• A Good Thing to Trump

    Here's a positive thought about the direction of the new US administration.
    It could be that Trump will be far more focussed on internal US affairs than Barrack O'Bomber and his predecessors.
    US is a sovereign country and can do what it likes to control its borders whether we like it or would do the same ourselves or not.
    It can also pretty much do what it likes inside its borders - we already trade and have relations with plenty of pretty despicable regimes around the world, if the US wants to head towards being another pariah state then so be it.
    If Trump's project is to make Amerika great again on the inside for god-bothering citizens, then at least he is not so much bombing and destabilising other countries and that is a good thing.
    This could mark a step on the road back from the US being the schoolyard bully of nations to it playing more in the role of the fat kid with family issues who doesn’t really get on with anyone.
    This is part and parcel of the decline of empire and is to be welcomed, whilst keeping a weather eye out for the deposed bully lashing out at random.

  • Trumpt Protest Yawn

    Can anyone point me at an anti-Trump protest or group in the UK that has had any achievable purpose other than blowing off and whingeing?
    Trump is president of the US and that is their problem (or not problem). Where it affects us in the UK is only in the relationship between the two countries.
    Is anyone actually calling for a withdrawal from the "special relationship" (ie the UK govt as the USA's poodle or gimp), or a boycott on US goods and services? That could be smart (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely) even if difficult. The simple mutual hand-wringing about how terrible it all is serves no purpose and when you delve deeper is often simply disguised class bigotry.