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1. Trump's right. Other presidents have declared national emergencies. So let's take a trip down memory lane and show photos from some of those, then compare to Trump.

Iran hostage crisis....
2...mass nuclear proliferation that needed immediate addressing while treaty negotiations underway....
3....blocking terrorists interfering with the middle east peace process through violence....
4...emergency addressing Columbian narco-traffikers after massive growth of organized crime there and output to US....
5...Cuba's shooting down of commercial airliners....
6....threat of terrorists after 9/11....
7....uptick in Somali piracy and need to deploy American soldiers to protect our interests and citizens....
8...blocking assets going to Gaddafi, particularly given Libya's role in shootdown of Pan Am 103...
9....blocking transnational criminals....
10...and finally - one of these things doesnt look like the others - one guy and his puppet masters at Fox think there need to be more wall on the border. Look at the horror! The death! The terror!

The placid, peaceful, nothing is going on here.
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1. I know folks are going to go ballistic before fully reading this, so please read it all before commenting. In his apology for referring to mothers as "host bodies" @RepJoseOliva said he was using the language of medical ethics. He is right, BUT this shows flaw in med ethics...
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1. It is completely clear that Trump sided with Kim Jong Un over our intel agencies, court and NK experts to say that "I take him at his word" that Kim had nothing to do with the torture and death of American Otto Warmbier because he didn't READ a goddamn thing about it.....
2...this young man was murdered by the North Koreans. They pushed him towards death, got him on a plane before he died, and he died here. Read this - the moment his family saw him on the plane. And start to get mad at Trump's laziness and stupidity on this....
3...now, in the world of Trump, well -- who the hell knows what he thinks happened? Kim said "not me." And Trump says "OK!" But this was not some low-level thing. It was broadcast in NK. Otto's "confession" of working with the CIA to steal a poster was clearly written....
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