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21 minutes ago, John Lambies Doos said:

Trump isn't going anywhere lads

Sadly not,Republicans are to spineless and his base are to clueless

The only chance he'll leave office early is if he makes a plea deal to have criminal charges dropped that could see him sent to jail in two years

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Cheer up, lads. We might have another six years of this to watch from across the Atlantic.

Just imagine what they'll be justifying by the end of the second term. You can't buy this kind of entertainment.

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Gary Younge on the money as usual https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/24/donald-trump-voters-impeachment-legal

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An intensification of his legal problems may well lead to his political support softening: Republican leaders are already telling candidates in marginal seats to distance themselves from Trump. But they are unlikely, on their own, to result in his base’s collapse.

To understand why, one must first rescue Trump supporters from caricature. Covering the presidential elections from Muncie, Indiana I was struck by how many of those who voted for him didn’t particularly like him. Among other things they described him as “garbage”, a “bully” and an “arrogant SOB”. “Unlike Hillary, at least he hasn’t done something criminal,” said one.

When I went back a year after his inauguration they still didn’t like him that much. “He just keeps opening his mouth and spews out word-vomit and I cringe,” said one. “He’s completely embarrassed the United States more than a handful of times.” “He’s like your drunk uncle at a party,” said another.

But to a person they thought he was doing a good job, pointing to his tax cuts, deregulation, supreme court nominations and stock market highs as evidence. As one woman put it: “He wouldn’t be someone I’d want to socialise with. I don’t appreciate his bad manners and his bullying. But I do appreciate his business and negotiating skills.” It was as though they had elected not a president but a CEO, and felt that you don’t have to like your boss so long as he keeps the company healthy. As Cathy De Grazia told the BBC: “I don’t care if he paid off a porn star or a Playboy bunny, that doesn’t impact his policymaking.”

 

 

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The one positive that has come from the Trump presidency is the exposure of many ‘ordinary’ US citizens as being hypocritical, venal, immoral and ever so selfish.

This may not come as a shock to most posters on here but to those with less of an interest in politics and who may view the USA through rose coloured glasses it may be enlightening.

In particular the zealot Christians who will turn a blind eye to all sorts of ‘immoral’ behaviour for a man they see as being anti-abortion is depressingly not surprising.

There are millions of decent folk in the USA but as a whole the place is a cesspit.

 

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1 hour ago, Granny Danger said:

The one positive that has come from the Trump presidency is the exposure of many ‘ordinary’ US citizens as being hypocritical, venal, immoral and ever so selfish.

This may not come as a shock to most posters on here but to those with less of an interest in politics and who may view the USA through rose coloured glasses it may be enlightening.

In particular the zealot Christians who will turn a blind eye to all sorts of ‘immoral’ behaviour for a man they see as being anti-abortion is depressingly not surprising.

There are millions of decent folk in the USA but as a whole the place is a cesspit.

 

Shut up.  What a ridiculous comment, you really are a first class idiot.  Have you even been there?  Nothing is as simple as your tiny brain makes out.  Apart from the abortion bit literally everything you said is also 100% true of the UK too btw you absolute clown.

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