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Originally posted by THGRRI:
Some here work to destroy America's brand around the world. Two of them are Russian trolls, kiki and sig. They have been waging war on our democratic institutions since I've been posting here. Then there are those here who are two stupid to understand their points of views do the same. That the lower our brand is respected around the world, the worse it is for them personally.

Without a good and respected brand name America loses. Trump is destroying the American brand both here and abroad. An example of how, is by Trumps gutting our State Department who sells our brand and pushes our interests abroad. Another is through his racists stances. Most of the world is not white and they take his racism personally.

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Too true.

I found his recent whine, "we should get more people from Norway" so funny because those people probably wouldn't set foot in this country because of him:

"no one from Norway wants to come to this shithole country. They have healthcare for all, family leave, free education and real gun control."

"Of course people from #Norway would love to move to a country where people are far more likely to be shot, live in poverty, get no healthcare because they’re poor, get no paid parental leave or subsidized daycare and see fewer women in political power. "

"Funny how Norway isn't a "shithole country" despite embracing everything Trump supposedly abhors: high taxes, big government, liberal social values, something resembling socialism."

"My parents both came from Norway, god rest their souls.
If they were alive today, they would know better.
They'd have stayed in Norway, or maybe have chosen a less SHITHOLE country.
Like Zimbabwe."

"Trump: "Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here? Why not people from Norway?"

Norwegians: "Why would we move to a country with a shithole President?""

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Dummy number one chuckled about it. Proved my point didn't he. He's just to stupid and uneducated to understand any of this.


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Think of all the countries where people are NOT yearning to come to the US. Norway, of course, Sweden, Finland, England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland ... even financially strapped Spain, Italy, and Greece. And let's not forget that even citizens of the Baltic group - Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Poland - as threatened as we claim they are - seem unwilling to flee to the US. Other notable countries with people NOT fleeing to the US are Hungary and Ukraine. Not a lot of South Asians or Asians are fleeing to the US, either.

I guess they're not desperate enough to come here.

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Wow, THUGGER, you really DO have a man-crush on Putin!

Yanno, *I* certainly don't bring him up - at all. And yet, there you are, dragging him in to every single conversation that's about pretty much everything else. I'm sure if we were discussing how blue the sky is, you'd be bringing up ... Putin.

Do you think you could possibly NOT mention him for an entire thread, if the thread's not about Putin? Or are you too obsessed?

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For the first time media is the least trusted institution globally. In 22 of the 28 countries surveyed it is now distrusted. The demise of confidence in the Fourth Estate is driven primarily by a significant drop in trust in platforms, notably search engines and social media. Sixty-three percent of respondents say they do not know how to tell good journalism from rumor or falsehoods or if a piece of news was produced by a respected media organization. The lack of faith in media has also led to an inability to identify the truth (59 percent), trust government leaders (56 percent) and trust business (42 percent).

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This gives wealthy elites a powerful incentive to stoke nationalism — to hype national threats in order to diffuse domestic claims for more redistribution. - SECOND

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Nationalism is being pushed by Trump and the far right. Anyone siding with Trump, these republicans and their polices, is guilty of promoting nationalism.

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A weaker dollar is good for the US, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the U.S. is open for business and welcomed a weaker dollar, saying that it would benefit the country.

Speaking at a press conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos Wednesday, he made a bid for investment into the U.S., saying the government was committed to growth of 3 percent or higher.

"Obviously a weaker dollar is good for us as it relates to trade and opportunities," Mnuchin told reporters in Davos, according to Bloomberg, adding that the currency's short term value is "not a concern of ours at all."

"Longer term, the strength of the dollar is a reflection of the strength of the U.S. economy and the fact that it is and will continue to be the primary currency in terms of the reserve currency," he said.

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THUGR: If you wanted to say "populism", you shoulda said "populism".

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Nationalism is patriotism; the idea of supporting one's country and culture.

Key word being culture sig. Protecting ones culture from changing or morphing into something else. All the racists and bigoted statements by Trump are exploiting these emotions across the country and even the world.

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Populism is (philosophy) a (political) doctrine or philosophy that proposes that the rights and powers of ordinary people are exploited by a privileged elite, and supports their struggle to overcome this.

This is the form of doctrine Trump ran on and represents the Bannon (far right) wing of the party. The message is simple and excludes any of the intricacies (the character of something that has many aspects or parts arranged together in a particularly complex or artful way), of an issue or policy. It's fodder for the stupid and uneducated.

Both sig, both play a large part in filling the warped and uneducated minds with dribble. It's spread by fake news, propaganda outlets and trolls like you.




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