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red750
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The negative results of his actions haven't hit home yet, they are still living on euphoria. It's only been 7 days.   Seeing all the pre-election crap and comments on Farcebook, they are exp

facthunter
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Tell them it's a BAY and a PORT.  The Gulf of America is between Trumps EARS.  Nev

red750
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I see lots of comments on Facebook from people who believe that Trump will save them from the financial problems they are facing, in other words, they voted through their pockets. Unfortunately for th

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onetrack Grand Master

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It's all O.K. Trump will just pay major subsidies to the American farmers out of the USAID cancellation savings. He had to pay them billions last time he stuffed up with tariffs (2018) and China cut right back on buying U.S. soybeans and corn and wheat. Why am I not surprised the Mid-West farm belt is Trumps greatest support base?

 

It seems that handing over billions of U.S. taxpayers money to rich U.S. farmers is O.K., but spending USAID money on food and aid for nations that are struggling, is a waste of taxpayers money?

I was under the impression that the U.S garnered a lot of goodwill with this foreign aid - and now that goodwill will be gone, and countries like Russia and China will step in.

 

Suspension of U.S. foreign aid will increase hatred of the U.S., lead to a substantial increase in communicable diseases, lead to more population growth in impoverished countries, and facilitate the growth and reach of doctrines and rebel groups that are directly opposed to the U.S., and which rely on spreading hatred and terror.

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rgmwa Mentor

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Netanyahu presented Trump with a golden pager last week, similar to what they gave to Hezbollah.

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Hope it works.

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onetrack Grand Master

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There are at least 3 problems associated with keeping chooks.

 

1. Lack of space. Most suburban properties are 300 sq m today and there's no room to keep chooks.

2. Council regulations on keeping chooks. They bring vermin (rats looking for eggs and other food), smell and noise, that very close neighbours often find annoying.

3. Convenience. Most people are short of time to get involved with looking after chooks. They require a fair amount of attention. For most people, the convenience of picking up eggs from a shop is great.

 

Stepdaughter runs some chooks on her property in the Hills, East of Perth. But she's on 2Ha and the chooks are allowed by council and her neighbours aren't close. However, she has to spend a considerable amount of time attending to the health problems that chooks develop - it's surprising the things that happen to them - fleas and mites, lice, infectious diseases that require vaccination, injuries from getting pecked, etc, etc. A lot of their complaints are delivered via infected vermin. It's a real struggle for her, keeping the vermin down - foxes, rats, mice, feral cats, she even had a bantam snatched by a hawk. It's not all fun and games, running a few chooks! The bloody foxes spend 98% of their time scheming on how to nail a hen. 

rgmwa Mentor

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He's just sacked the Chairman and a number of board members from the Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts, and announced that he will be the new chairman.

I don't think he knows anything about arts and culture, but I guess we can now expect World Championship Wresting to be elevated to the Performing Arts.

 

 

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red750 Grand Master

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Jack Watkins
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Andrew Coyne, a highly respected Canadian columnist with the Globe and Mail, pulls no punches on the incoming US administration:


 “Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies.


The candidate out on bail in four jurisdictions, the convicted fraud artist, the adjudicated rapist and serial sexual predator, the habitual bankrupt, the stooge of Vladimir Putin, the man who tried to overturn the last election and all of his creepy retinue of crooks, ideologues and lunatics: Americans took a long look at all this and said, yes please.


There is no sense in understating the depth of the disaster. This is a crisis like no other in our lifetimes. The government of the United States has been delivered into the hands of a gangster, whose sole purpose in running, besides staying out of jail, is to seek revenge on his enemies. The damage Donald Trump and his nihilist cronies can do – to America, but also to its democratic allies, and to the peace and security of the world – is incalculable. We are living in the time of Nero.


The first six months will be a time of maximum peril. NATO must from this moment be considered effectively obsolete, without the American security guarantee that has always been its bedrock. We may see new incursions by Russia into Europe – the poor Ukrainians are probably done for, but now it is the Baltics and the Poles who must worry – before the Europeans have time to organize an alternative. China may also accelerate its Taiwanese ambitions.


At home, Mr. Trump will be moving swiftly to consolidate his power. Some of this will be institutional – the replacement of tens of thousands of career civil servants with Trumpian loyalists. But some of it will be … atmospheric.


At some point someone – a company whose chief executive has displeased him, a media critic who has gotten under his skin – will find themselves the subject of unwanted attention from the Trump administration. It might not be so crude as a police arrest. It might just be a little regulatory matter, a tax audit, something like that. They will seek the protection of the courts, and find it is not there.
The judges are also Trump loyalists, perhaps, or too scared to confront him. Or they might issue a ruling, and find it has no effect – that the administration has called the basic bluff of liberal democracy: the idea that, in the crunch, people in power agree to be bound by the law, and by its instruments the courts, the same as everyone else. Then everyone will take their cue. Executives will line up to court him. Media organizations, the large ones anyway, will find reasons to be cheerful.


Of course, in reality things will start to fall apart fairly quickly. The huge across-the-board tariffs he imposes will tank the world economy. The massive deficits, fueled by his ill-judged tax policies – he won’t replace the income tax, as he promised, but will fill it with holes – and monetized, at his direction, by the Federal Reserve, will ignite a new round of inflation.


Most of all, the insane project of deporting 12 million undocumented immigrants – finding them, rounding them up and detaining them in hundreds of internment camps around the country, probably for years, before doing so – will consume his administration. But by then it will be too late.


We should not count upon the majority of Americans coming to their senses in any event. They were not able to see Mr. Trump for what he was before: why should that change? Would they not, rather, be further coarsened by the experience of seeing their neighbours dragged off by the police, or the military, further steeled to the necessity of doing “tough things” to “restore order?”


Some won’t, of course. But they will find in time that the democratic levers they might once have pulled to demand change are no longer attached to anything. There are still elections, but the rules have been altered: there are certain obstacles, certain disadvantages if you are not with the party of power. It will seem easier at first to try to change things from within. Then it will be easier not to change things.


All of this will wash over Canada in various ways – some predictable, like the flood of refugees seeking escape from the camps; some less so, like the coarsening of our own politics, the debasement of morals and norms by politicians who have discovered there i


All my life I have been an admirer of the United States and its people. But I am frightened of it now, and I am even more frightened of them.”

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rgmwa Mentor

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The only saving grace is that his inherent incompetence and ignorance will probably mean that he won’t accomplish all that he would like to. As his attempt to tax the small parcel trade shows, signing an executive order doesn’t make it magically happen, and things that do happen often have unintended consequences that make them untenable. 

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facthunter Grand Master

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Stopping all foreign aid will just play into the Hands of the Chinese who will fill the Vaccuum he left.. This not too sublime IDIOT has no concept of  the negative consequences of his Knee Jerk policies. Unilaterally Breaking agreements is hardly likely to endear former friends and allies and once burned twice shy.  Who in their right mind would trust Putins word? Now USA's TRUST Rating will go where Russia's is.. Nev

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facthunter Grand Master

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Maybe that one, but plenty of others will set the world back a long way.. With Jet air flight available widely, disease will spread quickly and diseases we had beaten are returning again.  Nev

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