It's unbelievable, isn't it? Every day I think that he can't **** up any worse and every day he proves me wrong. I'm glad that he's not a complete ****house that's actually competent, though. That would be terrifying. More terrifying.
Good points there - Trump's reckless behaviour could jeopardise intelligence sharing, in all honesty you'd think twice before you share with a blabber mouth.
There are many terrible things that may yet happen. But what's truly shocking is to consider how far Trump has gotten without a trace of either competence or loyalty. Imagine how much support he would get with a bit of either one, let alone both.
I don't like a lot of things that Trump does but sharing intelligence of a terrorist threat is not one of them. It is his duty to protect ALL Americans and some Americams travel on Russian airlines. He has to protect them as well. I certainly look at jobs in the former USSR and sometime in the future I may have to travel on a Russian airline. I am far happier that Trump has shared this information from a personal point of view.
The problem - and a very serious one - as has been explained earlier is not that intel was shared, but how it was done on this occasion. It appears that Trump effectively revealed sufficient detail to identify the source of the information - thereby risking the life of that informant and jeopardising future intel opportunities as well as pissing off an ally. There are channels and processes for anonymising and disseminating reports - and Trump blubbing arrogantly to a Russian diplomat isn't one of them!!
And as if on queue..... Trump asked FBI's Comey to drop Flynn inquiry - reports - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39944520 If this is documented officially it could be curtains for Trump!! But probably isn't.........
Trump is a chancer, he wins a few, loses a few, it works in business but not ideal for President. It's the first time he's had all of his eggs in one basket. Anyone for an American Omlette?
A business record with multiple bankruptcies, a flagrant disregard for employee and indeed Human Rights, allied to blatant sexism and racist behaviour would not seem to make the ideal qualities for the most powerful political role in the world. But he is there and frankly the only hope now is that his own Party become so totally sick of him that he gets jettisoned - hopefully before he does more damage!! Heaven help us!!
Glad I can't get home to vote, I might be tempted to vote for the Labour Party. If they win with their 'lefter than Chairman Mao' manifesto the markets will sh!t themselves. The fall in sterling after the brexit vote will look like a mere blip compared to the post Labour election victory slump. I might even get two pounds for my dollar. Every clould has got a silver lining.
The only USA (auto)biography that begins at Chapter 11. "But he is there and frankly the only hope now is that his own Party become so totally sick of him that he gets jettisoned - hopefully before he does more damage!!" Drumpf has encapsulated why the UK should never have a president (as if the thought of Citizen Blair potentially being it wasn't reason enough) .
Comey's known for documenting everything, apparently. It's been suggested that this is why he wants to testify publicly. Once that's out there...
But it isn't that left wing. Not by past standards. It's that the centre has shifted very far to what would previously have been the right. Are you really saying that this manifesto is more left wing than, say, the Labour Government's of 1945? The movement of the centre since the 70s has been quite spectacular, and the alignment of the "good of the people" with "the good of the markets" is a scary by-product (as exemplified when you say sterling will crash if there is a Labour victory).
This. I thought it would be far more left wing than it is, to be honest. Are there any radical promises in it? Maybe I've missed something.
Re-nationalising stuff is very 1983. The difference this time there being a large body of facts to support doing so for their particular targets.
