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Any lower and they'd miss me altogether.

Taswegia? Good choice. Nobody knows where that is. You’ll be fine.

The worst part about Joe's backflip and claiming that Hunter's prosecution was politically motivated is that it echoes exactly what Trump keeps saying. Trump is already calling for Joe to pardon the J6 `political prisoners' as well.

As has been said, Biden is a decent guy and in no way comparable to Trump in terms of his ethics, except on this issue where he did what he always said he wouldn't do. No doubt the Republicans went after Hunter Biden hoping to get to Joe, and he certainly had drug issues which got him into trouble, but at the end of the day Joe stayed above it and Hunter pleaded guilty as charged. That should have been the end of it. If he wasn't the president's son, and the president had not caved at the end of the day, he wouldn't have got this pardon, and that's the problem. Trump of course would be happy to pre-emptively pardon Don Jr just in case he ever committed any crimes. Half of Trump's cabinet picks have criminal records, including Trump himself, so by comparison Joe is a comparative saint despite this late embarrassing backflip.

It's a pretty poor effort after all his previous promises not to pardon him. He's now on a par with Trump, as far as credibility is concerned. Maybe he was hoping nobody would notice.

Even if Trump and Vance were both deemed mentally incompetent, the House Speaker, Mike Johnson would be next in line. Hardly an improvement. The best option would be a big defeat for the Republicans at the mid-term elections if Trump and his cronies make a complete mess of things in the meantime.

He has the political skills to be a wrecking ball.

I read that Kellogg's starting position was to get both sides to negotiate by telling Putin the US would give Ukraine all it needed to defeat him if he didn't, and telling Zelenskyy that he wouldn't get any more aid unless he sat down as well. If that hasn't worked because both of them have refused to play the game, maybe he's seeing if he can make Putin blink first. I wouldn't get too excited at this stage.

And his bank accounts, his office desk drawers, his waste paper basket, his Mar a Lago store rooms and his back pocket.

I wish him well too for the sake of the US population and the rest of the world, but I'll be surprised if this experiment ends well for anyone, including Trump.

More likely Trump will break a lot of things that don't need to be broken and would not have been done otherwise. He might steal a few things for himself along the way.

A lot of people voted for Trump because that’s who they wanted. Many others voted for him because they wanted to send a message to the Democrats that they blamed them for the cost of living increases. Kamala did well to get as many votes as she did. The Trump voters may come to regret their choice when they see what a career criminal in the White House can do when he’s immune from prosecution and free to trash their country and the rest of the world.

I suppose that will make it a cruise missile?

Same here, but I've now gone one better. Working from home, nobody cares what I wear.

The Place of the Eureka Stockade. Freeze the walls off a Bark Humpy in winter.. summer..

Yes, that’s true but Trump has moved on.

He doesn't need Vance anymore, so don't expect to hear much about him.

Lunchtime on the aerial clown car. Kennedy is going to Make America Healthy Again right after he polishes off his Big Mac and Coke.

As expected, unfortunately. Global warming concerns don't bother Trump, and if can drill for oil and gas and roll back Biden's plans at the same time then it's an even bigger win as far as he's concerned. He's just doing what he said he was going to do. Hopefully, he'll be as incompetent this time as he was last time and come unstuck.

Can’t see Musk and Ramaswamy working together too well.

That's what the prosecution is arguing, but Trump's lawyers are disputing that of course. The judge has postponed his sentencing decision.

Trump could illegally sell military secrets to Putin and quietly pocket the cash, but because dealing with foreign leaders is part of his core duties he couldn't be prosecuted. That's how ridiculous the SC ruling is.

I read an article today where the author suggested the the Democrats should adopt the British model and form a shadow cabinet to oppose Trump's agenda: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/11/shadow-cabinet-democrats-opposition-trump/ The reply comments were interesting. Quite a few of the ones I read were more concerned that calling it `shadow' made it sound like a suspicious deep state organisation rather than a competent and informed alternative governing body. Others thought that it would just be a leaderless group, but logically it would come under the direction of the minority leader of House of Representatives - effectively the leader of the opposition. It's largely because the USA doesn't have something like a shadow cabinet ready to take over, that they have this shambolic two month period when the incoming administration rushes around looking for people to fill essential posts while the outgoing government twiddles its thumbs. I suppose that even if they thought it was good idea, the Democrats wouldn't have the office space, support staff or funding to set up such a body.

I had no problem reading it either but there are others on here who are far smarter than me about lots of subjects. If there are two things I’d like to be able to do it would be to understand everything I’ve been taught or read, and then to remember it all. I’ve failed at both.

You need to retire, Nev.