The all too brief period of peace under DJT is probably over

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Well, goes to show what an ass kisser of dictators can get yah.
it got trump not a damned thing for all his puckers.
trump is doing his best the place a war or total unrest on Biden
before he's kicked out the white house..

Biden's Cabinet: War Hawks, Corporate Lapdogs & Swamp Creatures

Watch the full episode, Temple - since you love comedy show politics:

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Ever since bitem won, I see nothing but whining about his "inheritance". He promised to fix ever thing on DAY ONE.
Get your sleepy old ass in action cho and stop whining.

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louie wrote:: Ever since bitem won, I see nothing but whining about his "inheritance". He promised to fix ever thing on DAY ONE.
Get your sleepy old ass in action cho and stop whining.

Translation:
It sounded good when he was campaigning, but now it's time to back peddle and blame Trump yet again.

Biden considers Lloyd Austin, retired four-star general, to head U.S. military: report
Matthew Allen
Sat, November 28, 2020, 7:31 AM MST

If picked and confirmed by the Senate, Gen. Lloyd Austin would be the first African American to lead the Pentagon

As the transition for President-elect Joe Biden gets slightly smoother, the former vice president has begun to vet candidates for Cabinet positions.

According to Axios, one of the candidates to be secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense is retired Gen. Lloyd Austin. If picked by Biden and confirmed by the Senate, Austin would become the first Black defense secretary in American history.

Austin joins a shortlist of Pentagon chief candidates that includes Jeh Johnson, the first African American to head the Department of Homeland Security, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel, and Michele Flournoy, former undersecretary of defense for policy. Johnson and Flournoy both served under the Obama administration.

Axios reports that Johnson is also being considered for attorney general.

Austin, 63, began his career with the Army in 1975, rising to become a four-star general. According to Carnegie.org, Austin held several command and staff roles, including Operation Safe Haven in Panama, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

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Gen. Lloyd Austin III, commander of U.S. Central Command, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the ongoing U.S. military operations to counter the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 16, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

In 2012, Austin was appointed Army chief of staff and became 12th commander of U.S. Central Command the year after. He retired from the military in 2016.

Although Flournoy was initially reported as a front runner for secretary of defense, some are lobbying the Biden transition team to consider more diverse candidates for high-ranking roles in his administration. It’s been reported that House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn has unhappy with the limited amount of Black Americans being considered for cabinet positions.

After seeing Linda Thomas-Greenfield be selected to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Clyburn, a longtime Democratic Congressman from South Carolina and one of Biden’s biggest allies, told The Hill that he wanted to see more Black candidates.

“From all I hear, Black people have been given fair consideration,” Clyburn said. “But there is only one Black woman so far.”

“I want to see where the process leads to, what it produces. But so far it’s not good,” he said.

If Austin is selected by Biden for the defense secretary position, he would need to get a congressional waiver to serve in the cabinet, due to his status as a recent military retiree.

Biden Labor Candidate Oversaw Fraudulent Payments to California Prison Inmates
Washington Free Beacon
Graham Piro - NOVEMBER 25, 2020 4:20 PM

A frontrunner to be president-elect Joe Biden's labor secretary oversaw the payment of nearly $1 billion in fraudulent benefits to California prison inmates.

Julie Su is the secretary of California's Labor and Workforce Development Agency, which operates the state's pandemic unemployment system. The system paid out hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment payments to prison inmates and convicts, prosecutors announced on Tuesday.

The fraud involved over 35,000 unemployment claims filed between March and August under the names of California state prison inmates. The inmates included two serial killers responsible for the deaths of at least eight people, as well as the well-known murderer Scott Peterson, who was convicted in 2004 for killing his pregnant wife. The Sacramento County district attorney called the scandal "one of the biggest fraud of taxpayer dollars in California history."

A spokeswoman for the agency's Employment Development Department told the Washington Free Beacon the department has been working with the U.S. Labor Department to identify fraudulent claims from inmates and is "pursuing how to integrate such cross-matches moving forward as part of enhanced prevention efforts during this unprecedented time of pandemic-related unemployment fraud across the country."

The agency's logistical problems also resulted in the delay of unemployment payments for as many as 1.8 million Californians during the initial stages of the state's shutdown over the coronavirus pandemic.

Su took responsibility for the agency's logistical delays in April. She said she needed to "own the things that we are not doing right" and fix the agency's problems. The Employment Development Department still experienced delays and fraud throughout the year, however, and faced demands from lawmakers for an audit in September.

President-elect Biden's transition team did not respond to a request for comment on Su's candidacy for labor secretary.

One of the district attorneys leading the task force investigating the fraud said the "vast majority" of the money will never be repaid.

California is not the only state to be plagued by unemployment fraud amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Labor Department's inspector general said a total of $26 billion in federal aid programs could be lost to fraud by the end of the crisis.

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"After seeing Linda Thomas-Greenfield be selected to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Clyburn, a longtime Democratic Congressman from South Carolina and one of Biden’s biggest allies, told The Hill that he wanted to see more Black candidates.
“From all I hear, Black people have been given fair consideration,” Clyburn said. “But there is only one Black woman so far.”
“I want to see where the process leads to, what it produces. But so far it’s not good,” he said."

It will never be good enough for some people. Gag me with a gotdam stick.

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I believe this country is in for terrible times.

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11-28-2020

Iran has singled out Israel as the assassin,
and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
the nation’s supreme leader,
has warned there will be “definitive punishment
of the perpetrators and those who ordered it.”
He did not say what that would entail.
President Hassan Rouhani said the response
would come at the “right time.”
Sources indicate retaliation might
occur days, weeks, or longer from now.
Israel has told its embassies to be
on the alert for possible attacks.

Whether Israel carried out or commissioned
the murder of Fakhrizadeh is not something
Tel Aviv is likely to confirm. Parsi writes:

While it’s highly unlikely that Israel
would have carried out the assassination
without a green light from the Trump administration,
a more direct U.S. role cannot be entirely discounted.

The Trump administration has reportedly
run several joint sabotage operations with Israel
against Iran’s nuclear facilities in the past year
and relied in part on Israeli intelligence
in carrying out the assassination
of Gen. Qasem Soleimani outside the
Baghdad airport last January.

Earlier this month, Trump himself reportedly
raised the possibility of attacking Iran
with his top national security advisers,
while it was just last week that the
most prominent Iran hawk, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,
met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
(as) well as leaders of Iran’s adversaries
in the Persian Gulf, notably Saudi Arabia
and the United Arab Emirates.

Donald Trump still manages to persuade
many of his supporters of his bona fides
as anti interventionist on the world stage,
he has certainly been a hawk on Iran,
starting during his presidential campaign.

Not only did he command his staff to come up with excuses
for withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear
agreement with Iran that the Obama administration
spent 20 months negotiating;
in January he ordered a drone strike
to assassinate Iranian Gen. Qassem Suleimani, stating
that this ruthless leader of the Quds force the elite,
external wing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
was planning a large, imminent attack
against U.S. forces in Iraq.

While striking pre-emptively against imminent
attacks has always been acceptable under
international law, critics, including many Americans,
said the White House’s assertions about the
imminence of a Suleimani-ordered
attack were vague at best.

Various Iranian leaders pledged revenge
for Suleimani, and Trump moved 3,000
more troops
and deployed more ships and planes to the
region after the assassination, while claiming,
“We did not take action to start a war.”

The New York Times reported this week
that Trump’s advisers had recently
talked him out of a military strike on Natanz,
Iran’s main nuclear site. That facility,
hardened against air attacks, operates
thousands of underground centrifuges
to concentrate uranium to levels needed
to fuel electricity-generating reactors.

Trump’s May 2018 withdrawal from the
nuclear agreement,
known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,
deeply irked U.S. allies and rivals who
had worked together to hammer out the details
of limits on Iran’s nuclear development.

Tehran’s leaders have asserted their nuclear program
is wholly dedicated to peaceful uses of the atom.
That certainly has not always been the case
and, despite [u]inspections that showed
Iran was in full compliance with the agreement[u/]
when Trump withdrew the U.S. from it.

Since the U.S. withdrawal, Iran has pushed the
British, French, and Germans who were part
of the negotiations, along with the
Chinese and Russians, to come up with
a means of making financial transactions
that circumvent U.S. economic sanctions.
So far, the arrangement arrived at in that
regard has not satisfied the leaders in Tehran.

Iran has also openly violated some provisions
of the agreement, each time announcing
in advance what it is doing and making clear
that these are steps that can be reversed.

Whether the Biden-Harris administration
can initiate a return to the agreement
and the limits it set five years ago
depend on Republicans.
Getting them on board in what, at best,
will be a 50-50 Senate come January
will be a struggle, even though Iran has
made clear it would willingly return to the
agreement’s limits under a Biden administration.

If Trump comes to believe that assassinating
nuclear scientists does not go far enough
and that the advisers who talked him out
of a strike on Natanz were wrong,
and he decides to order one, the chances
of a Biden diplomatic
resolution will wither.
Not good news for America or Iran,
but definitely the kind of policy destruction
Trump’s ego thrives on.

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