or carelessness in choice of client?

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2021/01/31/On-This-Day-Germany-wages-unrestricted-sub-warfare-during-WWI/3671612062360/

In 1924, self-important senators, making pompous speeches for home consumption, delayed action on the Teapot Dome scandal.

in 2021, self-important senators, making pompous speeches for home consumption, delayed action on the Donald Trump scandal.

Trump jumps before he is thrown out of the Screen Actors Guild.
With predictable comments in his resignation letter.
Donald Trump quits Screen Actors Guild amid disciplinary action

I think his reply to the Guild summed up his attitude to everything niceley

And I quote "the union had "done nothing for me"." endquote

P.

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The family of Trumps continue to pollute the news:


Eric Trump Challenging His Dad for Worst Interview in History
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Eric Trump appears on Fox News' Sean Hannity program and gives one of the most absurd and ridiculous interviews of his career...

Trump Lawyers Misspell "United States" in Impeachment Defense
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Donald Trump's newest impeachment lawyers misspell "United States" in his impeachment defense...

Kayleigh McEnany Disclosure Reveals Fox News Gig
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... Donald Trump's former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany had a gig lined up with Fox News, which is now apparently on pause...

• Is it a new religion or cult?
  
• The plan all along was to drop the "United"?!!
  
• Welcome to (Un-) 'Reality' TV?!
  

Phew!

What a game!!

Really for real!


Stay safe folks!
Martin

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Meanwhile coming to a court room near you - trouble for Giuliani looms:
https://news.sky.com/story/rudy-giuliani-donald-trumps-lawyer-faces-1-3bn-lawsuit-over-big-lie-election-fraud-claims-12198586

Dominion looks to be using the same complaint filing where just the names get changed. 1st Powell, then Lindell and now Giuliani and totaling $3.9bn in all...

David Pakman has picked up on the events:


BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani Sued for His Election Lies

Indeed, faux words (lies) and Fake News (more lies) have consequences:


Vote machine biz Smartmatic sues Fox News and Trump chums for $2.7bn over bogus claims of rigged 2020 election
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Turns out words have consequences

Electronic voting machine maker Smartmatic has sued Fox News, three of its hosts, and two of Donald Trump’s loyalists – Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell – for an eye-popping $2.7bn in defamation damages over the false claims it stole the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday with the Supreme Court in New York, accused Trump’s personal lawyer Giuliani and ex-federal prosecutor Powell of spreading lies by wrongly claiming that the manufacturer rigged its voting machines...

... Smartmatic’s lawyers did not mince their words in their 285-page filing.

“The Earth is round. Two plus two equals four. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election for President and Vice President of the United States,” it began. “The election was not stolen, rigged, or fixed. These are facts. They are demonstrable and irrefutable.”...

... It should be noted that Smartmatic's only role in the 2020 election was to provide equipment for Los Angeles County, and the results there were not even close: it's a Democrat stronghold. There is no credible suggestion Smartmatic rigged any results nor that it was under Venezuela's control.

Smartmatic now wants Fox News et al to cough up $2.7bn to cover economic losses and damages to its reputation, and for any false statements made to be retracted. “With this action, Smartmatic says: Enough. Facts matter. Truth matters," it wrote in its court paperwork. "Defendants engaged in a conspiracy to spread disinformation about Smartmatic. They lied. And they did so knowingly and intentionally. Smartmatic seeks to hold them accountable for those lies and for the damage that their lies have caused.” Smartmatic said that after it was accused of tampering with the election’s results, its employees received hate mail and death threats. It claimed that current and potential clients began to panic. The lawsuit added that Fox News, its hosts Dobbs, Bartiromo and Pirro, and Giuliani and Powell all benefited from Smartmatic's losses...

Quite a crazy game, except that some of the consequences are quite nasty for the victims, and the consequences are all real.

Stay safe folks!
Martin

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Yet more corruption?...


Pro-insurrection Republican Lauren Boebert in bombshell legal trouble | No Lie podcast
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... Republican lawmaker Lauren Boebert is accused of a bombshell campaign finance violation and Matt Gaetz pulls a desperate stunt at the first committee hearing of the new Congress...

Such are the leaders of the USA?!



Stay safe folks!
Martin

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Meanwhile, not content with a two-way split, Trump is going THREE ways?!


64% of Republicans Would QUIT Party, Join Trump Party
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... follow Trump to a new third party...

Those comments are backed up with this example:

Capitol riots: Five takeaways from the arrests
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The storming of the US Capitol last month left five people dead, over 100 police officers injured and millions of dollars in damage to the building...

... Here's a closer look at who conducted the siege and why...

Note also the number of Democrats that would jump to Trump's Third Way...

Really, all in the United States?...


Stay safe folks!
Martin

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Such are the leaders of the USA?!

Trying to put Murdoch toothpaste back in the tube.

While the sound deadening at Mar-a-Lago (if there is any) hasn't stopped others from hearing Donny scream at his TV over the last 2 days as he views his 2nd impeachment trial, and the poor job that his legal team is doing, and apparently the sounds of his screaming went up several more decibels when he learnt that Georgia prosecutors have opened a criminal probe into his "criminal solicitation to commit election fraud".

As many of those who are before the courts for the January 6th riots are blaming Donny for doing what they've done, nearly 60 percent of those people facing charges related to the Capitol riot showed signs of prior money troubles, including bankruptcies, notices of eviction or foreclosure, bad debts, or unpaid taxes over the past two decades so they're all very "Trump" like in that respect.

Even Donny's real-estate partner, Steven Roth (of Vornado Realty Trust), is also reportedly considering buying out Donny's 30% stake in 2 Trump Towers because of bad business at both properties in association with the "Trump" name. Vornado acquired 70% of the towers in 2007.

Meanwhile Sidney Powell has finished being on the run as Dominion has ultimately tracked down the Texas-based attorney in North Carolina and apparently they called in local police as witnesses when Powell was served paperwork to attend court.

Anyhow, Donny isn't going far if he decides to make a run for it as his 747-200B (N757AF) is still sitting at an airport in New York state while missing 1 engine which likely explains why 2 of his Sikorsky helicopters are up for sale so that he can replace the missing engine so that the plane can be flown to Louisiana for maintenance to get it air worthy again.

While the sound deadening at Mar-a-Lago (if there is any) hasn't stopped others from hearing Donny scream at his TV over the last 2 days as he views his 2nd impeachment trial...

In other news about annoying the neighbors:


Florida town allows Donald Trump to stay at his Mar-a-Lago resort
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The good news for Donald Trump is that he can continue living at his Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, despite facing possible eviction...

So...

• Trump immediately gets a job;
  
  
• And he got to build his wall despite objections, to within 0.01" of falling off his territory (really to such extreme greedy accuracy and unnecessary precision!?!!).
  

Whatever next?


Stay safe folks!
Martin

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I fixed it again for you Betreger. ;-)

Wiggo, thanx but it worked on my browser, but it is worthwhile anyway.

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Wiggo, thanx but it worked on my browser, but it is worthwhile anyway.

It'll work on your browser, for a short time anyway, but because BBCode relies on the file type being at the end of the hyperlink it won't work for others so using the url tags is a better option. ;-)

The picture as posted by betreger, works fine here for me on Edge Chromium, clearly visible as a normal picture on the board.

Well Edge was bad enough letting M$ know everything that you're doing, but Chromium Edge not only lets M$ know what you're up to it lets Google know as well and I don't want either of them to know what I'm doing. :-O

I'll just stick with Firefox thanks. ;-)

Works fine on FireFox Mac.

The Lancet - Public policy and health in the Trump era

This report by the Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era assesses the repercussions of President Donald Trump's health-related policies and examines the failures and social schisms that enabled his election. Trump exploited low and middle-income white people's anger over their deteriorating life prospects to mobilise racial animus and xenophobia and enlist their support for policies that benefit high-income people and corporations and threaten health. His signature legislative achievement, a trillion-dollar tax cut for corporations and high-income individuals, opened a budget hole that he used to justify cutting food subsidies and health care. His appeals to racism, nativism, and religious bigotry have emboldened white nationalists and vigilantes, and encouraged police violence and, at the end of his term in office, insurrection. He chose judges for US courts who are dismissive of affirmative action and reproductive, labour, civil, and voting rights; ordered the mass detention of immigrants in hazardous conditions; and promulgated regulations that reduce access to abortion and contraception in the USA and globally. Although his effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed, he weakened its coverage and increased the number of uninsured people by 2·3 million, even before the mass dislocation of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has accelerated the privatisation of government health programmes. Trump's hostility to environmental regulations has already worsened pollution—resulting in more than 22?000 extra deaths in 2019 alone—hastened global warming, and despoiled national monuments and lands sacred to Native people. Disdain for science and cuts to global health programmes and public health agencies have impeded the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, causing tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, and imperil advances against HIV and other diseases. And Trump's bellicose trade, defence, and foreign policies have led to economic disruption and threaten an upswing in armed conflict.

NYT article based on the above report;

Former President Donald Trump stands accused of inciting a riot that left at least five people dead and more than 100 police officers injured.

But according to a new report from The Lancet, a respected medical journal, that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the harm that Trump did to public health during his time in office.

Released today, the 49-page report ticks off the health effects of Trump’s policies on everything from the environment to taxes to Covid-19. And the results aren’t pretty.

Soon after Trump took office in 2017, The Lancet established the Commission on Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era to study the health impact of his decisions in the White House. Over the past four years, the commission analyzed his policies as they took shape while seeking to place them in a broader historical context.

They found that Trump’s mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic caused tens of thousands of deaths that might have been avoided if the country’s response had been more effectively coordinated.

“I think the huge number of deaths from Covid, compared to the other G7 wealthy nations, was striking,” said Steffie Woolhandler, a co-chairman of the committee and a distinguished professor at Hunter College in New York.

But even before the pandemic, the report found, Trump’s attempts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act had increased the number of uninsured Americans by two million to three million people.

His trillion-dollar tax cuts primarily benefited high-income Americans, while stripping the federal government of resources that it had used to pay for social-welfare programs.

“Even prior to the pandemic,” said Woolhandler, a physician, “the United States’ policies had so thoroughly failed to provide the conditions to protect health that 461,000 people who died in 2018 would have survived if our death rate were the same as other healthy nations.”

Yet she noted that many of the United States’ public health problems predated not only the pandemic, but also the Trump administration. In many cases, the authors wrote, the health decline under Trump was only a continuation of a broader trend — one that seems to have begun in the early 1980s.

“In 1980, life expectancy in the United States was the same as in all our developed nation counterparts — Germany, France, Japan,” said Kevin Grumbach, a member of the commission and a professor at the University of California, San Francisco. “Every year since 1980, the U.S. started falling farther and farther behind these other nations. So now we are three or four years behind the average life expectancy of these other nations.”

Grumbach, who is also a physician, said that over the same period, the cost of health care had risen far more quickly in the United States than in other nations — a trend that Trump contributed to. The report found that his administration increased the privatization of government health programs like Medicare, most likely leading to a rise in costs for consumers.

The report also concluded that by loosening scores of regulations, Trump caused environmental harm that led to the deaths of over 22,000 people in 2019 alone. That was significantly more than had died for similar reasons in 2016.

“That was very surprising, because it’s one area the United States has been improving on in recent decades,” Woolhandler said. “And Trump very quickly managed to reverse the progress.”

One has to feel sorry for the U.S.
A no-win situation
Convict & the mob goes wild.
Don't convict & the mob goes wild.

Trump impeachment trial – Dems rest their case with flurry of redundant, irrelevant evidence.

"There is not a scintilla of evidence that Trump encouraged or advocated imminent harm."

As he has repeated ad nauseam over three long days, lead manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., pronounced Trump guilty of "inciting an insurrection" because he employed the common political phrase "fight like hell" when he spoke to a crowd of supporters on January 6, 2021.

Over and over again, Raskin resurrected the phrase while deliberately ignoring the fact that Trump urged protesters to behave "peacefully."

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster