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Jed Shugerman Vote 11/6 @jedshug
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On the 12 steps toward authoritarianism, where is “Letting another country murder its political opponents, who are your legal residents, with impunity and tacit approval?”
Justice for #Khashoggi
2/ Additional authoritarianism points: “Well, they buy our military products with which they slaughter Yemenites, and they book rooms in my Emolument Hotel, so they can murder whomever they like.”
3/ I follow a good number of conservatives. Other than the solid and admirable #NeverTrumpers, the silence from the right about Khashoggi's murder has been nauseating.
The Full Trumpification of the Republican Party marches on.
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4 clear pieces on the law of “national emergency” and the wall: @MargLTaylor
@BobbyChesney in @lawfareblog; @LizaGoitein in @Atlantic; and @charlie_savage in @nytimes (links here).
My bottom line: Congress has given the president too much discretion.
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I’m creating a thread to recognize the libertarians admirably speaking out against the Trump’s family separations and/or the abuse of executive power and takings for the wall. I haven’t seen enough, but please send me more examples for recognition. 1/
2/ Libertarians speaking out against Trump on immigration:
3/ A shout-out to @reason and @CatoInstitute in particular:
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1. Oh boy...we have reached a precipice. A LOT of people are going to question what's going on here. There are people slamming and people praising @POTUS for his decision about #Khashoggi's alleged murder and the Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman's involvement. Read on!
2. I say "alleged" because not one shred of evidence has been presented to the media or to the general public, in any country, that Khashoggi was in fact kidnapped, bound, tortured, murdered, dismembered, dissolved, and disposed of. Not one shred of evidence! With the amount of..
3. ...leaks in today's society, it is damn near impossible that any REAL evidence could be suppressed or hidden from the public. I for one am still not willing to throw in the towel here. I have written repeated threads on this issue and I feel the president's decision only...
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Two things Erdogan said we didn’t know:

• Before #Khashoggi’s visit, a diplomat at the Consulate left Turkey and travelled to Saudi Arabia. (Sabah reported today that it was Abdullah Almuzaini, Saudi Station Chief in Istanbul)
• They removed the security system hard disk
Erdoğan:

• One day before the murder, a Saudi team explores Istanbul Belgrad Forest and coastal city Yalova.
• We couldn’t immediately search the Consulate because of the Vienna Convention.
Important to note that Erdogan addresses King Salman repeatedly as “custodian of the two holy mosques” and “his majesty”

Erdogan says Consul General was sacked following his criticism of his disregard and imcompetent handling of the situation
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But seriously, this #Khashoggi story is scary. Jared Kushner is biffles with the crown prince and his father in law calls the press the “enemy of the people.” We need answers to this.
Like, people are over here listening to Kanye West give a soliloquy in the Oval Office while Kush sits there smiling to the camera. This is the news story today. Swift vs West II.
A hurricane hit Florida that Florida has never seen before. In OCTOBER. And the lower third is a Kanye quote that says Drumpf “saved the planet” days after the UN said we’re all dead in 20 years. Not 2,000, not 200, 20.
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A little perspective on the #Khashoggi disappearance

Killing or kidnapping journalists is awful. But not more awful than doing it to any other person

But since it is one of the media's own we have a completely disproportionate reaction

foxnews.com/politics/rand-…
It also involves a major new #Trump ally #SaudiArabia and there seems to be a coordinated effort to attack them now as my colleague @davereaboi points out

The immediate acceptance of accusations from Turkish state security about this incident was absurd. All the major media outlets blindly accepted this story as if #Erdogan was a reliable source

What he is
Is one of the world's largest killers & jailers of journalists
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#Khashoggi Case Thread: I am going to ‘pin’ this post to use it as an ‘Info Thread’ on the #Khashoggi Case. I am in #Turkey. I’ve been following the case closely and with access to sources & experts here. This is a very ‘sensitive’ criminal case due to ‘Diplomatic Booby Traps’!!!
The Evidence Obtained Outside Cameras will not show any evidence of ‘tempering’ but other than license plates of dozens of diplomatic cars (Many with tinted windows-large trunks) with related time stamp, drivers Info, model/year: Nothing.
#Turkish Intel-Investigative Bodies also have the list of all Diplomatic & Private Saudi & “other significant’ Planes in #Turkey for the period of ‘interest.’ Many of the Target airports have their own security cameras & related evidence.
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1/ The #Saudi kidnapping of #Khashoggi reminds me of the kidnapping of #Hariri. It is meant to embarrass the other party, this time the gov of #Turkey, and provoke a diplomatic crisis. This is drug Cartel methods. It has no other goal than to assert power over the other.
2/ However, resorting to these methods to assert power in the political and international affairs sphere is always a sign of weakness and a sign of a power in crisis. #SaudiArabia
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