Trump reportedly won't attend Biden's inauguration or invite Biden family to White House
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12...ign=recommended

Klar. Noch nicht einmal soviel an minimalen Anstand kann der aufbringen. Da ist bei dem nichts da. Nur Leere.

Und nun ist es auch schon wieder an der Zeit fuer die alljaehrliche Fox News Kampagne ueber den "War on Christmas":

Tucker Carlson: The Christmas lockdowns are here -- but not for those who ordered them
Some of our leaders know Christmas is bigger than them, so they're trying hard to cancel it.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-c...hristmas-grinch

Das haelt die Gefolgschaft in Schwung. Und bestaerkt sie in ihrem geliebten Hobby: dem Hass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSIrQBGfUtw

Trump orders troop withdrawal from Somalia
An estimated 700 U.S. troops are stationed in Somalia to assist in its fight against Al-Shabab, a terrorist group with links to Al Qaeda.

President Donald Trump has ordered the withdrawal of the majority of U.S. troops from Somalia by early next year, the Pentagon announced Friday.

An estimated 700 U.S. troops are stationed in Somalia to assist the government in its fight against Al-Shabab, a terrorist group with links to al Qaeda.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/04...-somalia-442960

Damit plaziert er lediglich eine weitere Tretmine fuer Biden. Reine Gehaessigkeit. Wie bei einem malignanten Narzissten nicht verwunderlich.

Vier Jahre ohne USkrieg. Wann zettelt Joe den ersten Angriff an?

The U.S. Has Passed the Hospital Breaking Point
A new statistic shows that health-care workers are running out of space to treat COVID-19 patients.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, public-health experts have warned of one particular nightmare. It is possible, they said, for the number of coronavirus patients to exceed the capacity of hospitals in a state or city to take care of them. Faced with a surge of severely ill people, doctors and nurses will have to put beds in hallways, spend less time with patients, and become more strict about whom they admit into the hospital at all. The quality of care will fall; Americans who need hospital beds for any other reason—a heart attack, a broken leg—will struggle to find space. Many people will unnecessarily suffer and die. ...

... These catastrophes seem to be coming to pass—not just in Iowa and Nebraska, but all across the country. A national breakdown in hospital care is now starkly apparent in the coronavirus data....

... The bulk of evidence now suggests that one of the worst fears of the pandemic—that hospitals would become overwhelmed, leading to needless deaths—is happening now. Americans are dying of COVID-19 who, had they gotten sick a month earlier, would have lived. This is such a searingly ugly idea that it is worth repeating: Americans are likely dying of COVID-19 now who would have survived had they gotten September’s level of medical care. ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...fedc32c19ef33b4

Pentagon blocked Biden's intelligence transition team from meeting with agencies
The Trump administration prevented President-elect Joe Biden's transition team from meeting with its counterparts at Pentagon intelligence agencies this week, according to a former senior intelligence official familiar with intelligence transition discussions.

The slowdown means the Biden team has not yet been able to meet with officials from the military intelligence agencies within the Defense Department -- including the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency -- even as all other meetings by Biden review teams appear to be happening smoothly now after weeks of delay.
The Pentagon denies any effort to stymie the President-elect's team. ...

The Washington Post first reported on the Biden team's problems with the Defense Department transition office, which is led by a Trump loyalist connected to efforts to spread conspiracy theories about the President-elect. ...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/04/politics/...n-intelligence/

Fuer die trumski Nazis ist Biden der Feind. He has to be kept in the dark -about movements by and developments with America's enemies.
Makes sense. For Kooks -and America's enemies. Putin will like that too.

Schon interessant, dass Trump immer Megalomanie vorgeworfen wurde. Dabei bezogen sich seine Versprechen (Sicherheit, Rüstung, Frieden, Jobs, Wohlstand) immer auf die USA.
Die andere Seite tönt von der "Rettung der Welt", der "Heilung des Planeten" etc. Und wir sollen Leuten vertrauen, die ihre eigenen Städte und Staaten in Grund und Boden wirtschaften, aber uns Großes für die Welt versprechen.
Lächerlich!

‘We’ve lost our moral authority’: Kinzinger unwilling to back off Trump
The outspoken Republican is defining himself in a post-Trump GOP.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger is sticking around next Congress — and the Illinois Republican isn’t done sticking it to Donald Trump.
Kinzinger, fresh off a re-election victory in his conservative district nestled between Chicago and Peoria, has been dialing up his criticism of the president since Nov. 3. The 42-year-old lawmaker has long pushed back on Trump’s foreign policy moves. But with most of the Republican party still paralyzed by Trump’s brazen attempts to overturn the election, Kinzinger is staking his ground in the post-Trump GOP. ...

... While Republicans are slowly starting to recognize Joe Biden as the president-elect, most GOP lawmakers who have publicly challenged Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud are either retiring or already out of office. It’s a testament to the grip Trump still has on the party, even in defeat. ...

Kinzinger also insists he has no motive other than feeling a genuine, moral obligation to counteract the rhetoric Trump and his allies are peddling — and Kinzinger wishes more of his fellow Republicans would stand up, too.
“I think the long term impact of this could be devastating … It’s important to be outspoken,” said Kinzinger, who acknowledged he is “concerned” about the direction of his party. “That’s why I decided to put this on the line. We’ve lost our moral authority to be outraged.”

“When you end up where principles don’t matter, beliefs don’t matter, it’s just about who can be the loudest and kind of maintain power through raw anger and aggression, you’re no different than a lot of Latin American countries at that point,” he added. ...

... In another post, Kinzinger vowed to override a potential presidential veto of a bipartisan defense bill, telling Trump “it’s really not about you.” And at one point, Kinzinger pleaded with the president to “STOP Spreading debunked misinformation... This is getting insane.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/05...riticism-443043

Trumski ist ein malignanter Narzisst. Und als solcher ein Sociopath. Ein gefaehrlicher Sociopath.
Trumpski ist ein pathologischer Luegner, der zwischen Unwahrheit und Wahrheit nicht mehr unterscheidet. Womoeglich garnicht mehr kann -selbst wenn er es wollte.
Trumski ist ein Verbrecher. Moeglicherweise sogar ein Landesverraeter. Er hat null Respekt vor Recht und Gesetz soweit es ihn persoenlich betrifft.

trumski haette als nicht-Praesident nie eine Security Clearance bekommen.
trumski haette nie eine Angestelltenkarierre irgendwo hinbekommen. Weder in der Wirtschaft, noch bei den Behoerden.

trumski muesste einer psychologischen Untersuchung unterzogen werden.

Covid-19 has already exhausted the US. And it's only the start of a dark and deadly winter
For weeks, experts have warned Americans in increasingly dire terms that this winter will be one of the darkest periods in the nation's public health history.

Now that time is upon us.
From California to Kansas, Massachusetts to Florida, and everywhere in-between, doctors, nurses, funeral home directors and food bank organizers are bracing for a devastating season. They're already stretched thin and exhausted after months of confronting the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, but they fear the worst is still yet to come.

"I think we're past the breaking point," said Dr. Adolphe Edward, CEO of El Centro Regional Medical Center in Southern California. "The staff is here, but they're broken."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/04/us/covid-...s-funeral-food/

McConnell watches own constituents suffer and does nothing. We have to take his majority away
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been holding COVID-19 relief hostage since for six months. His refusal to negotiate and his unreasonable demands have meant that struggling people had no choice but to try to return to their normal daily lives only to see the pandemic worsen. McConnell is just a responsible for tens of thousands of deaths as Donald Trump. His insistence on his "Free Pass to Tyson for Murdering Workers" liability shield will make him responsible for more deaths if he has his way. ...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12...ign=most-shared

Repugnian.

We hear that Biden went to church today and has done for decades.
The only time I heard Trump go near a church was for a photo shoot. And there are those who believe Trump was God’s choice.
Dr Jon Ackroyd

Biden needs to institute a new era in public ethics
Trump world was rife with corruption; conflict of interest, for many in the current administration, is an oxymoron. Outside nouveau lobbyists with ties to the White House are making out like bandits.

I suspect corruption will be rare in the Biden administration, tough ethics requirements will be reinstated, and appearances — as well as realities — of conflicts will be taken seriously.

Still — given the president-elect's promises and the hypocrisy of some situational congressional Republican critics who were oblivious to Team Trump's transgressions — the Biden team has to be, as they say, purer than Caesar's wife, the most rigorous requirements and transparency ever. Otherwise, there will be a false equivalency, ‘everybody does it’ — unfair but an annoyance. And if K Street lobbyists are thought to be riding high, it will exacerbate tensions with the left wing. ...
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/...n-public-ethics

After leaving GOP, David Jolly weighs his political future in Florida as an independent
The former Congressman from Pinellas County is considering a third-party run for governor and U.S. Senate. Could he be viable?
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-po...an-independent/

He is a good guy. I like him.

Joe Biden muss so eine Art amerikanischer Norbert Röttgen sein, denn er vertritt laut Röttgen eine "Politik der Mitte". Was auch immer das heißen mag - wahrscheinlich Militärinterventionen und Anti-Russland...

Arizona Legislature shuts down after Rudy Giuliani possibly exposed lawmakers to COVID-19
The Arizona Legislature will close for a week "out of an abundance of caution" after Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, possibly exposed several Republican lawmakers to COVID-19.

The president announced Giuliani had tested positive for the virus Sunday afternoon, less than a week after the former New York City mayor visited Arizona as part of a multistate tour aimed at contesting 2020 election results. The 76-year-old was later admitted to Georgetown University Medical Center.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/pol...ore/3852278001/

Doctor: Giuliani potentially exposed hundreds to virus
Responding to President Donald Trump's tweet that Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for coronavirus, Dr. Megan Ranney says that Giuliani could have potentially exposed "hundreds and hundreds" of people to the virus during a recent trip to Atlanta. CNN has reached out to Giuliani for comment.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020...ney-sot-vpx.cnn

Great job, Rudy!

Biden's ambassador to the GOP
Sen. Chris Coons' relationships with Republicans will be critical to advancing the new president's agenda.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/07...tionship-443008

Trump ratchets up pace of executions before Biden inaugural
As Donald Trump’s presidency winds down, his administration is ratcheting up the pace of federal executions despite a surge of coronavirus cases in prisons, announcing plans for five starting Thursday and concluding just days before the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.

If the five go off as planned, it will make 13 executions since July when the Republican administration resumed putting inmates to death after a 17-year hiatus and will cement Trump’s legacy as the most prolific execution president in over 130 years. He’ll leave office having executed about a quarter of all federal death-row prisoners, despite waning support for capital punishment among both Democrats and Republicans.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-...73309336d130f56

Zitat von Hans Bergman im Beitrag #246

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #245

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Trump ratchets up pace of executions before Biden inaugural
As Donald Trump’s presidency winds down, his administration is ratcheting up the pace of federal executions despite a surge of coronavirus cases in prisons, announcing plans for five starting Thursday and concluding just days before the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.

If the five go off as planned, it will make 13 executions since July when the Republican administration resumed putting inmates to death after a 17-year hiatus and will cement Trump’s legacy as the most prolific execution president in over 130 years. He’ll leave office having executed about a quarter of all federal death-row prisoners, despite waning support for capital punishment among both Democrats and Republicans.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-...73309336d130f56

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Dass Sie mal etwas Positives über Trump bringen, das wundert mich.

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https://www.google.com/search?q=ship+of+...=RtHixdrqSF83oM

A ship of fools...

https://www.google.com/search?q=ship+of+...=BLTpaMS0UH54FM

Das geht wohl Hand in Hand mit...
https://www.google.com/search?q=ship+of+...=0KnRV2bzB-Rh6M

Klar, bei einer Partei, die von der Handelspolitik über die Steuerpolitik bis zur Außenpolitik zerstritten ist, kann die Botschaft nur lauten: We really, really hate Donald Trump.

Fox Business host says that Americans don't want another check from the federal government: “We don't want to be dependent”
As Republicans in the Senate block stimulus checks, Charles Payne says, “We don't want to hope that Nancy Pelosi comes around and sends out another check”
https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus...l-government-we

In der Zwischenzeit:
Millions of Americans are heading into the holidays unemployed and over $5,000 behind on rent
Economists warn many unemployed families won’t be able to pay rent and utilities without more stimulus aid from Congress
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/...rent-utilities/