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 How does Russia oscillate between being a threat to America to being easily beatable by Ukraine to being a future WW3 opponent to being too old/slow/incompetent to hold a city?  I'd give links here, but the narrative changes so much the links would be outdated in a week or two. Just do a search for those phrases (or something similar) and try to make sense of it. But this is a tool of the propagandist: confuse the audience to the point where they'll believe anything just so they won't have to think too much and/or too hard. 

 If Joe Biden is working with China , and Donald Trump is/was working with Russia , but Russia and China are working with each other , than aren't Biden and Trump (secret) allies ? (The answer is: "there's little daylight between the leadership of the two major parties, and that space decreases each election cycle.")

If "corporations are people" and " money is speech " does that truly mean the rich have (quantitatively -speaking) more rights than the non-rich?

If Attorney General Eric Holder is busy defending himself in an investigation, will he have the time to make sure that other duties -like, say, the voter purging/registration laws being implemented and debated in various states- are given their due diligence? UPDATE : And Pelosi makes the connection clear .

Why has there been more women guests on the political cable shows talking about being moms than talking about contraception/birth control or being paid as much for men for equal work ?

Why is it OK to show a picture of a dead fetus to deter abortions, but it's wrong to show pictures of what smoking does to your lungs on cigarettes ?

Why are conservatives blaming President Obama for rising gas prices when they are the ones threatening the neighbors/partners of oil-rich companies with war ?

...if OWS is a fad comprised of trust fund anti-capitalist hippies, than why are some Wall Street groups spying on them , and why are some cops monitoring the churches that are temporarily housing them ?

If the American Right believes that OWS really have nothing to complain about and should just get a job, does that mean they should (1) acknowledge what the Obama Administration has done for the job market, and/or support (2) support Obama's push for turning unemployment around?

If Speaker Boehner (and Fox News) believe that there is no crisis regarding the debt ceiling, would that mean letting the country default can't be blamed on President Obama?

Hiring has gone up , but so has poverty . Is it because more people are taking jobs under their normal paygrade just to make ends meet?

Why does Dick Cheney's daughter seem to have more clout with conservatives (and the media, for that matter) than John McCain's daughter?

What happened to the GOP to make them switch from using "the terrorists" as their bogeyman term to using "socialists?"

HCR aside, why was losing a seat the GOP had since reconstruction no big deal, yet losing a seat the Democrats had since "The Andy Griffith Show" was on the air is "the end of Obama?" Someone tell me why the Democrats don't just use reconciliation (only need 50 votes!) more often?

So Iran's President Ahmadinejad, Libya's Colonel Qaddafi, and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez are facing protests ; in fact Ahmadinejad caught heat before he went to speak . So it got me thinking: where are all the 9/12 protesters and Teabaggers ? Don't they oppose Obama's policies as much those Iranians oppose Ahmadinejad's? Or do they have some type of protest quota that's been used up? Or maybe they need direction from some authority...wait, that can't be it; they're supposed to be grassroots, so they don't need Glenn Beck to tell them what to do. ...Right?

How do you "inadvertently" send anything to a porn company ?

If President Obama is really loosing on every issue foreign and domestic, than why is the GOP already speculating about who to run for 2012 ?

How can people "not forgive" Sen. Ted Kennedy for ( as JP observed ) murder, yet completely overlook the countless number of people who dies under President Bush? Can someone do a number comparison: the lives lost due to Kennedy's policies versus those lost under Bush's policies? Foreign, domestic, and both? I'm curious.

If I say that the Black Eye Peas is this generation's Fugees, would that get the Fugees back together and make another Score-like kick-ass album?