Politikk, religion og samfunn President Donald J. Trump - Quo vadis? (Del 2)

[cruiser]

Drain the swamp!

Trump issues 26 new pardons, including for Stone, Manafort and Charles Kushner

President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening announced 26 new pardons, including for longtime ally Roger Stone, former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner's father, Charles.

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[xerxes]

Drain the swamp!

Trump issues 26 new pardons, including for Stone, Manafort and Charles Kushner

President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening announced 26 new pardons, including for longtime ally Roger Stone, former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner's father, Charles.

edition.cnn.com

Dette er jo korrupsjon. Verken mer eller mindre.

 

[Asbjørn]

Ja. Kanskje litt mer, siden presidenten formodentlig selv har beordret disse til å begå lovbrudd for ham, og så benåder dem i etterkant. Da setter man seg og minionene sine over loven på en måte som ikke hører noe sted hjemme i et demokrati, rettsstat eller aller minst i en republikk.

Trump pardons Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Charles Kushner

It's a continuation of the president's pre-Christmas pardon spree.

www.axios.com

 

[parafinoksen]

Vis vedlegget 683816

Forstørr opp dette bildet i nettleseren. Du ser en silhuett rundt dem.

Melania ser for øvrig ut som om hun er 20 år yngre enn det hun er.

 

[Asbjørn]

The Kraken fortsetter å krakelere. Det ene ekspertvitnet fra «militær signaletterretning» hadde strøket på sambandsskolen og i stedet tjenestegjort som bilmekaniker, og nå viser det seg at det andre er en fabulerende blogger som allerede er under etterforskning for svindel:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/sidney-powells-secret-intelligence-contractor-witness-is-a-pro-trump-podcaster/2020/12/24/d5a1ab9e-4403-11eb-a277-49a6d1f9dff1_story.html

In a recent civil fraud case, attorneys for the state of North Dakota said that Maras-Lindeman falsely claimed to be a medical doctor and to have both a PhD and an MBA. They said she used multiple aliases and social security numbers and created exaggerated online résumés as part of what they called “a persistent effort . . . to deceive others.”

Maras-Lindeman, who is of Greek heritage, joined the Navy in December 1996 and spent eight months training in Illinois and Florida as an airman recruit before departing the service in August 1997, according to a Navy record.

In their civil case, North Dakota state attorneys said that Maras-Lindeman created a profile on Together We Served, an online veteran community, that incorrectly depicted an extensive military career.

The profile, which is no longer online, said that Maras-Lindeman reached the rank of lieutenant, served in the combat zones of Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, and in the Office of Naval Intelligence, and was awarded multiple medals including a Purple Heart.

Only The BEST People!!!

 

[rr30629]

Nå er vedkommende sur på Pence for at han ikke sørger for at selveste får fortsette som prez.

Nekter å gi seg

Donald Trump tror fortsatt at han kan omgjøre valgresultatet, ifølge kilder tett på presidenten. Trump er samtidig oppgitt over manglende støtte fra visepresident Mike Pence.

www.dagbladet.no

 

[erato]

Skal bli spennende å se om det er noen very good people som har smelt av bomben i Nashville...

 

[Asbjørn]

Mellom alt annet rakk en føderal domstol i Wisconsin å si hva de syntes om Trumps søksmål. Enstemmig, bare republikanske dommere, og førstevoterende oppnevnt av Trump selv.

Trump campaign suffers another legal setback in Wisconsin case

Republicans also lost a Georgia court case related to the Jan. 5 runoffs.

www.politico.com

“The President had a full opportunity before the election to press the very challenges to Wisconsin law underlying his present claims. Having foregone that opportunity, he cannot now — after the election results have been certified as final — seek to bring those challenges,” Scudder wrote. “All of this is especially so given that the Commission announced well in advance of the election the guidance he now challenges.”

The federal appeals court said it was not its role to enforce the details of state law, but to ensure that the basic scheme the state legislature approved was adhered to.

“Whatever actions the Commission took here, it took under color of authority expressly granted to it by the Legislature. And that authority is not diminished by allegations that the Commission erred in its exercise,” Scudder wrote.

 

[Asbjørn]

Det er ikke grenser for hvilke fornedrelser en stakkars taper skal bli utsatt for.

Analysis: Trump's mind is elsewhere as unemployment benefits run out for millions of Americans

A day before unemployment benefits for millions of Americans were set to expire, President Donald Trump had a different insult in mind: his former-model wife has yet to appear on the cover of a fashion magazine as first lady.

edition.cnn.com

Moro: De eksemplene på "wasteful spending" som han sablet ned corona-støttepakken for var tatt fra hans eget forslag til statsbudsjett. De to bevilgningspakkene ble oversendt sammen, han skjønte ikke hva som var hva, og endte opp med å raljere med "uvettig pengebruk" fra sitt eget budsjettforslag. Very Stable Genius!!!

 

[xerxes]

 

[Handsoer]

Moro: De eksemplene på "wasteful spending" som han sablet ned corona-støttepakken for var ..........

...Nei, egentlig ikke når jeg tenker meg om....
En president helt ute av stand til å forholde seg til virkeligheten er ikke morsomt.

 

[Asbjørn]

Bortforklaringen var at budsjettpostene var lagt inn i regjeringens budsjettforslag av «deep state»-agenter...

 

[JMM]

Vi får trøste oss med at han tilbringer det meste av dagslyset på golfbanen og det således er noe mindre sannsynlig at tredje verdenskrig startes før Biden tiltrer. Selv i USA vil jeg tro det er vanskelig å erklære krig via Twitter.....

 

[Pink_Panther]

Ligger GB, RuneS, Fjernis & co i hi? Merkelig stille fra dem.

 

[JMM]

Det kan jo ha begynt å synke inn at de har tatt litt feil kanskje. Tvilsomt, men i alle fall teoretisk mulig. I så fall er det selvsagt ikke noe man vil innrømme når det er langt enklere å forlate åstedet for godt.

 

[cruiser]

Skulle vært flere slike republikanere

 

[Cyber]

Donald Trump har godkjent coronakrisepakke

Etter massivt press har USAs president Donald Trump natt til mandag skrevet under på krisepakken som ble forhandlet frem av demokratene og republikanerne i kongressen.

e24.no

"Han går etter planen av allerede 20. januar"...

 

[Asbjørn]

Ja, og det er eksakt ingen ting som kan hindre ham fra å være ekspresident kl 1200 20 januar. Perioden utløper, og det er ingen måte han kan rive til seg en ny på. Twitter-meldingene hans burde vært utstyrt med teksten Dead duck quacking.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/28/trump-is-growing-smaller-before-our-eyes/

Cementing his status as quite possibly the worst deal-maker ever to sit in the Oval Office, President Trump once again created a crisis, made some impulsive demands, then backed down at the last minute without actually obtaining anything other than some increased suffering for millions of Americans.

His overdue capitulation in signing the bill that provides pandemic relief and keeps the government open was a vivid illustration of how weak Trump has become. And this episode might contain a silver lining: It might preview how Trump could fade into irrelevance in the coming few years, becoming not the continuing agent of chaos many fear, but instead a pathetic figure who is easier to ignore than we thought.

According to various reports, Trump’s aides and members of Congress finally persuaded him to sign the bill by managing him like an angry toddler, letting his tantrum run its course. One of the ways they seem to have done so is by fooling him into thinking that he possesses something like a line-item veto. They unearthed a process known as “rescission,” which hasn’t been used in decades but gives the president the ability to request that individual spending items be rescinded.

So in Trump’s statement, he proclaimed that the bill included “wasteful” spending, and “I will send back to Congress a redlined version, item by item, accompanied by the formal rescission request to Congress insisting that those funds be removed from the bill.” It was an attempted assertion of strength — but a completely hollow one, since even if the White House gets around to making the request (and I’m betting it won’t), Congress can ignore it. Which it will.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/28/least-we-know-trumps-not-serious-about-2024/

If the plan here was to keep an iron grip on the Republican Party and clear the way for his 2024 run, this sure is not going to deliver him vindication. He is on the right track, however, if he intends to go to war with the Republican Party as a means of soliciting money and/or attention from the MAGA crowd. (Republicans abandoned me — send a check!)

Many of us in the Never Trumper camp have argued that the Republican Party is not worth preserving after years of its leaders’ moral abdication, refusal to uphold their oaths and toleration of racism. What we did not bank on was that after corrupting the party, Trump would be the perfect means of destroying the GOP. In doing so, he might finally make a contribution to U.S. democracy.

 

[kasol]

Jaja

Rasmussen quotes Stalin in tweet on US election

Republican-leaning pollster Rasmussen invoked a quote attributed to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in a Twitter thread Sunday suggesting Vice President Pence could attempt to overturn the results of t…

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[Asbjørn]

«Det kommer ikke an på hvem som stemmer, men på hvem som teller stemmene», ja. I den ånd saksøker GOP Pence(!) for å få erklært loven om valgopptelling i Kongressen som grunnlovsstridig, i et håp om at det deretter vil sette Pence i stand til å velge om han vil telle delstatenes offisielle og sertifiserte valgmannsstemmer, eller legge dem til side og i stedet telle de «alternative» valgmannsstemmene som trumpettene selv har sendt inn.

Leading New Texas Rebellion, Louie Gohmert Sues Mike Pence Because VP Lacks Authority to Overturn Joe Biden’s Election Win

Led by Lone Star State Rep. Louie Gohmert, a coalition of outgoing President Donald Trump's right-wing loyalists asked a federal judge on Sunday to gut a post-Reconstruction Era-law in order give Vice President Mike Pence the power to determine the winner of the 2020 presidential election on...

lawandcrime.com

Through a creative reading of the 12th Amendment, Gohmert’s brigade contends the Constitution empowers Pence to ignore a statute making his work ministerial and select “competing slates of Presidential Electors.” The lawsuit, which was filed against Pence in his official capacity as vice president, is based on outright falsehoods—there are no “competing electors”—and an absurd misreading of federal law that would let the VP unilaterally decide the outcome of his own election.

Trump and his acolytes have called for Pence to block Biden’s victory by rejecting the certificates of votes in states Trump lost. Gohmert and his cohorts take this theory a giant step further, asserting that the Electoral Count Act of 1887 (ECA) violates the Twelfth Amendment by not allowing the VP to count uncertified votes cast by Trump’s slate of “shadow electors.”

According to the lawsuit, the Vice President “may exercise the exclusive authority and sole discretion in determining which electoral votes to count for a given state, and must ignore and may not rely on any provisions of the Electoral Count Act that would limit his exclusive authority and his sole discretion to determine the count, which could include votes from the slates of Republican electors from the Contested States.”

It further contends that the Electoral Count Act “limits or eliminates [the Vice President’s] exclusive authority and sole discretion under the Twelfth Amendment to determine which slates of electors for a State, or neither, may be counted.”

Hvilket ville gi visepresidenten myndighet til selv å bestemme om det er stemmer for eller mot ham selv som skal telles, helt uavhengig av statenes opptelling og sertifisering. Banana, meet republic.

I mellomtiden gikk en annen Trump-historie i grus, denne gangen for omvalget i Georgia og foran en dommer utnevnt av G W Bush.

Federal Judge Dismisses Lin Wood's 'Astonishingly Speculative' Lawsuit Aimed at Georgia’s Runoff Elections and Dominion Voting Machines

A federal judge in Georgia on Monday rejected a lawsuit filed by attorney Lin Wood, which sought to challenge the constitutionality of election procedures implemented ahead of Senate runoff elections. Wood, a pro-Trump lawyer who has been involved in a number of post-election lawsuits, has once...

lawandcrime.com

 

[Aurora]

Amerikansk galskap kjenner tydeligvis ingen grenser..... whatsoever....

 

[Hardingfele]

Demokratene tar Trump på ordet ... (kan bli morsomt å se GOP vri seg ut av denne)

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1343693106311540736

 

[Handsoer]

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Leading New Texas Rebellion, Louie Gohmert Sues Mike Pence Because VP Lacks Authority to Overturn Joe Biden’s Election Win

Led by Lone Star State Rep. Louie Gohmert, a coalition of outgoing President Donald Trump's right-wing loyalists asked a federal judge on Sunday to gut a post-Reconstruction Era-law in order give Vice President Mike Pence the power to determine the winner of the 2020 presidential election on...

lawandcrime.com

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I mellomtiden gikk en annen Trump-historie i grus, denne gangen for omvalget i Georgia og foran en dommer utnevnt av G W Bush.

Federal Judge Dismisses Lin Wood's 'Astonishingly Speculative' Lawsuit Aimed at Georgia’s Runoff Elections and Dominion Voting Machines

A federal judge in Georgia on Monday rejected a lawsuit filed by attorney Lin Wood, which sought to challenge the constitutionality of election procedures implemented ahead of Senate runoff elections. Wood, a pro-Trump lawyer who has been involved in a number of post-election lawsuits, has once...

lawandcrime.com

Hvordan i all verden kan Det Republikanske Partiet overleve dette sirkuset som en enhet?
Den seriøse fraksjonen må jo betrakte de involverte i denne galskapen som politisk urørlige?

 

[Asbjørn]

Trump la ned veto mot forsvarsbudsjettet, fordi det ikke inneholdt en klausul om å straffe Twitter og Facebook for at de er slemme mot ham, men GOP overkjører vetoet. Tydeligvis er det noe som er viktigere enn å lefle med Trumps galskap helt til slutt.

Analysis: Trump lashes out at Republicans after they override his veto

President Donald Trump's ability to scramble American political lines continues even from the golf course, with House votes Monday showing that his feverish hold over the GOP -- and US government -- is hurtling toward a humbling end.

edition.cnn.com

 

[Dr Dong]

The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump

The COVID-driven centralization of economic power and information control in the hands of a few corporate monopolies poses enduring threats to political freedom.

greenwald.substack.com

 

[Asbjørn]

Hvordan i all verden kan Det Republikanske Partiet overleve dette sirkuset som en enhet?
Den seriøse fraksjonen må jo betrakte de involverte i denne galskapen som politisk urørlige?

Den seriøse fraksjonen ble stort sett presset ut på sidelinjen forlengst. Først var det Tea Party-aktivister med høygafler som møtte opp på nominasjonsmøtene, deretter kom trumpistene. Seriøsitet og integritet er diskvalifiserende for en GOP-politiker. Det vi ser nå er nok mest at opportunistene som leflet med Trump ser at han er på vei ut og ned, og at det ikke er noen oppside på å fortsette med det. Men det er tydeligvis noen som er enda galere enn gjennomsnittet.

 

[Handsoer]

Problemet mitt er nok at jeg tror politikere har integritet, moralsk gangsyn og ryggrad .
Også i USA.

 

[JMM]

Den siste republikaneren med synlig integritet døde vel i august 2018.

 

[Hardingfele]

USAs kommende president, i 2015.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/622522682245033984

USAs president da han nektet for hva han meldte i 2015.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1301710819349204992

 

[Handsoer]

The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump

The COVID-driven centralization of economic power and information control in the hands of a few corporate monopolies poses enduring threats to political freedom.

greenwald.substack.com

At Trump ikke er problemet - men bare et symptom på et systemisk problem er vel ikke spesielt kontroversielt eller nytt.
Ellers er det en relativt pessimistisk tone i kronikken, uten at jeg helt ser klare argumenter for at han tar feil

 

[Dr Dong]

maktpolitikk

The Hardball Tactics We’ve Been Waiting For

In a shrewd play for $2,000 survival checks, Bernie Sanders is pulling a McConnell on Mitch McConnell, leveraging a Pentagon bill to try to secure aid for millions of Americans struggling to survive.

www.dailyposter.com

 

[JMM]

Om bare Sanders hadde hatt tittelen President Elect heller enn Biden.....

 

[Asbjørn]

Moro, og troverdig press ettersom Sanders sannsynligvis gir beng i om det forsvarsbudsjettet blir vedtatt eller ikke.

Men han ville ikke hatt makt til å gjøre dette uten Trumps selvmål med å legge ned veto mot forsvarsbudsjettet samtidig som han krevde økning $2000. Under halvveis normale omstendigheter ville saken vært signert og alle på juleferie. Med vetoet og akutt behov for «veto override» er det en lissepasning. Argumentet med «support the troops!» fungerer heller ikke når det var Trump som la ned veto. GOP har et selvskapt problem her. La dem steke i eget fett. I beste fall fører kaoset til at GOP mister de to plassene fra Georgia, demokratene får flertall i begge kamre, og McConnell mister makten han har brukt til å trenere det meste.

 

[JMM]

Hehe, neppe. Og våpenprodusentene har i alle fall ikke bidratt med en cent til valgkampanjene hans, så der finnes ingen bindinger.

 

[kasol]

Nyvalgt kongressrepresentant døde med coronaviruset

Luke Letlow skulle tas i ed i Representantenes hus i USA i begynnelsen av januar. Tirsdag døde han på sykehus i Louisiana, der han var innlagt med coronaviruset.

www.vg.no

Luke Letlow, 41-year-old congressman-elect, dies with COVID-19

Luke Letlow, the newly elected member of Congress from Louisiana, died Tuesday night from complications related to COVID-19, a spokesman announced.

www.foxnews.com

 

[cruiser]

Skjønner ikke denne greia med å sende sjekker på 2000 dollar til ALLE amerikanere. Er der ikke I USA som I Norge at pandemien har rammet veldig skeivt å stort sett rammet bare noen yrkesgrupper?

 

[erato]

Joda, men en stemme er en stemme.

 

[weld77]

Jeg har lest noen litt bisarre cases fra amerikanere som har mistet jobben grunnet Covid. Noen av de hadde høyere inntekt som permitterte / oppsagte / uten noe å gjøre enn hva de hadde i full jobb før pesten traff.

 

[Hardingfele]

Best å ha rett hudfarge om du begår en kriminell gjerning. Politiet i Nashville fikk gjentatte varsler om Anthony Warren Quinn og bombene han drev og lagde, fra hans kjæreste. De banket høflig på hos ham, tre ganger, men gjorde ikke mer når han ikke åpnet døren.

Robert Reich reflekterer over det.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1344340302266572800

 

[JMM]

Nyvalgt kongressrepresentant døde med coronaviruset

Luke Letlow skulle tas i ed i Representantenes hus i USA i begynnelsen av januar. Tirsdag døde han på sykehus i Louisiana, der han var innlagt med coronaviruset.

www.vg.no

Luke Letlow, 41-year-old congressman-elect, dies with COVID-19

Luke Letlow, the newly elected member of Congress from Louisiana, died Tuesday night from complications related to COVID-19, a spokesman announced.

www.foxnews.com

Kjipe greier, men godt han var fra riktig parti da i alle fall. Da blir det vel omvalg?