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Your the delusional one my friend. Your fly by night fat orange mans days are numbered. I hope your proud to support an adminstration that will go down in history as the worst. It an embarrassment to American people.

Oh an by the way I’m down with @Michael Scally MD

So you think a grown man posting on a bodybuilding for 24/7 about trump, posting cartoons, never replies to anyone, can’t have a conversation with anyone, can’t think or form an opinion for himself, Trump owns his mind. and you think that’s normal? ok got it [emoji1303]
 


Since Donald Trump’s election, Fox News host Tucker Carlson has ascended to become a full caricature of white supremacy. Carlson frequently uses his 8 p.m. slot to attack immigrants with cherry-picked fear-mongering presented as news despite being little more than racist fan fiction. Last week, at least as far as advertisers are concerned, he went too far.

Boycotts resulted in more than a dozen companies pulling ads from the show. Since the corporate exodus began, various media gatekeepers rushed to condemn the boycotting of Tucker Carlson Tonight. The resulting debate has provided a stark example of the mind-numbing paradigm of “both sidesism,” and the way it scrambles the national conversation. Engaging with different political viewpoints is not the same thing as sponsoring hate speech.

The inciting episode aired last Thursday, when Carlson claimed that allowing Central American immigrants into the country “makes our own country poorer and dirtier and more divided.” Earlier in his remarks, he openly mocked those who believe “we have a moral obligation to accept the world’s poor.” The segment featured an image of literal garbage.

Carlson’s remarks were met with successful calls to boycott companies that advertise during his show. On Friday, Pacific Life Insurance pulled its ads, noting that, “As a company, we strongly disagree with Mr. Carlson’s statements.” On Monday, Carlson doubled down on his initial remarks and complained he was being silenced by liberals. By Tuesday, more than a dozen companies asked that their ads be removed from Tucker Carlson Tonight.

In reaction to the boycott, Carlson is defending himself on the basis of “free speech.” I keep Command-F-ing the Constitution, and can’t seem to find the place where our founding fathers guaranteed that a bigotry variety hour be sponsored by IHOP, but Carlson is not wrong in that he is being “silenced.” Boycotts are a tactic of exerting public will, in which money is used as speech. By applying pressure to the companies who choose to be associated with Carlson’s show, boycotters refuse to allow his white supremacist rhetoric into mainstream acceptability. The goal is absolutely to get Tucker Carlson to shut up.

Given the apparent lack of accountability at the government level (see: the president doing lots of crimes), the way corporate sponsorship responds to economic pressure is a crucial bastion of public will. As the writer Alexander Chee wrote on Twitter, “When an un-democratic minority installs itself and is entrenched through voter suppression, gerrymandering, dark money, foreign intervention, and regularly moves against popular will, boycotts become a last way to express the democratic will of the majority.”
 


WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw American troops from Syria was made hastily, without consulting his national security team or allies, and over strong objections from virtually everyone involved in the fight against the Islamic State group, according to U.S. and Turkish officials.

Trump stunned his Cabinet, lawmakers and much of the world with the move by rejecting the advice of his top aides and agreeing to a withdrawal in a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week, two officials briefed on the matter told The Associated Press.

The Dec. 14 call, described by officials who were not authorized to discuss the decision-making process publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, provides insight into a consequential Trump decision that prompted the resignation of widely respected Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. It also set off a frantic, four-day scramble to convince the president either to reverse or delay the decision.

The White House, State Department and Pentagon all declined to comment on the account of the decision to withdraw the troops, which have been in Syria to fight the Islamic State since 2015.


 


“Trump is God’s gift that keeps on giving,” said Vladimir Frolov, a Russian columnist and foreign affairs analyst. “Trump implements Russia’s negative agenda by default, undermining the U.S.–led world order, U.S. alliances, U.S. credibility as a partner and an ally. All of this on his own. Russia can just relax and watch and root for Trump, which Putin does at every TV appearance.”

One headline in a regional Russian newspaper trumpeted, “Trump Leaves the Dog Out in the Cold,” referring to Mr. Mattis’s nickname, Mad Dog, from his days in the Marines. Konstantin Kosachev, the head of the international affairs committee in the upper house of Russia’s Parliament, wrote on Facebook that the differences in Washington were “an interesting signal, and moreover, rather a positive one.”

There was also positive news for Russia on the economic front, with Washington announcing that it intended to lift sanctions on Rusal, the Russian company that dominates a large share of the world aluminum market. The firm is headed by Oleg Deripaska, an oligarch who is not only close to Mr. Putin, but also a one-time business partner of Mr. Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort.
 


ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The US should stay in northern Syria to deter attacks against Syrian Kurds, well-known American linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky said in an interview with the Intercept last week.

“The other crucial question is the status of the Kurdish areas — Rojava. In my opinion, it makes sense for the United States to maintain a presence which would deter an attack on the Kurdish areas,” he said.

Chomsky noted that the Kurds have “succeeded in sustaining a functioning society with many decent elements” in Syria’s north.

“The idea that they should be subjected to an attack by their bitter enemies the Turks, or by the murderous Assad regime, I think is anything should be done to try to prevent that.”
 
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