Of course he did for political purposes. The link to the Goldman Sachs article was still irrelevant.

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Some bad news, but probably inevitable ...

 

The New York Times - Parler, a Social Network That Attracted Trump Fans, Returns Online

 

today

 

SAN FRANCISCO - Parler, the social network that drew millions of Trump supporters before disappearing from the internet, is back online a month after Amazon and other tech giants cut off the company for hosting calls for violence around the time of the Capitol riot. ...

 

On Monday, for the first time since Jan. 10, typing p*****.com into a web browser returned a page to log into the social network - a move that had required weeks of work by the small company and that had led to the departure of its chief executive.

 

It was unclear exactly how Parler had figured out how to host its site on computer servers, though it appeared Parler had partnered with a smaller company for the service. ...

 

For other services, Parler relied on help from a Russian firm that once worked for the Russian government and a Seattle firm that once supported a neo-Nazi site. ...

 

 

The "Parler Free Speech Social Network" requires readers to create an account to access content.

 

No Thank You.  🥺

 

Ahhhh a good target for a DDOS attack I would no doubt think.

The things you have to do today to protect your name.

 

Parler, a Social Network That Attracted Trump Fans, Returns Online

 

JaseNZ:  Ahhhh a good target for a DDOS attack I would no doubt think.

 

From the same article:

Parler has been under attack from internet vigilantes who believe it helped play a role in the Capitol riot.

 

To stay online, Parler got help from DDoS-Guard, a Russian firm, which raised concerns among some internet researchers that the Russian government could surveil Parler users. 

 

Parler also partnered with Epik, a Seattle company, for its domain registration. 

 

Epik has helped support other fringe sites that lost their support from other companies, including the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi site.

 

The Washington Post - Pelosi says there will be a 9/11-style commission to examine Jan. 6 Capitol riot

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday that the House would move to establish an independent commission to investigate what led to a mob storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 - one similar to the body that studied the 9/11 attacks for 15 months before issuing a sweeping 585-page report.

 

Two days after former president Trump was acquitted of inciting the deadly attack by the Senate, Pelosi signaled in a letter to Democratic colleagues that the House would soon consider legislation to form a commission to “investigate and report” on the attack and interference in election proceedings, as well as an appropriation to pay for enhanced security features on the Capitol grounds.

 

Retired Army Gen. Russel Honoré, who was tapped by Pelosi to assess security after the attack, in his “interim reporting” indicated the necessity for improved safety measures, Pelosi said.

 

“It is clear from his findings and from the impeachment trial that we must get to the truth of how this happened,” she wrote.

 

Pelosi’s letter also arrived as multiple congressional committees are in the process of scheduling hearings where they will question the heads of agencies involved in preparing for and responding to the attacks.

 

Supporters of the commission think such an initiative will have a broader authority than those committees to pursue testimony from those in Trump’s orbit - voices that were not part of the impeachment inquiry.

 

The commission will not be under the time constraints of those committee investigations as it produces its findings.

 

Lawmakers in both parties speaking on Sunday news shows endorsed the idea for an independent investigation modeled after the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks established in 2002 by Congress and then-president George W. Bush, which published a report with recommendations to guard against future attacks. ...

 

and ...

BBC News -  Independent commission to investigate Capitol riots

A surprise find in the Post - note the last paragraph  🙂

The Washington Post - A foreign solution to America’s political dysfunction

today 

(short extracts from a long-form article)

It’s hard to sugarcoat the Senate’s acquittal of former president Donald Trump.

 

On Saturday, 43 Republican senators rejected the House impeachment managers’ rather convincing case that Trump helped incite the violent Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol. 

 

Unmoved even by fresh evidence that their colleagues in the House had directly pleaded with Trump to call off the insurrectionist mob, the Republican lawmakers opted to stand by Trump, marking once more the polarization that defines American politics.

 

Some of the senators may have little sympathy for the former president, yet made the partisan choice to appease an increasingly extremist Republican base. ...

 

Citing different models found in other advanced democracies, a growing cohort of experts fault both the American two-party system and the electoral politics it engenders. 

 

“Two-party winner-take-all politics is fueling a calamitous zero-sum toxic partisanship,” wrote Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at the New America think tank, in his 2020 book “Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America.” “But there’s a way out. America can become a multiparty democracy and break the destructive binary.” ...

 

Drutman cites the experience of New Zealand, which after years of public discontent, scrapped its first-past-the-post model for a form of proportional representation in 1993 - and hasn’t looked back. “It’s one of those issues that once you think about it for a while, it makes sense,” he said. “But we just don’t think about it.”

 

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Drutman cites the experience of New Zealand, which after years of public discontent, scrapped its first-past-the-post model for a form of proportional representation in 1993 -

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A surprise find in the Post - note the last paragraph  🙂

The Washington Post - A foreign solution to America’s political dysfunction

ABC News Go: Former President Trump, his attorney Rudy Giuliani, the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers conspired to violate the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, which prohibits any actions designed to prevent Congress from carrying out its duties, when they incited the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, a new lawsuit from the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee alleged.

gzt: The most appropriate charge ever leveled on Trump. Violation of the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act.

Fifth Avenue revisited ...

neb:

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Drutman cites the experience of New Zealand, which after years of public discontent, scrapped its first-past-the-post model for a form of proportional representation in 1993 -

 

But we were vastly less divided then than the US is now. From memory Labour started the ball rolling on MMP and National brought it home. That can never happen in the US.

Any idea of the US changing to our system is DOA.

Far too many rich snouts in the trough.

SJB:

 

Any idea of the US changing to our system is DOA.

 

Far too many rich snouts in the trough.

 

That and the fact that the US Constitution was beamed directly into the Founding Fathers' brains by Jesus himself and its fundamental magnificence transcends time and space etc.