January 20, BFD. Joe Biden would make a good University of Delaware athletic director.
He could glad hand alumni donors and fire coaches. He'd be at his level of competence. And he could harass whoever. Hunter getting some University job.
Deutsche Bank AG has reportedly decided to cut
ties with President Donald Trump as well as his private companies
following the unrest at Capitol Hill last week.
The German lender has been joined by the New York-based Signature
Bank, which also announced that it would be ending its business
relationship with the President.
Bloomberg News reported
on Tuesday that two insiders within Deutsche Bank — who remained
anonymous ostensibly due to banking regulations — confirmed that the
German banking giant would no longer conduct any further business with
President Trump or his company.
However,
There will still be some relationship between the bank and the
President, however, as he reportedly owes Deutsche Bank some $340
million in outstanding loans. The bank has served as a lender for
President Trump since the 1990s and has lent some $2 billion during
their business relationship.
The day after the events at the Capitol, the head of Deutsche Bank
Americas, Christiana Riley wrote on LinkedIn: “Yesterday was a dark day
for America and our democracy.”
“We are proud of our Constitution and stand by those who seek to
uphold it to ensure that the will of the people is upheld and a peaceful
transition of power takes place,” she added.
[...]
Big corporations strike to unbank the right! Wall
Street banks freeze political donations, threaten pro-Trump politicians
with blacklisting! https://t.co/vcqQcW0NvN
On Monday, New York lender Signature Bank said that it would be
closing two of President Trump’s personal accounts which hold some $5.3
million.
The bank also called for the president to resign before the end of
his term, saying in a statement: “We believe the appropriate action
would be the resignation of the president of the United States, which is
in the best interests of our nation and the American people.”
“We have never before commented on any political matter and hope to never do so again,” the bank added.
According to UK’s Daily Telegraph, a spokesman for Deutsche Bank also said
that it will refuse to do any business with members of Congress who
backed the president in his fight against the certification of the
electoral college vote.
The move by the two banks comes after the announcement from the online payment processor Stripe that it would be blacklisting the Trump campaign from its services, preventing the movement from accepting donations via credit card.
Nine big tech companies have also banned or restricted
the President of the United States from operating on their platforms,
including Twitter, Google, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube,
Snapchat, Pinterest, Shopify, Reddit, TikTok, Twitch, and Discord.
[...]
Mainstream Media may be reporting some of the same, but for now Breitbart seems to be more relevant in reporting what is really going on, like it or not.
So, more Breitbart, make of it what you will. Here, here, here and here.
Apart from that sampling, and after all the puffing and money dumping to elect two Democratic Senators in Georgia; know that aside from committee chairs and setting the floor agenda or bottling up bills (McConnell handing that off to Schumer), the truth of things is that nothing will fundamentally change. One bad Dem in a 50-50 Senate is enough to monkey against progress for the populace. And there is one, with a record over the years.
Parler filed a lawsuit on Monday accusing Amazon of violating antitrust laws when it removed the social media site from the web.
The lawsuit
explains that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a multi-year deal
with Twitter, as well as Parler, “a conservative microblogging
alternative and competitor to Twitter.”
“When Twitter announced two evenings ago that it was permanently
banning President Trump from its platform, conservative users began to
flee Twitter en masse for Parler,” the suit reads. “The exodus was so
large that the next day, yesterday, Parler became the number one free
app downloaded from Apple’s App Store.”
The lawsuit goes on to note that while AWS claimed it was booting
Parler due to concerns it may “incite violence,” one of Twitter’s top
trends on Friday night was “Hang Mike Pence,” and AWS “has no plans nor
has it made any threats to suspend Twitter’s account.”
[...]
The lawsuit alleges that “AWS’s decision to effectively terminate Parler’s account is apparently motivated by political animus.”
“It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the
microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter,” the suit
reads. “Thus, AWS is violating Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act in
combination with Defendant Twitter.”
“AWS is also breaching its contract with Parler, which requires AWS
to provide Parler with a thirty-day notice before terminating service,
rather than the less than thirty-hour notice AWS actually provided,” the
suit adds. “Finally, AWS is committing intentional interference with
prospective economic advantage given the millions of users expected to
sign up in the near future.”
Therefore, Parler is asking for an emergency order to reject Amazon’s
shutdown of its account, saying that shutting the site down “will kill
Parler’s business — at the very time it is set to skyrocket.”
[...]
In parallel Breitbart reporting, even a blind pig can sometimes sniff out a truffle. In this instance Carlson has some detail wrong, and a major simplifying misunderstanding of rigged "law and order" as the equivalent of something as ephemeral as "justice," but read the thing and consider the general theme, (where stylistic bluster and some pure idiocy gets in the way more than helps present a point of valid criticism).
Next, two closing images, the first emailed by a reader after an earlier Crabgrass screed about cleansing the temple, the other - these are real people - a multitude - dissatisfied with much besides "whiteness politics motivation" and Trump's pandering to the worse in them. They are not rich. They are not viewed as important to politicians who are rich and/or servants of the rich. They are citizens. As I am. My dissatisfaction differs, but I am, over other things, as dissatisfied as they are. And I remember the Florida theft of an Al Gore election win; and what we ended up with, the Iraq War, Dick Cheney, plus more; when Supreme Court members disgraced themselves irretrievably.
