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  1. If there were ever a #DEI hire, it was #ClarenceThomas, the least qualified appointee to the #SupremeCourt in my lifetime, making even #BrettKavanaugh seem astute and reasoned. Thomas is a corrupt, ill-educated, misogynist who wishes he could bleach his skin and wear a hood. #GeorgeHWBush nominated him because he was the only black man he could find who would kiss ass for power.

  2. US boosts Iran war assets with third aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush

    A third US aircraft carrier has arrived in the Middle East, bringing thousands more American troops and dozens…
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #aircraftcarrier #breakingnews #defence #Defense #georgehwbush #Iran #Military #militarypresence #USSGeorgeHWBush
    newsbeep.com/502931/

  3. Mistodon: this prehistoric specimen, a spin on #GeorgeHWBush's 1988 campaign pledge (#ReadMyLipsNoNewTaxes), was drawn by #ANSIart innovator #NoelGamboa sometime in the late '80s, to discourage drama on echomail forums on BBSes. We included it in our 2019 career retrospective.

  4. Paul Schrader – „The Card Counter“ (2021)

    Paul Schrader hat schon viele Filme über Männer gemacht, die so kaputt sind, dass sie glauben, Selbstdisziplin wäre ein Weg zur Auflösung ihrer miserablen Gegenwart. So auch hier. Dieser Film ist ein Schmerztagebuch, genau darüber. Graue Anzüge, Neonlicht und abgerissene Casinos sind keine Kulisse einer Verführung. Das ist kein Kino, das etwa populär sein will. Ganz im Gegenteil. (3sat, Free-TV-Premiere)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/

  5. Paul Schrader – „The Card Counter“ (2021)

    Paul Schrader hat schon viele Filme über Männer gemacht, die so kaputt sind, dass sie glauben, Selbstdisziplin wäre ein Weg zur Auflösung ihrer miserablen Gegenwart. So auch hier. Dieser Film ist ein Schmerztagebuch, genau darüber. Graue Anzüge, Neonlicht und abgerissene Casinos sind keine Kulisse einer Verführung. Das ist kein Kino, das etwa populär sein will. Ganz im Gegenteil. (3sat, Free-TV-Premiere)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/

  6. Paul Schrader – „The Card Counter“ (2021)

    Paul Schrader hat schon viele Filme über Männer gemacht, die so kaputt sind, dass sie glauben, Selbstdisziplin wäre ein Weg zur Auflösung ihrer miserablen Gegenwart. So auch hier. Dieser Film ist ein Schmerztagebuch, genau darüber. Graue Anzüge, Neonlicht und abgerissene Casinos sind keine Kulisse einer Verführung. Das ist kein Kino, das etwa populär sein will. Ganz im Gegenteil. (3sat, Free-TV-Premiere)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/

  7. Paul Schrader – „The Card Counter“ (2021)

    Paul Schrader hat schon viele Filme über Männer gemacht, die so kaputt sind, dass sie glauben, Selbstdisziplin wäre ein Weg zur Auflösung ihrer miserablen Gegenwart. So auch hier. Dieser Film ist ein Schmerztagebuch, genau darüber. Graue Anzüge, Neonlicht und abgerissene Casinos sind keine Kulisse einer Verführung. Das ist kein Kino, das etwa populär sein will. Ganz im Gegenteil. (3sat, Free-TV-Premiere)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/

  8. Paul Schrader – „The Card Counter“ (2021)

    Paul Schrader hat schon viele Filme über Männer gemacht, die so kaputt sind, dass sie glauben, Selbstdisziplin wäre ein Weg zur Auflösung ihrer miserablen Gegenwart. So auch hier. Dieser Film ist ein Schmerztagebuch, genau darüber. Graue Anzüge, Neonlicht und abgerissene Casinos sind keine Kulisse einer Verführung. Das ist kein Kino, das etwa populär sein will. Ganz im Gegenteil. (3sat, Free-TV-Premiere)

    Zum Blog: nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/

  9. @ned

    #WarInUkraine #FediLaw #Legal
    #USpol #GeoPol
    #BudapestMemorandum

    #SecurityAssurances are not #SecurityGuarantees, I assure you 😉

    (3/n)

    ...the #US, 👉neither the #GeorgeHWBush administration nor the #Clinton administration was prepared to give a military commitment to #Ukraine👈, and they did not believe the #US Senate would ratify an international treaty and so the memorandum was adopted in more limited terms.[51]

    The memorandum...

  10. Presidential legacies aren’t fixed–they can always get worse

    Joe Biden’s one term as president only ended four days ago, which may not be enough time to finish closing the financial books on his White House but is not too soon for news sites to run a flurry of think pieces that attempt to assess his legacy as the 46th occupant of that office.

    The two words that come to mind for me are “tragic failure.” Biden did more with less in Congress than any other president I’ve seen since I started voting, and that part of his legacy is rising across the U.S. in the form of all of the public and private projects boosted by the funding and other incentives that he set into motion. But the man who sold his first campaign as “a battle for the soul of America” did not consign Donald Trump to political oblivion and instead saw voters return him to the White House, a worst-case outcome that seemed unimaginable four years ago.

    Democratic Party strategists may never stop asking what might have happened if Biden had limited himself to a single term early enough to allow for an open competition for the next candidate.

    (For a longer and well-reported version of this, see my friend Anthony Zurcher’s take for the BBC.)

    Biden’s legacy could look brighter four years from now if programs like the Inflation Reduction Act survive Republican attempts to cancel them and if the other damage Trump does proves repairable. Or it could look even worse–and one thing 2024 reminded me of too well is that things can always get worse.

    Either way, I’m prepared for my own assessment to change as it has for most of the presidents I’ve voted for or against.

    George H.W. Bush is the leading example–33 years later, I don’t quite understand why my 21-year-old self was so eager to vote against him. Overseeing the peaceful end of the Cold War was a phenomenal achievement, and his personal decency stands out compared to much of his successor’s conduct. The country would have been under a second term for him.

    On the other hand, in 1992 it was not obvious what a disaster Clarence Thomas would be on the Supreme Court–in terms of both brazen corruption and his frequent unwillingness to see abuse of government power as a risk.

    As for Bill Clinton, his taking the U.S. from a budget deficit to a surplus seems even more remarkable after two-plus decades of other presidents failing to get close to that performance. But the phrase “Clintonian compromise” (see “don’t ask, don’t tell”) is not a compliment for good reasons, and his having an affair with an intern was a level of disgraceful personal conduct that would now be widely seen as grounds for resignation.

    You have to wonder what might have happened if Clinton had done just that, allowing Al Gore to run as an incumbent in 2000.

    Instead, we got George W. Bush. He seemed awful enough at the time just in terms of launching an unnecessary war with Iraq on false evidence and ignoring the growing financial-system fractures that led to the Great Recession, and Samuel Alito has since proven to be almost as bad of a Supreme Court pick as Thomas. But W.’s record also involves saving as many as 25 million lives around the world by distributing HIV/AIDS medication in impoverished countries.

    And, well, we didn’t have Donald Trump as a yardstick then.

    We did, however, get Barack Obama as one. No election in my life has made me happier than his landslide win in 2008, and no president in my life except maybe Reagan has been a finer speaker for the nation than Obama was over his two terms. And while Biden’s success at getting things through Congress underlines how Obama could have done more with the sizable majorities he had through 2010, abolishing the worst cruelties of the private health-insurance system with the Affordable Care Act remains a landmark accomplishment.

    But as the leader of the Democratic Party, Obama was objectively disastrous, overseeing years of wipeouts in state elections that paved the way for gerrymandering abuses of power that continue today. And he has not gotten nearly enough criticism for his feckless reactions to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s brutality against his own people.

    And then there is Trump. His first term was atrocious and his second seems to be off to an even worse start with such grandstanding exercises in vice signaling as an executive order claiming to rewrite the plain language of the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship and another EO that cites scientifically-illiterate language to deny the existence of transgender and non-binary people. Unfortunately, we have almost four more years to see how low Trump can go.

    But that will only be the end of the beginning of assessing Trump’s legacy. And that may not be a quick process.

    As former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee wrote in his autobiography A Good Life about how he had come to see his friend John F. Kennedy after decades of revelations about the 35th president’s rampant infidelity and other character defects: “[T]he truth about Kennedy, like all truths, emerges slowly, revealing itself more to the next generation than the last, more to the last researcher than the first.”

    #BarackObama #BenBradlee #BillClinton #DonaldTrump #GeorgeHWBush #GeorgeWBush #History #JFK #JoeBiden #news #politics #presidentialLegacy #RonaldReagan

  11. @Susan_Larson_TN
    This also destroys a #Republican legacy, that of #GeorgeHWBush, who considered expansion of #CivilRights in the workplace to be one of his great accomplishments. I wonder if #GeorgeWBush is still sitting well with his honestly shocking decision not to endorse #Harris when his staff did.

  12. Note that Esquire has removed the article by Charles Pierce linked in /19 above, with the following statement:

    "This column has been removed due to an error. The original article stated incorrectly that President George H. W. Bush gave a presidential pardon to his son, Neil Bush. Esquire regrets the mistake."

    #GeorgeHWBush #NeilBush #Esquire #CharlesPierce
    /21

    esquire.com/news-politics/poli

  13. "Yet, somehow, keeping his only surviving son safe from the incoming pack of wolverines soon to d/b/a the Department of Justice is enough to sully Joe Biden's entire public career. The mealymouthed meeping of Democrats like Jared Polis and the inevitable Seth Moulton has landed heavily on my last nerve. The entire cast of Tiger Beat On The Potomac had an ensemble tantrum. Pundits like Jonathan Chait may never recover."

    #Trump #Biden #GeorgeHWBush #GeorgeBush #pardon #media
    /20

  14. "Nobody defines [George H.W. Bush's] presidency, or his political character, by the fact that he pardoned his son. Hell, it wasn't even defined by the fact that Poppy pardoned everyone except Shoeless Joe Jackson on his way out the door so as to obscure forever his involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal."

    (5 December: N.B. /21 below — Esquire has retracted Pierce's claim that Bush pardoned his son.)

    #Trump #Biden #GeorgeHWBush #GeorgeBush #pardon #media
    /19

    esquire.com/news-politics/poli

  15. Signatories include fmr Sen William Cohen (R-ME), who served as #Defense secy [#DefSec] under fmr Pres #BillClinton; fmr #CIA Dir Michael Hayden, who served under fmr Presidents #Obama & #GeorgeWBush; fmr Dir of National #Intelligence [#ODNI] John Negroponte, who served under #Bush; fmr #FBI & CIA Dir William Webster, who served under fmr Presidents #Reagan & #GeorgeHWBush; & fmr US #Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, who served under Pres George W. Bush.

    #NationalSecurity #HarrisWalz2024

  16. >230 fmr ofcls for #Republican presidents #GeorgeHWBush & #GeorgeWBush have also backed #Harris, in addition to campaign staffers for Republican presidential noms #JohnMcCain & #MittRomney. #Biden received a similar amount of #GOP support in his 2020 run against #Trump.

    Fmr #Reagan staff backing Harris includes Ken Adelman, the US ambassador to the #UN & #US #ArmsControl dir under Reagan, as well as B.Jay Cooper, the special asst & deputy press sec to Reagan.

    #law #democracy #HarrisWalz2024

  17. Clarence Thomas Faces Recusal Call From Democrats After Wife's Comment

    Story by Kaitlin Lewis
    September 10, 2024

    "Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have called on #SupremeCourt Justice #ClarenceThomas to recuse himself from cases involving a religious legal group after his wife reportedly thanked the conservative organization for its efforts to block Supreme Court reform.

    "Thomas, a conservative appointed by former President #GeorgeHWBush in 1991, has been one of the justices at the center of calls for court reform after it was revealed that he has accepted millions of dollars in gifts from some top #RepublicanDonors without disclosing the items and #LuxuryVacations to the court. Questions of Thomas' impartiality were also raised after his wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, pressured officials to overturn the 2020 election results in favor of former President Donald Trump.

    "Investigative outlet #ProPublica first reported last week that #GinniThomas recently praised conservative legal group #FirstLibertyInstitute in an email to the firm's president and CEO, Kelly Shackelford, for the organization's work in opposing change to the High Court."

    Read more:
    msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cl

    #ImpeachClarenceThomas
    #ArrestGinniThomas #ImpeachClarenceThomasYesterday #ImpeachJusticeThomas
    #ScotusIsCorrupt #SCOTUS #ErikPrince #January6 #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #Blackwater #Academi #Theocracy #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #CorporateColonialism #SLAPPs #BigOilAndGas #StandWithStandingRock

  18. Clarence Thomas Faces Recusal Call From Democrats After Wife's Comment

    Story by Kaitlin Lewis
    September 10, 2024

    "Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have called on #SupremeCourt Justice #ClarenceThomas to recuse himself from cases involving a religious legal group after his wife reportedly thanked the conservative organization for its efforts to block Supreme Court reform.

    "Thomas, a conservative appointed by former President #GeorgeHWBush in 1991, has been one of the justices at the center of calls for court reform after it was revealed that he has accepted millions of dollars in gifts from some top #RepublicanDonors without disclosing the items and #LuxuryVacations to the court. Questions of Thomas' impartiality were also raised after his wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, pressured officials to overturn the 2020 election results in favor of former President Donald Trump.

    "Investigative outlet #ProPublica first reported last week that #GinniThomas recently praised conservative legal group #FirstLibertyInstitute in an email to the firm's president and CEO, Kelly Shackelford, for the organization's work in opposing change to the High Court."

    Read more:
    msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cl

    #ImpeachClarenceThomas
    #ArrestGinniThomas #ImpeachClarenceThomasYesterday #ImpeachJusticeThomas
    #ScotusIsCorrupt #SCOTUS #ErikPrince #January6 #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #Blackwater #Academi #Theocracy #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #CorporateColonialism #SLAPPs #BigOilAndGas #StandWithStandingRock

  19. Clarence Thomas Faces Recusal Call From Democrats After Wife's Comment

    Story by Kaitlin Lewis
    September 10, 2024

    "Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have called on #SupremeCourt Justice #ClarenceThomas to recuse himself from cases involving a religious legal group after his wife reportedly thanked the conservative organization for its efforts to block Supreme Court reform.

    "Thomas, a conservative appointed by former President #GeorgeHWBush in 1991, has been one of the justices at the center of calls for court reform after it was revealed that he has accepted millions of dollars in gifts from some top #RepublicanDonors without disclosing the items and #LuxuryVacations to the court. Questions of Thomas' impartiality were also raised after his wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, pressured officials to overturn the 2020 election results in favor of former President Donald Trump.

    "Investigative outlet #ProPublica first reported last week that #GinniThomas recently praised conservative legal group #FirstLibertyInstitute in an email to the firm's president and CEO, Kelly Shackelford, for the organization's work in opposing change to the High Court."

    Read more:
    msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cl

    #ImpeachClarenceThomas
    #ArrestGinniThomas #ImpeachClarenceThomasYesterday #ImpeachJusticeThomas
    #ScotusIsCorrupt #SCOTUS #ErikPrince #January6 #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #Blackwater #Academi #Theocracy #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #CorporateColonialism #SLAPPs #BigOilAndGas #StandWithStandingRock

  20. Clarence Thomas Faces Recusal Call From Democrats After Wife's Comment

    Story by Kaitlin Lewis
    September 10, 2024

    "Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have called on #SupremeCourt Justice #ClarenceThomas to recuse himself from cases involving a religious legal group after his wife reportedly thanked the conservative organization for its efforts to block Supreme Court reform.

    "Thomas, a conservative appointed by former President #GeorgeHWBush in 1991, has been one of the justices at the center of calls for court reform after it was revealed that he has accepted millions of dollars in gifts from some top #RepublicanDonors without disclosing the items and #LuxuryVacations to the court. Questions of Thomas' impartiality were also raised after his wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, pressured officials to overturn the 2020 election results in favor of former President Donald Trump.

    "Investigative outlet #ProPublica first reported last week that #GinniThomas recently praised conservative legal group #FirstLibertyInstitute in an email to the firm's president and CEO, Kelly Shackelford, for the organization's work in opposing change to the High Court."

    Read more:
    msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cl

    #ImpeachClarenceThomas
    #ArrestGinniThomas #ImpeachClarenceThomasYesterday #ImpeachJusticeThomas
    #ScotusIsCorrupt #SCOTUS #ErikPrince #January6 #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #Blackwater #Academi #Theocracy #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #CorporateColonialism #SLAPPs #BigOilAndGas #StandWithStandingRock