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mais le temps joue pour ce courant je pense.
Nuvo a écrit:Ce terme d'Etat-profond est tellement vague que tout le monde peut y mettre ce qu'il veut...
Cortese a écrit:Nuvo a écrit:Ce terme d'Etat-profond est tellement vague que tout le monde peut y mettre ce qu'il veut...
Non, c'est très simple : il s'agit de l'ensemble des gens qui détiennent la plus grande part du pouvoir politique et sur lesquels on ne te demandera jamais ton avis.
Shoemaker a écrit:Cortese a écrit:Nuvo a écrit:Ce terme d'Etat-profond est tellement vague que tout le monde peut y mettre ce qu'il veut...
Non, c'est très simple : il s'agit de l'ensemble des gens qui détiennent la plus grande part du pouvoir politique et sur lesquels on ne te demandera jamais ton avis.
Bah ?... et le vote ??....
Cortese a écrit:Nuvo a écrit:Ce terme d'Etat-profond est tellement vague que tout le monde peut y mettre ce qu'il veut...
Non, c'est très simple : il s'agit de l'ensemble des gens qui détiennent la plus grande part du pouvoir politique et sur lesquels on ne te demandera jamais ton avis.
Cortese a écrit: mais ça change rien au résultat heureusement
Nuvo a écrit:De toute façon une société est hiérarchisée...
Nuvo a écrit:
Ce n'est pas forcément complotiste alors ?
Hugues a écrit:
C'est trop compliqué comme hypothèse ?
Nuvo a écrit:Tu penses que Woodward a agit contre Nixon dans un but plus large ? C'était quand même une sacrée canaille. Comme Trump.
« Woodward est l’archétype du vrai-faux héros journaliste de la narrative américaniste, à l'audition de laquelle nos intellectuels germanopratins béent d’admiration, avec le Premier Amendement en bandoulière. Le héros du Watergate, qui a reçu tous les lauriers et s’est bâti une fortune sur cette gloire, à la différence de son compère Bernstein qui eut la peau de Nixon avec lui, Woodward, donc, est un ancien agent du renseignement naval, proche du chef d'état-major de la Navy devenu président du Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) d’alors (l’amiral Moorer en 1966-74), avant d’entrer au Post et de se retrouver avec l’affaire du Watergate. L’élimination de Nixon, à partir d’informations obtenues plus par des complicités suscitées directement et indirectement par le JCS que par des vertus journalistiques et progressistes, tombait à pic pour les militaires qui craignaient de fortes réductions du budget du Pentagone et un arrangement avec l'URSS. (Voir notamment le livre The Silent Coup, de 1992, de Len Colodny et Robert Gettlin, sur cet aspect du Watergate, et sur la carrière de Woodward à la gloire du journalisme le plus libre du monde.) Bref, Woodward a toujours copiné avec les militaires; il a poursuivi durant les années Bush, avec un accès idéal au président pour pouvoir publier quelques best-seller qui ont arrondi sa fortune; il semble qu’il continue aujourd’hui parce qu'il n'y a aucune raison d'abandonner les bonnes choses… »
D'ailleurs, qui a prétendu que 400 journalistes US fricotaient avec la CIA ? L'autre journaliste du Watergate, dont plus personne n'entend parler : Bernstein.
Cortese a écrit:Et euh côté Mossad tu n'as pas cherché un peu ?
Shoemaker a écrit:Cortese a écrit:Et euh côté Mossad tu n'as pas cherché un peu ?
Je vois que tu arrives à lire même ce que la prudence m'interdit d'écrire !
Cortese a écrit:Shoemaker a écrit:Cortese a écrit:Et euh côté Mossad tu n'as pas cherché un peu ?
Je vois que tu arrives à lire même ce que la prudence m'interdit d'écrire !
Tu sais quelle était la première des qualités exigées de lui dans sa carrière future, lors de la cérémonie d'adoubement (sacre, nomination ?) d'un Chevalier ? La prudence ! (Je l'ai entendu une fois sur euh hum Radio Courtoisie (courtoisie parce que c'est la seule qui est honnête avec les z'arabes je suppose).
Shoemaker a écrit:Cortese a écrit:Shoemaker a écrit:Cortese a écrit:Et euh côté Mossad tu n'as pas cherché un peu ?
Je vois que tu arrives à lire même ce que la prudence m'interdit d'écrire !
Tu sais quelle était la première des qualités exigées de lui dans sa carrière future, lors de la cérémonie d'adoubement (sacre, nomination ?) d'un Chevalier ? La prudence ! (Je l'ai entendu une fois sur euh hum Radio Courtoisie (courtoisie parce que c'est la seule qui est honnête avec les z'arabes je suppose).
et on ne l'est jamais assez...
Cortese a écrit:- Le constat final que ni l'abolition de l'état social, ni la disparition de l'adversaire, ni les guerres (toutes perdues d'ailleurs), ni bien sur le fermage de gueule des pauvres rednecks, n'ont ramené la prosperité d'antan, le paradis des années 50 où l'ouvrier des hauts fournaux de Pennsylvanie astiquait le dimanche sa Mercury aux ailerons dressés vers le ciel toute neuve dans son jardin devant les yeux éblouis de femme et marmaille, avant de rejoindre ses copains syndicalistes tout puissants au bar du coin.
Nuvo a écrit:Cortese a écrit:- Le constat final que ni l'abolition de l'état social, ni la disparition de l'adversaire, ni les guerres (toutes perdues d'ailleurs), ni bien sur le fermage de gueule des pauvres rednecks, n'ont ramené la prosperité d'antan, le paradis des années 50 où l'ouvrier des hauts fournaux de Pennsylvanie astiquait le dimanche sa Mercury aux ailerons dressés vers le ciel toute neuve dans son jardin devant les yeux éblouis de femme et marmaille, avant de rejoindre ses copains syndicalistes tout puissants au bar du coin.
Les années 50 aux USA, c'était aussi la fin des Misfits. Ces derniers américains, descendants du rêve de conquête de l'ouest et d'espace sauvage, qui n'ont pas accepté le modèle de société qui a vu le jour sous Eisenhower : pub, grosse voiture, salariat, suburba. Medoc si tu ne te coules pas dans ce moule d'acier trempé.
Shoemaker a écrit:La bonne question n'est pas de savoir si Nixon était une belle canaille ou pas, s'il était pire que Trump ou pas... La question est : Quel est le POTUS qui N'EST PAS une top canaille intégrale ! (des canailles qui ne sont que des pantins, en vérité).
BREAKING NEWS
President Trump refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power. Mitch McConnell and a few other Republicans pledged there would be one if he lost.
Thursday, September 24, 2020 10:35 AM EST
No president in modern memory has said what he said.
But members of President Trump’s party treated the comment less like a historic threat to a bedrock democratic principle than as just another news-cycle provocation they hoped to dodge — and even the critics who emerged were careful not to call the president out by name.
Republicans stop short of rebuking Trump as they insist there will be a peaceful transition of power.
A handful of Republicans, including the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, expressed broad support for a peaceful transfer of power after President Trump refused on Wednesday to commit to accepting the results of November’s election. But they carefully avoided any direct criticism of the president.
“The winner of the November 3rd election will be inaugurated on January 20th,” Mr. McConnell wrote on Twitter early Thursday. “There will be an orderly transition just as there has been every four years since 1792.”
“We’re going to have to see what happens,” is how Mr. Trump responded when asked to guarantee a peaceful transfer of power after the election. No president in modern memory has said what he said.
But members of Mr. Trump’s party treated the comment less like a historic threat to a bedrock democratic principle than as just another news-cycle provocation they hoped to dodge — and even the critics who emerged were careful not to call the president out by name.
Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, who this week declared his support for Mr. Trump’s decision to fast-track a new nominee for the Supreme Court, was first out with a criticism, as he has often been when Mr. Trump has made inflammatory comments.
“Fundamental to democracy is the peaceful transition of power; without that, there is Belarus. Any suggestion that a president might not respect this Constitutional guarantee is both unthinkable and unacceptable,” Mr. Romney wrote on Twitter Wednesday night.
Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming and the third-ranking House Republican, took a similar line, tweeting: “The peaceful transfer of power is enshrined in our Constitution and fundamental to the survival of our Republic. America’s leaders swear an oath to the Constitution. We will uphold that oath.”
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who has moderated his criticism of the president after lashing Mr. Trump during the 2016 Republican primary debates, also avoided referring to him directly in his response on Thursday.
“As we have done for over two centuries we will have a legitimate & fair election. It may take longer than usual to know the outcome, but it will be a valid one And at noon on Jan. 20, 2021 we will peacefully swear in the President,” wrote Mr. Rubio, who is also supporting Mr. Trump’s approach to filling the Supreme Court vacancy.
So did Representative Steve Stivers of Ohio, who tweeted, “Regardless of how divided our country is right now, when elections are over and winners are declared, we must all commit ourselves to the Constitution and accept the results.”
Former Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who has been helping Vice President Mike Pence prepare for the upcoming debates, struck a defiant note. “Smart candidates never concede anything before an election. They focus on what it takes to win,” he wrote. “Media could ask @JoeBiden & @KamalaHarris if they plan to concede on election night or drag it out for months.” Mr. Trump’s remarks, though, were not about whether he would be willing to concede on election night. They were about whether he would step aside if the election showed that he lost.
There was scant mention of Mr. Trump’s comments on the president’s favorite network, Fox News, on Wednesday, with the hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham focusing on other topics.
Mr. Trump’s opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr., for his part, seemed to reflect on Democrats’ ambivalence about responding to what many view as another attempt by the president to divert attention from his failure to contain the coronavirus.
Asked about the president’s remarks late Wednesday, Mr. Biden told reporters, “What country are we in?”
“I’m being facetious,” Mr. Biden added. “Look, he says the most irrational things. I don’t know what to say.”
— Glenn Thrush
Trump shifts the 2020 focus by again threatening to undermine the democratic process.
President Trump’s refusal on Wednesday to commit to a peaceful transfer of power enraged Democrats and again put Republicans in a difficult position as their party leader continued to make remarks aimed at delegitimizing the election.
And this was no typical Trump provocation: Acceding to the will of the voters is the linchpin of American democracy.
“Any suggestion that a president might not respect this constitutional guarantee is both unthinkable and unacceptable,” Senator Mitt Romney of Utah said on Wednesday night.
For Republicans hoping to retain the White House and the Senate, it was something else: unhelpful.
G.O.P. lawmakers and strategists have, for the first time in weeks, expressed optimism about their prospects. Their hope: that the coming fight over filling the Supreme Court seat held by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will turn attention away from Mr. Trump and the coronavirus and refocus it on a more partisan, red-and-blue clash.
But Mr. Trump does not appear intent on cooperating with these plans.
His comments about the transfer of power were only his latest provocation — of the day. Earlier Wednesday, he flatly predicted that the presidential election would end up in the Supreme Court and said that was why he wanted a full slate of justices, barely concealing his hope for a friendly majority on the court.
“I think this will end up in the Supreme Court and I think it’s very important that we have nine justices, and I think the system’s going to go very quickly,” Mr. Trump said of the need for a quick confirmation process.
The night before, at a rally near Pittsburgh, Mr. Trump hurled xenophobic attacks at Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who immigrated to the United States from Somalia as a girl in the 1990s.
“She’s telling us how to run our country,” the president said. “How did you do where you came from? How is your country doing?”
The night before that, at another rally, Mr. Trump said the coronavirus “affects virtually nobody” — never mind that the country’s death toll from the virus just crossed 200,000.
This is all to say that the Republican hopes of the Supreme Court fight reshaping the election will have to contend with a president determined, intentionally or not, to keep the focus on himself.
— Jonathan Martin
After the White House said Trump would accept the results of the election, he once again suggests it may be tainted.
A day after President Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power drew rebukes from Democrats, nervous distancing from Republicans and attempts at reassurance from the White House, Mr. Trump weighed in again Thursday and said that he was not sure the November election could be “honest” because mail-in ballots are “a whole big scam.”
“We want to make sure that the election is honest and I’m not sure that it can be,” Mr. Trump told reporters before leaving the White House for North Carolina.
Mr. Trump was responding to a reporter’s question about whether he would consider the November election results legitimate only if he wins.
Instead of repeating his press secretary’s assurance earlier in the day that he would accept the results of a “free and fair” election, Mr. Trump instead launched into his latest complaint about mail-in ballots, which he has repeatedly asserted without evidence are likely to be tainted by widespread fraud, and suggested that the election will not, in fact, be fairly decided.
“So, we have to be very careful with the ballots. The ballots — you know, that’s a whole big scam,” Mr. Trump said, citing what he said were news reports about ballots found “in a river” and a trash can.
Earlier in the day, Christopher A. Wray, the director of the F.B.I., told lawmakers that he had not seen evidence of a “coordinated national voter fraud effort,” undercutting Mr. Trump’s effort to stoke fears about mail-in ballots.
The president’s remarks struck a different tone from that of other prominent Republicans, who spent the day making it clear that they were committed to the orderly transfer of power. His refusal Wednesday to commit to accepting the results of November’s election — something no other modern president has put in doubt — led Democrats to condemn him as a threat to American democracy.
On Thursday, Mr. Trump cited an August comment by his 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton, who said that former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. “should not concede under any circumstances.” But Mrs. Clinton was referring only to election night itself, warning that a final, accurate tally may not be known until days or weeks later, in part because of potentially late-arriving mail-in votes Mr. Trump aims to discredit.
— Michael Crowley
Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power prompts McConnell to promise ‘an orderly transition.’
President Trump’s refusal to commit to accepting the results of November’s election — something no other modern president has put in doubt — led several prominent Republicans, including Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, to insist Thursday that there would be a peaceful transfer of power come January. But they stopped short of directly criticizing the president.
“The winner of the November 3rd election will be inaugurated on January 20th,” Mr. McConnell wrote on Twitter. “There will be an orderly transition just as there has been every four years since 1792.”
Mr. McConnell did not mention Mr. Trump in his comments, and he refused to elaborate on them. But his tweet was in response to Mr. Trump’s comment on Wednesday, when a reporter asked if the president would commit to a peaceful transition, that “We’re going to have to see what happens.”
Mr. Trump went on to question the integrity of “the ballots” — apparently referring to mail-in voting, which he has falsely called rife with fraud — and added that if he were able to “get rid of” the ballots and ensure a “continuation” rather than a “transfer,” it would be peaceful.
The peaceful transfer of power and accepting election results are fundamentals of democracy.
Many Republicans, including Mr. McConnell, while declining to call the president out by name, distanced themselves from the remarks and insisted that there would be a peaceful transfer of power if former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the presidency.
When asked if Republicans would stand up to the president should he resist departing the office in event of a political loss, Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, told reporters on Thursday that he believed they would.
“Republicans believe in the rule of law, we believe in the Constitution, and that’s what dictates what happens in our election process,” Mr. Thune told reporters on Capitol Hill.
Moderate Republicans, including those facing tough bids for re-election, dismissed the suggestion that there would be anything other than a peaceful transition of power, with Senator Dan Sullivan, Republican of Alaska, declaring, “of course we’re going to have a peaceful transition of power. We’re the United States of America. We’re not a banana republic.”
“I don’t know what his thinking was, but we have always had a controlled transition between administrations,” said Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine. She said “the peaceful transfer of power is a fundamental tenet of our democracy, and I am confident that we will see it occur once again.”
Some Republicans, including Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the minority leader, sought to change the subject from Mr. Trump’s remarks, arguing that his comments were no different from comments Hillary Clinton made last month suggesting Mr. Biden should not concede. Ms. Clinton did not say Mr. Biden should “never” concede, but rather that because vote counting could be protracted this year because of the increase in mail ballots, he should not concede, if he was trailing, until the results were finalized.
“I think there will be a peaceful transfer of power, and I think the real concern in terms of the election is that Joe Biden has been explicit that if he doesn’t win on Election Day, he intends to challenge the legitimacy of the election,” said Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, though it was not immediately clear what remarks he was referring to and Mr. Biden has repeatedly warned that it is Mr. Trump who is seeking to undermine the election results.
Mr. Cruz also raised the specter of Ms. Clinton’s comments. “I think that threat to challenge the election is one of the real reasons why it is so important that we confirm the Supreme Court nominees so that there’s a full Supreme Court on the bench to resolve any election challenge,’' he said.
In an interview on Fox on Thursday, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, used the outcry over Mr. Trump’s remarks to push for the quick confirmation of a conservative Supreme Court justice, arguing that the seat should be filled in case the nation’s highest court needed to rule on the outcome of the November election.
“People wonder about the peaceful transfer of power,” he said. “I can assure you, it will be peaceful.” He added, “I promise you as a Republican, if the Supreme Court decides that Joe Biden wins, I will accept the result. The court will decide, and if Republicans lose, we’ll accept the result.”
That promise comes as Mr. Graham and other Republicans face sharp criticism for their sharp reversal on their past vow not to fill a Supreme Court seat during an election year.
Even as he drew a comparison between Ms. Clinton’s remarks and those made by Mr. Trump on Wednesday, Senator Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri, acknowledged that “I think all of this talk, by both the Biden campaign and the president, is unhelpful.”
— Emily Cochrane and Glenn Thrush
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