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This is so on the money.
Thomas Friedman doesn't scare easily.
The New York Times op-ed columnist is best known for his sober columns about foreign policy and technology.
That's why his Monday column stood out. "Our democracy is in serious danger," he wrote in the opening line. "President Trump is either totally compromised by the Russians or is a towering fool, or both, but either way he has shown himself unwilling or unable to defend America against a Russian campaign to divide and undermine our democracy."
http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/20/media/thomas-friedman-new-york-times-col...
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: ImusDeadCo
But he's a good business man.
But he's a good business man.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ausonius
Except of course that it is
Except of course that it is people like Friedman who are falling right into the Russians hands by continuing to peddle the fantasy that Trump colluded with them in any way, while ignoring the obvious evidence that the DNC and the Hillary campaign did collude with the Russians to effect the election via the Steele dossier.
And isn't it interesting Mr. Friedman isn't worried about the threat to democracy that is posed by the Obama administration using the investigative powers of our intelligence agencies to spy on a political opponent?
Thomas Friedman is full of shit and always has been.
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>>>to peddle the fantasy that
>>>to peddle the fantasy that Trump colluded with them in any way
Your are delirious and in deep denial.
Trump's best Plea is insanity. He has a real good case as does anyone one who voted for this sick man.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Def. High
>>>>>to effect the election
>>>>>to effect the election
It's affect.
>>>>>the threat to democracy that is posed by the Obama administration
Lol.
Thom Van Winkle.
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: ImusDeadCo
>>>...the obvious evidence
>>>...the obvious evidence that the DNC and the Hillary campaign did collude with the Russians to effect the election via the Steele dossier.
Collusion means it takes two to tango. So why does Trump attack only the DNC and Hillary and give the Russians a free pass?
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Thom's really guzzling the
Thom's really guzzling the Kool-Ade.
Poor Thom.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Bob
Thom you are either
Thom you are either delusional or a fucking moron. Take your pick. It must be tough going through life like that. I’ll say a prayer for you.
And you need not bother to respond.
First, I really don’t give a shit what you will say and second, my time is too valuable to waste on your drivel and you’re one of the reasons I don’t come around here much anymore. But knock yourself out. Crazy people like you can’t help themselves.
Been wanting to say that for a long time.
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Thom verses decorative folded
Thom verses decorative folded Kleenex...
Thom.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Across
it's like he can't even help
it's like he can't even help it anymore, poor guy.
feel better soon, sweatervested one.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ausonius
The ‘Trump is a despot’ crew
The ‘Trump is a despot’ crew is the real threat to democracy
Trump isn’t a despot. Far from being an autocrat, he’s a weak president susceptible to the views of the last person he’s talked to and so deferential to Congress that he spent all of last year pining for a signing ceremony for literally anything lawmakers could send him on health care or taxes.
At its worst, the Trump White House isn’t sinister; it’s farcical. It’s not Recep Tayyip Erdogan carefully and deliberately creating a one-party state; it’s Trump getting miscued by a TV show into a tweet undermining his administration’s own position on the reauthorization of a surveillance program.
The Trump alarmists thought that a brittle democratic culture and set of institutions were about to encounter a man representing a dire, determined threat to their integrity; instead, a robust democratic culture and set of institutions encountered the guy sitting down at the end of the bar yelling at the TV.
Anyone appalled by the attacks of Trump allies on Mueller should acquaint themselves with what James Carville and Paul Begala said about Kenneth Starr.
The irony is that those who believe Trump is a budding despot are themselves violating important norms. It’s hard to imagine Trump doing anything as remotely undemocratic as the Electoral College coup some heretofore serious people on the left advocated after his 2016 victory.
https://nypost.com/2018/01/18/the-trump-is-a-despot-crew-is-the-real-thr...
The progressive left is a greater threat to democracy than Donald Trump will ever be. And you don't have to be a fan of Trump to think so. Just a fan of the Constitution.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: nebulous nelly
You just can't stop defending
You just can't stop defending these bags of shit, eh, Thom?
I guess that Bags of shit stick together
Thom, how many indictments and guilty pleas have come from the mueller investigation?
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It's sad because there are
It's sad because there are intelligent people that actually believe that all the evidence exposing treason is not overwhelming.
Thom, You don't have that problem.
Imagine being at the water cooler today and trying to articulate your support for Trump.
Try that this morning.
Cut and paste your way in trying to seem intelligent, while the politicians you support have blood on there hands.
PS- There is a very very good chance that Trump himself will serve time in jail for: Treason, Money Laundering, Obstruction of Justice and Dereliction of Duty
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: ogkb
thom says he didn't vote for
thom says he didn't vote for trump, yet he defends anything and everything trump.
so which is it? thom your kids must be totally fucked in their heads to have a father like yourself.
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pyramidheat,
pyramidheat,
Lay off the guy's kids. It's classless.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: ogkb
ender, stfu.
ender, stfu.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Imagine
Ender's right, heat. Lay off
Ender's right, heat. Lay off the kids.
Thom is also right - correct, that is - when he says that Friedman is full of shit. He supported the Iraq wars, etc. Looney.
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NY Post is a Rupert Murdoch
NY Post is a Rupert Murdoch shit rag for the stupid.
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thom deserves class? lol.
thom deserves respect? lol. that's rich.
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lol ny post. trash reading
lol ny post. trash reading trash.
this is gold:
The progressive left is a greater threat to democracy than Donald Trump will ever be. And you don't have to be a fan of Trump to think so. Just a fan of the Constitution.
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Pretty sure Trump has never
Pretty sure Trump has never read it.
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Thom quoting the New York
Thom quoting the New York post opinion section...what Fox News didn’t have a link...a crook is a crook bud and Donald Trump is a Big-time crook...follow the money...maybe someday u will admit your orange messiah is a shitbag w no sense of empathy or moral compass..it’s all about the Donald...even after 17 dead people he still tweets about himself...
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He's just another entitled
He's just another entitled mommy's boy who adopted his parents politics. DEATH TAX!!!! or is all your money in cyprus?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: KK
The New York Post is very
The New York Post is very entertaining. Great toilet bowl reading. But it does have a great sports section! Believe me.But this in itself has no bearing on the Friedman of the above article. He is astute and very articulate.
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Just to make your day even
Just to make your day even worse......
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.
This is the president’s highest job approval rating since mid-June of last year. President Obama earned 45% approval on this date in the second year of his presidency.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administra...
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: KK
In it, National Security
In it, National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster calls Trump a “dope.” Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus both refer to him as an “idiot.” Rupert Murdoch says Trump is a “f—king idiot.”
Trump’s chief economic adviser Gary Cohn describes Trump as “dumb as sh-t,” explaining that “Trump won’t read anything — not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.”
When one of Trump’s campaign aides tried to educate him about the Constitution, Trump couldn’t focus. “I got as far as the Fourth Amendment,” the aide recalled, “before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head.”
Trump doesn’t think he’s stupid, of course. As he recounted, “I went to an Ivy League college … I did very well. I’m a very intelligent person.”
Yet Trump wasn’t exactly an academic star. One of his professors at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and Finance purportedly said that he was “the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.”
Trump biographer Gwenda Blair wrote in 2001 that Trump was admitted to Wharton on a special favor from a “friendly” admissions officer who had known Trump’s older brother.
But hold on. It would be dangerous to underestimate this man.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/seriously-how-dumb-is-trump_us_5a52...
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i feel pretty bad for thom.
i feel pretty bad for thom. must be exhausting having to defend the biggest NYC shitbag to come down the turnpike.
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10 Qualities of a Great
10 Qualities of a Great President. Actions speak louder than words and tRump is proving he is even better than Abraham Lincoln.
1. A love of our country .....Country comes after me, myself and I because i am what counts.
2. Vision of the future .....(He has no vision that includes minorities, woman, immigrants, and those living in Carribean islands.)
3. Accountability .......( Its all there fault. Obama, Hillary, The FBI, The Media, The dems,....and by the way thats not my voice on that tape and all the women are lying.
4. Respect.....Grab them by the pu_sy
5. Cohesiveness.....The great divider in chief
6. Courage.....Draft dodger
7. Honesty......Liar in chief.....I am like very smart. I am not a dotard.
8. Compassion.....Shooting rolls of paper towels like they were basketballs to peoples whose homes are under water.
9. Great communicator......Tweet tweet. Fake news.
10. Being a servant of the people......Tax cuts to the wealthy and elimination of federal food programs to the poorest.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: good at drinking water
http://news.gallup.com
http://news.gallup.com/interactives/185273/presidential-job-approval-cen...?
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE/
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: El Nino
There is only one question I
There is only one question I want to know and it is the question that should be asked over and over again.
Why hasn't Trump enacted the Russian Sanctions that were overwhelmingly passed by Congress?
Just because a traitor enacts policies you like and pisses off liberals doesn't make him any less of a traitor.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Lucky Day
>>>>>>falling right into the
>>>>>>falling right into the Russians hands by continuing to peddle the fantasy that Trump colluded with them in any way
Uh Thom. Gates is going to plead guilty to lying to the FBI and conspiracy against the United States. But I'm sure it was just some low level staffer conspiracy stuff.
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yeah totally fake news.
yeah totally fake news.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Bucky Badger
Thom and friends
Thom and friends
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The Thom Brigade ignore the
The Thom Brigade ignore the whole point of the article. Russia fucked with the election. The job of president is to take leadership to prevent it in the future. Asshat's ego is so sensitive over the fact that people may think it helped him get elected that he is abdicating his role to protect our democracy. Putting himself above country. What is nuts is that nothing would day "No collusion" more than saying "but we are taking many many tremendous steps to prevent Russian and anyone else from future meddling", and actually proposing something. But he's too egocentric and fragile to even acknowledge that we need to bolster our security in this area and study the fuck out of this issue, and not just in regard to Russia--or else he's afraid of something. Friedman makes the point that either way it sucks for America.
Forget about collusion, people get indicted for fucking with our presidential election, the president isn't supposed to just ignore it.
For the record, I don't think they will find evidence of collusion. If anything, "duped" "pawns" "unwitting" and the like. So stop acting like you did collude and try to act like a president for a minute you big baby.
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Rick Gates to plead guilty
Rick Gates to plead guilty today. What say you Thom? Do you think he's a cooperating witness?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: good at drinking water
Guilty Plea here, to two
Guilty Plea here, to two felonies. Note the date on the header. wonder what that means?
I'm unsure this is the plea deal.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4386205/Gates-Information-20180223.pdf
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>>>Anyone appalled by the
>>>Anyone appalled by the attacks of Trump allies on Mueller should acquaint themselves with what James Carville and Paul Begala said about Kenneth Starr
Are you so stupid?? NO ONE has attacked the Russian investigation more than Trump himself. His aides (people like Carville, Begala) have every right to go on these news shows and plead their case FOR THE PRESIDENT because he should be too damn busy BEING PRESIDENT to attack the media and the investigation on literally a daily basis as he does. For a man who claims to be innocent he is the guiltiest acting person I have ever seen. If he IGNORED the whole thing and acted like a REAL FUCKING PRESIDENT it would probably be over. Now they are combing over all of his idiotic fucking tweets and comments.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Thumbkinetic
Thom's gone full fucktard.
Thom's gone full fucktard.
Poor Thom.
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worst president ever
worst president ever
you can look it up
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New superseding indictment
New superseding indictment against paul manafort: https://www.justice.gov/file/1038741/download
Trump exonerated again!