huntingdon
It's hard to overstate how vanishingly rare it is for a govt, let alone the USG, to demand as part of a settlement with an allegedly criminal or fraudulent corporation, the right to appoint or reject board members and senior executives, or to impose restrictions on its business judgment.
Yet here we have the Skydance deal involving CBS.
huntingdon
"'She might be a victim': MAGA broadcaster defends Ghislaine Maxwell ahead of DOJ meeting."
The corruption of Trump and his media is staggering. There are at least a thousand women, girls at the time, who regard Ghislaine Maxwell as a sociopathic predator, not a victim. She's the one who is serving 20 yrs in a federal prison.
https://www.rawstory.com/ghislaine-maxwell-department-of-justice-2673753314/
huntingdon
The poor and middle class donate out of empathy. The wealthy seem to do it for tax dodges and to whitewash their reputations.
huntingdon
For a more critical assessment, see Marcy Wheeler's: "Pam Bondi Fired the Avenger of Sex Trafficking Victims [Maureen Comey] on Donald Trump's Personal Authority."
You'd think Democrats could do something with that, eh?
huntingdon
Seems as if Ghislaine Maxwell's willingness to obey the code of omerta may be wavering. If so, the fallout could be considerable.
huntingdon
Those three members of Trump's cabinet have never looked so good. Their dentist must be English, but who's their tailor?
huntingdon
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R, Cruelty, TN) regurgitates GOP talking point that soon after a tragedy is never the time to talk about who caused it. Republicans do that, for example, every time there's a mass shooting, an almost daily occurrence in America.
Every day is the day to excoriate those responsible for preventable tragedies. The media and public have a hard time focusing on them any other day, which is what Republicans are hoping for when they say, not today.
huntingdon
"Iran" is a phrase Donald Trump never uttered in junior high, high school, or college. Nor does he have any idea where to find a similar sounding country on the map.
huntingdon
Ii see now why JD Vance normally uses eyeliner when he goes out during the daytime.
huntingdon
MSNBC's Katy Tur has the balls to ask how can one be against the violent, xenophobic, genocidal policies of the current Israeli govt without being antisemitic or against the Jewish people generally. I just did that Katy.
huntingdon
Wonder how many Republican Liar Karoline Leavitt will claim showed up for the King's Stalinist Military Salute to His Highness in DC.
huntingdon
Pete Hegseth has arbitrarily decided his occupying military force will remain in Los Angeles for 60 days. No doubt, the time frame is malleable.
Hegseth hasn't tied that duration to conditions on the ground. That means he, Trump, and Miller are making a political point. "I do this because I can, not because of what you've done. Get used to it or pay the price"
There's no doubt Trump's Cabinet would never invoke the 25th, and would follow him anywhere. Et, tu, Congress?
huntingdon
Um, WTF would Harvard limit this free course on citizenship and recognizing a dictatorship-in-the-making to every US citizen, instead of everyone with an internet connection?
huntingdon
Does Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain, also require that students wear brown shirts and lederhosen, when it indoctrinates them with, "the 2020 election was stolen from Trump?"
huntingdon
@bloomberg @economics-bloomberg
Trump is raising prices on most US companies. He's raising prices on retailers most of all. But he tells them, via Walmart, that they should eat the unnecessary costs he's imposing on them, because he doesn't want to be responsible for them.
Walmart wouldn't accept that excuse from an employee who toppled over a single large display, let alone a guy jacking up the costs of their global sourcing.
huntingdon
Among the many things I would call using six carloads of ICE agents to arrest one immigrant dad at a filling station, and leaving two young children alone in his truck on a hot day, is child endangerment. ICE assumed an obligation to take care of the children by removing their dad with no warning or provision for a substitute carer.
CA Penal Code, Sec. 273a PC
huntingdon
"Hegseth orders 20% cut in number of top Pentagon officers.... There are only 44 [of them]...Pete Hegseth has also ordered reductions among the senior officers below them."
This is not about reform. A weak SecDef, acting for a weak Donald Trump, is culling the Pentagon of those who might tell him, "No." The cost in preparedness, morale, and command experience will be considerable. But no cost is too great to bear for loyalty to Donald Trump, instead of the Constitution.
https://www.dw.com/en/hegseth-orders-20-cut-in-number-of-top-pentagon-officers/a-72443265
huntingdon
Trump and Miller throw "national security" descriptions around as if they know what it means and were promoting, rather than undermining, it.
huntingdon
About Kristi Noem's purse being stolen, assuming it wasn't a dead drop that went awry, who says she really had $3000 in it, besides Kristi? And why the focus on money, given the surprising and surprising amount of sensitive USG data on the devices in it?
huntingdon
Wealth has always been accumulated by violence.
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