The Trump Presidency | Biden Inaugurated

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berbatrick

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Jacobin does great satire


Would love to know how many of their key figures actually come from the working class.
Bhaskar does, so does Alex Press, and both are "key figures", not sure about the rest.

Also everything in that article is fine:

We’d like to be on his side. After all, he’s working hard to take down Donald Trump, one of the worst presidents in American history. But let’s not get carried away in fandom. Schiff is a dangerous warmonger, and his efforts to fuel paranoia about Russia only serve to feed that agenda. It would be admirable if Schiff’s impeachment crusade was limited to Trump’s corruption. But something else drives him: he wants a proxy war in Ukraine with Russia, and he has for some time.

He supported the Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya wars, greater US intervention in Syria, as well as the Saudi war with Yemen (although he has, in the past year, turned against the latter adventure, seeming to draw the line at sawing up journalists with bonesaws — he is a moderate after all, plus very popular with the media), and he has voted for nearly every possible increase in the defense budget.

As Jacobin’s own Branko Marcetic observed two years ago, Schiff’s bellicosity is extensively funded by arms manufacturers and military contractors. A Ukrainian arms dealer named Igor Pasternak held a $2,500 per head fundraiser for Schiff in 2013, as the late Justin Raimondo reported in a terrific analysis on Antiwar.com in 2017, at a time when Ukraine was desperately trying to counter the Obama administration’s disinterest in funding its war with Russia. Despite that disinterest, the State Department approved some very profitable dealings for Pasternak in Ukraine after that fundraiser.

And that’s only one example. In the current cycle, donations from the war industry have continued to flood his coffers. Many come from employees of firms with extensive Department of Defense contracts, including Radiance Technologies and Raytheon. PACs representing the defense industry also make a robust showing among Schiff’s contributors, according to data on Open Secrets.org; companies funneling money to Schiff — sorry, contributing to those PACs — include Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Radiance, and others, including L3Harris Technologies (which got in big trouble with the State Department in September and had to pay $13 million in penalties for illegal arms dealing).
 

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And the Reps said the Dems opening arguments were boring?? :yawn: Is that what they're going with?
 

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Its all boring. Except for Schiff's material which is actually vaguely interesting.
At least the Dems' evidence was robust, credible and validable. Trump's defence had nothing but bluster.
 

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Can't help but think that what he said was more of a reaction to being the thin skinned Narcissist he is.
Absolutely. He said it about 10 seconds after the convo moved on to other topics, so you can bet he was annoyed by the impeachment comment.
 

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Also, Trump the stable genius not being able to understand the simple trucking issue being explained to him :lol:
 

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Lemon is terrible. A rare time where Trump is pretty much spot on.
Understandable if Lemon had chuckled, but it was a bit OTT, laughing for that long.
And Rick Wilson has become one of the many darlings of the #resistance
 

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Understandable if Lemon had chuckled, but it was a bit OTT, laughing for that long.
And Rick Wilson has become one of the many darlings of the #resistance
No doubt Trump will also fundraise off of this using the “ This is what they think about you” narrative.
 

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Apparently Trump is proposing a State for Palestine. It would be incredible if Trump was able to make that work.
Trump wants to hand Israel everything they’ve ever wanted and leave Palestine with shit. If he tries to force it through it’s just going to cause another uprising.
 

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Apparently Trump is proposing a State for Palestine. It would be incredible if Trump was able to make that work.
Well it would have been nice if the Palestinians were actually involved?? It's not going to fly with Palestine and it's not going to fly with Jordan. We also need to see the revised map.

When an indicted PM and an impeached President hatchet a plan together, you know it isn't going to be any good.
 

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Apparently Trump is proposing a State for Palestine. It would be incredible if Trump was able to make that work.
The short summary I read about the proposal makes it look more like an Israeli wish list rather than a possible solution.
 

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When an indicted PM and an impeached President hatchet a plan together, you know it isn't going to be any good.
Yeah, publicity stunt to please their clientele certainly plays a major part in this.
 

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I always assumed that as well, but I also assume that there is no way Israel would ever accept a Palestine state, even if it is shit land.
They won't. This 'deal' is only supposed to be the basis of negotiations. If, in the unlikely event the palestinians agree to negotiate, it looks like they might be close to accepting Israeli demands they will just add something so that it becomes impossible to accept, like Abbas has to kiss the Israeli flag live on TV every morning or something.
 
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