Videos Of Republicans Who Supported The Impeachment Of Richard Nixon

Mango Mussolini Goes On Twitter Rant Accuses President Obama Of Wiretapping Trump Tower

Mango Mussolini went on a twitter rant this morning accusing President Obama of being worse than Richard Nixon when he claimed that his offices in Trump tower had been wiretapped prior to November's election. Of course the orange shitgibbon offered no evidence of any wrongdoing.

The Big Picture: The People vs America - Featured Documentary

The American people’s lack of faith in and disillusionment with the US establishment is greater now than at any other point in history. The institutions that served US citizens are increasingly regarded as self-serving and the people increasingly divided, increasingly polarised along racial and economic lines.

The Ghosts Of Richard Nixon And Robert Bork Are Haunting America

On October 20, 1973 then President Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson  to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox.  Richardson refused, and resigned. His Deputy William Ruckelshaus also refused to dismiss Archibald Cox and resigned.  President Nixon then turned U.S. Solicitor General Robert Bork who fired Cox.   Robert Bork would could go on to be nominated for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.  He was never confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

This incident would become known as the Saturday Night Massacre.

Which leads us to today and the firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates and the removal of acting ICE Director Daniel Ragsdale.

White House says Obama appointee ‘betrayed’ state department with letter instructing officials not to enforce president’s executive order

Donald Trump has fired the acting US attorney general after she told justice department lawyers not to defend his executive order banning entry for people from seven Muslim-majority countries.

The White House said on Monday that Sally Yates had “betrayed” the department by refusing to enforce a legal order that was “designed to protect the citizens of the United States”.

Trump drafted in Dana Boente, US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, to replace Yates as acting attorney general. The president’s official appointee, anti-immigration hardliner Senator Jeff Sessions, is yet to be confirmed by the Senate.

Sally Yates' duty was to uphold the U.S. Constitution and not to the President. No matter which political party they belong to.




    

Why There's A One China Policy

In 1972 President Richard Nixon went to China beginning what be a 7 year gradual shift in American foreign policy when under President Jimmy Carter the U.S. officially recognized the government in Beijing as being China's legitimate rulers.  Along with that diplomatic thaw and the opening of an official embassy the American government had to sever diplomatic ties with Taiwan.  America wasn't the only country that China placed this condition upon as Taiwan wasn't an independent country, but in their view a renegade province.  Thus began a political fiction:  No country would give offical status to the government on Taiwan even though it was a separate political entity.    One that had  ties to all the major economic, political and military powers but never publicly stating its independence.  

This political fiction was instrumental in keeping that corner of world stable. Yes, there been have cross strait flair ups, diplomatically,  but never an armed conflict.  With the election of Donald Trump that could all change.  He seems determined to punish China for all that ill's America.  Has China manipulated its currency? Most certainly. But initiating a trade war the world's second  largest economy isn't going to change the dynamic.  It will however cause economic hardship for the very people Donald Trump purports to seek economic justice for.  Here's the question: What leverage does Donald Trump hold which would cause the Chinese government to change its economic policies? None. China is one of the largest holders of U.S. debt and controls 90% of the rare earth metals needed to manufacture  every electronic  device in use today included Donald Trump's mobile phone.
There's a One China Policy for a reason as stated above. Yes, it's a political fiction but a necessary one. Without there would have been instability in a region that has little need for it.


Donald Trump, either doesn't care or simply refuses to understand this dynamic and believes that he can bully the the Chinese government into his world view.  Unfortunately for him that's not going to happen.