The withdrawal of Joe Biden and the selection of Kamala Harris has transformed the presidential election of November. It will now be argued on different issues and on different battlegrounds, not all of former president Donald Trump’s choosing. His planned strategy has been much weakened and try as he might he will have difficulty in Continue reading »
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In the theatre of politics, Trump has always upstaged. Whether cast as hero or villain he insatiably dominates the spotlight. A diviner of public sentiment, throughout his various professional iterations, Trump has elevated his unique gift for performance into an artform. In his incarnation as a politician, he has perfected the knack of cannibalising American Continue reading »
Low-rating news channel, Sky News Australia, have come out strongly to defend Donald Trump’s pick for Vice-President, JD Vance, after it was revealed in his best-selling book, Hillbilly elegy, that he once violated a couch. ”Let he who has not... Read More ›
I have just witnessed the most pathetic and humiliating hour which I, as an American, have experienced in my lifetime. After virtually every sentence uttered by the notorious war-criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, no matter how inane or blatantly false, virtually all the attending political prostitutes infesting the U.S. Congress rose (53 times!) in a loud standing Continue reading »
The Republican Party are intent on making immigration their key issue in the forthcoming US Election. The 2024 Republican Party platform and Trump’s nomination acceptance speech make that abundantly clear. But what would Donald Trump’s immigration policies look like in practice? Out of the 20 priorities in the 2024 Republican platform, the first two relate Continue reading »
It makes sense for Beijing to expand the services sector, but none for the US to transfer higher productivity in services to lower one in manufacturing. So this is how Donald Trump repays his legions of fans in Taiwan, especially those from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party. “Taiwan took our chip business from us,” the Continue reading »