those who are married to americans they should be allowed to return on family-visa after going home temporarily so in order not to break families.
For those where all famil yis illegal immigrants that family is NOT broken they are just returned to their homelands.
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Getting 10-20 million illegal immigrants to return home is essential if Trump wants 10-15 million more jobs for americans and if Trump wants raises in wages for low paying jobs making him the best president low-income whites, legal hispanics and african americans have ever had thereby securing another term for him and transforming republicans from an out-of-touch Ryanian/Bushian party it has been since 2000 to a Trumpian party with chances to win presidential elections also in the future.
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The Romney-Ryan ticket of 2012 was unbelievably out of touch with regular americans and Ryans obsession of cutting Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and Romney’s beyond idiotic 47% comment and the attitude of giving democrats 47% of voters without even trying to give them policies that could help their lives were the reason they lost.
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The costs of healthcare need to be taken down by demanding mandatory pricelists from all hospitals and doctors and same prices whether paying in cash or by health insurance and the current setup of lots of local monopolies in hospitals, doctors and medical imaging such as MRI need to be stopped by giving new hospitals, doctors and imaging centers opportunity to open where-ever they want provided the staff is qualified.
The price of giving birth for example should be dropped from the current 10k to about 2k-3k so people can pay it on creditcard or a lower cost health insurance.
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People should be allowed to be without health insurance and there should be a requirement for just a catastrophic health insurance such as when one gets a stroke or cancer etc.. and with lower prices people could pay without a problem 50 dollars to see a doctor for 30 minutes in 90% of times when one needs a doctor
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The Paul Ryan idea and Tom Price idea of ROBBING americans to pay for the INFLATED costs of healthcare needs to be STOPPED.
Paul Ryan and Tom Price would rather ROB money from americans than take on the anti-competitive practices in Healthcare industry that are causing the high price of healthcare that is in turn causing the high price of health insurance.
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There needs to be a FREE MARKET on healthcare.
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The most comforting part of fake news is that its easy to pick out. These ass hats are not in any way perceptive of what the people onow and believe.
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Kick ass and take names. That goes double for Corey Booker. A snake with nothing to say other than a ridiculous attempt to establish his racist credentials for a Presidential run.. As for Rep John Lewis, who has actually earned the reputation as a civil rights icon, he should be reminded that Senator Sessions was not present at the Edmund Pettus bridge, even though Sessions is white and was born in Alabama, which he had no control over.
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What is it you fail to recognize bout “white guilt”. If yo are white, you are guilty, but if you are a progressive, you are forgiven….as long as the checks keep showing up.
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I just saw a paid political ad broadcast on NBC opposing the nomination of Rex Tillerson and urging senators to reject him. Of course it was loaded with anti-Russia propaganda.
Can anyone else ever remember seeing a TV ad targeted against someone NOT running for elected office? It seemed extreme, incongruous and futile to me.
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who sponsored the ad?
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Does it matter?
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4109382/Russian-agents-trying-dig-dirt-Donald-Trump-not-assume-friend-says-former-Foreign-Secretary.html
Is a good article.
“Bernstein told CNN: ‘It came from a former British MI6 agent who was hired from a political opposition research firm in Washington who was doing work about Donald Trump for both republican and democratic candidates opposed to Trump.”
Something doesn’t add up right though overall, not sure what yet.
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Nextgen Climate Action sponsored the ad. It is running on ABC as well. I live in OC, CA.
Nextgenclimate.org
This ad is a harbinger. This is the new normal. TV viewers will now be barraged by political issue ads — nominees, legislation, etc. — 24/7/365 instead of just during the run-up to elections.
I’m nauseous.
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“As for the fundamental question, are the memos in the Trump dossier real, here is one answer: Andrew Wordsworth, co-founder of London-based investigations firm Raedas, who often works on Russian issues, said the memos in the Trump dossier were ‘not convincing at all.’ ‘It’s just way too good,’ he said. ‘If the head of the CIA were to declare he got information of this quality, you wouldn’t believe it.’ Mr. Wordsworth said it wouldn’t make sense for Russian intelligence officials to expose state secrets to an former MI-6 officer. ‘Russians believe once you are an agent, you’re an agent forever,’ he said.”
TRUMP: Let me just say what I do. When I leave our country — I’m a very high-profile person, would you say? I am extremely careful. I’m surrounded by bodyguards. I’m surrounded by people. And I always tell them anywhere, but I always tell them, if I’m leaving this country, be very careful, because in your hotel rooms, and no matter where you go, you’re going to probably have cameras. I’m not referring just to Russia, but I would certainly put them in that category. And number one, I hope you’re going to be good anyway. But in those rooms, you have cameras in the strangest places, cameras that are so small with modern technology, you can’t see them and you won’t know. You’d better be careful or you’ll be watching yourself on nightly television. I tell this to people all the time. I was in Russia years ago with the Miss Universe contest, which did very well. Moscow, the Moscow area, did very, very well. And I told many people, be careful, because you don’t want to see yourself on television. Cameras all over the place. And again, not just Russia, all over. Does anyone really believe that story?
The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer
Glenn Greenwald
January 11 2017
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/11/the-deep-state-goes-to-war-with-president-elect-using-unverified-claims-as-dems-cheer/
Excerpt:
IN JANUARY, 1961, Dwight Eisenhower delivered his farewell address after serving two terms as U.S. president; the five-star general chose to warn Americans of this specific threat to democracy: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” That warning was issued prior to the decadelong escalation of the Vietnam War, three more decades of Cold War mania, and the post-9/11 era, all of which radically expanded that unelected faction’s power even further.
This is the faction that is now engaged in open warfare against the duly elected and already widely disliked president-elect, Donald Trump. They are using classic Cold War dirty tactics and the defining ingredients of what has until recently been denounced as “Fake News.”
Their most valuable instrument is the U.S. media, much of which reflexively reveres, serves, believes, and sides with hidden intelligence officials. And Democrats, still reeling from their unexpected and traumatic election loss as well as a systemic collapse of their party, seemingly divorced further and further from reason with each passing day, are willing — eager — to embrace any claim, cheer any tactic, align with any villain, regardless of how unsupported, tawdry and damaging those behaviors might be.
The serious dangers posed by a Trump presidency are numerous and manifest. There are a wide array of legitimate and effective tactics for combatting those threats: from bipartisan congressional coalitions and constitutional legal challenges to citizen uprisings and sustained and aggressive civil disobedience. All of those strategies have periodically proven themselves effective in times of political crisis or authoritarian overreach.
But cheering for the CIA and its shadowy allies to unilaterally subvert the U.S. election and impose its own policy dictates on the elected president is both warped and self-destructive. Empowering the very entities that have produced the most shameful atrocities and systemic deceit over the last six decades is desperation of the worst kind. Demanding that evidence-free, anonymous assertions be instantly venerated as Truth — despite emanating from the very precincts designed to propagandize and lie — is an assault on journalism, democracy, and basic human rationality. And casually branding domestic adversaries who refuse to go along as traitors and disloyal foreign operatives is morally bankrupt and certain to backfire on those doing it.
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Winston – great piece by Greenwald. Thanks for posting it.
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Well, I think it’s pretty obvious at this point that the ONLY way Trump will be able to retain his presidency is to declare WAR on RUSSIA…TONIGHT!
He must prove he is not a Russian Shill, or blackmailed into submission to their will.
Since when has TRUTH mattered?
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just a tag line on the McCain wanted Hillary vs Trump-
almost 2 years ago I was at a resort just west of Sedona not far from McCains ranch.
One AM suddenly about 12 AZ state trooper cars pull into the resort. I aks whats up and the resort staff just say they cannot discuss.
Well, that afternoon I Saw Chelsea C and then I learned there was a McCain Symposoium of heavy hitters and the Key Note speaker was HRC.
In retrospect, it had to be a fund raiser of some sorts.
Conclusion: (the way the CIA does with info but no locked down facts) McCain and Clinton are “tight”.
The CIA needs to review its procedures. Or its gonna get us all killed.
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Very interesting, Mickey. McPain is obviously not a repub but he has to call himself a repub if he wants to be elected from AZ. Seems like most voters only consider the party ticket. Thus we get a lot of really crappy politicians.
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Off your comment CJ:
I know a local Congressperson. Nicest guy around, he would give you the shirt off his back.
The problem is that he does not have the skillset to be Congressman–forget about issues and his position on issues. He is just not sharp enough. But I really like the guy.
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MSNBC, that bastion of bullsheet, is calling the kettle black on other lame propaganda networks? This is one of those occasions where it is vitally important for Mish to tell us which pile of manure smells slightly less bad than the others
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T-minus nine days and counting before that buffoon Obozo is out of office. Good riddance to a world class loser
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“There is still not a smidgen of evidence Putin was involved in the US campaign. Yet, mainstream media keeps parroting that statement as if it was a fact.” Mish
Absolutely, right on. But MSNBC is full of crap. Contrary to Trump’s view, BuzzFeed relegated the report to the Fiction Bin by publishing it in full. The Russia-Trump conspiracy report was repeatedly cited as truth during the 2016 presidential election campaign, for example by USA Senate Dem leader Harry Reid. What Trump does not understand is that keeping the false report secret and shrouded in darkness lends it continued legitimacy.
Until the Full Classified Putin Hacking Report from Propaganda Central is exposed to the Fresh Air of Public View, it will be referred to by the MSM and Swamp Central as Truth. Only full exposure to the daylight can stop the MSM parroting game. Which is why Assange does WikiLeaks. BuzzFeed for all its faults seems to understand this.
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We live in an Age of Fake News.
Fake News is the New Normal and True Journalism died.
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I would say the whole news feed is being reorganized now. Many of the old MSM’s are just propaganda shills while (some) alternate media has the real news. Wikileaks is now the Gold Standard of True Journalism. Not one single thing they have ever published has been proven false. It seems to be driving the people they expose – crazy.
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‘This way to the void please’ silent voices pull
The truth was always known, the words have become full
Lost above crowded chairs empty hallway breath
Cloaks departed writers with the peace of death.
‘This way to the void please’ wool beckons to the eyes
Laughter left to be replaced, softly no one cries
Outside the screams of suffering drenched in bloody rain
That no one dares relate to us for fear of taking blame.
‘This way to the void please’ destiny is gone
To turn back is just as useless as to try not to move on
Forever hear the echoes fall to gently moving feet
‘This way to the void please’ sap every other need.
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90% of all media is owned by six corporations. They are colluding and purposely trying to create chaos. Just like George Soros did when he hired people to disrupt Trump rallies. They want us to get angry. Don’t. Just laugh at them.
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