And here are we in the UK gushing with admiration and rushing to imitate their politics, complete with our own blond haired toady mimicking Trumps populist rallies and electioneering.

I feel physically sick.

And here are we in the UK gushing with admiration and rushing to imitate their politics, complete with our own blond haired toady mimicking Trumps populist rallies and electioneering.

I feel physically sick.

Also, just watched Sky News, and now Turkey/Russia are suffering the Kurds to ethnic cleansing, after Trump abandoned them to the Turks.

Thought he was going to take Turkey to cast, well, Donald it has started nearly 200,000 Kurds are leaving the area, because of Turkeys policy, what are you going to do. (He was very quick to cancel the self imposed economic sanctions last month).

How can the West trust somebody like Trump, who hasn’t got a clue about Foreign policy, except to obtain discrepancies about his political rivals.

Trump you are a f****** disgrace to your country, and to the world.

Now, I’m not saying that I’d like a Trump sibling to emulate their crooked father and run for office but I am encouraged that at least Ivanka doesn’t seem to want to mimic the rabid attacks on the whistleblower.

How true, the whistleblower’s name is irrelevant as is their role in the Whitehouse. It would be refreshing if a single GOP congressman or senator tied themselves to a defence rather than investigate the investigators.

I cannot get my head around Graham’s refusal to acknowledge the transcripts of testimony after he pushed and pushed for them to be released. Someone tipped him off that they damn the Potus.

And my oh my, Jeff Sessions........ need I say more?

Yeah, Jeff Sessions' opening campaign ad has been described as akin to a hostage tape - but also as a smart way to make it far more difficult for Trump to attack him. Sessions is, apparently, still very popular in Alabama.

Lindsey Graham is truly disgracing himself now. We've all been speculating for a long time as to what on earth Putin must have on Trump to make him behave in the way he does; and I'm seriously wondering now if there's more to Graham's and others' cringing obeisance to Trump than just a total lack of spine and a terror of losing their precious seat in Congress.

Ivanka - well, it's pretty easy for her to adopt a more moderate tone than her dad when she knows it will make not one jot of difference, especially bearing in mind that she and Jared have lost oodles of cred with their old super-rich liberal Upper East Side buddies in recent years. (That aside. it would be pretty easy for the ghost of Heinrich Himmler himself to adopt a more moderate tone than Ivanka's dad.)

On the other hand... in that nightmare scenario I postulated on this thread not long ago, Don Jr would be the future hardline "Just Like Daddy" president and Ivanka, having carefully positioned herself as a "moderate", would be the putative voice of reason as VP in the classic good cop/bad cop tradition - you know, the guardrails, the adult in the room, the one with NY liberal sensibilities, the one to hold the president's most dangerous urges and rabidly rightwing "policies" in check - just as everyone hoped and more or less assumed she would be for the current monster in the Oval Office. That's worked out well, hasn't it?

Well, here's a funny thing.

Here I am reading a piece on the Daily Beast, a Python 50th anniversary interview with John Cleese and Eric Idle, and guess what I've just read in an Eric Idle quote?

“They’re terrified of Trump, sure,” contends Idle. “But do you know what they’re really terrified of? If you think the Russians only hacked Hillary Clinton and the DNC, you’re a fool. They hacked everyone! The RNC, Mitch McConnell and, especially, Lindsey Graham. That’s why they’re all so docile. But don’t be fooled that they’re doing this out of allegiance to Trump, or even because they fear his base. They’re afraid of what Russia has on them!”

Spooky, man.

The interview in question