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Jim is a very funny comedian, from Australia, his new podcast
https://jimjefferies.com/podcast
"I Dont Know About That" is the name of it, pretty funny and good.
Now, Jim mentions the russians intefering in our election and the guy says "we do the same thing"...no, not the same thing AT ALL, our CIA is not working with PUTIN...
Then he asks him about bounties and his response is "those guys dont have to be paid to kill our soldiers."
Yes and no, and SO not the FUCKING POINT, but if you wondered how righty can justify what "traitor" does ( my name for asshole) this is how they do it.
underpants
(182,791 posts)Hopefully checking out later
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)over the election since we have done the same thing often. And we encouraged Afghans to kill Russian soldiers, even armed them.
ms liberty
(8,573 posts)In Iran, in the 50's and replaced him with the Shah, who did the bidding of US "interests." How much grief has the world suffered from that awful decision, how many people would be alive if we had allowed democracy to take hold then, in that place? How different might our world be today? The US has interfered in elections all over the world in general, and in the ME, and in South and Central America all in particular, way too much. We've been the 800 pound gorilla on the planet a whole bunch of times. And we've had a bad habit of GOP candidates making secret deals with foreign powers to influence elections and getting away with it, too.
That doesn't make it okay for Putin, or China or anyone else to interfere in our elections, but let's be honest about it. It is and was wrong for them to do it, and it was and is wrong for us to do it. To deny that we have done wrong does us no credit and wins us nothing except the opportunity to repeat our mistakes.
That SEAL knows more about it than you give him credit for and if he killed OBL or was even just part of that mission, he's earned the right to say whatever the fuck he wants, IMO.
JI7
(89,248 posts)is when they want to excuse others doing it.
The us also had legal discrmination so would it be ok for other countries to bring that up if we want to criticize them for treatment of certain people ?
ms liberty
(8,573 posts)The rest of the world has no illusions about us. We're the ones with the illusions. They know what we've done.
JI7
(89,248 posts)ms liberty
(8,573 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)BAD enough when people do "both sides" about dems and cons, but you are doing it to the BENEFIT of our ENEMY and TRUMP
Nothing about these situations is the same...and everybody fucking knows it.
ms liberty
(8,573 posts)In 1980 when he sent Poppy Bush to meet with the Iranians to make the deal that got the hostages released the minute he was inaugurated? He wasn't talking to our friends. Oh, and lets talk about that whole Iranian revolution and the hostage situation...and how it relates directly back to the aforementioned coup our CIA performed in Iran, in the 50's. Then we can talk about Iraq, and St Ronnie and Saddam. And how we were arming Iran and Iraq, and their war. And training the mujahadeen in Afghanistan...who became the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. So please don't give me this America is pure shit.
Now in closing. Bless your heart. I'm not sure where you get any of my previous comment as some sort of benefit for Comrade Dumbass of Orange or any of his Big Boy Brigade, but rather than be insulted that you've accused me of being a Trump troll honey, I am just thrilled to be one of those TERRIBLE PEOPLE who are not DOING what you TELL THEM that you like to bemoan and wail about so often. I'll wear it as a badge of honor.