Exactly Jane. Just goes to show you these assclowns have no intention at all to talk about the real issues. All they will have is to blast Trump and use other clowns like bill crystal over at abc who is making stuffy stephy's day by "never trumping" the Donald over and over.
It's really sick as Jane says that the dems have literally nothing to run on. Not a single issue that can be considered an issue effecting the country only made up clap trap about this group or that group that are losers and how their dem-masters will give them our assets as they have for 50 years now and how that will solve everything.
No wonder 47% fall for it. Free lunch is an easy sell.
Let's see them try and sell a true issue.
Here is a take on Recip Erdogan, a brutal dictator in Turkey, has been up to over at AT. Pretty good stuff from a gal how should know.
Looks like the coup in Turkey was little more than a setup to get rid or all of erdongans political enemies in one fail sweep. His biggest political enemy is still in the U.S. Looks like we can't get him, Gulen, back to zeros buddy recep until the heat is off and Turkey is off the front pages.Zero is running to save his legacy of pillage and plunder you know.
Women are demeaned there, as I can tell you personally from many experiences with ugly street and commercial interactions with men who have never deemed a woman worthy of a polite gesture.
We mention “men” throughout since in the month I spent in Turkey, I seldom saw or spoke with a woman, as they seemed not to be apparent except skittering out of the corner of your eye, doing some household task. Most of the day, and especially at night, men ruled. Men drooled. Men smoked kief. Men lolled at tables in cafes and eyeballed the unigender passing scene.
But horrible as are Turkish Muslim men to their women (and all women) and each other, Erdoğan's unenlightened return to regressive primitivism and old-style sharia-islamism does not help.
Though it is by all accounts too early to determine what precisely the upshot of the 300 dead, the 1,000+ men wounded, and the carnage still apparent on the roads and cobblestones, Erdoğan is not the man our country ought to be backing. Even with a significant air base signal in our countering the activist terrorists known as ISIS.
He has consolidated power, killed off oppositional strongmen, instituted even more rigorous and oppressive legal constructs to set himself up as leader-for-a lifetime. The populace of Turkey will not be better off than it was a month ago; worse, in fact.
An unusually complex situation is made more problematic by our officials jumping in prematurely with their foolish assertions of support for a “democratically elected leader.” That is so only in the most tenuous sense. And as Erdoğan’s governance has become ever more tsarist or caliph-like, it ill serves the jittery US to be servicing the galactic dreams of a despot who has proven unsavory, unreliable and unhelpful in the long-ago and quite-recent past.
Northern Cyprus, invaded by Turkey in 1974, is a prime example of the destructive and insular arrogance of this war-drum-beating country. The northern half of Cyprus -- the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus -- controlled and managed in a grip of steel by faraway Turkey is a wreck, hulks of once-thriving high-rises standing forlorn and battered by weather, untenanted by their owners, now living on the Greek side of the Island. N Turkey is dependent on Turkey for economic, military and political sustenance. All attempts to rectify this situation of foreign occupying force have fallen in the UN chambers, unsuccessful.
When I asked repeatedly, in Cyprus, why the Cypriots did not take back their island and heal itself, I was informed, by grieving officials, that Turkey is “too powerful,” that their “Army is too overwhelming,” and that little Defenseless Cyprus has absolutely no chance against the Turks. The Turks maintain a large garrison military force even today in this captive territory. It raises not an eyebrow.
So endlessly, it molders, a relic of once-prosperous wholeness. Erdoğan’s megalith to feckless grabbiness and total control.
We will see in days oncoming the result of this attempt at overthrowing a force for antediluvian Islamism. Our hopes reside on the side of the burdened and profoundly unhappy Turkish people, and against the forces of Obama-supported steamroller corruptocrat, Recep T. Erdoğan, occasional enemy, unreliable “friend.”