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Trump has the worst jobs record of any president since Herbert Hoover in 1933.

The First Lady's last-ditch effort to salvage her legacy immediately blew up in her face. Somehow and admittedly just barely the United States has managed to survive four years of the Trump presidency. The nation is humiliated, weakened, disease-stricken, and hundreds of thousands of innocent Americans are dead thanks to Donald Trump’s incompetency, but our democracy will outlast the tenure of the worst president in its history.
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The MAGA movement tried in vain to overthrow a fair election, urged on to insurrection by Trump himself, but our institutions weathered the onslaught, those responsible are being charged for their crimes, and in just two days Biden will enter the White House. Our long national nightmare is finally coming to an end and the long journey to repairing the historic damage inflicted on our Republic is just beginning.

The departure of President Trump also brings the departure of First Lady Melania Trump from our national discourse as she can be expected to do just as little after her husband’s presidency ends as she did during it. Not once has she demonstrated even one iota of interest in using her platform to improve the country, preferring instead to give cheap lip service to fighting cyberbullying while her husband spent every waking hour hurling abuse at people on Twitter.

Melania will be remembered as nothing less than Donald Trump’s worst enabler, the woman who stood by complacently as he inflamed racial animosities, tore apart innocent families at the border, destabilized our alliances, looted our public coffers, botched the federal response to a deadly pandemic, and ultimately attempted to destroy our democracy itself by urging his loyal followers on to acts of violence and sedition. History will show her neither understanding nor compassion for the role she has played.

Seemingly oblivious to the tattered state of her reputation, Melania released a “farewell message” today on Twitter. Clocking in at an indulgent six minutes and fifty-three seconds, the video shows her at a podium doing her best (and hardly convincing) impersonation of a stateswoman. The message was every bit as inane as disingenuous as one would expect, with Melania spewing out a series of boilerplate remarks about how thankful she is for her time in the White House. Unfortunately, America cannot say the same.
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All major US allies are going ahead with Trump’s policies, leaving a bickering Biden behind

Biden removes Winston Churchill bust from display in Oval Office, U.K. tabloids erupt | National Post

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 As Donald Trump walks out of office in disgrace to flee to his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, he won’t be getting the traditional military sendoff he most likely wanted. Defense One — a site that focuses on national security issues — reports that the Pentagon confirmed that the military will not hold a farewell ceremony for Trump — in a break with tradition. The executive editor, Kevin Baron, tore Trump apart in his scathing article.
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“The Pentagon, in a break with recent tradition, will not host an Armed Forces Farewell Tribute to President Donald Trump,” Baron writes.”It’s a shame, but not a surprise. Trump will leave office in disgrace, one week after the House voted a second time for his impeachment, two weeks after his supporters staged a deadly siege in the Capitol Building, six months after he dragged his Joint Chiefs chairman into a political firestorm, and after four years of nonstop assaults on truth.”

“One of those disgraces is how he is ghosting the U.S. troops that he commanded. On Wednesday, the White House announced that this weekend Vice President Mike Pence “will deliver remarks to sailors on the Trump Administration’s historic foreign policy achievements at Naval Air Station Lemoore,” and then to the 10th Mountain Division, in Fort Drum, New York,” he continues. “Two senior defense officials confirmed to Defense One on Thursday that no military farewell is being planned for the commander in chief.”

Baron notes how Trump used the military as a “political prop.”

“Perhaps it’s for the best. Trump has used the military as a political prop since his first days in office, from signing MAGA hats for troops to giving partisan-fueled speeches in the heart of the Pentagon,” he writes. “America’s soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines have been made to stand at attention for Trump’s rants long enough. Besides, presidential visits are an honor and a headache for any military base that hosts them. The last time Trump appeared before troops was the Dec. 12 Army-Navy game at West Point. Before that, there was a brief Oct. 29 private visit with Army special operators at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, as he passed through on the presidential campaign trail.”

It’s never been about America First. Instead, it’s always been about Trump.

“But I’ve seen the fawning exuberance in the eyes of young service members thrilled to see real live presidents of the United States who visit them,” he continues. “There are ways Trump could have shown his respect to the millions of service members who put their lives on the line for their country. If only he could allow any moment to not be about himself.”

We’re sure Trump will take that news well. The twice-impeached outgoing president is reportedly reviewing plans for an event at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland that resembles a state visit, with supporters, a red carpet, color guard, military band, and 21-gun salute all being discussed. Trump, though, deserves nothing except to be shunned by society for the rest of his miserable life.
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In some ways Trump is more truthful than previous Republican presidents.
After the Senate’s vote to keep Donald Trump from the Oval Office, House Judiciary Committee chair Jerrold Nadler told The New Yorker, “It never occurred to me that an American political party would degrade itself to an authoritarian political party where anything goes, no matter what…. I never thought an American political party could get as bad as now, where they completely don’t care how bad the crimes are.”
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Nadler should have been paying more attention. Like him, many liberals, moderates, and of course, never-Trumpers continue to invest themselves in a narrative that posits that a once patriotic party dedicated to conservative principles and the rule of law was just recently corrupted by its fealty to the lies, lawlessness, and racism of its pathological president. Unfortunately, that’s a fiction. Yes, Trump is the most openly dishonest person ever to occupy the White House. But as far as modern Republicans go, he is, in some ways, the most honest. He says and does in public what Republican presidents have been doing in secret for more than half a century.

Many of us are shocked by the brazenness with which Trump and company sought to enlist foreign powers—Russia in 2016, Ukraine this past summer—to undermine our democracy to help with his campaign. But this is basically what Richard Nixon did in 1968. Armed with Henry Kissinger’s secret leaks from the Paris peace talks, Nixon urged South Vietnam, through a surrogate, to refuse any peace offerings negotiated by Lyndon Johnson’s administration because he would give the country a better deal if he was elected president. (He didn’t.) Johnson knew this in real time but, like Barack Obama regarding Trump and the Russians, decided to keep quiet about it. And so Nixon won, and American soldiers and the Vietnamese paid the price.

Later, Nixon behaved with similar cynicism, putting on hold his plan to withdraw all US troops from Vietnam until 1972. Kissinger, Nixon’s national security adviser, had told him, “If any bad results follow, they will be too late to affect the election.” The president needed, as Kissinger explained to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, “a fairly reasonable interval” between the United States pulling out its troops and the North Vietnamese marching into Saigon. As presidential biographer Robert Dallek noted, Kissinger “had nothing to say about the American lives that would be lost in the service of Nixon’s reelection” or about the American prisoners of war who would continue their needless suffering if the administration prolonged the war. Nixon, meanwhile, bragged of the “brilliant game we are playing,” as “Henry really bamboozled the bastards.”

We still don’t know for certain if Ronald Reagan carried out a similar scheme. There is considerable but not dispositive evidence, according to Gary Sick—a National Security Council staffer in the Ford, Carter, and (briefly) Reagan administrations and author of October Surprise: America’s Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan—that “individuals associated with the Reagan-Bush campaign of 1980 met secretly with Iranian officials to delay the release of the American hostages until after the Presidential election. For this favor, Iran was rewarded with a substantial supply of arms from Israel.”

George H.W. Bush is today remembered by many people as a man of honor who restored the Republicans’ reputation for sanity and decency after the lies of the Iran-contra scandal. These folks forget not only that he lied about his (and Reagan’s) role in the scandal but also that he passed out pardons to the likes of the genocide enabler Elliott Abrams and other officials under investigation by independent counsel Lawrence Walsh. When revelations in former defense secretary Caspar Weinberger’s diaries appeared to implicate Bush, Weinberger received a pardon before a jury could decide on his guilt or innocence. This marked, as a furious Walsh later noted, “the first time a president ever pardoned someone in whose trial he might have been called as a witness.” (It goes without saying that like Trump today, Reagan and Bush rarely told the truth about anything related to the scandal.)


Then there’s the racism. Here again, Trump is operating within a time-honored Republican tradition—just doing so more openly. Nixon and Reagan merely hinted at their racism in public. In private, they gave voice to it with pride. For instance, after watching a UN vote in October 1971 in which a few African nations opposed the United States’ preferred outcome, Reagan, then governor of California, called Nixon to express his exasperation about having “to see those, those monkeys from those African countries.” Reagan continued, “Damn them, they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes.” Nixon was so impressed with the future president’s cleverness that he later shared the “joke” with his secretary of state, William Rogers. Nixon explained that Reagan said he saw “these, uh, these cannibals on television last night, and he says, ‘Christ, they weren’t even wearing shoes.’” Two hours later, Nixon called Rogers again to repeat the story. The exchange, which didn’t become public until 2019, provides “a stark reminder,” said Timothy Naftali, a former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, “of the racism that often lay behind the public rhetoric of American presidents.” (He might have specified American Republican presidents.)

So when Republican Senator Lamar Alexander admitted that he and his colleagues decided to acquit Trump despite the “mountain of overwhelming evidence,” that was predictable. (A congressional aide quoted in The New Yorker described the Republican inaction as “heartbreaking,” because “it’s, like, ‘You’re absolutely right, but I’m not going to do anything about it.’”) For their part, Democrats would do well to remember philosopher George Santayana’s adage about those who cannot remember the past being condemned to repeat it.
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Water is fundamental to life, yet it’s also a scarce commodity. In many cases, greed and mismanagement are causing this life-giving essential to run dry. What happens when water is monetized?

Today is Father's Day in some European countries.

In Germany, this day is celebrated by many men by walking around with their buddies and a handcart full of beer and getting drunk. I cannot share that, I am understanding, but I prefer other ways of honoring and remembering.
Let us - just for today - pay tribute to our fathers - after that you can go on as usual. (But you shouldn't.)
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This isn't a particular choice - I just typed "father" into my PC's search function - and that's the result.








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Prince Harry would still be allowed to wear his military medals, including his Operational Service Medal for Afghanistan, but could be prevented from wearing his uniforms.
Rank has its privilege. Privilege just lost it’s rank lol

Why AOC Exaggerated Her Trauma From the Capitol Riot?

Final vote tally 57-43 but Senate fails to achieve two-thirds majority needed to convict former president of incitment please excuse me while I piss myself laughing :D

Well, we’ve reached peak embarrassment as a nation. Thanks to freedom-hating Democrats and censorship-happy cretins in Silicon Valley, we now have foreign leaders lecturing the United States on the value of free speech. Just this week, the AP reports that French President Emmanuel Macron is deeply concerned about the way Big Tech slapped a big fat piece of tape over Donald Trump’s mouth in the closing weeks of his presidency.
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From the AP:

French President Emmanuel Macron says he was “very upset” by the way social networks muzzled Donald Trump at the tail end of his U.S. presidency. Speaking in a recorded video chat with scholars, Macron cited Trump’s example in arguing for more government regulation of social media platforms. The comments, which Macron made in English, were released Thursday by the Atlantic Council think tank.

“At the very second when they were sure” that he would not hold onto power, platforms that had previously “helped President Trump to be so efficient” in making himself heard “suddenly cut the mic and put the mic on mute and killed … all the platforms where it was possible for himself and his supporters to express themselves,” Macron said.

“It was a unique answer to deliver, but it’s not a democratic answer,” he said.

When France is warning America that we’re in danger of losing our freedom to a cabal of Big Tech CEOs who answer to basically no one, we should probably sit up and listen. Once upon a time, our country was the beacon of liberty for the rest of the world. These days, the rest of the world is tapping us on the shoulder and reminding us of our own values. While Democrats in Congress pressure Facebook and Twitter to DO MORE to censor conservatives, international leaders are taking steps to limit Big Tech’s power.

Last month, Mexican President Andres Lopez Obrador said that he’s interested in organizing an international anti-censorship alliance.

“I can tell you that at the first G20 meeting we have, I am going to make a proposal on this issue,” he said. According to his government, France, Germany, the EU, and other countries have expressed interest in joining him. Already, Hungary and Poland have taken steps to hold social media companies legally accountable for their censorship.

It’s pretty damn scary when HUNGARY and POLAND are further ahead on issues of free speech than the U.S. Maybe it’s about time we wake up and figure out that these tech corporations are not friends to freedom.
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