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There's no "Oops" about it.  It was deliberate as hell.

 

The hostile takeover of Barack Obama's history as President has begun.

 

It amazes me how much the rest of the world is willing to screw itself over, just because they're skeered of Muslims.  They don't realize that all these populist movements and collapsing institutions do is convince radical Islamic terrorists that they have US on the run rather than the other way around.

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I didn't know that Betsy DeVos is the sister of Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater.

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Most of us will know about Blackwater's misadventures in Iraq.

 

 

So apparently Trump only had a crowd of 250,000 at his inauguration?

 

Obama had 1,800,000 in 2009  and 1,000,000 in 2013.

 

 

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For some reason the article contradicts itself partway through:

 

The website’s sections on LGBT, civil rights, and health-care are nowhere to be found. That doesn’t necessarily mean they’re never coming back though. The website for the Domestic Policy Council is also down and we know it’s going to live on in under Trump. He’s already appointed someone to lead it.

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In the case of Brexit a lot of the attention went to the Farage hysteria about borders and Syria, but a lot of the everyday job losses that likely tipped votes involved voters who resented many from places like Poland and other Baltic states that have become such a part of the UK in the last few decades. They were also subject to intense harassment post-Brexit, they were told "We're sending you back," and so on.

 

It was a mirror of what happened in the US where a lot of anti-Trump attention mostly went to saying "racist" or "you hate women" without enough time addressing the other economic fears that led many into the voting booth.

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