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“I never worked for Russia,” Trump said as he prepared to leave for an event in New Orleans, adding: “Not only did I never work for Russia, I think it’s a disgrace that you even asked that question because it’s a whole big fat hoax. It’s just a hoax.”
This raises new questions about another McConnell
action: The refusal to hold votes on legislation protecting the special
counsel. In fairness, Trump has still not moved successfully against
Mueller. But McConnell scuttled efforts to protect Mueller even though
Trump privately tried to fire him twice.
There’s still time for Trump to act, and passing such protections —
which the Democratic House would support — would plainly make any such
action, and the damage it would cause, less likely.
There’s also a forward-looking dimension here. As the Lawfare podcast notes,
if FBI officials opened a separate investigation into whether Trump was
obstructing the probe to help Russia, it’s plausible McConnell and
other congressional officials were briefed on this. That would make the
failure to act to shield Mueller worse. We need to know more about this,
too.
Pompeo takes a similar tack to Trump: don’t address the actual question and instead focus on the messenger. But again, the Times didn’t say Trump was “a threat to national security,” and, in fact, nobody in the story did, either. The story merely said that the FBI was investigating whether the president was working for Russia.
Pompeo also, notably, is asked whether he knew about the probe, given he was CIA director at the time. He doesn’t answer — and instead pretends as if it was the same question as before, when it wasn’t.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...-russia/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.13f7caaa3affTwice in just a few hours Saturday, President Trump and his representatives offered textbook examples of the fog-making rhetorical response known as the non-denial denial.
Asked during a Fox News interview whether he was a Russian agent (as the FBI suspected, according to a blockbuster New York Times story), Trump harrumphed, “I think it’s the most insulting thing I’ve ever been asked. I think it’s the most insulting article I’ve ever had written, and if you read the article you’ll see that they found absolutely nothing.” (Trump gave a more direct denial on Monday).
A few hours earlier, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders had this reply to a Washington Post article that found that Trump had concealed notes of his meetings with Russian president Vladi*mir Putin from even his closest advisers: “The Washington Post story is so outrageously inaccurate it doesn’t even warrant a response. The liberal media has wasted two years trying to manufacture a fake collusion scandal instead of reporting the fact that unlike President Obama, who let Russia and other foreign adversaries push America around, President Trump has actually been tough on Russia.”
Like all non-denial denials, both responses were forceful, even emotional in tone. But neither really answered the question.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/business/energy-environment/pge-bankruptcy-california.htmlFire investigators determined PG&E to be the cause of at least 17 of 21 major Northern California fires in 2017. It is also suspected in some of the 2018 wildfires that have been described as the worst in state history, including one that killed at least 86 people and destroyed the town of Paradise.
PG&E said it faced an estimated $30 billion liability for damages from the two years of wildfires, a sum that would exceed its insurance and assets. The bankruptcy announcement, in a filing with federal regulators, led the company’s shares to plunge more than 50 percent.
There are few things that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia desires more than the weakening of NATO, the military alliance among the United States, Europe and Canada that has deterred Soviet and Russian aggression for 70 years.
Last year, President Trump suggested a move tantamount to destroying NATO: the withdrawal of the United States.
Senior administration officials told The New York Times that several times over the course of 2018, Mr. Trump privately said he wanted to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Current and former officials who support the alliance said they feared Mr. Trump could return to his threat as allied military spending continued to lag behind the goals the president had set.
In the days around a tumultuous NATO summit meeting last summer, they said, Mr. Trump told his top national security officials that he did not see the point of the military alliance, which he presented as a drain on the United States.
Last Wednesday, the conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson started a fire on the right after airing a prolonged monologue on his show that was, in essence, an indictment of American capitalism.
America’s “ruling class,” Carlson says, are the “mercenaries” behind the failures of the middle class — including sinking marriage rates — and “the ugliest parts of our financial system.” He went on: “Any economic system that weakens and destroys families is not worth having. A system like that is the enemy of a healthy society.”
He concluded with a demand for “a fair country. A decent country. A cohesive country. A country whose leaders don’t accelerate the forces of change purely for their own profit and amusement.”
The monologue was stunning in itself, an incredible moment in which a Fox News host stated that for generations, “Republicans have considered it their duty to make the world safe for banking, while simultaneously prosecuting ever more foreign wars.” More broadly, though, Carlson’s position and the ensuing controversy reveals an ongoing and nearly unsolvable tension in conservative politics about the meaning of populism, a political ideology that Trump campaigned on but Carlson argues he may not truly understand.
Moreover, in Carlson’s words: “At some point, Donald Trump will be gone. The rest of us will be gone too. The country will remain. What kind of country will be it be then?”
Dette er selvfølgelig motivet for Putins innblanding i det amerikanske valget. Han fikk sin gale onkel bak skrivebordet i det hvite hus. Russerne må jo storkose seg når de ser det som nå skjer i USA.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/nato-president-trump.html
There are few things that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia desires more than the weakening of NATO, the military alliance among the United States, Europe and Canada that has deterred Soviet and Russian aggression for 70 years.
Last year, President Trump suggested a move tantamount to destroying NATO: the withdrawal of the United States.
Senior administration officials told The New York Times that several times over the course of 2018, Mr. Trump privately said he wanted to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Current and former officials who support the alliance said they feared Mr. Trump could return to his threat as allied military spending continued to lag behind the goals the president had set.
In the days around a tumultuous NATO summit meeting last summer, they said, Mr. Trump told his top national security officials that he did not see the point of the military alliance, which he presented as a drain on the United States.
Jeg blir både imponert og forbanna. Sosialantropologene går hektiske tider i møte, menneskeheten viser stadig nye merkverdige sider.^ Da, tavaritsj. Og ikke bare i USA:
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/16/...in-theresa-may-brexit-russia-putin/index.html
Det er kvalmende godt utbytte av desinformasjonsprogrammet hans med nettroll og falske nyheter.
Youtube er full av bloopers. Ganske morsomt, og til pass for den som gjør for lite hjemmelekser. Men dette var ikke akkurat mye å ese seg opp over. En anelse skadefryd, kanskje, men det er også alt.Whoops...
En takeaway kan være at politiske systemer som er basert på flertallsvalg i enmannskretser er mindre robuste ovenfor denslags faenskap enn systemer som er basert på proporsjonal representasjon. "Winner takes all"-systemer tenderer tydeligvis til å favorisere de mest ekstreme standpunktene og gå i deadlock.Jeg blir både imponert og forbanna. Sosialantropologene går hektiske tider i møte, menneskeheten viser stadig nye merkverdige sider.
Den mest imponerende, mest effektfulle agit-prop aksjonen som noensinne er gjennomført, der man med få ressurser har satt demokratiske motstandere patt, på et vis som koster disse stor indre splid, økonomiske tap og langvarig svekkelse.It's hard to believe that two such robust democracies, long seen by the rest of the world as beacons of stability, have dissolved into such bitter civic dysfunction and seem unmoored from their previous governing realities.
Begge nasjonene som svir hardest her har topartisystem (LibDems og de andre småpartiene i UK er parenteser).En takeaway kan være at politiske systemer som er basert på flertallsvalg i enmannskretser er mindre robuste ovenfor denslags faenskap enn systemer som er basert på proporsjonal representasjon. "Winner takes all"-systemer tenderer tydeligvis til å favorisere de mest ekstreme standpunktene og gå i deadlock.Jeg blir både imponert og forbanna. Sosialantropologene går hektiske tider i møte, menneskeheten viser stadig nye merkverdige sider.
Så kampanjen konspirerte med russerne, og enkeltpersoner i kampanjen konspirerte med russerne, men The Donald selv var visstnok ikke en av de enkeltpersonene.Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that he never denied President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with the Russian government during the 2016 campaign, only that the President himself was not involved in collusion.
In an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo on "Cuomo Prime Time," Giuliani, a former New York mayor and Trump's attorney, said he doesn't know if other people in the campaign, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, were working with the Kremlin during the 2016 presidential race.
"I never said there was no collusion between the campaign, or people in the campaign," Giuliani said.
Så en kommentar om at "dersom Trump trekker USA ut av NATO og bruker midlene i Sør-Amerika, er han garantert Nobelprisen."Egeland gidder ikke politisk korrekthet:
https://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/i/21aJ4R/egeland-om-trump-en-helt-avskyelig-ordbruk-og-loegner
Kommentarfeltet gjør meg som vanlig nedstemt. Jøje meg.
De av oss med barn vet jo godt hvordan furtne unger oppfører seg. Men er dette er furten treåring, eller har han avansert til seksårs stadiet?For en jævla barnehage.
Den "hør nå her, jenta mi" tonen i brevet sier alt om hva intensjonen er.
Madame det er vel noe annetFor en jævla barnehage.
Den "hør nå her, jenta mi" tonen i brevet sier alt om hva intensjonen er.
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