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1. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

   Not only fetching and carrying for Putin, also doing a good job of dismantling the US Governments ability to function in response to anything in the future.

   The USSR fell apart once there was nothing to hold it together; there is a good chance that with large sections of the US Government gone, that dissatisfaction with what is left leads sections of the United States to decide they can do better without the MAGAts, and secede.

   My money is on California, already the 5th largest economy in the world, doing so, along with a few other western states like Oregon, Washington, and Nevada.

2. 2 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Dad will say ‘It builds character’.

3. 2 days ago on Doonesbury

   Hard to know with Trump whether it’s incompetence or malice.

   The ego so bloated it can be seen from space, so reckless that in the space of a single month he’s undone 80 years of alliance building, trashed America’s international reputation, and turned the United States from the one-time self proclaimed ‘leader of the free world’, to a nation where the much vaunted notion of ‘Freedom’ that Americans like to pride themselves on, now seems increasingly an example of the Dunning-Kreuger effect.

   60 years since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 brought the United States into (finally) being a full democracy, and its President, cheered on by the malevolent misanthropes that brought him to power, is turning the clock back, and undoing the work done by much greater men and women over decades, that actually did ‘Make America Great’.

   In the process, Trump is enriching himself as he sues any company with money that dares reproach him, holding them to ransom using his office and appointees to do so, all the while exceeding his powers as those who could hold him to account pretend nothing is happening, instead cynically claiming he is weeding out ‘corruption’.

   I’d like to think it’s possible for the United States to come back from this, but I don’t see the conditions exist for it to happen, when its political class are looking to accelerate the process; with Trump, the bottom is all the way down.

4. 4 days ago on Doonesbury

   You know as a nation that you’re in trouble, when the Marines start playing ‘Heil to the Thief’, every time the President waddles out of his Helicopter / Limo.

5. 5 days ago on Doonesbury

   Al Capone made the mistake of actually trying to pay his taxes.

6. 5 days ago on Doonesbury

   Not even a real title, is it?

7. 5 days ago on Doonesbury

   You’ll have to watch Yes Prime Minister, Season 1 Episode 7 ‘The Bishops Gambit’, to find out ;)

8. 5 days ago on Doonesbury

   Steve Bell used to parody them as ‘P*nis Heads’.

   Since the disestablishment of the Church in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, it is only Anglican Bishops (and Archbishops) who qualify.

   Either way, seems pretty much like a Religious Order to me, in practice if not in name.

9. 5 days ago on Doonesbury

   Like many, I’m amazed the Bible used for the swearing in, didn’t burst into flames the moment Trumps hand touched it.

   But then again, I’m not a believer in sky fairies either.

10. 5 days ago on Doonesbury

    Trump was a master at loading up his businesses with debt, including personal debt, then sinking them. He got to keep transferred assets, along the the payments and fees for his brilliant manglement, so walked away owing nothing.

    It’s small businesses and investors that thought he was a magician, that ended up paying for it, frequently being bankrupted themselves because of it.

    It was them, because Wall Street realized some time ago that his business strategy involved inflating the value of assets and leveraging them heavily, to the point where he was simply a very, very bad risk.