OK Boomer: Trump’s Last Stand and Fantasyland, USA…

“History is seasonal, and winter is coming…Some time before the year 2025, America will pass through a great gate in history, commensurate with the American Revolution, Civil War and twin emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II. The risk of catastrophe will be very high. The nation could erupt into insurrection or civil violence, crack up geographically, or succumb to authoritarian rule.” That grim prophecy wasn’t from the latest Qanon conspiracy drop. It was written in the 1990s, …

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Taking on the thankless job of admiring President Donald Trump…

We all know he bends rules and the truth, he tweets faster than he thinks and lacks that smooth veneer that we have all come to expect from the political class (the lies always seem nicer when delivered in the correct polished manner). What is being missed is that many of Trumps negative impacts are likely to be short lived, or to endure within his administrative term (whatever that may be), but that many of his positive contributions will endure …

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“if you do that you are going to see a flood of companies leaving Ireland and Canada and Germany and France and they are going to come back to the United States…”

Here’s something for Taoiseach Enda Kenny, and any one else, to keep in mind when they hear that US President-elect Donald Trump “understands Ireland very well.  He was complimentary about the decisions made about the economy here.”  The Belfast Telegraph reports comments by Stephen Moore, a “senior economic advisor to Mr Trump”, on BBC Radio 4’s World at One today. From the Belfast Telegraph report [Stephen] Moore, senior economic advisor to Mr Trump, said the centrepiece plan of the new Washington …

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