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Post by Vince524 on Jul 29, 2017 19:56:21 GMT -5
I've never been able to cut and paste from the NYT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2017 20:14:01 GMT -5
I've never been able to cut and paste from the NYT I've found I have trouble with stories from the same day and often when I'm trying to do it from a tablet. Older stories usually work fine -- always when I'm on a PC. The Wall Street Journal sometimes gives me a hard time, too.
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Post by robeiae on Jul 30, 2017 8:26:32 GMT -5
I read the NYT piece, too. And I don't think it indicates what you are suggesting at all. I know there are some conspiracy theories winding up on this. And yes, the DC is going overboard. But the NYT piece doesn't have anything in it that calls into question what's in the NRO piece or the Politico piece, that I can see. Really, the author of the NYT piece seems kinds hopeful that the story will fall apart. Look at this bit (don't know why you can't cut and paste; I can):
There hasn't been that much publicity, except at the DC. Regardless, if the author thinks that the facts aren't in focus--I disagree, btw--shouldn't he dig into the case and bring them into focus? Isn't that his job? He goes on to detail a bunch of elements about the case, all of which are in the other pieces, but skips over some of the details that make the situation look worse for Awan and company, imo. He's got nothing new in his piece; he fairly criticizes some conspiracy-oriented assumptions, but again can't really point to things which are wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 8:25:59 GMT -5
Well, I suppose this depends on your perspective.
My view is that the United States is barreling straight at a constitutional crisis with an incompetent hothead at the helm who spends all his time golfing, watching cable TV, and tweeting batshit, horrible nonsense. He's at the helm of a chaotic, drastically understaffed administration more interested in licking his butt than serving the people. Meanwhile Congress seems more interested in pleasing the fringiest portion of its partisan base, many of whom, i'm afraid, are ignorant as fuck, than in actually doing things that might genuinely help the country. North Korea has developed a missile capable of hitting the continental U.S. Venezuela is showing us just how awful things can get, Poland is throwing away its hard-won democracy with both hands, Russia and China are looming, and our allies are giving us the side-eye.
I'm struggling as it is to stay up to date with that stuff. I honest to god do find this a nothingburger in comparison. They might be updating the story and digging in, but given all the other stuff going on, I won't be waiting breathlessly for updates unless the story expands dramatically into something that looks to endangers our stability as a nation, undermine our fundamental institutions, or at least until it pulls in a more prominent figure than, as you put it, Debbie "Washed-up" Shultz.
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