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In reply to the discussion: Republicans are playing Democrats like a fiddle [View all]Politicub
(12,327 posts)and then the truth comes out that the NSA issue wasn't as bad or new as people were making it out to be. Every so-called scandal has followed this same sequence.
President Obama said it's for monitoring foreign contacts, and I believe him.
And multiple - more than a hundred - terrorist attacks have been thwarted. We don't know the scale of the planned attacks, but I'm grateful that the government was able to stop them.
Other terrorists are the mass shooters that are taking out scores of people in a very short time. Right wing extremists are another real terror threat. They are being propagandized by the NRA and the conservative media complex to whip them up to a frenzy. They have an arsenal of weapons, make direct threats against our president, and send ricin-laced letters to public officials and groups they disapprove of.
I trust our president, and have no reason to do otherwise. But I don't trust the new posters who don't even take the time to select an avatar, and only are here to be destructive, not constructive in any way.