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some twitter hints coming out

No one cares about Twitter, it is there to give one side of story. One sided information gives anyone enough information to make an informed decision about anything. The people that follow Twitter are just lying to themselves as the reality of any situation is just not there.

Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said President Donald Trump is putting the Justice Department in a “dangerous situation” by appointing Matt Whitaker as acting attorney general.

Whitaker, who served as Jeff Sessions‘ chief of staff, was not in a position that required Senate confirmation, which will provide problems for the interim head of the DOJ.

“It’s a dangerous situation the president put the DOJ in,” Napolitano said on Fox Business Monday. Echoing former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Napolitano noted that the argument will be made that whatever Whitaker does “as acting attorney general is null and void.”

Hillary Clinton will run for president again in 2020, former adviser says

"Mrs. Clinton has come unbound. She will not allow this humiliating loss at the hands of an amateur to end the story of her career," Penn and Stein wrote of President Trump, explaining how Clinton would re-package herself as a more liberal "Hillary Clinton 4.0." "You can expect her to run for president once again. Maybe not at first, when the legions of Senate Democrats make their announcements, but definitely by the time the primaries are in full swing."

"Mrs. Clinton has a 75% approval rating among Democrats, an unfinished mission to be the first female president, and a personal grievance against Mr. Trump, whose supporters pilloried her with chants of 'Lock her up!' This must be avenged," the pair continued.

So the authors of this book think political parties should be even more instutionalized than they are now? Political parties are not even mentioned in the Constitution.

The trouble with the political primary system in the USA:

Irrelevant, as usual.

The sharpest angle on that chart is the Obama years

The Glass–Steagall legislation was enacted by the United States Congress in 1933 as part of the 1933 Banking Act, amended as part of the 1935 Banking Act, and most of it was repealed in 1999 by the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA). Its protections and restrictions had also been chipped away during most of its existence by lenient regulatory interpretations and use of loopholes. After Glass–Steagall's 1999 repeal, there was a great deal of discussion in the banking and securities industries, and among policymakers and economists, about the practical positive and negative changes to the business and consumer environment. Later, as financial crises and other issues played out in the United States and even worldwide, arguments have broken out about whether Glass–Steagall, as originally intended, would have prevented these issues.

A year before the law was passed, Citicorp, a commercial bank holding company, merged with the insurance company Travelers Group in 1998 to form the conglomerate Citigroup, a corporation combining banking, securities and insurance services under a house of brands that included Citibank, Smith Barney, Primerica, and Travelers. Because this merger was a violation of the Glass–Steagall Act and the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, the Federal Reserve gave Citigroup a temporary waiver in September 1998.[3] Less than a year later, GLBA was passed to legalize these types of mergers on a permanent basis. The law also repealed Glass–Steagall's conflict of interest prohibitions "against simultaneous service by any officer, director, or employee of a securities firm as an officer, director, or employee of any member bank".[4]

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