“an unimpressive, and inherently unreliable, witness, who regarded truth as a transitory, flexible concept, which could be moulded to suit his current purposes”.
I tried to tally the number of witnesses at recent UK enquiries—Covid, Grenfell, Horizon—to whom this description could be applied, but I ran out of fingers.
What I don't quite understand is WHY? Why are Americans falling into line behind what they know is an Oligarchy in all but name? The Republican party has always toed the line to to be "Conservative" in it's philosophy, now they are either showing their true colours or are scared of losing their positions in the the Senate and Congress if they dare to argue with tRump? The Republicans who say No to this ideology are branded by tRump in his inimitable way by being told they are Rino's. What's the point of a party that puts a person over the country? Maybe I'm being naive but this is anathema of how a government for the people by the people should behave.
In Britain there are numerous properties worth millions that are owned by the Russians and the Sheiks, Chinese, Indian plus other foreigners in London alone. These foreign investors own more than the British do! They don't actually live in them for the most part. I can only surmise they are using their money to hide it from the countries they may have stolen it from. That's just guess work on my part. I wonder if these millions can be accessed to help fund a war for the Ukrainians, especially the Russians holdings. Also as housing is in dire shortage which makes rents in London unaffordable for Britons why can't the government force the sale of them? Homelessness in England is unusually high. It just seems wrong to have so many properties vacant for most of the year just because our citizens can't afford them. All the big name streets and districts have turned over their mansions to foreign investors. It's wrong. That's all.
Okay, I'm sick to the back teeth listening to what the "good guys" are going to do - WHEN? The religious ones are claiming they're being "controversial" by saying trumps acting in an unchristian manner. (Jesus wept!) The democrats who by the way are supposed to be the party in opposition aren't doing shit except saying trump "not a nice guy." What kind of a "free" country do you REALLY have - TODAY! Are you all going to not use the power you have before it's taken away completely? I hear absolutely nothing from those in power, only from the people on the street. They have raised their collective voice and - nothing, silence, from those who are supposed to represent them! Surely with all the evidence of crimes this administration has already committed you should charge them AND NOT TAKE YEARS TO CONVICT. Okay - I live in Britain under King but even so we would not allow this level of interference in our rights as citizens. By the way the "King" is only a symbol that keeps the tourism trade going. The king or queen would never dare to interfere with the WILL OF THE PEOPLE. Don't confuse him with the power of the people.
Putin has one gift. He's a master of manipulation. His entire career is built on ripping off the people and rewarding the thugs to do the stealing for him. Of course tRump has many faults but the main one is that he's easily manipulated. He's childs' play to Putin. tRump likes to think he's running things or as his acolytes say, playing 4D chess. Guffaw! I actually think if anybody is going to bring down trump it won't be a whistleblower it'll be Putin for the whole world to witness.
I just re-read this entire article again. What filters through this time is that not only is trump replicating the same game plan as Putin but I'm scared he may go a step further that letting his oligarchs reap the riches of his presidency. What if he decides that sending American citizens to prisons in other countries isn't enough but decides, like Putin to simply have them killed. Even if they willing leave the States? Murdered, because they haven't been as loyal to him as he deems necessary. I know that even in a democracy that some "are more EQUAL than others", so trump could go ahead with his claim that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it! He has a tyrannical need to prove this and eventually he will. Then will the courts say that his illegal acts committed whilst in office are exempt from prosecution? Before this regime has run it's course we will find out.
This may not seem relevant to the "strongman" comment. The dystopian theme that matches trumps belief that all the people that call him out for behaving like a demigod are bad. Because he wants to convince his maga-hat-synchophats that he is the only true god! Or something? The evangelical weirdos have already posited the believe that he's the second-coming. Suing a TV show like 60 minutes because they showed him in a less than favourable light is just the beginning. If he can command news to only say nice things about him how far will he go to enforce that? Will he not only try to take away the licenses of TV and Radio networks, or will he feel emboldened by his party's lack of backbone to disagree with him to actually jail them?! America is entering a frightening age. I don't think even the Republican Party understands what they've let loose on their fellow Americans. He wants to go beyond the power that exists in Russian and North Korean leaders. He's heading in the direction of wanting to be more powerful than them. I'm afraid that he may invent a reason to use nuclear weapons!
Okay, I know I'm not an American but....it seems to me that being an American doesn't really mean much anymore. The divide between you appears to be growing. Americans may have been together on most issues and only disagreed on wether they should go to war with.... whomever. The 1960's taught us that. Vietnam and the conscription of young people was significant. The "hell no we won't go" rallying cry was what made America great. Now you want to put all your eggs in one basket. You're not allowed to disentangle yourself from the message and it's scaring you these days. Of course tRump is the instigator in ALL OF THIS. I believe if America wants to reclaim it's standing in the world then they have to turn away from the people who are dividing you. Why are the democrats not screaming from the rafters that tRump's administration is taking away your right to say HELL NO? Do you want to wait until he tells his group of 3 percenters to be his voice under threat of being killed before you wake up? Which by then will be too late. You, by that I mean democrats need to let the people know loudly how you would help Americans benefit from policy that says, the rich should pay their fair share of taxes and then we can fund the agencies that will deliver on what the working people want. Free healthcare, dental and optical care. School dinners and education that's well rounded and encourages the young to be curious and ask questions! It can be done. Get the rich to pay their taxes. It sounds like a simple solution but Americans, nowadays don't seem to want simply solutions. Calling on government to pay for your necessities shouldn't be a hard sell. That's why you pay taxes duh! Cancelling people on the basis of what they look like and who they sleep with should not be the measure Greatness. The Confederate War was already fought and won. Do you really want to spend the rest of your life trying to un-losing it? Arguing for arguments sake is going to bring your country down. If you don't DO SOMETHING soon you WILL be Russia and the enemy.
“an unimpressive, and inherently unreliable, witness, who regarded truth as a transitory, flexible concept, which could be moulded to suit his current purposes”.
I tried to tally the number of witnesses at recent UK enquiries—Covid, Grenfell, Horizon—to whom this description could be applied, but I ran out of fingers.
What I don't quite understand is WHY? Why are Americans falling into line behind what they know is an Oligarchy in all but name? The Republican party has always toed the line to to be "Conservative" in it's philosophy, now they are either showing their true colours or are scared of losing their positions in the the Senate and Congress if they dare to argue with tRump? The Republicans who say No to this ideology are branded by tRump in his inimitable way by being told they are Rino's. What's the point of a party that puts a person over the country? Maybe I'm being naive but this is anathema of how a government for the people by the people should behave.
In Britain there are numerous properties worth millions that are owned by the Russians and the Sheiks, Chinese, Indian plus other foreigners in London alone. These foreign investors own more than the British do! They don't actually live in them for the most part. I can only surmise they are using their money to hide it from the countries they may have stolen it from. That's just guess work on my part. I wonder if these millions can be accessed to help fund a war for the Ukrainians, especially the Russians holdings. Also as housing is in dire shortage which makes rents in London unaffordable for Britons why can't the government force the sale of them? Homelessness in England is unusually high. It just seems wrong to have so many properties vacant for most of the year just because our citizens can't afford them. All the big name streets and districts have turned over their mansions to foreign investors. It's wrong. That's all.
Okay, I'm sick to the back teeth listening to what the "good guys" are going to do - WHEN? The religious ones are claiming they're being "controversial" by saying trumps acting in an unchristian manner. (Jesus wept!) The democrats who by the way are supposed to be the party in opposition aren't doing shit except saying trump "not a nice guy." What kind of a "free" country do you REALLY have - TODAY! Are you all going to not use the power you have before it's taken away completely? I hear absolutely nothing from those in power, only from the people on the street. They have raised their collective voice and - nothing, silence, from those who are supposed to represent them! Surely with all the evidence of crimes this administration has already committed you should charge them AND NOT TAKE YEARS TO CONVICT. Okay - I live in Britain under King but even so we would not allow this level of interference in our rights as citizens. By the way the "King" is only a symbol that keeps the tourism trade going. The king or queen would never dare to interfere with the WILL OF THE PEOPLE. Don't confuse him with the power of the people.
Putin has one gift. He's a master of manipulation. His entire career is built on ripping off the people and rewarding the thugs to do the stealing for him. Of course tRump has many faults but the main one is that he's easily manipulated. He's childs' play to Putin. tRump likes to think he's running things or as his acolytes say, playing 4D chess. Guffaw! I actually think if anybody is going to bring down trump it won't be a whistleblower it'll be Putin for the whole world to witness.
I just re-read this entire article again. What filters through this time is that not only is trump replicating the same game plan as Putin but I'm scared he may go a step further that letting his oligarchs reap the riches of his presidency. What if he decides that sending American citizens to prisons in other countries isn't enough but decides, like Putin to simply have them killed. Even if they willing leave the States? Murdered, because they haven't been as loyal to him as he deems necessary. I know that even in a democracy that some "are more EQUAL than others", so trump could go ahead with his claim that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it! He has a tyrannical need to prove this and eventually he will. Then will the courts say that his illegal acts committed whilst in office are exempt from prosecution? Before this regime has run it's course we will find out.
This may not seem relevant to the "strongman" comment. The dystopian theme that matches trumps belief that all the people that call him out for behaving like a demigod are bad. Because he wants to convince his maga-hat-synchophats that he is the only true god! Or something? The evangelical weirdos have already posited the believe that he's the second-coming. Suing a TV show like 60 minutes because they showed him in a less than favourable light is just the beginning. If he can command news to only say nice things about him how far will he go to enforce that? Will he not only try to take away the licenses of TV and Radio networks, or will he feel emboldened by his party's lack of backbone to disagree with him to actually jail them?! America is entering a frightening age. I don't think even the Republican Party understands what they've let loose on their fellow Americans. He wants to go beyond the power that exists in Russian and North Korean leaders. He's heading in the direction of wanting to be more powerful than them. I'm afraid that he may invent a reason to use nuclear weapons!
Okay, I know I'm not an American but....it seems to me that being an American doesn't really mean much anymore. The divide between you appears to be growing. Americans may have been together on most issues and only disagreed on wether they should go to war with.... whomever. The 1960's taught us that. Vietnam and the conscription of young people was significant. The "hell no we won't go" rallying cry was what made America great. Now you want to put all your eggs in one basket. You're not allowed to disentangle yourself from the message and it's scaring you these days. Of course tRump is the instigator in ALL OF THIS. I believe if America wants to reclaim it's standing in the world then they have to turn away from the people who are dividing you. Why are the democrats not screaming from the rafters that tRump's administration is taking away your right to say HELL NO? Do you want to wait until he tells his group of 3 percenters to be his voice under threat of being killed before you wake up? Which by then will be too late. You, by that I mean democrats need to let the people know loudly how you would help Americans benefit from policy that says, the rich should pay their fair share of taxes and then we can fund the agencies that will deliver on what the working people want. Free healthcare, dental and optical care. School dinners and education that's well rounded and encourages the young to be curious and ask questions! It can be done. Get the rich to pay their taxes. It sounds like a simple solution but Americans, nowadays don't seem to want simply solutions. Calling on government to pay for your necessities shouldn't be a hard sell. That's why you pay taxes duh! Cancelling people on the basis of what they look like and who they sleep with should not be the measure Greatness. The Confederate War was already fought and won. Do you really want to spend the rest of your life trying to un-losing it? Arguing for arguments sake is going to bring your country down. If you don't DO SOMETHING soon you WILL be Russia and the enemy.