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If you’re on welfare you’re trash and white people are racially oppressed !!!
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The poor whites will still vote for them, blindly.
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Who has the Twitter quote, shared in this thread, where someone came in from the top rope with stupidest hot take ever: Straight White Male is the new N-Word?
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Who has the Twitter quote, shared in this thread, where someone came in from the top rope with stupidest hot take ever: Straight White Male is the new N-Word?
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Probably the tweet of the year. So much truth.
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It was one of the dumbest ****ing takes in 2018 and there were a whole lot of bad takes to go around.
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Oh goodness, it was said in here tooWho has the Twitter quote, shared in this thread, where someone came in from the top rope with stupidest hot take ever: Straight White Male is the new N-Word?
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Nothing blind about it. “At least he’s white” cancgo a LONG way
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What an owning of a lifetime. Get ready for a tweet storm
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Welp
http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20181221_04054930 (article is in Dutch)
Our 'Committee I', the independent federal agency tasked with oversight on intelligence agencies, seems to have concluded that our civil intelligence agency (VSSE) has the right to simply demand information from any corporation or profession with the sole exception of physicians, lawyers and journalists.
An accountancy firm had filed a complaint with the Committee I agency against a VSSE official. The CEO had filed the complaint and a lawyer for the top female executive in the firm alleged that the VSSE official was pressuring the woman to get the firm to turn over information on a particular client. The VSSE official demanded the information in the context of potential espionage according to the Committee I's report. The VSSE did not bring a subpoena and after initially being rebuffed simply started pressuring that female executive rather than returning with a court order.
The agency dismissed the complaint and ruled that the VSSE does in fact have that authority to go around demanding information as long as it's not protected under the confidentiality statutes for lawyers, physicians and journalists. Everything else is fair game apparently.
Having the authority to essentially walk into a bank and force them to turn over records on clients without a court order is wild.
Generally we get very little information from and about both our civil and military intelligence agencies. Many leaks on the awful state of the infrastructure in our intel agency buildings, communication and leadership issues, ... but in terms of what they're actually doing there's very little information. They make the CIA look transparent by comparison.
http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20181221_04054930 (article is in Dutch)
Our 'Committee I', the independent federal agency tasked with oversight on intelligence agencies, seems to have concluded that our civil intelligence agency (VSSE) has the right to simply demand information from any corporation or profession with the sole exception of physicians, lawyers and journalists.
An accountancy firm had filed a complaint with the Committee I agency against a VSSE official. The CEO had filed the complaint and a lawyer for the top female executive in the firm alleged that the VSSE official was pressuring the woman to get the firm to turn over information on a particular client. The VSSE official demanded the information in the context of potential espionage according to the Committee I's report. The VSSE did not bring a subpoena and after initially being rebuffed simply started pressuring that female executive rather than returning with a court order.
The agency dismissed the complaint and ruled that the VSSE does in fact have that authority to go around demanding information as long as it's not protected under the confidentiality statutes for lawyers, physicians and journalists. Everything else is fair game apparently.
Having the authority to essentially walk into a bank and force them to turn over records on clients without a court order is wild.
Generally we get very little information from and about both our civil and military intelligence agencies. Many leaks on the awful state of the infrastructure in our intel agency buildings, communication and leadership issues, ... but in terms of what they're actually doing there's very little information. They make the CIA look transparent by comparison.
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Trump just has to make Mexico pay for it like he said he would!
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#TRUMPSHUTDOWN
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/422471-mcconnell-rejects-using-nuclear-option-on-wall
McConnell rejects using nuclear option on wall
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) spokesman says the Senate does not have enough votes to change its rules and pass border wall funding with a simple majority.
“The Leader has said for years that the votes are not there in the Conference to use the nuclear option. Just this morning, several Senators put out statements confirming their opposition, and confirming that there is not a majority in the conference to go down that road,” said David Popp, McConnell’s communications director.
Popp issued his statement after several Republican senators voiced opposition to holding a procedural vote known as the “nuclear option” to change the Senate’s rules and make it easier to pass a funding bill that includes $5.7 billion to build a border wall.
McConnell rejects using nuclear option on wall
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) spokesman says the Senate does not have enough votes to change its rules and pass border wall funding with a simple majority.
“The Leader has said for years that the votes are not there in the Conference to use the nuclear option. Just this morning, several Senators put out statements confirming their opposition, and confirming that there is not a majority in the conference to go down that road,” said David Popp, McConnell’s communications director.
Popp issued his statement after several Republican senators voiced opposition to holding a procedural vote known as the “nuclear option” to change the Senate’s rules and make it easier to pass a funding bill that includes $5.7 billion to build a border wall.
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Hang in there, RBG
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Trump is an old lady on a motorized scooter.
I used to think that the elderly, while slow and dangerous behind the wheel, could still serve a purpose.
I was wrong.
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Her broken ribs were a blessing in disguise. They found the nodules then.
To be fair, often you get incidental findings and unnecessary treatment, but in her cases the nodules turned out to be cancer.
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I do have to give the Russians some credit for their trolling
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State TV host Olga Skabeeva surmised that Americans are “losers, since Putin has defeated them in every way.” With a theatrical sigh, her co-host, Evgeny Popov, added: “Trump is ours again—what are you going to do?” Every member of the sizeable audience enthusiastically clapped. While these statements are decidedly sarcastic, Russian opinion makers recount the Kremlin’s victories with unmistakable glee. Popov smirked: “It seems to Americans that we won on every front: the U.S. Secretary of Defense has been removed, we unquestionably secured a complete, unconditional victory in Syria.” Skabeeva chimed in: “They’re also planning to leave Afghanistan.”
Popov pointed out: “On top of that, Rusal sanctions have been lifted with Trump’s hands.” Panelists of the show, including Russian lawmakers, couldn’t hide their satisfied grins.
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Discussing the planned departure of the U.S. from Syria, state TV host Olga Skabeeva pondered why Trump suddenly decided to leave at this point in time: “Americans say, it’s because he is beholden to Putin. Is that logical? Yes, it is.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russia-gloats-over-departure-trump-is-ours-again
Russia Gloats: ‘Trump Is Ours Again’
If Moscow was happy about the Syria pullout, it’s ecstatic about Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ resignation.
The Kremlin is awash with Christmas gifts from Washington, D.C. and every move by the Trump administration seems to add to that perception. On Wednesday, appearing on the Russian state TV show “The Evening with Vladimir Soloviev,” Director of the Moscow-based Center for Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies Semyon Bagdasarov said that the U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis is “struggling to keep up” with the flurry of unexpected decisions by the U.S. President Donald Trump. The news that Mattis decided to step down sent shock waves across the world, being interpreted as “a dangerous signal” by America’s allies.
Meanwhile, the Mattis departure is being cheered in Russia. Konstantin Kosachev, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Upper House of the Russian Parliament, has said that “the departure of James Mattis is a positive signal for Russia, since Mattis was far more hawkish on Russia and China than Donald Trump.” Kosachev opined that Trump apparently considered his own agenda in dealing with Russia, China and America’s allies to be "more important than keeping James Mattis at his post," concluding: "That’s an interesting signal, and a more positive one” for Russia.
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State TV host Olga Skabeeva surmised that Americans are “losers, since Putin has defeated them in every way.” With a theatrical sigh, her co-host, Evgeny Popov, added: “Trump is ours again—what are you going to do?” Every member of the sizeable audience enthusiastically clapped. While these statements are decidedly sarcastic, Russian opinion makers recount the Kremlin’s victories with unmistakable glee. Popov smirked: “It seems to Americans that we won on every front: the U.S. Secretary of Defense has been removed, we unquestionably secured a complete, unconditional victory in Syria.” Skabeeva chimed in: “They’re also planning to leave Afghanistan.”
Popov pointed out: “On top of that, Rusal sanctions have been lifted with Trump’s hands.” Panelists of the show, including Russian lawmakers, couldn’t hide their satisfied grins.
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Discussing the planned departure of the U.S. from Syria, state TV host Olga Skabeeva pondered why Trump suddenly decided to leave at this point in time: “Americans say, it’s because he is beholden to Putin. Is that logical? Yes, it is.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russia-gloats-over-departure-trump-is-ours-again
Russia Gloats: ‘Trump Is Ours Again’
If Moscow was happy about the Syria pullout, it’s ecstatic about Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ resignation.
The Kremlin is awash with Christmas gifts from Washington, D.C. and every move by the Trump administration seems to add to that perception. On Wednesday, appearing on the Russian state TV show “The Evening with Vladimir Soloviev,” Director of the Moscow-based Center for Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies Semyon Bagdasarov said that the U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis is “struggling to keep up” with the flurry of unexpected decisions by the U.S. President Donald Trump. The news that Mattis decided to step down sent shock waves across the world, being interpreted as “a dangerous signal” by America’s allies.
Meanwhile, the Mattis departure is being cheered in Russia. Konstantin Kosachev, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Upper House of the Russian Parliament, has said that “the departure of James Mattis is a positive signal for Russia, since Mattis was far more hawkish on Russia and China than Donald Trump.” Kosachev opined that Trump apparently considered his own agenda in dealing with Russia, China and America’s allies to be "more important than keeping James Mattis at his post," concluding: "That’s an interesting signal, and a more positive one” for Russia.
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