Trump has said he will put hawk-guys into super-power meetings as a bluff tactic to scare people - to set an outer-limit. Then make the deal somewhere in between - it's all part of the art. The question is still open on what he might be angling for in that deal, & where it lands.

And I think that's right. It's very hard to tell what will become of Trump's term, if anything. If you look at his last term, nothing really happened. Just like Obama, lots of expectation, but nothing really changed.

It's all smoke and mirrors in my opinion. Yes, there will be cosmetic changes. The whore that is the US congress, adiministrative and judicial branches will wear a different perfume and raise or lower their hem, but the machine will still be a whore to the corporatocracy.

Rubio, keep in mind, is from Florida. His strong anti-communist stance is to win voters with any connection to Cuba, of which there are many in Florida. Plus it plays well to all the Budweiser-fueled unemployed white folk who miss the good old days.

Trump, while in office, will do everything he can to enrich his family and friends, but that's nothing new in politics.

The real story in this cycle is the fucking sorry excuse for a Democratic party that has, what, tranformed into a grey, blob of indistinguishable nothingness that you step over. Here's an excellent podcast that reflects my take very well.