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My inferior complex
When a wolf is suspected stealing chicken by the neighboring goat, the goat should be drilled on the nail chamber to investigate how and when the goat got that rumor and the method of overhearing the rumor is legitimate or not becomes the critical matter, instead of investigating whether any chicken is missing or not initially.
American democracy and justice principle is too complicated for us to understand, and I still can’t grasp overall picture of the political battle field to tell who is right or wrong. This incapability of comprehending American principle causes my inferior complex sometime, but I had no difficulty to understand how the Google’s new quantum processor works on the news. I must not be that dumb.
Life is wonderful with no politics though. Good day everyone.
American democracy and justice principle is too complicated for us to understand, and I still can’t grasp overall picture of the political battle field to tell who is right or wrong. This incapability of comprehending American principle causes my inferior complex sometime, but I had no difficulty to understand how the Google’s new quantum processor works on the news. I must not be that dumb.
Life is wonderful with no politics though. Good day everyone.
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Voting done and other things!
Today, I woke up at around 8 am, and I slowly got out of bed. I am not really worth anything in the morning, so it takes some time for me to really get going.
I then remembered: It's election day! That made me happy, because I love living in a country where elections are free and fair. Free from large donations and corporate superpowers. Free from persecution, free from punishments.
Just free! Freedom is one of the things I value the most. From the freedom to believe what you want to believe to the freedom of the press. Our PM doesn't call the media "The enemy of the people", of something bad is written about him. He doesn't resort to nicknaming his political opponents. He is a fair guy, who does he best job that he can. It so happens, that I disagree with most of the things he does as a leader. That is why, I have voted for the opposition.
Now, I am awaiting the results, which will be in at midnight tonight, so there is some time to kill. And what better thing to do than apply for jobs and play some video games!
Also, I am expecting a call today, regarding a job abroad. That puts my whole "Joining the Danish army"-thing redundant, though. I'll take it one day at a time.
Happy Constitution day to my fellow Danes, and happy Wednesday to everyone else.
I then remembered: It's election day! That made me happy, because I love living in a country where elections are free and fair. Free from large donations and corporate superpowers. Free from persecution, free from punishments.
Just free! Freedom is one of the things I value the most. From the freedom to believe what you want to believe to the freedom of the press. Our PM doesn't call the media "The enemy of the people", of something bad is written about him. He doesn't resort to nicknaming his political opponents. He is a fair guy, who does he best job that he can. It so happens, that I disagree with most of the things he does as a leader. That is why, I have voted for the opposition.
Now, I am awaiting the results, which will be in at midnight tonight, so there is some time to kill. And what better thing to do than apply for jobs and play some video games!
Also, I am expecting a call today, regarding a job abroad. That puts my whole "Joining the Danish army"-thing redundant, though. I'll take it one day at a time.
Happy Constitution day to my fellow Danes, and happy Wednesday to everyone else.
Soybean farmer to Donald Trump "I Wouldn’t Vote For You If You Walked On Water"
"The former county chair for the Republican Party in Shelby County, Ohio says he’s done with President Donald Trump due to the trade war with China.
“I’m not going to vote for the president, and I’m on record as saying that,” Christopher Gibbs, who’s also a soybean farmer that backed Trump in 2016, told CNBC on Monday.
Gibbs said he doesn’t believe Trump’s claims he made a deal for China to buy up to $50 billion in U.S. agriculture given that the president made similar claims before that have never materialized, including claims of deals with Mexico and the European Union.
Indeed, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin admitted that the deal with China announced by Trump wasn’t actually a deal quite yet.
“There are still some issues that need to be worked out in wording,” Mnuchin said, per The Hill. “But I would say we have every expectation that phase one will close.”
Gibbs said Trump’s previous broken promises make him “dubious” of any new claims of a deal. And in any case, Gibbs ? who has 560 acres of farmland in Shelby County ? said he was done with Trump even if there was a deal:
“I’m not going to vote for the president, and I’m on record as saying that,” Christopher Gibbs, who’s also a soybean farmer that backed Trump in 2016, told CNBC on Monday.
Gibbs said he doesn’t believe Trump’s claims he made a deal for China to buy up to $50 billion in U.S. agriculture given that the president made similar claims before that have never materialized, including claims of deals with Mexico and the European Union.
Indeed, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin admitted that the deal with China announced by Trump wasn’t actually a deal quite yet.
“There are still some issues that need to be worked out in wording,” Mnuchin said, per The Hill. “But I would say we have every expectation that phase one will close.”
Gibbs said Trump’s previous broken promises make him “dubious” of any new claims of a deal. And in any case, Gibbs ? who has 560 acres of farmland in Shelby County ? said he was done with Trump even if there was a deal:
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Sir Winston supposedly once quipped....
.... If not a liberal by age 18, one has no heart. And if still a liberal by age 40, one has no brain.
AN OPEN LETTER TO MRS MAY
Dear Mrs May,
Opps!
I do rather think you misjudged the mood of the electorate when you called for a general election..
Although I didn't vote for your party, I want to wish you the best of British luck as our PM, (You're gonna need it).
I am confidant that in the days to come your fellow Tory MP's will all rally behind you. Unfortunately for you this will be so they can, (metaphorically) stab you in the back.
You must know by now that your credibility as a leader lies in tatters around you. Your personal power trip is ending,If you haven't already, you will soon become aware of the dark whispers in the corridors of parliament, As the power plays, and maneuverings, go on around you, and just out of sight, plans for the assassination of your political career are being drawn up.
Personally I would look forward to watching you squirm and wriggle as you wait for the blade to fall, (It's going to be a bloodbath.), unsure of which, of your most trusted colleagues will be the one to shaft you first.
That said, I would willingly forgo my personal pleasure in seeing you, (as the saying goes,), "being thrown under the bus" and would applaud your actions, if you gracefully, (for the good of the country of course), stood down now rather than wait for you own personal "ides of March" to come around
In closing I would just like point out that Politics is a bit like a sport. in this case the sport is fox hunting and you my dear lady are the cornered fox about to be ripped apart by the baying hounds
Your's Sincerely
Manic CC
Opps!
I do rather think you misjudged the mood of the electorate when you called for a general election..
Although I didn't vote for your party, I want to wish you the best of British luck as our PM, (You're gonna need it).
I am confidant that in the days to come your fellow Tory MP's will all rally behind you. Unfortunately for you this will be so they can, (metaphorically) stab you in the back.
You must know by now that your credibility as a leader lies in tatters around you. Your personal power trip is ending,If you haven't already, you will soon become aware of the dark whispers in the corridors of parliament, As the power plays, and maneuverings, go on around you, and just out of sight, plans for the assassination of your political career are being drawn up.
Personally I would look forward to watching you squirm and wriggle as you wait for the blade to fall, (It's going to be a bloodbath.), unsure of which, of your most trusted colleagues will be the one to shaft you first.
That said, I would willingly forgo my personal pleasure in seeing you, (as the saying goes,), "being thrown under the bus" and would applaud your actions, if you gracefully, (for the good of the country of course), stood down now rather than wait for you own personal "ides of March" to come around
In closing I would just like point out that Politics is a bit like a sport. in this case the sport is fox hunting and you my dear lady are the cornered fox about to be ripped apart by the baying hounds
Your's Sincerely
Manic CC
The Republican support for Trump dwindles as they slowly come around to impeachment
Yesterday in Vanity Fair;
In response to:
Trump Impeachment Poll Shows Even Republicans May Be Coming Around on Impeachment
According to a new poll, 58 percent of Americans support the impeachment probe into Trump—including 30 percent of Republicans.
By Eric Lutz
October 8, 2019
Donald Trump has weathered storm after storm throughout his presidency, emerging virtually unscathed from controversies and disasters thanks to a Republican firewall that has so far wholly insulated him from consequences.
But new polling suggests that his support may be cracking amid the Ukraine scandal that has engulfed his presidency and sent him on a path toward impeachment.
A Washington Post/Schar School poll released Tuesday found that public opinion is dramatically shifting in favor of the fast-moving impeachment inquiry Democrats launched in response to Trump’s attempt to get Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden.
Fifty-eight percent of Americans surveyed said they support the probe, and close to half of respondents backed Trump’s removal from office. More troubling for Trump, nearly 30 percent of Republicans polled said they support the inquiry, and close to a fifth of registered GOP voters say he should be removed.
That’s an ominous sign for Trump, whose support among Republicans has already seemed more tenuous during this impeachment push than at perhaps any other point in his presidency. Lindsey Graham, Jim Jordan, and other usual suspects have come to his aid, but their efforts to downplay the allegations at the heart of the impeachment inquiry have come up embarrassingly short. And while only a few in the GOP have outwardly criticized the president’s actions, the silence from the majority of Republican lawmakers has spoken volumes. Republicans who are normally enthusiastic in defending the president have kept their distance, lacking a coherent strategy and wary of getting involved when practically every day brings new disturbing reports.
Trump’s erratic conduct hasn’t helped matters, making some Republicans uneasy with things like threats of civil war. If his daily ranting about a deep state conspiracy hasn’t rankled Republicans, his stunning decision to allow Turkey to invade Northern Syria, leaving America’s Kurdish allies exposed, certainly has. That reckless move drew bipartisan backlash, including from Graham, who called the decision Monday a “disaster in the making.”
With a Democratic majority in the House, it’s likely that Trump will eventually be impeached. That’ll blemish his “resume”—something he’s reportedly told Republicans he doesn’t want—but until recently didn’t seem like something that could result in his removal from office, given the tight grip he’s held on the Republican-controlled Senate. Conviction remains a long shot, even though he’s admitted to, and publicly doubled down on, the very things he was accused of in the whistleblower complaint that set this whole impeachment push into motion, but it no longer necessarily seems impossible. Republican lawmakers have been reluctant to turn on Trump out of fear that doing so could put their own political futures in jeopardy. But if public opinion continues to go against the president, that could give them cover to hold him accountable.
Already an impeachment campaign appears to be brewing behind closed doors in the Senate, with Mitt Romney, who’s been sharply critical of the president since the Ukraine scandal broke, said to be reaching out to GOP colleagues about potentially pushing to oust Trump. “He could have tremendous influence in the impeachment process as the lone voice of conscience in the Republican caucus,” a Romney adviser told my colleague Gabriel Sherman on Monday, noting that the Utah Senator could potentially rally Trump-skeptics like Susan Collins, Ben Sasse, and Cory Gardner to the impeachment cause.....
Trump Impeachment Poll Shows Even Republicans May Be Coming Around on Impeachment
According to a new poll, 58 percent of Americans support the impeachment probe into Trump—including 30 percent of Republicans.
By Eric Lutz
October 8, 2019
Donald Trump has weathered storm after storm throughout his presidency, emerging virtually unscathed from controversies and disasters thanks to a Republican firewall that has so far wholly insulated him from consequences.
But new polling suggests that his support may be cracking amid the Ukraine scandal that has engulfed his presidency and sent him on a path toward impeachment.
A Washington Post/Schar School poll released Tuesday found that public opinion is dramatically shifting in favor of the fast-moving impeachment inquiry Democrats launched in response to Trump’s attempt to get Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden.
Fifty-eight percent of Americans surveyed said they support the probe, and close to half of respondents backed Trump’s removal from office. More troubling for Trump, nearly 30 percent of Republicans polled said they support the inquiry, and close to a fifth of registered GOP voters say he should be removed.
That’s an ominous sign for Trump, whose support among Republicans has already seemed more tenuous during this impeachment push than at perhaps any other point in his presidency. Lindsey Graham, Jim Jordan, and other usual suspects have come to his aid, but their efforts to downplay the allegations at the heart of the impeachment inquiry have come up embarrassingly short. And while only a few in the GOP have outwardly criticized the president’s actions, the silence from the majority of Republican lawmakers has spoken volumes. Republicans who are normally enthusiastic in defending the president have kept their distance, lacking a coherent strategy and wary of getting involved when practically every day brings new disturbing reports.
Trump’s erratic conduct hasn’t helped matters, making some Republicans uneasy with things like threats of civil war. If his daily ranting about a deep state conspiracy hasn’t rankled Republicans, his stunning decision to allow Turkey to invade Northern Syria, leaving America’s Kurdish allies exposed, certainly has. That reckless move drew bipartisan backlash, including from Graham, who called the decision Monday a “disaster in the making.”
With a Democratic majority in the House, it’s likely that Trump will eventually be impeached. That’ll blemish his “resume”—something he’s reportedly told Republicans he doesn’t want—but until recently didn’t seem like something that could result in his removal from office, given the tight grip he’s held on the Republican-controlled Senate. Conviction remains a long shot, even though he’s admitted to, and publicly doubled down on, the very things he was accused of in the whistleblower complaint that set this whole impeachment push into motion, but it no longer necessarily seems impossible. Republican lawmakers have been reluctant to turn on Trump out of fear that doing so could put their own political futures in jeopardy. But if public opinion continues to go against the president, that could give them cover to hold him accountable.
Already an impeachment campaign appears to be brewing behind closed doors in the Senate, with Mitt Romney, who’s been sharply critical of the president since the Ukraine scandal broke, said to be reaching out to GOP colleagues about potentially pushing to oust Trump. “He could have tremendous influence in the impeachment process as the lone voice of conscience in the Republican caucus,” a Romney adviser told my colleague Gabriel Sherman on Monday, noting that the Utah Senator could potentially rally Trump-skeptics like Susan Collins, Ben Sasse, and Cory Gardner to the impeachment cause.....
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Hillary says no...
Depending on your source... Hillary says no to a run in the 2020 presidential election.
Certainly her chances this late in the game would be low and the motivation isn't there.
From a March 2019 interview she said:
Certainly her chances this late in the game would be low and the motivation isn't there.
From a March 2019 interview she said:
The real deal regarding Hunter Biden
Hunter Biden is not just the son of VP Joe Biden, but a highly accomplished individual long before his father became VP. He graduated law school and was appointed by GW Bush on the board of Amtrack. He started several hedge funds and lobbying groups. The man has been very well paid by several companies and is currently married to a South African film maker.
Apparently, the current attempt by Trump to smear Joe Biden's campaign in connection to his son Hunter has no merit.
From Wikipedia;
Apparently, the current attempt by Trump to smear Joe Biden's campaign in connection to his son Hunter has no merit.
From Wikipedia;
In response to:
Burisma Holdings
Further information: Trump–Ukraine controversy
In the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, Mykola Zlochevsky assembled a "high-profile international board" to oversee his oil and gas company, Burisma Holdings, the largest natural gas producer in Ukraine. Among those who joined the board of directors in 2014 were Biden and former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski. Biden served on the board of Burisma until his term expired in April 2019, receiving compensation of up to $50,000 a month. Because Vice President Biden played a major role in U.S. policy towards Ukraine, some Ukrainian anti-corruption advocates and Obama administration officials expressed concern that Hunter Biden's having joined the board could create the appearance of a conflict of interest and undermine Vice President Biden's anti-corruption work in Ukraine. While serving as vice president, Joe Biden joined other Western leaders in encouraging the government of Ukraine to fire the country's top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was widely criticized for blocking corruption investigations. The Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Shokin in March 2016.
In 2019, President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, claimed that Vice President Biden had actually sought the dismissal of Shokin in order to protect his son and Burisma Holdings. In May 2019, Shokin claimed that he was fired because he was actively investigating Burisma, but U.S. and Ukrainian officials have stated that the investigation into Burisma was dormant at the time of Shokin's dismissal. There is no evidence that Hunter Biden was ever under investigation by the government of Ukraine, or that Vice President Biden sought the removal of Shokin to protect Hunter Biden or Burisma Holdings. In July 2019, Trump ordered the freezing of $391 million in military aid shortly before a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump asked Zelensky to initiate an investigation of the Bidens. Trump falsely told Zelensky that " Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution" of his son; Joe Biden did not stop any prosecution, did not brag about doing so, and his son was never under investigation. On September 24, 2019, the United States House of Representatives initiated a formal impeachment inquiry against Trump on the grounds that he may have sought to use U.S. foreign aid and the Ukrainian government to damage Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign.
Burisma Holdings
Further information: Trump–Ukraine controversy
In the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, Mykola Zlochevsky assembled a "high-profile international board" to oversee his oil and gas company, Burisma Holdings, the largest natural gas producer in Ukraine. Among those who joined the board of directors in 2014 were Biden and former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski. Biden served on the board of Burisma until his term expired in April 2019, receiving compensation of up to $50,000 a month. Because Vice President Biden played a major role in U.S. policy towards Ukraine, some Ukrainian anti-corruption advocates and Obama administration officials expressed concern that Hunter Biden's having joined the board could create the appearance of a conflict of interest and undermine Vice President Biden's anti-corruption work in Ukraine. While serving as vice president, Joe Biden joined other Western leaders in encouraging the government of Ukraine to fire the country's top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was widely criticized for blocking corruption investigations. The Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Shokin in March 2016.
In 2019, President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, claimed that Vice President Biden had actually sought the dismissal of Shokin in order to protect his son and Burisma Holdings. In May 2019, Shokin claimed that he was fired because he was actively investigating Burisma, but U.S. and Ukrainian officials have stated that the investigation into Burisma was dormant at the time of Shokin's dismissal. There is no evidence that Hunter Biden was ever under investigation by the government of Ukraine, or that Vice President Biden sought the removal of Shokin to protect Hunter Biden or Burisma Holdings. In July 2019, Trump ordered the freezing of $391 million in military aid shortly before a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump asked Zelensky to initiate an investigation of the Bidens. Trump falsely told Zelensky that " Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution" of his son; Joe Biden did not stop any prosecution, did not brag about doing so, and his son was never under investigation. On September 24, 2019, the United States House of Representatives initiated a formal impeachment inquiry against Trump on the grounds that he may have sought to use U.S. foreign aid and the Ukrainian government to damage Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign.
Private number
I do not know why the telephone company in my country has a private number service. Private number means when a call is made it does not leave a number on the phone screen or recents or any where else.
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