That would be a surprise. Remember GWB invited Putin over to his ranch in Texas, and introduced him to the millions watching on TV as "my friend Putin!" Good try, but very naive. You cannot negotiate, or try to make friends with, ex. high-ranking KGB officers, nor could you with the equivalent CIA, MI6, people either. Their working life is based on lies, deception, murder, torture, and, you name it. However, it's all done to protect us, apparently.
According to The Independent, Palin is one of several names being linked to the Secretary for the Interior job. I had to look it up (as US Cabinet positions seem so vague) and this is what it says: "The U.S. Department of the Interior oversees such agencies as the Bureau of Land Management, the United States Geological Survey, and the National Park Service. The Secretary also serves on and appoints the private citizens on the National Park Foundation board. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet." I guess it sounds like a bit like our DEFRA, though the US have a separate Department of Agriculture, so there would be no links to farming issues.
Obama openly stated that UK would be at the back of the queue when it came to trade deals. That sounds very important
Would Sarah Palin be allowing the President to stroke her pussy? She sounds like the perfect choice for Secretary of the Interior. As she would be in charge of all the National Parks, the Moose and Elks would quickly all be emigrating across the border to Canada, as she is definitely an advocate of the Second Amendment – and not just the Right To Bear Arms but the Right To Arm Bears – so sticking around in the US of A would be the fast track to extinction. I do not think The Donald would be hiring her for her knowledge of climate change and energy issues like Obama’s choice, Sally Jewell, because The Donald does not believe in all that nonsense, as he told all the coalminers of West Virginia before they voted for him.
Just read what Nigel Farage just said about President Obama. What a despicable creature Farage is. If he thinks he's even half the man Obama is, he's been drinking the wrong ale. Farage should bloody well emigrate to the U.S., the grovelling way he's been sucking-up to Trump. Nauseating. Just about the whole of mainland Europe would say good riddance. Not that the Brexit people would give a s**t about that. OK, Brexit, get into bed with this upcoming regime over there and see where it gets you. They'll shaft your country, and mine, sadly, right out of existence.
Thankfully Downing Street have issued a statement that they will not be using Farage in any capacity in talks with the Trump team. One UKIP MEP had the audacity to suggest he should be made British Ambassador to the US Farage's comments about Obama just show him up for the complete and utter idiot, and a racist one at that, that he truly is. If only that plane crash in 2010 had ended differently....
If, like me, you're in need of a laugh, read this article: “Thank you to whoever changed @Nigel_Farage’s wiki page” please log in to view this image Nigel Farage (born from the genetic mutation of a gone off sausage) is the current leader of UKIP, a party which claims not to be racist but is really popular with racists. Nigel Farage is best known for never being elected to the UK parliament, and never turning up to his job in the European parliament. Recently he has changed his career from disappearing up his own arse and instead disappearing up Donald Trump’s arse. Farage claims to have been an integral part of the Leave campaign during Brexit, when in fact the Leave campaign thought he was too racist for the Leave campaign, so Farage was forced to be racist by himself. His political leanings are that of a man with a head injury who screams at bins. He makes regular appearances on political talk shows as his character of “mad uniformed mince puppet”. Nigel Farage is the political equivalent of catching the end of your penis in your trouser zip. Sadly his Wikipedia page is now back to normal.
Confess I was wrong to moan about the election of Trump; he was voted in by the American public under the electoral system over there; the popular vote being of no consequence, as it was with Al Gore when he lost to GWB. As was mentioned on this thread, Trump should be given the chance to show his worth and keep his promises to the citizens who voted for him. Humble pie from me. However, one thing now is slightly bothering me, and that is this transition business. The following is an extract from a report by Eric Lipton of the "New York Times". Is this really true, and is it pertinent, or is it yet more whingeing from the likes of the NYT and the "Washington Post"? Quote: "If you voted for Trump because he’s ‘anti-establishment,’ guess what: You got conned". President-elect Donald J. Trump, who campaigned against the corrupt power of special interests, is filling his transition team with some of the very sort of people who he has complained have too much clout in Washington: corporate consultants and lobbyists. Mr. Trump was swept to power in large part by white working-class voters who responded to his vow to restore the voices of forgotten people, ones drowned out by big business and Wall Street. But in his transition to power, some of the most prominent voices will be those of advisers who come from the same industries for which they are being asked to help set the regulatory groundwork. An organizational chart of Trump’s transition team shows it to be crawling with corporate lobbyists, representing such clients as Altria, Visa, Coca-Cola, General Electric, Verizon, HSBC, Pfizer, Dow Chemical, and Duke Energy. And K Street is positively salivating over all the new opportunities they’ll have to deliver goodies to their clients in the Trump era. Who could possibly have predicted such a thing? Unquote. Over to you!
From the NY Times: "The 16-member advisory committee is made up of four women and 12 men." (so not all "middle-aged white men"). "This team of experienced leaders will form the building blocks of our presidential transition team staff leadership roster, and will work with elected officials and tireless volunteers to prepare our government for the transfer of power on Jan. 20,” Mr. Pence said in a statement. BTW Pence is now leading the transition team after former leader, Chris Christie (whose standing has fallen recently as two former aides were convicted in the scandal involving the closing of access lanes at the George Washington Bridge in 2013) was sidelined. Pretty strong message. As a by-the-by, below the make-up of the Senate (right) and House Of Congress (left) - Republican majority in both. Clearly the groundswell of opinion (at least of those who could be bothered to vote) is with the Republicans.
Another Boris -clueless and now filling his posts with cronies and cranks ........you vote for lunacy you going to get lunacy.
Hahahahaha that from the Corbyn fan Pot ...................... kettle....................... black ............................. BTW given what Giuliani achieved in New York I would hardly say he is either a crony or a crank.
On Thursday morning, I was reading the Newspaper review on the BBC News website and it featured this terrific image of the Daily Mirror front page: please log in to view this image I thought there was no way that somebody in the picture department had cooked that up in Photoshop overnight, so I did some digging. The picture was originally drawn in 1989 by Gee Vaucher, an artist from Dagenham, it is called “Oh America!” and originally appeared as this protest piece: please log in to view this image This and other work by the artist is on exhibition at Firstsite in Colchester until February 2017.
There are opinions and views galore on the Trump squad, here's one entitled "Trump's Games Have Begun": http://www.dw.com/en/opinion-trumps-games-have-begun/a-36380034
SH; have you ever visited Berchtesgaden, taken the RVO bus and toddled 'through' the mountain to the lift entrance which shoots up to the Kehlsteinhaus. Imagine my surprise to see an image of Messrs Trump and Farage in very similar elevator at the weekend! Ho-hum!
No s**t? ...............and did you see that image of a guy hidden in the hillside foliage facing that balcony, with a high-powered rifle? Wonder who that was, Ronald Coleman, Walter Pidgeon? Yes, I have been to Berchtesgaden.
