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Surly1 · « **Reply #436 on:** November 13, 2019, 06:09:45 am »

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AGelbert · « **Reply #437 on:** November 13, 2019, 12:34:11 pm »

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Two reported dead as Venice flooded by highest tide in 50 years 👀

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I imagine the aquatic creatures 🐟🐠🐡🦈🐙 in the vicinity of Venice are checking out all the newly available real estate.

Surly1 · « **Reply #438 on:** November 14, 2019, 06:12:24 am »

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AGelbert · « **Reply #439 on:** November 14, 2019, 12:55:20 pm »

"No, No, You Guys; This US-Backed Military Coup Is Perfectly Legitimate!"

Thu, 11/14/2019 - 10:48

Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com,

I just keep tripping on how dumb this latest US-backed military coup is. It’s in Bolivia in case you’ve lost track, which would be perfectly understandable since US-backed coups have become kind of like US mass shootings — there’s so many of them they’re starting to blend into each other.

I mean, for starters the justifications for this one are so cartoonishly reachy and desperate it boggles the mind a bit. The main argument you’ll see in favor of the coup is that Evo Morales was elected after Bolivia’s high court ruled that he could run for a fourth term, but the (democratically elected) court ruled against a 2016 referendum on presidential term limits.

That’s it. That weird, pedantic appeal to a particular interpretation of bureaucratic technicalities is the whole entire argument in support of a literal military coup backed by the United States.

And make no mistake, that’s exactly what this was: the military ousting a government is precisely the thing that a coup is. The coup’s Christian fascist leader Luis Fernando Camacho openly tweeted that the military was actively pursuing Morales’ arrest prior to the ousted leader’s escape to Mexico, a tweet he later deleted presumably because the admission makes it much harder to call this military coup anything other than the thing that it is. The Grayzone has published an article documenting this coup’s many ties to Washington. Put it all together, and you’ve got a US-backed military coup.

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Camacho has deleted the tweet Golinger links to openly admitting that the military were pursuing the arrest of ousted Bolivian president Evo Morales. Luckily it's been archived here: http://archive.is/iSq8U https://twitter.com/evagolinger/status/1193704121565696000 …

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Fascist coup leader Luis Camacho confirms arrest order for Evo Morales. Says the police and military are going after him in his hometown of Chapare. This is fascist persecution, arbitrary arrest and a sign of the repressive, racist and dictatorial regime the coup is installing. https://twitter.com/LuisFerCamachoV/status/1193696877155356672 …

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As happens every single time the US tries to overthrow a government these days, social media is currently swarming with small, brand-new and suspicious-looking accounts, many of which are publishing the same words verbatim, all defending and supporting the coup. Some of them try to argue that Morales rigged last month’s election, but that’s totally bogus and evidence-free. Others try to claim that “the people” of Bolivia opposed Morales, strongly implying that he was universally loathed, but that claim is invalidated by the election results and the massive demonstrations against the coup.

So the only actual argument really boils down to “Well he ran for another term, and yeah he won, and yeah the democratically elected high court ruled he could run again, but a loud and violent minority of Bolivians don’t want him to be president. What choice do you have in such circumstances other than to support a literal military coup?”

Which is just so crazy. That’s how low the bar has sunk for supporting the toppling of a government today. They don’t have to claim he’s starving his own people. They don’t have to claim that he’s using chemical weapons. They don’t have to claim that he’s governing without the consent of the voting populace. Just “Yeah well some of us don’t like him and there’s some paperwork we disagree on.”

I mean really, how much lower can the bar get for when a US-backed military coup is justified? “Oh, that government needed to be toppled because the leader got a parking ticket once”? “Well the president wore white after Labor Day, and that’s a fashion atrocity”?

So the Morales-supporting line of succession has been ousted and many of his supporters in the government arrested by masked men, and now the US-approved interim president is an appalling racist and absolute dimwit who calls to mind a very low-budget Bolivian version of 🐵 Sarah Palin.

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Bolivian Sarah Palin is the nation's new US-approved interim president. https://twitter.com/historic_ly/status/1194758297334755328 …

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Case and point: I dug up this old video where you can see she is an utter moron

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It’s absolutely amazing how many people all across the political spectrum have been sucked in by this ridiculousness. How lost do you have to be to believe that this US-backed military coup is different from all the others? How many times is Charlie Brown going to run up and try to kick Lucy’s football?

That **** is never gonna let you kick that goddamn football, Charlie Brown. And this US-backed military coup isn’t going to be any more moral, legal or beneficial than all the others.

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AGelbert · « **Reply #442 on:** November 16, 2019, 11:47:04 am »

Coup D’etat In Bolivia: Audios Containing Details Of Alleged Coup Plan & US Involvement Emerge

By Orinoco Tribune.

Bolivian President Evo Morales announced his resignation on 10 November after the heads of Bolivia’s armed forces and police urged him to step down amid ongoing violent protests in the country, which erupted in the wake of the recent presidential election.

As Evo Morales stepped down as the President of Bolivia amid ongoing anti-government protests and the military urging him to resign, a series of audio recordings which allegedly feature opposition leaders calling for a coup against him were leaked via social media, El Periodico news outlet reports. -more-

Agelbert NOTE: I heard this quote from host of the hit comedy news show “Redacted Tonight”, Lee Camp, in the second half of a video I posted (in the "Money" topic thread some time ago) from Democracy at Work. Using satire, he basically says it ALL.

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"How many CIA backed coups do you need to accept that Socialism has failed?"

AGelbert · « **Reply #443 on:** November 16, 2019, 12:29:11 pm »

By Alexandra Early, Beyondchron.org

November 15, 2019 |CREATE!

SNIPPET:

For example I was recently in a contract bargaining session with members who work at a small nursing home in San Francisco. A Certified Nursing Assistant told the management bargaining team about her struggles to get care with their current health insurance plan. “Because of the $6000 deductible it’s as if we have no health insurance at all,” she said. “When I injured my leg a few weeks ago, the doctor wanted me to get an MRI. I told them I couldn’t do it. I can’t pay $1000 for an MRI, when I’m making only like $18 an hour. Every time I have to go to physical therapy it costs $70. Sometimes I cancel the appointments because I can’t afford them. I am afraid that they are going to tell me I need surgery, because I just don’t know how I’ll be able to pay for it.”

One of the company’s executives, who had flown in from their regional office in Southern California that morning, tried to look sympathetic. “Thank you for sharing,” he said, “I know how hard it is to share something like that. I’m just paying off a debt from a medical procedure myself.” But he went on to say that the proposal we had made to change to a fully employer-paid health insurance with no deductible was “ridiculous and unrealistic.” We pointed out that workers used to have this kind of health insurance plan before the company took over their nursing home, and that the company’s profits had tripled since that take-over. He explained matter of factly that profitability has nothing to do with how the company compensates its employees.

After this very informative exchange management left the room so that the workers and I could caucus privately. Another member of the bargaining team, a housekeeper in his late fifties who has worked at the nursing home for over 20 years, was furious. He and his wife, who works in the kitchen at the facility, often have to go to the hospital for different healthcare services. Every time they are shocked by the costs, which all have to be paid out of pocket.

Full article:

UNION OPPONENTS OF MEDICARE FOR ALL DON’T SPEAK FOR LABOR’S MOST VULNERABLE MEMBERS

AGelbert · « **Reply #444 on:** November 16, 2019, 01:28:46 pm »

By Kevin Gosztola, Shadowproof.com
November 15, 2019 | RESIST!

CAPITOL 🦍 POLICE ATTEMPTED TO ARREST CODE PINK ACTIVIST MEDEA BENJAMIN FOR ALLEGEDLY ‘ASSAULTING’ CONGRESSWOMAN DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ

Surly1 · « **Reply #445 on:** November 17, 2019, 07:40:49 am »

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AGelbert · « **Reply #446 on:** November 17, 2019, 05:37:36 pm »

Surly,
You know, the way things are going, you may have to change the name of the Doomstead Diner Daily to the Dystopia Daily Dirge.

AGelbert · « **Reply #447 on:** November 17, 2019, 08:13:26 pm »

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demmiblue (23,160 posts) Sun Nov 17, 2019, 07:46 AM

Trump: 'Everything very good (great!)' in 'phase one' of physical 🤔
Source: The Hill

President Trump in a tweet early Sunday weighed in on his trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, saying he began “phase one” of his annual physical on Saturday and “everything” was “very good (great!).”

“Visited a great family of a young man under major surgery at the amazing Walter Reed Medical Center. Those are truly some of the best doctors anywhere in the world,” he tweeted.

“Also began phase one of my yearly physical, he added. “Everything very good (great!). Will complete next year.”

Link to tweet

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/470804-trump-everything-very-good-great-in-phase-one-of-physical

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Star Member brush (25,504 posts)

60. Yeah, we're supposed to believe that crap? He went to the...

hospital for something. And it wasn't for any phase one of his annual physical. We're supposed to believe all of a sudden there is a phase one of his physical not scheduled until February?

An unscheduled hospital visit that's framed as a phase one.

Please!

And visiting a family was supposed to make it look good I guess.

Does anything but lies come out of that WH?

Response to brush (Reply #60)Sun Nov 17, 2019, 04:40 PM

Star Member SergeStorms (6,345 posts)

67. My take on this as well.

Since when do yearly physicals happen in "phases"? I believe the stress is finally getting to him. If there's a second "phase" it's to see how he's responding to the treatment the Doctor prescribed.

Trump has always relied on "yes men" Doctors before. Trump himself wrote the Doctor's "report". That's not happening this time, so there's definitely something wrong. I hope it proves to be quickly terminal.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142396433

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Mark Cosenza
They stated he had a CT angiography and a result of a plack calcium level of 133 which was much higher than his last number. Based off that he has moderate heart disease. If he really was having chest pain they would of done a cardiac cath. His weight, diet, lack of exercise and personality will eventually kill him. And the dummy can't take his money with him. He should resign and enjoy the time he has left.

Mystery of Donald Trump’s Walter Reed hospital visit deepens

Surly1 · « **Reply #448 on:** November 18, 2019, 08:01:30 am »

In re Trump, anything that emerges from his oral sphincter should be adjudged a lie simply based on past performance.

Speculation in this more truthful than anything that comes out of the White House.

Surly1 · « **Reply #449 on:** November 18, 2019, 08:02:08 am »

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