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President (elect) Trump (l) and President Obama (r)
President (elect) Trump (l) and President Obama (r)

Dr. Anthony Monteiro has recently delivery a magisterial analysis of our current circumstances, the way forward. He has concluded that we are in the 5th major crisis of capitalism; sees the generalized failure of the capitalist elites; believes there is no way to prevent a total, systemic, collapse; sees these global crisis as beyond fascism, beyond neo-fascism, in severity. However, he thinks that broad, grass root political formations may have a chance of charting a new way for what ‘future’ there could be. That analysis starts about 15 minutes in.

http://prn.fm/black-agenda-radio-01-16-17/

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324 responses to “Obama, Trump and the Great Unravelling”

  1. David Avatar
    David

    David Axelrod, one of Obamaโ€™s closest advisers and an architect of his campaign strategies, said it is incumbent upon Trumpโ€™s opponents to do more than march.

    โ€œThis is an impressive display today. But if it isnโ€™t channeled into organizing in a focused way, then it is cathartic but not in the long run meaningful,โ€ he said. โ€œThatโ€™s the challenge for the progressive community.โ€ ~ The Washington Post

  2. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    It makes you want to puke. Yet another Vietnam, and army, draft dodger, installed as commander -in -chief of the US Armed Forces,and being accorded the highest form of salute by professional servicemen, who have placed America first, by selflessly and willing volunteering their services to their nation.

  3. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/white-house-admitted-donald-trump-inauguration-speech-stephen-miller-steve-bannon-batman-a7540046.html

    @Chadstertrump’spimp……Trump even lied that he was busy writing his own speech….fraud@endlesslies.com

  4. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    when the facts are on your side hammer the facts
    when the law is on your side hammer the law
    when you have neither on your side hammer the table
    that is whats going on the dems have no power to stop any agenda so they are marching, and blustering but is all going to happen so buckle up.
    WW your boyfriend trudeau will start grovelling in the next couple of weeks about nafta he should send his mum instead maybe when she was partying in ny who knows

  5. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    http://ow.ly/VKDF308f6HG

    Lawson…the way things are going ya may pit have to worry about none ah that, if one of those ballistic missles all of those clowns keep playing around with gets away and dont fail…lol

  6. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    BO was one of the best Presidents ever of the US of A.Mitch McConnell and his GOP hooligans for lawmakers made it their first order of business to make him a failure so the Wasps could point their fingers and say….we we told ya,blacks have to be led,they cannot lead…..
    I was most disappointed to read GP,an otherwise informed and coherent person,appear to support the foolishness of BO’s sexuality.When blacks stop listening to stupid Judaism they will free themselves from slavery of the mental kind.Who for a sensible man would suggest a jew’s life is worth 10 or more Palestinians’ lives,or that a Jew is “chosen above all other”That is a whole lot of bull.

  7. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Trump is a genius or a ???

    Trade with Canada. FACT!!!

    ” 35 states in the United States which have Canada as their major export market. We have 9 million of jobs in the U.S. which depend on trade with Canada”.

    Doan have to read an spell for my fellow BU bloggers.

  8. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @David
    You didnโ€™t have took to Axelrod for that kind of foresight, why just yesterday I posted the following on this blog
    +++++++
    The opposition has already started with the โ€œwomenโ€™s marchโ€, time will tell if it has legs as Occupy Wall Street fizzled out but the Tea party grew from strength to strength and commands a significant presence in the Republican Party but it was backed by Koch money and Fox News who could be counted to give them a platform
    ++++++++
    I am no Presidential advisor but I believe I captured it like Axelrod.

  9. David Avatar
    David

    @Sargeant

    It is good to have the validation isn’t it?

  10. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Lawson

    Didnโ€™t I read that Kevin O state that he will give Justin nightmares? Just wait and โ€œTrump Liteโ€ will step in and stop the carnage in Canada.

  11. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Gabriel…thing is, they are not even real jews, just a bunch of frauds, thieves, murderers.

    Lawson…Trump will sell Canada to Putin and you will soon speak Russian…..I only know a few words, so I will get ya started.

    …..privet, my privykli byt’ kanadskiy, no Tramp prodal nam….or

    ะฟั€ะธะฒะตั‚, ะผั‹ ะฟั€ะธะฒั‹ะบะปะธ ะฑั‹ั‚ัŒ ะบะฐะฝะฐะดัะบะธะน, ะฝะพ ะขั€ะฐะผะฟ ะฟั€ะพะดะฐะป ะฝะฐะผ…..lol

  12. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Lawson…ah forgot to put the english translation…it says…..I used to be Canadian, but Trump sold us to Russia…lol

    Keep repeating it over and over, ya will get the hang of Russian.

  13. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Lawson….ya might even end up with a wax figurine like Melania….unable to articulate a complete sentence in any language, just like Trump…lol

  14. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    http://ow.ly/v1VU308fdV8

    .,.time to fight back, ya cannot have these chronic liars and mentally ill asses who just entered the white house twisting reality to suit their sick agendas.

  15. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    A bunch of ugly, wicked, lying demons…it’s on.

    President Trump declares war against facts and the news media
    BY ANGELO CARUSONE
    SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sunday, January 22, 2017, 6:53 PM

    “White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer makes a statement to members of the media on Saturday.

    White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer makes a statement to members of the media on Saturday. (ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES)

    A visibly shaken and enraged Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, took the podium for his first briefing from the press briefing room. He read a statement filled with demonstrable lies and excoriated the media for its accurate reporting about inauguration crowd size, reporting that displeased Donald Trump.

    He warned them that the President of the United States will hold journalists accountable for this kind of (verifiably accurate) reporting going forward.

    Then he left the press briefing, without taking a reporterโ€™s question (a core responsibility of the press secretaryโ€™s job description).

    Hours earlier, while delivering remarks at CIA headquarters, Trump insulted the news media and informed the nation’s intelligence community he has a โ€œrunning war with the media.โ€

    Conway: White House offers โ€˜alternative facts’ to media

    Although Trump has demonstrated that heโ€™s not to be trusted, you can believe him when it comes to his declaration of war with the news media. Itโ€™ll be a two-front war โ€” one against facts, and one against journalismโ€™s institutions and individuals.

    Facts matter. Some big decisions that affect all of us need to be grounded in reality. Deep down, everyone recognizes this. For example, I bet we’d all be wary of crossing a bridge if we knew that each of the engineers that built it had their own individual interpretation of what an inch is.

    Facts are often not Donald Trumpโ€™s friend. Facts frequently contradict his pronouncements and policy prescriptions. Instead of adapting to align with the reality of facts, Trump simply intends to do away with them.

    Conway insists again that U.S. doesn’t care about Trump’s taxes

    Trumpโ€™s administration will provide “alternative facts” as Kellyanne Conway called them during her appearance Sunday on โ€œMeet The Press.โ€ (Note: As NBCโ€™s Chuck Todd observed, there is no such thing as “alternative facts.” A more accurate word for “alternative facts” is falsehoods.)

    The operating principle behind the Trump administrationโ€™s communications strategy appears to be to flood the zone with a litany of lies in order to obfuscate the facts.

    But obfuscation alone isn’t sufficient for Trump. He also needs to do away with the distributors of facts, the news media. Trump’s approach here follows the authoritarian playbook โ€” denigrate and delegitimize the news media while simultaneously building up an alternative media of sycophants.

    Trumpโ€™s verbal attacks on individual journalists are intended to intimidate, directly and indirectly. His words identify new targets of online and offline harassment for pro-Trump message board communities. Being a journalist in the face of never-ending lies is difficult enough, but it’s even harder if you’re constantly being harassed and threatened by the dregs of the internet.

    Trump allies promise his agenda is already moving quickly
    Beyond insults, during the campaign Trump revoked press credentials. The Des Moines Register, Univision, The Washington Post and Politico have all found themselves on the blacklist. Most recently, CNN found itself there as well.

    As he tears down news media, Trump is building up a propaganda network โ€” some of which amplified the lies told by Spicer in his first press briefing. His administration has already reportedly assured non-credentialed Right Side Broadcasting (a.k.a. โ€œTrump TVโ€) theyโ€™ll be given access to the press briefing room. Breitbart was the only publication to have a reserved seat at Trump’s first news conference.

    Trump himself reveals his intentions when he explains that the reason he is keeping Twitter is to bypass the news media. What he doesnโ€™t mention is that what he’s often tweeting are “alternative factsโ€ from propaganda outlets.

    For the fight ahead, journalists need to recognize that they are dealing with proto-fascist conditions. Accordingly, they must stiffen their spines and stand up for their profession and the truth. This starts with those tasked with covering Trump everyday โ€” the White House press corps.”

  16. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    Chad,
    Re Hitler; go to PBS.org, and listen to ; or at least watch their series on Hitler. Then listen to what Trump has been saying, and the path he is following. Then come back to BU.

  17. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    Donald Trump in his stream of consciousness remarks to the CIA (no one would call that a speech the man just says whatever pops into his head) said about Iraq โ€œWe should have kept the oil-maybe weโ€™ll get another chanceโ€.

    Is this bozo musing about going to war in Iraq to take over its oil? That statement hasnโ€™t been given much airplay people are so focused on what his Minister of Truth (read Press secretary) said to the Press about the size of the crowd at the Inaugural that this little nugget was buried in the reporting.

    This is what you get when draft dodgers have ultimate power, just like Cheney they have no comprehension of war because they never fought and it wonโ€™t be their children coming home in body bags.

    Barnum and Bailey just announced that it will be closing its circus because of dwindling crowds, the real reason? They canโ€™t compete with the one in the White House.

  18. chad99999 Avatar
    chad99999

    Alvin Cummins

    I don’t need to watch PBS to learn about Hitler. I have been reading books about Hitler since I was a high school kid. I used to have to visit Germany regularly on business, so I have also had many conversations about Hitler with Germans of different political stripes.

    Hitler was always a sinister demagogue, and his rise to power was blood-soaked. Where are the parallels in the Trump story?

    Trump has been a high-profile businessman for more than three decades. He is more of a bully but far less fascist than Reagan or Ross Perot. By crying Wolf, people like you are laying a foundation for Trump to succeed, because voters will be relieved when the dire threats they are being warned about never materialize.

  19. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    “Trump has been a high-profile businessman for more than three decades.”

    @Chadsterthetrumppimp…..lying, thiefing Trump has been soakking the taxpayers, the IRS, every other person he has come in contact with including small business people like caterers and curtain makers he refuses to pay for their work for all 30 years, he does not want to pay decent salaries and imports immigrants or outsources his businesses labor to 12 other countries outside the US that practices slave labor….soaking is soaking …..even if you have not started seeing any blood.

    ……it’s very clear seeing the fantasy world Trump and his useless pimps now reside in…..that you dont discount any blood just yet.

  20. David Avatar
    David

    @Sargeant

    How do you respond to the observation that the look and feel of Trump’s Cabinet might easily have been a Bush or Reagan.

  21. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    @Chadsterthetrumppimp…liar, liar, Trump’s on fire.

    http://ow.ly/RIx1308fPxC

    The one people you do not want to antagonize or terrorize is the US press, they will bite you in the end and keep biting until there is nothing left……. the bloggers will do an end run and make ya too ashamed and totally afraid to even start telling the truth…….when all ya been doing is lying……..lol

  22. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-kellyanne-conway-tax-returns-will-not-release-under-audit-conflicts-of-interest-a7540621.html

    Where are those tax returns…

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-us-president-constitution-violate-accept-fireign-payments-russia-a7540951.html

    A daily walking impeachment…lol

  23. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    WW I see some jealousy rearing its head, trumps wife a wax figurine?? come on when she walks into a room all the men say wow, unlike when you entered a room in your younger days and all the guys would say…I think thats the bitch that gave me herpes. Your right we may be speaking russian or chinese but for sure if the americans hadnt entered ww2 we would be speaking german.
    Hants sure we trade with the US but we only send nominal forces when asked for world events, that will have to change the US is tired of funding every bodies protection.

  24. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    David;

    Trump’s cabinet is not a standard Republican Cabinet.

    It is a unique Trump cabinet with token Republican type members offered as a sop to the Republicans to facilitate Trump’s agenda. Just think “Tillerson and Flynn” to understand the Putin aspect that will bring untold resources to both Tillerson and Trump when Trump mandates the removal of Obama’s OIl sanctions against Russia and thereby allow the oil to flow in the now stalled multi billion agreement that Putin has with Exxon that was brokered by Tillerson, and think “Sessions”, who was rejected by the Republicans for a Judgeship, and will now pursue the Trump – Brietbart Alt Right anti-Black agenda.

    The news since the Inauguration almost inexorably points to Trump winning the battle with the Republicans to put his agenda forward in that it is now almost certain that Trump is somewhat deranged (the battle re. crowds at the inaugurations) and that he is going to pursue his in-your-face policies re scanting out such presidential mores as releasing his Income Tax statements and others as the weeks unfold.

    Be very scared as Trump is well on the way to changing the face of America. The only institutions that can change the current trajectory are the will of the people, the press and Congress. Watch the news over the next few weeks and see what is going to happen.

    My money is on Trump to prevail. He has already gone too far to fail.

  25. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @Sargeant January 22, 2017 at 11:56 PM # re “Barnum and Bailey just announced that it will be closing its circus because of dwindling crowds, the real reason? They canโ€™t compete with the one in the White House.”

    LOL. Good stuff. You have a future as a Late Night writer if you need excitement in retirement. But to the serious stuff.

    re “Is this bozo musing about going to war in Iraq to take over its oil? ”

    Two things why is the man a bozo for repeating a statement he grandly made throughout the campaign. The statement may have been buried but at this time there is absolutely no reason to hyperventilate about it anymore than previously UNTIL some concrete remark is said about going after that oil… like bombing the ISIS held sites as a first step to take-over.

    re “This is what you get when draft dodgers have ultimate power, just like Cheney …”they have no comprehension of war because they never fought and it wonโ€™t be their children coming home in body bags.

    You sound like Col Buggy the veteran. What I would ask either of you if (1) which modern leader in the US will likely NOT be non-veteran and (2) what major difference will they employ re war etc that Bush 41 (air force officer) did not?

    The two most dovish recent presidents were Carter and Obama. One a Naval officer the other who went nowhere near military service.

    Give the man his chance to get impeached but surely don’t make him out to be any worst in key areas than many of his predecessors.

    @Are-We, Trump was right n his query re the women march…did they vote! And David too can be considered quite right…the faces may have been different but the policy focus is no different than any other Republican leader.

    Had Cruz or Rubio been elected the policy situation from a Dem’s view would be markedly worst!

    And let’s get over Tillerson. Cheney worked in oil, He had to this day ‘secret discussions’ with oil executives after he got into the WH. Also to this day no one have been indicted or charged for malfeasance…so what is new!

    The Dems have a war-room staffed with lawyers and ethicists ready to take down Trump via impeachment proceedings. Let’s see who wins that battle.

    Based on initial bets the money is on Trump to lose…we will see!

    Not that it means much but the Prof (Lichtman) who from day one said Trump was going to win also predicts a likely impeachment.

    Let the fun begin. Day three.

  26. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Hmmm…….interesting…….will he survive a 100 days in office?

    Trump will conform or be removed, former Bush adviser says
    1-dot
    ABC News ยท The former Bush adviser has many concerns about the new President โ€” his attitude to the media, his pledge to ban Muslim immigration, and deporting Mexicans โ€” but he is really zeroing in on the billionaire businessman’s connections to international companies and countries. ยท Today
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-23/trump-will-conform-or-be-removed-former-bush-adviser-says/8205094

  27. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    dpD;

    You asked above:

    And letโ€™s get over Tillerson. Cheney worked in oil, He had to this day โ€˜secret discussionsโ€™ with oil executives after he got into the WH. Also to this day no one have been indicted or charged for malfeasanceโ€ฆso what is new!

    What is new is the multi billion Russian Oil agreement between Exxon and Putin that Obama scuttled through his earlier sanctions and that will almost certainly, given the Putin input in the US elections and Trump’s favourable stance on Putin and Russia and the US intelligence statements on Putin’s involvement in the US elections, be in the background to any removal of those sanctions in a new policy on Russia.

    What is certainly new is the gargantuan extent to which Tillerson is likely to gain from being in a key position to influence a reversal of the Obama sanctions on Rusia as compared to Cheney’s relatively smaller gains from insider actions that would have benefited Halliburton and therefore Cheney.

    The possible spinoffs of the removal of sanctions are not merely political but could add personal multi million inputs to some personal American fortunes.

  28. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Lawson…men would hump anything, a hole in a tree looks attractive to men…lol

    What jealousy what, I stopped going out because I found myself having to beat back young boys, my grandson’s age, with my cane, which I hate to use, but I no longer run.

  29. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @David
    How do you respond to the observation that the look and feel of Trumpโ€™s Cabinet might easily have been a Bush or Reagan.
    ++++++++
    The man campaigned as a โ€œpopulistโ€ then proceeded to appoint the richest cabinet in US history with some estimates touting its net worth as high as 14 billion including his nominee for Labour who is against raising the minimum wage as well as mandatory breaks for workers.

    One of Reaganโ€™s favourite lines during his first campaign was โ€œAre you better off than you were four years ago?โ€

    Remember that line four years from now.

  30. chad99999 Avatar
    chad99999

    Much loose talk on this thread about impeaching Trump if he does not toe the Republican Establishment line.

    Before you all make fools of yourselves consider this:

    Romney, the Republican Establishment candidate, could not get elected to the top job. Dump Trump, and the Establishment cannot govern for long with Pence, who is a colourless stick-figure. They would be back to dealing with a Democrat in the Oval Office who blocks the Republican agenda.

    In other words, Trump is indispensable to the Republicans. With him, they get to enact 80% of their priorities, in tax reform, financial deregulation, health care and education. In exchange, they have to give in to Trump on (free) trade, and reach a compromise with him on immigration policy. Not a bad deal for them.

  31. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @DPD
    You sound like Col Buggy the veteran. What I would ask either of you if (1) which modern leader in the US will likely NOT be non-veteran and (2) what major difference will they employ re war etc that Bush 41 (air force officer) did not?
    +++++++
    โ€œThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.โ€ (George Santayana)

    That statement has spawned several of like meaning and the past is very much the present, the horrors of Vietnam were brought to the American public via video and photographs from the news correspondents stationed in Vietnam; the videos of the body bags from Iraq at Andrews Airforce base that war became a liability for US politicians. Obamaโ€™s rise was fueled in part because he opposed the Iraq war.

    The US attitude for war was captured in the statement by George S Patton

    โ€œ I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his countryโ€.

    Americans want war to be clinical as in โ€œsmart bombsโ€, they are not in favour of boots on the ground which leads to those body bags and when you are โ€œCommander in Chiefโ€™ you donโ€™t speak of the prospect of war on your second day on the job.

    Trump hasnโ€™t learned from history, he was so busy claiming that Obama was born in Kenya that he never heard of Colin Powellโ€™s โ€œPottery Barn Ruleโ€ on Iraq (you break it you own it).

    ISIS is a consequence of owning Iraq.

  32. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    People,
    You forget Bush was an oil man? He was great friends with the Saudi Princes. Great fun and games ahead. But when elephants play,or fight,the ground gets destroyed/

  33. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Chuckle…..

    Fox News
    40 mins ยท

    JUST IN: President Donald J. Trump is expected to sign an executive order to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement this morning.

  34. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    Chad;
    .Day 3 and already he is preparing for the spilling of blood(others) because there is no way the Palestinians will accept the moving of the Jewish Capital to Jerusalem, without protest. So here we have Trump cozying up to Putin, (and by extension Assad), Ntenyahu, and others designed to ruffle feathers. Hope he is prepared for the fall-out.

  35. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Sargeant January 23, 2017 at 10:30 AM #
    @DPD
    You sound like Col Buggy the veteran. What I would ask either of you if (1) which modern leader in the US will likely NOT be non-veteran and (2) what major difference will they employ re war etc that Bush 41 (air force officer) did not?
    http://i.imgur.com/qfeS7Vm.jpg?1

            My concern is not with the military acumen ,or lack of it , of such leaders. Its the hypocrisy of they becoming head of the country's armed forces and have no qualms in  sending the sons and daughters of lesser mortals to the battle fields, far and wide, to be killed or severely injured, both physically or mentally . Not giving a thought to their own previous  situations ,when the bell had been rung consistently for them.  But due to their standing in society and the ability of their mummies and daddies to buy their way out of the draft, or legged it off to Canada, they have ,thankfully, escaped the horrors of war.

    Lets not forget the injustice meted out to the then Great Cassius Clay for his refusal to serve in Vietnam,while on the other side of the track, at about the same time ,Donald Trump, pictured in centre of photo, a strapping healthy 6 foot 4 giant, a student, whom the Draft Board, medics gave a clean bill of health to, had his own private doctor overturned that decision. How many young men in Harlem or Liberty City had the wherewithal to do likewise.
    Thousands of young american men and women have lost their lives in various theaters of US led wars, in their efforts to MAKE AMERICA GREAT, while other individuals were making themselves rich.

  36. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Part of my previous post has gone AWOL. repeated below.

    My concern is not with the military acumen ,or lack of it , of such leaders,as the have the best military brains at their beck and call . It is the hypocrisy of they becoming the head of the country’s armed forces, and have no qualms of sending the sons and daughters of lesser mortals to the battlefields far and wide , to be killed, or injured both physically and mentally , in some theater of a US led war. These draft dodging leaders forget their own previous situations,, when the bell had been rung to signal their own military call up . Now they are in a Godly position to ring the death bell for others.

  37. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    chad99999 January 23, 2017 at 1:05 AM #
    Alvin Cummins

    I donโ€™t need to watch PBS to learn about Hitler. I have been reading books about Hitler since I was a high school kid. I used to have to visit Germany regularly on business, so I have also had many conversations about Hitler with Germans of different political stripes.
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………
    You must be a magician to get the Germans to open up and speak out against Hitler. I came across a German who had a folded picture of Hitler, and when opened a certain way, showed a big fat pig. That individual ,even 30+years after Hitler’s death, was deathly scared to show that photo when other Germans was around.

  38. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    Vincent;

    More breaking news; Trump also signed an executive order freezing the hiring of Federal Employees and pay increases for all existing employees, except in the Military. Of course he and some of his cabinet picks have no urgent need for their salaries. Their rewards will presumably come elsewhere and elsewhen.

    I wonder how this will go down with the Dems? But it must be a popular move, given the low regard that Congress and Government has earned from the American people.

    I thought that Obama worked at a frenetic indefatigable pace but Trump is outdoing him so far. Hope that Trump knows what he is doing!

  39. David Avatar
    David

    Trump Orders U.S. Exit from Pacific Trade Pact and Reset on NAFTA President Donald Trump abruptly ended the decades-old U.S. tilt toward free trade by signing an executive order to withdraw from an Asia-Pacific accord that was never ratified and promising to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.

  40. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    http://ow.ly/qncu308h2ux

    Yep…Pacific Trans partnership is gone and he is now going after abortion rights, but the females will bury him in the supreme court, he wont be in the whitehouse long enough to get anywhere with that one.

    http://ow.ly/P4Xi308h3a4

    And of course Pence is just as lying and twisted as Trump.

  41. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    And Pachamama shall lead them……..

  42. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Well Well & ConsequencesJanuary 23, 2017 at 3:08 PM

    That is an easy target written on a piece of useless paper used as toilet tissue among friendly neighbours.

    Let’s see him go after the Iran nuclear deal and he would really be playing with fire.

  43. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    WW when are you going to get it….the carrot and the stick……get used to the new normal.

  44. chad99999 Avatar
    chad99999

    Trump and the Republicans are not interested in going after abortion rights. That is just feminist propaganda, useful in mobilizing uninformed women, like most of the people marching over the weekend.

    Trump does not like subsidizing abortion with taxpayer funds, but does not care about private abortions. And there are only three US Supreme Court justices opposed to abortion: Thomas, Alito and Roberts.

  45. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Miller…we know the real fun, the real test has not started yet that trade deal never got off the ground because the repugnants kept fighting Obama on it, but he gotta pretend he is doing something today, wait until the real fun starts…complete wuth nuclear warheads…lol

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexico-city-policy-donald-trump-reimposes-abortion-a7542216.html

    These are soft targets, but this one will bite back…lol

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexico-city-policy-donald-trump-reimposes-abortion-a7542216.html

    Kawson….ya mean the idiot and his lies..lol

  46. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-press-conference-sean-spicer-facts-disagree-white-house-a7542466.html

    Yeah Lawson…this is the new normal…disagreeing with facts and reality.

  47. chad99999 Avatar
    chad99999

    Spicer is arguing that if you count the people who watched the Inauguration on-line, as well as the world-wide TV audience, Trump out drew Obama 2008.

    No one has so far produced the numbers to contradict him. Stay tuned.

  48. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ David, Bushie and PUDRYR.

    “Americaโ€™s largest customer

    Canada is the U.S.โ€™s largest customer, purchasing US$337.8 (C$431.9) billion in goods and services in 2015.

    Canada buys more from the United States than does any other nation โ€“ including all 28 countries of the European Union.

    Nearly nine million U.S. jobs depend on trade and investment with Canada
    Canada and the United States are the worldโ€™s largest trading partners: nearly US$700 (C$886) billion in goods and services were traded in 2015.

    The United States is the most important destination for Canadian direct investment abroad, which totaled US$351 (C$448) billion (stock) in the U.S. in 2015.”

  49. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    What is Thump going to do if China and India decides to trade with each other ?

    Their population is 2.5 Billion.

  50. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    @chadsterthetrumppimp….all fantasy….no longer important…thevreal test is around the corner.

    China, India and africa….will trade with each other, Africa’s population is reaching for the billion dollar mark=3.5 billion people total or there abouts between the 3…..

    Africa also has a very fast growing economy and business structure…including banks…in their wealthier countries.

    The US is becoming a blip, they do not have that population size.

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