By Jim McIntosh
Kristi Noem, Trump’s Homeland Security bimbo-in-charge, has apparently been removed from that position to become Special Envoy for upside-down dogs or something or other, while the war in Iran enters yet another phase of brutal stupidity at the never-ending behest of Trump’s little pal Netanyahu. The economic pain that Americans will suffer (setting aside for the moment the ACTUAL pain caused to Iranians and others throughout the region) will be mirrored globally. Nobel Peace Prize, anyone?
Trump’s approval ratings, meanwhile, have never been lower. The fact that there are still Americans prepared to support this obese, malignant, malodorous bag of rectal gas is testament to the outright stupidity of Americans writ-large. Still, it appears that many – if not most – are finally starting to wake up to this grifting carnival snake-oil con man. Too late, methinks.
Meanwhile, the Trump regime is globally becoming increasingly isolated and friendless. Not that malignant King Donald seems to consider, or care. But, while sycophantic countries like Australia continue to pay tribute to the sky-clad emperor, at least on the surface, the appearance of business as usual prevails. For now. And, while this insane circus stumbles into its second year the lives of average Americans worsen. The Dow Jones Index might be doing well, and the cowardly billionaire class of the American Oligarchy aren’t suffering, but just about everyone else is. And not only in the U.S.
The sad thing is this: with mid-term elections expected to deliver a stunning blow to the MAGA movement in November, it’s really only the House that is likely to turn. The Senate is only up for a one-third vote due to extended terms similar to those we have here at home. This means that the battle to bring Trump to heel and transform him into a ‘lame-duck’ president will still be of limited utility.
To hell with ‘interesting times’. Will stability and reliability ever return, even after the ultimate demise of this demented regime? I have serious doubts, at least into the medium term.
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You are correct, even with Trump gone, things will never return to what was. But that, in my view, will be a good thing.Time to reorganise,, remove the power of veto from the security council, support the findings of both the ICJ and ICC. At the same time break the nexus between world trade and the USA$, maybe then the world will start to function as it should.
Rhetorical or literal, the question asks whether the wheels coming off the Trump regime?
Definitely, yes! Think about natural forces, harmony, balance, perpetuity. An unbalanced system, such as the nightmare of Trump & Co., cannot, by definition, continue for a lengthy or extended period. It must self-destruct. It may seem at the time of its manifestation to be never-ending, but it isn’t. Everything, everywhere, eventually reaches the term of its natural (or unnatural!) life. Trump & Co. are not immune to this law. The unfortunate aspect, though, is that the damage done will take a generation or two to undo, as in other similar global examples.
The thing we all have to worry about is not so much Trump but the fact that Netanyahu is now off the leash and whilst Trump may have been able to control him before Iran, the tables have been turned.
Netanyahu is in the thick of the killing in Tehran, including the girls school atrocity, he has ordered mayhem in Beirut with tens of thousands of people being forcibly evacuated as the IDF turn Beirut into another Gaza.
While we have been preoccupied, he has stepped up militant activities on the West Bank and has virtually closed off all aid to Gaza including medical aid, fresh food and water and other essentials.
Trump is not the problem, Netanyahu is !
It’s a symptom because compared to Trump 1.0, 2.0 has been discipline din. not sacking people carte blanche…..
Terry:
The latest on the official investigation into the school strike was that it was a USAnian effort.
His malministration is starting to repeat his first time around, once one useless moron is “fired” more will be soon to follow as Orange Object starts to feel the pressure. Nothing will ever be his fault.
Agreed. However with the Pine Gap spy station et al breaking the US stranglehold on Australian policies of any type will be difficult. Remember there is a 2,500 person US Marine Occupation Force stationed in Darwin and heavy bombers located at Tindal Katherine NT that makes Canberra only a matter of hours away from a potential GAZA scenario.
TACO Trumpery is sliding into advanced dementia regardless of medication and egotistical enough to demand Australia “toe the TACO line or else!!”
The problem is the ZIONAZIS and Butcher Bibi who plays TACO Trumpery like a marionette on a string. This transfers into the ZIONAZI strategy of ”political influence” inside all non-Isrevil governments, including the USA (Undemocratic States of Apartheid) where most senior administration executive positions were occupied by ZIONAZI sympathisers by 2000. There is a similar trend in Australia.