Monitoring Biden and other Contemporary Events

That sounds reasoned and reasonable. It'll never fly here.

In the USA, the principle of "hire and fire" applies. In crises, people are often thrown out on the street in a flash, but in an upswing they are hired again in large numbers.

In contrast to the Anglo-Saxon economic world, in my country (Switzerland has had similar laws, albeit "only" for over 100 years), the instrument of short-time work is usually used reflexively in crises. Its primary aim is to prevent a wave of redundancies in a recession - economically, there are
many arguments in favour of short-time work, such as the reduction of search and training costs. Many (most= workers and employees don't like the money losses, though.

https://www.sbc.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2021/12/dr-rand-paul-releases-statement-on-devastating-kentucky-storms-sends-letter-to-president-biden-requesting-assistance

https://uproxx.com/viral/rand-paul-kentucky-tornado-relief-bills/

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/politics/rand-paul-objects-9-11-funding-unanimous-consent-gillibrand/index.html

https://www.newsweek.com/rand-paul-opposition-previous-disaster-relief-resurfaces-he-seeks-aid-kentucky-1658537

In a statement to Newsweek Sunday morning, Kelsey Cooper, a spokesperson for Senator Paul, wrote: "Kentuckians across the commonwealth are suffering and grieving today. This tragedy is uniting everyone around the common goal of helping and healing. Politicizing that suffering would be low for even the deepest partisan, yet here the corporate media is trying to do exactly that. Newsweek should be ashamed of themselves."

Last we tried that was in the 1930s. Since then we've done all we can to add blind uncertainty worries for lower income workers.

Israel’s staunch evangelical allies shocked by Trump’s outburst on Netanyahu

Fun trivia:
Jen Psaki was a competitive backstroke swimmer when she attended William & Mary University.

it's a shame she will be stepping down next year... she is an outstanding press secretary...

I think she’s absolutely exceptional. Does her homework; doesn’t get rattled…

She is good. Its helped by the fact she doesn't have to try to cover the ass of a lying crooked self obsessed buffoon.

I’ve admired her for awhile. When she was Obama’s traveling press Secretary and deputy White House press secretary, she used to appear regularly on CNN and MSNBC and I was always impressed. So her polish and competency comes at least in part from real experience.

I like the way she shuts down obvious Trumpists reporters She's fine to watch.

A longtime accountant for citizen Donald Trump has testified before the grand jury convened by the Manhattan DA in the criminal probe into the Trump Organization. Trump has not been accused of any crime. MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber explains why this is a significant development in the case. Mother Jones' David Corn joins. Aired on 12/14/2021.

Yes, and she makes their pettiness very obvious by the tone she takes with them - always smiling and patient, and explains things to them very carefully like she’s dealing with a slow child.

A federal court has ruled that obstructing the electoral vote count is illegal. Trump should panic.

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“This December 10 Friedrich opinion does indeed seem important to me,” constitutional legal scholar Laurence Tribe tells me. Whether it is an obstruction charge — or a charge of sedition or conspiracy to commit sedition (under either sections 2383 or 2384 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code) — Tribe observes that the principal obstacle to prosecution has been “the argument that the electoral count certification in the Joint Session of Congress is too ministerial to count as an official proceeding.” However, Tribe concludes, “This federal court opinion undercuts that line of argument.”

Former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal has been voicing this exact argument for some time. “Judge Friedrich’s decision means the prosecutors don’t have to show someone intended violence for it to be a crime,” he explains. “So long as the intent was to influence and disrupt the congressional function of counting the votes, that is sufficient — so long as it was done ‘corruptly.’ ” Katyal notes that the judge cited “a prior ruling by a conservative superstar jurist, Judge Laurence Silberman, [who] defined ‘corruptly’ to be to be doing something by unlawful means.”

Katyal argues: “So as long as the intent was to disrupt the count, it would suffice to be criminal, which of course makes a lot of sense given the grave stakes here.” What is true of these two defendants, he adds, “goes for others, including anyone in the White House who aided the disruption.” He concludes that “Judge Friedrich’s decision, at bottom, is a how-to manual, demonstrating how government officials, including President Trump, can be criminally indicted."Text

Too many people have let themselves be sidetracked into looking for a connection between Trump and the violence of Jan. 6. But that evidence is unnecessary because the crime here is the end result — the intended disruption of the House electoral vote-counting. And from every document, news report or tell-all book we have seen, that is precisely what Trump tried to do. Simply because he told the world about his corrupt intent does not make it any less illegal.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/14/federal-court-has-ruled-that-obstructing-electoral-vote-count-is-illegal-trump-should-panic/

He’s too ******* stupid and arrogant to panic.

He's gotten by in the past by stonewalling. I think the stonewalling is finally played out and, not to mix metaphors, he's going to have to face the music.

The January 6th Committee is slowly moving from information gathering to uncovering multiple crimes and criminals not only in the White House and populace at large but in Congress also. Maybe the Justice Department will come into the picture soon?

Oh, and isn't it interesting a Republican is leading this fact finding adventure?

Wow, there’s a novel thought. It’s bizarre to me, how leisurely everyone seems to be about Merrick Garland’s ABSENCE on this matter.
There isn’t enough deliberation and judicial restraint in the universe to justify the way his inaction just further emboldens the real 1/6 crooks.

Eric Trump admits 'We weren't smart enough to collude with Russia'
Eric Trump joked with former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler on his podcast 'Uncut' about the Trump administration and Russia saying, "we weren't smart enough to collude with Russia. We didn't know what the hell we were doing."

Even more bizzare to me, is how americans seem to be about a president who couldn't name his nursing staff, or tie his own shoelaces on a daily basis.