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Donald Trump approves selling weapons to Saudi Arabia blocked by Obama
The State Department has approved resuming arms sales to Saudi Arabia previously blocked by Barack Obama. A multi-million dollar technology for Riyadh was blocked by the former President during the final months of his administration over human rights concerns. Saudi Arabia is leading a mostly Arab coalition targeting Houthi rebels in Yemen with air strikes.
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Bans people from counties that have never had terrorists that attacked the US, sells guns to country where the most terrorists that have attacked the US comes from.
Well, of course! If they ended terrorism they'd have to come up with some other BS to keep people afraid and willing to give them more power.
When 'terrorism' loses its potency as an excuse for absolutely anything, the natural rhythm is for 'child pornography' to assume that function. Mind you, while certain carte blanche excuses never lose their persuasive powers completely, for instance "or the terrorists win," "in this economy?" or "It's all for the kids," they can become dated to the extent they mark out certain periods in the sweep of history. For instance, you hardly ever see anyone excuse themselves by citing "McGovern '72" any more…
Hmmm. So I guess the ultimate evil is a child-pornographing Russian terrorist? They're probably saving that one for a really big mishap.
I think you've anticipated a solid, near future perfect-excuse boogeyman: "You know, like on the Dark Web…"
How are the Trump supporters taking this in?