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Great article. Thanks for posting.
Trump's opponents keep shooting themselves in the foot don't they?
From selecting a Presidential challenger who, in a speech to Wall St luminaries, called voters who disagreed with her views "deplorables" thru to doctoring footage of Trump feeding fish with Abe - and now the Russia-gate conspiracy theories that Mueller was nobbled...
And to think some of them mock Trump and think him stupid.
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I had been watching the State Department media briefings since President Trump came to power, to educate myself on his program and emphases, especially on SE Asia where my wife comes from. That offered the considerable pleasure of viewing departmental press spokesman Heather Nauert, a consummate professional originally from Fox News. She is 49 and simply stunning.
I had not seen a regular briefing for a while and went looking for them tonight – she’s gorn!
Vox.com on February 18 reported:
“President Donald Trump’s pick to be the country’s next ambassador to the United Nations, abruptly withdrew herself from consideration for the job over the weekend.
In a statement Saturday, Nauert, who previously served as the top spokesperson for the State Department, said that “the past two months have been grueling for my family and therefore it is in the best interest of my family that I withdraw my name from consideration.”
Trump tapped Nauert for the role back in December, but he never officially submitted her nomination to the Senate so lawmakers could begin the process of confirming her — leading many to wonder what was taking him so long and whether her nomination had hit some sort of snag.
That seems to be exactly what happened: According to Bloomberg, shortly after Trump picked her, the White House reportedly became aware that Nauert had employed a nanny who was in the US legally, but didn’t have authorization to work.
Nauert and her husband employed the nanny 10 years ago, and paid her in cash, according to the Washington Post. They later discovered the nanny hadn’t paid taxes, and asked that she do so, per the Post.
Nauert was already facing what could have been a tough confirmation hearing given her limited foreign policy background. Nauert worked as Fox News host and correspondent for more than a decade before joining the State Department as its spokesperson in April 2017.
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The State Department didn’t acknowledge the nanny controversy directly, but in a statement about Nauert’s decision, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo seemed to imply that she wouldn’t be returning to her old job or back to the department in any capacity.
“Heather Nauert has performed her duties as a senior member of my team with unequalled excellence. Her personal decision today to withdraw her name from consideration to become the nominee for United States Ambassador to the United Nations is a decision for which I have great respect,” Pompeo said in a statement released Saturday.
“I wish Heather nothing but the best in all of her future endeavors and know that she will continue to be a great representative of this nation in whatever role she finds herself,” he added.”So a truly impressive performer loses her job because those time serving useless politicians during a week of hearings would tear her apart for the reason that they hate their President. She is clearly highly intelligent, across the current issues and well equipped to carry forward the fine work of Ambassador Nikki Haley in brutalising the monumentally corrupt African despots who run the UN on the US’ dollar, but that just wouldn’t come into it.
To bring the US down a handy first step would be to stack Congress and the Senate with people committed to the cause. Mission accomplished.
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@Tim
The FBI's official story is they opened an investigation into the Trump campaign in July 2016.Devin Nunes says they have evidence that the Trump campaign members were under surveillance as early as late as 2015.
The most sinister interpretation is that was a calculated effort to spy on and entrap the Trump campaign.With the Clinton campaign and Obama intelligence agencies acting hand-in-glove. (Russia Russia Russia being the excuse and ex-post-facto justification.) Then again it could all be an honest mistake with a big dose of wanting to believe it thrown in.
John Brennan is the likely originator of this operation.
What did Obama know?Will anyone be held accountable? It will all come down to AG Barr.
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@NTA said in US Politics:
Been a while since I looked in on US Politics.
Headline acts:
- Russia and Trump didn't collude
- Trump's Dad was born in Germany, according to Trump
- Windmill noise causes cancer, according to Trump
So it is about the same as last I left it: batshit crazy.
Understandable. Has been a tough couple of years for the anti Trumpers, as the US economy soars, ISIS is defeated and the Russia collusion conspiracy theory blows up. Probably easier to just ignore it when the guy you dont like is doing so well.
It is interesting those are the 3 things you chose to discuss after such a long break? 1 big thing and 2 petty things, seems to sum up the coverage of Trump... and indeed the performance of Trump
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Yeah, no headlines about a crisis (national emergency) at the border or Democrats doubling down on their Rooskiegate scam, right. Serious people know Trump making a simple gaffe about his father rather than grandfather is the really-really important issue and headline, because, welll, they are serious and you’re not.
As I thought, nothing to see here. The real headline is Drumpf made a verbal slip. Better commence impeachment proceedings...
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@NTA said in US Politics:
Been a while since I looked in on US Politics.
Headline acts:
- Russia and Trump didn't collude
- Trump's Dad was born in Germany, according to Trump
- Windmill noise causes cancer, according to Trump
So it is about the same as last I left it: batshit crazy.
Must be hard being so above it all.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Politics:
@NTA said in US Politics:
Been a while since I looked in on US Politics.
Headline acts:
- Russia and Trump didn't collude
- Trump's Dad was born in Germany, according to Trump
- Windmill noise causes cancer, according to Trump
So it is about the same as last I left it: batshit crazy.
Understandable. Has been a tough couple of years for the anti Trumpers, as the US economy soars, ISIS is defeated and the Russia collusion conspiracy theory blows up. Probably easier to just ignore it when the guy you dont like is doing so well.
It is interesting those are the 3 things you chose to discuss after such a long break? 1 big thing and 2 petty things, seems to sum up the coverage of Trump... and indeed the performance of Trump
Sorry? You may have noticed the Fed pulling back on interest rate rises for 2019 due to the worsening economic data? Not that this is Trump's fault but then again neither is a soaring economy his ownership alone either.
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@antipodean said in US Politics:
@NTA It's not a good sign when the President mistakes his father for his grandfather. Then again he is 72...
Perhaps the Founding Fathers would've benefited from knowing about dementia and put in an age ceiling.
That would be an interesting concept. Particularly as "professional politics" wasn't a thing, really.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
I'm assuming that's gross not net? Nevertheless the is one area where the data is supportive.
The unemployment rate is very low both in the US and over here in the UK but theses days the more interesting stats are in the employment rate (to which your post alludes) as this is jobs created rather than people moving off the unemployment lists but on zero hours contracts, part time self employed etc. It's not longer a true marker of the job situation, so much so that both the BoE and the Fed have moved away from using it as an indicator to raise interest rates.
But jobs are only one part of the economy and GDP has taken a hit, PMI figures are down, consumption is down. Overall the economy is weakening ATM. I do not see this as the fault of Trump's policies though, world-wide a lot of the data is weakening and it is more likely to be part of that scenario. Having said that as and when things turn round the main drivers will unlikely be Trump's policies (certainly not in isolation) but how things are in the wider world. No doubt the White House will jump on any improvement an claim it for their own but that it just normal for politicians.
In any event, long term, soaring or weakening, the economy tends to do its own thing. The politicians mostly just meddle around on the fringes.
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