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Did Sir Edmund Hillary climb Trump Tower as well as Mt Everest, or sumpin? Not following...

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It is difficult to judge how independent those sources are.

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Foxys, being paid $$$$$$$Thousands per day to lie .

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It always is. I tend to look at unaffiliated individual reports from people who have a good track record of being accurate. As with all media, all communication online, you have to be able to filter out the garbage, and find ways to cross check validity. It’s not a perfect science.

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I thought the dad's name was Saul, but I couldn't remember the last name. I'm pretty sure old Saul is no longer a billionaire either. I seem to remember he lost a LOT of money.

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They are gonna be sooo fucked when Hillary dies.

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Electric bagpipes?

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Looks like a cross between Hitchcock and Mel Brooks.

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OMG! I see it!!! LOL

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A Canadian View of The Excited States Nick Kelly

That serious contender for 'stuffed shirt gold ', T. Cruz (edged out by Dobbs) was on Fox this AM blaming Biden weakness on Afghanistan for Russia and China being emboldened. So here is the straight poop from Wiki.

'In February 2020, the Trump administration and the Taliban, without participation by the Afghan government, signed the Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan, also known as the Doha Agreement,[7] which provided for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Afghanistan in return for a Taliban pledge to prevent al-Qaeda from operating in areas under Taliban control, and future talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government for a permanent ceasefire.[8]'

Aw! That is so touching and indicative of Trump's trust in others that has characterized his whole life. 'If you promise to behave in future, we'll trust you'

Troops were drawn down to 8K from 16K, under Trump. This was so far below the minimum to hold the line that the Taliban knew they'd won. The rest was entirely predictable ( see Saigon). Why would the Taliban deny their fighters a victorious entry chasing a fleeing army? Does Cruz think the skeleton crew left by Trump was supposed to hold them off? The amazing thing is how well the evacuation went off.

But the end was inevitable after Trump's order, and so with this, as with Covid and inflation he handed the Biden admin a can of worms. Worse than the mess handed to Obama, who got two losing wars from Bush AND a collapsing economy and financial sector: Lehman, GM and Chryco, and housing bust? Maybe, but he was not faced with an insurrection or a parallel universe of alternate facts forming the Gospel for a cult that used to be a 'sort of' sane GOP.

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Damn that would be so cool!(Is there such a thing?)

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Interesting, I had to look it up, I get her guy confused with Kelly Loffler's guy.

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I remember Saul Steinberg because in the 1980s Spy Magazine used to make fun of him ALL the time.

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Now that we've brought it up, someone is already at work building one...no, wait, this just in https://en.wikipedia.org/wi.... Damn

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I guess Putin simply gave 130,000 Russian soldiers six months off with pay and they all decided to vacation at the Ukrainian border. It's party time, not invasion central! Sort of like the Russians showing up in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine a few years ago. Except they liked it so much they decided to stay.

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Did you ever notice they are never in the same room?Hmmmm....

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