Imagine a legal system so fucked up that the president can be both plaintiff and defendant and award himself whatever he wants.
That sounds kind of like a king, doesn't it?
Ich berichte seit 13 Jahren über Finanzpolitik und @BMF_Bund: So eine schlechte Haushaltsaufstellung wie diesen habe ich nicht erlebt. Union und SPD sparen bislang nirgends, sondern operieren mit lauter Luftbuchungen. Es ist einfach nur erschütternd. Ein Thread.
In the best case scenario, Trump struck a deal to reopen a Strait that was open before the pointless war he started, with the IRGC demonstrating its control over the Strait and potentially extracting fees plus sanctions relief. Thousands of innocents - including hundreds of children - dead in Lebanon and Iran for no reason. U.S. troops killed and wounded. U.S. embassies and bases in the Middle East badly damaged. U.S. standing in the world obliterated. U.S. munitions badly depleted. Hundreds of billions spent. Prices up everywhere. More global economic fallout to come. Putin strengthened and enriched. Just a catastrophic situation even in the best of circumstances. A profoundly shameful episode in American history no matter what happens next.
This is a threat of genocide and merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing and cannot be trusted.
To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat.
In 24 hours, Trump has gone from promising to commit war crimes to threatening full-scale genocide on a country of 90 million people. This is historically evil stuff.
Die SPD diskutiert lieber beispielsweise zum 100 Mal konzeptlos über eine Vermögenssteuer anstatt mithilfe der Lohnsteuer für spürbare Entlastungen in der breiten Gesellschaft zu sorgen.
Anschließend wird sich dann über so etwas gewundert.
Biden: My friends, I cannot sugarcoat this. These are dark days. The threats we face today are not anything new but have been amplified in the ways we have never seen before. Our children are watching and I'm worried about what they are hearing so we have to be unapologetic for fighting for our country.
Hillary Clinton arrives by train from Berlin for the Munich Security Conference, MSC.
Germany experience so far:
No hassle from people asking about those files.
No hot drinks because of a power failure in the bistro for half the trip.
If a Democratic president pardoned a violent criminal who went on to do something like this, it would be the biggest story in politics for weeks.
There would be a media feeding frenzy, hearings, and Dems would be asked to rebuke the President.
With Trump, its just crickets
I don't know this for a fact, but I think this is the first time in history that the current FIFA Peace Prize winner became the Undisputed Champion of Coal.