I stopped watching the briefings a long time ago and nothing has changed. Well the price of petrol has gone right up overnight and people are talking about being “preppers” and how many litres of water is enough to store in your garage. It’s like the 1970s again.
It appears that Trump is very happy to reward Putin. The suspicion must be that Putin has something he holds over Trump which means Trump will do as Putin wishes.
Meanwhile, it seems that the action to reduce Ukraine access to Starlink was punishment by Musk. When Ukraine used drones to attack Russian data centres this annoyed Musk. Why? Because Musk’s X was using Russian data centres to generate likes and re-tweets of his own posts. These fell in numbers significantly after the data centres were hit making Musk look a lot less popular. So in a huff he limited Starlink access.
Multiple protesters were removed from Donald Trump’s rally at South Carolina’s Clemson University on Wednesday, including one who was apparently punched by a rally attender – to the US president’s delight.
“That was great, man. Wow. Man, I loved that. I watched that,” Trump said. “That was incredible. Wow. That was unbelievable. Is everybody OK?
Trump was on Putin’s side from the very start, so no need to outmanoeuvre Trump. Putin has had him in place and on track for years. In fact, it was Hillary Clinton who identified this. In a 2016 presidential debate she stated clearly that Trump was Putin’s puppet. Unfortunately the ill-informed, sexist and often frankly dumb American voters decided not to understand that.
Trump is about to get a harsh lesson in who really runs America
“This is not how the Founding Fathers intended the power dynamics of Washington to work,” Bryant wrote. “Knowing George Washington would be the first incumbent, they granted the president significant authority – greater prerogatives, paradoxically, than those wielded by King George III in Britain. Congress, however, was supposed to be the dominant branch of government. The drafters of the US Constitution gave lawmakers on Capitol Hill the power of the purse, the authority to raise taxes, to advise and consent on international treaties, to approve presidential nominees, to conduct investigations, to impeach and remove a president and even to decide the outcome of a disputed presidential election.”
He added: “The power ranking was clear. Congress would be first, the presidency would be second and the Supreme Court a distant third. Now, we have witnessed an upending. The executive is the most powerful branch. The Supreme Court, with its present six-to-three conservative majority, is second. Congress trails a distant third.”
The obvious question is why, then, does the Orang(utan)e Commander in Chief have the authority to press the button and, in by so doing, destroy the planet?
President Donald Trump says the United States is “making a fortune” from higher oil prices, even as American consumers are paying significantly more for gasoline and diesel.
Speaking at a campaign rally in Perry, Georgia, on Saturday, Trump anticipated criticism of his remarks.
“I could just see the fake headlines. ‘President Trump is talking about all the money they’re making while people are suffering at the pump.’ That’ll be the headline,” Trump said.
“But I said, ‘I don’t give a damn. I’m gonna say it.’ We’re making a freaking fortune.”