And now one of Turnbull’s party strongmen (Cory Bernardi) has broken ranks to form his own more conservative party & One Nation mostly-crazy-lady Pauline Hanson is gaining more seats in Parliament…the vultures are circling around Turnbull.
If you log on to an on-line betting site, you’ll get odds on his ouster.
I didn’t realize it was a slimy post-election deal Obama made with Australia as another screw-you to Trump and America on Obama’s way out.
Mad duck, indeed.
Like the Iranian ‘deal’ — this deal was totally one-sided.
It had nothing but negatives for the USA.
The illegals have reportedly trashed Manus — already.
It’s a prison island.
I blame George W. Bush.
The mass media has already set the narrative in the minds of the LIVs. Bad, bad Trump. Alienating even our closest allies. Gasp!
Trump could make the leftists even more crazed by letting them come in and then use an EO to house them in GITMO until the ‘refugees’ can be properly vetted.
blert – you are correct & I think neo noted the other day that Oz is between a rock & a hard place with not wanting to encourage people-smuggling, so they have to say “no boat arrivals,” but they already have thousands of detained boat arrivals & no real plan of action for them.
Sending them back is politically untenable & bringing them in doesn’t work either…so 0 found a willing Turnbull & now 0 has clearly screwed Trump & our Aussie allies…who were all too eager to join in the screw-Trump effort. So maybe Turnbull is getting what he deserved.
I give him 90 days…if that…then he’s gone. I hate making predictions…but wait & see. Can’t do any worse than 538 😉
I blame George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Bee Gees.
Seriously, there can only be so much madness until events spiral down to chaos. Chaos is a precursor to war.
huxley; parker:
No—put the blame on Mame.
Or, perhaps, the Bossa Nova, with its magic spell.
Ok, I will blame Rita and Eydie.
When/if Scott Adams’ is likely to say is that Trump, the Master Persuader, will be taken as a “given” in other countries (democratic and not). Thus, the US-country relationship will be based significantly on how that country’s leader responds to Trump (the given).
For every single country in the world, they benefit more from good relations with the US and are hurt more with bad relations with the US, than the US is.
Wherever the relations get worse, the locals will more correctly blame the local leaders. Tho “worse” might be debatable based on contrary indicators.
Few really argue that Trump is bad at negotiation — yet few political pundits are focusing on “politics as negotiation”.
Final pleasant nightmare — Trump uses Kelo based eminent domain to take over some rich Hillary supporter’s mansion in a Sanctuary City to deposit 1 refugee per room “temporarily”. (Or Meryl Streep’s?)
Not gonna happen;
not good if did happen;
but such thoughts have some pleasure for me, and I’m not sure it’s a fully bad part of my mind.
Maybe Trump’s “punish enemies” thinking is related.
It would be nice to think they’re breaking the media conditioning, but the more likely reality is that Turnbull is seen as a conservative (the Australian Liberal party is their analogue to the Republicans, while Labor is the Democrats), and the ABC is willing to give Trump a pass for now if it gives them an angle from which to attack Turnbull.
I thought the blame was on Rio?
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And now one of Turnbull’s party strongmen (Cory Bernardi) has broken ranks to form his own more conservative party & One Nation mostly-crazy-lady Pauline Hanson is gaining more seats in Parliament…the vultures are circling around Turnbull.
If you log on to an on-line betting site, you’ll get odds on his ouster.
I didn’t realize it was a slimy post-election deal Obama made with Australia as another screw-you to Trump and America on Obama’s way out.
Mad duck, indeed.
Like the Iranian ‘deal’ — this deal was totally one-sided.
It had nothing but negatives for the USA.
The illegals have reportedly trashed Manus — already.
It’s a prison island.
I blame George W. Bush.
The mass media has already set the narrative in the minds of the LIVs. Bad, bad Trump. Alienating even our closest allies. Gasp!
Trump could make the leftists even more crazed by letting them come in and then use an EO to house them in GITMO until the ‘refugees’ can be properly vetted.
blert – you are correct & I think neo noted the other day that Oz is between a rock & a hard place with not wanting to encourage people-smuggling, so they have to say “no boat arrivals,” but they already have thousands of detained boat arrivals & no real plan of action for them.
Sending them back is politically untenable & bringing them in doesn’t work either…so 0 found a willing Turnbull & now 0 has clearly screwed Trump & our Aussie allies…who were all too eager to join in the screw-Trump effort. So maybe Turnbull is getting what he deserved.
I give him 90 days…if that…then he’s gone. I hate making predictions…but wait & see. Can’t do any worse than 538 😉
I blame George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Bee Gees.
Seriously, there can only be so much madness until events spiral down to chaos. Chaos is a precursor to war.
huxley; parker:
No—put the blame on Mame.
Or, perhaps, the Bossa Nova, with its magic spell.
Ok, I will blame Rita and Eydie.
When/if Scott Adams’ is likely to say is that Trump, the Master Persuader, will be taken as a “given” in other countries (democratic and not). Thus, the US-country relationship will be based significantly on how that country’s leader responds to Trump (the given).
For every single country in the world, they benefit more from good relations with the US and are hurt more with bad relations with the US, than the US is.
Wherever the relations get worse, the locals will more correctly blame the local leaders. Tho “worse” might be debatable based on contrary indicators.
Few really argue that Trump is bad at negotiation — yet few political pundits are focusing on “politics as negotiation”.
Final pleasant nightmare — Trump uses Kelo based eminent domain to take over some rich Hillary supporter’s mansion in a Sanctuary City to deposit 1 refugee per room “temporarily”. (Or Meryl Streep’s?)
Not gonna happen;
not good if did happen;
but such thoughts have some pleasure for me, and I’m not sure it’s a fully bad part of my mind.
Maybe Trump’s “punish enemies” thinking is related.
It would be nice to think they’re breaking the media conditioning, but the more likely reality is that Turnbull is seen as a conservative (the Australian Liberal party is their analogue to the Republicans, while Labor is the Democrats), and the ABC is willing to give Trump a pass for now if it gives them an angle from which to attack Turnbull.
I thought the blame was on Rio?