Now that Trump is officially out, it would be nice if there was a mutual handshake agreement among the big media outlets (TV and print/web) to stop covering Trump, his family, admin, etc. The only exception is if there's real news regarding a conviction. We don't need to hear about he's doing on the golf course, what "Javanka" is doing, what Kayleigh is up to, etc. The media have a role to play in helping this country (and honestly, most of the entire world) psychologically heal. Of course, the chances of this actually happening are near zero.
These gasbags learned from fix news that outrage=PROFITS since they don't need to send people on the ground to report about anything of substance. If Fox and newsmax are the boil. The rest are cold sores
My gosh senator graham, you can quit sucking up t him. Because, for the sake of the republican party... and for the sake of our country, hopefully you find new voices.
Trump will still be Y U G E! in the news. The charges, lawsuits and foreclosure hearings are going to come fast and furious. He has a contractual agreement to only live at Marred Lago for two weeks so that little zoning fight against the other rich people in Palm Beach should be entertaining. A tiny little city council space, televised on Access TV.
Honestly we need to take a lesson from Hitler, they let him out of jail early and he came back to power and ruined his nation - Trump needs to be charged and when found guilty rot in prison. DD
One of Biden's most pressing jobs is to purge every single dip$hit appointee...ever. This is an encouraging start: Biden fires Michael Pack, Kathleen Kraninger, and Peter Robb, three awful Trump appointees. Many of Donald Trump’s most notorious appointees, including his Cabinet secretaries, resigned shortly before Joe Biden took office. But myriad officials whom Trump installed in the executive branch remained in spite of their antagonism toward the new president’s agenda. Hours into his presidency, Biden has already ousted three of his predecessors’ most unqualified and corrupt appointees. This clean break sends a clear message that Biden will not tolerate hostile Trump holdovers in his administration, including those with time remaining in their terms. First, Biden terminated Michael Pack, who was confirmed to head the U.S. Agency for Global Media in June. Pack sought to transform the agency, which oversees the international broadcaster Voice of America, into a propaganda outlet for Trump—despite a statutory mandate that prohibits such political interference. He purged the staff of VOA and its sister networks, replaced them with Trump loyalists, demanded pro-Trump coverage, and unconstitutionally punished remaining journalists who did actual reporting on the administration. In a perverse move, he refused to renew visas for foreign reporters who covered their home countries, subjecting them to retribution by authoritarian regimes. Pack also illegally fired the board of the Open Technology Fund, which promotes international internet freedom, and replaced them with Republican activists. Following whistleblower complaints, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel found a “substantial likelihood” that Pack had violated federal law and engaged in “gross mismanagement.” He was eight months into his three-year term when Biden demanded his resignation shortly after taking the oath of office. In his resignation letter, Pack complained that his termination “will long be viewed as a partisan act” without any apparent sense of irony. Second, Biden sacked Kathleen Kraninger, who was confirmed as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2018. Kraninger, who had no previous experience in consumer protection, immediately tried to undermine the agency’s role as a watchdog for the financial sector. She scrapped a landmark rule that restricted predatory payday lending, pressuring staff to downplay the resulting harm to consumers. And she refused to enforce a federal law that protected military personnel against a broad range of predatory lending. Her decision yanked federal support from military families who were defrauded by lenders. In the midst of the pandemic, Kraninger also approved a rule that allows debt collectors to harass Americans with limitless texts and emails demanding repayment. Through the Dodd-Frank Act, Congress gave the CFPB’s director significant independence by barring the president from firing her over political disagreements. In 2020, though, the Supreme Court found this protection unconstitutional. Kraninger supported that decision, which paved the way for her termination on Wednesday. Had the court upheld the agency’s independence, Kraninger could have remained in office through the end of 2023. Third, Biden demanded the resignation of Peter Robb, who was confirmed as the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel in 2017. The NLRB was created to enforce federal laws that guarantee workers the right to form a union and bargain collectively. Yet Robb is vehemently anti-union; during his tenure, he tried to limit employees’ free speech, give managers more leeway to engage in wage theft, hobble unions’ ability to collect dues, and prevent employers from helping workers organize. He also tried to seize near-total control of the agency by demoting every regional director and consolidating power in his office. If successful, this gambit would’ve given him unprecedented authority to bust existing unions and prevent new ones from forming. News & Politics Biden Gave Trump’s Union Busters a Taste of Their Own Medicine The Senate Is Still Arguing Over Who Controls the Senate Trump Almost Fired Acting Attorney General in Bid to Overturn Georgia Election Result Pro-Trump Rioter Now Claims He Entered the Capitol to See All the “Historical Art” Robb’s term is set to end in November, but Biden has authority to fire him before then. On Wednesday evening, Robb announced that he would not step down voluntarily, stating that his resignation “would set an unfortunate precedent.” (In reality, the precedent has already been set: President Harry Truman demanded the resignation of NLRB general counsel Robert N. Denham in 1950 over political disputes.) Biden fired him shortly thereafter. Pack, Kraninger, and Robb are the tip of the iceberg: Trump spent his presidency packing the federal government with Republicans eager to undermine the missions of the agencies they led. But Biden’s aggressive action upon taking office should be encouraging for progressives, since it indicates that the new president will move swiftly to fire Trump allies with high positions in the executive branch. Moreover, Biden should not have much trouble replacing these holdovers with Democrats in control of the Senate. (Republicans cannot filibuster nominees to the executive branch.) The new president undoubtedly faces legislative challenges ahead. But in the meantime, he can rapidly erase the legacy of the Trump administration by simply replacing Trump’s lackeys with qualified civil servants eager to do the job right. Update, Jan. 20, 2021: This article has been updated to note that Peter Robb refused to step down.
So he's saying the Republican Party are all about Grifting off their positions, lying, spreading propaganda, conning the American people, and doing anything they can regardless of the cost, regardless of how many Americans die, to stay in power? Sounds that way to me.
