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He is getting SLAUGHTERED in the comments. Too funny..
1 posted on 09/07/2020 9:15:04 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

He’s NOT a “reporter”.

The is CNN after all.


2 posted on 09/07/2020 9:19:47 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: RandFan

He’s NOT a “reporter”.

This is CNN after all.


3 posted on 09/07/2020 9:19:55 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Eisenhower didn’t have to spell it out so even a CNN moron could understand what he meant. The adults at that time understood exactly what Eisenhower meant. And, Eisenhower meant exactly what President Trump stated.


5 posted on 09/07/2020 9:24:07 PM PDT by ocrp1982
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Also, Eisenhower had this warning in his farewell address:
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

Just think how much of the fury over HCQ has been to prevent President Trump from getting a win and to make sure that only expensive patented drugs can be used for treatment rather than finding whether it works or not.
6 posted on 09/07/2020 9:36:57 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after an election.)
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War Is A Racket
By Major General Smedley Butler

https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

STE=Q


7 posted on 09/07/2020 9:55:11 PM PDT by STE=Q ("Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel"... Socrates)
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While they are both critical of the military industrial complex, nowhere does Eisenhower actually accuse military leaders of engaging in shooting wars to boost profits for firms

So? Look, I honor the fighting men and now the fighting women who have fought, died and shed blood for our nation. The generals who move from the Pentagon to lucrative jobs with investment firms, though - why is it suddenly unthinkable to explore their motives?
8 posted on 09/07/2020 10:35:43 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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It would only be interesting that they weren’t upset with him.

They’re ravaged with hate, it has completely consumed them.


9 posted on 09/07/2020 10:52:00 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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In an unprecedented public attack by a sitting US president on the leadership of the US military, President Trump has accused US military leaders of seeking to start wars to boost the profits of defense contractors.

What's unprecedented is the entire media establishment seditiously trying to sow military dissent against a sitting President by quoting anonymous partisan sources. Ryan Browne and CNN are participating in a psychological warfare operation against the citizens of the United States. They and their accomplices should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

10 posted on 09/07/2020 10:53:04 PM PDT by Fedora
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bttt


12 posted on 09/07/2020 11:03:24 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it] today.[)
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CNN Reporter upset that President Trump [fill in the blank].


13 posted on 09/07/2020 11:17:50 PM PDT by McGruff (Polls are for dancing)
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To: RandFan

bttt


14 posted on 09/07/2020 11:21:23 PM PDT by timestax
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Trump isn’t subtle.

“It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.” Robert E. Lee

“...many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.” William Tecumseh Sherman

“At night I see their faces. All the men I’ve killed. They’re standing there on the far bank of the river Styx. They’re waiting for me. They say, ‘Welcome, brother.’” Brad Pitt as Achilles, in Troy

Military men become drawn to war. Like a moth to a flame. Their thinking clouded by “duty, honor, country,” images of glory, loyalty to their comrades, especially those who have fallen in battle, and also by the doorway to fortune offered by military contractors.

One of the reasons for civilian control of the military is that we cannot allow their willingness to serve decide the matter. We must value them where they are willing to sacrifice themselves.

The “long war” the military imagined we were to fight in the Middle East has already longer lasted than it was supposed to last.

It was good to destroy the Taliban government in Kabul after 9-11, and we did that in short order. The idea of Bush, endorsed and followed through by Obama, of “reconstructing” Afghanistan was always a stupid idea.

As for Iraq, no, the world is not better off because we got rid of Saddam Hussein. That’s how messed up is the Middle East.


16 posted on 09/08/2020 12:23:36 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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Eisenhower Farewell Address (Best Quality) - 'Military Industrial Complex' WARNING
8:30 "In the councils of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought by the Military Industrial Complex."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyBNmecVtdU
21 posted on 09/08/2020 3:41:22 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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Government grafted the same game into their offices.

Politicians and their staff move from congress to News organizations to lobby firms and back to congress.

They live to enrich themselves


26 posted on 09/08/2020 4:43:44 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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