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@antipodean said in US Politics:
@jegga "She also called for tuition-free college and a universal-jobs guarantee, under which the federal government would provide a job for every American."
Hahaha. And the divide keeps getting wider.
And open borders too.
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@jegga said in US Politics:
This is the New Democrat congresswomen New York. She beat a billionaire who outspent her 10-1 , putting aside her attributes that appeal to the superficial male such as myself her policies make Corbyn look thatcheresque . This is not good news for dems.
She's batshit that's for sure. Seems as though this is pushback against the right wing pushback against all the lefty bollocks. Doubling down I think it's called. We had a similar situation in the UK during the 80s when successive Labour oppositions got more and more loony left as a pushback against Thatcher and became unelectable. Eventually Blair re-invented Labour and got them into power.
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The U.S. Army is discharging immigrant recruits who were once promised a path to citizenship
At least in the Starship Troopers dystopia, service guaranteed citizenship
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World’s Greatest Publicist writes a short book review.
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Banning plastic straws but allowing plastic guns?
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The walls are closing in.
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@rembrandt said in US Politics:
She is not wrong here.
Absolutely disgusting what mainstream media has become.
Acosta is scum. Stupid prick can't realise that it's people like himself that are the reason his profession is held in such contempt.
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Awesome. If Dennis Rodman can do it... why not?
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I could watch a US president mock politicians all day.
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@baron-silas-greenback said in US Politics:
I could watch a US president mock politicians all day.
Well I laughed out loud.
Once you 'get' Trump its actually a hell of a lot of fun watching him perform.
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Of note:
Rand Paul’s Comeback
The Kentucky senator is a favorite of the president. In Trump’s Washington, Paul, and some of his friends, are power players unto themselves.
“...[S]hould Trump continue to buck the neoconservative establishment, discussion has swirled in recent days of an even larger role for Paul—in the cabinet or on the ticket. ...”
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And again:
Trump connects with Rand ‘at gut level’
Enemies on the 2016 campaign trail, the Kentucky senator and the iconoclastic president have developed a quiet Washington friendship.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/08/rand-paul-trump-russia-putin-768472
He infuriates West Wing aides who have had to scramble to win his support for key votes, but Rand Paul has the ear, and the affection, of the most important person in the White House: President Donald Trump.
Once bitter rivals on the Republican campaign trail, the Kentucky senator and the commander-in-chief have bonded over a shared delight in thumbing their noses at experts the president likes to deride as “foreign policy eggheads,” including those who work in his own administration.
When Trump dismissed national security adviser H.R. McMaster in March, replacing him with John Bolton, he told McMaster, “Look, he’s a hawk, you’re hawk, I can handle you guys,” according to a White House aide. While Trump tolerates his hawkish advisers, the aide added, he shares a real bond with Paul: “He actually at gut level has the same instincts as Rand Paul.”
Paul has quietly emerged as an influential sounding board and useful ally for the president, who frequently clashes with his top advisers on foreign policy. The Kentucky senator's relationship with Trump, developed via frequent cellphone calls and over rounds of golf at the president’s Virginia country club, became publicly apparent for the first time on Wednesday when the senator announced he had hand-delivered a letter to the Kremlin on Trump’s behalf.
Both Paul and Trump routinely rail against foreign entanglements, foreign wars, and foreign aid — positions characterized as isolationist by critics and as “America first” by the president and his supporters. [...]
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