1) Absolutely spot on- sometimes when we differ on what is a choice or right, as in the choice/life debate, we still have to put that to the side to unite against a collective or in this case a man who has demonstrated a blatant disregard for decency and the rights of others.

2) The fact that there was nothing like this during the Reagan years or for the re-election of George W. Bush speaks volumes to me as to how people protesting are doing so based on Donald Trump as an individual, rather than as the Republican President. His family and his own racism have been well documented including allegations of his father's involvement in the KKK ( Vice article ) to his property company discriminating against Black and Puerto Rican tenants in New York (Covered in Vice with the full article from 1979 reprinted in 2015 both times by The Village Voice )

3) I doubt it as I cannot from any angle justify the man in his attitudes and behaviour, and therefore if you are saying a leader in an elected position should represent all people as best he/she can then I cannot see how anyone can say he is the correct person for the job.

Me and my gal at the Women's March in D.C. on Saturday. What a wonderful day!

Nice to see "Don" helping to increase Maternal mortality rates alongside other related issues such funding blocks will cause.... A planet facing rising population problems and this is the best the man can come up with? I hope not but I assume this sets the stage for the next four years at least.


I am not normally this confrontational but any thoughts from the staunch Trump supporters on this matter?

I honestly imagine him having this scene in his head of his supporters watching his Presidential address-

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The other concerning aspect to all of this is does Trump's economic, military and social policies embolden similar behaviour in other countries around the world, including here in the UK?

I have also noted from the articles above and other sources that whilst withdrawing from TTP negotiations Trump has met with J&J and Lockheed Martin executives to discuss cutting the top rate of corporation tax to as low as 15% from 35%, which I assume will be met by cuts in healthcare, social and welfare programmes going by what I have seen thus far.

The other angle is the protectionist measures for companies relocating outside the US< I can't see China for example willingly surrendering their low paid labour intensive roles in order to relocate them to the USA to take on the desperate as Trump's policies begin to take effect- A Chinese-US trade war would not be a healthy thing for the USA or other countries caught up in such events as covered by Fortune in December Why America Would Lose a Trade War With China

I think the EU is in the balance at the moment, although with Trump pulling out of TPP I don't know where that leaves TTIP which I assumed the incumbent UK government were quite keen on, and moreover it will be interesting with the withdrawal from the EU if the trading arrangement does go as well as to where this leaves the UK if other major trading countries adapt similar protectionist policies.

The cuts in corporation tax here will undoubtedly benefit the City of London who in the face of being the only profitable area of a decimated economy will wield even more power, despite not actually contributing to any part of society outside City of Westminster and Canary Wharf. The Middle Eastern prominent families incidentally have been buying up areas of London in both commercial and residential sectors to the tune of billions of pounds over the last year and increasingly so with Trump entering office, so I do wonder if they are concerned enough about how his policies may directly or indirectly lead to drastic changes in that region.

The sabre rattling both economically and militarily over China suggests that the Trump administration sees the rise of China as more pressing the Europe, Middle East or Russia, or at least at this moment in time and to that extent I still think that the US will continue with involvement in Japan or S. Korea unless the plan is to sell conventional and nuclear weapons to the latter two countries. They will be playing a dangerous game taking on China, which will be a very different adversary in both categories to their opponents of the last sixty or so years- I hope he realises this is not the same China of the Korean War era.

Lol....