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Jeff Flake compares Trump's attacks on 'Fake News' media to STALIN.
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | January 17, 2018 | David Martosko

Posted on 01/17/2018 10:19:24 PM PST by Belteshazzar

Arizona lawmaker Jeff Flake compared Donald Trump to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin on Wednesday, delivering a blistering attack on the president to a nearly empty U.S. Senate chamber.

The Republican has become one of Trump's favorite targets, earning a presidential nickname – 'Jeff Flakey' – since his impending retirement has freed him to openly castigate the White House on several fronts.

'It is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Josef Stalin to describe his enemies,' Flake said, citing a Trump tweet in which he branded five news outlets 'the enemy of the American people.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: durbin; fakies; flake; flakeyflake; stalin; trump
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I think that Jeff Flake is just upset that Trump always talks about "Fake News," and not "Flake News." OK, seriously, Flake gives the term political hack new meaning. Giving a speech comparing Trump to Stalin to a chamber empty of all but Dick ("Pol Pot and the Nazis") Durbin and Amy Klobuchar! How proud Arizona must be of its current Senator!

What a political wh--e!

1 posted on 01/17/2018 10:19:25 PM PST by Belteshazzar
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To: Belteshazzar

Flake is a sick ****.


2 posted on 01/17/2018 10:24:27 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Belteshazzar

Speaking as an Arizona Conservative, I can only say how embarrassed and sorry I am we have this loser still in office for another 11 and a half months...I cannot even say how I feel about other other supposed Republican senator, but I am praying that Gov Ducey will get the opportunity to appoint his replacement sooner this year....


3 posted on 01/17/2018 10:24:31 PM PST by princess leah
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Flake is an idiot.

The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.


4 posted on 01/17/2018 10:27:52 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Belteshazzar

And, yet, it was CNN that went after an individual that dared to make fun of them.


5 posted on 01/17/2018 10:32:53 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Belteshazzar

Snowflake blew both feet off. He is now totally finished.


6 posted on 01/17/2018 10:33:48 PM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: Belteshazzar

He is like most desperate political a-holes who now feel they can say anything they want and hope some of it sticks for the next step in a political whores career.


7 posted on 01/17/2018 10:46:52 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Belteshazzar

A more accurate analogy: if Flake the Fake were living in the Soviet Union, he’d be defending Pravda.


8 posted on 01/17/2018 10:51:12 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Belteshazzar

When was the last time Flake attacked a Democrat? Why does he feel so comfortable throwing darts at his own party’s president but wants decorum for the opposition?


9 posted on 01/17/2018 11:02:45 PM PST by Dragonspirit (President Trump do not give CNN a debate in 2020)
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To: Belteshazzar

Is it just me, or is “Stalin” the new “shithole” this week?


10 posted on 01/17/2018 11:08:48 PM PST by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: Belteshazzar

What is his constituency? A bunch of Indian reservations in NE AZ?


11 posted on 01/17/2018 11:08:48 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of he Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Belteshazzar
The U. S. Constitution plainly states that in the absence of a quorum, the Senate can only do one of two thing: round up members to conduct business or adjourn.

However, the Senators get around the Constitution by using a Senate "rule" that assumes a quorum is present unless a member is present that will demand a count.

12 posted on 01/17/2018 11:11:29 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Belteshazzar

What a flakehole!


13 posted on 01/17/2018 11:16:18 PM PST by Songcraft ("Pray without ceasing." 1 Thessalonians 5:17)
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That's just weird. I think of flake as a dumbass. How weird is that? Hey Jeff, 🖕🏻
14 posted on 01/17/2018 11:17:50 PM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Well, just think, the US media is the new Pravda-only not for Trump. The real Stalin is the Deep State and the US Pravda/mockingbird media is their mouth piece.


15 posted on 01/17/2018 11:25:05 PM PST by greeneyes
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To: Belteshazzar

Jeff Flake is a quisling.


16 posted on 01/17/2018 11:38:05 PM PST by JohnyBoy (The GOP Senate is intentionally trying to lose the majority.)
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To: Belteshazzar

He wasn’t attacking them, he was AWARDING them!


17 posted on 01/17/2018 11:39:38 PM PST by FrdmLvr
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To: Belteshazzar

Flake is owned by someone. He’s a political concubine. He is shaming himself like this cause some deep state actor is pulling his strings....they have something real good on this guy. He’s an obvious dunce & whatever secrets he has are well know to his owners. Thing is....the act he is putting on is not very good. Too over the top.


18 posted on 01/17/2018 11:47:49 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: Belteshazzar

Flake by nature.


19 posted on 01/18/2018 12:25:12 AM PST by OldNewYork (Operation Wetback II, now with computers)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Fake News and a Fake Senator.


20 posted on 01/18/2018 12:32:01 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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