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Michael Ejercito
Dec 22, 2019, 11:32:48 AM12/22/19
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Trump and Turkey
DECEMBER 22, 2019 / JACK MARSHALL
None of this is impeachable, but it’s certainly inexplicable.
President Trump’s conduct and rhetoric regarding Turkey and its autocratic
ruler appear to be incompetent and irresponsible. In November, the
President said he was a “great fan” of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.
Since Erdrogan’s regime has been notable for its restrictions and attacks on
basic civil rights, such praise is certain to stir the embers of the “Trump
is a secret fascist dictator just waiting for his chance” narrative. Maybe
that’s the idea, and this is more intentional trolling; who knows? Does
Trump play three dimensional chess? Does he just say stuff without thinking,
and then backtrack just as quickly?
Over recent months, the President also sided with Erdogan in rejecting
Congress’s bi-partisan resolution officially labeling the Ottoman Empire’s
massacre of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 as genocide. Turkey’s
official position has been that the deaths were a product of war, and not
illegal. Trump called it “one of the worst mass atrocities of the 20th
century” on Armenian Remembrance Day, and after the Senate passed its side
of the resolution, State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a
statement,“The position of the Administration has not changed…Our views are
reflected in the President’s definitive statement in April.”
It is worth noting, since the anti-Trump media won’t tell you, that the
‘horrible but not genocide’ approach follows decades of US policy designed
to avoid angering Turkey, a NATO ally. Former President Barack Obama also
did not refer to the killings as “genocide” during his tenure.
I understand that “genocide” is a politically loaded word, but the
continuing argument regarding what term to use regarding a more than
100-year-old event, as if the terminology changes anything, mystifies me. Is
“mass atrocity” really better than “genocide”? And why can’t the current
government of Turkey separate themselves from the Ottoman Empire?
Then, this week, President Trump signed a defense bill that imposes
sanctions on Turkey because Turkey is acquiring Russian S-400 missile
systems.
B.F. Skinner, in his ground-breaking behavioral science research, concluded
that while positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement were both
effective in altering the behavior of rats, intermittent reinforcement drove
the rats crazy.
The question is, who are the rats?
Trump and Turkey
DECEMBER 22, 2019 / JACK MARSHALL
None of this is impeachable, but it’s certainly inexplicable.
President Trump’s conduct and rhetoric regarding Turkey and its autocratic
ruler appear to be incompetent and irresponsible. In November, the
President said he was a “great fan” of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.
Since Erdrogan’s regime has been notable for its restrictions and attacks on
basic civil rights, such praise is certain to stir the embers of the “Trump
is a secret fascist dictator just waiting for his chance” narrative. Maybe
that’s the idea, and this is more intentional trolling; who knows? Does
Trump play three dimensional chess? Does he just say stuff without thinking,
and then backtrack just as quickly?
Over recent months, the President also sided with Erdogan in rejecting
Congress’s bi-partisan resolution officially labeling the Ottoman Empire’s
massacre of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 as genocide. Turkey’s
official position has been that the deaths were a product of war, and not
illegal. Trump called it “one of the worst mass atrocities of the 20th
century” on Armenian Remembrance Day, and after the Senate passed its side
of the resolution, State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a
statement,“The position of the Administration has not changed…Our views are
reflected in the President’s definitive statement in April.”
It is worth noting, since the anti-Trump media won’t tell you, that the
‘horrible but not genocide’ approach follows decades of US policy designed
to avoid angering Turkey, a NATO ally. Former President Barack Obama also
did not refer to the killings as “genocide” during his tenure.
I understand that “genocide” is a politically loaded word, but the
continuing argument regarding what term to use regarding a more than
100-year-old event, as if the terminology changes anything, mystifies me. Is
“mass atrocity” really better than “genocide”? And why can’t the current
government of Turkey separate themselves from the Ottoman Empire?
Then, this week, President Trump signed a defense bill that imposes
sanctions on Turkey because Turkey is acquiring Russian S-400 missile
systems.
B.F. Skinner, in his ground-breaking behavioral science research, concluded
that while positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement were both
effective in altering the behavior of rats, intermittent reinforcement drove
the rats crazy.
The question is, who are the rats?
Loose Cannon
Dec 22, 2019, 1:25:12 PM12/22/19
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On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 08:32:56 -0800, "Michael Ejercito"
<meje...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>The question is, who are the rats?
The answer to that is easy:
<meje...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>The question is, who are the rats?
https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1544759229249.jpg
Carolina Reb
Dec 22, 2019, 2:06:40 PM12/22/19
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Andrew Andrzej Baron
Dec 22, 2019, 2:38:44 PM12/22/19
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In article <d84028d7-b734-4b74...@googlegroups.com>,
Carolina Reb <walt.h...@att.net> wrote:
[shit flushed down Walt's hungry throat]
Leading US neo-Nazi jailed for child porn possession
----------------------------------------------------
Kevin Alfred Strom (born 1956 in Anchorage, Alaska) is the former
Managing Director of National Vanguard, a Charlottesville-based
organization that has been described as a racist, white separatist,
homophobic, and a Neo-Nazi hate group by the Southern Poverty Law
Center and the Anti-Defamation League.[1][2] Strom resigned from
National Vanguard in July 2006.[3] National Vanguard reportedly
disbanded on March 14, 2007, and its website has been dormant since
that time. In 2008 Strom pleaded guilty to possession of ten images
of child pornography and was sentenced to 23 months in prison.[4]
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Alfred_Strom
Carolina Reb
Dec 22, 2019, 2:51:04 PM12/22/19
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preceded it.
Origin of non sequitur - Latin: it does not follow
An inference or a conclusion that does not follow from the
premises.
A statement containing an illogical conclusion.
Commonly used by Canadian homosexual Jews.
Non sequitur rant-fest on the horse world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27he61wrYyA
NEMO
Dec 22, 2019, 2:55:43 PM12/22/19
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In article <f2760d80-1125-46e7...@googlegroups.com>,
Cheer up, old man! This leading nazoid ALSO sucked dick! And he
explains why it's OK for nazoids to do so!
"While in jail, Kuhnen[1] came out as gay. In response to critics
within the neo-Nazi movement, he argued that his lack of a family
meant he had more time to devote to militancy, and he pointed out
that Ernst Rohm[2] was also a gay Nazi."
Notes:
[1] Michael Kuhnen was the leader of the German neo-Nazi
scene; after sucking one too many dicks, he died of AIDS.
[2] The homosexual Ernst Rohm was the leader of the SA, and
also (surprise!) Adolf Shitler's "closest" personal friend
(nudge-nudge-wink-wink).
Carolina Reb
Dec 22, 2019, 3:06:47 PM12/22/19
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not dig up some of your old posts from 2012 about
"Deliverance" and Richard Speck, and re-post them
for the newbees....
NEMO
Dec 22, 2019, 3:23:21 PM12/22/19
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In article <63539a51-38d5-4c0f...@googlegroups.com>,
A very surprised nazi soldier:
"Ach! But Shitler promized ve vill rule das vorld!"
http://i.imgur.com/LjVfx.jpg
TSSK!
Michael Ejercito
Dec 23, 2019, 12:09:26 AM12/23/19
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Michael
Carolina Reb
Dec 23, 2019, 2:05:44 AM12/23/19
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