SadKangaroo wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2017 at 9:53am:


What's more worrying, perhaps, is the Republicans just ignoring Trump and getting on with business. This is already happening, particularly as Pence travels around the world smoothing things over with foreign leaders.

Some Republicans are a real worry, and as competent and sensible as Pence presents, I'd include his Bible Belt bent.

Trump is an urban liberal by nature. He's had to reverse many of his views to get through the Republican primaries. He's gone from soft on drugs to hard on drugs, pro-choice to pro-life, for sensible gun laws to against any reform whatsoever, advocating universal health care to smashing Obamacare. Trump's liberal bent has been twisted to fit the Republican agenda.

As for the "Establishment", Trump's staffed his administration with the most corporate-friendly Establishment Republicans he could find. He'll hand policy over to the big lobbyists as all Democrats and Republicans do - as the Bushes, Clinton and Obama did. Junk food, the pharmaceutical industry, weapons manufacturers, fossil fuels, the banks and hedge funds will continue to write their own rules, no matter what Trump says about making Amerika great again.

As Trump carries on about returning government to the people, the Republicans will continue to quietly cede power to their friends. When they retire from politics, they'll continue to be given jobs as highly-paid lobbyists. Trump's already started the process, demanding that for every new regulation proposed, two regulations be scrapped.

Wall Street and the banks - those who created the GFC - are loving it. They'll happily nod and chuckle over Trump's anti-globalist rhetoric. Corporate globalization is based in the US. With the US essentially running the World Trade Organization, headquartering the US patent office and the Therapeutic Drugs Administration, globalization is an Amerikan phenomenon.

Sure, American workers and consumers might not benefit from this; the corporations do. Sure, the US tax department might not benefit from this, the corporations do. And as Trump carries on about acting in the interest of America, his administration, the Congress, the Senate and all the federal agencies quietly get on with the business of lining the "globalists" pockets.

Meanwhile, Trump will carry on correcting the public record on everything from the size of his election win and his inauguration crowd to how he doesn't wear a wig. The Establishment, while hesitant at first, now know they've never had it so good.

Bollocks on deck as always,

President Donald Trump on Saturday put restrictions on the kind of lucrative lobbying gigs his White House aides and other administration officials can accept after they leave government.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-29/trump-puts-lobbying-restriction-on-adminis...

NorthOfNorth wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2017 at 9:19pm:




BARACK Obama has admitted he was born in Kenya and ‘you can all go fcvk yourselves’.

At a White House press conference, the soon to be former president confirmed he had thoroughly enjoyed his time in office and had been lying about his birth certificate all along.

He said: “Job done. Got to live here for eight years. It is a seriously nice place. I also had a huge plane and a helicopter and I could play golf whenever I wanted.”

He added: “Anyway, enjoy this total shitfest. I’m going to become a professor, or head of some big UN thing.”

President Obama then laughed and went back to watching a marathon session of Salvage Hunters and looking at a brochure for ‘one of those massive Audis’.

No no, North, the old boy already has a bed - and a life-support machine. He hasn't been conscious for months.

He wrote these posts a few years back.

Memories.

Big Donger wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2017 at 10:13pm:

So... He's... what?... Projecting himself from his ward bed like... Patrick?

(I knew that film was a documentary)...

Frank wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2017 at 9:01pm:



Sociology, not race - is the answer.

The social dynamics of black enclaves has its own cultural imperatives and demands which if ignored and rejected can see the individual and his family being demonised and threatened for not subscribing to the sub-community gang's 'code'.

It's just the same with Whites in parts of the UK. Council housing estates used to be notorious for gang criminality and intimidation of which there have been several movies made on this theme - one of the most haunting was the 1958 'Violent Playground' with Stanley Baker and David McCallum.


Committing a crime was a rite of passage in these places, and gave you credibility as one of the tribe.

Lord Herbert wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2017 at 8:17am:


Very sociological of you, Herbie. Black enclaves don't have a lot of jobs or opportunities, so the individual and his family rely on one of three things:

1. Drugs
2. Sport
3. Rap music

If you want to get out of the ghetto, these are your options.

Economics 101, innit.