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(318 posts)Perhaps, it's time to issue the Secret Service Nets and a straight jacket just in case?
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madashelltoo
(1,698 posts)His Orangeness was passing out blessings. Who the hell does he think he is? The Godfather passed out blessings for this and that in the movie. Tony Soprano bestowed blessings on this and that. This is the damned United States of America! We have a President who thinks hes in a movie.🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
thbobby
(1,474 posts)Along with his two brain cells.
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)To be in charge of everything in this country and the world. (And maybe mars and space) He is on overload and cant think as well as normal. I hope his head doesnt explode.
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dalton99a
(81,488 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)effect than Donald Trump. He owns that spot forever.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)So close..
forgotmylogin
(7,528 posts)DFW
(54,379 posts)I get the insatiable hunger for money and power--it soothes their permanent (and not entirely unjustified) inferiority complex for short periods of time. But the blatant embarrassment--what (or, rather, whose) purpose does that serve? That can only serve the interests of someone hoping to make us look SO ridiculous in the eyes of our allies that they decide that maybe it's not such a great idea to be our allies any more. In their shoes, I can't say that I blame them.
Tu penses à une personne ou bien un Etat ?
Remarque, dans ce cas-ci, les deux sont confondus, si je pense ce que tu penses.
Je me suis posé la question aussi, de savoir qui tirait vraiment profit de ce merdier (désolée, je ne vois pas comment appeler ça autrement).
Encore que même en tant que nation, je ne suis pas certaine que ce soit vraiment les officiels de l'Ours qui tirent les ficelles. Ca n'est pas tellement dans leur intérêt aussi bien économique que géostratégique. Surtout dans le monde actuel.
Par contre, je pencherais plutôt pour une certaine oligarchie maffieuse qui se soucie comme de colin tampon des intérêts collectifs et n'ont pour objectif que leur intérêt perso.
Les dernières tribulations aussi bien aux US qu'ici en EU, montrent qu'ils sont infiltrés à tous les niveaux.
Pour citer l'idiot du village mondial, "drain the swamp" est une urgence mondiale et pas seulement à Washington DC.
Je me pose de très sérieuses questions sur le Brexit, la Catalogne. J'ai vraiment du mal à croire que les résultats n'ont pas été tripatouillés au nom du "diviser pour mieux régner, ou plutôt pour mieux contrôler".
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Kablooie
(18,634 posts)And will continue to be for the next 2 1/2 years I'd wager.
(We'll never get enough Republicans go impeach even if we take both the house and the Senate. We're stuck with him.)
syringis
(5,101 posts)Not so much. He considerably damaged the US credibility. His own credibility tends to minus infinite or so...
It is really dangerous because US has an important role on the international stage.
What's happening is destabilizing and opens the door for potential worldwide great damages.
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)Your right he has seriously degraded it but he can still make world changing decisions.
And make them flippantly on the fly without any thought.
And Republicans don't care. They don't love our country. They only love themselves in power even if that power produces nothing but pain and chaos.
And more riches for the filthy rich of course.
syringis
(5,101 posts)But, thank God or whoever you believe in, not as strongly as former US presidents. By the way, he has still too much power.
I'm still trying to figure out what made Macron and May to blindly follow him.
Macron is not a bad guy nor stupid. Inexperience ?
He told of red line to not to cross and human rights and principles. It is honorable, but he should have waited for clear evidences before acting.
May ? I don't know... I'm starting to think she might not be as smart as supposed. Brexit is a true great mess, why adding more problems and controversies?
grantcart
(53,061 posts)The US and the EU dominate the WTO
http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/47045/LAW_2017_11.pdf?sequence=1
As for the users, the numbers show a clear dominance of developed countries, and in particular the US and EU, both as complainants and even more so as respondents alleged by other member states not to have complied with their obligations under the covered agreements (compliance a priori). Developing countries, which constitute about 53% of all WTO member states, account for only about 40% of complainants, and even less of respondents. What is most troubling, however, is that Least Developed Countries are almost non-existent in the system. The characterization of the most active users is even more evident when using the World Banks categorization of states according to their gross national income per capita. Indeed, the paper shows a correlation between such income and the number of initiations of dispute settlement procedures, and an even stronger correlation between GDP and number of initiations. However, once a poor country has decided to initiate proceedings, it is not more likely to settle than richer countries.