W. Niederhut Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Joe, Kudos for keeping the Education Forum Mark-Zaid-Thread-About-Everything alive this week. Everyone knows by now that our Stable Genius-in-Chief botched the pandemic response bigly, but the news that is bothering me today is Trump's signing declaration in which he rejected any Congressional oversight of his handling of the newly approved $500 billion corporate bailout slush fund. Donald Trump in charge of a $500 billion slush fund? What could possibly go wrong? 🤪 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Bauer Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 49 minutes ago, W. Niederhut said: Joe, Kudos for keeping the Education Forum Mark-Zaid-Thread-About-Everything alive this week. Everyone knows by now that our Stable Genius-in-Chief botched the pandemic response bigly, but the news that is bothering me today is Trump's signing declaration in which he rejected any Congressional oversight of his handling of the newly approved $500 billion corporate bailout slush fund. Donald Trump in charge of a $500 billion slush fund? What could possibly go wrong? 🤪 The man is obsessed with enriching himself at every opportunity. Even using this crisis to do so...down the road whatever. He'll spread the loot around, and later make deals with his partners in shared greed and remind them...they owe him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 1 hour ago, Joe Bauer said: The man is obsessed with enriching himself at every opportunity. Even using this crisis to do so...down the road whatever. He'll spread the loot around, and later make deals with his partners in shared greed and remind them...they owe him. Trump's Mar-a-Lago and Doral resorts are probably in line for a tremendous taxpayer bail out. Burning through the annual Secret Service budget for room & board won't begin to cover the interest on Donald's Deutsche Bank loans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Mitcham Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 (edited) Hilarious. "When asked about the US's coronavirus testing capabilities by a journalist at a White House press briefing, Donald Trump deflected by asking the reporter about the South Korean capital city Seoul's population."I know South Korea better than anybody," Trump said. "It's a very tight - do you know how many people are in Seoul? Do you know how big the city of Seoul is? 38 million people. That's bigger than anything we have." Seoul actually only has a population of 10m." However the Wikipedia page on Seoul gives the height above sea level of 38m. Seems the "exceptional brain" gets his information from Wiki. And even then misreads it. Edited March 31, 2020 by Ray Mitcham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 4 hours ago, Ray Mitcham said: Hilarious. "When asked about the US's coronavirus testing capabilities by a journalist at a White House press briefing, Donald Trump deflected by asking the reporter about the South Korean capital city Seoul's population."I know South Korea better than anybody," Trump said. "It's a very tight - do you know how many people are in Seoul? Do you know how big the city of Seoul is? 38 million people. That's bigger than anything we have." Seoul actually only has a population of 10m." However the Wikipedia page on Seoul gives the height above sea level of 38m. Seems the "exceptional brain" gets his information from Wiki. And even then misreads it. Ray, I've ceased being astonished by Donald Trump's shocking ignorance and daily litany of lies. Nowadays, I'm mostly numb. Unfortunately, for the U.S. and the planet, the one thing that Donald Trump does well is sales-- conning stupid people. And you've probably figured out by now that the U.S. leads the world in stupid people per capita. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Carter Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 The Federal Reserve was given control of the huge Wall Street bailout, and can distribute the money with no oversight. Fed meetings can be held with no minutes or other records of their decisions. https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/03/stimulus-bill-allows-federal-reserve-to-conduct-meetings-in-secret-gives-fed-454-billion-slush-fund-for-wall-street-bailouts/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 4 hours ago, Jeff Carter said: The Federal Reserve was given control of the huge Wall Street bailout, and can distribute the money with no oversight. Fed meetings can be held with no minutes or other records of their decisions. https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/03/stimulus-bill-allows-federal-reserve-to-conduct-meetings-in-secret-gives-fed-454-billion-slush-fund-for-wall-street-bailouts/ My question. Why did the entire Senate (including Sanders and Warren) and the Democrat-majority House sign off on this deal? Think of the things that they could have done with that $500 billion-- e.g., public works/jobs programs for the unemployed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Mitcham Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Like his hero, Putin, Orangatrump is getting all his place men in position for an authoritarian takeover. When his idiot supporters realise (and they will however belatedly) that they have been hoodwinked, by probably the world's greatest con man, then he will suddenly take complete control and the putsch will have been successful. Mike Pence and his fellow Cabinet members should enact the 25th Amendment, as he is clearly of unsound mind. "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Mitcham Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Trump's ex-ethics director: The president is in the late stages of an 'authoritarian coup'When Donald Trump was running for president in 2016, he vowed to “drain the swamp” if elected — which was his way of promising to clean up the political environment in Washington, D.C. and make the federal government more accountable. But former ethics official Walter Shaub, in an op-ed for USA Today, argues that Trump’s presidency has been a nonstop attack on accountability.Shaub served as director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics from 2013-2017. He resigned in the middle of Trump’s first year in office in protest of the White House’s complete disregard for ethics rules. And in his new op-ed, Shaub details some of the many ways in which accountability has been under attack during Trump’s presidency — from his “assault on inspectors general” to “open presidential profiteering” to the firing of officials who stood up to him, including former FBI Director James Comey and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.“The Sessions firing should have triggered Trump’s removal from office,” Shaub asserts, “but wild-eyed senators were hot on the trail of confirming conservative judges.”As president, Shaub notes, Trump didn’t receive any real “oversight” from Congress until Democrats achieved a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives thanks to the 2018 midterms. However, Shaub quickly adds, “Trump’s hold on the Senate was absolute” — and so, he was acquitted by the GOP-controlled Senate on two articles of impeachment after being indicted by the House.To make matters worse, Shaub adds, Trump has been declaring war on the “inspector general community,” which Shaub describes as “a last line of defense in this war on ethics and law.”Accountability, according to Shaub, can come during the November election — when U.S. voters will have a chance to vote Trump out of office. But Shaub fears that Republican dirty tricks and other factors could help Trump win reelection seven months from now.“The obstacles are tremendous,” Shaub warns. “Trump has the advantages of incumbency, decades of Republican voter suppression, and a third branch that increasingly seems political. A sign of things to come, the Supreme Court ramped up the voter suppression by sending Wisconsin voters into a war zone in our species’ fight against an ancient enemy: disease. A global pandemic has ground America to a halt, complicating the upcoming presidential election.”He concluded:All is not lost. The American people are fired up. But it’ll be hard and the outcome’s uncertain. That’s why we must understand how big a deal it is that Trump is going after inspectors general. This is a late-stage move in an authoritarian coup against the rule of law.https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/trumps-ex-ethics-director-the-president-is-in-the-late-stage-of-an-authoritarian-coup/ Copied from another forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Couteau Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 7 hours ago, Ray Mitcham said: This is a late-stage move in an authoritarian coup against the rule of law. Truly frightening stuff. Good chance that even if Trump loses the election he will claim voter fraud and refuse to step down. Thanks for posting this, Ray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Ness Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-intelligence-committee-report-2016-russian-interference-assessment/?fbclid=IwAR2UByv2EF-tzXCwak9Nnosb9zN6qAin_g6q3OvoU_7AokCZYgOcxEPhBLA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 8 hours ago, Bob Ness said: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-intelligence-committee-report-2016-russian-interference-assessment/?fbclid=IwAR2UByv2EF-tzXCwak9Nnosb9zN6qAin_g6q3OvoU_7AokCZYgOcxEPhBLA Well, I'm shocked, shocked to hear that the Senate Intel Committee has finally issued a statement about Russian interference in the 2016 election. I wonder if their alacrity has anything to do with Senator Richard Burr's recent insider trading scandal. 🤨 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Ness Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 17 hours ago, W. Niederhut said: Well, I'm shocked, shocked to hear that the Senate Intel Committee has finally issued a statement about Russian interference in the 2016 election. I wonder if their alacrity has anything to do with Senator Richard Burr's recent insider trading scandal. 🤨 My guess is it's like littering at a parade. Gets lost in the chaffe of the CV19 news. Might as well throw all the dirty laundry up now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 (edited) Another shocker, folks... Bill Barr will now appeal to the Trump/GOP SCROTUS to block the release of the unredacted Mueller Report to Congress. In Barr's world, the Special Prosecutor is not allowed to indict a sitting POTUS-- only Congress can impeach-- and the Congress isn't allowed to see the damning evidence! Tricky, tricky... 🤥 The Federal Appellate judges ruled 2-1 that the Mueller grand jury transcripts should be released to Congress, noting that Mueller "prepared his Report with the expectation that it would be reviewed by Congress," since he was expressly prohibited by DOJ guidelines from indicting a sitting POTUS. I'm guessing that Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, et.al., will, ultimately, collude in the Barr/Trump Russiagate cover up-- which is ironic given Brett Kavanaugh's history of leaking explicit grand jury details about Bill Clinton's private sex life to the media during Kenneth Starr's multi-year White Water "investigations." Kavanaugh's Federalist Society "logic" will somehow rationalize the suppression of grand jury evidence of Presidential treason, despite previously condoning the release of grand jury evidence of private Presidential sexual peccadilloes unrelated to affairs of state. Makes perfect sense, eh? DOJ will appeal ruling over sealed Mueller materials to Supreme Court https://thehill.com/homenews/house/494583-doj-will-appeal-ruling-over-sealed-mueller-materials-to-supreme-court April 24, 2020 Edited April 25, 2020 by W. Niederhut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Carter Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 On 4/21/2020 at 10:03 AM, Bob Ness said: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-intelligence-committee-report-2016-russian-interference-assessment/?fbclid=IwAR2UByv2EF-tzXCwak9Nnosb9zN6qAin_g6q3OvoU_7AokCZYgOcxEPhBLA CBS' observation that the report is "largely redacted" is an understatement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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