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Jacob Boehme

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Tue Jan 17, 2017, 11:52 PM Jan 2017

Ralph Nader: An Open Letter To President-Elect Donald Trump [View all]

Wow! Powerful does not even begin to describe this very pointed and direct letter to Trump.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ralph-nader/an-open-letter-to-preside_b_14233922.html?1484697818

Excerpt: 1.) Your “Achilles heel” has thus far proven to be your easily bruised ego, which is put on display with every one of your furious, sometimes bullying tweets. When you are President, however, you have more ways to retaliate and more ways to get both yourself and our country in trouble if you do so in such a spasmodic manner. This is the Big Leagues. Adversaries abroad are keenly aware of how easily they can provoke you into impulsive missteps that play into their hands. You would benefit from reading the 2004 book by Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror—What Really Happened, on leaving his position as anti-terrorist advisor to President George W. Bush.

In it, Mr. Clarke writes, “It was as if Osama bin Laden, hidden in some high mountain redoubt, was engaging in long-range mind control of George Bush, chanting, ‘Invade Iraq, you must invade Iraq.’”
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Nader's time has passed. tazkcmo Jan 2017 #1
Who cares about Nader? Gothmog Jan 2017 #2
It's actually worth reading canetoad Jan 2017 #3
Stupid, old, ignorant Nader! HassleCat Jan 2017 #4
Brilliant, fresh, savvy Nader! He's won every election since . . . . Maru Kitteh Jan 2017 #5
Yeah! Fuck him! HassleCat Jan 2017 #7
Spasmodic is a perfect... 3catwoman3 Jan 2017 #6
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