Maybe for the fourth of July, Trump will lay a wreath commemorating the soldiers executed for the bounties no one told him about.
Or maybe he’ll celebrate another thousand or two deaths on the battlefield of the Coronavirus where he’s doing such a beautiful, incredibly perfect job.
Our Founders would wonder why Americans have forgotten that they created the governement and that the government was designed to protect their rights, not trample them.
Celebrate our nation by remembering to honor and live our founding principles. Embrace your natural rights to liberty, property, a limited government and equal justice with rule of law. Reject the socialists and violent radicals that seek to oppress you and place you under their statist tyranny. This is the best way to to honor the greatest nation in the history of mankind.
The first coronavirus spike, in late April, can be blamed on President Donald Trump’s negligence. The second spike, in June, is his own doing. This is Trump’s plague now.
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But Trump’s elevation of the needs of his own ego over the well-being of even his strongest supporters is profoundly implicated in the virus’s powerful June comeback.
“You’re going to call your own shots,” Trump told the governors on the call. “You’re going to be calling the shots.
We’ll be standing right alongside of you, and we’re going to get our country open and get it working. People want to get working.”
✁
In mid-April, protesters—many of them openly brandishing weapons—assembled at the capitols of Democratic-governed states to demand immediate reopening.
Trump tweeted his support. “LIBERATE MINNESOTA!” “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” “LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!”
From mid- to late April, the trajectory of infections in states such as Georgia, Florida, and Texas was relatively flat, not down.
Despite that, Trump cheered for governors to reopen fast and faster.
✁
At first, Fox News hosts and guests had dismissed COVID-19 as a Democratic plot against the Trump economy.
Just one example of many: On March 9, Sean Hannity said, “They’re scaring the living hell out of people.
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Then, in mid-March, the network abruptly switched its editorial line.
Hosts not only voiced concern, but adamantly denied that they had ever done otherwise.
“This program has always taken the coronavirus seriously, and we’ve never called the virus a hoax,” Hannity said on March 18.
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The disease is spiking in places precisely where state governments hastened to reopen bars, casinos, restaurants, shopping malls, and other indoor places of entertainment.
Top officials in the White House were aware in early 2019 (Not early 2020) of classified intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans, a full year earlier than has been previously reported, according to U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the intelligence.
The assessment was included in at least one of President Donald Trump’s written daily intelligence briefings at the time, according to the officials.
Then-national security adviser John Bolton also told colleagues he briefed Trump on the intelligence assessment in March 2019.
The White House did not respond to questions about Trump or other officials’ awareness of Russia’s provocations in 2019.
The White House has said Trump was not — and still has not been — briefed on the intelligence assessments because they have not been fully verified.
However, it is rare for intelligence to be confirmed without a shadow of a doubt before it is presented to top officials.
While Moscow’s motives for offering alleged bounties were not immediately clear…
…officials said they might include retaliation for the U.S. military’s 2018 killing of Russian mercenary troops working for Yevgeniy Prigozhin, an oligarch with links to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Syria, or simply, as one official put it, an attempt to “muddy the negotiations on Afghanistan by throwing a stick in that.”
During the Soviet war in Afghanistan, which ended in 1989, the U.S. government provided weaponry and funds to Afghan mujahideen rebels fighting against Soviet forces.
The unit that officials identified as responsible for offering the bounties has also been linked to the poisoning and attempted murder of former Russian military spy Sergei Skripal in Britain in 2018.
While that attack — along with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its role in the war in Syria — has generated strong criticism in Europe and from many of Trump’s most senior advisers…
…the president himself has frequently appeared to have a chummy relationship with Putin, downplaying the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election and other Russian transgressions.
The United States has imposed sanctions on Russia over various issues, including Moscow’s annexation of Crimea, cyberattacks, and election interference.
Military officials this month spoke out in unusually harsh terms over what they said was Russia’s decision to move fourth-generation fighter jets into Libya, adding to a spiraling proxy conflict there.
News of the cloaked operation comes as speculation mounts about the future of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
While the Pentagon has completed its initial drawdown to about 8,600 servicemembers, (Feb. 2020 peace deal)
✁…officials describe the exit plans as “conditions-based” and say those terms have not yet been met.
Founders knew human nature pretty well. The partisan enmity in their day may have been just as bad. Aside from the heights of war, it may have always been just as bad. The difference is Fox, and Facebook. Amplify anger for fun and profit…
The Founding Fathers would be too impressed by my cool cell phone to have much of an opinion on anything else. Wait, Ben! Let me show you this little thing that lets me play it like a keyboard!
Once again our forefathers would call for an armed revolution to free our country from tyranny. And term limits for ALL members of Congress. Our forefathers never intended for politics to become a life long career. I will get off my soap box now. Nuff said.
Cheapskate0 over 4 years ago
As loud and sleepless as it has been since early June, most folks will be glad when the Fourth is finally over.
Maybe some of us will get some sleep once again.
braindead Premium Member over 4 years ago
Maybe for the fourth of July, Trump will lay a wreath commemorating the soldiers executed for the bounties no one told him about.
Or maybe he’ll celebrate another thousand or two deaths on the battlefield of the Coronavirus where he’s doing such a beautiful, incredibly perfect job.
Maybe he’ll have the Putins over for a barbeque.
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#TraitorTrump
Brain Pudding over 4 years ago
Our Founders would wonder why Americans have forgotten that they created the governement and that the government was designed to protect their rights, not trample them.
Celebrate our nation by remembering to honor and live our founding principles. Embrace your natural rights to liberty, property, a limited government and equal justice with rule of law. Reject the socialists and violent radicals that seek to oppress you and place you under their statist tyranny. This is the best way to to honor the greatest nation in the history of mankind.
Silly Season over 4 years ago
The first coronavirus spike, in late April, can be blamed on President Donald Trump’s negligence. The second spike, in June, is his own doing. This is Trump’s plague now.
✁
But Trump’s elevation of the needs of his own ego over the well-being of even his strongest supporters is profoundly implicated in the virus’s powerful June comeback.
“You’re going to call your own shots,” Trump told the governors on the call. “You’re going to be calling the shots.
We’ll be standing right alongside of you, and we’re going to get our country open and get it working. People want to get working.”
✁
In mid-April, protesters—many of them openly brandishing weapons—assembled at the capitols of Democratic-governed states to demand immediate reopening.
Trump tweeted his support. “LIBERATE MINNESOTA!” “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” “LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!”
From mid- to late April, the trajectory of infections in states such as Georgia, Florida, and Texas was relatively flat, not down.
Despite that, Trump cheered for governors to reopen fast and faster.
✁
At first, Fox News hosts and guests had dismissed COVID-19 as a Democratic plot against the Trump economy.
Just one example of many: On March 9, Sean Hannity said, “They’re scaring the living hell out of people.
✁
Then, in mid-March, the network abruptly switched its editorial line.
Hosts not only voiced concern, but adamantly denied that they had ever done otherwise.
“This program has always taken the coronavirus seriously, and we’ve never called the virus a hoax,” Hannity said on March 18.
✁
The disease is spiking in places precisely where state governments hastened to reopen bars, casinos, restaurants, shopping malls, and other indoor places of entertainment.
~
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/this-is-trumps-plague-now/613633/
Silly Season over 4 years ago
(Repost)
Top officials in the White House were aware in early 2019 (Not early 2020) of classified intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans, a full year earlier than has been previously reported, according to U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the intelligence.
The assessment was included in at least one of President Donald Trump’s written daily intelligence briefings at the time, according to the officials.
Then-national security adviser John Bolton also told colleagues he briefed Trump on the intelligence assessment in March 2019.
The White House did not respond to questions about Trump or other officials’ awareness of Russia’s provocations in 2019.
The White House has said Trump was not — and still has not been — briefed on the intelligence assessments because they have not been fully verified.
However, it is rare for intelligence to be confirmed without a shadow of a doubt before it is presented to top officials.
https://apnews.com/425e43fa0ffdd6e126c5171653ec47d1
Silly Season over 4 years ago
While Moscow’s motives for offering alleged bounties were not immediately clear…
…officials said they might include retaliation for the U.S. military’s 2018 killing of Russian mercenary troops working for Yevgeniy Prigozhin, an oligarch with links to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Syria, or simply, as one official put it, an attempt to “muddy the negotiations on Afghanistan by throwing a stick in that.”
During the Soviet war in Afghanistan, which ended in 1989, the U.S. government provided weaponry and funds to Afghan mujahideen rebels fighting against Soviet forces.
The unit that officials identified as responsible for offering the bounties has also been linked to the poisoning and attempted murder of former Russian military spy Sergei Skripal in Britain in 2018.
While that attack — along with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its role in the war in Syria — has generated strong criticism in Europe and from many of Trump’s most senior advisers…
…the president himself has frequently appeared to have a chummy relationship with Putin, downplaying the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election and other Russian transgressions.
The United States has imposed sanctions on Russia over various issues, including Moscow’s annexation of Crimea, cyberattacks, and election interference.
Military officials this month spoke out in unusually harsh terms over what they said was Russia’s decision to move fourth-generation fighter jets into Libya, adding to a spiraling proxy conflict there.
News of the cloaked operation comes as speculation mounts about the future of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
While the Pentagon has completed its initial drawdown to about 8,600 servicemembers, (Feb. 2020 peace deal)
✁…officials describe the exit plans as “conditions-based” and say those terms have not yet been met.
~
https://www.stripes.com/russian-operation-targeted-coalition-troops-in-afghanistan-intelligence-finds-1.635435
William Robbins Premium Member over 4 years ago
Founders knew human nature pretty well. The partisan enmity in their day may have been just as bad. Aside from the heights of war, it may have always been just as bad. The difference is Fox, and Facebook. Amplify anger for fun and profit…
rossevrymn over 4 years ago
Lame
Kip W over 4 years ago
The Founding Fathers would be too impressed by my cool cell phone to have much of an opinion on anything else. Wait, Ben! Let me show you this little thing that lets me play it like a keyboard!
RonnieAThompson Premium Member over 4 years ago
Once again our forefathers would call for an armed revolution to free our country from tyranny. And term limits for ALL members of Congress. Our forefathers never intended for politics to become a life long career. I will get off my soap box now. Nuff said.
gammaguy over 4 years ago
“Lost our ‘collective’ minds”, eh?
So, it’s a victory against Communism?
patrickschreiber1951 over 4 years ago
Founding fathers? Oh, you mean all of the white, male, slave owners.
ndblackirish97 over 4 years ago
Think they would say “what, women and minorities are equal, and we can own heavy weapons for sport?”