Duke of Bullshit: "The" Donald

[Tank]

Still watching in horrified fascination at the collapse of sanity in the USA. Putin and Xi must be loving it.

[billy rubin]

the problem we have in the american system is that if the kooks take power, they can cause irreversble damage that cannot be undone by an alternative successor.

if trump drops the climate change satellites into the sea as he plans, they wont be there after he leaves office, for anybody. if you turn off the refrigerators that hold the biological samples for decades of research, theyre gone.

and if you burn the bridges for diplomatic relations with your allies, they will learn that a single election can screw it all up, and will be unwilling to risk a second debacle.

our government worked on th ehonor system, because we all thought we all agreed on the purposes of government. but it didnt protect against greed.

trump is just a visible figurehead. the real people pulling this show are the oligarchs that are devising a new world order with them in charge.

[Icarus]

Today we are cut adrift from reality with the failure to agree on a new national budget.  So TSA people are required to work but are not being paid.  Same for National Guardsmen in Washington and elsewhere. Tens of thousands of government workers are out of a job and their sometimes critically important work will not be done.

Our house of representatives, the senate, and the white house are all republican controlled.  Much of the general public will believe that it is the fault of the Democrats.