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Bill Emerson's avatar

So the wind-up toy acting as the WH spokesperson says “we have not seen any credible threats” of a rise in anti-Semitism. This, along with the other new go-to phrase “We have no direct evidence of….”, are the latest Newspeak version of “we really don’t care what you think.” Eisenhower, then commander of Allied Forces in Europe directed the filming of the Death Camps because, as he said, “Some son-of-a-bitch in the future will deny this happened.” Seems he was right. These are the same folks who use anodyne terms like “freedom-fighters” to describe the latest atrocity. It’s time we used a more accurate term: Nazis. The goals and tactics are identical.

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Lynne Morris's avatar

I agree except with your use of Nazi to describe the terrorists. Let's just say terrorists each and every time we reference them. That's what they are - people who engage in vicious acts of brutality and barbarians to terrorize a populace for a political advantage.

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QX's avatar

Well, in all fairness, she could've just boooed and repeatedly yelled, "Shut up!", and shook her head, which was what the GOP Conferenced did when a reporter asked their new Speaker nominee about his leading the amicus brief to overturn the 2020 election.

I loathe Jean-Pierre with a passion, but I'm giving up on them lot of politicians. They've lost all sense of professionalism and I expect it to continue to deteriorate.

For the record, my comment is not about the election itself. But I think the reporter's question was valid, and I was immediately turned off by that new nominee (whatever no-name they're pulling from the bottom of the barrel now) smirking and not answering the question like a professional grown up should, and the clowns around him dismissing a legitimate question. This is what we citizens and taxpayers are getting now. Changing the topic to evade the questions, or just out right refuse to answer and use the mob to shout down reporters and anyone asking questions they don't want to answer.

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dan brandt's avatar

To dwell in the past is to never forward. would she ask the same questions of HRC and Abrams and all the other congressional Democrats who contested elections? The majority of Americans who decide elections, Independents, don't care any more. The system worked, If one can not accept that, one can not accept the type of country they live in. Maybe they should push for an answer to the overturning of this country by all the illegals, and terrorist, coming in across the southern border.

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QX's avatar

So say that. A serious leader could've said what you said, whether one agrees or disagrees. Did you see the clip? The bunch of them acted like village idiots. They were an absolute embarrassment. They were in the Congress, not the beer hall.

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dan brandt's avatar

They all act like village idiots as they mirror the electorate. I don't watch JKP any more. The lies, the deceptions and the sidestepping by the most transparent administration ever is nauseating. They only time Trump haters need to worry about Trump is in the general election if he is the Republican nominee. For those who pay attention, every time the the left attacks him in any form, his numbers go up. The left created him, the left keeps him alive and in the fore front of the media, the left can not exist without him. The left will hopefully pay a devastating price for being so hateful and ignorant of the consequences of that hate. As for those who count, we've moved on. MAT 6:34, "So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

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QX's avatar

I really don't know where we're disagreeing in your latest comment. I'm just sick of the shirking of responsibilities, the refusal to answer to the people, and terrible behaviors and all these apply to both sides. Soon we're gonna to KJP copy the Congressional Republicans and flat out tell the reporters to shut up. Yeah let them all race to the bottom. It's all a shit show anyway.

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dan brandt's avatar

Put that way we seem to be more in agreement than not:)

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Celia M Paddock's avatar

I have to wonder what experiences Eisenhower had in his past that helped him to peg that truth so quickly and clearly.

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Harry Potter's avatar

He could see what was building within the military after WWII. He could see that many major US corporations had joined the effort and made the weaponry that won the war. But now saw what a lucrative business it was. Those are the people who wanted to pick a fight w Cuba and then escalate the war in Vietnam that was JFK’s undoing.

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Lynne Morris's avatar

I think that was the old school manner of thought. The creation of the predecessor to the CIA was very carefully considered and tightly controlled for fear it would be used against American citizens. What it has morphed into is stunning.

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Chilblain Edward Olmos's avatar

A well read copy of Major General Smedley Butler’s “War Is A Racket”?

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Bill Emerson's avatar

An apt student of human behavior, I expect. Our soldiers get a close up look at the potential depravity of the human species.

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Casey Jones's avatar

WWII up-close-and-personal, maybe? A Meaningful Emotional Experience, by any definition.

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Celia M Paddock's avatar

It usually takes a very painful personal experience to realize that some people are, irrationally and inexplicably, capable of denying something that happened right in front of them.

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Casey Jones's avatar

??? The response concerned General Eisenhower vis a vis the military industrial complex. Generals do logistics more so than strategy and/or tactics. I don't think that he required the ol' 2x4 between the running lights to see the antics of Big Business and the evolving revolving door.

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Celia M Paddock's avatar

I was referring to Eisenhower's decision to film the reality of the concentration camps: “Some son-of-a-bitch in the future will deny this happened.”

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Harry Potter's avatar

He was right a few times. Also famously wrote two letters for the day after the D Day invasion. The second was in case the invasion failed.

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ordinary woman's avatar

Excellent points. My one disagreement is the left and Dems have been calling anyone they disagree with Nazis for so long now that the description has lost its bite. We need a new term. (unfortunately)

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Harry Potter's avatar

Eisenhower also famously warned us all of the military industrial complex. Wise man. Damn I’d give anything for leaders like that.

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Bill Emerson's avatar

We have an election coming up in a year. Unfortunately a lot of damage can happen in a year.

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Lynne Morris's avatar

My dream.candidate is actually Pompeo.

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