Trump demands Microsoft fire its head of global affairs US President Donald Trump has demanded Microsoft fire its recently appointed head of global affairs Lisa Monaco. Using his personal social network, Trump argued that Monaco’s time serving the Obama and Biden administrations – which both investigated the current president’s actions – makes her an unsuitable Microsoft employee …
Advocating for a "small government" that does not interfere "with free enterprises and market".... just Trumpo ego is too big to fit the Solary System...
And anyway the project (2025) was from the start to occupy every public seat and use them against "the people". Authoritarian movements are bulimic, they need to fill every government office, and also duplicate them with their own.
No, it is completely unheard of.
The US President has, historically, taken care of the country, not of his own personal vendettas.
It would seem that Trump is indeed the greatest US President. He is the most pathetic, vindictive, tiny-dicked asshole there has ever been.
At this point in time, I think the Statue of Liberty should be dismantled and returned to France for safekeeping.
The US doesn't deserve it anymore.
If this person is a security risk, which I have no idea if its true or not, then Trump would actually be doing his job.
And let's not be intellectuelly dishonest here, Trump is only the Loudmouth that is doing s9me barking, the actual work of vetting people was done at a completely.different level.
This is just another one of those articles to keep the angertainement machine busy.
The actual problem here is that yet another reason has veen found to keep up divided.
And let's not pretend that France is not going through a truly crap period.
Macron ne peut pas mettre une pied devant l'autre sans faire faux route.
Why would you think this was part of Trump's job?
If someone is a direct security risk to the USA, the FBI/CIA/whatever should arrest them and charge them with whatever it is, not just have the President call for them to be fired. This is political stuntwork, not good governance.
Trump is on a witch hunt for those involved in investigating him, and this gives him leverage to nick 10% of Microsoft. US tech companies are getting the government links that the USG complains about Chinese companies having. Other nations should take note and plan some alternatives. Time to pivot away from the US, as fast as possible.
Perhaps you missed the several well published security lapses that show Trump and his gaggle of babbling nobhoppers to be a far greater security risk than any other persons in the US, period! He would never be able to get the security clearance needed to be a janitor at a sensitive government facility through normal channels.
Trump the guy who kept classified government documents in a bathroom at his Florida golf club, is not the person who should be deciding who is or isn't a security risk at a private company. And its certainly not his job to be announcing these things on his twitter knock off even if there were genuine concerns.
It just more distractions to try and get people from talking about him and Epstein again.
"There have been plenty of disreputable presidents in the past."
But these were not that demented/deranged as the mad hatter and didn't blurt their vendettas out in public.
But what do you expect from a man that declares on camera that he only cares about a plane crashing or not when he isn't on it?
My personal favorite is when he said that he didn't care about the people he was speaking to and by extension anybody else that voted for him, he only cared about their votes. Of course you could fill several volumes with the loony toons things he's said since 2015.
It would take a psychopath [1] to not care about planes flying safely. That kind of lack of empathy is rare.
Whatever you can say about politicians, only few are real psychopaths.
But maybe you are projecting your own (lack of) feelings?
[1] Or a narcissist, the difference is small between these disorders.
"I am not sure that is the case. There have been plenty of disreputable presidents in the past.
Perhaps not quite as disreputable as this one.
He seems to combine small minded petty vindictiveness with a complete lack of empathy and ..... Well actually a display of all the traits of a psycopath to a high degree.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
Biden guided the US through one of the largest global financial meltdowns since the 1973 oil embargo. The US managed to keep its inflation rate to one of the lowest in the world and managed to crawl out of the Trump Covid handling debacle (no you idiot it didn't just go away) faster than the rest of the world despite having the greatest death rate per population than any other country. Prompting the Economist to eventually call the US economy the "envy of the world". At the end Biden was spent with age clearly taking its toll and him trying to hold on way too long. This opened the door to Trump reeking his special brand of unprecedented havoc once again on the US to a degree that has yet to reach it's peak. It is a shame that it ended for Biden that way, for the US it's a disaster.
The Mad Red Hatter can speak for hours, about himself. We will never know whether he can speak about something else as he never does.
The Mad Red Hatter was able to stand up and preside over the death of a million Americans, most of them avoidable, out of sheer stubborn stupidity, still talking all about himself. But what to expect from a man that doesn't care whether planes are safe when he isn't flying?
Biden lead an administration that cleaned up the mess and restarted the economy. Which the Mad Red Hatter is now throwing into the blender again.
Capitulating to Trump just makes him feel you're an easy mark, and he'll demand more and more. Before long he'll have installed himself as dictator with your help, and he'll be telling companies like Microsoft to hand over 20% of its shares to him personally. And there won't be anything that can stop him, because everyone thought just giving in to him on this "one small thing" will get him off your back and cause him to turn his attention elsewhere until he had so much power it was no longer possible to stand up to him. Its disgusting.
Business leaders, university presidents, network presidents, etc. all need to all unite and post an open letter telling him to get fucked, and that if he tries to use his power as president to take away their contracts, take away their broadcast licenses, tariff them, etc. they'll fight him in court and then people who support the cause need to single out all those companies who stay silent and capitulate to band together and boycott their products - and the products of companies that use their products/services (i.e. pressure companies to drop Oracle if as I would assume Ellison won't sign onto this)
We need more Churchills and fewer Chamberlains here in the US if we want to avoid becoming the next Hungary, the next Russia, or the next Nazi Germany. The sad thing is that Fox News has propagandized the MAGA moron masses into believing Hungary and Russia are paradises of freedom and success so some of them reading this might think "that doesn't sound too bad to me!"
"We need more Churchills and fewer Chamberlains"
But Chamberlain bought the UK the time to prepare for the war. If the war had started with Chamberlain, the UK would probably have fallen. The French did not and folded within weeks.
It is prudent to enter a fight after you prepared your means, not before.
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"Well OK maybe that's not a perfect example but I think people know what I meant."
And a perfect example of how most people misunderstand history. Not only did Chamberlain buy time at Munich, it was his government started the rearmament programme that produced the weapons that meant we didn't have the Austrian parading down the Mall.
Also, always worth remembering that the Labour party steadfastly opposed rearmament, even as the clouds were gathering over Germany.
"Germany was in no position to defeat Britain in 1940 never mind in 1938"
Germany almost succeeded in 1940. What if the RAF did not have had all those Polish pilots that gave their lives for the UK?
"The military build up in Britain would likely have been faster under a 1938 Churchill government than the Chamberlain one."
A question that is irrelevant. There was a rearmament that made the UK stronger while Germany was not already busy fighting all over Europe. In the end, the UK held out long enough.
What the RAF had was integrated command and control. I'm sure you've seen the films of wrens moving models around on a huge table map tracking the combat in real time each with a headset to talk directly to sector bases and to receive information from radar stations, nobody else had anything like that and it revolutionised air defence. All done on computers now but the principle was created then.
The German planes didn't all use the same radios so bombers couldn't talk to the fighter escort directly while the RAF was more coordinated. (We did have some problems with sectors not cooperating fully - internal power plays and petty politics at the top).
We also had better radar than the Germans thought. Before hostilities they sent the Graf Zeppelin along the south and east coasts and they detected a 25hz signal but assumed it was leakage from our national grid which in a way, it was. They decided the coastal towers were a range finding system when in fact they were the "home chain" radar stations. Those home chain radar stations used the 50hz mains frequency instead of local pulse generators, this also meant the entire coastal radar was synchronized making it far more sensitive. We also had (just) enough mobile stations for when they bombed the fixed ones which were generally back up within a week of an attack, strangely after a while they stopped bothering to bomb them.
After the war it was mentioned to a (former) high ranking Luftwaffe officer that we identified and tracked the Graf Zeppelin on radar and he was shocked, they were certain we didn't have that capability before the war started.
Later there was the cavity magnetron ... <17 pages of tedious technical drivel deleted> ....
In purely technical terms much of the allied technology was actually inferior to what the Germans produced, theirs was precision engineering - just too precise!
Where the allies were better was in *how* they used it and the fighter command system was the first integrated system to be invented. Also as our stuff was more rough and ready, so it was far more adaptable and there was a proper feedback between the users and scientists.
It was in the factories where the triumph of the Allies was made - we far out produced and made stuff that was much easier to repair in the field.
Indeed, the 25Hz pulse wasn't used because it was superior to working at a higher frequency like the Luftwaffe were using, it was used because we had to build a comprehensive network in a hurry and it was much easier, quicker and cheaper to implement the outdated low frequency system. All the stations being synchronized was a happy accident as it eliminated interference problems where stations overlapped.
As for the factories, don't forget we outsourced as much as we could to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and anybody else who could help.
That is not what you said.
The war for Britain started in 1939, not 1938 or 1925 or any other dates you might conjure up.
Stick by what you actually stated " If the war had started with Chamberlain..."
Who knows what the outcome would have been in 1938? The RAF would have been mostly equipped with biplanes like the Gloster Gauntlet and Gladiator and the Hawker Fury and Demon. To be honest the Luftwaffe were still just introducing the Bf109, Bf110 and had the earlier versions of the He111 and Do17.
So not as one-sided as sometimes stated. Oh, and of course the CH stations were up and running though not fully on top line.
In the end the RAF held on and the rest is as they say history.
"Stick by what you actually stated " If the war had started with Chamberlain...""
I wrote that as a shorthand for "if Chamberlain had bungled the 1938 meeting and started a war". The crucial point being that Chamberlain's European policies bought the OK 2 years to prepare for the war.
Maybe, the UK might have defeated Germany in a war in 1938, but I have yet to see anyone defend that position. But maybe you will stand up?
>Maybe…
The events leading up to Dunkirk in 1940, suggest highly unlikely.
However, to focus on 1938, is to assume Chamberlain’s action was exceptional, when it fact it was simply a continuation of UK government policy from the early 1930s, which regarded Germany a lesser threat than the USSR (whereas the French regarded Germany as a bigger threat).
Aside: This is an interesting assessment of the situation: Anglo-Nazi Pact in the 1930’s?
""Maybe, the UK might have defeated Germany in a war in 1938"
My understanding is that Hitler wanted to go to war in 1938 and it was Mussolini who encouraged him to hold back as Italy was far from ready (it never really was).
Of course we will never know how it would have worked out as it also gave Hitler another 2 years before invading France to perfect the tactics, even in France they were refuelling at French service stations !
> We need more Churchills and fewer Chamberlains
Whilst the leader is important, we should remember they were able to deliver through the appointment of a capable, cross party war cabinet. Remember, whilst Churchill got the press and ran the war effort, Attlee ran the domestic economy. Also Chamberlain was in Churchill’s initial war cabinet - his position wasn’t a grace and favour, it was because he could contribute, and Churchill was very clear the cabinet members needed to take responsibility and make decisions.
Microsoft does have myriad contracts with the US government, but it is far from certain that Monaco – or other senior Microsoft execs – therefore enjoy access to “Highly Sensitive Information” that would endanger the USA’s national security.
It's statements like this that make me worry, as it's not relevant. (Unless everyone along the procurement or hiring process has dropped the ball).
The issue is an elected official using political pressure for personal vendettas, yet that's become so normalised that it's not really even the story any more.
Just ask the US farmers that after losing their entire Chinese soybean market due to Trump tariffs and costing taxpayers 28 billion dollars in his first term still voted for him in 2023 and are now facing a much more widespread farming disaster due to, wait for it, Trump tariffs. Adding insult to injury when Trump shut down foreign food aid it added to the lost US farm revenue since it was surprise, surprise where the US bought the food to send overseas. I mean I want to feel sorry for them, they are literally the breadbasket of the US and to a much much lesser degree now the world. It's just very hard to overcome the mental effects of the barrage of MAGA lunacy day after day after day. And don't get me started on JFK Jr. or ICE/DHS/National Guard/military storm troopers or blatant trashing of the US constitution with the full active participation of the Supine Court and the MAGA majorities in both houses of the US congress. Stephen and Jimmy please take me away, at least for just a little while.
And whilst the MAGAs cheer on and allow these things to be established, they don't realise they are digging their own graves.
When they finally realise they've been screwed, and they can't afford rent or food, by the time they start protesting, ICE will be so ingrained in society (due to their acceptance) that they will be easily dealt with.
Do they think Trump or ICE MAGA will care about them? ICE MAGA, drunk on power, will happily round up the "undersirable" MAGAs causing trouble for the great leader.
Trump thinks that Lisa Monaco is partisan and that if she has access to sensitive information that she would abuse it. This does not describe most people. Most will do a job honestly and not use any special status for their personal benefit or that of their favourite causes. That Trump thinks that she would is a reflection of Trump's own corrupt morals.
Trump also fails to understand that just because Monaco is in a position of power that she would have access to sensitive information. Most businesses would not allow that. Trump & cronies doing that in the USA government is not how well run organisations work.
Right wing extremists always assume that everyone else will do things like that because it's 'exactly' what they would do... and they're unable to think that people can have the things that they have never had... like morals, integrity, ethics, compassion and honour.
All conservatives these days (in all countries) operate on this simple premise.... the illogical and irrational belief... that some where, some one they think is inferior to them... might be treated as an equal.
How close the US is to becoming an autocratic society.
It is time to legally enforce separation between politicians, judges and regulators - the politicians should define the law, with the judges and regulators ensuring that it is enforced fairly, equally and without bias.
It's also time for the legislators (of all flavors) to act democratically (note the small "d") and in the interests of their constituents, rather that voting against "the others" because "they are the opposition".
"democratically (note the small "d")
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This is no time or place for both sides BS. The threat is not in any way coming from the Democratic (note the big "D") side. Well other than the until recently milk toast responses and sternly written letters from the Democratic "leaders". There are a few, and growing number of younger Democrats and Bernie Sanders of course that are standing up and fighting back (non-violently of course). I fear that what might be the only force strong enough to stop the red tide is a US military that will uphold their sacred oath to the Constitution of the United States and not the man that is supposedly their commander in chief. The meeting of ALL military top brass that Hegseth set for Tuesday and will now have Trump speaking at also might be a make or break moment in US democracy.
I think that companies and individuals need to remember that the president's preferences are not, actually, law. Bending the knee to petty gripes like this means essentially giving control to him for everything. Its healthy to maintain boundaries especially with those that are insistent on pushing them.
Might this finally be the point in which an entity stands up to the Orange-utan, hands it a hammer, and points it to the beach.
/me is no fan of Micros~1, but were they to do that, my opinion of them would change for the better. Bigly.
And as for Laura Loomer, she needs to go suck on a wooden dowel.
