No, Aquascoot, all presidents do not immerse themselves in the durr state. They surround themselves with capable staffers who try to keep them out of it. You know, chiefs of staff to help plan their time, senior cabinet members to advise them and help run the government, security advisors to give them the best intelligence, political advisors to help them plan tactics.

The Donald? He won't work with a chief of staff, hence he has hardly any planned meetings or appointments. Most of his days are blocked out as "administrative time". This is where he watches TV and Tweets. In the last week, he's had 3 official meetings. He's now playing golf in Mar a Lago. On average, the Donald spends 3 to 4 hours a day in the Oval Office, compared to past presidents who spent 9 or 10, before they rushed off to state dinners. With the exception of the odd sports team, the Donald doesn't host them. He prefers to eat McDonalds in his room.

The Donald doesn't take much advice, which is a good thing. Over 60% of his cabinet have either been fired or quit (his favourite was arrested for lying to the FBI). Even the Donald's loyal Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is rumoured to be leaving after less than a year. After years of being ignored, his last secretary of defence finally quit, giving the Donald a letter explaining why. The Donald patted him on the back and said how great James Mattis was. The Donald doesn't read letters, so the press had to tell him what was in it. The Donald then fired the man believed by most in Washington to have been the last grown-up in the Donald's cabinet. The nerve! You can't quit - you're fired.

The Donald doesn't listen to security advisors or intelligence either. He even tells the heads of the CIA and NSA to go back to school - what would they know? The Donald wants them to listen to him! It's unknown where the Donald gets his intelligence from because he only has about one security briefing a week and never reads the daily reports. Fox News is the most likely source, along with a strangely Russian take on foreign policy no one has worked out where it comes from.

The Donald's political advisors are now mostly facing jail time, but he does listen to Fox News hosts. The Republicans are blaming Hannity and Judge Janine for talking the Donald into shutting down the government and creating all that hassle for nothing. The Donald's paid advisors can't even get him to read an autocue. Mind you, he listens to his attractive daughter, the lovely Ivanka. She helped the Donald host the Apprentice, so she has some experience in political planning and working with Congress to draft policy.

But I'm curious. I have a question I'm dying to answer, dear. We call a politician who makes fake promises to get erected a salesman, right? We call one who pretends he's a victim of his own security forces a trickster. So what do we call one who gets impeached for lying about having sex with that woman, hypothetically speaking?

Cheers, dears.

Aquascoot?

Oh. You've gone.

No need to expose yourself, dear, we're just talking.

Are you saying the US constitution should treat Mr Trump differently, or should it be overturned to accommodate him?

Now Bill Clinton was an Alpha. Apparently, he cheats at golf as much as Mr Trump. He initially had a similarly chaotic administration too. He boasts about his fillies, his sexual prowess, his appetite. Mr Trump loved him. Bill is a true Alpha. You can see this by the way he owns a room - a stadium.

So do you think Bill should not have been impeached for having sex with that woman because he's an Alpha?

The public did not turn on Bill, dear, it was solely a Republican hatchet job. From memory, polls consistently showed a majority disagreed with his impeachment.

This was totally different to Nixon. Once the media took it up, the public fully agreed with his impeachment.

Mr Trump lied about paying Stormy off, dear - a felony if you don't disclose it in a presidential campaign. Cohen just got 36 months in the can.

None of this is a game, it's constitutional law. Congress is obliged to impeach presidents for criminal activity. The Democrats are unhappy with this as they want to take the Donald out at the ballot box. They remember the fiasco of Clinton's impeachment.

Do you believe in constitutions, dear? Or do you think the Alphas should stage a coup and install an Alpha as dictator?

aquascoot wrote on Feb 6^th, 2019 at 8:34am:


The government does NOT need that drama, Aquascoot, and they can name the three branches of government. That's their job. Fat Steve and Janeen erect them to do it.

The public are dismayed by the Donald's Tweets. His staffers and cabinet are even more dismayed. Many have resigned over them. Polls show that around 70% of voters think he should focus on his job. Even his loyalists, Fat Steve and Janeen, say he should cut down on the Tweets and act more like a president.

The US presidency runs the world's biggest military. It's responsible for US security and foreign policy, which includes other countries' security.

The Donald is undermining this all on his own. His party disagrees with his stance, the intelligence community clearly disagrees, and the general public disagree. The Donald's foreign policies are counter-productive and unanimously unpopular. Retaliatory Chinese tariffs have decimated some US exports, particularly agriculture.

Mr Trump's tariffs have set the US back by at least 3 decades, when tariffs were gradually wound down. Trade negotiators with China report that negotiations are at a stalemate, despite Mr Trump saying how easy it is to win trade wars. The US economy has taken a hit.

Mr Trump's sanctions on Iran oppose the consensus of the rest of the world, who continue to trade. Obama's deal worked. Iran ceased its nuclear program. The Donald has welched on the deal.

Mr Trump continues to meet with Kim Jong Un for photo opportunities. North Korea continues its nuclear program. Bringing North Korea into the fold has achieved nothing. All that praise of a dictator, and for what?

The Saudis are a unanimously unpopular dictatorship, and Mr Trump crows about his great relationship with them - supposedly to sell them weapons and make Amerika great again. This hasn't done much for the people of Yemen, but Mr Trump doesn't talk about them. The media continues to provide entertainment with images of starving kids.

Then there's Syria and ISIS - completely out of step with US intelligence. Imagine, the president has an entire agency who's job is to give him foreign intelligence, and the Donald brushes it aside. His own party has gotten a posse together to confront Mr Trump about this. His prized 4-star defence chief resigned over it. The Democrats plan to make a lot of noise now that they chair the congressional committees.

The Donald also has an agency telling him about the Mexican border. The Donald ignores them and pretends crooks murderers and drug smugglers are coming over the border. None of them are. All those crooks he mentions entered the US on visas. The drug and gun caches laid out for the media? Seized at entry check points.

So I'm curious. Do you think world leaders should create fake, counter-productive and dangerous policies to entertain the masses? Was Obama right when he praised Mr Trump's credentials, breadth of experience, and his decision to fire Steve Busey instead of Little John and Meatloaf in the Omaha Steaks challenge?

No, dear, I don't feel cheated. I've been telling you this all along.

greggerypeccary wrote on Feb 6^th, 2019 at 11:57am:


"Perhaps the best authority on how drugs are smuggled into the U.S. is Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Mexican drug lord arrested by Mexican officials in 2016 and later extradited to the U.S.

"During his ongoing trial in New York, several of his cartel members have testified that they mostly pushed drugs through U.S. ports of entry, stashing bricks of narcotics in cars, trucks and trains.

"None of El Chapo's associates has testified that they moved drugs through the open border regions in between those ports."

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Feb 6^th, 2019 at 12:28pm:


Correct.

It's just another blatant lie by Trump.

The vast majority of the drugs come through legal ports of entry.

greggerypeccary wrote on Feb 6^th, 2019 at 12:07pm:


Indeed, and the traffic goes both ways. Mexico gets most of its illegal firearms from the US. The demand for those drugs comes from the US. The cartels get paid in US dollars.

Many criminal gangs come from the US too. Mr Trump's favourite gang, MS13, was started in LA. Its killings and kidnappings are the reason for all those Honduran, Guatemalan and El Salvadorian refugees.

Sorry - illegals.