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Washington’s coup fever heats up
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | February 19, 2017 | David Talbot

Posted on 02/19/2017 8:29:07 AM PST by artichokegrower

In case you turned off your computer and TV and crawled under the blankets all last week — and, really, who can blame you? — here’s a quick recap of the news. Leaking like an old waterbed, the national security establishment claimed its first big casualty, national security adviser Michael Flynn. President Trump struck back by reaching new levels of weirdness at his Thursday news conference, telling the media pack that they were “hateful” and “dishonest”… but, hey, “it’s a great honor to be with you.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 4thestate5thcolumn; commiesymp; deepstate; fakenews; fifthcolumn; insurrection; sedition; shadowgovernment
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To: artichokegrower

I like how the same idiots in the media that tried to tell us he was doing so terrible every day during the campaign have essentially never stopped.


21 posted on 02/19/2017 8:53:26 AM PST by Trump20162020
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To: The_Media_never_lie
If there is a coup, beware the counter coup.

To help them with their timing, we should send the Chron a coup-coup clock.
22 posted on 02/19/2017 8:54:03 AM PST by Colinsky
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To: artichokegrower

Idiots selling their rag papers with no ideas


23 posted on 02/19/2017 8:54:14 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: artichokegrower

AMEN!!! ...and the 62 million Americans are ‘locked and loaded’!!!


24 posted on 02/19/2017 9:01:48 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: artichokegrower

This Talbot goofball appears to be taking over for Mark Morford as the most demented pseudo-journalist in San Fran Sicko.


25 posted on 02/19/2017 9:09:22 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: artichokegrower

WOW! There is a rise in the number of people in semi-influential positions advocating force. Closer ever closer comes the Social War.


26 posted on 02/19/2017 9:24:30 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: datura

Military distinction does not confer immunity from criticism to one’s political views or activity.


27 posted on 02/19/2017 9:24:40 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

>WOW! There is a rise in the number of people in semi-influential positions advocating force. Closer ever closer comes the Social War.

Funny how Roman history is repeating in the US.


28 posted on 02/19/2017 9:25:44 AM PST by RedWulf (TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP!)
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To: artichokegrower

The SoFakeChroncile has joined the fray....


29 posted on 02/19/2017 9:29:19 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: RedWulf

I might broaden your statement as to the repetition of Roman history playing out in the U.S.-It is Classical History being played out by Western Civilization. In broad terms Oswald Spengler was correct in his analysis of the decline of civilizations.


30 posted on 02/19/2017 9:30:29 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: artichokegrower

“The “least racist man you’ll ever meet” then went on to ask an African American reporter to set up a meeting for him with the Congressional Black Caucus, because, well, she’s black.”

Are these people really that stupid? The reporter was trying to imply that Trump was being a racist for supposedly refusing to talk with members of the Black Caucus. The question was an accusation.


31 posted on 02/19/2017 9:42:20 AM PST by odawg
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To: artichokegrower

The San Francisco Chronicle another member of NTU (never trust us).


32 posted on 02/19/2017 9:44:14 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: Starboard

Yep

The Chronic needs to go back and spend its time and resources on solving The Zodiac’s cryptograms rather than spread its political cheerleading blather

LOL


33 posted on 02/19/2017 9:47:41 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT Mexico NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: Dr. Ursus

“McCain and Graham- two broke girls!”

I got a chuckle out of that one.


34 posted on 02/19/2017 9:48:30 AM PST by twoputt
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To: artichokegrower
The hubbub for a coup — on the left and right — grows louder by the day.

The writer is trying to help "normalize" the idea of a coup against President Trump.

The idea of removing a duly-elected president by coup used to be unthinkable in America. Or at least, saying it out loud.

This is why the Left is so hysterically throwing around words like "treason," in the deluded hope that if they keep on repeating it, it just might stick. And this tactic DID once work for them.

35 posted on 02/19/2017 9:49:36 AM PST by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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To: Dr. Ursus

“McCain and Graham- two broke girls!”

that is a keeper!


36 posted on 02/19/2017 9:52:43 AM PST by SteveH
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To: twoputt

Two girls, one bucket.


37 posted on 02/19/2017 9:56:27 AM PST by JusPasenThru (SJW is the weaponization of compassion.)
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To: artichokegrower

Lib socialists are furiously masturbating to trump coup stories.


38 posted on 02/19/2017 10:33:58 AM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: artichokegrower

Talbot is an elitist Fellow Traveler who has been pimping Stalinism for decades while railing against anything Republican, or patriotic, or military which might serve the interests of America’s national security.
Now the very Stalinist oats sown by this ass and his ilk have sprouted, inside Obama’s rogue and treasonous administration, and on the streets where Talbot himself lives.
Ooooh, it’s getting scary out there.
Suddenly, he realizes that things are falling apart, some kind of center needs to hold, and he wants to be in it.
It begins to dawn on Davie-boy that his Blackshirted cadre on the street might not revere his —or anyone’s-— exercise of free speech, much less his self-congratulatory pseudo-intellectualisms, as much as he’d thought.

Soon the comrades will hand him a shovel, order him to dig his grave and climb in. He’s no longer useful.
And since he so desperately needs to be useful, not to mention alive, he figures a slight rightward shift, with a discreet clutching of whatever coat tails he can grab onto, might serve his own interests-—even if some of those coat tails happen to be “Republican” ones.

So whose particular coattails does he name? Read it and weep—with laughter!
Giving credit where due, at least he seems on the cusp of recognizing that the Democratic Party has gone so far left, it’s fallen off the earth.
But he still thinks the genuine center, the pragmatists, the moderates, the America-first patriots in the military, the Trump electorate-—are “extremists.”

He’s desperately looking for a moderate center, so he can align with it. It’s in the White House, but he can’t find it. So he’s looking in the shadows, among the spooks and in the adjacent cubicles at the San Francisco Chronicle and the NYT.
More hilariously, he STILL believes his views align with those of ordinary Americans, and sees himself as some kind of leader and spokesman -—for us!


39 posted on 02/19/2017 10:39:26 AM PST by mumblypeg (Make America Macho Again.)
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To: Colinsky

LOL. Good one!


40 posted on 02/19/2017 10:43:28 AM PST by mumblypeg (Make America Macho Again.)
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