It seems much more something when anyone denies the evidence presented to their own eyes and ears. Trump had an opinion on, and a response for everything, and it is perfectly obvious that he listened to no-one and nothing but his own belief in himself. The only ones able to restrain him were the attorneys. You had only to witness the way his "cabinet" responded to him in meetings to know they knew very well only to ever tell him what he wanted to hear. Say anything else and you went out the door.

I am active in a variety of ways. Forums, blogs, and discussion groups. I have a Twitter account, follow a number of people and are followed by others too. I won't share the detail here. The Hol is where I go for football news, and then to catch up on current rambling right-wing rants. Some of that "steam" is amusing. Some very disturbing. All are useful.

That the GOP leadership remains heavily influenced by fear of alienating Trump supporters is undoubtedly true. The tentacles of that fear reach deep and far, including onto the Jan 6th Committee. However, that influence won't last forever. Trump, thank goodness, is uniquely awful. No-one else comes close to being quite so bad. The dog fighting over who will try to assume his crown is already underway, and brings the benefit that all (but Flynn) are professional politicians and not jumped up reality TV stars who were previously dodgy businessmen with mob connections. Dog fights like this will be always destroy things. So we just need to hang on, and the GOP will return to decency. How long is another question. Mitt Romney isn't there yet, but if, as I anticipate, Trump is destroyed in Court, along with all his closest associates and the truth begins to dawn on the Trumpkins, the GOP may well want to wash itself clean of every last trace of Trump. Who better to do that than his biggest critic?

A week is a long time in politics, and we have many weeks before this is all over. As I have said many times, be patient. I predicted Trump would be dumped. So far, so good.

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This was 100% Johnson.

As I said previously I won't reveal the detail in open forum, but it's no lie and should anyone want to know they are at liberty to send me a private message.

If I trust them to maintain confidentiality I will explain. I have already done so to those who have responded.

It demonstrates very clearly what a populist is prepared to do to maintain his popularity, and just how far our standards have slipped.

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Well, that's good enough for me.......time to raise the bulls1t flag me thinks.

An unsubstantiated allegation, moving on

I will happily apologise for imputing WE's veracity if the claims that he has lost £ 10,000 can be substantiated.

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Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

It's pretty clear....well at the moment that if Trump dropped dead tomorrow that the main contenders would be DeSantis, Youngkin and Cruz....with DeSantis the most popular of those three.

DeSantis has said he won't run if Trump does....He's clearly lining himself up as the heir apparent. It will be interesting to see who bothers to challenge Trump come the candidate phrase....Probably Cruz will because we all know that secretly he can't stand Trump but he isn't stupid enough to blacklist himself within the party.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I have loved the TV coverage of the Ukrainian 'crisis'. From the stage-managed shot of what must be the only black kid in Ukraine being shown how to assemble an AK (and to think how the Left have cried all those crocodile tears for Child Soldiers in actual African counties) to the latest showing the damage from a supposed Russian backed rebel shelling of a Kindergarten which only lacked a scorched plastic dolly as the cherry on the 100% astroturfed scene of carnage and its been a master-class in trying to convince us all that the big bad Russians are going to invade poor little Ukraine.

And all because Bidens son is a bought and paid for Kiev stooge. History will not judge them well.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Perhaps, and its not Liz Truss!