The NYT were pretty bad circa Iraq War, first cheerleading the war and then “enhanced interrogation” apologia and so on, and it was probably more consequential back then. It mostly just feels dumber, they’re publishing so much inane bullshit at the moment. Headlines as well as actual articles.
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Sondland’s prepared remarks were summarized this morning on MSNBC.
Doesn’t sound like he’s protecting anyone but himself.
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https://twitter.com/PoliticsReid/status/1184819357525909505?s=19
https://twitter.com/PoliticsReid/status/1184819600963395584?s=19
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This dipshit talks and expresses himself just like his dipshit father. I seriously hope that the entire family ends up in jail or unable to speak publically once we get rid of Trump. I can’t bear the thought of a younger version of Donald being in any way relevant after 2020.
Pence looks like he’s constipated, Erdogan looks like the stone cold killer he is.
What a cuck.
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Yeah that’s definitely a dude who gives zero fucks about slaughtering thousands.
Compared to when? They made excuses and false equivalencies for Nixon in their general reporting at the time.
The press is awful and it always has been because there main reason for being is not truth but selling newspapers. Hearst said in 1897 - Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war. - He didn’t do it because he was on some noble patriotic quest and he wasn’t alone in being a newspaper man who weighed the bottom line far above the truth
FYP
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Why are you giving this fucktard the benefit of the doubt? Nothing in the US is thousands of years old that isn’t true of every place in the world, so at best his blathering is just more meaningless bullshit from the leader of the free world…
“Yes, our relationship is based on the fact humans have had eyes for thousands of years and we like the way we look…”
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No. The parenthetical is for himself.
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Speak of the devil…
And he appears!
Meh, I’ve always thought making a big deal out of these types of optics, like size/number/positioning of flags or how a handshake is given is stupid. Does not placing a US flag behind pence all of a sudden mean our military or nuclear arsenal vanish? No.
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Also the framers were literally terrified of someone exactly like Trump. It’s why they created impeachment. He checks all the boxes, demagogue, populist, wildly incompetent, and last but definitely nowhere near least foreign influenced. Impeachment was created for Trump from the perspective of the framers. To say otherwise is to out yourself as being super intellectually dishonest… But we already knew that about John Yoo so that’s hardly a shock.
I don’t think you get to talk about what the framers would have wanted after being the lawyer who tried to make torture legal lol.
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Being a scotsman I have no desire to watch the pompous shows of national leaders but that’s what Trump and Co Live for and they got cucked.
I mean of course not. And is why we the rest of the world are scared tbh about you’re Pres. Becase he’s Ka Ka crazy.
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The Daily Beast published Sondland’s full statement.
Gordon Sondland, the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, will tell Congress that he was told by President Trump that he had to help his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani with his plan on Ukraine.
In his opening statement, which was obtained by The Daily Beast, Sondland will say: “I did not understand, until much later, that Mr. Giuliani’s agenda might have also included an effort to prompt the Ukrainians to investigate Vice President Biden or his son or to involve Ukrainians, directly or indirectly, in the President’s 2020 reelection campaign.”
“Please know that I would not have recommended that Mr. Giuliani or any private citizen be involved in these foreign policy matters. However, given the President’s explicit direction, as well as the importance we attached to arranging a White House meeting between Presidents Trump and Zelensky, we agreed to do as President Trump directed,” Sondland wrote.
“Based on the President’s direction, we were faced with a choice: We could abandon the goal of a White House meeting for President Zelensky, which we all believed was crucial to strengthening U.S.-Ukrainian ties and furthering long-held U.S. foreign policy goals in the region; or we could do as President Trump directed and talk to Mr. Giuliani to address the President’s concerns.”
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At last one of the complete shits is being a complete shit to the completly shit President
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