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09-17-2016 04:37 PM | ||||
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09-17-2016 04:08 PM | ||||
EarthGodess | Donald Trump didn't pay the girls in his rally. And has he ever fed that poor guinea pig stuck to his head? | |||
06-20-2016 05:05 PM | ||||
Dave in MPLS | Donald Trump to his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski: YOU'RE FIRED!!! | |||
06-18-2016 10:24 PM | ||||
Dave in MPLS |
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----------- Trump has had an absolutely terrible couple of weeks. A month to go to the convention. Should be fun. |
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06-15-2016 04:49 PM | ||||
Thalassa4 |
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I think you have been poorly informed. Hillary Clinton has enacted policies in Central America and the Middle East leading to destabilization and violence in those regions. I encourage you to read about Clintons foreign policy in Latin America, it will likely horrify you, as it completely contradicts claims she makes about human rights and the environment. Clinton also flip flops on issues, and tends to actually vote more right wing than she claims in campaigns. By contrast, Bernie is delightfully consistent and scandal free, after fifty years involved in both activism and political office. Whatever you don't like about Bernie, he actually has the most positive campaign of any candidate, and even what little media coverage he received in this election has been found by Harvard researchers to be just as "blacked out" as Bernie supporters claim, and yet much more positive than either Trump or Clintons campaigns. There's also proof of voter fraud in California, I'm deeply involved on a grassroots level, and I attended a county council meeting yesterday where fifty poll workers testified. It's not only as bad as some people claim, it is worse. |
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06-13-2016 04:49 PM | ||||
Joan Kennedy |
Does anyone really think Obama and his advance team were unaware of the reception they would be receiving in Saudi Arabia, whether at the airport or at the meetings or at the terse little pronouncements at the photo-op? That a President Trump might refuse to leave his plane because he was displeased with the status of his official greeter, that’s cause for alarm in my opinion. There are so many layers to this stuff, like there were when the treaty with Iran was being negotiated. Iranians who were promoting it had to make like they thought it was horrible but necessary, to sell it to the rest of their own government, because diplomacy is so two-faced between what’s on the surface and what’s really getting done. Why do people here care who greeted Obama at the airport? Of course the Arabs were upset, among other things, about the treaty with Iran. They were just as upset about it as the Israelis, but there was nothing they could do about it except try to posture in ways other parties would accept as hanging tough and sticking it to the Man. Which our people knew going into it, because that's how choreographed and orchestrated these events are. Progressives look at the footage and pronounce Obama gracious, or diplomatic, while conservatives see the same thing and say he was being obsequious. That’s just the kind of thing Trump’s people and the Republican right like to throw around. They like to say our President is too stupid to know when he’s being insulted, or when a reception is chilly, or why. Messages were delivered, assurances were exchanged, and another little outrage was smoothed over. Another little opportunity to try and paint Obama as ineffectual while reeling every time Obama manages to do an end-run around the most obstructive Congress in US history. What someone like Amani or nr32 sees as a snub, or an insult, or blatant disrespect of the global pecking order, I see as a Kabuki dance. We upset them, but not bad enough to trigger an oil embargo or another Arab-Israeli War. They stomp a foot, just not hard enough to trigger an international incident. Everything about it is read different ways depending on the orientation of the observer. |
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06-13-2016 03:52 PM | ||||
Beautiful Joe | Does this advice also hold for all of the groups of people whom Trump regularly insults? | |||
06-12-2016 08:39 PM | ||||
nr32 |
Don't be a doormat is what I'm saying. Respect yourself enough to never let people step on you. If someone insults you, be insulted. If you don't stand up for yourself, no one else will. At the very least, if you're not gonna get back on the plane, be firm and never be obsequious. |
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06-12-2016 04:57 PM | ||||
Beautiful Joe |
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06-12-2016 04:12 PM | ||||
Dave in MPLS |
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I think Trump's reaction exposes a potential downside to a Trump administration: his NOTORIOUSLY thin skin. Maybe that's why he HAS to be a counter puncher. He has to punch back hard before taking too many taps which would expose his glass jaw. Combine that with an apparently strong 'kiss my ring' impulse ... The worry is he will respond to a strategic ally throwing a temper tantrum by throwing an even bigger temper tantrum, thus blowing an important relationship in, say, the fight against da'esh (ISIS). Plus ... we don't live in feudal Japan. |
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06-12-2016 06:16 AM | ||||
silva |
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Why? Better question, why try and bring down Obama in a Trump thread? |
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06-11-2016 11:33 PM | ||||
nr32 | A low-ranking governor, not high delegation. Do you people get insulted and remain ignorant of it? Feels like trying to explain veganism to a carnivore. | |||
06-11-2016 11:29 PM | ||||
nr32 |
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A man who has a Ph.D. in Politics and an M.A. in International Relations and spends his days studying political and security developments in the Middle East from the Geneva-based Gulf Research Center most certainly has weight in his opinion -- much more than you do, unless you feel better qualified to form opinions about Saudi protocol. You are, of course, free to retract from the main argument and discuss this man's credentials all day long. Quote:
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P.S. where is this man on American Thinker? I am trying to find blog posts from him. Do link me to one of his posts, since you seem to know a lot about him. |
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06-11-2016 10:15 AM | ||||
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06-11-2016 09:59 AM | ||||
Beautiful Joe |
Here's an in-depth look at Trump's casino businesses in Atlantic City, how he bankrupted them repeatedly while pulling massive amounts out for himself, and how he drove many small businesses out of business in the process, and at the same time helped drive Atlantic City to economic collapse. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/ny...ntic-city.html Unsurprisingly, he's using the same language today about what he's going to do "for" the country. |
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06-11-2016 09:55 AM | ||||
Beautiful Joe | Are you aware that the "governor" is a member of the Saudi royal family, or are you just choosing to not mention that? | |||
06-10-2016 11:51 PM | ||||
nr32 |
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But what does he know right? /sarcasm Regardless, it shouldn't take some Senior Advisor and Program Director in Security and Terrorism Studies at the Gulf Research Center to know when you've been insulted. |
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06-10-2016 10:56 PM | ||||
Joan Kennedy | The guest blogger on American Thinker? That Mustafa Alani? I'd sooner take my talking points from Rush Limbaugh. | |||
06-10-2016 09:21 PM | ||||
LedBoots | Once Bush, Sr vomited right on the Japanese Prime Minister. Talk about a breach of protocol! | |||
06-10-2016 09:19 PM | ||||
nr32 |
Lol. I couldn't help but facepalm. Seriously. I'm laughing. Let's talk protocol, shall we? When Obama bowed to the Saudi king, some people were furious, incorrectly viewing the action as subservience. However, it was not -- it was protocol -- common courtesy given according to appropriate customs. It's expected that one gives respect where respect is due. However, it was not "protocol" to insult a POTUS with a greeting by a governor. Mustafa Alani, a security analyst at the Gulf Research Center, said that the Saudi decision not to send high-level delegation to the president was unusual and intended to send a clear message that they had little faith in him. On the flip side, a POTUS not greeting a head of state isn't intended to be an insult. It's the intentions. We have people to greet visitors -- it's how we do things. It is our custom. But the event at Riyadh wasn't "protocol." It was intended to insult. Respect should be given where respect is due. Their action was an insult and should be viewed as such. If you're not upset by that, I honestly have nothing else to say to you. |
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06-10-2016 06:49 PM | ||||
Beautiful Joe |
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06-10-2016 05:55 PM | ||||
Joan Kennedy | I'd hate to be the one who had to explain to a President Trump, over and over, why it's not the way he thought it would be. | |||
06-10-2016 05:46 PM | ||||
Beautiful Joe | It's almost worth voting for Trump, to be able to see him flying out of country after country in a huff, w/o ever leaving the airplane. | |||
06-10-2016 04:13 PM | ||||
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06-10-2016 04:03 PM | ||||
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06-10-2016 02:36 PM | ||||
Joan Kennedy |
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Trump doesn't know what he doesn't know about protocol. Protocol doesn't mandate heads of countries kissing up to heads of larger countries by riding to airports to meet their planes. It would be unseemly to expect that. Trump would probably expect that. |
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06-10-2016 02:03 PM | ||||
ocrob37 | I don't deny that it is possible for him to become president and do a great job. I just find it highly unlikely and the dude scares me. | |||
06-10-2016 09:00 AM | ||||
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06-08-2016 08:35 AM | ||||
Beautiful Joe | Considering the thread's title, you should probably start a new thread for that purpose. | |||
06-08-2016 04:13 AM | ||||
LedBoots | Shall we post opinion pieces on Hillary, as well? | |||
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