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As an overseas viewer I am not aware of what it takes for someone to be president, but Governor Gavin Newsom of California sure would be a pleasant surprise and from all accounts he would do a very good job.
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Rachel, as an overseas viewer could you please confirm what is being said in that former President Trump's upgrade on his mega-hyped MAGA slogan has been revised to say MAKE AMERICA GOOFY AGAIN for the 2024 election?
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What has to be accepted is that former President Donald J. Trump will be sent to prison on at least 4 of the 91 indictments against him. Let's be real: Trump has to become president for him to become a free man again and have those 91 indictments swept under the rug by the DOJ he would preside over. This makes your 2024 presidential election electrified, because Trump and especially his backers will stop at nothing to get their man in The Oval Office.
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Happy Holidays Lawrence to you and the MSNBC Team and MSNBC Contributors for excellent content, unrivaled seeking of the truth and standing up for human rights and fighting for democratic institutions and democracy to remain strong across the globe. What is good about having the very AMERICAN abstract painting former President Donald J. Trump has become run for a second term in America? What is good about this problem? I am using the question from an Anthony Robbins' book, because it is the only question that can be asked about Trump's bombastic and unabashed criticism about everything that displeases him or that he thinks stands in his way of getting back in The White House. What is good about having the proverbial ‘bull in the China Shop’ that Donald J. Trump has morphed into i.e., in the China Shop that America has metaphorically become? If you ask me, as unfortunate and embarrassing it must be to you and everyone who cannot believe Trump is still on the political treadmill instead of out on a daily walk in the prison yard is that it is testing democratic institutions and democracy around the world to its limits. It has shown a bright light in the legal dungeon the dimly lit fortress your Supreme Court used to be and it has tested Americans of every stripe and color about what their Republic stands for. All this means is that Trump has caused and will cause and is continuing to cause a lot of pain, but the gain is that America will come through this as a shining city on a hill---stronger than ever. Because deep down in everyone who believes in what your country stands for and for democracies across the world, there is only one way forward: straight ahead with the truth on our side and God as our witness and the firm and unbending belief in freedom for the entire human community as the only goal worth pursuing on this tiny blue dot in the known universe.
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This is an opinion from an artist living 2,000 kilometers from Kiev where President Zelensky was almost assassinated today. I sent this comment already. Former President Donald John Trump is taking a page out of the LBJ playbook, isn't he? In 1963 Bobby Baker and Billy Estes were about to sing like canaries if they got jail time unless Johnson could use the DOJ to give them their walking papers and have his criminal background disappear at the same time. Experts on the four corners of the globe all have their own version of the facts, but from what I have read and heard that is why JFK never made it to re-election. Trump will be over his 91 legal bumps if he wins and he'll be able to use the DOJ and you can bet that former AG Barr will write another 17-page letter propositioning for the coveted post in Trump's second Administration. I make no bones about it when I say Trump is back on the stump and not running for President to make America Great again; boys and girls, he's running to make himself safe again.
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Nicole, age has nothing to do with being fit for the job. A lady in my apartment building made us all laugh because her doctor kept telling her to quit smoking and drinking whiskey. She smoked and drank a glass of whiskey every day. She was 99. The plain truth of the matter is that America's image across the world is the most positive it has been in decades. Biden makes everyone feel like there is nothing to fear in spite of numerous hotspots and a potential global conflagration. Why does Biden have this affect on people? Because age and experience matter; people know he might not have all the answers but he knows a hek of a lot about running a country. I think Biden should raise he age of retirement to 92; this way he could say he's a decade away from retiring!
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My advice to Joe Biden that will stop any criticism of him being to old to be president is to raise the retirement age to 92. Now; before you laugh this would also help because social security and other benefits like pensions could recover from being so much in debt. With the retirement age at 92, Uncle Joe could rightfully say that he's got more than a decade to go before he retires. The difficult part of climbing this hill will of course be getting people willing to work longer...
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I think if I worked at MSNBC, I would need therapy after covering Trump for the past few years. It is phenomenal that a pathological narcissist or whatever he will be diagnosed as, once let loose on the world stage is something that cannot be stopped. Trump is like a wind-up rabbit and everyone is waiting for him to go back down his hole.
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Ari, in all due respect, I am an artist and not a lawyer and I have watched you and your colleagues bring your profession, the legal profession, to new heights of respectability and honor. You have shown us how and why the legal system is the structural steel that holds societies together. However; if I may say something---and we are living 2,000 kilometers from Kiev---so my perspective is of course, nowhere near how you see things in America. Ari, there is nothing to see in Tucker Carlson's visit other than a faux journalist doing his iconic brand of the profession and interviewing one of the most controversial political leaders in the world today. What I see---and I may be wrong---is that ordinary Russians are the real winners so-to-speak in Carlson's visit to Russia. Why do I say this? Because there is so much fear and loathing going on between Russia and the west, that ordinary Russians think everyone hates them---including Americans. Carlson's trip to Moscow and him buzzing around town, eating in restaurants, fast-food joints and visiting a supermarket just reinforced to the average Russian that Americans like Russians and America does not want to destroy Russia. Lastly, and this is only my gut feeling. Let's be real: Uncle Joe saw a golden opportunity---a pie in the sky---with Carlson's visit and Tucker delivered a personal message from America's Commander-in-Chief when the mics were off for an off-ramp before the F16s start filling the skies over the front lines causing even more mayhem and casualties for Russia and before the bridge to Crimea gets blown to smithereens. No way Carlson was there simply for an exchange-type, comfortable interview with President Putin without a word from your President. Will Putin accept a way out of his quagmire is what we all should be wondering, because things are heating up out there and everyone is talking about nuclear missiles!
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Anne Appelbaum says that President Putin is the Authoritiarian leader of a Russian country who has invaded a sovereign state and therefore---and I am paraphrasing her----he is the new Hitler.
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There will be a kind of hush all over the world the day that Donald J.Trump goes away. Yes, just thinking of him not around any more makes the sun shine through the storm clouds his entourage brings along on his crusade; the most crooked man ever to grace a stump will become a Hollywood icon for the number of films that will try to capture his brand of tragic magic. Folks, the glorious end to the era of Trump is thankfully near. Those who have fallen under his spell will realize he was indeed a charismatic pied piper of poppycock that they willing bit into and chewed to death.
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We must salute Mika for her bravery in delivering what she feels is the heart of a news story. Her outstanding interview of then candidate Joe Biden about the allegations of a woman who claimed he violated her will be etched in the minds of people for decades to come. What is especially heat-intesifying and mind-breaking is to have heard that former President Bill Clinton, the man who trashed Monica Lewinsky in front of the whole world and ruined her life simply because he would not admit he had fallen in love with her and then went on to lie on camera to the American people will always be a betrayal of some sort in my mind. But the crown jewel of Clinton's alleged bad affairs is that there have been numerous sources saying former President Bill Clinton took as many as 26 flights with Epstein to his secret-bedroom island. 26 flights of a former American President flying in cohorts with a man of dubious character and who bragged about bagging under-aged girls is beyond the pale. But everyone must use their own resources. Lastly. Happy and Beautiful New Year to Mika and Joe and their illustrious team and also a golden 2024 for the excellent MSNBC Contributors. And really lastly, let us raise a glass to the fallen heros in Ukraine, Gaza and the Sudan and hope these wars come to an end soon.
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In 8 days, two years will have been capped on the Ukrainian/Russian war. Mika and Joe and Willy speak truth to power as much if not more than anyone I know in the media. In the western world there are the Tommy Tuberville's by the dozens. He is fully embracing the Trumpian view of the world, and let's be real: 'Trump has a lot of people believing in him and the more power to him, but let's look at what Professor Kotkin said and maybe Tommy T. the Trumper will give it a read: Kotkin said this in an interview with Lex Fridman: "It is mind boggling to hear Vladimir Putin talk about colonies or sovereign countries. We must remember that under international law that was signed by Moscow, all the treaties say that sovereign countries get to choose what alliances sovereign countries belong to. Treaties like the UN Charter was signed by Russia. The 1975 Helsinki agreement was signed by the Soviet Union. The 1990 Charter of Paris for a new Europe was also signed by the Soviet Union. The 1997 NATO Russia Founding Act was equally signed by the Russian Government. All those documents were signed by either the Soviet Regime or the Russian regime, which is the legally recognized international inheritor i.e., successor of the Soviet State. The fact is those agreements are still in place and they clearly state that sovereign countries can freely choose their foreign policy and what alliances they want to join. For the President of Russia to warn western nations not to help the Ukrainians defend themselves is pure hypocrisy and insulting to the free world writ large." The plain simple truth is that the Ukraine war is an existential crisis for all of us in the west. Moscow's Ambassador to Great Britain said recently that Russia cannot be stopped and it will not lose in Ukraine. I wrote back and said you are right: Russia cannot lose, because the Russian people are great people, but the the Russian army can lose the Ukrainian war and must lose the Ukrainian war because Ukraine is a sovereign country.
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Let's be real: Secretary of Defense Austin knows exactly his duties and this incident shows he's sending a message to President Biden that he's mentally and physically gone as far as he can go as Secretary of Defense. He's burned out.
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There is one thing we have to make clear. The people who say harmful and hurtful things against minority groups like the Jewish community or other religious groups or against people of other races are an off-shoot of the human community. We know antisemitism is on the rise in the town where I live because there are signs everywhere saying so. We live 2,000 kilometers from a country at war with a superpower and whose president happens to be Jewish and who is doing an excellent job. What we have to realize---and I think I speak for many in the human community---we are simply not like that; we welcome diversity and freedom of expression and for people to live their lives and worship the God they believe in and everything else that goes along with being a unique person who can choose what sort of life they want to live. The folks who say the atrocious things and sometimes do harmful acts are not part of the human community; they are a branch of the human family, but they do not represent someone living in the world and who is part of the human community. To recap: There is no place for antisemitism or any kind of hateful words or harmful actions against anyone for any reason in 2023. People who are different from others have a right to walk the earth and enjoy their way of life. Those that say outrageous lies and do horrible things to others do not speak for the majority of people around the globe. Lastly, Elon Musk is a victim of his own success and as a free-thinker his thoughts have a wide range of possibilities. What his latest outburst shows is that he has met his match with being able to let his darkest thoughts out of the stable with the wild horse, formerly called Twitter and now called 'X'. Let us hope the echoes of his hurtful tweet with boomerang around in his head and make him realize that his true gifts are being sacrificed on the alter of social media. Perhaps it is time, Elon, to let Twitter find a new owner and get you back building rocket engines?
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In a perfect world, Alexei Navalny would have been elected president in Russia and from all indication he would have immediately mended ties with neighboring nations and probably been invited to The White House. The Ukraine war would never have happened and the world's breadbasket would be pumping out tons of grains to the poor nations desperately in need of food. However, our world is far from perfect, our economic system works just fine for about 10% of the world's population and we're fine with that as the way to move forward? 60,000 Ukrainians have lost a limb either on the front lines or sleeping comfortably in their flats or homes or just going to the market and we're just fine with that?
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Watching from across the world from you, what I do not think many Americans realize is that former Ambassador John Bolton is risking his reputation and speaking truth to power like very few people can or ever will when he states publicly that a president he once served under is not capable of having a second term in office for a long list of reasons.
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