According to Scaramucci this afternoon, Trump’s intention is to reduce fuel prices to give him an advantage at the midterms. A win for Trump (prep wise) would be a win for Ukraine. Trump’s first loyalty is to himself. I want low oil prices and the democrats to take the house anyway. 🤞🤞🤞

But he did and those around him did nothing to prevent it. So what else is there to come when the current incumbent of the office of POTUS does not give the proverbial monkey's cuss for the constitution or a rules based society?

But of course. And also to a short little span of attention…

Might this create a precedent for the kidnapping of other questionably elected heads of state? And who could take on the task? Just asking…

It really angers me that innocent people in Ukraine have to suffer while corruption informs the agenda in the White House on whose defence of democracy we have foolishly depended. Wake up all of Europe.

We all need the EU to return to the big ambition of its creators, Monet & Schuman and lay out our inspiration for the next 100 years of peace and prosperity for the common man, independent of the ambitions of a handful of selfish billionaires.

My early encounter with AI led me to see all kinds of advantages. Only a few months in all I see is dumbing down and I recognise AI written pastiche *everywhere*. I choose human creativity where effort is its own reward and output is a human achievement. Use powerful words to resist domination.

But declining it would probably not have made the news the way this and her quoted comments have - which is a win for her and the other campaigners in my book.

Such a dissembler; Putin was never close.

Snouts and troughs come to mind.

And does it very carefully so I cannot see all his footsteps....

He is more evidence of the failure of British tax policy for a whole generation.

He loved his British businesses so much he moved the manufacturing abroad and then followed himself.

Whose wealth is built on government subsidies via SNAP programs and Universal and Tac Credit programs. Mechanisms for the transfer of wealth from the poor to the wealthy. Its what their greedy dreams are made of.

The 'self-loathing' is the core problem. Behaviour to others is a reflection of behaviour to self. Self healing/acceptance opens hearts to others. Self rejection creates a world of judgement and exclusion. No higher purpose than to learn to love. Simples.

It is evidently *not* alien. It's how all the tech bros have been building to this position for years. Some of then even lined up behind the POTUS on inauguration day signalling both position and intention. The only things USA values is their imagined exceptionalism and money. Morally bankrupt.

And tragically, it is behaviour widely admired in the USA