Angelus Errare
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Booker also was a fan of Jeff Sessions before he did that speech slamming Sessions.
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The Hill: Trump to reverse Obamas Cuba policy
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Booker also was a fan of Jeff Sessions before he did that speech slamming Sessions.
RPGCrazied
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Really? This guy is DOA if he runs for President. Please don't run. I won't vote for you.
boredofcanada
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I bet Cuba said hell no to Trump hotel Havana. As a Cuban American whose family fled Cuba, fuck Rubio and Menendez too. Traitors.
Kushner was a Democratic donor up until about two years or so ago. When was this pic taken?
Plus his latest comments about Trump/Jared makes this look even more bad for him.
No, he said some nice things about Sessions because they worked together in honoring Selma marchers. To my knowledge, at no point did Cory Booker say, "I am a fan of Jeff Sessions, his ideological views, and voting record."
Angelus Errare
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Yea during the 2015 Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony for 1965 Voting Rights Marches Foot Soldiers, Booker said that working with Sessions on the commemoration was one of his career highlights and he was honored to work with Sessions on it.
If you are one of the 10 ever African-Americans elected to the U.S. Senate and you get the chance to honor the Selma march on its 50th anniversary, with a sitting senator from Alabama, I imagine you would find that to be a career highlight.
Read up on Fulgencio Batista. Most Cuban folks who are against open relations with Cuba come from that base.
Etrian Oddity
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A large percentage of Americans wanted this. If Americans want something else, they can bother to vote in battleground states. Otherwise, this, as in all branches of government going to GOP, was America telling the world that obama was a mistake and it is self correcting
RPGCrazied
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After that election he had with Trump makes this even more sad.
Gordon Shumway
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Little Marco? lol..Please.
I'm not a fan of the music myself, but you're spot on about the women
Angelus Errare
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I'd also be smart enough not to mention sessions by name cause he isn't worth mentioning by name.
BoogieWoogie
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I mean pretty obvious when he voted yes on Tillerson.
BlastProcessing
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Trump desperately needs to move the story away from Russia. Congress is in recess this week so the White House has to do it themselves. I could see his advisors having a brainstorming meeting for something they could roll out ASAP and deciding on this.
Costa Kid
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That's what trump supporters/republicans want...
TheLaughingStock
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Dreams-Visions
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read the thread.
Nope. Fuck him.
Don't worry, we won't.
The next Bush or Trump will always be around the corner as long as the republican party exists.
We'll probably get a democratic president in 2020 until the idiot public forgets the damage Trump did and falls for the next GOP candidate in 2024 or 2028.
With the way things have been going to shit here, I expect the next two decades to be a fun push and pull/game of musical chairs between the easily brainwashed and the sane half of the country.
Mr.Shrugglesã
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Fucking Rubio hyprocite on full display.
uncredited male
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I can't wait to listen to his supporter's rationalizations as to why wet foot dry foot is acceptable.
old manatee
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Trump would uninvent fire if it was an option.
It's pretty easy. Cubans vote Republican.
Is he supposed to pretend he did it alone?
This is ridiculous. Is Bernie's stance on climate action disingenuous because he had the gall to say he gets along with James Inhofe (and in fact explicitly singled out Inhofe as a republican he enjoys working with)?
If these guys can get along to do something good every once in a while, we shouldn't shame them for doing so or expect them to pretend that the other party involved didn't even exist.
Well Rubio has always been opposed to Obama's Cuba policy.Mr.Shrugglesツ;238485246 said:
Because Castro is an easily accepted villain in America. My dad is pretty typically republican on immigration (and virtually everything else lol) but even he was appalled by Clinton sending Elian Gonzalez back.
butzopower
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Sanction those commies and lift sanctions on Russia!
Prometheus? Huge clown. Things were a lot better before he stole fire from the Gods. If I was in charge back then I'd do a lot worse than have an eagle eat his liver for eternity, believe me.
He will tell his followers Obama never was President and anyone saying so is just FAKE NEWS.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Trump sure loves playing president.
TheLaughingStock
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He's been in the public eye as a Democrat for awhile, he's a lawyer, is from NJ and is facing allegations of corruption. What's wrong with him vs. your typical politician that makes him so different?
Dead Prince
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Delete obama
What's the relevance to this thread? I CTRL+F'd the article and came back with zero hits on Booker.
AstroNut325
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I thought The Hill was predominantly viewed by right wingers, but the comments on that page... seem to indicate a very anti-Trump tone.
This is very much not the norm.
TheChewyWaffles
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http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-set-reverse-barack-obamas-policies-cuba-617140
So a reversal makes it easier for Cubans fleeing Cuba to get immigration status. Maybe this is not a bad thing.
Didn't Cuba come out with a vaccine for lung cancer recently? Seems like it would be a good idea to not to antagonize the country which can potentially save American lives due to that breakthrough.
Something something socialism, something something embargo on the enemy based on a half-a-century old mindset when engaging with Cuba, something something territory of the U.S. that suffered immensely under imperialist rule which, combined with an oppressive ruling local government, rebelled violently and began the long and complicated history of U.S.-Cuba relations (and really, most of the western world save for Canada when Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau went to Cuba and became friends with Fidel Castro).
Future president's got to get in his two cents i.e. his remarks about Kushner.
Something something socialism, something something embargo on the enemy based on a half-a-century old mindset when engaging with Cuba, something something territory of the U.S. that suffered immensely under imperialist rule which, combined with an oppressive ruling local government, rebelled violently and began the long and complicated history of U.S.-Cuba relations (and really, most of the western world save for Canada when Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau went to Cuba and became friends with Fidel Castro).
Future president's got to get in his two cents i.e. his remarks about Kushner.
For the record. I hope Warren or Harris runs so you folks down south don't have this blithering buffoon in office (Trump, not Booker).
One of a handful of things both parties are the same on. Saudi and Israel.
The Greek Freak
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Booker saying a nice thing about Sessions isn't even a top 10 reason why he's a shit bag.
Booker is a grade A example of why the two party system is broken.
Dude would put on a klan outfit before he supported real healthcare change that didn't involve lining the pockets of insurance companies. Clown and a cunt.
Edit: For people unsure of his Kushner connection.
Dude essentially got his pockets padded to keep his mouth shut about lil Jared.
Angelus Errare
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I would have given Sessions the most minimal of gestures I could do. Shit I'd hire a writing staff whose main propose is to do just that, I'd take out a loan to finance it if necessary because that's all Sessions deserves. If it was legal to do so, I'd throw a damn brick at that little racist elf mid speech. I'd throw that shit at his face with the collective strength of the black community present, and past on some black panther shit.
And Bernie working with a Republican isn't anywhere near the same as any black representative having to swallow their pride and work with a man who is so damn racist that when he tried to run for judge racist ass Republicans during the time were like "you're too fucking racist my guy". If Sessions didn't get into politics he was probably going to be a Grand Wizard.
So no there is no "Oh we'll ignore his entire history of racial hatred, actions, and attempts at laws towards black people because he totes did this one thing in 2015. Fuck that noise, especially given the fact that Corretta Scott King (You know, the wife of MLK, the man who led the Selma protest?) wrote a letter expressing her and the collective black community's seething hatred for this man and everything he stands for by way of opposing his 1986 federal judge nomination.
Futurevoid
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My family fled Cuba after the revolution. Well aware of the history and Cuban exiles would imply that base. As mentioned, that generation of hardliners is dying out. A plurality of younger and middle aged Cubans want 60 year old, ineffective Cold War policies gone. With good reason! Its done fuck all to the regime.
Even if you look past that, Cuba will simply look to Russia and China for trade and goods. Russia just shipped 250k barrels of oil to Cuba. This after cheap oil from Venezuela has disappeared thanks to the instability in that country. Russia is already talking about reopening its old military bases on the island and Cuba wants more oil as quickly as it can get it. Googles main competition to bring more internet services to Cuba? China/Huawei.
Strategically, it's fucking stupid to cede an island 90 miles off of the coast of Florida to two major global rivals.
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