Quote (IceMage @ Feb 19 2020 06:50pm)

I already said I was voting for Hillary while Widow was still here.

The funny thing is I haven't changed that many opinions. I guess it just seems that way because Trump, his cult, and the Republican party are batshit crazy.

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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday named Richard Grenell, the ambassador to Germany who quickly antagonized the establishment after arriving in Berlin in 2018, to be the acting director of national intelligence overseeing the nation’s 17 spy agencies.

By choosing Mr. Grenell, who has little experience in intelligence or in running a large bureaucracy, the president signaled that he wants a trusted, aggressive leader atop an intelligence community that he has long viewed with suspicion and at times gone to war against.

As ambassador, Mr. Grenell made public statements that some German officials took as expressing opposition to the government there, an extraordinary intervention into domestic affairs that diplomats typically avoid. He attacked what he called “failed” open-border policies in Germany, which has resettled hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, and criticized Berlin’s stances on Iran, military spending and Chinese investment in global telephone networks. He also expressed an eagerness to empower conservatives throughout Europe.

“I absolutely want to empower other conservatives throughout Europe, other leaders,” Mr. Grenell told Breitbart, a far-right website, in an interview shortly after his arrival in Germany. “I think there is a groundswell of conservative policies that are taking hold because of the failed policies of the left.”

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Mr. Grenell is expected to keep his current ambassadorship as long as he is acting intelligence director, one administration official said. Mr. Grenell did not respond to a request for comment.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/us/politics/dni-national-intelligence-director-grenell.html



The idiocracy continues.

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'People began noticing that Ilhan and Southside (Hirsi) were often with a very effeminate young guy,' Osman said, who spoke in Somali through an interpreter.
'He was very feminine in the way he dressed — he would wear light lipstick and pink clothes and very, very, short shorts in the summer. People started whispering about him.
'[Hirsi] and Ilhan both told me it was Ilhan's brother and he had been living in London but he was mixing with what were seen as bad influences that the family did not like.
'So they sent him to Minneapolis as ''rehab''.'

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8013283/Ilhan-Omar-DID-marry-brother-reveals-Somali-community-leader.html

Somali man who knows both Ilhan Omar and her brother has spoken on the record to the Daily Mail and has pics to back it up
Confirms that Ilhan did indeed marry her brother, and that it was to keep him in the US / attend college
An additional few bits of color he's able to add to the story: Ilhan's brother was sent to the US specifically because he was so flamboyantly gay, and their family wanted to 'rehab' him by sending him to live with the Somali community in the US instead of being in London. A lot of good that did since there's an active gay scene in every major city.



Other than that, no actual 'new' info, just a retelling of the story by a witness who knows the family closely and can corroborate all the hard evidence.

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https://www.newsweek.com/students-push-back-against-melania-trump-being-awarded-florida-university-woman-distinction-honor-1488147

STUDENTS PUSH BACK AGAINST MELANIA TRUMP BEING AWARDED FLORIDA UNIVERSITY 'WOMAN OF DISTINCTION' HONOR

Aww how sweet, she got a participation trophy.

Quote (Ghot @ Feb 20 2020 03:30pm)

Does the phrase: "Trump 2020", upset you?

Quote (thesnipa @ Feb 20 2020 04:31pm)

im sure almost as much as the phrase affirmative action upsets you. like how a cap gun is almost as loud as a howitzer.

Quote (Ghot @ Feb 20 2020 03:33pm)

The phrase" affirmative action doesn't upset me. In fact I lived in California when the State of California voted to end affirmative action... because it doesn't work.