mjmooney Posted August 26, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted August 26, 2018 24 minutes ago, maqroll said: Do they fetishize Putin as well? They never seem to mention him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 British political journalists with fond reminiscences, is it: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 4 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: British political journalists with fond reminiscences, is it: That's embarrassing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 So Trump cancelled the ready written eulogy to McCain that his speech writer had prepared. He settled for a Tweet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 7 hours ago, sne said: So Trump cancelled the ready written eulogy to McCain that his speech writer had prepared. He settled for a Tweet... Good. McCain was scumbag responsible for death and destruction the world over. Iraq and Yemen have been mentioned, but McCain was the prime mover behind the US efforts to overthrow Assad via Jihadi proxy forces. A war criminal who will not be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 1 minute ago, villakram said: Good. McCain was scumbag responsible for death and destruction the world over. Iraq and Yemen have been mentioned, but McCain was the prime mover behind the US efforts to overthrow Assad via Jihadi proxy forces. A war criminal who will not be missed. Agreed. Although pretty sure this had nothing to do with why Trump cancelled 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 1 hour ago, sne said: Agreed. Although pretty sure this had nothing to do with why Trump cancelled Yup, I kinda think a bit of open personal animosity is most welcome in the super fake political sphere... tis most entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 In the meantime... NAFTA is dead, long live USMTA! or at least sort of as congress can't get to it until the next session, and I'm sure the Dems will be very cooperative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted August 27, 2018 Author Share Posted August 27, 2018 The White House re-lowered the flag for McCain after Trump had it raised this morning. Protocol would see it lowered until interment next week. Massive backlash all day forced their hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bickster Posted August 27, 2018 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted August 27, 2018 Satire died once again 4 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 44 minutes ago, maqroll said: The White House re-lowered the flag for McCain after Trump had it raised this morning. Protocol would see it lowered until interment next week. Massive backlash all day forced their hands. Any chance of a flag-lowering for the Vietnamese civilians McCain carpet-bombed from a safe height? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted August 27, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted August 27, 2018 You do wonder what the NRA will think about McCain's death. On the one hand, they've lost an enormous political voice. On the other, they can probably get better value for money now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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peterms Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Good Lord. Can this be true? Quote The United States has repeatedly accused the Russian and Iranian governments of using social media to spread “disinformation” and foment chaos. Under US government pressure, Big Tech corporations have banned large numbers of accounts accused (in some cases falsely) of being Russian and Iranian “troll” accounts. At the same time, however, the US government is doing exactly what it is accusing its enemies of: the US Office of Cuba Broadcasting is secretly creating fake social media accounts to inspire dissent and to spread right-wing pro-US, pro-capitalist propaganda in Cuba. During the Cold War, the US government tried to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro more than 600 times. At the same time, Washington also waged an information war. For decades, the US has maintained an elaborate propaganda apparatus committed to toppling Cuba’s socialist government. In its 2019 congressional budget justification report — which was first reported on by the Miami New Times — the US government’s Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) disclosed that it “is establishing on island digital teams to create non-branded local Facebook accounts to disseminate information.” The US government body noted that these “native pages increase the chances of appearing on Cuban Facebook users newsfeeds.” And it is not just Facebook where the US government will be creating these accounts. “The same strategy will be replicated on other preferred social media networks,” the BBG added. The propaganda office said it “will continue to engage audiences on the internet using Facebook Live and YouTube as distribution channels into Cuba as the Communist regime has been wary of blocking these popular channels.” Put more directly, the US government is creating fake accounts on Facebook and YouTube inside Cuba and going out of its way to portray these profiles as “local,” to more effectively spread this propaganda among Cubans as if it were somehow organic. “Working with Cuban independent journalists and encouraging citizens to create user generated content on the island for OCB’s platforms continues to be a top priority,” the US government body continued in its report. “As Wi-Fi service has expanded in Cuba and with substantial numbers of Cubans now using Facebook and other social networking sites, OCB’s social media presence has increased.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted August 28, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted August 28, 2018 6 hours ago, maqroll said: The White House re-lowered the flag for McCain after Trump had it raised this morning. Protocol would see it lowered until interment next week. Massive backlash all day forced their hands. Here’s a smarmy tweet from Matthew Dowd, who was a strategist for former President George W. Bush and who now serves as a political analyst for ABC News: The tweet is referencing the White House’s decision to return its flag to full staff just two days after the death of Sen. John McCain (it would later take the flag back to half staff). The flag business had set off a great pious harrumphing among establishment types, liberal and conservative alike. Jake Tapper alone did so much garment-rending that for a minute I thought he’d have to host today’s show wearing nothing but a big yellow ribbon over his crotch. And here was Dowd’s contribution to the discourse: a photo probably pulled off Google Images, where a version of it has been indexed via the website of South Carolina state Rep. Bill Hixon. It’s not hard to see why Dowd chose this particular shot. It hits all the proper elegiac notes: the flag, the soldier, the salute, the dying sun of some alien desert. But the thing about this photo is that it’s a fake. The original was photoshopped to drop the flag to half staff. Entire story here: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pious-crap-george-w-bush-john-mccain_us_5b843e14e4b0cd327dfee3a1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted August 28, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted August 28, 2018 7 hours ago, peterms said: Any chance of a flag-lowering for the Vietnamese civilians McCain carpet-bombed from a safe height? Or taking the flagpole and shoving it up Kissinger’s arse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HanoiVillan Posted August 28, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted August 28, 2018 Wild that this is the same President who made such an endless fuss about football players kneeling during the national anthem. Even wilder that not a single one of his supporters will even notice the hypocrisy. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Looks like he Googled himself? Doesn't like what he found 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 28, 2018 Moderator Share Posted August 28, 2018 44 minutes ago, Xann said: Looks like he Googled himself? Doesn't like what he found Saw that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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