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He’s got around that by appointing the guy as Acting Director. He can hold that position for something like 210 days before they need to do something about it. Plenty of time to get up to mischief on Trump’s behalf.

Thinking in hindsight about the leaking fuel tanker in the above post. They tried everything they had on hand to try and stop the leak which at pressure was a big spray of fuel. After giving it some thought, if we'd had some rubber matting or belting as a bandage and decent sized ratchet straps on hand to hold it, we could have possibly slowed it to a dribble at least. A bit like how Captain Cook and Co. saved the Endeavour off Cooktown.

How is it transparent when People are "cowed" into keeping silent? Legal firms are put out of business, if they take him on. (challenge Him). Nev

Well, my rebate arrived in my bank account. Spent already, of course.

That's your opinion; theirs, from their experience is different. Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 2009, for example. Obama did it in his first year - nothing else 8 years on, Chump 1, nothing else; Biden, de nada; Chump 2 nothing. The average US citizen couldn't give a stuff about the rest of the world. What they mean is, it is all there to see. Apart from the Like on Truth Social question, nothing else in your post has anything to do about whether the government is transparent or not.

What do you mean "at least there is transparency?" Like on Truth Social? Anyone who spills their Guts gets get SHAFTED. , Businesses are Ruined. Trump wants to Make the USA Great Again. He's NOT doing THAT is He? He's a CROOK. Only looking After himself and his Mates. and drunk with Power. The People Have No idea how to get rid of Him. Nev

If your US friends don't think it would be better under literally anyone else, they're not thinking full stop.

I haven't been on the thread for a while. I have just caught up with it. And, not much has changed. Chump makes stoopid decisions, divides his electorate, breaches the law, uses offensive diplomacy, and is blatantly corrupt. I am thinking it is a ploy to keep us wedded to the current and forget about what he had previously done. The yanks voted for him; they knew what they were getting and they got it. Unf, it has ramifications around the world. The democraps (intentional) aren't offering the US population any real alternative to vote for. Wasn't a senator by election or something just done with a MAGA maniac elected? The yanks don't like him, but the dislike the others even more. I read the news, sigh, and hop his reign of facism is over before he inflicts irreparable damage. Europe is heading in a s similar vain, albeit somewhat constrained. The UK is more so heading that way, with odds on Farage being the next elected PM. Pauline seems to be gaining popularity over notoriety. People are putting up with this crap because they have had enough of the status quo. Yep, they are getting shafted, but they are under no illusion they were getting shafted. MY US friends, albeit admitting it is a sad state of affairs, don't think it would be any better under anyone else, but at least there is transparency.

The Golden Rule is He with the Gold Makes all the rules. How long will the American People PUT UP with this?. Nev

He's as fake as his tan. He's in it for what He can Make out of it. The bloke who is now boss over the CIA and FBI etc is a Real Estate Person with no other experience. You couldn't make this STUFF Up. Nev

It would be nice to have heaps of spare cash to throw around as there's some bargains out there. This Massey came up today on marketplace for $5,000. There's way more than that in scrap price - heaps of steel, shafts, pulleys, hydraulic rams and pumps, gears etc.. On top of that it's got a V8 Perkins diesel with 3,000 hours on the clock. Naturally the catch is the transport cost to move it anywhere.

Even though he withdrew his lawsuit it looks as though the judge is going to reopen the case to investigate whether he was perpetrating a fraud on the court by effectively suing himself.

They're awful things; two things I don't miss about out there are corrugations and flies. The worst corrugations I've ever encountered were on the Kintore road after you turn off the Tanami road. From the turnoff it's about 375 klm to Kintore and about 200 klm of that was really bad corrugations with no let up hour after hour. It was the sheer distance of the corrugated section that made it so bad. We had a couple of casualties - one of the towed dongas had some suspension come apart so we had to take the wheel off and chain the axle up. The worst bit was late in the afternoon when a fuel tanker on the back of a body truck split a seam. We off loaded as much fuel as we could into trucks, machines and Toyotas but had to leave the tanker truck there overnight. Moving it would have ruptured it more and been a major fuel spill. With the level lowered, the pressure behind the leak wasn't as bad but it still lost a lot onto the road which the local council wasn't happy about. We borrowed a heap of 44's from a local station and a couple of the blokes came back with the float and a hand pump and offloaded fuel into the drums. They were going all night and into the next day to get all the fuel, about three trips they did. We found the best trucks to handle that rough country were the W series Kenworths. The cabs held up much better than Macks and other makes. You could buy some really good second hand road train rated W series trucks at fairly cheap prices. For the people selling them, they were no longer viable or economical for highway work, but they were still good for many years of desert bashing.

He pulled another swifty. He settled out of Court so that the matter would not be tossed out by the Court. The settlement included $US1776 Billion, payable from taxpayer money, plus an incredible set of conditions that prevent the IRS from going after him, his family and his mates. There is no oversight on how the money is distributed. It is the most incredible out-of-court settlement in the history of any legal system so far developed.

This article gives a variety of figures from four polls released this week, Redbridge, YouGov, Fox & Hedgehog and Morgan. The Fox & Hedgehog poll found if a Teal-style party ran it would have 6% support coming mostly at Labor's expense and having no effect on the combined Coalition and One Nation figures. https://theconversation.com/one-nation-surges-to-first-on-primary-votes-in-two-new-polls-284165

He's decided to drop his slush fund attempt but he still wants immunity from the IRS against any investigations into his taxes, including his children and businesses.

Reminds me of the woman in the Victorian government who was a friend of John Setka and gave character references to a couple of convicted criminals,saying they were of good character, without even Googling their name.

Well he couldn’t stand the thought of appointing someone better than he is.

Most of his appointees are pretty short on intelligence. And morals, ethics and character

You only have to be an enthusiastic supporter of Trump to get a Job.. What a disaster in the Making. Nev

He's just appointed a bloke as the head of all US Intelligence Services who has no experience in Intelligence at all. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-william-pulte-acting-director-national-intelligence-tulsi-gabbar-rcna348036

Ever wonder how come corrugations form on an unsealed road? Here's a video which explains it. The video is a bit slow to start so advance to 6:30 to miss the fluff.

I admit that at first I thought that Donold was just using theatrical BS to wind up the dumb redneck voters. It was all just an act, to get the top job. How wrong I was. I didn't believe that anybody could be that dumb, foolish, shallow, narcisstic and sociopathic, and yet survive to such an age without somebody topping him. And I mean, before he ran for president the first time. But here we are. Not only that, but he gathered together so many like minded people to protect and enable his corruption without any thought or consideration for the wellbeing of the people.

I think that once did say something that was the truth, but that was probably the only time.