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Sun Sep 8, 2019, 02:44 PM

Seems like every idiot I'm seeing on MSNBC this morning

is presenting this Camp David Taliban meeting as if it was a real thing that was actually scheduled to take place today. Very disappointing.

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Reply Seems like every idiot I'm seeing on MSNBC this morning (Original post)
Mr.Bill Sep 2019 OP
Sneederbunk Sep 2019 #1
progressoid Sep 2019 #15
montanacowboy Sep 2019 #2
True Blue American Sep 2019 #4
madaboutharry Sep 2019 #3
TreasonousBastard Sep 2019 #7
tblue37 Sep 2019 #12
Mr.Bill Sep 2019 #8
triron Sep 2019 #18
John1956PA Sep 2019 #23
KPN Sep 2019 #9
Mr.Bill Sep 2019 #13
Skittles Sep 2019 #21
not_the_one Sep 2019 #24
Skittles Sep 2019 #25
Joe941 Sep 2019 #5
Wellstone ruled Sep 2019 #6
triron Sep 2019 #19
SWBTATTReg Sep 2019 #10
Girard442 Sep 2019 #11
smb Sep 2019 #26
mulsh Sep 2019 #14
triron Sep 2019 #20
Snake Plissken Sep 2019 #16
spanone Sep 2019 #17
kentuck Sep 2019 #22

Response to Mr.Bill (Original post)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 02:46 PM

1. What are the Afghans and the Talaban saying about the meeting?

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Response to Sneederbunk (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 05:09 PM

15. More Americans will die after Trump abruptly ends Afghan talks, Taliban say

The Islamist group issued a statement after Trump unexpectedly canceled secret talks planned for Sunday with the Taliban’s major leaders at the presidential compound in Camp David, Maryland. He broke off the talks on Saturday after the Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack in Kabul last week that killed an American soldier and 11 others.

Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, criticized Trump for calling off the dialogue and said U.S. forces have been pounding Afghanistan with attacks at the same time.

“This will lead to more losses to the U.S.,” he said. “Its credibility will be affected, its anti-peace stance will be exposed to the world, losses to lives and assets will increase.”


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan/taliban-says-trumps-decision-to-cancel-afghan-talks-will-mean-us-lives-lost-idUSKCN1VT05L

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Response to Mr.Bill (Original post)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 02:48 PM

2. Pathetic Isn't it

anyone in their right mind that believes this fucking bullshit should take a long walk off a short pier

and I am so sick of the "normalization" of this POS, yes, right the Taliban were coming to dinner

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Response to montanacowboy (Reply #2)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 02:54 PM

4. Trump was furious that

The Obama Administration was negotiating with the Talibam but the Afghan Government was there,too.

But I do not believe there was any meeting planned. I think it is all in Trump’s mind.

Staff says he is like a bull seeing red in private. He is a raving maniac fearing he is going down.

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Response to Mr.Bill (Original post)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 02:53 PM

3. I see it differently.

They don't have the reporting and information yet to call it out as a lie. For now, the responsible thing to do is to treat it at face value while journalist do the investigating into the meeting. If they uncover that this was a fabrication that Trump made up in his head on the fly, then they can tell us that.

In the meantime, I think it would be foolish for them to get on television and treat it as a lie. If it would turn out to be true, in some form, it would damage their own credibility and give Trump further fodder for his "fake news' bullshit. That may even have been his goal in the first place.

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Response to madaboutharry (Reply #3)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 03:00 PM

7. Yep! Even if there is only a slight amount of truth to it, the press...

will be crucified for calling it fake without evidence..

Let them find whatever there is about this "meeting" and tell us what they found.

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Response to TreasonousBastard (Reply #7)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 03:42 PM

12. Besides, it doesn't help Trump to be seen as wanting to bring the Taliban to Camp David so close to

9/11, and to be negotiating a surrender to them while excluding the actual, supposedly U.S. supported, Afghan government (yet including Russia!). Whether the meeting was real or not, he looks bad either way, not to mention the whole blabbing about a sensitive "secret" meeting part.

Also, the idea of negotiating without even a cease-fire in pace looks really incompetent.

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Response to madaboutharry (Reply #3)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 03:01 PM

8. There would be nothing wrong with them demanding proof it was going to happen.

So far only Trump lackeys like Pompeo are being offered as proof. And it would also be legitimate to report on those doubting it, which they don't seem to be even mentioning.

They are totally normalizing it without any facts to back it up.

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Response to Mr.Bill (Reply #8)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 05:40 PM

18. Agree.

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Response to Mr.Bill (Reply #8)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 06:03 PM

23. The evidence Trump would offer would be a poster-sized visual aid marked up with a Sharpie. n/t


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Response to madaboutharry (Reply #3)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 03:04 PM

9. Agree. tRump is kind of a master at putting the press in a position where they somewhat have to

normalize him -- though they could demand evidence. But even then, he'd just scream and ridicule them as "fake news" in answer to those questions. THere's no winning without pretty iron-clad proof of a lie frankly.

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Response to KPN (Reply #9)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 03:42 PM

13. If the press is going to let him yelling "fake news"

guide how they cover their stories, they might as well just close up shop and declare him president for life.

Fuck what he says. He doesn't have 1/1000th of the credibility that American journalism has, except with his knuckle-dragging worshippers.

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Response to madaboutharry (Reply #3)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 05:51 PM

21. um....nope

Trump is by now a KNOWN LIAR, and everything he says should be QUESTIONED

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Response to Skittles (Reply #21)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 06:58 PM

24. and meanwhile, while the media waits for proof, it becomes the equivalent of

 

Bill Barr's "summary" of Mueller's report becoming the "truth"...

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Response to not_the_one (Reply #24)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 08:51 PM

25. exactly

"taking the high road" does NOT WORK with fascists

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Response to Mr.Bill (Original post)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 02:56 PM

5. The media play right into tRumps hands. Sad.

 

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Response to Mr.Bill (Original post)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 02:56 PM

6. Was this Story created by

 

Putin's Propaganda unit? Nance mentioned this was the next Propaganda move by the GRU in their efforts to protect Trump as well as their position in the White House.

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Response to Wellstone ruled (Reply #6)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 05:42 PM

19. If Nance said it, it's probably correct.

Corporate media wants to play along with Trump, especially the weekend morons.

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Response to Mr.Bill (Original post)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 03:30 PM

10. I don't believe anything this admin. or the scumbag presidents says period. Zip, zero, nada. NT

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Response to Mr.Bill (Original post)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 03:41 PM

11. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

If Trump claims to have built a nuclear-powered suit of armor that gives him the strength of 50 men and flies at supersonic speeds, we’re going to need more than a supporting statement from Pence to believe it.

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Response to Girard442 (Reply #11)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 08:56 PM

26. It's Easier To Believe...

...that he built such a suit in a cave using a box of scraps than it is to believe that he's schedule a meeting at Camp David instead of one of his properties where he can pocket the lion's share of the event budget.

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Response to Mr.Bill (Original post)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 04:31 PM

14. Shame on Joy and the rest, they've been providing the WP's running talley of his lies and they're

reporting this as if it were an actual potential event. What a bunch of unmitigated bullshit. Not one of them I saw this morning questioned the truth of this report. gad.

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Response to mulsh (Reply #14)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 05:43 PM

20. Joy even? Jesus!

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Response to Mr.Bill (Original post)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 05:30 PM

16. It's cable news, there job is to make elections a close horse race for the sake of ratings

MSNBC was one of the first channels to legitimize Trump, every morning he would call in and they would give him a free hour infomercial.

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Response to Mr.Bill (Original post)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 05:36 PM

17. he has the media on a leash.

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Response to Mr.Bill (Original post)

Sun Sep 8, 2019, 05:58 PM

22. Trump said it was cancelled ??

What more do we need to know?

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