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LuckyCharms

(17,455 posts)
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 09:04 AM Oct 2018

Considering the gruesome death of Jamal Khashoggi...

How many of you have a renewed or reinforced feeling that our government is truly dark and capable of unspeakably evil things? Things that we only accuse other countries of being capable of?

When I first became aware of Jared Kushner, I recoiled in disgust, as I did when I first started to pay attention to Trump. You can sense that something terrible is going on with the both of them, even though we may not know exactly what. You and I do not have to be told that this administration is caressing the sensitive body parts of each and every shady leader on the planet.

Those in the media need to be pushing the panic button. They need to scream at us through the television. This country needs to be told to wake up.

That won't happen of course. Not good for ratings.

Bookmark this thread. I'm not sure when all will become apparent...but it will at some point. I have been consistent in my posts...this country is gaslit to the point of no return.

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Considering the gruesome death of Jamal Khashoggi... (Original Post) LuckyCharms Oct 2018 OP
My dismay is that our government can be easily usurped and used for evil. Baitball Blogger Oct 2018 #1
Tail wagging the dog Roy Rolling Oct 2018 #2
All Kushner cared about was getting his 666 5th debt paid off. Once that... brush Oct 2018 #3
Who was holding Kushners's loan on 666? LiberalArkie Oct 2018 #4
Not sure which bank but it was 1.2B. He's now off the hook on that debt. brush Oct 2018 #5
Maybe a Russian bank? LiberalArkie Oct 2018 #12
The M$M Is Not Going To Let Up On This JimGinPA Oct 2018 #6
Not believing that RainCaster Oct 2018 #7
You're Welcome To Disagree JimGinPA Oct 2018 #10
Destroying our country!! marieo1 Oct 2018 #8
Trump is just jealous dobleremolque Oct 2018 #9
Thank you for your post and I agree...the people need to wake up, but to do that we need c-rational Oct 2018 #11

Baitball Blogger

(46,757 posts)
1. My dismay is that our government can be easily usurped and used for evil.
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 09:52 AM
Oct 2018

And there is no easy way to correct the damage that is done because there are too many invested in protecting its secrets.

Case in point, the Mueller Report, which will never see the light of day unless there's a white hat or boy scout willing to leak it.

Roy Rolling

(6,933 posts)
2. Tail wagging the dog
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 10:27 AM
Oct 2018

Each and every Trump-loving, GOP-enabling, government-exploiting citizen approves of every despicable act. In a two-step, leaders push the envelope of corruption and then followers approve. After a while, the mob responds on its own and leaders do the approval.

Only voting them out can break the viscous cycle.

brush

(53,841 posts)
3. All Kushner cared about was getting his 666 5th debt paid off. Once that...
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 10:48 AM
Oct 2018

was taken care of he was will to look the way on anything the Saudis did vis a vis Yemen and even dismemberment of a reporter while still alive.

Remember the royal who was under house arrest in Riyadh when MBS first took over? He was released when he coughed up just the amount of Kushner's debt.

I don't think that was just a coincidence. We have a WH full of grifters with bloody, little hands.

JimGinPA

(14,811 posts)
6. The M$M Is Not Going To Let Up On This
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 11:24 AM
Oct 2018

It's personal to them - one of their colleagues was murdered & dismembered.

Bookmark that.


RainCaster

(10,913 posts)
7. Not believing that
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 11:31 AM
Oct 2018

MSM has given the GOP a bye on everything. It has all been normalized:
Lies
Racism
Mysogeny
Corruption
Nepotism
Incompetence
Gerrymandering

What makes you think they will suddenly turn around and grow a conscience? It doesn't work that way.

JimGinPA

(14,811 posts)
10. You're Welcome To Disagree
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 11:43 AM
Oct 2018

But this isn't about conscience, it's about anger. Again, one of their colleagues was murdered & they recognize that tRump was trying to give cover because of financial ties. This ain't going away.


marieo1

(1,402 posts)
8. Destroying our country!!
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 11:31 AM
Oct 2018

I agree 100%. The media could save our country, if they would!! We all know they won't, instead they constantly tell us how 'normal' this administration is, DJT can say and do the sickest things and media just blows it off or minimizes it!!!!! They will not hold this administration accountable. The media could boost their credibility a lot, if they would tell the news honestly. I am amazed how they tell the 'stupidest' things when our country is being attacked. I wonder if a foreign (Russia, SA, China) country holds a lot of their purse strings!! Makes one wonder............. I really appreciate DU. At least here we can hear some of the truth

dobleremolque

(492 posts)
9. Trump is just jealous
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 11:37 AM
Oct 2018

of his dictator and despot buddies because he can't order a journalist tortured and dismembered alive with a bone saw. Yet.

c-rational

(2,595 posts)
11. Thank you for your post and I agree...the people need to wake up, but to do that we need
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 11:52 AM
Oct 2018

effective news not entertainment news. The airwaves belong to the public and we need to take them back. It should be unlawful, i.e. treasonous to transmit something that is good for the corporation and bad for the country.

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