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Removed one post which, despite being a comedy song, implied the use of violence against one segment of the voters (no, not the Nazis).
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MikeB4:
I am okay with having a go at the leadership but insulting the country is going too far.
Just a note that I have been seeing the term 'banana republic' used quite a lot recently in reference to America. It is being used by former officials, journalists, citizens and others in reference to Donald Trump and members of his administration. Last night it was used on MSNBC by people on a panel discussing the state of American democracy. Just now I saw this reference while browsing the news:
“I just think it’s a banana republic when we go down that road and we have those type of statements being made that are conceivably, even if not, influencing the ultimate decision,” Judge Reggie Walton said.
I am by no means the only person saying this. Most who are seem to be worried citizens and people in positions of responsibility who see what is happening to their country.
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I see Barr is going to be looking for a new job by Monday. He effectively just told DT to stop tweeting.
SJB:
I see Barr is going to be looking for a new job by Monday. He effectively just told DT to stop tweeting.
There two theories about that. Some think Barr is just telling Trump that he (Barr) can do a better job of corrupting the justice department and serving Trump's interests if Trump stops publicly announcing everything they are doing. "I can serve you better, Master, if you just stay quiet."
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Rikkitic:
There two theories about that. Some think Barr is just telling Trump that he (Barr) can do a better job of corrupting the justice department and serving Trump's interests if Trump stops publicly announcing everything they are doing. "I can serve you better, Master, if you just stay quiet."
My theory is that this is all orchestrated directly from the White House, in an attempt to gaslight Americans into thinking the DOJ is acting impartially. It is the only thing that makes sense, based on AG Barr's recent and past behaviour.
It also explains why Trump's response to this was so subdued. Have you ever known Trump to be subdued when someone criticizes his behaviour?
Best explanation I have read in this opinion piece as to why Trump will win again:
An extract:
Already the Democratic field of candidates looked about as appealing to voters as the buffet breakfast on the Diamond Princess. After nearly four years of frenzied hashtags and cries of “resistance”, all they could produce were an almost octogenarian socialist senator, a white Harvard professor who thought she was Native American and a white former vice-president who was the closest they could get to a black man.
...and...
You honestly could not write this sh*t and be believed. By this stage the Democrats were no ordinary lemmings; they were building a ladder to climb over the fence at the Gap.
An eyewitness account of Donald Trump's clown car of lieutenants and lackeys who have polluted the corridors of power with their unprecedented awfulness.
Two of Washington's most meddlesome reporters take readers on a deep dive into the murky underworld of President Trump's Washington, dishing the hilarious and frightening dirt on the charlatans, conspiracy theorists, ideologues, and run-of-the-mill con artists who have infected the highest echelons of American political power.
For the past three years, reporting from the White House, the Trump hotel, and other dens of intrigue and influence, Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng have revealed the sordid shenanigans of a rogue's gallery of Trumpworld incompetents and improbable A-listers -- earning them angry denunciations (or at least some vexed side-eye) from Trumpists such as the actor Jon Voight and Trump's former campaign czar and renowned obfuscator Corey Lewandowski as well as requisite threats of physical violence and ruin. Sinking in the Swamp will similarly pull no punches. Everyone from assorted Trump family members to Stephen Miller, Sean Hannity, and Diamond & Silk to Trumpworld's even more obscure accomplices will be plumbed, prodded, and exposed for their roles in the most shambolic moment in modern American political history. When they go low, Swin and Lachlan are right there with them, recorders running and notebooks at the ready.
Sinking in the Swamp is an uncompromising account of the financial and moral degradation of our capital, told with righteous indignation and through the lens of key power players and foot soldiers whose own antics have often escaped the notice of the overworked press corps.
As the 2020 election approaches, this page-turning, letting-it-all-hang-out narrative shows how the nation got to this nadir, tracing the story back to years before Trump's improbable run for the White House and cataloguing the stomach-turning moments that followed.
The Economist: ON ALMOST ANY measure, Donald Trump ranks himself among the most successful presidents in history. In one area—making appointments to America’s federal court system—he may actually be right. In a little over three years, Mr Trump has nominated and won Senate confirmation for 192 federal judges, including 137 district-court judges, 51 appellate judges and two Supreme Court justices. No president since at least Ronald Reagan has racked up judicial appointments so quickly (the closest was Bill Clinton with 189 at this point in his presidency: see chart). By the end of the year, on current trends, a quarter of federal judges will be Mr Trump’s appointees. They may prove his most enduring legacy.
gzt: Trump is expected to appoint a record 25% of federal judges by the end of his term:The Economist: ON ALMOST ANY measure, Donald Trump ranks himself among the most successful presidents in history. In one area—making appointments to America’s federal court system—he may actually be right. In a little over three years, Mr Trump has nominated and won Senate confirmation for 192 federal judges, including 137 district-court judges, 51 appellate judges and two Supreme Court justices. No president since at least Ronald Reagan has racked up judicial appointments so quickly (the closest was Bill Clinton with 189 at this point in his presidency: see chart). By the end of the year, on current trends, a quarter of federal judges will be Mr Trump’s appointees. They may prove his most enduring legacy.
Is this a 1 in 4 chance of a get out of jail card? Mitch McConnell is making this top priority apparently ; ).
Trump is a darn good reason why judges should not be political appointments.
These should be legal appointments based on merit and merit only.
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