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@Tim said in US Politics:
Trump will be licking his lips at the prospect of her becoming the nominee
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Bernie Sanders has halted his campaign because he was treated in hospital for an arterial blockage. Question marks over Biden and Sanders, Harris and Brooker not really registering in the polls. Liz Warren looking very much the favourite for the Democrat nomination.
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@sparky said in US Politics:
Bernie Sanders has halted his campaign because he was treated in hospital for an arterial blockage. Question marks over Biden and Sanders, Harris and Brooker not really registering in the polls. Liz Warren looking very much the favourite for the Democrat nomination.
I wonder if Yang / Mayor Pete get a bump from this as well, they seem to be the most ascendant of the non-establishment candidates of late.
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Canadian interference in US politics - stay in your lane Nickleback!!
Biden is shot - would get owned in any live debates.
Bernie being unwell is a big deal as I was hoping he'd pip Warren. Would be great to see Yang still in the mix to keep things spicy.
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Andrew McCarthy laying out Deocrat strategy with the , as of today, fake impeachment show.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/464140-ignore-the-hype-this-is-not-an-impeachment-inquiry
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Great article on modern politics
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Great article-loved these parts
"Trump’s enemies are not just the left, they are the ancien regime. Anyone who supports the political and economic dispensation of the post-Cold War era is apt to feel threatened by Trump and even more menaced by what stands behind him — a growing anti-consensus, a force that declares every center of power in this country illegitimate and antithetical to the well-being of the people."
"Trump’s enemies have been in denial about this since the day he first declared for the White House — they have wrongly assumed that a healthy, old-fashioned, pro-establishment consensus must emerge out of sheer revulsion at Trump."
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So, Bernie was just released from hospital after suffering a heart attack. He may be out of the race before Hillary throws her hat into the ring.
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The Future of The Democratic Party surveys the landscape and this is what she sees:
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50 soldiers are being pulled. What can fifty American GIs do that 5000 Kurds can’t? It eludes me, almost as much as it mystifies me why Democrats care more about security along the Syrian border than they care about security along the American border.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
50 soldiers are being pulled. What can fifty American GIs do that 5000 Kurds can’t? It eludes me, almost as much as it mystifies me why Democrats care more about security along the Syrian border than they care about security along the American border.
The Turks wouldn’t attack while US soldiers were there, it’s been known for a while the US were leaving though . The Uk , Germany, France , Australia ,Canada etc don’t seem to be keen to put up their hands to put 50 of their sons in their place though . It’ll be interesting to see their reaction if they feel so strongly about the pullout.
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Trump is actually selling merchandise off the back of this Ukraine thing.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
50 soldiers are being pulled. What can fifty American GIs do that 5000 Kurds can’t?
The reaction to a partial draw down has been over the top. All options are bad (the status quo is crap, increasing involvement is worse and leaving possibly results in an escalation of violence against Kurds)
Trump didn't articulate his position very well. However Rand Paul did a good job of explaining the rationale.
I always get suspicious when the corporate press agrees with the Trump cheerleaders. One side claims that the President is an isolationist and is pulling troops out of the middle east. The Trump cheerleaders claim Trump keeping a promise to bring troops home from the middle east.
On Friday it was announced 1800 more troops were going to Saudi Arabia. Their purpose is to increase the Saudi Arabian defences.
Given that they are getting very close to a hot war with Iran, the presence of those troops increases the chances of the US getting dragged into a conflict with Iran.In the last 6 months US troop deployment to the middle east has increased by ~14000. That is not isolationism and that is not bringing the troops home.
Why does no one talk about Yemen? Early this year Congress passed a bipartisan bill that would have all but ended the US involvement in that conflict.
Trump vetoed that bill so the US could continue to support Saudi Arabia's war.
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