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Title: Un-[bleepin] Believable
Post by: Hawkmoon on April 08, 2020, 10:35:36 PM
Just came across a self-serving "update" from the office of U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, of Connecticut. He's a D but, of course, I already said he's from Connecticut so that's redundant.

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Yesterday, Senator Murphy spoke at a virtual J Street meeting where he called for easing U.S. sanctions on countries like Iran for humanitarian and policy reasons during this crisis. Our foreign policy shouldn’t result in the knowing death of innocent people, and U.S. sanctions are currently preventing critical medical supplies from reaching the Iranian people, who have been hit hard by the coronavirus.

So let me get this straight: Hospitals all across the United States are experiencing crippling shortages of just about everything needed to treat the coronavirus ... and this one-man brain trust wants to send stuff to Iran?

WTF is wrong with leftists? Were they born with no brain, or was it surgically removed as a requirement of registering to be a D?
Title: Re: Un-[bleepin] Believable
Post by: RoadKingLarry on April 08, 2020, 11:10:38 PM
I thought medical and humanitarian stuff isn't included in the embargo, sanctions or whatever it's called.
Title: Re: Un-[bleepin] Believable
Post by: makattak on April 09, 2020, 12:02:51 AM
I thought medical and humanitarian stuff isn't included in the embargo, sanctions or whatever it's called.

It's not, but most people don't know that, making it an easy thing to demagogue on.
Title: Re: Un-[bleepin] Believable
Post by: Perd Hapley on April 09, 2020, 12:54:40 AM
It's not, but most people don't know that, making it an easy thing to demagogue on.

What I've heard as well.

Just don't send them any alcohol!
Title: Re: Un-[bleepin] Believable
Post by: Hawkmoon on April 09, 2020, 02:10:23 AM

Just don't send them any alcohol!

"Purely medicinal, m'dear, purely medicinal." [/WC Fields voice]
Title: Re: Un-[bleepin] Believable
Post by: MechAg94 on April 09, 2020, 09:51:27 AM
Don't worry, I am sure the Chinese are sending them all the masks and coronavirus tests they want.   =D
Title: Re: Un-[bleepin] Believable
Post by: WLJ on April 09, 2020, 09:58:33 AM
Don't worry, I am sure the Chinese are sending them all the masks and coronavirus tests they want.   =D

CNN: Unlike the the hateful racist US China is donating med equipment to other countries to help fight the Orange Man Virus. Bad bad Trump
Title: Re: Un-[bleepin] Believable
Post by: K Frame on April 09, 2020, 10:54:42 AM
"WTF is wrong with leftists?"

It's better to save the lives of radical ideologists who are known to hate all things America than to run the risk of keeping the stuff and possibly saving the lives of Deplorables.
Title: Re: Un-[bleepin] Believable
Post by: MechAg94 on April 09, 2020, 11:00:50 AM
"WTF is wrong with leftists?"

It's better to save the lives of radical ideologists who are known to hate all things America than to run the risk of keeping the stuff and possibly saving the lives of Deplorables.
Goal #1:  American Bad
Goal #2:  Orange Man Bad (or any R President)
Goal #3:  Enemy of America Good
Goal #4:  Use Govt Funds/Influence to Enrich Myself and Friends

Whatever supports those goals.  I can't think of a time in my life where elected leftists held any other goals. 
Title: Re: Un-[bleepin] Believable
Post by: Doggy Daddy on April 09, 2020, 05:20:58 PM
"WTF is wrong with leftists?"

They're just not right.
Title: Re: Un-[bleepin] Believable
Post by: T.O.M. on April 09, 2020, 06:43:27 PM
Hold it.  Dude wants to send medical supplies to Iran when we have a shortage here at home?  I hear all the time we don't have enough vents, PPE, etc. to take care of our own.  Why is anyone even thinking of sending any medical supplies anywhere????
Title: Re: Un-[bleepin] Believable
Post by: MechAg94 on April 10, 2020, 09:39:18 AM
Hold it.  Dude wants to send medical supplies to Iran when we have a shortage here at home?  I hear all the time we don't have enough vents, PPE, etc. to take care of our own.  Why is anyone even thinking of sending any medical supplies anywhere????
He would probably settle for pallets of cash. 
Title: Re: Un-[bleepin] Believable
Post by: MechAg94 on April 10, 2020, 09:40:53 AM
I wonder if this guy has family or friends employed as lobbyists for Iran in one way or the other.  Maybe he is just a partner in a real estate deal with a shell company owned by Iran. 
Title: Re: Un-[bleepin] Believable
Post by: HankB on April 10, 2020, 12:10:43 PM
I wonder if this guy has family or friends employed as lobbyists for Iran in one way or the other.  Maybe he is just a partner in a real estate deal with a shell company owned by Iran. 
1st Rule of Politics: Always follow the money. ALWAYS.
Title: Re: Un-[bleepin] Believable
Post by: WLJ on April 11, 2020, 05:27:15 PM
Enter Feinstein

Feinstein urges Trump to reverse plan to block Iran request for $5B in IMF aid, claims it is in ‘our national interest’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/feinstein-trump-iran-imf-aid
Title: Re: Un-[bleepin] Believable
Post by: RocketMan on April 11, 2020, 06:19:04 PM
Enter Feinstein

Feinstein urges Trump to reverse plan to block Iran request for $5B in IMF aid, claims it is in ‘our national interest’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/feinstein-trump-iran-imf-aid

And she'd be against it if Trump was for it.  I have absolutely nothing good to say about her.