Post inauguration Trump:

[Culprit]

Trump is getting to understand how General Custer must have felt. The wagons have circled and the attacks are coming from all directions.

[pietillidie]

A recent look at the Fox corner of the swamp:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019 ... hite-house

The corruption will be mountain-high by the time the vulgar toad is removed, while the peasants will be angrier, unhealthier, less skilled, more disoriented, more fundamentalist, more fearful of the wider world, and of course poorer once the tab for the handouts to the wealthy comes in.

It's a joke to go from the outright state corruption of the billionaire Bush dynasty to the unchecked petty tyrant corruption of the billionaire la famiglia, as if learning nothing. And Jesus wept.

[thesoretoothsayer]

Orange man bad.

[stui magpie]

Trump is getting to understand how General Custer must have felt. The wagons have circled and the attacks are coming from all directions.

An eccentric billionaire wanted a mural painted on his library wall,
so he called in an artist. Describing what he wanted, the billionaire
said, "I am a history buff, and I would like your interpretation of
the last thing that went through Custer's mind before he died. I am
going out of town on business for a week, and when I return I expect
to see it completed."

Upon his return, the billionaire went to the library to examine the
finished work. To his surprise he found a painting of a cow with a
halo. Surrounding this there were hundreds of Indians in various
stages and different positions of making love. Furious he called the
artist in.

"What the hell is this?" screamed the billionaire.

"Why that's exactly what you asked for," said the artist smugly.

"No! I didn't ask for a mural of pornographic filth, I asked for a
mural of the interpretation of Custer's last thoughts!"

"And there you have it," said the artist, "I call it, 'Holy cow look
at all those damn Indians!'"

[Culprit]

https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-a ... 514dq.html

And Trump will Veto, attacks the Dems and ignores the Republicans that voted with the Dems. Trump truly wants to be a dictator.

[Jezza]

https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/republican-senators-defy-trump-reject-national-emergency-declaration-20190315-p514dq.html

And Trump will Veto, attacks the Dems and ignores the RINOs that voted with the Dems. Trump truly wants to be a dictator.

Corrected it for you.

RINOs = Republican In Name Only.

[David]

I've always found the "RINO" thing a weird insult. Trump has broken from Republican tradition in a lot of quite significant and fundamental ways, and, at least in rhetoric, radically changed some of the party's traditional stances towards, say, trade and foreign policy. Whether you think that's a good thing or a bad thing, it's a fact. So why are his old-school conservative critics "RINOs" and not the Trumpistas themselves?

[Jezza]

It depends on which brand of conservatism you support. Essentially it's a war between two factions of conservatism.

Both Neoconservatives (e.g. Bushes, McCain, Romney) and Paleoconservatives (e.g. Trump, Buchanan, Bannon and Ron and Rand Paul to a certain extent) accuse each other of being not "real" conservatives. Though, I would say the Paul family are free trade proponents but very much anti-war and against the Neocon foreign policy agenda.

The Neocons ('New Right') have dominated the Republican Party for decades, with it's peak occurring during the Bush presidencies, but Paleocons ('Old Right') have made a comeback and re-emerged somewhat since Trump's rise. Though I don't think Trump's strictly a Paleocon, but he holds more traditional Paleocon positions on various issues than most of his previous Republican predecessors of the last 50 years.

I can outline some of the policy differentials between the two factions if you wish, but that's the crux of the issue in my opinion.

[David]

[Jezza]

I pretty much agree with all of that, especially on the Pauls.

[Wokko]

Mueller report finalised

‘Huge Victory for the President,’ Trump ‘Vindicated’ - CNN

Because you all make me read Guardian links all the time, I'll post the Breitbart one

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019 ... eral-barr/

[David]

[Pies4shaw]

A Republican appointed by Republicans to investigate Republicans sends a dozen Republicans, all close to the President, to prison. It’s a victory for Trump in the limited sense that he isn’t one of them (yet).

[pietillidie]

Trump's corrupt abuse of office for personal and nepotistic gain, surrounded by criminals, is already staggering.

Meanwhile, he is an open-book indictment of an outmoded, decayed, embarrassment of a political system.

Regardless, the report was never going to indict an American supreme pharaoh, I mean president. Everyone knows action in that regard would be left with Congress, which itself only marginally less farcical than Trump.

The willingness to let Trump openly enrich himself, and dabble arbitrarily in serious domestic and international affairs like a drooling halfwit on the set of his own reality TV show, is a volatile brown substance just waiting to explode.

But providing handouts to billionaires and tyrannies across the world, and throwing raw meat to riled peasants, is most definitely the best way to stay above laws and norms. It worked for George W. and his cronies, none of whom are in jail.

[Wokko]

"The president's net worth stands at $3.1 billion, down from $4.5 billion in 2015, Forbes said. As a result, Trump has tumbled down the Forbes 400 list, the latest edition of which will be published in full Wednesday. Trump was the 248th wealthiest person in America on Forbes' 2017 list."