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B402, No, i haven't discounted any credible sources. You gotta be a bit nuts. I included your link because i thought it was a decent article. From my point of view your overly cynical, chip-on-the-shoulder, mentality limits your horizons. Just thought the Brookings article dealt with it all on a much deeper and more analytical level. Noted you had not comment on the article at all. Wonder why.
"So you discount credible sources,,,,Tell me your opinion of why the US has a trump, and even worse, why is he still even with the dems....... "
My opinion on why the US has a Trump. LOL, could just say why don't you read the board more, but will let it flow a bit and see what comes out.
One, millions of Americans are very susceptible to conspiracy theories. Two, millions of Americans are super gullible and susceptible to the avalanche of lies autocratic Trump has served up. Three, millions of Americans feel disillusioned and disenfranchised by the two major parties. Trump and any like him, as the legitimately far-fight personalities in Europe, encourage and nurture division then live off it. Your conservative culture war, for instance. Four, more extreme weather events create more hardship and where more hardship occurs more blame it on political parties that are. People like Trump who fraudulently claim to be non-establishment figures are believed by many of those looking for help. For comfort. Even for salvation. Five, millions of Americans believe Trump is, like David, Saul and Solomon were, one of God's Chosen Ones. Six, your electoral system. A Trump could be elected to a parliament in Australia, but could never, not nowadays or yet anyway, become the leader of a major party. Therefore a Trump could never be head honcho in Australia. Not in these times, anyway.
There would be many more reasons why the US has a Trump. Migration, inflation not Dems fault another two. And corruption, Much more on the right than the left. And there is a significant Putin factor, misinformation, and war driving economic hardship and inflation.
Our world has always been a very complex place. Basically chaos, some say.
B402, See more disciplined, nuanced, and more insightful articles, and opinion -- You've hit on it. Seemed counterintuitive to me as well considering that the GDP disparities between Blue and Red states are the mirror image of the income inequality.
Gotta be wealth for there to be inequality.
Today, therefore, neither party represents the same types of places it did just 10 years ago. As such, the Democratic Party is now anchored in the nation’s booming, but highly unequal, metro areas, while the GOP relies on aging and economically stagnant manufacturing-reliant rural and exurban communities.
America has two economies—and they’re diverging fast
[...]
Where Republican areas of the country rely on lower-skill, lower-productivity “traditional” industries like manufacturing and resource extraction, Democratic, mostly urban districts contain large concentrations of the nation’s higher-skill, higher-tech professional and digital services.
Yet now comes another wrinkle to the story. Not only are red and blue America experiencing two different economies, but those economies are diverging fast.
In fact, radical change is transforming the two parties’ economies in real time. Which is a key takeaway of a new data analysis—published today—that we developed with the Wall Street Journal’s Aaron Zitner and Dante Chinni.
What do the new numbers show exactly?
[...]
With their output surging as a result of the big-city tilt of the decade’s “winner-take-most” economy, Democratic districts have seen their median household income soar in a decade—from $54,000 in 2008 to $61,000 in 2018. By contrast, the income level in Republican districts began slightly higher in 2008, but then declined from $55,000 to $53,000.
Underlying these changes have been eye-popping shifts in economic performance. Democratic-voting districts have seen their GDP per seat grow by a third since 2008, from $35.7 billion to $48.5 billion a seat, whereas Republican districts saw their output slightly decline from $33.2 billion to $32.6 billion.
Looking deeper, it’s clear that big shifts in industry geography and composition are driving the parties’ changes of identity. Look at the matrix of 10-year trends depicted here:
h/t blackhawks - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170172191
B402, Yes, you have given more opinion than links about Dems representing cities and more wealthy counties, but yes some links. And their problem with more progressive income tax scales in states where they have most control. You have also been given much information on the fact it is the Democrats who support better health systems and SS and food stamp programs and higher minimum wages and a myriad of other social programs which support the non-rich. You can't only feed on one side of the equation.
"Sheesh, Ive post numerous links, how dems represent the rich...Dem cities, dems in power in states, selling off industry....New Fangled DAs loosening crime too much, out of control immigration at a time of inequity
P - The only ones that think the left hasn't moved too far left is the left....
P - Shame they didn't get back to the center, but hey, its tribalism now, no one is going to back down.....
P - So back to we have the same facts, just different opinions"
Seems to me maybe it's just because you feed off one side is why you say on one hand people in Europe and elsewhere are voting more for the far-right because the Dems have moved to far to the left, and on the other hand the Dems are the party of the rich because they have moved to far to the right. To me, again, it looks you constantly contradict yourself.
And yet again your mantra part, the Dems should get back to the center. You ignore the opinion that Obama had Dems at the center, rand you don't give one single example of how Dems have moved to the left, after Obama, under Biden. As a matter of fact all you do is give examples of how Dems have moved to the right rather than to the left. By your above "selling off industry" e.g.
So you have them moving to the right to become the party of the rich, and you have them moving too far to the left as the reason more are voting for the far-right in Europe.
You do a good job of confusing me, no wonder you are mixed up yourself and intend to vote, if you do, Republican.
B402, Yeah, the right have made gains. Migration obviously a major why. And inflation. Putin is doing a good job of fucking with the West's political system. Mean to post more on that later. Is good the mainstream still has a solid hold of the European Parliament.
Good link though this is more important for you here "...when thing go to far left, .. Examples please. You have been told a hundred times those sorts of assertions really should, in any forum, be backed up by at least one concrete example. Surely if you were sitting in a group at least one would say, "How? Exactly how have things gone too far to the left?"
Looking at the two major reasons, inflation and migration wars are the major drivers in both cases. And it sure as hell is not the left who have driven the wars. A third and fourth, environmental factors and inequity. The left are not the major drivers of those two either.
Wouldn't you agree? If not, exactly what other than those four basics are causing many people to vote more for the right.
You really are riding the wrong horse. Think carefully about any reply.
Your -- The far right’s election gains rattle EU’s traditional powers, leading Macron to call snap polls
https://apnews.com/article/eu-election-results-european-parliament-acd0ceef91d198cf5e9ee695f394b28c
PS edit: The interactive map in there is a good one.
B402, Yeah, the right have made gains. Migration obviously a major why. And inflation. Putin is doing a good job of fucking with the West's political system. Mean to post more on that later. Is good the mainstream still has a solid hold of the European Parliament.
Good link though this is more important for you here "...when thing go to far left, .. Examples please. You have been told a hundred times those sorts of assertions really should in any forum be backed up by at least one concrete example. Surely if you were sitting in a group at least one would say, How? Exactly how have things gone too far to the left?
Looking at the two major reasons inflation and migration wars are the drivers
in both cases. And it sure as hell is not the left who have driven the wars.
Wouldn't you agree?
You really are riding the wrong horse. Think carefully about any reply to this.
Yes, we often first laugh at the absurd, even when the absurdity is a cancer.
hap0206, If only Blanche and the other Trump lawyers had had the intelligence to use the defense
you have settled upon. Only you saw through the hoax. Just you, in the whole world. Just think.
LOL It would be the best to get up with an all PGA team. To even be close would be an extra buzz.
Sure is!
LOL Their strategy could be maybe next time, after Trump is able to get El Chapo out of jail first. They do disagree on the most successful way of getting illegal drugs into America - El Chapo says official border crossings, Trump says El Chapo is wrong, even though El Chapo's continues to be a tried and true highly successful business model. Figures Trump would disagree there - but that disagreement could be settled amicably am sure. Ask yourself who was the most successful businessman. Though, yes, Trump to date has been more successful in staying out of jail.
"Loyalty czars." As God created ordinary people in his own image, will Trump recreate the U.S.A. in his.
"Donald Trump’s adult sons, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, are playing a central role in drawing
up a list of potential candidates to join a second Trump administration in anticipation of their
father’s victory over Joe Biden in November’s presidential election, Axios reports.
Dear God. "
Apr 24, 2024 - Politics & Policy - Exclusive: Trump brothers Eric and Don Jr. emerge as loyalty czars
Alex Thompson
Donald Trump Jr. and his brother, Eric, arrive at New York Supreme Court during their father's civil fraud trial last November. Photo: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have become key players in the early planning for a second Trump administration's transition team, and would focus on vetting potential officials and staffers for ideology and loyalty, campaign aides and close allies to their father tell Axios.
Why it matters: Neither brother would officially run Donald Trump's transition team, but they'd take a lead in making sure government jobs are filled by Republicans aligned with Trump's vision for the party, the sources said.
[...]
Reality check: Even if they're annoyed, it will be hard for the Trump brothers or the campaign to be broadly effective without drafting off the outside groups' work.
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/24/trump-brothers-loyalty-czars-transition-team
The team will make every effort to distance Trump from Project 2025 recommendations
to maintain the fiction Trump is his own man. Just never forget...
B402, H/t sortagreen -- Project 2025 poses threat to democracy
[...]
If you’ve not heard of Project 2025, it’s very worthy of your independent investigation. Project 2025 is a playbook (a “comprehensive policy guide”) created for Donald Trump and his minions to use in the first 180 days of a second Trump administration. The far-right Heritage Foundation proudly takes credit for facilitating the 887-page document on how to turn a democracy into an authoritarian country.
While editing Project 2025, Paul Dans and Steven Groves had assistance from 34 authors, 277 contributors, a 54 member advisory board and a coalition of more than 100 conservative organizations (including ALEC, The Heartland Institute, Liberty University, Middle East Forum, Moms for Liberty, NRA, Pro-Life America, and the Tea Party Patriots).
Project 2025 represents a serious effort to make America a fascist country if Trump returns to the White House. The Trump campaign recently posted (and later deleted) a video on Trump’s Truth Social media account depicting the former president’s 2025-2029 administration as a “Unified Reich.” (That phrase evokes Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, which ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945.)
You can download the full text of Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership” from the organization’s website. The manuscript spells out what Trump should do from January 20 to July 18, 2025. Its 30 chapters are a disconcerting read.
Among other things, Project 2025 proposes to eliminate the U.S. Departments of Education and Commerce, deploy the U.S. military whenever protests erupt, and dismantle the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The federal government would also remove all protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, and would terminate all affirmative action policies and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Additional mandates include: siphoning off billions of public school funding, funding vouchers to pay for private school tuition, phasing out public education’s Title 1 program, gutting the nation’s free school meals program, eliminating Head Start, banning books, suppressing any curriculum that discusses the evils of slavery.
Project 2025 also calls for banning abortion (which would make women second-class citizens), restricting access to contraception, forcing would-be immigrants to be detained in concentration camps, and eliminating Title VII and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act. The Trump administration would recruit 54,000 loyal Republicans to replace existing federal civil servants, and would end the separation of church and state, a bedrock constitutional principle.
In a Politico article from February, Alexander Ward and Heidi Przybyla described Project 2025 as an authoritarian Christian nationalist movement and a path for the U.S. to become an autocracy. Several legal experts have indicated implementing the 180-day plan would undermine the rule of law and the separation of powers.
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Just maybe there was a unconscious reason why i duplicated the article in that stuffed up post. For
all who feel democracy is worth fighting for, as so many felt in September 1939, it is a serious situation.
They're talking to you ...
@willlongbottom
1 year ago
Who's reading this high?
@kurtspiroch1989
1 month ago
If you‘re listening in 2024 you‘re legend
@MessiRed
4 months ago
Anyone here in 2024?.... Masterpiece
@adbouns4962
1 year ago
A message to the future generations. Don't let this song die
Wannabe autocrats spit on the law in public, and on their supporters in private.
Could be another Tiger - Jack ...
100% Shit soup reddened by some internal problem. Like the dangerous Red tide
Harmful algal bloom in coastal areas are also often referred to as "red tides".[12] The term "red tide" is derived from blooms of any of several species of dinoflagellate, such as Karenia brevis.[13] However, the term is misleading since algal blooms can widely vary in color, and growth of algae is unrelated to the tides. Not all red tides are produced by dinoflagellates. The mixotrophic ciliate Mesodinium rubrum produces non-toxic blooms coloured deep red by chloroplasts it obtains from the algae it eats.?[14]
As a technical term, it is being replaced in favor of more precise terminology, including the generic term "harmful algal bloom" for harmful species, and "algal bloom" for benign species.[citation needed]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmful_algal_bloom#Terminology
for our recent cleaner efforts here. Wonder how Jim Lur is doing these days.
Out now to my first ever King's Birthday Party. A couple who helped fix my fence recently between them have over $100 worth of award points saved. They enjoy their ale too. Heh, I use mine virtually soon i get enough for a schooner. All points have to be used by the end of the month so they are taking the opportunity to share their fruits up at the GG today. May have been there for awhile now, time to wander up. Cheers.
Big day yesterday too with an ex-neighbor who does what you do on a much smaller just personal scale. No personal strain, but generous home grown buds.
PS: No good for the lungs, but once every couple of months, or so, wouldn't cause much stress. Starting tomorrow rest week. LOLs
A champion before full bloom -- 1H AGO Scottie Scheffler’s victory at the Memorial presented by Workday shows how far he’s come
VIDEO - Scottie Scheffler battles tough course conditions to win the Memorial
Written by Paul Hodowanic
@PaulHodowanic
[...]
Scheffler is displaying domination only a few men – Nicklaus included – have conjured. Everything that seemed possible a year ago, but fell just out of reach, has come true. Scheffler is the commanding force in men’s golf with no sign of slowing down, regardless of off-course circumstances that would have spurned lesser competitors.
Scheffler’s win at Jack’s Place was his fifth of the season, the first to reach the milestone since Justin Thomas in the 2017 season. He is the first to win five times before the U.S. Open since Tom Watson in 1980, and Scheffler enters the year’s third major at Pinehurst No. 2 as the overwhelming favorite. With 3-1 betting odds, Scheffler holds the lowest odds entering a major championship since Tiger Woods at the 2009 PGA Championship.
“It’s not luck and it’s not just a run,” said Tom Kim, close friends with Scheffler. “It’s a consistency that’s unbelievable. He gets better every day. He's Tiger-esque.”
In a matter of three months, Scheffler has gone from one of the best in the world to the unrivaled pinnacle that everyone is chasing. He has won this year’s Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard, THE PLAYERS Championship, the Masters, the RBC Heritage and the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday. Winning those five events in a career would deliver a lasting imprint on the sport. Scheffler accomplished it all in one season.
He has done it amidst his fair share of distractions. ...
https://www.pgatour.com/article/news/latest/2024/06/09/scottie-scheffler-wins-the-memorial-presented-by-workday-muirfield-village-jack-nicklaus-fifth-win-signature-event
Agree. Gonna have to have a good one before he gets me again.
hap0206, Trump has little if any conscience too.
Chuckles -- Don Jr and Eric Trump ‘in charge of picking Trump administration officials round two’
"What is a beautiful woman to you?"
Former president’s sons keen ‘to keep the John Boltons of the world’ away from the White House should their father beat Joe Biden in November’s election
Joe Sommerlad
Thursday 25 April 2024 18:35 BST
VIDEO - Related video: Eric Trump asks why ‘every family that goes into politics enriches themselves'
[INSERT- Look in the mirror, dick]
all links
Donald Trump’s adult sons, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, are playing a central role in drawing up a list of potential candidates to join a second Trump administration in anticipation of their father’s victory over Joe Biden in November’s presidential election, Axios reports .. https://www.axios.com/2024/04/24/trump-brothers-loyalty-czars-transition-team .
The brothers are not running the transition team, leaving that responsibility to the Trump campaign’s senior adviser, Susie Wiles, but are instead playing a lead role in vetting prospective officials and staffers on ideological grounds, according to the site.
By doing so, they reportedly hope to ensure a greater degree of loyalty than the former president experienced during his chaotic first term in the White House from 2017 to 2021.
Mr Trump Jr in particular has made it his mission “to keep the John Boltons of the world outside a second Trump administration”, one insider cited by Axios states, referring to the Republican’s estranged former national security adviser, a foreign policy hawk who has become a potent critic since being dismissed in September 2019.
The Independent has reached out to the Trump campaign for more information about the precise nature of the Trump brothers’ roles within the transition team.
The former president’s first cabinet included a number of figures like Mr Bolton, his first White House chief of staff, John Kelly, and defence secretary, Jim Mattis, who naively believed they could play a restraining role, helping to steer Mr Trump away from his worst instincts, an assumption that too frequently proved overly optimistic and more often than not resulted in swift departures.
The candidate is keen to avoid repeating such tactical missteps should he win a belated second term in the Oval Office and hopes to return with a government even closer to his own image, shorn of more moderate establishment Republicans who might raise objections to aspects of his agenda.
According to Axios, Mr Trump has become frustrated by other conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation .. https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/heritage-foundation .. think tank claiming to be “leading the charge on scrutinising the backgrounds of possible appointees”, only for their “Project 2025” policy papers to be used to attack his campaign.
[Damn Trump is a slippery eel. One tactic now to con voters,
he's trying to distance himself from Project 2025. See
B402, H/t sortagreen -- Project 2025 poses threat to democracy
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174565800]
Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr attend a speech by their father at the White House
in August 2020 (Evan Vucci/AP)
[Seriously, have you ever seen two more arrogant brothers in your lifetime.]
Ms Wiles and fellow Trump adviser Chris LaCivita issued a statement last November shooting down such attacks, insisting that “any personnel lists, policy agendas, or government plans published anywhere are merely suggestions. Policy recommendations from external allies are just that – recommendations”.
[Obviously a campaign tactic again is to deny the truth. If pull another Trump victory out of this never will there be
a greater condemnation of the moral and ethical fiber of millions of American voters. The Chosen One. Goddamn!!]
Unlike their sister Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, Mr Trump’s older sons played little part in his first administration, having been entrusted with the care of his Trump Organization in New York.
They did, however, become celebrities on right-wing media and could be depended upon to stand up for their father against criticism and deride his numerous political enemies, with Eric appearing on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News only this week to dismiss the New York hush money trial as a “bookkeeping” error of no consequence.
[C'mon Eric, what happened to hap's termination agreement, Fair go, mate.]
That said, Don Jr was involved eight years ago in crafting his father’s Interior Department because of his interest in outdoor sports and told The New York Post last month that he plans to be “very active” in a second Trump transition team in order to ensure “we stop some of the DC swamp rats and the swamp creatures from getting in there and doing their thing”.
He added: “There are so many great people to choose from now with the first four years of the administration, you have a good understanding of who would be great and loyal and implement the America First policies.”
He also said he had been attempting to influence his father’s pick for running mate, backing “fighters” like Ohio senator JD Vance, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and conservative media favourite Tucker Carlson over the likes of Kristi Noem, Tim Scott and Elise Stefanik.
The move to draft Don Jr and Eric Trump into the political wing of their father’s interests mirrors his recent powerplay to remove Ronna McDaniel as chair of the Republican National Committee, rewarding Ms McDaniel for seven years of dogged loyalty by replacing her with Michael Whatley and Lara Trump, Eric’s wife, to ensure that the institution and its resources are more completely at his beck and call.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-administration-transition-team-don-jr-eric-b2534801.html
Setting up for a fair dinkum American Orban-Putin-Duterte-like show. If not soon, later.
hap0206, I know Trump sees a man as one who never admits he is wrong, but here you have a good opportunity to
be something other than just a weak and dishonest Trump toadie. Be a decent American man, admit you are wrong.
By the time Blanche made his case he knew full well what Bragg's underlying crime was, to defraud
the American people to influence the election. Trump's defense did everything but use your fable:
"Because they weren't. Answer this: Why didn't Blanche use your opinion in Trump's defense. Forget all else for one post, just answer that one question
P - I think the answer to that question is because Bragg never specified the underlying crime -- from the legal analysis of the verdict, that appears to be the problem "
Excerpt:
He denied the sexual encounter, and his lawyers argued at trial that his celebrity status made him an extortion target.
Defense lawyers also said hush money deals to bury negative stories about Trump were motivated by personal considerations such as the impact on his family, not political ones. They also sought to undermine the credibility of Cohen, the star prosecution witness who pleaded guilty in 2018 to federal charges related to the payments, by suggesting he was driven by personal animus toward Trump and fame and money.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-trial-deliberations-jury-testimony-verdict-85558c6d08efb434d05b694364470aa0
They accepted it was hush money payment because it was. No mention ever of your termination agreement fiction. Only you, hap. Only you.
hap0206, Answer the question. Not interested in anything from you except an answer to the question:
Why didn't Blanche use your termination agreement argument in Trump's defense. Answer the question or stfu.
Jon Stewart on Butker, Conservative "Outrage" & The Real Cancel Culture | The Daily Show
Woke, cancel culture. Used and abused by the conservative right.
"More on what turns me off Bill Maher. First, again: "" 12yearplan, Maher says, "This is protesting for a terrorist group." What of those protesting against the over-reactive brutality of Israel. How many of the protestors are right wingers. How many of the protesters in their hearts are protesting for a terrorist group. Not fucking many, i'd guess.
[...]" "The Assholery Is the Point"
[...]
B402, "...and good intentions it started with..." Briboy - Evangelicals perfected cancel culture. Now it’s coming for them.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170893163
Also, might have it wrong, but i get the feeling that all the Republican cancelling
around these days is also sorta dealing in what they condemn as woke stuff too. See:
conix, You either still don't accept the fact it's misrepresentation of CRT,..."
Jon Stewart on Butker, Conservative "Outrage" & The Real Cancel Culture | The Daily Show
hap0206, Nope. As the others easily observed there is nothing in that even suggesting the hush money cheques were part of a termination agreement.
... and, in 2016, caused $280,000 in payments to be made to silence two women who otherwise planned to speak publicly about their alleged affairs with a presidential candidate, thereby intending to influence the 2016 presidential election. COHEN pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III.
Your link - https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/michael-cohen-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-eight-counts-including-criminal-tax
Because they weren't. Answer this: Why didn't Blanche use your opinion in Trump's defense. Forget all else for one post, just answer that one question.
Maybe some of our drive-byes are more uninformed than liars. Those like Hannity et al surely
must be informed so follows they must just be political parasite ideologue liars. Seems to me.
Yes lucky for the other nine of us scoring was low, still your FedEx bonus for the win is the same as it is for any other designated event.
hap0206, You say you have posted a link to a piece in which the agents who charged Cohen CLEARLY stated (you need a quote, or something damn close) the cheques now established as hush money payback cheques were part of a termination agreement. Prove it. I agree with the others who call bullshit on you. .
hap0206, You are a pig, even blaming women for men's sexual harassment of them in those
cases. Not all men abuse women, but too many do. And, hap, it is not the women's fault.
Your FedEx bonus is still real. Congrats, mick, i won't wait for the official
from our official Eli this time. Well done. Thank goodness i had Morikawa.
hap0206, Then you tell us why didn't Blanche use it as a defense. It's obviously hooey what you are saying. And could only even consider what you claim about the agents if you provided a link showing the "FBI/IRS agents that put cohen behind bars" stated clearly the cheques were part of a termination agreement. If that was the case why didn't Blanche use it in Trump's defense.
It's one indication who was more capable on a tough course, for the one week anyway. Cantlay failed again.
Yep. The future looks bleak, for them and for the region. Things change quickly sometimes.
hap0206, Good ol' Friendly Fox News -- The fallen Fox News stars
Many of these prominent Fox News figures departed the network abruptly.
Once the star of Fox News’ prime-time lineup, Bill O’Reilly was forced out in 2017 after more than two decades with the network following allegations of sexual harassment that led advertisers to abandon his show. | Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images
By Kelly Garrity
04/24/2023 04:32 PM EDT
The sudden announcement of Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News rocked the media world on Monday — but he’s far from the only prominent figure to make a very public exit from the network.
Carlson started as a contributor at Fox News in 2009, and moved into his role hosting the 8 p.m. hour in 2017. As the host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” he was one of the most-watched personalities on the cable news channel, known for pushing conservative and sometimes conspiratorial views.
Fox News said Carlson “agreed to part ways” with the network. But with his exit, Carlson now joins the ranks of several Fox News hosts and executives who have departed — or been forced out — under dramatic circumstances. Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck left his daily show on Fox News in 2011 after a little more than two years as a host. Beck’s show premiered the day after President Barack Obama’s inauguration, and — like Carlson’s — its run was marked by the host’s high ratings, controversial commentary and conspiracy theories. One of Beck’s more infamous moments was when he said that Obama had “a deep-seated hatred of white people.” Unlike Carlson, Beck’s departure was highly anticipated after the relationship between Beck’s company, Mercury Radio Arts, and Fox News grew increasingly tense leading up to the announcement.
Bill O’Reilly
Once the star of Fox News’ prime-time lineup, O’Reilly was forced out in 2017 after more than two decades with the network following allegations of sexual harassment that led advertisers to abandon his show. A New York Times report revealed that O’Reilly and Fox News had settled several sexual harassment claims, paying a combined $13 million to women who said O’Reilly had harassed them. Though O’Reilly denied the claims, Carlson took over his 8 p.m. slot after advertisers began boycotting the show.
Roger Ailes
Former Chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel Roger Ailes stepped aside in 2016 in the wake of a high-profile sexual harassment suit by a former Fox News anchor, Gretchen Carlson. Other female employees came forward following Carlson’s suit, leading Fox News to hire an outside law firm to investigate the claims. Ailes, who denied the allegations, stepped aside before that investigation was complete, leaving the network with a $40 million payout. Ailes founded the channel in 1996 with funding from Rupert Murdoch. He died in 2017 at the age of 77.
Ed Henry
Ed Henry, once Fox News’ chief White House correspondent and later a co-anchor of the weekday news program “America’s Newsroom, was fired in 2020 after allegations of “willful sexual misconduct” leveled by another Fox News employee.
Eric Bolling
In 2017, Fox News host and contributor Eric Bolling departed the network “amicably,” while he was under investigation for sexual harassment. Bolling, who hosted a short-lived afternoon talk show, “The Specialists,” was suspended from the network following a report by The Huffington Post that he had in previous years sent unsolicited lewd photos to two co-workers. Bolling denied the allegations, and sued the reporter who broke the story for defamation.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/24/tucker-carlson-fox-news-former-anchors-00093545
I can't find any result of Bolling's suit. Have only found 2017 reports ..
https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/yashar-ali-eric-bolling-lawsuit-1202524563/ .
And that Bolling has left Newmax ..
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2024/06/05/eric-bolling-newsmax-host-exits-the-balance/73982603007/ .
And that Hannity has left NY for Florida ..
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/03/sean-hannity-fox-news-florida-home .
hap0206, A termination agreement. The checks to Cohen all part of that. Wow. Thing is i can't find any corroboration of your insight. Blanche did not touch on your critically important observation at all in his close .. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/closing-arguments-trump-hush-money-trial-rcna153749 . How do you explain that, hap?
Are you really the only one who sees how a termination agreement was turned into a hush money case. The only one in the world??
Got a link to support your forensic perspective, hap? Must say it appears to be uniquely fanciful.
10min update: Biden is right: It’s time to end the awful Gaza war
"Israel Is Facing an Iraq-like Quagmire
"The War Games of Israel and Iran
"‘Buying Quiet’: Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas
"How Netanyahu's Hamas policy came back to haunt him — and Israel""
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brooklyn13, There are responses to attacks, and responses. I'll remind you of positions
of two very prominent and respected Israel leaders. One late, one still with us.
[...]Mr Barak believes that the optimal outcome, once Hamas’s military capabilities have been sufficiently degraded, is the re-establishment of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza.
[...]As Peres told them so many decades ago:
That is, Peres thinks that the Likud Party and its partners are living in a fool’s paradise if they believe they can annex the whole of Palestinian territory without getting the Palestinians as Israeli citizens eventually. And then, Peres says, no more Israel as a Jewish state.
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Reminder: Related: Ehud Barak: the military mast aring a US television interview last year that he would "probably" strive for nuclear weapons if he were in Iran's position.
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[...]Netanyahu wants it all, yes - river to the sea - and to stay out of jail. And Netanyahu wants the Palestinian National Authority .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority .. out of the picture too. You are at odds with both the Peres and the Barak thoughts. It's only right and realistic to also consider what the Palestinians want, to end this war.
P - There is an old saying .. put yourself into the other's shoes...
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The biggest unanswered question: Will Hamas do what’s best for the Palestinian people?
By David Ignatius
Columnist|
June 5, 2024 at 6:54 p.m. EDT
An Israeli tank near the Israel-Gaza border in southern Israel on Wednesday. (Tsafrir Abayov/AP)
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President Biden has announced a serious peace plan to end the horrific conflict in Gaza. The Israeli war cabinet, Egypt, Qatar and the G-7 all endorse it .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/01/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza-palestine-ceasefire-biden/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2 . It includes a detailed plan for recovery, starting immediately. As Biden said last Friday, “It’s time for this war to end .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/02/biden-ceasefire-plan-israel-gaza-hamas/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2 .”
So here’s a blunt question: Why aren’t Palestinians demanding that Hamas’s leaders, who are hiding in tunnels under the ravaged enclave, accept this agreement so that reconstruction can begin? Hamas’s existence has been predicated on saying no to peace with Israel. But surely, it’s in the interest of Palestinians civilians who have suffered so much in this conflict to say yes.
[Insert update: Disappointed Ignatius here did not give a couple of reasons in answer to his question. One that Palestinian citizens are so pissed off with Israel's refusal to work for a two state solution which has been seen as the only possibility for lasting peace since 1947. That's 77 years of obstructionist Fuck You's from Israel and chiefly why Hamas gained control in Gaza in the first place. Two, Israel's continuing rape and pillaging of Palestinian lands in teh West Bank. For more see one and two. Ignatius could have done better on this point.]
Like so many observers of this terrible war, I’ve been urging Israel for months to finish its campaign and move to “the day after .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/15/israel-yoav-gallant-gaza-war-day-after-plan/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5 .” Israeli military leadership has backed a plan to do that, thanks to prodding from Biden. The world should now make a similar demand of Hamas: Take the deal.
The agreement is still fuzzy on some details. Although Israel’s war cabinet endorses it, some members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition don’t. The transition from Phase 1’s initial cease-fire to a permanent one in Phase 2 will require negotiations, though the truce will continue as long as those negotiations do. The process is fragile and imperfect, but it’s backed by an implicit guarantee by the United States and its Group of Seven allies.
The “deliverables” for Palestinians are spelled out in an unpublished document prepared by negotiators. A person who’s familiar with the talks summarized the fine points for me this week. It provides a well-marked path to immediately begin repairing the devastation of the conflict. Here are some details about how it would start:
* From the first day of the cease-fire, Israel would facilitate a surge of humanitarian aid. Specifically, the agreement calls for 600 trucks moving daily into Gaza, including 50 fuel trucks. Northern Gaza would get 300 of those trucks, including fuel needed to eventually resume operation of the power plant in central Gaza.
* To start sheltering Palestinians who were forced to flee their homes, the agreement calls for provision of at least 60,000 temporary mobile homes and 200,000 tents. The rubble of war strewn across every kilometer of Gaza would be cleared, starting immediately, using civilian bulldozers and other heavy equipment.
* Hospitals, medical centers and bakeries would be rehabilitated throughout the strip, and these essential services would be maintained through the subsequent stages of the agreement.
4. Gaza’s infrastructure — the roads and the electrical, water, sewage and communications systems destroyed by war — would gradually be rebuilt across the enclave, with Israel agreeing to allow entry of necessary equipment.
5. The United Nations, Egypt and Qatar would lead an international effort for comprehensive reconstruction of homes, schools and the other essentials of life that have been destroyed.
If the deal works, a new Gaza would eventually emerge. Months of desperation and near-starvation would gradually give way to recovery. With so much international assistance flowing into the enclave, Gaza could actually experience something of a postwar boom.
What does Israel get from this agreement? First and most important, over the three phases, all Israeli hostages and bodies would be returned. It might not look like the “total victory” that Netanyahu’s coalition wants. But as a senior Biden administration official put it .. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2024/05/31/background-press-call-on-president-bidens-remarks-on-the-middle-east .. last Friday: “Hamas is no longer capable of carrying out another Oct. 7. Its military capacity has been significantly eroded. And its leaders are dead or in deep hiding.”
Governance in Gaza is still to be determined, but dictatorial rule by Hamas is finished. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and other members of the Israeli war cabinet share Biden’s view that Palestinian governance is essential and that the framework for it will be built by supporters of the Palestinian Authority.
Active Hamas fighters will remain targets for Israel even after the truce. As the senior official put it, “Israel always retains the right, as does any sovereign country, to act against threats against its security.”
Lebanon looms as the next battleground, but this problem, too, would be eased by the Gaza truce. As soon as a cease-fire is agreed to, U.S. officials say they will push to implement a tentative agreement with Hezbollah to withdraw its fighters up to 10 kilometers from the Israel-Lebanon border. The aim is to make northern Israeli towns safe again so that families who fled after Oct. 7 can return home before school starts in September. The crossfire between Israel and Hezbollah will also be limited by specific measures, U.S. officials expect.
There’s the promise, too, of a much wider truce: the normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, which for generations has refused to recognize the Jewish state. As Biden said, with the Gaza pact, “Israel could become more deeply integrated into the region” and “part of a regional security network to counter the threat posed by Iran.”
There’s a cynical trope about past peace efforts that “the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” That’s a harsh and one-sided judgment about a history of failure on both sides. But right now, Hamas’s leaders have a chance to do the right thing for the Palestinian people they claim to be fighting for. I hope the Palestinian people can prod them to do it.
Opinion by David Ignatius
David Ignatius writes a twice-a-week foreign affairs column for The Washington Post. His latest novel is “The Paladin.” Twitter
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/05/gaza-war-peace-israel-hamas-negotiations/
All stats said leave McCarthy in, yet i hunch hiked Zalatoris in. He'll win one where we miss him.
Never happier to see one of my guys, McCarthy, get only 7. LOL
You look home. Heh, my hunch gamble on Zalatoris failed miserably. Just glad it only cost 4.
Good one - " That said, most recent FFCTs appear to have arisen among extreme right-wing groups or like-minded individuals.
'That said', NO bothsidesisims on this subject either. 😏
[...]
Is There a FFCT Profile?
Since FFCTs represent a subset of conspiracy theories, it seems plausible that false flag conspiracy theorizers share some general features with the broader set of conspiracy theorists. However, it is difficult to construct a reliable profile of the typical conspiracy theorist (CT). Although some studies have linked CTs with low educational level, extreme right-wing political orientation, and paranoid personality traits, these findings have been inconsistent and may vary among specific conspiracy theories. That said, results from 4 large studies of US adults found that a strong mistrust of “officialdom” is a major factor in the conspiratorial mindset, particularly (and disproportionately) among political conservatives.11
Bothsidesisim, nailed again. 😏 "