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Advertisements from supposedly grassroots groups promoting no-deal Brexit share an administrator with a decidedly not grassroots public influence firm. Facebook hasn't been all that forthcoming about who's behind what, so the appropriate ministry has been engaged to find out who is behind all of the money and the ad campaigns. I would love to see an Astroturf attempt like this get caught, killed, and then have the earth salted behind it so that nobody else decides to try this again.
There continues to be a significant amount of panic about the fact that there's no deal coming and nobody seems to have planned for this eventuality in any sort of detail. Which could include mobilizing a large number of police to deal with unrest (or incitement) on the occasion of a no-deal exit.
Oh, and also the tone-policing and head-shaking at how far the rhetoric has gotten out of control is happening. It's way too late for calls for civilized discource, given how the rhetoric went in the initial Brexit consideration, but worry about language rather than getting something done does seem to be a regular feature of gridlock and people being unwilling to reconsider the act of Brexit in the first place. Especially when you have people clamoring for another vote so they can send a message to the government that they should just drive the car off the cliff like "the people" want instead of paying attention to the people and trying to avoid a total disaster.
The Current Administrator of the United States is likely to get a full State Visit with honors, whihc makes sense as a thing one does to the institution, even if one personally might not be all that fond of the occupant of the institution.
The campaign for the Current Administrator wants to raise money by using a discredited attack against the last administrator, but this works for this campaign because they've essentially always run on the platform of fighting invisible enemies, and it seems to have worked so far.
The Special Counsel's Report on The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election finally exists in a public form, which does mean that certain parts of it will have large amounts of redactions. This pared-down version is available only after a significant amount of the Attorney General asking the public to trust his conclusions and summaries, which were generally aligned with the public statemtnts the Administrator had been making about the investigation and its conclusions rather than releasing the report to let lawmakers and the public draw their own conclusions from the available evidence. Despite lawmakers from both parties requesting the entire report be made available. And then turning that request into a subpoena demand that Congress be allowed to see the full, unredacted version of the report.
The Special Counsel's Report on The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election, direct from the Department of Justice [PDF]
The release of the report will not stop the significant number of other Congressional, state, and federal investigations into the Administrator and members of his corporations, trusts, and businesses as well as lawsuits filed against those entities.
And while there will likely be some amount of shying away from formally impeaching and charging the Administrator with "high crimes and misdemeanors" on the logic that a Republican-controlled Senate, where the trial would happen, would not vote to convict a member of their own party (because, for some of them, protecting their own power is more important than protecting the country), Senator Warren and others are starting to call more openly for impreachment, including others who may have been less willing to do so earlier when there was less evidence or those who find they may have to open impeachment so they can fully investigate the things they intend to examine.
If you have been following the affair somewhat interestedly, the report itself will confirm what is publicly known and then tantalize you with various pages of redactions. (A significant number of them are because open investigations are involved with entities like the Internet Research Agency.) The executive summary is quite nicely laid out, and I think it gives excellent reasoning as to why the conclusions that are drawn in the report are said that way.rydra_wong suggested that the report has an overall conclusion of Not Proven, the verdict that does not say "not guilty" but that there isn't sufficient evidence to convict.
Why are media outlets reporting on terrible conditions as human interest stories? Because they don't expct you to understand the numbers and they think you'll be bowled over by warm-and-fuzzies enough to not notice the awful reasons why it happens. (Not even the IRS can dent the power of the super-rich. Unless, that is, we stopped funding War and started funding Peace, including enforcement actions against those that duck their responsibilities.)
There will be more. There will always be more.
Advertisements from supposedly grassroots groups promoting no-deal Brexit share an administrator with a decidedly not grassroots public influence firm. Facebook hasn't been all that forthcoming about who's behind what, so the appropriate ministry has been engaged to find out who is behind all of the money and the ad campaigns. I would love to see an Astroturf attempt like this get caught, killed, and then have the earth salted behind it so that nobody else decides to try this again.
There continues to be a significant amount of panic about the fact that there's no deal coming and nobody seems to have planned for this eventuality in any sort of detail. Which could include mobilizing a large number of police to deal with unrest (or incitement) on the occasion of a no-deal exit.
Oh, and also the tone-policing and head-shaking at how far the rhetoric has gotten out of control is happening. It's way too late for calls for civilized discource, given how the rhetoric went in the initial Brexit consideration, but worry about language rather than getting something done does seem to be a regular feature of gridlock and people being unwilling to reconsider the act of Brexit in the first place. Especially when you have people clamoring for another vote so they can send a message to the government that they should just drive the car off the cliff like "the people" want instead of paying attention to the people and trying to avoid a total disaster.
The Current Administrator of the United States is likely to get a full State Visit with honors, whihc makes sense as a thing one does to the institution, even if one personally might not be all that fond of the occupant of the institution.
The campaign for the Current Administrator wants to raise money by using a discredited attack against the last administrator, but this works for this campaign because they've essentially always run on the platform of fighting invisible enemies, and it seems to have worked so far.
The Special Counsel's Report on The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election finally exists in a public form, which does mean that certain parts of it will have large amounts of redactions. This pared-down version is available only after a significant amount of the Attorney General asking the public to trust his conclusions and summaries, which were generally aligned with the public statemtnts the Administrator had been making about the investigation and its conclusions rather than releasing the report to let lawmakers and the public draw their own conclusions from the available evidence. Despite lawmakers from both parties requesting the entire report be made available. And then turning that request into a subpoena demand that Congress be allowed to see the full, unredacted version of the report.
The Special Counsel's Report on The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election, direct from the Department of Justice [PDF]
The release of the report will not stop the significant number of other Congressional, state, and federal investigations into the Administrator and members of his corporations, trusts, and businesses as well as lawsuits filed against those entities.
And while there will likely be some amount of shying away from formally impeaching and charging the Administrator with "high crimes and misdemeanors" on the logic that a Republican-controlled Senate, where the trial would happen, would not vote to convict a member of their own party (because, for some of them, protecting their own power is more important than protecting the country), Senator Warren and others are starting to call more openly for impreachment, including others who may have been less willing to do so earlier when there was less evidence or those who find they may have to open impeachment so they can fully investigate the things they intend to examine.
If you have been following the affair somewhat interestedly, the report itself will confirm what is publicly known and then tantalize you with various pages of redactions. (A significant number of them are because open investigations are involved with entities like the Internet Research Agency.) The executive summary is quite nicely laid out, and I think it gives excellent reasoning as to why the conclusions that are drawn in the report are said that way.
rydra_wong suggested that the report has an overall conclusion of Not Proven, the verdict that does not say "not guilty" but that there isn't sufficient evidence to convict.Why are media outlets reporting on terrible conditions as human interest stories? Because they don't expct you to understand the numbers and they think you'll be bowled over by warm-and-fuzzies enough to not notice the awful reasons why it happens. (Not even the IRS can dent the power of the super-rich. Unless, that is, we stopped funding War and started funding Peace, including enforcement actions against those that duck their responsibilities.)
There will be more. There will always be more.
