What ever drugs you have recently started taking are not working out.

Now I've seen everything.

That you think you are a moderate kind of sums up the problem. None of the opinions you express on here supports that assertion and they certainly, from my own experience and observations, don't reflect those of a large proportion of the British population. I think they are shared by an active and loud minority, who you perhaps think is much larger than it actually is.

You confirm my view when you suggest that people can be "easily manipulated" because they are "increasingly blinkered". Although you count yourself out of that group, even though you believe you are a "moderate"!

I can assure you that no-body manipulates me. I do my own research and reach my own conclusions. I use trusted and honourable sources that have stood the test of time. I think blinkered is much more an apposite adjective to describe you and your partner in crime here, except you only wear one on the left eye. Everything you look at comes from the right.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

I can assure I am neither! You appear to be relatively new here and did post a sensible reaction to Trump's behaviour in his final days so gained my respect for that.

When you have endured "Hrolf" for as long as I have then maybe you will revise your opinion. Read the other responses for some confirmation.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

I'm a long time lurker, I get stink eye from the wife if I spend too much time arguing with the wind on the internet.

Two things can be true: Trumps post election defeat antics can be absurd and wrong. They should be called out as such. It is also true and important to have a credible media who isn't clearly in the tank for one political party as they've been for the last 50 years. Its not just the media, its a whole swath of institutions in this country that have been swamped by overly credentialed progressives who cannot relate to the kitchen table issues that everyday Americans are actually concerned about.

I just sat through an entire summer of leftwing rioters burning American cities to the tune of 3 billion dollars of damage and 25+ associated deaths. The mainstream media made excuse after excuse protecting these troglodytes. The Qanons storming the capital was wrong and they should be persecuted to the full extent of the law. A mob is a mob - right or left, this is not complicated nor does it need to be apologized for by authoritative entities such as the mainstream media, governments and corporations. People who sat around posting little black boxes on Instagram or hash-tagging BLM and doing all the associated nauseating finger wagging should look in the mirror and see how ridiculous and hypocritical they sound when its the other side doing the violence. A violent mob is a violent mob and should receive no quarter from any authoritative institution.

If Trump supporters had done what BLM had done in the summer the media would have called for them to be carpet bombed in a scene similar to the "Highway of Death" in the Gulf War.

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Boom boom spider, boom boom- you are on a winning streak!

Many US presidents gave out dodgy pardons in their waning days, like everything though, Trump took it to a whole new level of depravity...because he could.

'Because he could' is the key lesson of the Trump era.

So few of the norms and customs that every single president abided by before him, are enshrined in the US constitution, or law.

Trump pardoned people to give meat and drink to his base. He did everything, EVERYTHING, to give meat and drink to his base. He gave Rush Limbaugh a Presidential Medal of Freedom, simply and solely for the reason of exciting his base.

No president of these 'United' States before him, has ever been so craven in pandering to one section of society.

Speaking of breaking codes, norms and standards, even at the last minute, there was speculation that Mike Pence would not certify the electoral slates....because, some claimed, he could do that. In the end Pence listened to more learned people than appear on Fox news, and did the right, and lawful thing.

Consider this: Barack Obama and his family were issued death threats over the birther lie, despite this, he STILL welcomed Trump with open arms to the white house, managed the transition properly, and acted in the best interests of this nation. What does Trump do? Asks republicans in GA to "find votes" then incites a violent uprising, causing 5 deaths, and never mention Joe Biden by name.

Trump cannot act in the interests of anyone, except himself or his immediate family on some occasions. He is a depraved human, with practically zero integrity, leadership skills, or acumen for anything that he does. Call Obama what you like, but he has class.

It is a miracle that will be marveled at for centuries, that such a lowlife piece of trash as Donald J Trump became the president of America. But if you read about what Fujimori did, what Duterte did, what Vitor Orban did, and many more, it becomes clear. He duped a bunch of idiots into thinking he was a solution to a system that had generationally failed them. The parallels to Brexit are clear.

In other news, it is nice to see White House press briefings back, on a daily basis, and not being run by a pathological liar.

You are not required to run daily press briefings, is it not mandated by law. It is simply something that a normal administration considers an essential element of governing a large nation - open communication and some level of transparency.

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.

Myself and Hrolf both moderates- who knew? The moderate party has a wide catchment area i guess.