The Trump reality show

I leave you to draw your own conclusions, @JAN. All countries have low points in their histories. In the United States’ first 100 years, the Civil War was the low point. In its next 150 years, in terms of widespread corruption, divisiveness, meanness and abuse of power, this is it.

As he left the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked “What, then, do we have? A monarchy or a republic?” To which he replied, “ A republic, if you can keep it.” Besides the Civil War, this is the only time the republic, with its balance of separate but equal branches, has been so threatened.

Leaders who amuse through their “refreshing” uncouth styles can also be dangerous. This is one.

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Maradona for President !!!

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Could it be that America have been living in a pseudo democracy, everything great, everyone happy, no black, no white, no differences and and and....

Trump is just a character......if it was not Trump, it would have been John Doe.........he is the front figure, but the power and the will is coming from his supporters.....

the people elected a clown, comedian........but that was what the country wanted!

You always raise some good points, @JAN . The people are the ones responsible for electing leaders, whether good or corrupt. And actually, that was the point I meant to make in my last post: that the American voters remind me of the German people in 1993.

When as students, we studied that dark period of German history, I never EVER thought the USA would tolerate a situation with citizens embracing a strongman and allowing him to run roughshod over our values, our constitution, and the truth.

It is the American citizens, not the particular leader, who remind me of their 1930’s German counterparts. It is the people who are to blame for poor government, whether in Argentina, Venezuela, Russia or the USA.

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@JAN

Maradona for President !!!

He has all the right credentials.

Apparently.

Don’t be fooled by Barr, who is as much trump’s lapdog as trump is Putin’s.

I haven’t yet figured out what his game is. But it definitely is a game.

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I haven’t yet figured out what his game is. But it definitely is a game.

I have to agree....always thought he was out to prove a point. If so, good on him.

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So why would BaBa Barr complain about his orange faced boss then?

It might be that he was acting on his boss’s earlier private instruction to interfere with the sentencing of Roger Stone; having done so, he then had to pretend to be surprised at the boss’s ex post facto tweets about same.

Whatever the case, the truth will undoubtedly come out.

I believe the truth will be uncovered. It will, of course, be proclaimed to be false news and buried in bullshit. But it will be there, nonetheless.

Yes. And unfair, etc etc etc. we’ve all watched this reality show before: the bully as perpetual victim.

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Not so, UK Man . Yesterday “his” attorney general intervened in the sentencing phase of the president’s henchman Roger Stone, prompting the resignation from the case of 4 prosecutors.

Having bullied the republican legislators into submission, erasing the line of separation of powers between the executive branch and the legislative branch, he is also breaching the formerly sacred separation of powers between the executive and judicial branches. For those who have seen how the K’s did this in Argentina, this takeover should look familiar.

I’ve been thinking of the obvious analogy with Germany too, but in 1933, not 2020.

He's tinkering with the Big Stuff and it is extremely dangerous. The Justice Dept and the Supreme Court and the Military are BIG STUFF. And Trump does't have the mental horsepower to manage his own hip shots. It's a Dotard.