CBS: Mike Pence blasts the NBA for "acting like a wholly owned subsidiary" of China
Vice President Mike Pence slammed the NBA for "acting like a wholly owned subsidiary" of China's Communist Party on Thursday. His remarks have been the most critical from the Trump administration since the NBA-China standoff began earlier this month, over a team executive's tweet supporting Hong Kong's anti-government protesters.
During a speech at The Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., Pence took aim at the league for initially apologizing for the Houston Rockets general manager's Oct. 4 tweet that read: "Fight for Freedom, Stand with Hong Kong."
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Update #1: Mike Pence blasts the NBA and Nike (CNN)
Update #2: Pence Doubles Down on 'Tough on China' Messaging (The Diplomat)
WNU Editor: The NBA and its supporters are responding back .... NBA's Adam Silver responds to Pence's criticism of league's response to China crackdown (FOX News). More here .... Charles Barkley: It's you, not Mike Pence, who should 'shut the hell up' (Washington Times).
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tempest in an oolong teapot
It'll be a tempest, if their revenue goes down like the NFL did.
Enough Is Enough: President Trump Goes after Do-Nothing Speaker Pelosi and Her Poop City in “Violation of Many Sanitary and Environmental Orders”
What is it with Democrats and poop?
I lived in the developing world for years and did not see poop in the streets like I do in necrotic blue cities.
Democrats must worship the stuff.
Breaking: Fired FBI Andrew McCabe Suddenly Drops Wrongful Termination Case Against DOJ
Looks like they are flipping.
Comey & Clapper are going to share an 8 by 12 with a toilet.
Can you imagine turning over in your bunk and catching a glimpse of that sagging, billowing bundle of fun?
JOE BIDEN LIED – Contacted Federal Agencies at Least Twice to Intervene on Behalf of His Son Hunter’s Lobbying Firm (VIDEO)
Actually this is not news. The headline said "Democrat lied"
CHUD's will be CHUDS!
FLASHBACK: Biden Lied for Years About the Driver Involved in His Wife & Daughter's Death
This is not news. This is what CHUDS do. CHUDS lie.
Anon
"I lived in the developing world for years and did not see poop in the streets like I do in necrotic blue cities."
And now, because of it's very long history of making war in developing nations around the world, killing innocents in the name of, whatever excuse comes up at the time, and ignoring the needs of its own citizens, you are experiencing what it is like to live in an un-developing country.
It all depends on what you mean by "developing".
Bob,
The US spends enough money on social programs. There is enough to go around. Democrats are not enforcing laws. Have you been to Socal? I suppose not. A person who, never really worked, does not get out much except to get a greasy burger.
I do not expect an 眼屎 or ass屎 like you to be honest.
An Ass屎 such as yourself would deem the Iraq invasion of Kuwait legal and the US led effort to free Kuwait from Sodom Hussein illegal. People know who and what you are ass屎 .
With such stellar spokesmen like Lebron James and Charles Barkley, I'm sure the NBA will pull through.
/s
shoot your own baskets, macho man, and stop worrying about others who have no importance on policy making...
12:58
Hey CHUD, you are still reasoning like a loser. You should have earned an education, lol!
Celebrities like Lebron James and Charles Barkley are used to endorse candidates, influence the culture, and many other things.
If you are endorsing a political candidate, you are de facto endorsing many (& sometimes all) of their policies.
You do realize that politician and policy come from the same root word?
Oh I'm sorry. You are a CHUD and liberals often do not have a good educations. It was unfair to expect a CHUD, who may have studied the language arts, to know such things.
www.dictionary.com/browse/policy
www.dictionary.com/browse/politician
www.dictionary.com/browse/politic
Students Asked to Stay Inside Dorms During Trump HBCU Rally | Time
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-- Trump administration fined $100,000 for ignoring court order to forgive debts of defrauded students | The Independent
-- Company with ties to Trump’s brother Robert awarded $33 million government contract - The Washington Post
There’s A Village In Ukraine Where Rudy Giuliani Is The Honorary Mayor. That’s Not The Weird Part Of This Story.
Financial documents show that two associates of Rudy Giuliani also made a donation of $25,000 that appears to have bought them access to conservative figures.
Official to Testify Pompeo Blocked Show of Support for Ousted Ambassador
Philip Reeker is latest State Department witness called in impeachment inquiry
Trump ordered Mattis to 'screw Amazon,' according to new book
-- Trump’s latest attempt to block impeachment inquiry testimonies faces a key court battle -
-- Trump’s pollster releases the worst impeachment poll ever - The Washington Post
-- Texts, Testimony Suggest State Dept. Officials Engaged Giuliani as Diplomatic Envoy
--NSC official plans to testify in impeachment probe even if White House tries to block him
Tim Morrison has been identified as a witness to one of the most explosive pieces of evidence unearthed by House impeachment investigators.
Kelly, 69, said he privately cautioned Trump during his final days on the job that he would be impeached if he did not tap a chief of staff with the fortitude to check the president’s bad impulses. Kelly said he does not believe the president would be in this predicament had he stayed.
“I said, whatever you do — and we were still in the process of trying to find someone to take my place — I said whatever you do, don’t hire a ‘yes man,’ someone who won’t tell you the truth — don’t do that. Because if you do, I believe you will be impeached,” Kelly recalled in an interview at the Sea Island Summit, a political conference hosted by the Washington Examiner.
“That was almost 11 months ago, and I have an awful lot of, to say the least, second thoughts about leaving,” Kelly said. “It pains me to see what’s going on because I believe if I was still there or someone like me was there, he would not be kind of, all over the place.”
Anon
I did not mention Iraq but you did and in the process showed that you manipulate history to justify your own general negative meanderings.
If you are mentally unable to stick to the topic of a post you are attempting to respond to, please don't throw in junk, because in the absence of an intelligent and on topic rebuttle you show your agreement to those comments.
So, in that respect alone, thank you for agreeing with me.
They're moving at close to 0.2c At that speed they could run over my daughters stereo and not hear it
The porn parrot does a similar thing with its mass postings.
"I did not mention Iraq " - Liar
But you did ass屎.
"And now, because of it's very long history of making war in developing nations around the world, killing innocents in the name of, whatever excuse comes up at the time" - Libturd
MORE SHITHEADEDNESS from LIBERALS
"HORROR! Tunisian Hacks His Estranged Wife to Death with an Axe in Broad Daylight in Limburg, Germany – Police Threaten Internet Users who Shared Video"
Q So why would police threaten this?
A Because politicians told them to.
Q Why would politicians not want people to see this?
A Because the politicians do not want to do anything substantive about it. They are afraid (& rightly so) that people will get upset that they are not doing anything substantive and vote them out of office.
Now a libtard apologists will make a weak ass argument that "Everyone does it"
That is true. But as we know all 'good' lies contain an element of truth.
Everyone does it but the incidence rate among various people does matter.
So the libtard apologists doubles down and get shittier. They say without proof that different people commit crimes at the same percentage, the same number per 100,000.
The libtard knowing that he is a lying shit, will then prevent anyone from gathering stats about which groups commit how much crime. They do this for instance in Sweden for obvious maleficent reasons.
Do join in any endeavor with a liberal is to cradle an asp to your bosom.
The president’s decision to withdraw about 1,000 US troops from northern Syria to Iraq without notice or preparation and apparent attempts to coerce Ukraine, a young democracy under siege by Russia, for personal gain have shaken the confidence of US allies and partners during an uncertain era of geopolitical transition. US actions in Ukraine and Syria have demoralized America’s friends and emboldened adversaries. The United States and the world are less safe as a result.
The latest moves come on the heels of the White House denigrating democracies, confiding in dictators over diplomats, extorting allies and undermining international institutions. Mistreatment of Ukraine’s democratic government and Kurdish partners in Syria have delivered the coup de grâce for America’s international credibility.
--Donald Trump has shown little taste for military adventure. He avoided the draft in Vietnam. He fell out with his once-beloved generals. He stunned the world by pulling troops out of Syria and abandoning America’s Kurdish allies.
But on the political battlefield, the president has shown how he and his allies intend to fight impeachment: with a blitzkrieg aimed at deflecting, distracting and discrediting. What he lacks in coherent strategy, he makes up for in shock and awe. Trump will send in the tanks and take no prisoners.
It appears that most Republicans are still willing to march behind him, not by defending what many see as indefensible – the president’s offer of a quid pro quo to Ukraine – but by throwing sand into the gears of the impeachment process. With the help of Fox News, they are set to intensify attacks on the legitimacy of the inquiry itself, demonising its leaders and sowing doubt wherever possible.
--“I think [Ukrainian envoy] Bill Taylor’s testimony this last week really tipped things over the edge,” continued Bertrand. “You see Republicans complaining a lot about the process, but you really don’t see that many of them defending the president on the substance of this, and that’s because it’s very difficult for them to dispute the things that a career diplomat, Bill Taylor, said during his testimony during a lengthy opening statement in which he detailed in extreme detail all of the things that he had pretty much been taking notes on for the last, you know, eight or nine months with regard to the Ukraine scandal outlining how the president had basically ordered military aid to Ukraine to be stopped in favor of these political investigations, so it’s becoming increasingly difficult for the Republicans I think to defend this president.”
“That’s why you saw Lindsey Graham come out and condemn the impeachment inquiry,” added Bertrand. “Because he was being so pressured by the House to just do something, and obviously it’s becoming more and more unsustainable for the Republicans to stand by in all of this because of the amount of officials that are just defying the administration and going to Capitol Hill to testify.”
--“This is where the Republicans are at right now. They have to talk about the legitimacy of the process, focusing on that vote,” said Sykes. “That’s a fig leaf that’s going to be torn away very, very soon … Republicans in the Senate have to realize that things are going to get a lot worse in terms of the evidence, in terms of the venue that’s going to be televised trial, in terms of the president’s behavior, and they’re not going to be able to hide behind these questions about when does the house have a vote, public hearing, private hearings, that process issue will be resolved at some point politically, so at some point they’re going to have to confront the substance, and the substance of this is a president who has abused his power and sold out the country.”
It is a matter of national security to put Joe & Hunter Biden in prison.
If they are involved corrupt deals with nations like China, they cannot be trusted.
We do know that such an exigency exists.
Just because religious devout liberals look upon the Biden Corruption as they would the Emperor's News Clothes does not mean that Trump or the rest of us should.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpKey witness in impeachment investigation asks federal judge to rule on testifying Pompeo voices support for work of diplomat criticized by Trump Biden, Sanders defend themselves over questions of age MORE has attacked ambassador William Taylor, a very experienced and respected professional member of the U.S. foreign service, for presenting the facts as he saw them in Ukraine to the House committee conducting the preliminary impeachment investigation.
Trump accepted Taylor as acting ambassador to Ukraine but is now smearing him as a "Never Trumper" without providing any evidence to support his claim.
I know Taylor, a Vietnam veteran. He is anything but a political hack, as the president claims. I do not know ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, whom Trump earlier ousted as ambassador to Ukraine, but I do know that she is a respected, experienced and capable American diplomat. Taylor and Yovanovitch understand vastly more about U.S. diplomacy and national security than this president, who appears to know much more about stiff hairspray options than foreign policy.
These attacks on professional career members of the federal government are an outrage and a real threat to rule of law in the nation. These professionals have shown the courage to see wrongdoing and expose it. They raised their concerns inside the government without effect and then reported them through a legal process of congressional testimony and whistleblower reports. Those accused of improper behavior hate credible whistleblowers; those who oppose corruption and mismanagement in government see great value in them.
The president’s personal attack on a career professional falls in line with the wacky right-wing theory — again without evidence — that a "deep state" opposition to Trump exists among career federal employees.
This week, Trump told an adoring crowd of conservatives, “I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.” This set the guys who wrote the Constitution and were fearful of the executive branch developing into a monarchy spinning in their graves.
Also this week, one of Donald Trump’s lawyers argued that if the president* shot someone on Fifth Avenue, not only would he be immune to prosecution, the police wouldn’t even have the authority to investigate the crime until after he left office.
But there was a more subtle case being made too: that the D.A. can’t even look into the President’s business– which, remember the President has said he wasn’t going to run while President. Because the lawyers argued, the President’s business and the man are inseparable.
— Andrea Bernstein (@AndreaWNYC) October 23, 2019
That is, Trump’s lawyers are arguing, because Trump hasn’t divested, the immunity that he claims, also extends to his business. So long as he’s President, they’re saying, neither he nor his business can be investigated for anything they’ve ever done.
— Andrea Bernstein (@AndreaWNYC) October 23, 2019
As Ian Milhiser noted for Vox, it’s a ridiculous claim that runs counter to settled law and which was explicitly rejected by the Supreme Court during Bill Clinton’s presidency.
We can’t say how the appeals court will rule on that one, but this week another federal judge shredded the regime’s central justification for obstructing the House impeachment inquiry. Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the Federal District Court ruled that the House was not required to hold a vote authorizing the probe by either the Constitution or by House rules.
“The White House’s stated policy of noncooperation with the impeachment inquiry weighs heavily in favor of disclosure” of Grand Jury material from the Mueller investigation, she wrote. “Congress’s need to access grand jury material relevant to potential impeachable conduct by a president is heightened when the executive branch willfully obstructs channels for accessing other relevant evidence.”
I have in the past discussed Iraq but in this statement of mine, quoted by you .....
"And now, because of it's very long history of making war in developing nations around the world, killing innocents in the name of, whatever excuse comes up at the time"
.... there is no specific mention of Iraq.
You should calm down.
.... there is no specific mention of Iraq.
You mentioned wars in general (so Iraq would be included) and you have in the past week made your views on Iraq known. Set theory is not your thing. Did you make it past 3rd grade? You dd say that your education was modest.
So you should grow up and put away liberal things.
Give it up you lost.
Besides, what you said about Iraq was wrong. It wasn't invaded because of Kuwait.
The October 2002, U.S. congress Iraq War Resolution cited many factors to justify the use of military force against Iraq:
Iraq's noncompliance with the conditions of the 1991 ceasefire agreement, including interference with U.N. weapons inspectors.
Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, and programs to develop such weapons, posed a "threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region."
Iraq's "brutal repression of its civilian population."
Iraq's "capability and willingness to use weapons of mass destruction against other nations and its own people".
Iraq's hostility towards the United States as demonstrated by the 1993 assassination attempt on former President George H. W. Bush and firing on coalition aircraft enforcing the no-fly zones following the 1991 Gulf War.
Members of Al-Qaeda, an organization bearing responsibility for attacks on the United States, its citizens, and interests, including the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, are known to be in Iraq.
Iraq's "continuing to aid and harbor other international terrorist organizations," including anti-United States terrorist organizations.
Iraq paid bounty to families of suicide bombers.
The efforts by the Congress and the President to fight terrorists, including the September 11, 2001 terrorists and those who aided or harbored them.
The authorization by the Constitution and the Congress for the President to fight anti-United States terrorism.
The governments in Turkey, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia feared Saddam and wanted him removed from power.
Citing the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, the resolution reiterated that it should be the policy of the United States to remove the Saddam Hussein regime and promote a democratic replacement.
Bob, you might not have a problem with the terror groups Abu Nidal, Abu Abbas and others, but Americans did. I imagine that you had no problem with the Achille Lauro hijacking. Did you applaud when the hijackers murders a 60 year old Jewish American man in a wheel Chair? I think you probably did. Who gave sanctuary to those murderers? Sadam Hussein.
"Abdul Rahman Yasin, a suspect detained shortly after the 1993 US World Trade Center Bombing attacks, fled upon release into Iraq. Shortly after release, the FBI had discovered evidence linking him to the creation of the bomb. After the invasion, Iraqi government official documents translated from Arabic to English described Saddam's regime provided monthly payments to Yasin while in residing in the United States. Yasin is on the FBI's most wanted terrorists list, and is still at large."
Bob you are so full of shit that you are a walking manure factory that could supply the fertilizer needs of the whole of Canada.
"Kindly Reminder: In New York City you can be fined up to $250,000 for misidentifying a transgender person.
This is your modern day Democrat Party.
Trans woman Mia Williams, balding and with a beard, entered a Taco Bell on Wednesday, doused a woman with gasoline and then set her on fire."
Democrats. when you actually think they cannot get any dumber, they do.
Anon
You are confused and need to take a break.
Bob,
You should quit huffing your own supply.
Bob,
Most of Aizinonymous' vomit above has been disproven. None of it absolves the U.S. Gov for violations of internatational law as regards Iraq (and not a few other countries). Aizinonymous is an aberrant sociopath with absolutely no moral compass. Narcissitic to the core. The bragging really shows it.
He things the rape and murder of little kids and their families is just desserts.
Aizinonymous will howl all day long for "justice" to be brought to bear on everyone and anyone else except he and his repub chums.
The scumbags below got time. The Aizinonymouses that conspired to set up the crime scene, did not get so much as a subpoena.
On the day of the massacre, Abeer's father Qassim was enjoying time with his family, while his sons were at school.[12] In broad daylight, the five U.S. soldiers walked to the house, not wearing their uniforms, but wearing army-issue long underwear to look like "ninjas",[9] and separated 14 year-old Abeer and her family into two different rooms. Pfc. Jesse V. Spielman was responsible for grabbing Abeer's 6 year-old sister who was outside the house with her father, and bringing her inside the house.[13] Green then broke Abeer's mother's arms (likely evidence of a struggle that resulted when she heard her daughter being raped in the other room) and murdered her parents and 6 year-old younger sister, while two other soldiers, Sgt. Paul Cortez and Spc. James Barker, raped Abeer.[14] Barker wrote that Cortez pushed Abeer to the floor, lifted her dress, and tore off her underwear while she struggled. According to Cortez, Abeer “kept squirming and trying to keep her legs closed and saying stuff in Arabic,” as he and Barker took turns holding her down and raping her.[15] Cortez testified that Abeer heard the gunshots in the room in which her parents and little sister were being held, causing her to scream and cry even more as she was being violently raped by the men. Green then emerged from the room saying "I just killed them, all are dead".[16] He, who later said the crime was "awesome",[17] then raped Abeer and shot her in the head several times. After the rape and murders, Barker poured petrol on and the soldiers set fire to the lower part of Abeer's body, from her stomach down to her feet. Barker testified that the soldiers gave Spielman their bloodied clothes to burn and that he threw the AK-47 used to murder the family in a canal. They left to "celebrate" their rapes of Abeer and massacre of the family with a meal of chicken wings.[18]
And when he's not busy covering up the rape and murder of little kids and their family with innuendo, exceptionalist talking points and braggadocio, he's making sure the mass murderers of little kids get all the help they need.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States, Britain and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen by arming and providing intelligence and logistics support to a Saudi-led coalition that starves civilians as a war tactic, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
FILE PHOTO: People inspect the site of Saudi-led air strikes on a Houthi detention centre in Dhamar, Yemen September 1, 2019. REUTERS/Ahmed al-Ansi
U.N. investigators recommended that all states impose a ban on arms transfers to the warring parties to prevent them from being used to commit serious violations.
SAADA, Yemen (Reuters) - Thousands of mourners on Monday buried dozens of children killed in a Saudi-led coalition air strike on a bus in northern Yemen, one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in the three-year-old war.
Boys demonstrate outside the offices of the United Nations in Sanaa, Yemen to denounce last weeks air strike that killed dozens including children in the northwestern province of Saada, August 13, 2018. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
At least 40 children were killed in Thursday’s strike, which hit the bus as it drove through a market in Dahyan, a town in Saada, the armed Houthi group which controls the province said.
Amid outrage from international human rights groups and U.N. officials, Riyadh continued to defend the raid as a “legitimate military action” intended to hit Houthi leaders, a day after it authorized a coalition investigation of the strike.
As long as his shares don't go down due to bombs failing to kill enough little kids, Aizinonymous will never have a word to say about mass murder in Yemen.
He will, however, continue to remind us how evil Saddam (who was an asset of his peeps before he got sand in his brain) Assad, Maduro, Morales etc. were and are.
He is the master of projection and deflection.
Stop arguing with him.
Watch me.
HEY! AIZINONYMOUS! You little kid murdering puke.
Go fuck your mother.
We know it won't be the first time.
So Anon 7:12
You deny that Klinghoffer was murdered, that Abu Abbas did it, and that Iraq gave Abu Abbas sanctuary.
That alone should get you incarcerated for life.
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