Time for you to change your avatar...and thou shalt be heard!

Bezos owns WaPo

Strange how Trump secretly admires Obama and sees him as the Presidential standard setter to compare himself with?

I do not remember Obama or any other President feeling the need to compare themselves so often with former Presidents, or even at all?

bourne? I do not know if he does this deliberately or is really dumb?

Somewhat strange grammar in the first sentence, surely USPS is delivering parcels for Amazon not the other way around?

Actually USPS prices are controlled by the Postal Regulatory Commission.
This is a federal agency with a GOP majority of Commissioners so Trump should be talking to them?
The President nominates the Commissioners and the Senate approves them.

There should be 5 Commissioners but currently there are only 4 and 2 of them are due to retire this year.

The challenge of commenting on the Mueller probe is we are all talking from the depths of ignorance.
The reason is Mueller manages his team very well so there are no leaks; we do not know what he is doing or what evidence he has found.

Sometimes the curtain is briefly pulled aside and we get a glimpse of the inner workings.
There was a good example this week, Manafort, who led the Trump campaign for several months in 2016, has challenged Mueller’s authority and asked a judge to dismiss an indictment charging him with crimes including money laundering conspiracy and false statements.

He said Mueller, who was assigned to investigate potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign, overstepped his bounds by charging him for conduct that occurred years before the 2016 election.

Now prosecutors revealed that Rosenstein (Deputy AG DOJ) wrote a memo last August that outlined the scope of Mueller’s appointment.
In addition to authorizing the Russia collusion investigation of Manafort, Rosenstein also authorized Mueller to investigate any crimes related to payments Manafort received from the Ukrainian government under former president Viktor Yanukovych that was before the election.

Interestingly most of the memo was blanked out so we do not know which other people were mentioned or what they are being investigated for.

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Shepard "Shep" Smith is chief news anchor on the Fox News Channel.

He just ripped apart Trumps tweets about Amazon in total "none of that was true" and in detail here.

Meanwhile signs of a blue wave in Wisconsin; Dem-backed candidate Rebecca Dallet, who positioned herself as a staunch opponent of President Trump, wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race;
the first victory for Democrats in an open Wisconsin Supreme Court race in more than two decades.
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Hot off the Press!!

US stock futures crash as China retaliates against US with new 25% tariffs on soybeans, aircraft and whiskey on over $50Bn of imports (Boeing down 5%).
No implementation date announced

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So Trump's trade war is starting

What did he do from whatever he promised during his electoral campaign? If I were American I would keep an eye on this, not on the numerous articles following his tweets. Why do you think it's only because of the media? Maybe it's what he did (or didn't do). Seriously, I can understand the (many a time uncritical) support he has gathered, but I would also expect his electorate to be disappointed.

As for Obama, I'm not sure what bumped him up a few places at the time - was it ACA or his minority status...

Btw, do you really like him because you like him or you'd love the "thug" or "outsider" archetype to succeed and make a fool of the "alt-left"* crowd?

*read this term on EF today

LOL, a man who has filed for bankruptcy, a mere 6 times, in charge of Americas economy.

I see terrible times ahead.

I like Trump because of the people that despise Trump.

Fair enough, thank you. I thought so.

Not a good enough reason in my book, but each to their own.

$14billion in soybean exports to china just got slapped with a 25% tariff.

8 of the 9 biggest producing states of Soybean voted for Trump.

China striking where its likely to hurt trump most - his base. Meanwhile Airbus is rubbing its hands in glee, as is the rest of the EU.

China/USs loss is our gain, ladies and gentlemen. Let the trade war commence!

Well not the UK's, it's lose lose for Britain.

Same with Putin and Xi Jinping then? Erdogan?

He's just so sloppy. Cannot even wear a suit properly. Looks like his tongue hanging down to his...............!

Yeah, Britain's soybean exports to China are down to virtually zero now. If only we had truisted in Juncker.

We'll have to fall back on our Mr Bean sales.

For one of the "wealthiest people on earth" he does consistently look like he's wearing a borrowed burlap sack.

Lol. This is just hilarious, from the man who likes to think of himself as precipitating an economic miracle in the US.

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Impressive how you always find the real problems.
But honestly, nobody could wear that suit properly. What is this? Chinese polyester?