Trump is just firing people left and right now. This is real banana republic tin-pot dictator shit.
Then the thing to do would be to link to his Twitter post, as that (presumably) is the primary source. I’ve been following the news fairly closely, and the only two places I’ve seen this alleged bombshell are Newspunch and The Epoch Times, neither of which are exactly considered reliable.
The story broke at least four days ago. How come no legit news organization seems to have picked it up? For that matter, what specific evidence is the FEC chairman citing? So far (couldn’t access the Epoch Times article) all he seems to be saying is that he believes the opinion of some other person.
Or, what robby said.
Because global warming has eliminated that as a viable option.
Not firing right and left, at least not in this case. It’s highly targetted.
He’s firing the federal official charged with monitoring the security of the elections, and who has said there is no evidence of any election fraud or misbehaviour.
That is of course contrary to the party line, and therefore Der Fuehrer had to dismiss him. Government officials must support what Der Fuehrer is saying today (and of course tomorrow, even if it’s completely different).
And notice that for once Der Fuehrer has actually had to man up and do the firing himself. The reason is because the courts have held that his appointment of an “Acting” Secretary of Homeland Security was illegal, so the “Acting” Secretary of Homeland Security does not have the authority to fire the public servant for doing his job .
Finally, some good news for a change.
I’d bet on you being right about that. In no circumstances would a former President be placed in with the general population of a prison, even if it’s a lower-security one–there would be too much chance of something happening that the Secret Service couldn’t stop.
Regardless of what they may think of their charges, they don’t want anyone harmed on their watch.
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This is absolutely appalling. I’m shocked that there haven’t been calls for his removal.
So, let’s try to accelerate that process by exposing them to potentially-deadly infection?
In what universe is this considered a reasonable idea to promote?
(I’m now imagining the conversations at Atlas’ own family gatherings: Hi, Grandpa! Since you won’t be alive next year, you get first dibs on the drumsticks!)
I think that Trump does stuff merely to press your buttons, and then uses your emotional state to prevent considered thinking.
Whilst he gets this reaction, he basicly has you by the nether regions, it put him in control of the agenda. Throw in a load of controversial activities, inconsistancies, lies and he mantains his objective, which is to keep people off balance.
In other words he forces himself into your life for no other reason than to force himself into your life - a kind of attention whore.
But what if he got no attention, what if no-one rose to his bait - what power does he have over you personally? Yes he currently does have an administrative power - but all of his decisions can be pretty much overturned.
Maybe we’ve become addicted to his shitshow - we need his outrage, perhaps its time to turn off - give him nothing and let his technique become irrelevant - maybe he will implode.
What do we do with attention seeking spoiled babies - we give them nothing, no attention, or we see him for what he is, a nothing, a zero, sound without meaning.
Casdave, that is helpful. True, life is precious and short, and one shouldn’t waste much time and energy responding to the infantile ravings of a fascist imbecile. But, to ignore it completely would be to use one’s (largely unearned) privilege to avoid engaging with the crucial events of this moment in history.
I think one can find a balance in one’s hours and days.
I’ll take Keef’s advice anytime — his “Life” book is a terrific read.
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Since 2016, America’s international reputation has been transformed. No longer the world’s most admired democracy, our political system is more often perceived as uniquely dysfunctional, and our leaders as notably dangerous. Poll after poll shows that respect for America is not just plummeting, but also turning into something very different. Some 70 percent of South Koreans and more than 60 percent of Japanese—two nations whose friendship America needs in order to push back against Chinese influence in Asia—view the U.S. as a “major threat.” In Germany, our key ally in Europe, far more people fear Trump than fear Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping, or North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.And no wonder: We live in a world where all news is accessible to everyone. Nothing that has happened over the past four years is a secret—not Trump’s ceaseless dishonesty; not his displays of ignorance; not his self-dealing and his nepotism; not his inject-disinfectants-to-knock-out-the-coronavirus moment, a story that appeared in hundreds of languages all over the world; not the grotesque spectacle of his refusal to acknowledge the election result. “Trump supporters head to the streets as he pushes false election claims,” declared a headline in the Gulf Times , a newspaper based in Qatar. The China Daily , the Chinese Communist Party’s main English-language publication, solemnly reported that Republican senators are calling for Biden to get security briefings. The president of Poland—a nationalist who flew to Washington, D.C., to be photographed with Trump during his own campaign—appears genuinely confused about who has won, and keeps telling people that the U.S. election is not over yet.
After Trump has provided the world with this theatrical coup-that-is-not-a-coup, it is naive to imagine that the U.S. can promote democracy or the rule of law with the confidence that it did in the past. For four years, our president has openly defied many of the values we used to put at the center of our foreign-policy rhetoric. And yes, everybody has noticed. Americans may have found the spectacle of Trump trying to blackmail the Ukrainian president into launching a fake political investigation of his opponents exotic. Ukrainians found it … familiar. The next time a senior American official comes to town and tells the Ukrainian government that its International Monetary Fund loan depends on enforcing laws against corruption, why shouldn’t the Ukrainians laugh?
The second important change, related to the first, is that other countries have finally begun to take account of what American withdrawal from global leadership really means, and they are recalculating balances of power accordingly.
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Humpty-Trumpty has broken all the eggs and they can’t be put back together the way they were.
I don’t know why he’d refer to Trump as an addiction; the only cure for his perpetual outrages is indifference, and once you become indifferent to the moral and legal transgressions, you’re consenting to them. Outrage is not an addiction or a choice; it’s a natural human reaction to something we view as horribly corrupt leadership that we’re stuck with until his term ends. I didn’t choose for Donald Trump and the Republican party to lead the country, but I can choose whether I resist or cooperate with them. I think people have an obligation to resist these kinds of forces – while they still have the choice of resisting.
Bait? Like on a long line towed by a boat? Isn’t there a word for that?
This has been my concern for quite a while, but it’s not just a Trump thing. Trump is the symptom of a major shift in the US, but is not cause of it. He just brought it to the forefront.
The US used to have a considerable reservoir of trust and good will in some countries, at least, and considerable “soft power” of moral suasion.
However, the recent election, particularly the statements by Trump that the election was rigged, coupled with the passive acceptance of those statements by senior Republicans, seems to have confirmed that the US is a “flawed democracy”. That was the assessment given by the Economist a few years ago in one of its world surveys of governance and democracy. That considerably reduces the soft power of the US.
And the fact that the US has the greatest number of COVID cases per country in the world? If the US can’t even look after its own people, why should other countries look to it as a model?
And the treatment of “allies” in the other liberal democracies? Particularly the reluctance by the President of the United States to confirm that the US still supports Article 5 of the NATO treaty (The “One for all, and all for one” clause)? If the US doesn’t still support that, are you really our ally?
I’ve seen one media interview here in Canada where a retired Canadian diplomat has stated that the position within our Foreign ministry is that the Canadian government can no longer assume that the US will continue to respect treaties it has signed, and that this is not simply a Trump thing. It is a fundamental change in the way the US regards international treaties.
Epoch Times?
Slumming, Rick?
I just came across this description of the tactics of a well-known politician:
When he said “DC Bar” he was actually talking about a Chili’s in Alexandria.
No, he’s been kicked out of that one, too.
Trump is the Mule that Isaac Asimov warned us about.
This describes the tactics of Hitler of course. The text of this statement comes from a psychological analysis of Hitler made by the U. S. Office of Strategic Services during the war. From the Wikipedia page on “Big Lie”:
(Cool that cut-and-pasting from a Wikipedia page preserves all the links and formatting!)
I couldn’t resist making a meme.
