And who visits the NPs in winter anyway?

Well if they do build this monstrosity wall then in a couple of hundred years they will look back on this time and think what strange people they were.

Trump pushing Mattis out two months before his resignation date; what a child Spanky is

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) blasted President Trump for forcing Defense Secretary James Mattis out two months earlier; “How to describe this?”, “PETTY. WEAK. JUVENILE.”

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Seems that bromance is over!

After pushback, Trump describes pullout from Syria as ‘slow & highly coordinated’ and there is a squadron of pigs flying around the White House

Government shutdown results; The National Christmas Tree, near the White House, was dark.
Pathetic and symbolic!

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday marked Festivus by airing grievances and cracking jokes (Festivus is a made-up holiday that served as the theme of a “Seinfeld” episode).

Example

Law of unintended consequences strikes again!

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Dow is now 10% below start of 2018

Spanky really has surrounded himself with an inept group!

Thought Trump claimed he did know McGurk?

So
1. McGurk was appointed by Bush not Obama.
2. They were returning Iran's own money.
3. Corker was strongly against the deal.

Only 3 lies in one tweet; Spanky is losing his touch!

It’s Christmas marton! Put on some Christmas carols, have a drink FFS.

Prost! Actually now drinking an Australian Chardonnay and preparing a pork fillet for roasting to be served with mushroom cream sauce, spinach flavoured pasta and assorted vegetables.....

Sorry Loz but I cannot resist - this guy is seriously short of a sandwich to make a picnic!!

This guy with ca. 500 WH employees, a wife, ex wives, multiple children is alone!!

Anyway, finished up making our evening meal myself as the best alternative to watching little lord Fx with "her indoors"!

"I am all alone (poor me) in the White House" so not all alone? Another Trump lie?

Trump's unprecedented attacks on the US central bank have smashed down the US stock markets again. The Dow fell over 600 points below 21,800 to levels not seen since July 2017.

All the major indices are more than 10% below their level at the start of this year.

The S&P 500 is now officially in a bear market and the Dow Jones has fallen below 22,000 and is on track for its worst December since the Great Depression, more than 85 years ago. I am very thankful that I sold the last of my shares about a month ago, just 1% off their peak for the year, but I feel sorry for those who believe(d) in Trump and his, ahem, financial acumen.

Very well done, Trump. Unfortunately he can't blame this one on Obama -- despite attempting to take credit for all the earlier gains set up by Obama's administration. Of course, he is now trying to blame the Fed. I predict a sound financial rally will start the moment Trump is removed from office, however that is achieved.

Trump very publicly took the credit for the huge stock market rise during his first year or so in office.

So now the market is falling he simply has to repeat whatever he did last year to cause it to rise.

His problem is he did not actually do anything to drive the stock market rise so now he has nothing in his pocket to counter the falls. I posted September last year (as also did 22 yards) that it is foolish for a President to take credit for stock market rises because then he looks stupid when it falls again.

Knowing Trump his likely next move will be to fire the Fed president which will cause a huge stock market fall.

Due to the independence of the Fed from government (and politics), I don't think he can -- and according to Steven Mnuchin, nor does Trump.

When was Trump ever interested in following laws; so he fires Mnuchin first

Spreading a bit of Christmas cheer. https://www.theguardian.com/australi...e_iOSApp_Other

Never ending story!

It looks like just another attempt to placate Turkey into taking heat off the murderous Saudi regime. If Spanky has to agree with the experts in his intelligence service and acknowledge MBS ordered the dismemberment of Jamal Khasogghi then he and Jared can't be so cosy with them. After failing to extradite Fethullah Gulen they had to offer Erdogan something else, and a freehand to slaughter the Kurds will do just fine. That the Kurds are allies of the US and that betrayal forced Mattis to resign is inconvenient but hey it's just business.

'Good' president? seriously? it's a frickin cesspit.

Soon to be congresswoman Cortez has reminded all about the refuge of refuges:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b05c88b6fcfbe7