The Cold War is back on you ask? Was it ever off?

“We’re not getting along with Russia at all,we may be at an all time low”.
~Trump

All time low? A Cuban Missile Crisis type low? Along with the Hitler comparisons this is top of the pig ignorant quotes of the week chart.

On NATO

“I complained about that a long time ago and they made a change, and now they do fight terrorism,” the president said. “I said it was obsolete. It’s no longer obsolete.”

All thanks to the Hair eh?

Russia!! Trump Administration embraces hacking claims:

Asked about allegations of Russian hacking during the US election, Tillerson suggested additional sanctions on Moscow could be adopted only if Russia interfered again in the future. “That is a fairly well-established, serious issue, it’s one we know is serious enough to attract additional sanctions,” he said. “We are mindful of it in the future and Russia I think is mindful of it.”

China is back on line to make all the stuff Murika needs and loves.

Donald Trump informed the Chinese president that he had launched missile strikes on Syria as the pair ate “the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you have ever seen”, the US president has claimed.

Yummy, yummy "pie" and war.

Speaking to Fox Business, Trump claimed he had hit it off with the Chinese president. He said: “I really liked him. We had a great chemistry, I think … Maybe he didn’t like me but I think he liked me … we understand each other.”

Summary: I don't have a clue about what actually happened.

Well thank heavens for all that, all that campaign bluster can be safely put to rest, we are back to the established world order. No need for neo-liberals and neoconservatives to get all upset n stuff.

It didn't take long, did it?

Hair Trump is now safely installed in the Washington Bubble. No doubt bombarded with piles of paper that would interrupt his TV time if he read them. Now the people he installed can safely get back to work for their actual employers.

• Goldman Sachs
• The MIC
• The Oligarchs

As for the Republican base, hows the canoeing upon shit creek without a paddle coming along?

Yesterday, amid reports that crumbling lead pipe Steve Bannon is quickly losing sway in a warring White House, Donald Trump told the New York Post that he “didn’t know Steve” before he joined the campaign in August (that is not true) and that “he was not involved in my campaign until very late” (Bannon ran the bulk of Trump’s general election campaign). If this sounds familiar, it’s because his administration has made similar overtures before; when someone is causing Trump problems, his favorite way to deal with it is apparently to pretend he actually doesn’t know that person very well. Bannon, who refers to his West Wing office as his “war room” and speaks in what the New York Times calls a “trademark military vernacular,” seems to be getting routed by this guy. Pew pew.

Steve Bannon and Sean Spicer don't have much time left in my opinion.

Democrats seem to rejoicing in the apparent chaos in Republican circles and once again predicting the end of the Party if only pushed hard enough, to them I say: What a load of codswallop.

This is a sign that the Washington Elite is winning the ground game, exactly what some predicted would happen to Bernie Sanders if he had won. Hillary Clinton being a paid up member would have been a perfect fit, the usual partisan whining aside as that is merely used to feed the respective bases. Business as usual can now continue.

What you are seeing is the duopoly operating in all its glory, the Empire Strikes Back.

Trump will remain, if only for the diversionary and comedic value, his administration will become standardized over the coming months. The neo-liberals and neoconservatives can breath a sigh of relief, they are back in charge.

• Back to the usual duopoly games of the wedge issues.
• Back to perpetual war.
• Back to asset stripping the planet for the Empire.
• Back to forgetting about Climate Change

Order has been restored!

Long live the duopoly!

The Oligarchs are back!!!

It's all good.

God Bless America