@mike amos said:

That wall is unlikely to keep anyone out.

True. It'll prove an effective way of wasting vast amounts of money, though.

@mike amos said:

PS, not your wall Stinkie, the real one. Yours looks more reasonable cost wise and just as tough.

Those Swedes know their wålls.

lol.

Boink.

This too, one cannot make up.

The president of the US, arguably the most powerful man in the world, relies on Fox News for international intel.

Hmpf.

Thanks.

More.

Some stuff. Sculptures and prints. All either SU and Modo or SU and Photoshop. The jpeg compression artefacts in the prints are intentional. Enjoy. Or not.

I can only hope they're not that stupid/irresponsible. A war with Iran would be disastrous.

One would almost feel nostalgic for the Decider.

That won't fly this time around, I think. The whole world is keeping eyes on the White House like never before.

I raise the stakes to € 500.000. Plus my house! And the kid.

Yeah ... currently the GOP's looking the other way. That won't last, though. It's just a matter of time before Trump becomes a liability to the Republicans, rather than an asset.

€50 says Trump won't be president for 4 years.

@stinkie said:

And then there's the people Trump surrounds himself with.

Flynn's out. He lied about a phone call with the Russian ambassador. Get this: the Justice Department had informed the White House about said phone call and lying in ... January.

Apparently, the White House didn't think it necessary to take action until the story went public.

Also: members of Trump's campaign "had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials." (The New York Times)

So, what have we got?

1. contacts aplenty with the Russians
2. a commander-in-chief who, oddly, kept prasing Vlad the Wannabe Impaler during his campaign
3. non-released tax returns
4. Russia meddling in the elections

Hmm ...

Before I forget: Mar-a-Lago membership fees have doubled to $200,000 following Trump's election. That alone should get people thinking, I feel.

@andybot said:

I'm glad you're paying attention.

It's rather hard not to, given the the utter weirdness of the events unfolding right now. The US president attacked the judicial branch for ... doing its job. Worse still, he said (paraphrasing): if terrorists strike, folks, hold the judges responsible. That is ... breathtaking. One wonders if the man is utterly incompetent, and unaware of the importance of the trias politica, or if he's a full-blown fascist. (My guess is: the first, with equal dashes of narcissism and vulgarity thrown in the mix.)

And then there's the people Trump surrounds himself with. Kellyanne Conway? 'The Bowling Green Massacre' -really? Oops, sorry, she misspoke. (She bloody well didn't.) Go buy Ivanka's stuff, people! Ethics? Nah, no need for those.

How, just how, is this band of dunces, bigots and nutcases going to deal with international crises? And just imagine a 9/11-like event happening -with Stephen Bannon having Donald the Fickle's ear.

Oooh, nice! Thank you!

From Reuters ... Again: one cannot make this up.

@baz said:

You aren't actually an alien are you?

Well ... In a way.

Y'all have a nice weekend.

@baz said:

If this isn't the most hijacked thread in the history of history...

Nah.

@baz said:

And who the fuck cares what a bunch of Neanderthals in DC thinks or does.

I do, as they have actual power.

@baz said:

C'mon guys, at least get your heads out of the sand and admit the reality of it.

Oh, I do.

One cannot make this up.

Kellyanne Conway blames refugees for 'Bowling Green massacre' that never happened

Donald Trump’s senior adviser uses fictitious incident to justify US president’s travel ban

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

@mike lucey said:

@stinkie said:

@mike lucey said:

Trump is also a political 'outsider' and most definitely not over enamored with Wall Street, Big Banks, MNs and Mega Corps.

Er, Mike? Take a look at his administration. Tillerson? Cohn? Mnuchin? Ross?

I have looked at his administration and must admit its a mixed bag.

It's not just a 'mixed bag'. The composition of Trump's administration shows your assessment of him being 'definitely not over enamored with Wall Street' etc isn't overly accurate, IMO.

@andybot said:

so proud, our very own kleptocracy.

lol.

There you have it, that's what the Trump administration is: a kleptocracy. Doesn't seem to have just one, er, gravitational centre, either. In that regard it is indeed, as Mike put it, a mixed bag. Led by a fickle authoritarian and a religious zealot.

I'm hoping things'll pan out, obviously, but I cannot but feel there's a rather impressive multitude of ways the Trump/Pence reign could go horribly, horribly wrong. I'm not referring to another foreign war or anything like that, but rather to domestic problems: social unrest, systemic damage, corrosion of democracy, political chaos.

Er, worried