I need ear plugs.

and natasha, but I am also fond of moose and squirrel meat.

And with Trump at the helm, they might get their wish.

Al Gore, an American patriot who won the popular vote and should have been President, trying to talk sense to an orange buffoon who was illegitimately installed in the White House. He and his wrecking crew are destroying our country from the inside out.

Clearly, he has all the answers and we should just sit down and shut up.

We laughed at the "lockbox" term, but it wasn't funny when the trasury was raided for tax cuts and foreign wars starting in 2000. He was sooooo correct.

"I said I wouldn't touch the Trust Fund unless there was a war, recession or national emergency (9-11). I just hit the trifecta!"

It has been a nightmare since the election was swindled to him (and the GOP) on that November night.
I just don't know how our economy is handling this.

Deregulation. Lower taxes for upper brackets. Lower corporate taxes. If they lose DT, they get Pence...maybe even better.

If the SCOTUS hadn't shut down the counting, and Al Gore had been our President?

Allies that we've had for decades (and in some cases centuries) are questioning our reliability as a partner in the world, and long time adversaries who border on the despotic side of things are now becoming more "trusted" by this administration.

Really sad.

Sluggeaux

Is a hybrid nickname from my childhood growing up in the LES, and my husband's Cajun heritage (my other family).

were telling me before the election that they didn't need the EU, they had NATO. Well, it depends on which thoughts are placed in DT'S head at a given moment. Merkel got it...the EU better have a Plan B. DT is not dependable. The Brits still don't, even after DT said, more or less, we go with who has the most to offer.

And your observation gets right to the heart of exactly what's happening now. You'd think that a man of Trump's age would remember the Cold War - and the decades we had an adversarial relationship with - and feared - the USSR. In such a short time, he has managed to alienate pretty much every one of our closest allies. It boggles the mind.

Welcome to DU, Sluggeaux! We're glad to have you with us!

Trump is so hungry for compliments he is willing to troll for good press. I have no doubt this is a standard operating procedure. He discusses health care with Obama and seems ready compromise then is ready to gut it reverses all the good things he said about Obama. I could see him doing the same thing with Gore and the Paris accord. Bottom line world leaders you cannot believe a word Trump utters. You think this liar will honor NATO Treaty obligations? Think again.

he will unabashedly change his promises or statements in another moment.

However Bannon gets the last private word ALWAYS - and he's truly evil.

Bannon is the one with all the sinister plans and politics, Trump is just the mouth piece.
That's why you see Trump waffling on these things.

That makes it sound like he acknowledges that Trump may not last the full term.

With all this news coming out that the DOJ is dismissing lawsuits in favor of the Russians and there was obvious collusion, I bet it's now fully realizeable that Trump is going to make history when leaving office in a disgusting and disgraceful way.

In the meantime, LOOK what we could have had! He could have taken Clinton's surplus and put it to good use instead of Middle East wars for the "oilgarchs". The ice shelf Larsen C just separated like he predicted 10 years ago -- just watched his movie "An Inconvenient Truth" again, and he mentions those ice shelves in his movie. I miss the smart people.

and with Putin adding his input they are a team made in Hell.

...I never understood is optimism regarding Trump. Maybe it's because I never had any... but it's nice to have Mr. Gore speaking out about the fake President!

This is a nightmare

be the most admired kid on the play ground, he will not change.