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Trump once told Bob Woodward, “Real power is, I don’t even want to use the word, fear”.

(cartoon by Drew Sheneman)

Not so. He is not eligible to run again as either the president or the vice president.

Makes you wonder whether the US today would have any hope of matching the organisation and determination needed to repeat that performance if we ended up in another world war. Obviously a war today would be fought differently using different technology but I don’t think they would have any chance.

He's been here before. He's in the process of bankrupting the biggest casino he's been able to get his hands on. Unfortunately the unwitting players and spectators are the American public.

Frontera parts are certainly getting harder to find but so far, so good after 330k. Toyota parts aren't a problem.

Yes I agree they technically and environmentally they have a lot of good points but my 2002 Frontera and 2008 Aurion, although not worth much, are still going strong so at this stage I’m not in hurry to buy an EV. The battery in an EV wouldn’t last that long, at least not with the current technology.

Yes, I understood that although maybe it didn’t quite come across that way in my post. Your experience in NZ was interesting to read and they are obviously better equiped with public charging facilities than we are here, at least in WA. I’m still not sold on getting an EV or even a hybrid at this point though.

I have to say that despite wanting to do the right thing for the planet, I don’t see myself getting an EV any time soon. Reading Octave’s NZ post where every stop is used to find a place to recharge the car even if it doesn’t necessarily need it doesn’t have much appeal. Maybe in 15-20 years time if I live that long and ICE’s have been banned. I wouldn’t get a Tesla anyway, just on principle. My cousin’s husband (in Holland) has a hybrid which he loves. However it only goes 55km on a full charge. That’s fine in a small country but Australia’s a big place and I don’t think the large scale charging infrastructure and power needed to supply it are here yet. In the meantime I’ll keep driving my hydrocarbon car.

Maybe the patients should too?

Sounds as though they might be welcome to live at your place again OME.

That’s wrong. He’s obviously a lot taller than 5’-10” but he is a known felon.

Marco Rubio said after his meeting with the Europeans that if Russia and Ukraine are so far apart that a negotiated end to the war seems impossible then Trump will probably decide to move on because he has more important things to deal with. He suggested this would decided in a matter of days, not weeks. It doesn’t look good for Ukraine.

Offering to take Canada's place as the 51st state should work.

True, but apparently under the laws involved in this case, he has the authority to appoint an independent prosecutor if the DOJ tries to dismiss it. The odds are still against him as there's no way Trump's administration will bring all the deportees back for hearings, but at least he's doing his job. It will be interesting to see what happens if the administration is charged with criminal contempt for defying his orders.

That’s right. That’s why I don’t think that bragging that he can get Trump to drop the tariffs when Albanese apparently can’t is very believable.

In tonight’s debate Dutton said he would be able to do a deal with Trump to get the tariff lifted. But then he also said he had never met Trump and didn’t know him. That doesn’t sound very hopeful.

Trump’s blatant flouting of the legal rulings in that case show just what a POS he is.

This quote sums up America's problem with China quite succinctly. Whether Trump can fix it is debatable at this point, but he can certainly do a lot of damage to America and the rest of the world with his clumsy attempts at fixing it. “President Trump is attempting to change the global order of China using cheap labour to produce goods which are exported to US consumers who collectively pay for the goods through debt which is funded by China through the purchase of US-denominated bonds,” says Perpetual’s head of investment strategy, Matt Sherwood.

That's pretty impressive. All you need now is a next level 3-D printer.

It will be interesting to see how this 60 Minutes interview goes down with Trump.

That's the conventional wisdom but if true, it's a very hollow victory for some insecure individual.

It's a very strange state of mind for most of us to try and grasp. I'm sure no one here would qualify as a deal originator either. What is the point of having more money than you can spend in a lifetime? The sad thing is that many, and probably most, of the seriously wealthy amass their fortunes by manipulating rather than contributing. Unfortunately for them they end up dying like the rest of us, so ultimately what's the point?

I think you have to leave yourself out of the count, Spacey. It's the number of `gaps' between you and the others.

Almost achieved six degrees of separation there, Spacey.