If I want to "publish" something on ET I have to push the button "POST Reply". In each header in the right upper corner you see the number of "POSTS" and Likes for the POSTING member. If I POST a POSTING, I am POSTING a POST, not? What's the cool and up to date word I should use? https://www.thefreedictionary.com/posting
Yeah, been using the old interweb from before the general public could access it in university. Postings is for notes you leave on the tree in the village square... Its a rare useage these days. And Bull1Shit2 wants you inside him (or him inside you). I'll look later but this has the smell of a Gnus. Weak minds do tend to copy each other. We shall see.
Supporters’ words may haunt Trump at impeachment trial https://apnews.com/article/joe-bide...impeachments-64b8fee697d922bb75727e5781af815f The words of Donald Trump supporters who are accused of participating in the deadly U.S. Capitol riot may end up being used against him in his Senate impeachment trial as he faces the charge of inciting a violent insurrection. At least five supporters facing federal charges have suggested they were taking orders from the then-president when they marched on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6 to challenge the certification of Joe Biden’s election win. But now those comments, captured in interviews with reporters and federal agents, are likely to take center stage as Democrats lay out their case. It’s the first time a former president will face such charges after leaving office. “I feel like I was basically following my president. I was following what we were called to do. He asked us to fly there. He asked us to be there,” Jenna Ryan, a Texas real estate agent who posted a photo on Twitter of herself flashing a peace sign next to a broken Capitol window, told a Dallas-Fort Worth TV station. Jacob Chansley, the Arizona man photographed on the dais in the Senate who was shirtless and wore face paint and a furry hat with horns, has similarly pointed a finger at Trump. Chansley called the FBI the day after the insurrection and told agents he traveled “at the request of the president that all ‘patriots’ come to D.C. on January 6, 2021,” authorities wrote in court papers. Chanley’s lawyer unsuccessfully lobbied for a pardon for his client before Trump’s term ended, saying Chansley “felt like he was answering the call of our president.” Authorities say that while up on the dais in the Senate chamber, Chansley wrote a threatening note to then-Vice President Mike Pence that said: “It’s only a matter of time, justice is coming.” Trump is the first president to be twice impeached and the first to face a trial after leaving office. The charge this time is “inciting violence against the government of the United States.” His impeachment lawyer, Butch Bowers, did not respond to call for comment. Opening arguments in the trial will begin the week of Feb. 8. House Democrats who voted to impeach Trump last week for inciting the storming of the Capitol say a full reckoning is necessary before the country — and the Congress — can move on. For weeks, Trump rallied his supporters against the election outcome and urged them to come to the Capitol on Jan. 6 to rage against Biden’s win. Trump spoke to the crowd near the White House shortly before they marched along Pennsylvania Avenue to Capitol Hill. “We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesn’t happen,” Trump said. “You don’t concede when there’s theft involved. Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore.” Later he said: “If you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore.” He told supporters to walk to the Capitol to “peacefully and patriotically” make your voices heard. Trump has taken no responsibility for his part in fomenting the violence, saying days after the attack: “People thought that what I said was totally appropriate.” Unlike a criminal trial, where there are strict rules about what is and isn’t evidence, the Senate can consider anything it wishes. And if they can show that Trump’s words made a real impact, all the better, and scholars expect it in the trial. “Bringing in those people’s statements is part of proving that it would be at a minimum reasonable for a rational person to expect that if you said and did the things that Trump said and did, then they would be understood in precisely the way these people understood them,” said Frank Bowman, a Constitutional law expert and law professor at University of Missouri. A retired firefighter from Pennsylvania told a friend that that he traveled to Washington with a group of people and the group listened to Trump’s speech and then “followed the President’s instructions” and went to the Capitol, an agent wrote in court papers. That man, Robert Sanford, is accused of throwing a fire extinguisher that hit three Capitol Police officers. Another man, Robert Bauer of Kentucky, told FBI agents that “he marched to the U.S. Capitol because President Trump said to do so,” authorities wrote. His cousin, Edward Hemenway, from Virginia, told the FBI that he and Bauer headed toward the Capitol after Trump said “something about taking Pennsylvania Avenue.” More than 130 people as of Friday were facing federal charges; prosecutors have promised that more cases — and more serious charges — are coming. Most of those arrested so far are accused of crimes like unlawful entry and disorderly conduct, but prosecutors this week filed conspiracy charges against three self-described members of a paramilitary group who authorities say plotted the attack. A special group of prosecutors is examining whether to bring sedition charges, which carry up to 20 years in prison, against any of the rioters. Two-thirds of the Senate is needed to convict. And while many Republicans — including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky— have condemned Trump’s words, it remains unclear how many would vote to convict him. “While the statements of those people kind of bolsters the House manager’s case, I think that President Trump has benefited from a Republican Party that has not been willing to look at evidence,” said Michael Gerhardt, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law who testified before the House Judiciary Committee during Trump’s first impeachment hearings in 2019. “They stood by him for the entire first impeachment proceeding, thinking that the phone call with the president of the Ukraine was perfect and I’m sure they will think that was a perfect speech too. There is nothing yet to suggest that they would think otherwise,” Gerhardt said.
https://elitetrader.com/et/search/11975995/?q=posting&o=date&c[node]=27 Here over 500 pages of people on ET who use "posting". Seems not so rare to me. English is only my third language so maybe I have not enough knowledge to understand the "finesse" of the language.
Not posting, postings, the usual plural is posts. Anyway, I am sure that it's a coincidence, your style of response says to me you are not a multi-nic. B1S2 liking something just seems weird As soon as you say something he does not like he will probably start talking about putting you on ignore.
Senators who backed Trump's election challenge may rethink their stance on impeachment after losing corporate funding, experts say https://www.businessinsider.com/rep...hment-election-biden-corporate-funding-2021-1 The mass exodus of corporate backing could affect how senators vote on Trump's impeachment trial, experts say. Dozens of companies have pulled funding from the GOP lawmakers who voted against Biden's certification. CEOs say they increasingly have no choice but to bring politics into the boardroom. Moral convictions may not be the only reason that GOP lawmakers are turning their back on former President Donald Trump. Lawmakers who voted against certifying Joe Biden as president may also be rethinking their stance after losing corporate funding, experts told Insider. After Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol in a desperate bid to overturn the presidential election results, which turned into a violent insurrection leaving five people dead, businesses have been quick to cut ties with Trump and the lawmakers who backed his baseless claims of election fraud. Walmart, Amazon, and Morgan Stanley are among the companies that have cut off political funding to the 147 GOP lawmakers who voted against certifying Joe Biden as president. Hallmark went a step further, and asked Republican Senators Josh Hawley and Roger Marshall, who both voted against Biden's certification, to refund its political donations. This mass exodus of corporate backing could have an effect on politicians' actions, experts told Insider. "Cutting funding hits these politicians where it hurts," Donald Hambrick, a professor of management at Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, told Insider. Withholding donations is "probably the more profound of the actions that can be taken," he added. The House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump on January 13. It's now up to the Senate to decide whether to convict him. If he gets the two-thirds majority required to be convicted, the Senate will then hold a vote on whether to bar him from ever holding public office again. "I think senators are gonna be squirming," Hambrick said. As more FBI reports and video footage of the riots are released, more companies will take action, making "senators squirm all the more," Hambrick added. This could ultimately affect how senators vote, he said. "These corporations could have a substantial effect on senators' votes," he said. "The Senate vote could be very much not in Trump's favor." Trump's closest political allies are under pressure from some members of the party to continue supporting Trump and from companies and other politicians to pull away from him, Eric Schiffer, chairman of Reputation Management Consultants, told Insider. California Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader, may have begun back-pedalling in his support for Trump because of the corporate response, Hambrick said. "People are saying it's primarily because of the corporate cuts he faces and his party faces. Observers are tracing his own about-face to these corporate cuts," Hambrick said, citing news reports he had read. "People have traced it to all the cuts in corporate donations, specifically to him." Insider contacted McCarthy's office for comment. Companies aren't just removing funding Cutting funding isn't the only action businesses can take to cut ties with Trump and his supporters. In recent years, companies have been increasingly grouping together to write open letters, Hambrick said, but these may not have as big an influence on politicians. "If the Business Roundtable wrote a letter, it would have some effect, but not as much as cutting political donations," Hambrick said. Companies have likely cut funding to specific politicians before, Hambrick said, but "nothing on this scale, nothing with as much fanfare or visibility." Businesses are also taking other actions in response to the siege, but these aren't necessarily directed at politicians, Forrest Briscoe, a professor of management at Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, explained. Twitter, for example, purged 70,000 accounts associated with QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory, and Amazon Web Services, Apple, and Google were among the companies who cut ties with Parler, a social media site popular with Trump supporters. Briscoe also referred to the New York Stock Exchange. Jeffrey Sprecher heads up its parent company, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). Sprecher is married to Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler, an avid Trump supporter who supported his baseless claims of election fraud. Loeffler had been among the lawmakers planning to vote against Joe Biden's certification as president, though she changed her mind after the siege. But her years of support for Trump could still cause businesses to rethink their relationship with the NYSE, Briscoe said. As more information is released related to the siege, "it's gonna be uglier and uglier, and employees and customers are gonna lean on these companies to do something and basically punish the Republicans who helped bring this about," Hambrick said. Companies are getting increasingly political "A lot of us are hesitant to wade into political waters," a CEO told Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, founder of Yale's Chief Executive Leadership Institute, on condition of anonymity. "We don't want to bring politics into the boardroom or to our employees." "But we need to recognize that threats to the rule of law are legitimate business issues," they continued."It's totally legitimate and therefore also very important that we speak out on these issues." The number of companies responding to the Capitol siege will increase in the coming weeks, Briscoe said, and feeds into a longer-term trend of businesses becoming more political. Their reasons for engaging in sociopolitical activism vary, he added. "Sometimes it's clearly in the interests of the firm, and sometimes it's not, it's just about values and beliefs and positions that people have as citizens or personally," Briscoe explained. Often, the companies decide to take action because of demand from their employees, Briscoe explained. Over recent years, staff have become increasingly vocal about their sociopolitical stances and have lobbied their companies to take action, he said. Google employees, for example, fought against Alphabet's contract with the US government's defense department on Project Maven, a drone warfare project – and, after months of protests, the company said it wouldn't renew the contract. But it's not just employees who may have urged companies to respond to the Capitol siege. CEOs are under pressure to consult their boards before they take actions such as cutting or limiting corporate funding, Hambrick said. And the directors may even have proposed the idea to the CEO in the first place, he added. And here they have the backing of customers, too. Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of companies pausing funding, too, The Harris Poll found. In its survey of 1,960 Americans, nearly three in four said they support companies pulling the plug on political donations for the time being. Ultimately, what companies and CEOs do matters, Sonnenfeld told Insider. "The business leaders right now are the most trusted pillar – over the clergy, public officials, even media and academic," he said.
OK, I learned something new. That's strange as I post posts all the time that he does not like and I am still not on ignore.
He is a strong narcissist, he depends on being fed by some. Tolerating him is sufficient but once the milk goes sour after never see any improvement in him.. In his mind he sees just virtuous USA, not the other possibilities.
My nick has totally nothing to do with the US. When somebody proposed me that nick, I really did not notice the suggestion to "virtual USA". I did not chose the nick myself. I live in Europe and have no connection whatsover with the US at all.
I'm European also though live on Panama and Colombia. American mom, Irish some English and Danish family. Most of the US right will see it as I mentioned. I figured it was from a uralic language once you said English was not your native tongue? In any case, it won't be long before his bubble feels threatened by something you say. It will be interesting to see how it goes