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LEW

(1,072 posts)
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 06:19 PM Oct 2018

Please don't hate me...but am I

The only person who is getting tired of the Khoshoggi killing day in and day out for the last 2 weeks straight....I 100% think updates are needed, but every hour for 2 weeks, and the first 20 minutes on MSNBC? First and foremost, My heart is breaking for his family, and answers are needed, but there is a lot of other news that we need to be made aware of....

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Little Star

(17,055 posts)
2. The right would love for it to get lost down..
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 06:27 PM
Oct 2018

the memory hole. Saudi can not get away with this and a very bright light needs to stay on it.

cally

(21,594 posts)
4. Agree. I've decided to not watch much news
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 06:29 PM
Oct 2018

I read the news but hearing the gruesome details is too much. I suspect sometime in the near future we will hear the actual torture tapes and his screams and he is literally torn apart alive. I absolutely loathe all the governments that were part of this. Kushner and Trump most of all.

I am not sure there all bigger issues right now. The free press is the cornerstone of democracy and as a check on authoritarian rule. this is the biggest issue if the US now supports this. However, I don’t need to hear the torture and details of the execution.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
7. Agree. trump was all but indicted -- in media -- until Kavanaugh, hurricane, etc., sidetracked
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 06:42 PM
Oct 2018

reports. Not saying those were not important, nor Khoshoggi's killing, but trump and his family's crimes have kind of gotten loss in these other stories as we approach the election.

Squinch

(50,977 posts)
8. Oh, for fuck's sake. Are you fucking kidding me? Yes. You are the only person who is
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 06:43 PM
Oct 2018

bored by the conspiracy of the president, the president's son in law, the secretary of state, and Saudi nationals in covering up the torture murder by the Saudis of an American reporter.

Jesus.

Squinch

(50,977 posts)
10. They're trying to squash this because trump is making money from the Saudis. This MUST
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 06:50 PM
Oct 2018

stay on the front pages, on the top of the hour, in our faces and theirs.

Kaleva

(36,318 posts)
11. You only have yourself to blame.
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 06:52 PM
Oct 2018

Nobody is forcing you to watch the news 24/7. You do so by your own free will.

oldtime dfl_er

(6,931 posts)
14. Disagree
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 07:13 PM
Oct 2018

This country needs to be made aware that 45* is in bed with the Saudis. I for one am getting angrier by the hour and hope the MSM is doing the same.

Tarheel_Dem

(31,236 posts)
16. What a callous thing to say. The media is keeping the story at the top of our minds because....
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 07:33 PM
Oct 2018

they know it can happen again, and the next time it might not be a Saudi national, but an American born journalist. For you, and anyone else who's bored at the prospect of another journalist being killed and decapitated speaks volumes about your character.

Separation

(1,975 posts)
18. I disagree
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 07:40 PM
Oct 2018

I think that this should be the headlining news at the top and bottom of every hour until we get a real response from Trump. Its starting to feel that the world is going to have to look for a new spokesperson against this, and its probably going to have to be spearheaded by the UK or the EU.

The reporter has direct ties to Donald Trump, US intelligence knew of the kidnapping, and now they know it Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud had to have his hands all over this. I said yesterday that there are "Rogue Killers" & Rogue Killers. A "Rogue Killer" is what a dirty president talks to another monarchy about to get their stories straight because in Saudi Arabia, there are no Rogue Killers.

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