Dangers of a Trump Presidency--Part 7

[Reuven]

I read an article that said he could be moved to another position though.

“Milt, we're gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage B. We have some new people coming in, and we need all the space we can get. So if you could go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific, OK?”

 

[becca]

Off the rails: Inside the disintegration of Trump’s relationship with Bill Barr

How Trump torched what was arguably the most consequential relationship in his Cabinet.

www.axios.com

 

[DORISPULASKI]

Thanks @becca for the link to the Axios Off the Rails podcast

How It Happened - Podcasts - Axios

link.chtbl.com

New Episodes are posted at the above link on Mondays.

Episode 4 - Trump Turns on Barr

Off the rails: Inside the disintegration of Trump’s relationship with Bill Barr

How Trump torched what was arguably the most consequential relationship in his Cabinet.

www.axios.com

Here is Episode 3 - Descent Into Madness

Off the rails: Trump mainlines election conspiracies as Oval Office descends into madness

Episode 3 of an Axios special series on the president's post-election meltdown.

www.axios.com

Episode 2 - Barbarians at the Oval

Off the rails: Conspiracy theorists commandeer Trump’s legal operation

Trump increasingly turns to radical voices telling him what he wants to hear.

www.axios.com

Episode 1 - A Premeditated Lie Lit The Fire

Off the rails: Trump's premeditated election lie lit the fire

Axios takes you inside the collapse with a special series.

www.axios.com

It is a very interesting series, I think.

 

[jenny12]

Orwellian.

1. Orwellian: a social condition destructive to the welfare of a free and open society.

2. Nowhere in that definition: holding actual criminals accountable.

 

[MsZem]

Here’s what I think happens in Orwell’s books based on how I’ve heard ‘Orwellian’ used

The animals crowded around to see. Napoleon was forcing Snowball the traitor pig to pay the ultimate price for sabotaging the windmill. He was being ratioed.

 

[Vagabond]

IIRC, Napoleon and Snowball were sea lions.

 

[demetriosj]

1. Orwellian: a social condition destructive to the welfare of a free and open society.

2. Nowhere in that definition: letting criminals off without consequences.

Holy crap! Have you no self awareness?

 

[overedge]

Funny how the "law and order" crowd gets all upset when the criminals being charged are people who share their views.

 

[jenny12]

Holy crap! Have you no self awareness?

Something the US did that was Orwellian, for example, was the Patriot Act.

 

[Barbara Manatee]

What you wear after they've all been screaming LOCK HER UP for five years and now they're worried about jail time while you're free as a breeze. pic.twitter.com/oMtavTFI5p— Hillary Warned Us (@HillaryWarnedUs) January 17, 2021

 

[MacMadame]

Orwellian.

For those of you who are not familiar with the dynamics of an abusive relationship, the GOP talk about how the left needs to just forgive these seditionists and move on even though they (the seditionists and their enablers) haven't even admitted to the harm they have caused let alone apologized or the Left are the ones causing the problems is straight out of the Abusers Handbook.

And, yes, it's very Orwellian.

 

[Dobre]

Fox Settled a Lawsuit Over Its Lies. But It Insisted on One Unusual Condition.

Why did the network insist an agreement with the family of a murdered young man remain undisclosed until after the election?

www.nytimes.com

"On Oct. 12, 2020, Fox News agreed to pay millions of dollars to the family of a murdered Democratic National Committee staff member, implicitly acknowledging what saner minds knew long ago: that the network had repeatedly hyped a false claim that the young staff member, Seth Rich, was involved in leaking D.N.C. emails during the 2016 presidential campaign. (Russian intelligence officers, in fact, had hacked and leaked the emails.)

Fox’s decision to settle with the Rich family came just before its marquee hosts, Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity, were set to be questioned under oath in the case, a potentially embarrassing moment. And Fox paid so much that the network didn’t have to apologize for the May 2017 story on FoxNews.com.

But there was one curious provision that Fox insisted on: The settlement had to be kept secret for a month — until after the Nov. 3 election. The exhausted plaintiffs agreed.

Why did Fox care about keeping the Rich settlement secret for the final month of the Trump re-election campaign?"

 

[overedge]

Thanks for posting, @Dobre, this is a really interesting article.

My guess is that Fox wanted to hush this up because once that settlement was announced, there would be a lot more investigating into Fox's evil ways and its involvement with Trump and his minions. Which could be very embarrassing right before the election. It would be like the strand that gets pulled that makes the whole ball of yarn unravel.

 

[Aussie Willy]

Holy crap! Have you no self awareness?

Holy crap! That is the pot calling the kettle black.

 

[Meoima]

Orwellian.

Not anyone here hasn’t read 1984 like you.