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Splitters!
Written By: - Date published: 10:37 am, April 26th, 2019 - 34 comments
David Moffett, a Former board member of the New Conservative Party has announced the launch of a new new conservative party.
The Mueller report
Written By: - Date published: 10:11 am, April 19th, 2019 - 75 comments
Robert Mueller’s report has now been released and questions are being asked at the benign spin that the White House has been allowed to engage in to describe it before its release.
Trump’s border problem
Written By: - Date published: 8:45 am, April 16th, 2019 - 30 comments
Donald Trump has considered taking some extraordinary steps to quell a surge in migration through the southern boarder of the United States.
Trump’s tax returns and the Mueller investigation
Written By: - Date published: 7:40 am, April 5th, 2019 - 53 comments
Donald Trump and his supporters have been celebrating Mueller’s finding as interpreted by William Barr. But with Congress formally requesting his tax records and with the Mueller report not being yet released the celebration could be premature.
Trump: Nyet Collusion!
Written By: - Date published: 10:15 am, March 25th, 2019 - 138 comments
The Mueller report apparently clears Donald Trump of collusion. However, charges of obstruction of justice against his team remain possible.
Mueller Report Complete
Written By: - Date published: 10:34 am, March 23rd, 2019 - 120 comments
The Mueller report has dropped. The next few days are going to be crucial for the Trump presidency.
The power of compassionate politics
Written By: - Date published: 9:20 am, March 20th, 2019 - 205 comments
Jacinda Ardern has shown over the past week that she is one of the country’s best leaders.
Kim Hill eviscerates Chris Christie on National radio
Written By: - Date published: 10:06 am, March 3rd, 2019 - 54 comments
Chris Christie agreed to be interviewed by Kim Hill about his recently released book. It seems like he did not know what he was letting himself in for.
Cohen Testifies: LIVE
Written By: - Date published: 7:44 am, February 28th, 2019 - 106 comments
Live video coverage of Michael Cohen’s testimony to the House Oversight committee
Bernie runs again
Written By: - Date published: 7:22 am, February 20th, 2019 - 250 comments
Bernie Sanders has announced he will seek the Democratic candidacy for the presidency and has described Trump as being a pathological liar, a fraud, a racist, a sexist, a xenophobe and someone who is undermining American democracy.
Walls and Bridges
Written By: - Date published: 11:56 am, February 16th, 2019 - 54 comments
It’s been a horror week for two leaders and a leader who will never be leader.
TRP casts a wary and weary eye over three political zombies whose time appears up.
And, oh, Jeremy Corbyn.
Trump restarts Nuclear Arms race
Written By: - Date published: 7:55 am, February 8th, 2019 - 58 comments
Donald Trump has announced that the US will be withdrawing from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and Russia has also given notice. Stand by as the nuclear arms race restarts.
The world cannot afford to have billionaires
Written By: - Date published: 8:48 am, January 30th, 2019 - 246 comments
American politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said that it is immoral to have a world that allows for billionaires. She may well be right.
I’m so tired of you America
Written By: - Date published: 12:04 pm, January 28th, 2019 - 61 comments
Every day it’s getting harder to even wake up and hear of the latest outrage to political decency in the United States.
Trump’s Worst Day
Written By: - Date published: 12:08 pm, January 26th, 2019 - 141 comments
The Trump shutdown is over, as the doofus President waves the white flag. And in Florida, his trusted advisor Roger Stone is led away in handcuffs to face charges of lying to the Mueller enquiry. Good times, people, good times!
The stoopid it burns …
Written By: - Date published: 11:32 am, January 21st, 2019 - 80 comments
Donald Trump has tweeted that he wants there to be more global warming.
D Day for US shutdown
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, January 20th, 2019 - 160 comments
Donald Trump is to make an announcement today concerning the shut down. And Buzzfeed has suggested that the Mueller Investigation has uncovered evidence suggesting that Trump instructed his lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress.
President Peaches
Written By: - Date published: 11:22 am, January 12th, 2019 - 150 comments
I’m moving to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches! Donald Trump has yet another bizarro, almost Freudian, moment as his threat to invoke a national emergency to fund his wall falls flat. Peaches, people! Not impeachment, peaches!!!
Emergency Wall
Written By: - Date published: 11:30 am, January 9th, 2019 - 28 comments
President Trump is preparing the ground to use the State of the Union address to declare that the Congress delaying funding of the wall on the Mexican-U.S. boundary is a national emergency.
The Bigliest shut down ever
Written By: - Date published: 10:34 am, January 9th, 2019 - 95 comments
Donald Trump in the longest presidential temper tantrum every is refusing to reopen the US Government unless Congress agree to funding his Mexican Border wall.
Elizabeth Warren and Foreign Policy
Written By: - Date published: 8:45 am, January 9th, 2019 - 17 comments
An analysis of recent public comments made by Elizabeth Warren and the possible implications for New Zealand of a Warren Presidency.
Political punditry in 2019
Written By: - Date published: 8:57 am, January 4th, 2019 - 79 comments
The media has recently reviewed its predictions from last year and made a few new ones. How did it go? And what is going to happen in the next 12 months?
Trump’s smocking gun
Written By: - Date published: 9:09 am, December 14th, 2018 - 82 comments
This week in America former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen admitted electoral finance violations by using campaign money to pay off two hookers to stop them going public during the last election campaign with news about Trump’s infidelity. And Russian national Maria Butina was convicted of conspiring to infiltrate the NRA.
US turnout – the single advantage of having a stupid elected monarch
Written By: - Date published: 7:27 am, December 12th, 2018 - 19 comments
The voter turnout in the US mid-terms was the highest that it has been in a hundred years. For the first time that I think Donald Trump, the elected monarch of the strangest “democracy” on the planet actually achieved more than boasting and meaningless hand-waving. Of course that appears to have been an unwelcome accident to him.
The dinosaurs are clinging on
Written By: - Date published: 7:42 am, November 28th, 2018 - 32 comments
The Trump administration has produced an official report outlining the perils of climate change which the POTUS has rejected. And in Australia the dinosaur Liberal Party has suffered a huge loss in Victorian State elections, the loss of their Parliamentary majority and ScoMo has criticised school students taking direct action against the Government’s totally inadequate policies.
America First!
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, November 22nd, 2018 - 96 comments
Actual press release from the Trump White House.
Has Julian Assange been charged?
Written By: - Date published: 7:22 pm, November 16th, 2018 - 67 comments
In breaking news it appears that the reason for Donald Trump’s grumpiness may have been the impending release of news that Julian Assange has had charges laid against him.
14 Million Yemenis and a Diplomatic Nightmare
Written By: - Date published: 8:32 am, November 16th, 2018 - 19 comments
In Yemen right now, children are living in the worst humanitarian crisis we have seen in the last 100 years.
Rude ‘n Terrible?
Written By: - Date published: 6:55 pm, November 8th, 2018 - 38 comments
Trump’s…I don’t actually have words for this little escapade.
Jeff Sessions resigns as Attorney General
Written By: - Date published: 9:57 am, November 8th, 2018 - 27 comments
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned at the President’s request and has been replaced by someone who thought that Mueller’s investigation into POTUS went too far.
Why this mid term result?
Written By: - Date published: 5:05 pm, November 7th, 2018 - 39 comments
What can we take from the US mid term election results?
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