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16 days agoThe issue for me is also receiving calls. It gets complicated to have multiple numbers or to have to use forwarding when you’re home or not.
Also zeppo@lemmy.world. Not a lot of Zeppos out here.
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My mother would be so confused. She still uses landlines with wireless receivers and an answering machine. She doesn’t seem to understand the concept of only having a cell phone.
3·25 days agoI don’t even think they care about that. They just care if they win. If they can convince a bunch of other groups to vote for them, as long as they can be tricked into staying enslaved, fine. They look down on non-wealthy whites almost as much as every other group.
Republicans have been dreaming and working on the same shit for decades. Pretty much, completely destroy the environment for the benefit of rich people, and fuck everyone else.
It’s true, the non stop ridiculous abuses and coverups of the Trump administration far eclipse what happened in Watergate. However, the only reason they get away with it is because Congress and the Supreme Court are in it with them.
It’s fairly unclear what they really want and I think they’re too stupid to have a clear idea of something that would even work. They can’t really think the country could function after they removed everyone who isn’t their idea of white?
Trump also frequently makes claims with “we are the only country stupid enough to…” while many other countries do the exact same thing he is decrying. They’re relying on the broad ignorance of their voters.
Also, this utter sleazebag claiming he believes in the sanctity and purity of voting is revolting.
Not a great comparison as the Trump tower is one building while the Obama Library is an entire complex.
“Just asking questions”, huh?
Pretty obviously you were implying that it was not due to her husband’s health, but rather that Trump wanted her out, as the supposed insider said. Sure, I believe that. I’d even go further and ask who gave this probable Russian agent’s husband rare bone cancer.
That just links to an archive.today of it. I tried doing it myself on that site before posting that, and it kept trying and didn’t work. I checked that site also and they didn’t have any other solutions. I guess someone got it to work.
Do you really think I’m not aware of the implications here and the fact that president and every member of his admin are chronically dishonest? All I’ve done is note what different outlets are reporting. Thanks though, I’ll try to “use my brain”.
Well, there’s the answer as to why Reuters is reporting that?
A Reuters article I read did not say that. It claimed troomp said she “did a great job”.
Mediaite reports Reuters said that: https://www.mediaite.com/media/reuters-reports-wh-forced-gabbard-to-resign-despite-her-citing-husbands-cancer-battle/
As does this
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/reuters-reports-wh-forced-gabbard-194248000.html
But perhaps Reuters changed their tune? Unfortunately I don’t know a way to get around the paywall here, but it seemed to be the same as other articles (Reuter reports that Fox reports…)
here’s the text of that one…
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - Tulsi Gabbard said on Friday she is resigning from her job as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, saying her husband had been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer and that she was stepping away from her role to help him. Gabbard advised Trump of her intention to step down during an Oval Office meeting on Friday, Fox News Digital reported earlier. The resignation is effective June 30, it said.
A source familiar with the matter said that Gabbard had been forced out by the White House. Davis Ingle, a White House spokesperson, said on X that Gabbard was stepping aside in light of her husband’s diagnosis. “Tulsi Gabbard is an America First patriot who has served this country faithfully and extremely well over the last 16 months,” Ingle said. In her resignation letter posted on X, Gabbard told Trump she was “deeply grateful for the trust you placed in me and for the opportunity to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for the last year and a half.” She cited her husband Abraham Williams’ recent diagnosis with a rare form of bone cancer. “I cannot in good conscience ask him to face this fight alone while I continue in this demanding and time-consuming post,” she said. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Aaron Lukas, would serve as acting director of national intelligence. He said Gabbard had done “a great job” but with her husband diagnosed with bone cancer, “she, rightfully, wants to be with him, bringing him back to good health as they currently fight a tough battle together.” Trump has hinted in the past at differences with Gabbard on their approach to Iran, saying in March that she was “softer” than him on curbing Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
In April, several sources told Reuters that Gabbard could lose her role in a broader cabinet shakeup. A senior White House official said then that Trump had expressed displeasure with Gabbard in recent months. Another source with direct knowledge of the matter said the president had asked allies for their thoughts on potential replacements for his intelligence chief. ‘PUSHED OUT’ Signs of the White House displeasure have included Gabbard’s absence from deliberations between Trump and his top national security advisers on the U.S. military operation that deposed former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the Iran war and Cuba. “She was pushed out by the White House,” a source familiar with Gabbard’s departure told Reuters. “The White House has been unhappy with her for quite some time.” The person said among other reasons for the displeasure with Gabbard were the activities of her taskforce known as the Director’s Initiatives Group. Among other activities, it has worked to declassify documents related to the death of former President John F. Kennedy, investigate the security of election machines, and probe the origins of COVID-19. Another source of friction, the person said, was Gabbard’s revocation last August of the security clearances of 37 current and former U.S. officials that exposed the name of an intelligence officer serving undercover overseas. Gabbard led several initiatives aimed at rooting out politicization from the intelligence community and approved the stripping of security clearances from former intelligence officials, including former CIA Director John Brennan. Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters after a Friday event in Manassas, Virginia, that Gabbard’s job itself had become too politicized. “This position now more than ever needs to be an independent, experienced intelligence professional,” Warner said. The next leader should understand the “Director of National Intelligence should be focusing on foreign intelligence and not involving himself or herself in domestic election incidents,” he said.
Has he been speaking out about Trump’s extremely obvious mental problems, which are exacerbated by him always having been a moron? That’s the issue people have. Yes, Biden was old and getting senile. But it’s not reasonable the amount of attention paid to that vs. the relative free pass the demented orange cretin receives from the same journalists.
Right. It is bizarre, but certainly not surprising or unusual. Just the same deranged playbook where everything bad is the previous administration’s fault.
Classic Republican playbook. Same shit over and over again for decades now… everything bad is a Democrat’s fault and everything good is to their credit. And their chumps enthusiastically believe that, literally. It’s much like a narcissistic personality disorder person in a relationship. Can’t admit fault, weakness, apologize, very hypocritical, so on
Ah, sorry, I read your post incorrectly. Glad it got figured out.
I’m not sure what you mean by a website that does this, but Lemmy uses a couple different simple formats for that. You can use a ! or just /c/. For instance
I think where she lives, if the phone company ceased service the cable company would still provide an option. No idea about line maintenance or other issues though.