US Election & Presidency

nope. he's been a malignant narcissist most of his life. if only his parents showed him the smallest iota of love as a child, how different things could be.

(04-10-2019 08:52 )terence Wrote:  nope. he's been a malignant narcissist most of his life. if only his parents showed him the smallest iota of love as a child, how different things could be.

If only his father hadn't been a member of the Klu Klux Klan he might not have been a racist!

(03-10-2019 12:15 )skully Wrote:  He's also taking shots at that climate activist teenager...again. It's very mature stuff, as usual, from a man in his 70's.

Do you think he's playing up so he gets sectioned rather than sent to jail, maybe things are really starting to bother him. lol.

Skully wrote
so he gets sectioned rather than sent to jail, maybe things are really starting to bother him. lol.


It should have happened a long time ago, but at the same time, if he had been sectioned I wonder how much better the US would have been being run by the Vice President. Doubt there would have been that much difference

Yesterday in public he said that China should investigate the Biden's and it was also revealed that he had asked President Xi to do so earlier this year. His comments yesterday were within a few seconds of him saying about the trade war with China

"I have a lot of options on China. But if they don't do what we want, we have tremendous power."

It really does seem that world leaders are being told they must investigate his political opponents or they won't get trade deals, visits to the White House, financial aid etc.

Two Questions :-
1) I assume there is nothing in the UN convention that stops China complaining to the UN over the USA (Since both are permanent Security Council members)?

2) Has a permanent Security council member ever lost it seat?

China holds a lot of US debt. They have much better options than moaning to the UN if they want to cause Trump real problems.

As for the security council, the 5 WW2 Allied Powers/Original Nuclear States are granted permanent status by the UN Charter and removal would require an amendment. In practice this would never happen as they all hold a veto.

Freelance Journalist Christopher Miller based in Kiev:

"Ukraine's prosecutor general, Ruslan Riaboshapka, says that his office will review all cases closed by his predecessors, of which there are 15 that deal with Burisma, the gas company where Hunter Biden sat on the board of directors. So, this isn't the investigation Trump and Co. are demanding. But it seems like this is as far as Ukraine is willing to go with their demand: 'We'll look at all these cases, not at Burisma or Biden specifically, but at Zlochevsky and other businessmen who are linked to them.' "

Though as stated this is not the exactly what the Trump Admin are looking for, imagine if it led to something and Ukraine gave into Trump's demands in the middle of the impeachment enquiry. It wouldn't affect the outcome as far as proceedings in The House would go but as I said in a previous post it's going to fail in Congress anyway it will be won or lost in the court of public opinion & if Trump was vindicated at any level then, particularly in this extremely bipolar political atmosphere, I think that would be a devastating blow for The Dems on selling it to the general public

Classic.

I hope that word comes back to bite him on the bum - CORRUPTION!!

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(04-10-2019 11:26 )southsidestu Wrote:  Freelance Journalist Christopher Miller based in Kiev:

"Ukraine's prosecutor general, Ruslan Riaboshapka, says that his office will review all cases closed by his predecessors, of which there are 15 that deal with Burisma, the gas company where Hunter Biden sat on the board of directors. So, this isn't the investigation Trump and Co. are demanding. But it seems like this is as far as Ukraine is willing to go with their demand: 'We'll look at all these cases, not at Burisma or Biden specifically, but at Zlochevsky and other businessmen who are linked to them.' "

Though as stated this is not the exactly what the Trump Admin are looking for, imagine if it led to something and Ukraine gave into Trump's demands in the middle of the impeachment enquiry. It wouldn't affect the outcome as far as proceedings in The House would go but as I said in a previous post it's going to fail in Congress anyway it will be won or lost in the court of public opinion & if Trump was vindicated at any level then, particularly in this extremely bipolar political atmosphere, I think that would be a devastating blow for The Dems on selling it to the general public

I have a feeling whatever links Trump to Ukraine will eventually lead right back to Putin.

(04-10-2019 14:22 )Scots Napoleon Wrote:  Classic.

A reporter asked him if he'd ever asked another country to investigate someone who wasn't a political opponent.

Trump - "Er, I'll need to check on that"