Of course Australia is 'dependent'. We couldn't be any further from 'proudly independent'. #AUKUS renders us a suckling on the US teat as they play 'prod the sleeping bear' with China.

#auspol

So 'the drug smugglers', who were never confirmed to be drug smugglers, had their boat blown up and a couple who survived the explosion and were floating in the water were trying to continue the drug run. Seriously? That's the story?

Quentin certainly has got a sort of queeny bitchiness down pat!

The US want regime change and access to the largest oil reserves in the world. It's pretty hard for Venezuela to be 'reasonable' under those circumstances.

None of these moronic flunkies is capable of issuing a single sentence in his presence without the mandatory grovelling, are they?

Although, short of being on his death bed, I can't see an egomaniac like Trump stepping aside for anyone. He's not someone who will extend niceties to another person over his own ambitions.

It's insane. He's insane. It's beyond a joke.

And the Honduran President underwent due process and was found to be a drug trafficker...whereas the summary executions at sea underwent no due process. We only have the say-so of the most corrupt administration in US history.

Trump's mind is chaos and sickness.

That just transfers outward and downward to the nation itself.

I think what Leavitt means is that all military orders given by prior Presidents must be presumed to be legal as they would have researched and consulted before giving the order. But Trump's default is lawless and shoot-from-the-hip. In his case such presumption is unjustified and reckless.

This is Trump. Just take it for granted that EVERY dirty trick in the book applies to the release of the Epstein Files. Imagine something SO outrageous and unlawful than no other President in history would even contemplate it...then prepare for it.

Absolutely and, as with everything Trump, it makes more sense to view it thru a psychological lens rather than a political one. Trump simply wants Putin's peremptory power to persecute political opponents, mire them in bogus court cases/sentences, attack journalists doing their job, sack comedians.

Are Piggy's 'MANY GREAT LEGAL SCHOLARS' from the same school that churns out the constant succession of stick-thin, plasticised #TrumpLawyers that have never argued a case?

Surely there will have to be a Special Commission, with special powers, of some sort...and the power to compel participants to appear before it. This is not a normal administration and to treat it normally is to endanger the US democracy itself.

So Trump is now making no distinction between 'disobeying illegal orders' and 'disobeying my orders'. Telling...in so many ways.

''Colton and I swore that when we got married we would make Rusty an integral part of the wedding. She means so much to us'

It's the original 'shame job'. You are lying constantly...to a group of people who know you are lying constantly. It takes a special sort of person.