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Trump defends Kim despite human rights record
President Donald Trump is defending North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jong Un, despite worldwide criticism of the country’s human rights offenses.
“He’s a tough guy,” the president said during a Fox News interview that aired Wednesday. “When you take over a country, a tough country, tough people and you take it over from your father — I don’t care who you are, what you are, how much of an advantage you have — if you can do that at 27 years old, that’s one in 10,000 that could do that. So he’s a very smart guy. He’s a great negotiator, but I think we understand each other.”
Trump made his comments Tuesday aboard Air Force One on his return from Singapore, where he’d met with Kim and hailed the North Korean leader as a “smart” and “funny guy” who “loves his people.”
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in his Tuesday interview after Fox host Bret Baier pressed the him about how Kim had “done some really bad things.”
“Yeah, but so have a lot of other people done some really bad things,” he said. “I could go through a lot of nations where a lot of bad things were done.”
At the same time, Trump has been quick to criticize U.S. allies, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, with whom he’d met at the G-7 summit just before departing for Singapore. Trump has labeled Trudeau “weak” and “dishonest”
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December 23, 1776
THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
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Somehow, a sizeable piece of the GOP have chosen authoritarian leadership, and the ones that chose not to follow that path will not speak out until they've announced their retirement. This 'piece' of the GOP has evolved into a cult.
For some of our fellow citizens maybe democracy is just too hard.
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Conservatives celebrating a tax/budget plan that produces trillion dollar deficits.
Heaping effusive praise on murderous dictators.
The abandonment of free trade.
Using government to support favored industries like coal.
Turning your back on decency and family values.
I don't recognize the Republican party.
Truly what defines the Republican Party today is not a devotion to ideas or policies, but fealty to a man.
This is a personality cult.
What a sad time for our republic.
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Trump salutes a North Korean general.
Remember when the right lost their shit because Obama bowed before some Saudi king/prince?
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Goose wrote:
Trump salutes a North Korean general.
Remember when the right lost their shit because Obama bowed before some Saudi king/prince?
Nothing like a draft dodger saluting a despot General !