Donald Trump

kingstongraham

Tangled Metal wrote:

North facing solar panels? Hmmm!

The solar panels would be on the Mexico facing side.

tangled_metal

KingstonGraham wrote:

Tangled Metal wrote:

North facing solar panels? Hmmm!

The solar panels would be on the Mexico facing side.

And Mexicans aren't going to smash them right? It'll become a thing to b do to protest it.

kingstongraham

Tangled Metal wrote:

KingstonGraham wrote:

Tangled Metal wrote:

North facing solar panels? Hmmm!

The solar panels would be on the Mexico facing side.

And Mexicans aren't going to smash them right? It'll become a thing to b do to protest it.

Yep. Or cover them.

cooldad

Or pinch them.

dinyull

Matthewfalle wrote:

But, in Trumps words, it would be a nice looking wall, so that's ok then. rendered or plain brick? Granite look?

Trump, so has to be gold.

orraloon

Wonder if he'll use Grenfell style cladding on his wall to make it look pretty?

Pross

Matthewfalle wrote:

Did anyone else notice how he out stared the sun yesterday?

And if he can do that to the sun then Kim Jung's puny missiles are well stuffed.

I reckon Trump has secret Godzilla eyes.

He's been looking at his tan reflecting in a mirror all his life, the sun is dull by comparison.

pinno

KingstonGraham wrote:

...so that US border patrols don't get hit on the head by sacks of drugs thrown over from the Mexican side.

kingstonian

This presidency is just what we predicted, a slow motion car crash that we are all watching unfold. What we don't yet know is when the car will hit the tree and come to a shuddering halt.

pinno

Let's hope it isn't leaking oil and over heating, else it could end up on fire.
He's already going against his foreign intervention promise by trying to look like the leader and sending troops to Pakistan.

FishFish

Great allegories but no substance.
He is the first one to shut up N Korea.
When I was in the Parachute Regiment we only wanted blokes - suspect that perspective continues.
He is not sending troops to Pakistan - he is increasing troop strength to Afghanistan and telling Pakistan to behave. About time someone did.
'Both sides' did cause trouble in Charlottesville - same as in most demos in the UK.
He said nothing about the desecration of history caused by removing confederate statues.

rick_chasey

Alright, who wants to tackle the nutter first?

I'll take a stab at some easy ones.

Charlottesville: fairly sure that a) only one side deliberately drove a car into the other side, killing one of them. That this is a well trodden fantasy of that particular side online is no coincidence. b) anti fascists tend to exist because of the presence of fascists. I don't see much violence in New York where they are largely anti fascist cos there aren't any fascists to start a fight. C) only one side turned up in army kit and with guns.


On the confederate statues; they were leaders who fought a civil war to fundamentally protect their rights to continue to use slave labour. That's just factual. Why would you want a statue of that? That most of the statues were put up during Jim Crowe and again during the civil rights movement should also make you question what the real motive is of having the statues. So I ask the question why is removing them a 'desecration'?

bompington

Next one: shut up N Korea? In what way has it been shut up? Aren't they finding Trump's macho posturing a handy echo of their own, so it allows them to notch the usual wild rhetoric up a level or two?

PhilipPirrip

To be fair, everyone's entited to an opinion even if it's wrong

Aside from the clear moral equivalancy Trump portrayed, another thing on the issue of 'both sides' is that even Trump has sought to disavow himself of his own comments. In Viriginia he tried quoting his original statement verbatim on Charlottesville yet he chose to omit the bit about both sides, or 'many sides' were his actual words. Does he not realise his original statement was recorded?

It's a clear insight into his psychopathy.

orraloon

Rick Chasey wrote:

Alright, who wants to tackle the nutter first?

I think someone is fishing for a reaction. Angling for a response. Trawling for a reply.

kingstongraham

FishFish wrote:

Great allegories but no substance.
He is the first one to shut up N Korea.

Latest headlines:
Kim Jong Un inspects missile development facility (and pictures of him pointing at things, as per usual).
Kim Jong Un Shown ordering more warheads
North Korea caught sending shipments to Syria's chemical weapons agency

FishFish wrote:

When I was in the Parachute Regiment we only wanted blokes - suspect that perspective continues.

Maybe it does.

FishFish wrote:

He is not sending troops to Pakistan - he is increasing troop strength to Afghanistan and telling Pakistan to behave. About time someone did.

Is that different to Obama? Or Bush?

FishFish wrote:

'Both sides' did cause trouble in Charlottesville - same as in most demos in the UK.

When you have to balance your criticism of a crowd carrying Nazi flags, maybe you're not taking a moderate position.

FishFish wrote:

He said nothing about the desecration of history caused by removing confederate statues.

He did, and while doing it, he compared the founders of the USA to the leaders of a failed rebellion against the USA that was fought to protect slavery.

tangled_metal

Comparing the founding fathers to General Lee who apparently said at the time he was fighting for Virginia that he saw as a country in its own right. He turned down the top military job in the union because of this. A good American? Do me a favor! These statues are honouring somebody who did not see himself as of the same country. A traitor to the USA you could quite easily argue.

So the POTUS is supporting those who honour ppl that fought against the country he's the head of. On top of that he's equating them to ppl standing up for what the country has become, its future isn't white supremacists but the anti fascists and normal ppl of all races who stand together for each other and their country.

kingstongraham

Anyway, he's called for "unity based on the common values that unite us" now, so all's good.

pblakeney

KingstonGraham wrote:

Anyway, he's called for "unity based on the common values that unite us" now, so all's good.

Greed

bendertherobot

Sheriff sounds nice.

rjsterry

Gorka leaving the sinking ship, too.

bendertherobot

It appears that a Presidential pardon is an admission of guilt. In order to accept you have to accept your crime (which the Sheriff has been denying).

That acceptance is now compelling evidence in relation to any civil proceedings he's facing. Wonder if the Federal government will bail him out in relation to any damages awards?

Matthewfalle

bendertherobot wrote:

It appears that a Presidential pardon is an admission of guilt. In order to accept you have to accept your crime (which the Sheriff has been denying).

That acceptance is now compelling evidence in relation to any civil proceedings he's facing. Wonder if the Federal government will bail him out in relation to any damages awards?

Catch 22 Yossarian ......

pblakeney

"There's never been anything like the Texas floods."
That'll go down well with the Bible Belt.

bendertherobot

PBlakeney wrote:

"There's never been anything like the Texas floods."
That'll go down well with the Bible Belt.

Quite.

I wonder what the God fearing people of Texas think about this one? Nothing to do with God? Or God testing them. Weird entity is God.

pblakeney

bendertherobot wrote:

PBlakeney wrote:

"There's never been anything like the Texas floods."
That'll go down well with the Bible Belt.

Quite.

I wonder what the God fearing people of Texas think about this one? Nothing to do with God? Or God testing them. Weird entity is God.

Rumour has it that one of those folks suggested that natural disasters were God's way of punishing homosexuality. His house has been flooded. Take from that what you will.
Also - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVjdMLAMbM0

bendertherobot

PBlakeney wrote:

bendertherobot wrote:

PBlakeney wrote:

"There's never been anything like the Texas floods."
That'll go down well with the Bible Belt.

Quite.

I wonder what the God fearing people of Texas think about this one? Nothing to do with God? Or God testing them. Weird entity is God.

Rumour has it that one of those folks suggested that natural disasters were God's way of punishing homosexuality. His house has been flooded. Take from that what you will.
Also - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVjdMLAMbM0

I originally posted much the same, but something got the better of me, googled, it's true. But last year's hurricane, not this. I'm sure that plenty of Texan belt churchgoers are mighty confused right now.

PhilipPirrip

bendertherobot wrote:

PBlakeney wrote:

"There's never been anything like the Texas floods."
That'll go down well with the Bible Belt.

Quite.

I wonder what the God fearing people of Texas think about this one? Nothing to do with God? Or God testing them. Weird entity is God.

God must be punishing them to test their love for him.

Some call it devotion, the rest of the world calls it an abusive and controlling relationship.

tangled_metal

God is usually portrayed as a man. Love thy God hypocrites!

rick_chasey

PhilipPirrip wrote:

bendertherobot wrote:

PBlakeney wrote:

"There's never been anything like the Texas floods."
That'll go down well with the Bible Belt.

Quite.

I wonder what the God fearing people of Texas think about this one? Nothing to do with God? Or God testing them. Weird entity is God.

God must be punishing them to test their love for him.

Some call it devotion, the rest of the world calls it an abusive and controlling relationship.