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Your example here would be one of the rare cases I was referring to where exceptions need to be made on the right to end life -- euthanasia. But, that is not the typical story of most people considering ending their lives. I don't consider a medical or government health system that demands the sick and infirm linger on till death regardless, to be anything humane or life-affirming!

And since a good deal of my time is taken up right now with my oldest brother, who is terminal with esophageal cancer and getting very close to death right now, I want to point out that he has reasonably good palliative care -- which right now includes lying in a hospital bed on a morphine drip to reduce pain as much as possible, and I can only call BS on people like you who are all full of theory and platitudes about how much every life is worth living! Is this coming out of someone who has never experienced death and loss of someone close to you? At some point in life (and it should be up to the individual/not Catholic or other self-proclaimed pro-life activists), many older people who've been on this earth a long time, reach a point where the pain and discomfort of continued living is becoming too much to bear. Fortunately or unfortunately for my brother, the cancer has spread through his body so fast that the ravages of cancer are closing in and about to end his life...likely within a week, if not sooner. So, since he's already bedridden and in a state of mind where he is in and out of consciousness, the end is mercifully coming very soon for him, and he will have no more pain to go through in a few more days! But what IF? What if his decline and death was more typical and taking much more time? Or if pain-reducing drugs were having less effect (since this is also variable with each individual)? This is why life or death decisions should be up to an individual in just about every scenario I can think of, and not the committee of busybody do gooders!

I forget now who mentioned it, but some US observers who know the Constitution and law, are pointing out that a criminal trial would be a more effective setting for any charges against Trump than a meaningless impeachment that will supposedly prevent him from running for office again...considering he's 75 and after a lifetime cheeseburger diet, how much time has he got left anyway? What really gets lost, and likely deliberately in all this impeachment drama is WHAT ABOUT everyone actually involved in the riots and breakins and assaults at the Capitol? A lot of J-20 protesters...if you remember that one from 2016, recall that they were just trying to march in front of the White House with signs, and were all charged for 'violence' that was likely committed by government agents and provocateurs - a few broken windows and a car set on fire. Riot police came out with full battle gear and wielding clubs at majority female demonstrators for being on the street/ while the Trump allies on Jan. 6 were allowed to walk right in and make themselves at home! I suspect part of this was a deliberate setup. Many times authorities will allow a demonstration to get out of control, so they have an excuse for an extreme crackdown, we can see now with laws changing that will criminalize groups and any individuals who ever said anything considered supportive of the rioters. I think this is how Democrats just let Trump open his big mouth one more time and really put his foot in it, as they knew he would disregard his advisers and throw caution to the wind, and be forever tarnished by the results of what happens when people who should have known better, listen to what he says and try to follow his advice.

You mean just for him? Or can the rest of us get in on this one?

First, it should be noted that Canada's opposition to the Iraq Invasion is the last time Canada has ever crossed US geopolitical objectives, and I would bet it will never happen again...even if an NDP Government manages to form a government somehow. At the time, Chretien had the backchannel briefings that showed it was almost certain that the WMD story was hoax, and the case for making it a case to support invasion was based all on one dubious witness - the infamous "Curveball," who was already a proven liar by that time. Bush 2 was learned to have said prior to getting elected that he had to 'finish the job his father started.' So, they were looking for crap to add up to support the case for invasion of Iraq. They knew it would be costly, in terms of American lives (mostly National Guard recruits who never expect to actually be in a real shooting war) and it was a time when MSM narrative management was much less complete than today. Nevertheless, notice how old Georgie - who was portrayed as the 'Trump' of his time, ends up portrayed as a fatherly figure sharing chocolates with Michelle Obama (ain't that sweet) now that he has become accepted again as part of the elite club! Anyway, I see Canada's real loss of independence as being when Mulroo signed us on to NAFTA, which at the time those of us who were working in industries where manufacturing could easily be shipped off to Mexico and other authoritarian regimes with lots of peasants who work for peanuts and are careful not to criticize their leaders. Of course it didn't take long for America to start losing jobs as well, and even Mexico couldn't bid equally for some labor-intensive work like textiles..which ended up in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia or wherever Walmart can find the cheapest costs for finished product. But the worst aspects of Free Trade are: 1. The spiral into increasing inequality, which is still ongoing. And- 2. The loss of national sovereignty, as conservatives have to take their lumps for this one: Canada now has no effective control over our own economy. That's how we lost medical research and development that absent-minded conservatives are blaming on Trudeau Jr. now. But he's just a fashion model cutout of what a leader is supposed to be! The real damage was done 30 to 40 years ago, as the terms of NAFTA set in and destroyed automotive and removed our abilities to support our own industries. *it's not just vaccine production! Look at what happened in Saskatchewan, when a few uninformed locals thought they could stop the sale of Saskatchewan Potash to an American buyer! We're just America's northern province today, and Trudeau Junior is the Prime Minister we deserve and get, because a real leader gets kneecapped and removed from office in short order!

I opened a Bitchute account just in case all of my favorite Youtube channels go down. But so far, Googleborg is just demonitizing them and unsubscribing members (including myself). I hate having to resubscribe to shows I've been a member of for years (like the Jimmy Dore Show), because some in positions of authority want to throw in a monkey wrench without shutting down the channel completely, like a number of rightwing channels....even if they platform the wrong guest- like recently blacklisted and CANCELLED RFK Jr. - because of his constant questioning of vaccine efficacy. That used to earn him consternation and even a few public debates with medical authorities. But, for some reason now (likely the money involved), the subject of vaccines is too dangerous to even be allowed up for debate! RFK Jr., by virtue of being a 2nd generation Kennedy, used to be looked upon as a member of the liberal intelligensia ...especially when adding in being regarded as a role model and advocate for disabled Americans. But you may have noticed that anyone who gets cancelled by the Liberal leadership takes away all of their 'woke' points for being a member of a favored category! And it's worth noting that Kennedy is not some absolute vaccine refusenik ..like some former Hollywood celebs. Rather than make a better argument, the new normal is just remove any critics from public consideration. So, I expect anyone on the left or right who insists on speaking the truth on any subject and won't take money to repeat accepted wisdom, or in a growing number of cases of co-opted and bought off left, they will pose as leftist radicals on a few topics their funders allow, but not on subjects that will cross the $$$bosses narratives - like military spending, foreign wars, regime change ops etc.. I would add that if Bitchute becomes too popular as growing numbers of dissatisfied radicals move there from Youtube, then they'll find a way to end Bitchute's web hosts... reasons given could be like Parler ... which I never went on, but I was already aware that most of the organizing for the Capitol Hill rioters was done on Twitter and Facebook accounts, not Parler! But no chance that any of the FAANGS will be taken down.

Since arriving in Queens Park, a lot of people suspect that Ford and his Tories are being rewarded for the rate they are turning public lands over to developers in the GTA. I would have assumed that Dougie is just trying to commune with the lower classes before, with his Tim Horton's references. But it is getting to the point where he must either be a stockholder or is getting some form of kickback for his advertising and promotional services.

He is also incapable of using his Twitter account and other social media because of a lifetime ban. Some people who aren't thinking too carefully about this, because platforms like Twitter, have been turned into pseudo-public squares, where virtually everyone participates. It should not be up to bearded dweeb - Jack Dorsey or space boy Zuckerberg to decide who does and does not get to play on their playgrounds that they have turned into monopolies through a variety of legal and illegal tactics. Same goes for the other FAANGS members. If a court or some civil action determines that Donald Trump has abused the public trust and should be shunned off the airwaves and social media, that's how it should be handled. When it's by the whims of corporate oligarchs and the minions who work in their interests, then we can expect......well, what has already been happening for a few years now: the worst, most egregious actors are allowed to keep their accounts humming along, while many are banned and silenced for no justifiable reasons, other than perhaps preaching the wrong politics, or the wrong information.

believe that significant numbers of R's and D's still accept the propaganda narratives they are spoonfed from their trusted news sources, and fail to delve a little deeper into the story a little below the surface. So, what jumps out at me is one that...in fact actually comes from a Washington Post source, but this one has facts and numbers to go with it: https://news.yahoo.com/large-number-people-charged-capitol-224039552.html What this all tells me is that the same motivations that are driving young blacks to join BLM and take to the streets as they hear about the next round of police shootings, while unemployed mostly-white college students join antifa groups to protest police, college loan debts, all seem to be joining together because of their personal feelings of despair about the future. What all these groups are missing is that they are all on the down escalator to the bottom, while a small, entitled minority (less than 1%) and about 10% - professional support staff, are the only ones benefiting while the vast majority end up in grinding poverty. And it shouldn't come as a surprise that their main goal is to keep the commoners divided and fighting amongst themselves, and especially not notice who is actually running the game and how much we're all being cheated by a tiny class of undeserving rich who've found the magic money machine, and keep using it to buy up more and more real estate and other real assets, and drive costs out of reach for average people who have to work to earn their money!

Nor Churchill! He was just the last of the line of British imperialists who was trying to maintain England's imperial primacy in the world as the new empire - America, was rising fast to take its place. Churchill as a political leader was a stubborn deadender, who caused unneeded death and suffering at home and especially in colonies like India, where his deliberate starvation strategies in East Bengal caused the deaths of millions! I don't believe in the Great Man theory of history as a general rule. The leaders are not much different than coaches of winning teams getting credit because their names are associated with teams whose owners were willing to fork out more money than the other rich idiots who try to use their money to get in a photo with the championship team they otherwise, had no talent to join when they were young! So, back before our economic system turned into a complete joke (a magical time before central banks were comfortable creating $Trillions of new dollars to spend in and leave as a burden for future generations), an unfortunate leader like James Callahan, who gets the top job in England just as high oil prices and no domestic production yet from the North Sea, presides over the UK's 'Winter of Discontent.' His replacement - Margaret Thatcher, is a subject of scorn early on with her radical destruction of the Social Contract and anti-labour laws. But as oil prices decline, along with domestic production starting during Thatcher's reign, she and her murderous economic advisers are declared heroes by enough of the British public to win re-election. Same scenario from Carter to Reagan in the US during the 80's. And that aside, if it's about honoring the great hero who won the 2nd World War, then you need statues of Joseph Stalin to be put up in public squares! Because Russia and her Soviet allies had to sacrifice 27 million lives to defeat Hitler's armies on the Eastern Front.....where the bulk of the fighting was actually being done! And today, history is being erased as Soviets are being accused of "murdering" German troops who were trying to hold Poland, Ukraine and other East Bloc territories. In some of the concentration camps-like Auschwitz, the Germans and Nazi allies were still trying to liquidate Jewish and other prisoners when the first divisions of the Red Army overran the camps and ended their slaughter. I would credit Churchill for being the lone voice among the western leaders to decide early on that Hitler needed to be stopped before guns could be turned on the Communist East. Roosevelt and US political and business leaders were trying to work out a deal with Hitler until Japan launched an attack on the US Pacific Fleet in Hawaii and changed their plans.

Q must have been someone working behind the scenes in one of the deep state agencies, in need of an anonymous position to manipulate people's thinking and develop a cult following among Republican Trump fans. But again, those who seek wealth and power have long been the most depraved and evil members of the human race...narcissists, sociopaths..whatever you want to call them, people who were of sound mind should have been questioning the direction western capitalist civilization was moving in decades ago, instead of waiting until everything is teetering on the edge of collapse! I doubt any honest, forensic investigation of the lives, habits and practices of the political class and their financiers would show much of a partisan difference in any western nation, let alone the US. What is different now from 20 or 30 years ago, is that the promises of the internet revolution have turned from freedom into Orwellian surveillance and mind control! Sometimes the truth gets out, in MSM and social media platforms, but those who tell too much truth that authorities don't want circulated widely, get pushed down by so called faults of algorithms and have their video channels and web pages demonetized or banned outright with no explanation or recourse for appeal. This is why so many on both the left and right edges of the political spectrum are abandoning Facebook and Google-owned Youtube for newer startups and trying to bring along as many of their subscribers and regular viewers as possible. It's a matter of where the money is coming from! So, any left media that tells followers to stick with Biden and the Democrats is paid for/controlled opposition, no matter what they claim to believe in or stand for! Same on the right side. The right wing is in disarray over what to do about Trump's post-election meltdown. But from the beginning, the Lincoln Project and other 'moderate' Republicans who were trying to move to the glorified and mythical moderate center, are political actors just trying to move where the money is and tells them to go! Unlike Democrat politicians, the GOP has been long averse to going against their activist base of supporters. But there seem to be enough in the Senate who are willing to take a dive, even if it means the end of their Senate careers! They have been assured that they will get paid and have new opportunities awaiting them after the consensus of oligarchy has completed their plans of kicking Trump down to a level where neither him or one of his offspring will be able to re-emerge as a candidate for future office. I wouldn't be surprised if part of the plan is to get a Republican version of "super-delegates" who perform such an invaluable service to the owners of the Democratic Party! The only thing that can mangle their plans now is if a groundswell of disaffection on either left or right or both turns into a destabilizing force that finally ends these games!

So China STOLE Canada's vaccine research and development capabilities back when Mulroney got the bright idea of privatizing Connaught Labs (bought by American company)! Giving up this key advantage Canada once had in medical research, and exactly what has the NRC done to restore Canada's vaccine research since then, aside from saying they "are working in partnership" with a couple of US companies to try to develop Covid-19 vaccines and treatments. https://nrc.canada.ca/en/covid-19-response-vaccines-therapeutics And, we got to deep six this old time-honored Liberal theme of downtrodden, naive Canada struggling to do its best in the world. Even the US officials always end up saying 'we meant well' when their blown up military strategies fall apart and completely expose them...WMD's in Iraq was not that long ago actually! In reality, Canadian governments, including our present wimpish-sounding Prime Minister who's always trying to sound concerned and self-effacing as he signs Canada on with US regime change ops like Venezuela for instance. All the trapclap about Trump aside, Canada was first in line to declare handpicked puppet - Juan Guido as the real president of Venezuela. What's in it for Canada? Not heavy crude, no it's gold, diamonds and other minerals being discovered in Southern Venezuela's stretch of the Amazon River...already being coveted by our gold mining companies. Their bids will easily be approved by Rubberstamp Guido if the US is ever actually able to install him in power. The US will take the oil, Canada gets the gold, and other compliant allies of the "Lima Group" like US vassal - Colombia, will be in to carve out their share of the take. Guido and Venezuela's oligarchs will get their take, and the only ones left out will be the Venezuelan people.....especially the natives of Amazonia, which Venezuela has been the last nation left protecting their territories! So, long story short, Canada's national myth and image is just a facade that hides the reality of a soc-dem nation that spends too much time celebrating its mythical character while avoiding and refusing to comment or criticizing the actions of US military and "soft" power exercised around the world that makes our overblown image and creature comforts possible!

No doubt! But the Republican politicians and media wags who acted as Trump enablers should have been a lot more careful instead of running off their mouths about Democrat Voter Fraud. Because they created a large, implacable Trump base of supporters with a vanguard made up of the most aggressive and unreasonable frontliners, all looking for action! And they got it. To me, this is very similar to Q-Anon, which I think was a deliberately created and set up fraud, and likely not even made by those within conservative and rightwing groups, but instead created by opponents who support Democrats and institutional authorities in Washington. My suspicions are aroused by the very fact that a few independent investigators of Jeffrey Epstein's hobbies have noted that pedophilia and the sexual grooming of minors is a bipartisan affair among men of wealth and power. As soon as Q-anon said Trump would lead the godly, rightwing forces in America against Democrat sexual predators and stop their preying upon children....well then the whole narrative should have been understood as idiotic propaganda...even without the added prophecies. And having actual elected officials join on and proclaim their belief in the Q-Anon cult that bad things would happen if they ever went to Washington after Trump refused to recognize the results!

Here's some food for thought: When will life return to normal? In 7 years at today's vaccine ratesIn Canada it's going to take more than 10 years at this rate

Right! Saying something "pro-China" means being on the Chinese Government payroll. Or another theory might be that anyone looking at the evidence would notice that China had to deal with this new coronavirus the earliest...which is the main reason why it's assumed by epidemiologists to have started in Northern China first, before it became widespread. I'm not calling for a Communist Chinese takeover here, my point is that they acted quickly and succeeded to stop the spread of the virus early, using methods that are considered extreme over here.....but, maybe that's what you have to do if you don't want to be ravaged by a contagious, rapidly spreading new disease! The problem in Canada, the US and EUtopia is that the keystone cops leading our governments can't bullshit their way around the fact that they have been trying to do as little as possible to stop Covid-19. Once we learned what the term "flattening the curve" meant, then it should have been plainly obvious that western politicians in every country are just paid spokesmodels for the monied elites fighting to see who gets to be richest and most powerful. The last thing the billionaire oligarchs will allow is any pandemic response that will threaten their profitability and earnings! And speaking of serving the oligarchy, Big Pharma now runs vaccine creation and promotion...even though some of the companies (like Moderna) did NOTHING to fund the research for a Covid-19 vaccine! They just swoop in afterwards and take all of the free, publicly-funded research and slap a patent on it before sending it off to the marketing department to sell. And after all the BS propaganda we have been deluged with over the past year, we learn that the Sputnik V vaccine developed in Russia has a higher success rate and very low frequency of reported side effects, compared with the ones being made by the billionaire drug companies. As for the vaccines created in China, I'm not sure if there have been any definitive conclusions drawn yet, but according to a recent report published in the Lancet, it is over 90% effective. So it's right up there with the claimed efficacy of Pfizer's and a hell of a lot cheaper and easier to distribute and use, since it doesn't have to be contained in special sub-zero freezers that will keep it as a product for the wealthy first world nations. Vaccine nationalism is the worst development now of this renewed Cold War that's been ginned up to restart the wars, the arms race and ramping up missile and drone production now, because the whole point to mass inoculation of the population is to prevent and eradicate a dangerous disease. If large pockets of population groups are left without vaccination, or worse -- are deliberately prevented from receiving vaccines, along with other embargoes and sanctions of targeted nations, then if the west thinks the new coronavirus is gone and forgotten, it's continued spread allowed to denigrate living conditions in Yemen, Venezuela, Syria, and other extreme sanctions targets, will bring it right back again as new variants of Covid-19 rise up that are highly vaccine-resistant.

Nonsense! In actual fact, electoral fraud is a bipartisan activity in the US! And the problem with Trump allies going at Democrats for dubious voting machines is that the same questions about voting machines with no audit trails can be asked about Republican districts where the GOP controls local government that's in charge of the vote. The Bernie supporters who took his 2020 campaign seriously, were already informed about the DNC rigging the kickoff Iowa Caucus for Mayo Pete by using a brand new app for no reasons (other than hiding evidence of fraud) that just happened to have been created by a company created by Hillary2016 Campaign workers called Shadow Inc. (seriously, that's what they called their startup company....why not We Commit Fraud.com?...maybe it was already taken). So, election fraud has been allowed and encouraged by both parties....besides tossing provisional ballots and poll rigging, the Republicans have started using a cross-referencing voter registration tactic called Cross-check-an interstate data-sharing system started by Kansas Sec. of State- Kris Kobach, based on his claims of widespread voter fraud, the system...which exposed many voters to hacking of personal information, compared names on voting lists of participating states. And most of what they found was people who moved and had to change addresses, as well as college students staying at dorms form part of the year. As Cross-Check devolved and unraveled because of controversy surrounding this practice, it started becoming obvious that the intentions were dishonorable from the start, with Kobach and other Republican officials deciding to double down with their shrinking white, older, middle class voting base, rather than looking to add POC's who were wealthier and older, and would be more likely to be brought in to a more moderate Republican approach. Something that Dubya tried back in 2000. Right now, things are looking so bad and so many non-rich people are facing such extreme hardships now, I think the likely outcome might be for both parties to split apart. Who knows, if there isn't some sort of authoritarian, militaristic takeover of the federal government, real democracy might break out in America...of all places!

Identity politics as commonly practiced today, does not include economic class among their concerns! If they do, they're not liberals anymore and have joined the political left somewhere after realizing that whites living in poverty zones are also 'oppressed' while women and POC's who've become millionaires and billionaires have reached the level where they can buy all of the 'freedom from oppression' they will ever need! After all, how "oppressed" are Kanye or Oprah today? And it needs to be noted also, that wealthy POC's start thinking like rich white folks and taking on more and more of their concerns after they move upscale and leave the ghetto and the people who live there, behind.

All it will prove is which side of the political aisle has the most power behind them! I don't think the Dems and their media allies would have wasted four years fluffing up Russia conspiracy theories and trying to find ways to connect them with Trump, if they weren't worried that the examples of real crimes committed by Donald The Businessman could have been stuck to him without taking down Democrats and more important - financiers of both parties.

Seems like the US has had a string of presidents in modern times who could have been impeached for domestic and foreign crimes.

I don't believe the global capitalist order has much longer on its shelf life anyway, but I can't foresee how long all this will last. Anyway, the shift away from Bush's War On Terror to Obama's Pivot To Asia did not get much analysis when the policy shift was first announced....like what the hell does "pivot" to Asia mean in the first place? But, when it was time to hand over to Trump and the Republicans, it turned out to mean 'try to squeeze China economically, militarily with regime change ops on Chinese business partners (Sudan), and politically, through continual barrages of charges of Chinese war crimes against every ethnicity inside China. And now that we're in the new Joe Era, it doesn't look like much has changed, aside from a toning down of the rhetoric coming out of the White House. But aside from those superficial aspects, there are no signs yet that the Biden China policy will be any different than Trump's. If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd suspect the managers within DOD, CIA and State Dept. carry on like little changes whenever there's a color change from blue to red and back again in the political administration. But, whatever else happens, I want to stick a fork in this Epoch Times/Rebel News agenda now that is trying to convince us that we have to fear Chinese invasion....now that they've weakened us with their disease! When the WHO issues their report from their limited visits and testing done in China, to find the source of the Sars-Cov-2 virus, then maybe, we'll have something factual to go on. Up till now, as soon as the gloating over the Covid-19 outbreak first hit the Wuhan district of China over a year ago, it quickly morphed into The Chinese Created A New Disease To Kill US as soon as the plague traveled to the west and has hit the US with a vengeance. And most of the rapid spread and no.1 death tolls can be blamed on the shear stupidity of your own countrymen and their political and thought leaders, especially the long worship of selfish capitalist principles, that react with hostility to any attempts to get people to work together for common purpose....like stopping the spread of a highly contagious and extremely dangerous new disease!

Well, for one thing, China's economy grew about 3%. And that's why it's becoming clear now that the US increased saber-rattling and military threats against China are not motivated by much else than being stuck in the ditch, while China takes the lead of the Capitalist World Order.

The monied elites learned a long time ago that the easiest way for them to coopt leftists and leftwing movements is to put a laser-like focus on identity politics issues, to 'erase' class antagonisms between rich and working classes from being up for discussion. The liberal billionaires and their millionaire servants discovered that they can get a lot of mileage and completely disarm any liberal-left critics by appointing a few token women and visible minorities in high places...CEO's of every major weapons-producer...like new Defense chief- Lloyd Austin, who received some...extremely limited consternation for needing a special waiver from the new prez to be accepted as Defense Secretary. The whole point of this cabinet position to start with, was to have the chief of what had previously been known as the War Department under civilian/not military control! Along with the power and influence of the makers of more and more expensive weapons and delivery systems coopting former generals and admirals, it's easy to see how the US Government has devolved into a permanent war state that can't allow peace to break out anywhere in the world! Not even someone like Trump was allowed to end US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan by House Democrats who overruled his late decisions to bring troops home! So, I think we can expect that the actions of a centrist Democrat president will actually be to make the world an even more dangerous place than the most bellicose Republican ever could! Military budgets will increase and strip more and more from domestic priorities, and more saber-rattling and proxy wars will be engaged in to keep troops in their bases, carriers sailing the oceans, and the missiles flying and bombs dropping around the world. What could go wrong? But none of these things....which used to be liberal priorities years ago, intrude on the thinking of present day liberals whose concerns are all grounded by identity politics. So that, as much as I see him as a great disappointment or potential fraud, Bernie is made a target because of his skin color and gender by liberal opinion shapers who as the SF Chronicle editorial displays, still have many brainwashed followers who don't have enough sense to focus and work first in their own economic interests!

I don't think we have to look in the rearview mirror at Biden's long, long Senate career any longer, to figure out how he will act (or not) as a president. So far, now that the flowery rhetoric has begun to lose its petals, the Biden Admin's early actions reveal he is the same amoral, do anything to curry favor with powerful interests type -- Wall Street, big pharma and military+security police state complex leaders, and dismiss or give symbolism more than substance to grassroots base support groups that the Democrats depend on for votes at election time. So, among Biden's cabinet appointments are Janet Yellin who has been hopscotching between government and Wall Street bank and brokerage firms like every other finance appointment in recent decades....most noted for getting paid over $850,000 per speech by banking groups. Something that should be illegal on the face of it, but the obvious quid pro quo has to be overlooked, at least since the Dems ran Hillary Clinton for president! And among the rest, the most likely damaging appointment (for the American people) is Lloyd Austin, ret. Army general and until he was given a special deferment (another red flag) for being out of the military forces for less than the required 7 years, to become the new Defense Secretary. The whole point for that 7 year rule was to provide a buffer and maintain real civilian control of the Armed Forces....something US governments have given up on since JFK got himself accidentally shot! But then there's all the 'little' things that most people will only pay a passing glance to, since all of their Democratic Party-allied media and social media will not mention such negative stories more than once.....like the Biden Administration's decision to carry over the Trump decision to remove Grey Wolves from protection from hunters, as endangered species in the lower 48. This is one I did not expect! Now, it looks like the same environmental agencies and volunteer groups that fought Trump policies for four years, have to keep fighting the new Biden regime! What was that old line from "Who's Next?" - "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss".................... https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/biden-backs-trump-decision-to-strip-gray-wolf-of-protections

I'm sure Democrats will want it...because they really need distractions now more than ever. But, according to what I've heard, if Mitch McConnell has pulled back, it means he can tell there are not enough Republican votes to prosecute Trump in the Senate.

The only time I followed the Russiagate story close enough to try to figure out what the hell was going on was back when Robert Mueller was holding hearings and then turned out a report that was open-ended and used language that could be interpreted to mean everything from 'Trump is under control by Putin' to the whole thing has just been a scripted fraud! And I'm inclined to go with the latter explanation! There were so many options to follow to try to set up an actual impeachment trial of Donald Trump, why did they follow this convoluted story that wasted four years and went nowhere. What's worse is that nuclear arms treaties between the US and Russia (like the INF) lapsed during this time, with war started right on Russia's borders with Ukraine, and nothing said or done about already ongoing wars and failed regime change operations. So many Russian scandal narratives have fallen by the wayside (but never completely buried) and done nothing but provide careers for pseudo-journalists like Elliot Higgins, and likely everyone else at Bellingcat....which came out of nowhere to become the go to source for everything connected with the Russian government and the Syrian civil war...the other great opportunity for propaganda and misinformation. The only thing all this has clearly done is to disarm and disable leftists who used to try to focus their attention on domestic policy that actually affects their lives.