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I feel so sorry for many of the people in the USA having a POTUS like that. His dereliction of duty to lead during the Coronavirus is simply shocking. He actually could have done something to help stem it but his selfishness with the message that it’s just the same as the flu, it’s not that bad, don’t wear masks and the rampant individualism and entitlement is so sad.
I hope he is held up to account post his departure from the White House. He has been so destructive. The weak willed republicans ought to be ashamed of their support especially the likes of Mitch McConnell.
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Can Trump pardon himself if he is charged with committing political misdemeanours while in office after he moves out of the White House in January?
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pietillidie
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David 
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Some good news:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/us/politics/william-barr-attorney-general.html
One of the most odious figures in the Trump cabinet and a key figure in the administration’s ruthless pursuit of journalists and whistleblowers. Let’s hope a pardon for Assange, Snowden and others – something that seems to be gaining in momentum behind the scenes, touch wood – isn’t far behind.
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If only to end the Free Assange banners! 
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David
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You can’t even imagine how much I would like to see the back of them!
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Another example of malignant narcissism, when exposed, lashing out to effectively become psychopathy:
| Quote: | | Donald Trump has added a morbid new distinction to his presidency – for the first time in US history, the federal government has in one year executed more American civilians than all the states combined. |
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/15/trump-administration-us-death-penalty-executions
This ran against nation-wide trends, and was a deranged personal expression of will. Even if as a sane human you naturally abhor the criminals concerned, you wouldn't interfere in national trends and state process on this just because you could — unless you were a crazed nutter yourself.
In fact, doing something just because you can, such as executing people on the basis of political calculation, is something Trump shares in common with those he executed.
This is one grim piece of work beneath the con act. The creepiness of Trump, the complicity of his enablers, and the normalisation of his deranged psychiatry will make more people shudder with a bit of distance.
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The progressive movement is putting pressure on AOC and others to demand a vote on Medicare for All on the floor of the house. Jimmy Dore posted a video about it three days ago and it seems to be gathering momentum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh6YOApFsRo |
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David
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Seems a bit like tilting at windmills, no?
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Hal 2003-2019
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| Hell no. I'm behind it 100%. |
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David
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pietillidie
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Billions on unnecessary arms handouts to beloved Saudi Arabia. Billions on handouts to military-industrial donors in order to stockpile useless weapons in the wake of dismantled arms treaties. Billions on a completely useless and entirely ineffective trade war. I mean, who'd have thought that on a crowded, highly-connected planet that pandemics and cyber attacks might prove better military investments than the killing of Yemeni children?
| Quote: | It now is clear that the broad Russian espionage attack on the United States government and private companies, underway since spring and detected by the private sector only a few weeks ago, ranks among the greatest intelligence failures of modern times.
Einstein missed it — because the Russian hackers brilliantly designed their attack to avoid setting it off. The National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security were looking elsewhere, understandably focused on protecting the 2020 election. |
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/us/politics/russia-hack-putin-trump-biden.html
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Hal 2003-2019
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Well, that was depressing. |
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pietillidie
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| pietillidie wrote: | Billions on unnecessary arms handouts to beloved Saudi Arabia. Billions on handouts to military-industrial donors in order to stockpile useless weapons in the wake of dismantled arms treaties. Billions on a completely useless and entirely ineffective trade war. I mean, who'd have thought that on a crowded, highly-connected planet that pandemics and cyber attacks might prove better military investments than the killing of Yemeni children?
| Quote: | It now is clear that the broad Russian espionage attack on the United States government and private companies, underway since spring and detected by the private sector only a few weeks ago, ranks among the greatest intelligence failures of modern times.
Einstein missed it — because the Russian hackers brilliantly designed their attack to avoid setting it off. The National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security were looking elsewhere, understandably focused on protecting the 2020 election. |
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/us/politics/russia-hack-putin-trump-biden.html |
Don't miss the extent of this hack, and the duration it went undetected. It's an absolute monster unparalleled in scope, infiltration and capacity for strategic leverage, interference, blackmail and control. Just mind boggling:
| Quote: | The Russians have had access to a considerable number of important and sensitive networks for six to nine months. The Russian S.V.R. will surely have used its access to further exploit and gain administrative control over the networks it considered priority targets. For those targets, the hackers will have long ago moved past their entry point, covered their tracks and gained what experts call “persistent access,” meaning the ability to infiltrate and control networks in a way that is hard to detect or remove.
While the Russians did not have the time to gain complete control over every network they hacked, they most certainly did gain it over hundreds of them. It will take years to know for certain which networks the Russians control and which ones they just occupy.
The logical conclusion is that we must act as if the Russian government has control of all the networks it has penetrated. But it is unclear what the Russians intend to do next. The access the Russians now enjoy could be used for far more than simply spying.
The actual and perceived control of so many important networks could easily be used to undermine public and consumer trust in data, written communications and services. In the networks that the Russians control, they have the power to destroy or alter data, and impersonate legitimate people. Domestic and geopolitical tensions could escalate quite easily if they use their access for malign influence and misinformation — both hallmarks of Russian behavior. |
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/opinion/fireeye-solarwinds-russia-hack.html
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), but they did have an interesting discussion about this a couple of days ago. See what you think (from 46:15):