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>>735258
>Doesn't realize he wanted to start a war with Iran but was stopped by his people
>Massive drone campaigns don't matter
>Or the shitshow in Yeman.
There's also the whole issue of Trump ordering the assassination of a US citizen on US soil.
Going to defend that?

>>735258
>no new wars
Irrelevant when we've continued to escalate the ones we already have, like in Yemen.
>bringing home the troops
Never actually happened on any significant scale and in the few situations where it was done it was a total failure leaving our allies out to dry. Yeah, we should've never gotten involved in Syria to begin with, but hastily pulling out only makes the situation worse. It was a blatant populist PR move with no actual substance behind it.
>no more world police
Assassinating Soleimani sure seems like world police action to me.
>trying to stop the selling of our industrial base to china
>trying to stop mass migration and protect workers wages
Not true but also what do these have to do with anything?

>>735258
Not him but you appear to have no idea what you are talking about and appear to have swallowed the administration's propaganda
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nuclear-saudi/u-s-shared-nuclear-power-info-with-saudi-arabia-after-khashoggi-killed-idUSKCN1T52ER
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-11/u-s-expected-to-announce-new-troop-deployment-to-middle-east
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/world/middleeast/trump-saudi-arabia-iran-troops.html
https://apnews.com/article/4d4ce92397ba44a68bedd60edb2aee36
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/us/politics/trump-iran-nuclear.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-emirates-arms-sales-int/u-s-senators-seek-to-stop-trumps-23-billion-in-arms-sales-to-uae-idUSKBN27Y2YO
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/10/us-approves-23-bn-advanced-arms-sale-to-uae-pompeo

>>735261
>There's also the whole issue of Trump ordering the assassination of a US citizen on US soil.
?????

>>735262
>Yeah, we should've never gotten involved in Syria to begin with, but hastily pulling out only makes the situation worse.
"I am opposed to forever war but also: HOW CAN YOU STOP THE FOREVER WAR"

You're a necon, just embrace it.

>>735262
btw
>It was a blatant populist PR move with no actual substance behind it.
The substance behind it is, as you say:
>we should've never gotten involved in Syria to begin with

>>735189
>spotted by state employees counting sheep from a helicopter.
They fell asleep and dreamed it/crashed and are int limbo like the crappy ending of LOst

>>735189
RIMSHOT

>>735189
Nice....

is there a rational explanation? or is aliums the rational explanation?

>>735264
The Guardian thinks it might be the work of a sculpture artist named John McCracken who died in 2011, but he wasn't known for working in Utah and they can't prove it.

>>735182
He didn't approach him anon, he was chased.

>>735182
>He approached
so you're still going with the fake news strategy?

He may have been emancipated from his guardians.

>>735182
>brandishing
I saw the clips, he wasn't brandishing his gun. Where was he waving it about and threatening with it?

Joseph Rosenbaum was convicted of sex with a minor and killed by a minor. Pottery.

I love videos like this but I think I've seen them all! :(

he violated the property rights of the store owners

>>734693
More importantly, Florida is a red state, the media started another panic by implying that because it didn't go blue, we'd have a massive red tidal wave and Trump would win.

>>734974
Don't bully the little retard too hard. He was probably confused by all the headlines discussing Russian Hackers to understand the context

>>735188
Doesn't really work on a slow board though

>>734693
>red mirage
Weird how the "red mirage" only vanished in ~5 cities with sketchy voting laws and procedures and how it did not apply to the rest of the country or even neighboring swing-states like Ohio which have strict voting procedures.

You are now aware that this is the first time since 1960 that a candidate has won FL and OH but lost the Presidential election
>weird that there were also serious accusations of fraud in 1960 as well


>>734953
>>734964
>>734966
>>734974
He has a point, for the last four years we have had half the country shouting
>not my president


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>>735194
Biden's a catholic though

Under the 1963 Presidential Transition Act, it was up to Murphy as head of the GSA, the federal agency that acts as a leasing agent for the government, to make the ascertainment, though the law is vague about the criteria that should be used.

The GSA had cited the precedent set by the 2000 election in which Republican George W. Bush wasn't declared the winner over Democrat Al Gore until the Supreme Court ruled in Bush's favor in a dispute over recounting Florida's ballots. The margin then was just 537 votes, a far narrower outcome than Biden's win over Trump.

That shortened transition period was cited by the 9/11 Commission as a factor in al-Qaida's attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, because of the time it took Bush to get his national security team in place.

The GSA decision was Monday's second major blow to Trump's effort to overturn the election result. Earlier in the day, the Michigan Board of State Canvassers voted to certify Biden's win there. The typically ministerial duty had become a national focal point as the president and his allies launched a failed effort either to delay certification or install Trump loyalists in the place of electors who would vote for Biden.

The decision to certify the outcome was 3-0, with one abstention.

>>735236
>While Trump said he had recommended the moves, Emily Murphy, the Trump appointee who heads the GSA, wrote in her "letter of ascertainment" to Biden that she had reached the decision independently.
So basically the GSA made the independent decision to start giving Biden funds and resources, and Trump took credit for it out of fear of appearing out of control of the situation?

>>735238
>Murphy wrote she had reached her decision "because of recent developments involving legal challenges and certifications of election results."
So she decided to save her ass when it became clear Trump can't keep stalling this shit forever and pull off his soft coup

>>735240
No. trump's fat fuck toadie received her marching orders and used standard boiler plate language that has appeared in previous letters of ascertainment. This was a standard formality by the GSA, as per previous elections. She had been holding it up on trump's orders like a good little lickspittle because she knows who is holding her leash.

Which, by the way, is in flagrant violation of the law. Her position is specifically set up to be independent of the influence from the Whitehouse. But, like all of trump's quislings, she decided to ignore all laws, regulations, and precedents in her blithering devotion to her cult's Dear Leader.

>>735249
>trump's fat fuck toadie
> good little lickspittle
>holding her leash
> trump's quislings
>blithering devotion
>cult's
>Dear Leader.
Even in victory you are completely miserable.

Its going to be funny over the next few years, with Trump gone and Biden in the WH. Its going to be funny watching so many of you realize that your misery and anger that plagues you has nothing to do with Trump.

But do enjoy the next four years of Woke George Bush

>>735220
>Yes, it's a whataboutism.
No, it's not.
>Also there wasn't a spike in the cities protests took place in.
There absolutely was.
But again, how can you say anything for sure when contact tracers were told to avoid collecting data on BLM protests?
You can't :)

>>735231
>There absolutely was.
Nope

>>735232
Well if you say so, butthurt anon on 4chan

>>735233
>ad hominem
Not a good look for you.

460k shitheads leads to 260,000 new COVID-19 cases: study and 3,000 deaths and many damaged lungs

Only in america

>>735212
Voting isn't a basic human right, and neither are guns.

You're bad at this.

>>735216
>Voting isn't a basic human right
lmao

>>735217
Glad we agree.

>>735218
We don't, you're a crackhead

>>735219
>ad hom
Oof! Not quite an argument.

But the three in court on Monday are among the most high-profile activists in Hong Kong, and as the prison vans thought to be transporting them back to the detention centres pulled out onto the road, their supporters gathered, waved and chanted. Some activists called Joshua Wong's name in Cantonese as the vans drove away.

Mr Wong used his platform on Monday to raise awareness of the plight of 12 young Hong Kong activists who were arrested trying to flee to Taiwan by boat, and are currently detained in mainland China, .
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-china-54354127

Many activists feel the youth here are under attack. There have been more than 10,000 protest related arrests since last year and more than 2,000 prosecutions. More than 1,000 arrested are under 18.

Who are the activists?
Mr Wong has been involved in Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement for years and has served several shorter prison sentences as a result.

The now 24-year-old first rose to prominence as a student leader during the 2014 "Umbrella Movement", and also supported the new wave of protests that rocked the territory in 2019.

Last year's protests repeatedly led to violent clashes between demonstrators and police.

The background you need on Hong Kong's protests

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Ahead of Monday's court appearance, she wrote on Facebook that although "mentally prepared", she still felt scared ahead of a possible prison term but would "try my best to face it bravely".

"If I am sentenced to prison this time, it will be the first time in my life that I have been in jail," she wrote. "However, compared to many friends, I have suffered very little."

Why were there protests in Hong Kong?
A former British colony, Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997 but under the so-called "one country, two systems" principle.

It was supposed to guarantee certain freedoms for the territory - including freedom of assembly and speech, an independent judiciary and some democratic rights - which mainland China does not have.

The activists fear that Beijing's growing influence in Hong Kong would mean the gradual erosion of those rights and freedoms.

Most observers say that this year's national security law has confirmed those fears, making it easier to severely punish protesters.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-52765838

>breitbart
Into the trash it goes!

>breitbart

Lmao

>>735208
Go cry about it libcuck.

>>735213
Aww did my post hurt your feelings?

>Russian meme frog
>Breitbart
Fuck off /pol/

BTW, both Republican Georgia senators are criminals who used insider trading to profit off the pandemic and then let people die by not taking action.

>>735153
>we're actually supposed to keep the privacy envelopes for two years
[citation needed]

>>735172
?? Explain to me how that would be a bad thing, exactly. I'm just a dumb Euro in a country where Voter IDs are sent to people by mail, but once you carry them with you on election day you need to prove with valid ID that you're the person whose name it states on the Voter ID slip, so you can receive your ballot, cast your votes, and all votes then get manually hand-counted in full view of observers no exceptions whatsoever. I read according to Wiki that in the US this would somehow be considered disenfranchisement of undocumented but that's clearly cop-out since it's just a matter of giving people proper identity documents so they can vote, among other things. Ie it's shifting the buck elsewhere while opening a window for elections to have possible vulnerabilities.

>>735178
Election law.

>>735198
>it's just a matter of giving people proper identity documents so they can vote
Anything resembling a free national voter id act will never get out of congress. Nearly the entirety of EU, on the other hand, either makes easily attained documents eligible as proof or has a similar national id policy in place

>>735198
Most modern pushes for voter ID are less concerned with election security and more with trying to disenfranchise specific voters. This is why these ID laws are have overly specific requirements (North Carolina's struck down law allowed driver's licenses but not government employee IDs, despite both being government-issue photo IDs) or are paired with highly specific closures of ID-issuing offices ("open only on the fifth Monday of the month"), both of which are tailored to target specific demographics or areas to reduce their turnout for the opposing party. Handing out free ID would prevent these underhanded measure from working, hence a lack of push for free IDs by the same people demanding the ID requirements.

Comically, these same laws also ignored mail-in ballots because at the time they were passed (before being struck down) Republicans benefited more from mail-in voting as their constituents were more likely older and more rural. This of course changed this year when the pandemic caused Democrats to vote heavily by mail, so suddenly Republican leadership had to about-face and claim mail-in ballots were prone to fraud and in-person was more secure.

If anyone actually gave a shit about election security we'd automatically send IDs with every registration, but nobody wants to do that because it doesn't help them win.

>>735113
>And they did nothing even moderately substantial with it.
They lowered taxes despite never having a 60 vote majority in the senate

>>735117
>And any dem today you mention it to will literally bend over backwards to defend FDR for doing it
Seriously...

I don't know any Dems who don't consider that anything but a tragedy - though I know some Republicans that not only will defend it as a necessity, but who advocated, incessantly, that we should do it to the Muslims around 9-11. Further, it's the tragedy that so many Democrats pointed to in their efforts to shout down calls for Muslim concentration camps at the time, as well as what they point to, to this day, in their complaints about the border detainment camps.

Today, the Democrats be like this about it:
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/20/807665162/california-to-officially-apologize-to-japanese-americans-over-internment

...Meanwhile, the Republicans, have actually reopened them:
https://bipartisanreport.com/2019/06/12/trump-ghoulishly-opens-former-japanese-internment-camp/

If you can find me a Democrat that will defend concentration camps of any sort today, I'd be quite impressed.

Though, really, Democrats had balls of steel back then - today, they are pussified as fuck. (Save maybe the angry black ones, that aren't so much Democrats, as Afrocrats.)

>>735168
>Though, really, Democrats had balls of steel back then - today, they are pussified as fuck.
Oddly, I think Hillary is the just about the manliest major candidate they've had since 2000.

>>733806
This. I'm pro-2A, but do people really need modern guns? Why can't they just use crossbows?

>>735204
I wouldn't mind fighting a war with throwing tomahawks.

>>728054
take your pills schizoid

>>728054

all you gotta do is include at least 3 buzzwords -- 'liberals' , 'hillary' , 'hunter biden', 'pride', 'secret society', 'BLM', 'evidence', to name a few

then just clickbait the fuck out of trumpers with room temperature IQ, and you've got an ad revenue machine. good shit

>>728054

There is more proof of the existence of Azu-nyan than Trump has for 'evidence' of voter fraud.

>>735140
Holy shit I'm going to find and fuck azunyan you guys

>>728507
>disobey chain of command, leak confidential information about one of our key military assets being out of commission
>get slapped
>"he dindu nuffin"
Do Dems have sort of genetic predisposition to rebellious behavior?

Surprised he didn't kill and eat the Turkey and used the Pardon for his kids.

>>734993
Or named the turkey Joe, revoked the pardon, then ate him.

>>735016
hee hee ......ha ha...hoo hoo......pissed my pants