tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post8794963688436530025..comments2024-03-27T18:00:02.032-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Trump Is Perfectly Normal (*Updated)Karen Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-29997192580080853382018-07-17T00:12:09.091-04:002018-07-17T00:12:09.091-04:00Bravo to the Greens for making a fuss in Helsinki....Bravo to the Greens for making a fuss in Helsinki. Global warming belongs on the front page above the fold everyday. Its effect will be as profound as the Fifth Mass Extinction triggered by a meteor hit that wiped out dinosaurs expeditiously and 75% of just about everything else of size then living on the planet. <br /><br />Our very own Sixth Extinction will unwind––has begun unwinding––at a more leisurely pace. Be thankful you're not young. Not long after you're gone, all the globe's coastal cities will be inundated, and the deserts of the interior will multiply and spread. Nation states will disintegrate. No more smart phones to distract you. No more taxes. No answer when you dial 911. Most of humanity will hit the road as nomads in search of food and fresh water and one more day of life on a dying planet. Elon Musk will play Noah on a rocket bound for Mars. Pity children and expectant mothers left behind in those days.<br /><br />Enough of that. Hey, how about the French soccer team winning the Cup? All of Paris was in the streets.<br />Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-12462935216910886372018-07-16T19:23:10.215-04:002018-07-16T19:23:10.215-04:00Well, Jay-Ottawa, that's quite a scrolling cha...Well, Jay-Ottawa, that's quite a scrolling challenge you pose, but in pursuing that I found another comment with this reference deserving our attention:<br /><br />"No, Robert Mueller and James Comey aren’t heroes — <br />the former FBI directors have acceded to numerous wrongful abuses of power in the post-9/11 era."<br />https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/conflicts-of-interest-and-ethics-robert-mueller-and_us_5936a148e4b033940169cdc8<br />~ by Coleen Rowley<br /><br />Also worthwhile, are the two segments from today's broadcast:<br /><br />https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/16/mass_protests_meet_trump_putin_summit<br /><br />Mass protests greeted President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin as they met for a summit Monday in Helsinki. As the two leaders drove from the airport to their summit, they were met by 300 billboards in English and Russian that were posted by the country’s leading newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, and drew attention to their strained relations with the media. Greenpeace activists unfolded two large banners from the bell tower of Kallio Church in Helsinki that called on the presidents to “Warm Our Hearts, Not Our Planet.” Meanwhile in Helsinki on Sunday, thousands took to the streets to demand human rights, equality and a focus on the climate. We speak with Heidi Hautala, a Finnish politician and member of the European Parliament from Finland, who addressed the protests on Sunday. She is also a member of the Green League, part of the European Green Party.<br /><br />https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/16/debate_is_trump_putin_summit_a_danger<br /><br />As President Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, we host a debate on U.S.-Russia relations. In Washington, D.C., we speak with Joe Cirincione, president of Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we speak with Glenn Greenwald, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of the founding editors of The Intercept. Greenwald calls the Trump-Putin meeting “excellent” and adds that President Obama also sought diplomacy with Russia. Cirincione calls the summit “a danger to America and to the West.”<br /><br /><br />Erik Rothnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-90728298392018332952018-07-16T12:42:40.364-04:002018-07-16T12:42:40.364-04:00As pointed out by Anna above, electoral interferen...As pointed out by Anna above, electoral interference by one nation against another is long standing and routine. So the question before us is not whether the Russians interfered at all in 2016, but whether their involvement (hacking) was decisive to the outcome (Nov 8, 2016).<br /><br />Are you still unsure about Mueller's investigation of Russia's impact on the outcome, as well as the substance and the purpose of his latest indictments? Let me help you to get off the fence. <br /><br />James Risen, when he was with the NY Times, earned some respect––and a Pulitzer––for revelations about the NSA. Since then he's moved on to the curiouser and curiouser "Intercept," but in a less skeptical role about Washington's operations. At "The Intercept" Risen has been endorsing the DNC's whataboutery and Mueller's ham-sandwich indictments claiming Russia helped Trump steal the White House from its rightful heiress. <br />https://theintercept.com/2018/07/13/indictment-of-russian-intelligence-operatives-should-quell-harebrained-conspiracy-theories-on-dnc-hack/<br /><br />What I would draw your attention to is not so much Risen's best shot at equating unproven charges with facts but reactions among the 700-plus comments that followed.<br /><br />Seven hundred comments, many off topic or repetitions by the SOSO trolls, are too much to wade through. Here are the nicknames to SCROLL UP TO and read. Yes, dive down to the bottom of the comments and scroll north for these names: Pete, VivekJainMD, Scandinavian, bigbill, photosymbiosis, Mirza, Masie, Liam, and the ever-ironic Benito_Mussolini. If you only have time for two or three comments, read phtosymbiosis and Benito.Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-52066621616621268622018-07-16T10:55:33.501-04:002018-07-16T10:55:33.501-04:00True, Anna.
Not only is Trump a traitor, accordin...True, Anna.<br /><br />Not only is Trump a traitor, according to Blowhard, he is a "treasonous traitor"... of course, that was not deemed oxymoronic by whatever editors edit his drivel I think the title was likely inspired by one of those alliterative Perry Mason potboilers, like The Case of the Breaking-In Burglar or The Case of the Solipistic Sob Sister. I didn't bother leaving my own comment on Blow, it would only have been buried beneath an avalanche of Gasps of the Groveling Groupthinkers.<br /><br />I no longer subscribe to cable TV but do retain Netflix for the time being, or at least until they raise their subscription rates again, which they will, especially in the wake of Obama's $50 million contract to produce bullshit happy-talk stories. I love Michelle Wolf's show, though. Last night she pulled the phony punditory outrage trick and called Trump something like Satan with horns sticking out of his head. This elicited the desired booing, hooting and applause from the hip studio audience, whereupon Wolf switched to a photo of a herd of sheep. And then the audience got very, very quiet. I wonder how long before her show gets cancelled.Karen Garciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-9033839539008868512018-07-16T09:37:34.104-04:002018-07-16T09:37:34.104-04:00Charles Blow is high on high treason by Trump. I h...Charles Blow is high on high treason by Trump. I have a different take, although it will probably never be published there so here it is here: <br /><br />Coincidentally or NOT, it was Obama who meddled in Ukrainian elections and gave support to neo-Nazis with U.S. billions. Victoria 'F**k the EU' Nuland admitted it, and it was an open secret. <br /><br />Did it ever occur to Americans that Russian meddling in our elections is PAYBACK to Obama? Why did Obama do nothing to protect this country during this alleged attack when it was done entirely on his watch? Let's look back. <br /><br />It was President Obama who was caught on a hot mic whispering a message to Putin via Medvedev that he 'could do more' after he was re-elected. If Trump or anyone else said that, it would be taken as a hint, suggestion, or request that he'd welcome their help in winning re-election because of an implied quid pro quo. That whispered message was never supposed to be heard and it might as well not have been given the lack of scrutiny it got. <br /><br />It looks like Obama didn't live up to his side of the bargain after winning. Why is it that Trump's remark about the Russians maybe finding Hillary's deleted emails is evidence of treason but not Obama's not so subtle hint that Putin had an interest in seeing him win re-election. Did he double-cross Putin? In Ukraine, most definitely yes. <br /><br />We'd better take a hard look at how the world really works. Obama knows.Anna Radicalovanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-58646094251966513002018-07-14T07:01:21.217-04:002018-07-14T07:01:21.217-04:00Oh for the good old days when Tony Blair was Bush&...Oh for the good old days when Tony Blair was Bush's poodle!<br />voice-in-wildernessnoreply@blogger.com