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A thanks to veterans everywhere. But especially to the ones who made sure I could take German and Japanese as an elective in school as opposed to learning them as my Official Language.
[MEMRI.ORG] He was a vain and pompous man obsessed with reviving The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... 's ancient glory. At first, he seemed a reformer and even progressive, and was seen sympathetically by some in the West. Over time he became more aggressive and blustering. He was anti-Armenian. Supposedly an enemy of Russia, he later collaborated with the Russians, receiving help from them. Both Islamic expansionism and pan-Turkism (sometimes called Turanism, although the two terms are not identical) were attractive to him. He had big dreams, of reviving the Ottoman Empire or even creating a new Turkic one, from the Balkans to Central Asia.
This man was not Turkey's current President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
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Once again we need the application of the Cluebat Kemalist Thought Club
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In backing President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud, Republicans risk leaving millions of Americans with the false impression that the results of the 2020 race are illegitimate.
And that may be the point.
None of Trump’s legal challenges and assertions of voting irregularities has revealed any substantive issues with the election that would overturn the results. And some GOP lawmakers and party officials privately acknowledge that Trump has no choice but to step aside by Jan. 20 and cede power to President-elect Joe Biden.
But Trump is doing nothing to make that road to Inauguration Day easier for Biden. In fact, he’s trying to block it, littering the path with misinformation and falsehoods about the election. As a result, Biden will almost certainly be viewed as an illegitimate president by some voters, potentially denying him that period of goodwill that typically greets a new president.
The stakes for Biden are even greater, especially if the Senate remains in Republican control, as he advances an agenda to arrest the spiraling coronavirus pandemic and faltering economy.
"Their intent is to delegitimize this election and thereby delegitimize President-elect Biden’s presidency," said Valerie Jarrett, who was a White House senior adviser to President Barack Obama. "It is damaging to the democracy. Once again they’re putting their short-term political interests ahead of the interests of the country."
The GOP strategy has echoes of the Republican approach to Obama’s 2008 victory when he won by 9.5 million votes and with 365 Electoral College votes. Republicans largely allowed lies about Obama’s citizenship to flourish, leaving millions of Americans with the impression that the nation’s first Black president might not be eligible to serve.
The chief proponent of the "birtherism" lie was, of course, Trump.
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It would appear the 1 of 2 mutually exclusive things are true. The POTUS is desperately and probably bitterly clinging to a delusional attempt to stay in the White House.
Or, he has more inside information and is going to let the media-verse make fools of themselves before he lowers the boom.
Factually speaking I don't know, but 35,000 PA ballots coming back in the mail the same day they went out in the mail, well, that isn't my experience of the post office.
Just to set the icky record straight, it was the Hildebeeste that was the original proponent of birtherism.
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Joe Biden direct quote: "we have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics."
23 Min Audio
[Matt Gaetz] Not much good happens at 4:30 in the morning, and according to some whistleblowers, there was not much good happening with the vote counting process in key battleground states. I discuss allegations of election fraud and misconduct on today's Hot Takes episode!
[American Thinker] Attorney General Barr just mobilized the Department of Justice to engage as appropriate to investigate election fraud throughout America. He is on solid legal ground. It is a very simple means of addressing the greatest attempted political theft in American history, and I would rather be we, Trump Nation, than they, the Democrat party's illegal operatives.
This is because President Trump and his team laid the legal ground work for identifying and prosecuting such criminal behavior in 2017:
Federal Prosecution of Election Offensives
Eight Edition 2017
Our constitutional system of representative government only works when the worth of honest ballots is not diluted by invalid ballots procured by corruption.
The actual fact that the A.G. late last night triggered the use of the DOJ legal handbook bodes ill for those who are involved in electoral cheating.
For them, when the men and women in suits arrive on their doorstep to politely inquire "can you explain this," with "this" being one of the many felonies listed above, the campaign operative is likely to immediately have a life-altering moment. As often is said: You can go easy, or you can go hard, but make no mistake: you are going to address your behavior. And as the joke goes, never steal anything small, and the Democrat team certainly took that to heart.
At the moment of an investigation asking a low-level operative "what role did you play" in this grand theft election, the massive conspiracy will begin to crumble. After all, what young campaign worker wants to go to jail for Joe Biden? So far, it looks like Biden will have trouble even keeping his own son out of entanglement with potential legal felony charges.
Notice I said men and women in suits. This is because of my direct personal experience working officially with honorable FBI special agents. I'm not talking about the Deep State operatives at the top. I have much faith in the dedicated honor and respect for the rule of law enforced by special agents of the FBI in the field. Adding to that phalanx of the FBI in the field, there is also the absolutely no-nonsense U.S. Marshals Service. And, as the evidence may present itself, there's also our world-class diligent Secret Service agents.
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if every 'person of interest' doesn't remember because 'so much happened that day', it will be difficult to excavate very much
and certainly it will be impossible to do so if Biden become Prez and shuts down the work.
one way around this is to have the DOJ gather enough to justify a special prosecutor, not an over the hill dupe like Mueller but someone with intelligence and experience and no record of excess partisanship
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Attorney General Barr just mobilized the Department of Justice
Like mobilizing a dog to take a cold bath. Snark O'The Day
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In backing President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud, Republicans risk leaving millions of Americans with the false impression that the results of the 2020 race are illegitimate.
