Is there an unlike button. Damn.
Is leaving protest statues littering?
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This is part of MAGA.
Make America Gag Always
More red meat for the baseā¦
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I canāt decide whether I think heās using the hurricane as ācoverā for doing this. What do you think?
Then thereās this:
Iāve read speculation that pardoning Arpaio is Trumpās way of placating his base for Gorka being moved out.
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The question used to be: is it good for America?
No more.
Now the only question is: does it aggravate the Left?
We live in deeply embarrassing times.
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Oh, no question. On a Friday night, right when a massive hurricane is about to land? Heās hoping this wonāt be getting air time on Monday.
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Incidentally, there is a massive scandal brewing in Hungary - the allegations are slowly coming out drip by drip but currently in very vague termsā¦
It seems that in the 1990s a bunch of right wing military officers with the tacit approval of higher ups delivered a large batch of army surplus AK-47 to a neo-Nazi group.
Now, two decades later it was allegedly discovered that some of these AK-47s delivered to the neo-Nazis ended up in the hands of radical islamists,
And try to guess who was the alleged go between between the army officers and the neo-Nazisā¦
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Gorka circa 2017 is reprehensible enough, but his history (as revealed here by you) of anti-Semitism, white supremacy et al, and now this, is absurdly unacceptable for someone serving in the WH. Why do we not hear more about this sort of thing in the MSM? The only intimation of this sort Iāve heard concerns that blasted pin he wears.
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Well, I can think of several reasons for this - the language barrier, the fact that investigative journalism costs time a money, and the general tendency of MSM to dampen down information coming from other countries due to perceived cultural differences and fear of supposed slights.
For example, there are only a few English language media outlets willing to dive head first into the cesspit of Hungarian far-right politics and you need to find the right person to talk to about Gorkaās outrageous pronouncements made in late 90s and early 2000s.
Several media outlets such as Forward, Politico and even NYT did send reporters to Hungary but from Iāve read they simply didnāt take at face value what their Hungarian interlocutors said and refrained from digging deeper into Gorkaās past. When they heard āGorka is a Naziā they supposed itās simply an emotional qualifier decoupled from actual meaning like āDonald Trump is a Naziā which clearly isnāt the case.
They simply couldnāt comprehend that the qualifier āheās a Naziā often thrown in US political discourse meant an actual Nazi.
If your best buddy is burning an Israeli flag in front of a crowd of black clad fascist storm troopersā¦well, chances are youāre a Nazi as well.
Hereās a more detailed expose about Gorka and his links with the Iranian regimeās neo-Nazi stooges.
Also, Gorka wasnāt exactly harmless. From the fourth installment of the series, it seemed that Gorkaās buddies had an unprecedented level of White House access:
According to the article, Ms. SzemerkĆ©nyi had already met the new US president three times (!) since his election victory past November. In addition to meeting President Trump, Ms. SzemerkĆ©nyi has, by her own description, met āhalfā the US government; she has had three meetings with new Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and has talked with Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State nominee Wilbur Ross, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson as well.
Three meetings with Attorney General Jeff Sessions?
EDIT: Wow. An undisclosed source from the Hungarian government just said they have been contacted by Muellerās team asking for information about some of Gorkaās business buddies who are on Putinās payroll.
EDIT 2: Hereās a poster for a rabidly anti-American and anti-semitic conference held in 2003. Gorkaās listed as a keynote speaker (Gorka Sebestyen) alongside the flag burning guy from the video above. Just when did Gorka have a change of heart and became a believer in MAGA?
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Please excuse the WaPo source, buuuuuuuut
Part of me is really happy that Mattis is still willing to be the grown up in the room, and then the other part is terrified that Trump clearly didnāt consult with Mattis AT ALL when it comes to banning a subset of people from serving in the military.
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From my read, Mattis isnāt really going against Trump here; heās actually following his directive:
The memorandum gave Mattis until Feb. 1 to present a plan to Trump on how to implement the transgender ban, and what to do with transgender service members already serving. Those marked some of the first details the White House provided on how to carry out Trumpās decision, which initially took many Pentagon officials by surprise when the president announced it on Twitter on July 26.
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I give a lot of credit to āThe Generalsā (Mattis, Kelly and McMaster). I strongly suspect that, at this juncture, none of them want to be associated with the Trump administration, and would love to walk away. I think all three are remaining at their posts out of love of country, and concern for what might happen if they left.
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I think itās āagainstā Trump in the sense that he froze the ban while they investigate instead of just HerpDerp banning people that are willing to die for this country a la Trump.
Agreed. Wonder what will happen when the last remaining adults inevitably leave the room.
I want to read it that way too, but I just donāt think itās the middle-finger to Trump that a lot of headlines are making it out to be.
Fully agree that the Generals are the only āadults in the roomā of this administration and may literally save us from nuclear war.
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Imo any deviation from Trumpās plans, however slight, are huge middle fingers to him. Mostly because thatās how he takes/bitches about it.
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Man oh man, are the Trump people getting desperate! They see the obstruction-of-justice freight train barreling toward Trump, and are doing anything they can to try and derail it.
Gonna be an uphill climb to discredit Comey as a witness, though. (Pardon my mixing of metaphors.)
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Newsweek is not exactly pro Trump, so are you disagreeing with executive level Justice personsā comments that Comeyās actions appear out of line? I just donāt foÄŗlow your comment (if meant to follow that article).