peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
Please don't bring climate change into this........
Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon
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Please don't bring climate change into this........
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
Usually......but not always.......
BirkenheadBlue
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If you hear hooves, think horse, not zebra.
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
Horses are usually shod and make a slightly different noise than those that are not, such as a zebra. It takes a trained ear to differentiate, so I can understand your difficulty........
It's being covered...but by fake news places like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN.
Pretty standard for a president to pardon people at the end of his term Pete.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_by_George_W._Bush#January_1.2C_2009
You can question some of them if you want but as a process itself it is well established.
BirkenheadBlue
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I was talking about wild horses. Typically unshod and a little closer to zebra sized
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Not nearly as much as it should be.
It should be the lead story in every paper, every single day.
It doesn't seem to matter to his supporters.
They claimed during his press conference that they were being compliant...so his supporters are satisfied.
Put his plan under a micorscope...hell a pair of glasses, and his plan is full of conflicts of interest that could compromise his judgement.
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
It's a bit naff though isn't it. If Mugabe or some tin pot President did the same and let masses of convicts out, we in the west would be tut tutting to say the least. And my main point was that the number that Obama has let off is apparently more than the last 12 presidents combined. It should be abolished.......
abelard
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it might be a category mistake though. historically there is much more in common with Brazil, (or for much of the country, South Africa, or Haiti) than there is with Western Europe or Northern Asia
Since George Washington started the practice it is hardly a new innovation so perhaps take it up with the founding fathers?!
As the amount, don't know if this data is out of date but doesn't seem like a huge amount, Reagan did over 400, that noted softie Nixon 900 and Obama will have to go some to beat FDR!
http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/presidential-pardons-1789-present.html
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It really is crazy.
The payments from foreign governments part puts him instant violation, there is literally no way to argue that it doesn't.
It's deeply ironic that that side spent months bleating about Clinton's speaking payments from Wall Street, and now the (billionaire) "champion of the little guy" has conflict of interest issues coming out of his ears, and has stacked his cabinet with assorted billionaires and bankers.
I'm sure they'll look after the little guy... I mean they always have before, right?
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https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-18/the-empty-trump-administration
more fake, biased news from the centre of the overton window:
We're two days away from having a new president. But we're apparently a lot longer than that from having a Trump administration with even a minimally functional ability to govern.
Politico's Michael Crowley has a nice piece explaining the missing National Security Council staffers, and the dangers that could cause if there's an early crisis. Hundreds of briefing papers have been created by Obama's NSC and sent to Team Trump, but the New York Times reports that no one knows if they've been reviewed.
Yet the NSC is ahead of the curve for this administration. Look at the big four departments. There's no Trump appointee for any of the top State Department jobs below secretary nominee Rex Tillerson. No Trump appointee for any of the top Department of Defense jobs below retired general James Mattis. Treasury? Same story. Justice? It is one of two departments (along with, bizarrely, Commerce) where Trump has selected a deputy secretary. But no solicitor general, no one at civil rights, no one in the civil division, no one for the national security division.
And the same is true in department after department. Not to mention agencies without anyone at all nominated by the president-elect.
Overall, out of 690 positions requiring Senate confirmation tracked by the Washington Post and Partnership for Public Service, Trump has come up with only 28 people so far.
The Atlantic's Russell Berman had a good story two weeks ago about how far behind Trump was. Since then? If anything, it's getting worse -- he's added only two of those 28 since Jan. 5. As Berman reported, the Partnership for Public Service suggested a president should have "100 Senate-confirmed appointees in place on or around Inauguration Day." At this pace, he won't have 100 nominees by the end of February, let alone having them confirmed and hard at work.
more fake, biased news from the centre of the overton window:
We're two days away from having a new president. But we're apparently a lot longer than that from having a Trump administration with even a minimally functional ability to govern.
Politico's Michael Crowley has a nice piece explaining the missing National Security Council staffers, and the dangers that could cause if there's an early crisis. Hundreds of briefing papers have been created by Obama's NSC and sent to Team Trump, but the New York Times reports that no one knows if they've been reviewed.
Yet the NSC is ahead of the curve for this administration. Look at the big four departments. There's no Trump appointee for any of the top State Department jobs below secretary nominee Rex Tillerson. No Trump appointee for any of the top Department of Defense jobs below retired general James Mattis. Treasury? Same story. Justice? It is one of two departments (along with, bizarrely, Commerce) where Trump has selected a deputy secretary. But no solicitor general, no one at civil rights, no one in the civil division, no one for the national security division.
And the same is true in department after department. Not to mention agencies without anyone at all nominated by the president-elect.
Overall, out of 690 positions requiring Senate confirmation tracked by the Washington Post and Partnership for Public Service, Trump has come up with only 28 people so far.
The Atlantic's Russell Berman had a good story two weeks ago about how far behind Trump was. Since then? If anything, it's getting worse -- he's added only two of those 28 since Jan. 5. As Berman reported, the Partnership for Public Service suggested a president should have "100 Senate-confirmed appointees in place on or around Inauguration Day." At this pace, he won't have 100 nominees by the end of February, let alone having them confirmed and hard at work.
Yet he has time to tweet about Saturday Night Live.
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