PS: Merry Christmas
Drink Crown Royal if you're boycotting US products.

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I do not fight fascists because I think I can win.
I fight them because they are fascists.
Chris Hedges

A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Some say that all things balance out in the end.
So how many years of Whack-Job tRump will it take
to balance out the 8 Glorious Years of President Obama?
It's been 2 Years already, and people are tired of non-stop Whining.

Yep and he felt so glorious for himself in his 1st year riding on the tails of the previous government.

Well he's well and truly worn out of those tails so it's all downhill running off a cliff now.

Will he go out with a bag or a whimper?

Chaos at home, fear abroad: Trump unleashed puts western world on edge.

‘Breaking point’: Ominous prediction about Donald Trump’s fate.

Trump faces at least 17 separate investigations.

OTOH,

Trump's 'Merry Christmas' pledge fails to manifest at his own businesses.

Well he's living up to being the Grinch.

Meanwhile the U.S. National Debt accelerates towards 22 Trillion Dollars.

Some president hey?

Whiz kid new Defence Secretary

Deputy Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan, 46, will take over the role.
Originally from Washington state, Mr Shanahan studied mechanical engineering and business at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and joined Boeing as an engineer in 1986.

Hmm, let's do the math:
46-32=14

Wow, didn't Boeing do well. :-)

The world over, one just have to love reporters. :-)

Patrick M. Shanahan (born July 27, 1962)

That's better.
56-32=24

Ain't the Internet grand. :-)

You can learn a lot as a tea boy ;-)

Missed the point again Captain Obvious. :-)

BTW: Guessing we will again be subjected to Sirius B for awhile.

20 years at least. :-)

Incorrect. There is something that will be highly effective.
You posting sensibly & answering questions. As that will be a sheer miracle, I suppose we have to endure you for those same 20 years.

Now if we can get away from someone's stupidity we'll get on with the subject.

US congress reassures Aussies: ‘We’re with you’.

The letter, addressed to Aust­ralia’s ambassador in Washington, Joe Hockey, said “we share many Australians’ concerns about Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis’ recent announcement that he will step down from the position in February 2019”.

“We write to you to reaffirm our commitment to the enduring alliance between the United States and Australia,” it said.

“As members of the Article 1 co-equal legislative branch of govern­ment, who have both budgetary and policy powers over the foreign and national security policy of the United States, we are writing to strongly reaffirm our agreement with Secretary Mattis that it is in the United States’ ­enduring interest to maintain and strengthen our alliances, built of shared values and shared interests, particularly in the case of our specia­l relationship with Australia.

And come June Trump will find that we'll have an elected Prime Minister that won't be kissing his backside (probably the exact opposite more likely).

Good luck with that. :-)

"An ally must be dependable,"

And come June Trump will find that we'll have an elected Prime Minister that won't be kissing his backside (probably the exact opposite more likely).

Hope he has long rusty nails embedded in those steel toes for the kickin'

And today's thought to ponder.......

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

This is "great" presidential leadership.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_M._Shanahan

Following a Twitter announcement on December 23, 2018, Shanahan is scheduled to be elevated to Acting Defense Secretary effective January 1, 2019, two months prior to Jim Mattis' announced resignation date of February 28, 2019. President Trump reportedly accelerated Mattis’s departure date after becoming angered by the language in Mattis’s resignation letter, which criticized Trump's worldview.[21]

"Trump, Angry Over Mattis's Rebuke, Removes Him 2 Months Early"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/23/us/politics/trump-mattis.html

[edit] I do wish he would resign.

But Mattis has already resigned.
However Trump got pissed off and fire him instead after that Mattis resigned and want him out next week instead of 2 months.
Geez...

Trump's Treasury Secretary to convene 'Plunge Protection Team' to deal with Wall Street rout.

Really there is only 1 person to blame for this happening and that's the idiot in the white house (but stupid people will believe otherwise).

Trump's Treasury Secretary to convene 'Plunge Protection Team' to deal with Wall Street rout.

Really there is only 1 person to blame for this happening and that's the idiot in the white house (but stupid people will believe otherwise).

You can't protect against idiots who cut taxes and spin the printing presses to light speed and then shut the government down. The man killed the Obama period of growth. But then again the people who put him in office want to destroy the government and its institutions -- drain the swamp. They are getting their wish in spades.

Clyde you have already proved to us many times that you know very little about economics, but several of us here more than a year ago predicted that this would happen and it's now happening and unless a drastic change in direction happens things will only get worse for your country while that lunatic is charting the white house's current suicidal course.

Get it?

I do wish Trump would resign.

I see:)
Personally I don't hold my breath until he do.

What will Trump do if the investigation intensifies closer to home, like into his sons and daughter.
He wouldn't throw them under the bus, would he?

If in office he would pardon them and suffer no consequences from the base, the rest of us not so much.

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