A distinguished career diplomat resigns. He told the truth about a jacka** . The sb teleprompter prez wins. When will he LOSE HIS JOB?

He already did.    OF COURSE
Oh you mean TRUMP?  
I STILL THINK HIS TIME IS GONNA COME.
This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at July 11, 2019 3:07 AM MDT

Well, don't you have a Presidential Election again next year? Chance to boot him out, but presumably that depends on the calibre of those standing against him, and whether he still has all that support he had in the former industrial States.

I don't know anything about Hilary Clinton, but I have the impression many Americans saw her or Trump as a least-worse choice or purely Party loyalty to many Americans at the time, when now you do need a best-of-good choice as well as sincere Party opinion.

Mentioned in a brief summary of the day's Press on the radio this morning, one newspaper - I didn't catch which - remarked that Trump has little respect for foreign diplomats generally. (Unless, I suppose, they publicly support him, when their real responsibility is to tell their own governments honestly, what the host government is like.)


I think the last straw or at least one of them, for the UK's Ambassador was Boris Johnson's lack of any support for him. I know Donald Trump regards Johnson warmly, but I hope that was not in Johnson's mind. After a series of internal voting rounds for a new Leader caused by Theresa May resigning as Prime Minister, Johnson is now finalist against Jeremy Hunt for election to Leadership of the Conservative Party. Since that is the current Party of Government the winner of that internal election will also be Prime Minister. 

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[Under the British system, all serving Members of Parliament (MPs) irrespective of of any Ministerial role they hold, are Constituency MPs, elected as such in the General Elections. The Party Leader though, hence Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition, is elected by the party members.

We don't vote for the Prime Minister in the way many countries vote for their Presidents; and he or she is still the MP for his or her Constituency - one of over 600, divided into Local-governmental areas with separate own local-government elections. All MPs equally are chosen in the national General Elections for the normal 5-year term, excepting any individual constituency "By-election" enforced by the death, resignation or removal from office of the MP concerned.] This post was edited by Durdle at July 11, 2019 3:08 AM MDT

You paint a terrifying prospect, and it's threat that can only be avoided by enough honest Americans becoming politicians, or voting only for politicians who do put the country and its citizens before their own ends. That and the law authorities investigating and coming down hard on anyone rigging elections, at least within the USA - they'd have no powers overseas.

Putin's government is known to have tried to interfere with many countries, too. As far as I know it's only one to interfere directly in a presidential election though, because as you say, Putin wants powers favourable to him.

Most of the others seem to attack IT systems instead because their main aim is to weaken the countries they attack. Some of these attacks might have been tests of the weapons, ahead of any outright "warfare".

There have also been massive attacks on businesses like airlines and hotel chains, to steal customers' details, but I think they are far more likely to be by criminals wanting to steal money than by hostile governments' secret services. It's noticeable that the authorities prosecute the airlines etc. though, on the grounds of weak Internet security, but no-one reports any attempts to trace and arrest the hackers.