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Chelsea Manning eyes U.S. Senate seat for Maryland
Chelsea Manning, the transgender U.S. Army soldier who served seven years in military prison for leaking classified data, is seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate seat from Maryland, according to Federal election filings seen on Saturday.
[...] Democratic Senator Ben Cardin was elected in 2006 to that seat and is expected to run for re-election this year. He is the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Cardin was easily re-elected in 2012, beating his Republican challenger by 30 points in the heavily-Democratic state.
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(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Monday January 15 2018, @04:15AM (2 children)
He's also a warmonger and an awful authoritarian who is continuing many unconstitutional policies of previous presidents, such as the NSA's mass surveillance. I don't want to hear about how the vast majority of politicians are corrupt authoritarians, since that just means they are evil along with Trump. There are no excuses here.
Only valuable if he tries to do things that are actually good. Tell me when he ends all the wars, when he abolishes the TSA, when he stops the drug war, when he stops police asset forfeiture (theft), when he pardons Snowden, when he ends the NSA's unconstitutional mass surveillance, etc. As the president, he could at least speak vehemently against those things even if he can't unilaterally stop all of them, and since you said he has a history of "getting shit done", he should be able to accomplish this. All of those things are part of the swamp, and he said he would drain it, so where is he? Oh, wait, he's actually said he's in favor of many of those policies, and is silently continuing the rest.
Really, it seems to me that the only people who could possibly praise Trump at this point are people who are stupid, ignorant, authoritarian, or some combination of those.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @11:46AM (1 child)
Remind me, what wars has Trump started so far?
Syria is at the calmest it's been for years, after the proxy war with Russia was stopped.
North Korea is now talking directly with the South, after years of international antagonism and effective inaction (through successive US presidencies) over the North's nuclear development.
Trump's a sabre-rattler, for sure, but the only fights he's started have been political.
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Tuesday January 16 2018, @01:46AM
He's continued the 7+ different interventions from previous presidents. That is bad enough, and there are no excuses. He doesn't need to start any new wars to be a warmonger; continuing previous wars is bad enough.