Americans have every reason to be fond of Aussies, even if most don't realize it. They're our most steadfast military ally. Since Oz became a Commonwealth, every time America has gone to war (accompanied by any allies at all), the Aussies have been there. No other country can make that claim.
Which is important to me on a personal level because Aussies never go anywhere --even to war-- without they bring beer with them. America, ...not so much. So if you're ever in a war zone and get hard up for a brew, just look for where they're flying a flag with the a Union jack and the southern cross. Because it can't be anybody but Aussies or Kiwis, and Kiwis are fair fond of their beer ration, too.
But it's got to get your burr up, Euroholic, that Americans are so pathetic with accents. I'll wager nine out of 10 probably take you for British. I can at least tell British --in fact, thanks to Monty Python, Downton Abbey and Jezza Clarkson, I can tell Scouse from Mancunian from Cockney-- but damned if I can tell Aussie from Kiwi. Antipodean is as close as I can get. Maybe I just need to visit there to figure out the rest.
What's going on in America today is a political death match. It's war between the Status Quo, the power that exists only to accrue more power, and the anti-establishment forces that would push back two centuries of encroachment on the Constitution and restore us to something closer to Jefferson's and Madison's visions of a representative democratic republic.
Trump is neither an ideologue nor a politician, but he is the consummate deal-maker. In fact, all this brouhaha over his import tarrifs fails to understand that that's just his opening offer; he is expecting and will consider counter-offers. One thing I have noticed about Trump is that he obviously has studied Sun Tzu, and one of Sun Tzu's principles of warfare is the dying serpent bites deepest, so it's best always leave the enemy an honorable route of retreat. He never negotiates to try to annihilate the opponent, he looks for the deal that allows both sides to walk away able to brag that they won ...
something.
And his common sense approach to the business of America amounts in essence to an acknowledgement that the entire spectrum of politics and governance has been forcibly pushed much too far to the left, and a radical rebalancing is in order.
What the Democrats (and the 'Republican' swap creatures) are trying to do now is to invalidate a lawful and constitutionally-validated election. Which amounts to nothing less than a coup attempt. But their efforts are so feckless, virtually everything they try backfires. And despite all the argy-bargy, in less that 14 months in office Trump already has accomplished 65% of his objectives, a great meany of which were nothing more than rescinding illegal and/or unconstitutional executive orders and menoranda issued or written by Sheikh Obama (piss be upon him).
Even if there were proof, the whole Russia collusion thing still would be nothing but a red herring because collusion is not a crime. Candidate Trump could have recruited Putin to come to America and make the talk show circuit on his behalf. Pootie-Poot could have gone on with Fallon and Kimmel and Colbert and Degeneris and all the rest, openly stupming tor Trump, and it all would have been perfectly legal. At least in the US. Can't say how the Rooskies would have looked on it.
But Mueller can't undertake a special investigation and not end up with at least one scalp on the wall to show for it. That's the unwritten rule of special prosecutors. So now his investigation has devolved into a search for process crimes. Because they can't find anything else (not on Trump anyway), but there are thousands of obscure federal regulations which have endless networks of intersections between them. They're hoping against hope that they can find something somewhere where Trump has unknowingly crossed one of their invisible lines.
I find it highly unlikely that the Democrats and the swamp Rinos (Republicans In Name Only) between them ever could muster the force to drive Trump from office, for the simple fact that they understand neither the depth nor the source of his appeal to Joe Sixpack. It's been near two years since they set their hounds in the press on him, and Trump doesn't yet have a mark on him. They can't censor him or mischaracterize what he's said because Trump uses Twitter and goes straight to the public with his message.
And there's sheer desperation now in the Democrat ranks because Sheikh Obama (piss be upon him) was in the middle of all manner of illegal an unsavory operations, and they didn't take much pains to try to cover their tracks because they all ASSuMEd that his successor would be Hitlery Klinton, and she would simply order the Department of Justice not to investigate. And now the details from all the underhanded shit like the Steele dossier and Uranium One and the Benghazi disaster and Operation Fast and Furious gunrunning are coming to light.
Oops.
Before Trump is through (seven years to go yet, Insh'Allah), I think one or both of America's political parties will burn themselves out from all the vitriol. Trump wore an "R" by his name for the sake of the election, but he's no more Republican than I'm a red-headed, left-handed, Zoroastrian hermaphrodite. I doubt it would be any skin off his nose if the GOP entirely disappeared from the face of the earth. What's going to be interesting is seeing what manner of bird it is that rises from the ash heap.
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