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@cryMoreLoL 😁
From 2014: in a release by the state Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of an telephone call recorded between Alexander Barkashov, the longtime leader in Moscow of a Russian neo-Nazi group called Russian National Unity (Russkoye Narodnoye Edinstvo, or RNE) and Dmitriy Boitsov, the head of an obscure Donetsk organization calling itself Orthodox Donbas. Barkashov, a former Russian army special forces corporal, maintains good relations with military and police agencies in Russia, for which he says his group’s black-uniformed paramilitary members are available to serve as reserve forces.
SBU posted to YouTube its recording of the two-minute-plus conversation with accurate English subtitles, expletives included. In it, Boitsov says that the separatist forces don’t control Donetsk province well enough to manage Sunday’s vote. “We’re not able to carry this referendum out, we’re surrounded, Donetsk won’t hold” he says.
“Hang in there” answers Barkashov from Moscow. “You must follow through, otherwise it will look as if you’ve been scared.”
“We’re not scared, it’s just that nothing is ready for the referendum,” Boitsov replies. “It’s impossible to conduct it legally while we’re surrounded.”
“Dima, just flog whatever you want. Write down something like 99 percent,” says Barkashov. Just write it all in. What are you gonna do, walk around and collect [ballot] papers? … Let’s say 89 percent voted for the Donetsk Republic. And that’s it!”
As Barkashov explains, Boitsov interjects: “Ahh, that’s it. Okay, I understand.”
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@jamiefarrahi4398
In late July, Trump had a falling out with Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson in a heated phone call when the president chided the casino mogul for not doing enough to help his reelection bid. The conversation, apparently initiated by Adelson, was meant to be over the coronavirus relief bill and the economy but quickly degenerated with Republican Party officials left to try and salvage the situation.
Adelson – who has been one of Trump and the Republican Party's aces for years – has cut the president off financially and is privately telling people in Las Vegas that he personally blames him for having lost billions, according to an unverified claim by Pesach Lattin, a Las Vegas-based online advertising and media expert.
If this were true, it would be a serious blow to Trump and other billionaire donors are either afraid to or refuse to get on board. For example, in 2019, fitness company executive Stephen Ross was famously boycotted by Equinox and SoulCycle for hosting a Hamptons fundraiser for Trump's campaign. Ross is not alone as top donors continue to see consequences – personally or financially – for supporting the president, which makes backing Trump a serious liability. Other donors are simply fed up with Trump's coronavirus response.
To no surprise, Trump's America First Action Super PAC is being out-raised by pro-Biden Super PAC Priorities USA, which has been attacking the president nonstop in scorching ads.
It appears that wealthy donors who admire the president are focusing on maintaining the Senate majority and licking their wounds if Trump ends up losing. Other wealthy donors, reflected as well in a huge wave of Republican officials endorsing Biden, are jumping ship and timidly supporting Biden after seeing the president's disastrous coronavirus response that has no doubt affected their revenue.
From the NY Times
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@jamiefarrahi4398 - You're all over the place with your post. But I'll address 2 aspects of it:
-The US is, & has always been, an oligarchy.
-The 2 parties are 2 sides of the same coin
- It's better for the oligarchy under the Republicans, but when the Dems are in power, they too cater to the oligarchy albeit to a slightly lower extent.
- The dems have a left wing that attempts to push for working class issues: Medicare for all, eliminating student debt, a living minimum wage, etc.
The Republicans don't even make an attempt at working for the working class. The last 4 years are testament to that, but go to the Reagan era & it was evident back then.
So why does the oligarchy back dems? Wouldn't you want your interests protected?
Does it work differently in any other countries? Let me know which ones ...
Censorship: private companies have the right to regulate their platforms. Censorship by the government is an entirely different animal. Apples & oranges.
The free market has allowed certain platforms to grow. But if their power is deemed inappropriate, the free market can change that. People unhappy with Twitter policies are free to express their views on Parler. Likewise, there is a YouTube alternative.
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@KayInMaine -
- "And we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s — going to be just fine.” -- Trump, January 22
- “It’s not a pandemic, it’s just 1 person. We have it totally under control, we’re going to be just fine” Trump, January 22
- “China has been working very hard to contain the coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. In particular, on behalf of the American people, I want to thank president Xi” Trump, January 26
- “We think we have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five. … we think it’s going to have a very good ending for it.” -- Trump, January 30
- “I don’t take responsibility at all” -- Trump, March 13
- 4 million Americans infected with coronavirus -- the highest in the world -- July 23
- 160,000 Americans dead from Covid19 -- Aug 5
- 309,000 Americans dead from Covid19 -- Dec 18
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@floridagirl9064 to be clear, both Biden & Trump bear responsibility. It's not one or the other.
This withdrawal deal was struck in Feb last year. The groundwork of the deal goes back to 2018 when he secured the release of the current Taliban leader from a Pakistani jail.
"The Trump administration in February 2020 negotiated a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban that excluded the Afghan government, freed 5,000 imprisoned Taliban soldiers and set a date certain of May 1, 2021, for the final withdrawal.
And the Trump administration kept to the pact, reducing U.S. troop levels from about 13,000 to 2,500, even though the Taliban continued to attack Afghan government forces and welcomed al-Qaeda terrorists into the Taliban leadership."
Acccording to Trump:
“I started the process. All the troops are coming back home. They couldn’t stop the process. Twenty-one years is enough, don’t we think? Twenty-one years. They [the Biden administration] couldn’t stop the process. They wanted to, but it was very tough to stop the process.”
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