Happy Face
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What you think isn't representative of what Americans think though. In the same way Infowars readers diminish valid criticism of Trump and elavate criticism of his opponents, you're diminshing legitimate concerns about balanced reporting because in your view the entire focus should be on critising Trump... exactly the tactic that entrenches Trump support. If neither side is willing to engage in any introspection whatsoever you end up in a feedback loop that only serves to divide the opposing sides further and worsen the political landscape.
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https://theintercept.com/2016/12/09/a-clinton-fan-manufactured-fake-news-that-msnbc-personalities-spread-to-discredit-wikileaks-docs/
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/24/julian-assange-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-interview
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Unfortunately while the level of discourse in the US (and here) is exasperating we're going to have to find better ways of entering dialogue with the deplorable majority than calling them all morons. Maybe changing the system that's led to their economic woes would convince them, rather than telling them they aren't suffering at all and they're just idiots.
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Cheers, bit of both then. Promised to spend more while not ploughing into more countries than currently being juggled.
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51% in NBC poll say media have been unfair on Trump. Only 41% view coverage as objective. 86% feel career politicians have reaped the benefits of the status quo at the cost of the people. 53% believe the dangers of a Trump presidency are exaggerated because elites feel threatened by the change he represents.
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Newcastle United V Bristol City 25/2/17
Happy Face replied to Anorthernsoul's topic in Newcastle Forum
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His military proposals from the campaign sound expensive... https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/fact-sheet-key-policies-proposed-in-mr.-trumps-military-preparedness-speech
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He's governed as he campaigned more than any president I remember. His words are important because being accurate about the least informed president ever is pivotal when his entire position is that opponents misrepresent the facts.
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Be interested in his wording on those promises. Like I went on to say, I know he's moaned about the cost and suggested the occupied territories should pay for the pleasure.
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I'm not sure if Trump's ever said he would cut the military or stop the interventionist policy. Happy to be corrected, but all I've heard is that he wouldn't keep doing it for free. "Aid" to Israel basically comes in the form of handing them £3bn of cuttting edge military tech. $4.5Bn to Afghanistan. $1.5bn to Egypt etc. Moving the aid bill to the military and making supposed allies foot the bill would be the smart money saving business decision that Mike Ashley would make. Whether allies remain allies long when you aren't paying them for digs I can't envisage though.
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There's a parallel with Labour/Corbyn. An unpopular choice forced on the parties by a small number of insiders and lost vast swathes of voters as a result. All the polls showed Sanders would do better against Trump. The DNC made a huge cock up. With Perez getting the DNC chair over the weekend they seem to be doubling down on the error. The Obama and Clinton contingent stood him up solely as a response to Ellison, the muslim left winger, because the biggest single funder of the democratic party (Haim Saban) is a 1 issue guy, he bankrolls them on their Israel position. He demands strong support on that and would walk if Ellison got in. Whether they stick with centrist leaders or shift to the left, the progressive parties are struggling to bring together the splintering factions on either side of the Atlantic. Even with the splintering, I can't comprehend what it would take to make more people walk away from Tory/Trump rule.
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If the US halved their existing military budget it would still be larger than the next 2 closest nations. The next 3 with this additional funding. The 10 nations after the US combined could not match US spending in total after this increase. I can't see any nation seeing any value in chasing their spend. China will just keep lending them money until they bankrupt themselves.
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No doubt, it's an excellent & well researched piece. Found the angles taken interesting though. Intercept portraying him as a "mark" who all those he's contributed to have used and abused as a money tap to prop up ill thought out campaigns that normally flounder. Guardian portray him more as the genius provider of money and knowledge which has led to a global conservative uprising.
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From last October... https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/static.theintercept.com/amp/donald-trump-finds-an-easy-mark-in-urine-mogul-robert-mercer.html
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If I was a cynic I'd say it couldn't have worked out better.
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As a paper that went along with WMD claims that had no evidence and recategorised torture as "enhanced interrogation" you'd think they'd be a bit more.... I don't know... less self righteous. Edit: and they also used Snowden as a source, printed the stories from documents he revealed, and then said he should be prosecuted as someone that revealed too much truth.
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Is it not true like? Thought the numbers eye right but the point was that obama had the deficit decreasing after 8 years in office but inherited a wildly spiralling debt from Bush. A president's economic figures in his first month are always more instructive about his predecessor than himself.
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North eastern Britain's probably took an interest in the progression of Roman power too. Did you not see Theresa May holding hands with Trump?
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Eh? The media as a whole seem in a better mood for a fight than in 16 years prior... Maybe since the 70s
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deputy assistant to the president, British born Sebastian gorka, has similar ideas to some on here... Most notably, Mr. Gorka derides the notion that Islamic militancy might reflect worldly grievances, like poor governance, repression, poverty and war. “This is the famous approach that says it is all so nuanced and complicated,” Mr. Gorka recently told The Washington Post. “This is what I completely jettison.” For him, the violence emanates from the “martial language” of the Quran, which has hard-wired aggression into Islam. Like the recently fired national security adviser Michael T. Flynn and Mr. Bannon and Mr. Miller, the architects of the ill-conceived executive order barring the entry of citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, Mr. Gorka sees Islam as the problem, rather than the uses to which Islam has been put by violent extremists. The contrast between them and the policy makers of the previous three presidential administrations could not be clearer: For their predecessors, the key has been to fight terrorists, not assault an Abrahamic religion. The gist of Mr. Gorka’s worldview is that the United States is locked in an ideological conflict with “radical Islam.” A report he wrote with his wife assesses that “it is the key failing of U.S. efforts to fight terrorism that we have not understood the importance of ideology.” He attributes this failure to a “systematic subversion of the national security establishment under the banner of inclusivity, cultural awareness and political correctness.” https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/opinion/the-islamophobic-huckster-in-the-white-house.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&referer=https://t.co/lAkqTppDi2 Whole article well worth a read.
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https://youtu.be/L_hisXNDZkY
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White house deserve immense criticism for the move, but it's not as if they're missing owt factual from a Spicer press conference.