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Discussion in 'The Water Cooler' started by Artem256, Jun 1, 2019.

  1. MnHunterr

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    Sounds like Maryland has had a successful mail in ballot vote.

    We can all drop our concerns now and trust the rest of the nation can follow suit.......
     
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    Well England must but really pleased with us about now.
     
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    You could replace trump with Obama and have the same article written. Obama was the first president who referred to me as An enemy.
     
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    He’s the next Pelosi or Cuomo. 100%.


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    I take that back, France, Australia, spain, ect, ect ect.

    One man, that it will probably be revealed had a PERSONAL grudge against a man blew up the world. ....
     
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    Oh no ,Tucker was on fire again tonight, case by case, factual #s.
     
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    I was confused when Mattis was complaining of using the military like it has never happened before. I can personally remember being an active duty Marine and being called in to South Central LA in 1992. The guard and police should start cracking heads as soon as all the looting starts. If antifa were wiped off the planet I would not lose a wink of sleep. Just like I would not lose any sleep if every skin head were wiped off the planet.
     
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    Ah yes, Trump is once again the victim. I have to hand it to him, he has amassed an impressive contingent of water carriers for his victim card, at least among his voters. Too bad he hasn't garnered that kind of loyalty in his appointees. It seems like as soon as they climb on board they realize how unstable the ship is, then jump and swim for shore. The loyal General is but one on the lengthy list.
     
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    Talk about inheriting a perfect storm of a prisoner....and then keep your knee on his neck like an idiot. Like 1 in 10 million odds all those factors align.

    "The report by Chief Medical Examiner Andrew Baker spelled out clinical details, including that Floyd had tested positive for COVID-19 on April 3 but appeared asymptomatic. The report also noted Floyd’s lungs appeared healthy but he had some narrowing of arteries in the heart.

    The county’s earlier summary report had listed fentanyl intoxication and recent methamphetamine use under “other significant conditions” but not under “cause of death.” The full report’s footnotes noted that signs of fentanyl toxicity can include “severe respiratory depression” and seizures."

    This trial is going to be terrible.

    In his blood:

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    All I know is, we still have months ahead of us on this whole thing.

    The verdict once it is reached is going to have an entirely different uprising regardless of the result. Win, lose or draw.

    These prosecutors better know what they are doing and seeing for upgrading the charges. Doing it for pure political gain or as an attempt to quell the disruption of society would be nearly as bad as the act itself.

    Many are calling for first degree murder charges and I hope to hell they do not go that route. Murder 2 is a likely conviction for Chauvin, his cohorts may have conflicting verdicts.

    This is such a huge case, and there will likely be other cases that go to trial before it that are a direct result should culprits be ID'd and aprehended.
     
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    You said Mattis was gaslighting. That doesn't take places without a victim. Suffice to say since he penned the diatribe about Trump, then who else could you possibly been implying that Mattis was gaslightng? Again Trump the victim.

    Trump showed terrible leadership in this situation. His own words and past criticisms came back to bite him in his arrogant ass. But feel free to spin it if you must. Alas, if you do I suspect it will be hollow.
     
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    IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH

    I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled. The words “Equal Justice Under Law” are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand—one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values—our values as people and our values as a nation.

    When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside.

    We must reject any thinking of our cities as a “battlespace” that our uniformed military is called upon to “dominate.” At home, we should use our military only when requested to do so, on very rare occasions, by state governors. Militarizing our response, as we witnessed in Washington, D.C., sets up a conflict—a false conflict—between the military and civilian society. It erodes the moral ground that ensures a trusted bond between men and women in uniform and the society they are sworn to protect, and of which they themselves are a part. Keeping public order rests with civilian state and local leaders who best understand their communities and are answerable to them.

    James Madison wrote in Federalist 14 that “America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.” We do not need to militarize our response to protests. We need to unite around a common purpose. And it starts by guaranteeing that all of us are equal before the law.

    Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that “The Nazi slogan for destroying us…was ‘Divide and Conquer.’ Our American answer is ‘In Union there is Strength.’” We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis—confident that we are better than our politics.

    Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children.

    We can come through this trying time stronger, and with a renewed sense of purpose and respect for one another. The pandemic has shown us that it is not only our troops who are willing to offer the ultimate sacrifice for the safety of the community. Americans in hospitals, grocery stores, post offices, and elsewhere have put their lives on the line in order to serve their fellow citizens and their country. We know that we are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafayette Park. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution. At the same time, we must remember Lincoln’s “better angels,” and listen to them, as we work to unite.

    Only by adopting a new path—which means, in truth, returning to the original path of our founding ideals—will we again be a country admired and respected at home and abroad.

    James Mattis
     
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    You can take Trump name out and replace with Obama and write the exact same oped.
     
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    Looks like he was a junky
     
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