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rinselberg
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JUN 05, 07:19 PM
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Never let a 'good' Topic title go to waste.
~ rinselberg
It may seem that I am rushing about the forum today and the last few days, creating new Topics but not taking any further part, myself, in whatever happens after the (proverbial) "Original Post."
I keep track of these Topics, and I plan to revisit them and review whatever has been said in response, and maybe have something more to say about it, myself.
I think this is a good way for me to be, vis-à-vis the forum. If not all of the time, then some of the time.
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell said yesterday that one of President Trump's latest batch of Twitter messages is way out of line, for a serving POTUS. And at the very end, he points to none other than Attorney General William Barr to buttress his argument against the President. Or against the President's Twitter message.
YouTube video segment; 5 minutes 12 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmWvCn6magI
Should you choose to air this YouTube segment, you will likely get "hit" with a brief video ad that runs first. After the ad starts, you may be able to Skip and go directly to the content.
This is the Twitter message from the President:
http s://twitter.com/realDon...r-companies-fight%2F
And a little more about it, from POLITICO...
"Trump suggests AT&T boycott to force changes in CNN coverage"
Caitlin Oprysko for POLITICO; June 3, 2019.
https://www.politico.com/st...cnn-coverage-1351599[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 06-05-2019).]
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olejoedad
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JUN 05, 08:14 PM
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I'm waiting breathlessly for your posting commemorating the sacrifices of D-day.
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82-T/A [At Work]
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JUN 05, 09:01 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by rinselberg:
Never let a 'good' Topic title go to waste.
~ rinselberg
It may seem that I am rushing about the forum today and the last few days, creating new Topics but not taking any further part, myself, in whatever happens after the (proverbial) "Original Post."
I keep track of these Topics, and I plan to revisit them and review whatever has been said in response, and maybe have something more to say about it, myself.
I think this is a good way for me to be, vis-à-vis the forum. If not all of the time, then some of the time.
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell said yesterday that one of President Trump's latest batch of Twitter messages is way out of line, for a serving POTUS. And at the very end, he points to none other than Attorney General William Barr to buttress his argument against the President. Or against the President's Twitter message.
YouTube video segment; 5 minutes 12 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmWvCn6magI
Should you choose to air this YouTube segment, you will likely get "hit" with a brief video ad that runs first. After the ad starts, you may be able to Skip and go directly to the content.
This is the Twitter message from the President:
http s://twitter.com/realDon...r-companies-fight%2F
And a little more about it, from POLITICO...
"Trump suggests AT&T boycott to force changes in CNN coverage"
Caitlin Oprysko for POLITICO; June 3, 2019.
https://www.politico.com/st...cnn-coverage-1351599
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The president of the United States literally has the power to say whatever he wants... as does any citizen off this country.
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randye
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JUN 05, 09:33 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by rinselberg:
It may seem that I am rushing about the forum today and the last few days, creating new Topics but not taking any further part, myself, in whatever happens after the (proverbial) "Original Post."
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Its properly called SPAMMING the forum and TROLLING.
Its also nothing new for you. That is what your raging, untreated, mental illness causes you to constantly do.
The ONLY thing "newsworthy" about your fecal spew this time is that you have admitted to it.
YOU ARE SICK Ronald....GET HELP[This message has been edited by randye (edited 06-06-2019).]
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randye
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JUN 05, 09:39 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by olejoedad:
I'm waiting breathlessly for your posting commemorating the sacrifices of D-day. |
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If he does you can bet that it will contain yet another one of his drooling psychotic references to President Trump and /or some douche-bag, leftist propaganda from MSNBC, CNN or some other Marxist talking head.[This message has been edited by randye (edited 06-05-2019).]
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MidEngineManiac
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JUN 05, 11:36 PM
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Rinsey...can you say that again? In English this time ?
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rinselberg
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JUN 06, 07:08 PM
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I know how it is. How difficult it can be to come down on the side of "I want to view that YouTube video segment from 'rinse'. I want to see and hear that notorious old "lefty", Lawrence O'Donnell. I will click on that Internet page link that is looking back at me from the surface of my video monitor or mobile device screen in that distinctive yellow type color."
Well, I've got great news. An alternative to that Internet page link for YouTube to see and hear the video of Lawrence O'Donnell. Now you can just READ his words. This message post continues with the words of Lawrence O'Donnell, at the end of his June 4 hour-long segment on MSNBC. A copy and paste of the MSNBC transcript.
From Lawrence O'Donnell:
President Trump has been violating his oath of office every day of his presidency in large and small ways. The oath pledges only two things: First, "I will faithfully execute the office of the [president of the] United States."
Donald Trump has never done that. He has never faithfully done his job as president. The other pledge in the presidential oath of office is to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Donald Trump cannot preserve, protect or defend [the Constitution, which] he has never read and does not understand.
And so, instead of defending the Constitution, Donald Trump attacks the Constitution, which is for any president both a violation of [their] oath of office, and a high crime. Indeed, for the [Founding Fathers] there would be no higher crime a president could commit than attacking the Constitution he is [sworn to] defend. And that is what Donald Trump did yesterday with a tweet saying this:
| quote | | I believe that if people stoped using or subscribing to AT&T, they would be forced to make big changes at CNN.” |
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It is perfectly appropriate that an impeachable Trump tweet would, of course, contain a spelling error.
Reaction to his tweet was mild, but the New York Times Peter Baker gave it an appropriate frame, saying, “The President of the United States just called for an economic boycott on one of the country`s largest communications firms as a way of pressuring a media organization to cover him in a way that he approves of.”
In other words, the President just attacked the First Amendment of the Constitution. The President`s sworn duty is to stand up to people who attack the Constitution. His duty is to defend the Constitution, but this President is the country`s most relentless attacker of the Constitution.
If the House Democrats include this latest impeachable offense by the President in their current investigation of the President, they can call as their chief witness a former member of the board of Time Warner who can testify about the President`s record of “public animus” towards CNN when Time Warner, which includes CNN, was merging with AT&T.
That member of the [Time Warner] board actually submitted an under oath affidavit objecting to the [Trump] Justice Department`s attempt to block the merger. In his affidavit, the distinguished member of the board identified himself as a former Attorney General of the United States. And before that, a former Deputy Attorney General, and before that an Assistant Attorney General, and his private sector experience included 14 years as the general [legal] counsel at Verizon.
So he submitted his affidavit as an expert in telecommunications and in federal law enforcement. And he said under oath that the Trump Justice Department`s interference with the merger, “was inconsistent with decades of settled anti-trust law and [inconsistent with] the Department of Justice`s own internal merger guidelines, and bore no relationship to how the media and telecommunications market places actually function.”
He complained that the Trump Justice Department would not “engage in a meaningful discussion.” He said that the Trump Justice Department seemed to be taking legal action because of, “The President`s prior public animus towards CNN and this merger.” He said that the Trump Justice Department`s legal position was, “the product not of a well-versed substantive analysis, but rather [a product of a] political or other motivation. As the former Attorney General [of the United States], that is disturbing to me.”
That former Attorney General who signed that affidavit in February of 2018 under oath was [none other than the current Attorney General of the United States], William Barr
AT&T won its case against the Trump Justice Department and the merger was completed.
[While the] President yesterday returned via tweet to what William Barr once called his “public animus towards CNN,” William Barr stayed silent. Attorney General William Barr did not follow his oath of office and raise his voice in defense of the Constitution against the President of the United States who attacked the Constitution yesterday in a grotesque attempt to crush the First Amendment rights of a news organization.
Another day, another impeachable offense.
That is tonight`s LAST WORD. “THE 11TH HOUR” with Brian Williams starts now.
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olejoedad
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JUN 06, 07:16 PM
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Mr. odonnell has his opinion.
Keep in mind it is an opinion, not backed up by factual evidence.
Also known as propaganda.
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olejoedad
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JUN 06, 07:18 PM
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It's my opinion that mr odonnell has an app named after him.
It's called twitter, because mr odonnell is, in my opinion, a twit.
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williegoat
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JUN 06, 07:42 PM
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| quote | | Trump: "I believe that if people stoped using or subscribing to AT&T, they would be forced to make big changes at CNN.” |
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| quote | | Lawrence O'Donnell: "In other words, the President just attacked the First Amendment of the Constitution." |
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That is absolutely absurd.
| quote | The First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. |
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Trump abridged nothing.
Of course he misspelled "stopped". If he had doubled up on that consonant, the "ppress" would resume discussion of their fantasies involving Russian hookers.
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