Donald Trump

rolf_f

PBlakeney wrote:

bianchimoon wrote:

...the reversal is due to more beauty parlours and coffee shops opening up" phew we're saved!

Tangled Metal wrote:

So the betting shops and charity shops have competition?!

Sums up my high street.

A classic from near mine - old school cycle shop of many years - dedicated to the purpose of helping people keep fit and healthy and looking good because of it. After many years it closed down no doubt due to being hopelessly unprofitable in the current climate. It was replaced by a shop selling beauty products dedicated to the purpose of slapping crap all over lazy people to make them look good without having to go to the bother of being healthy. It seemed to sum up the modern world quite nicely. On the bright side, that only lasted a couple of years. Forget what replaced it. I'm sure there are lots of new shops opening up - but that's really only a good thing if the businesses are sustainable.

tangled_metal

Pinno wrote:

FishFish wrote:

Impressive collection of professors of international relations on this site. Can you not just understand that the election of a political leader through democratic processes is the will of the people - that is all. And can you not understand that post comprising an http link or a copied post reflects both lack of imagination and crass stupidity as well as a singular ineptitude in social media use.

Are you saying that we should use Twitter?

Noooo! I'm not on Twitter and will miss the knowing comments and ridicule of the man most deserving of that!

bianchimoon

FishFish wrote:

Impressive collection of professors of international relations on this site. Can you not just understand that the election of a political leader through democratic processes is the will of the people - that is all. And can you not understand that post comprising an http link or a copied post reflects both lack of imagination and crass stupidity as well as a singular ineptitude in social media use.

says the man that wants to be in Europe but not want to be part of europe :roll:

bianchimoon

Something that is overlooked a lot in Trumps rise to victory and Brexit is Rupert Murdoch's power, the control he has over the people that read his publications and watch Fox news is stunning. Murdoch, still sat in the background pulling the strings just as he did in the Blair and Thatcher years before.

surrey_commuter

FishFish wrote:

Well personally I want to be part of Europe. But not part of the currency and certainly not subordinate to the European Parliament and I think that is generally true among people. Free trade and the right to move and work will do. And whilst the European Parliament did provide good laws and protections to us in the past, our own parliamentary processes can do just as well.
Sadly I don't want to be subject to the current government here in Britain - I have contempt for it and hope that we have an election to change things.

Why does this sort of comment still shock me?

I do of course apologise if you live in an Eurozone country

surrey_commuter

letap73 wrote:

This could turn out be very interesting:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... 07b9d87685

:shock: I am shocked that his behaviour is illegal in Alabama

bianchimoon

Surrey Commuter wrote:

letap73 wrote:

This could turn out be very interesting:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... 07b9d87685

:shock: I am shocked that his behaviour is illegal in Alabama

cue banjo's

lostboysaint

bianchimoon wrote:

Something that is overlooked a lot in Trumps rise to victory and Brexit is Rupert Murdoch's power, the control he has over the people that read his publications and watch Fox news is stunning. Murdoch, still sat in the background pulling the strings just as he did in the Blair and Thatcher years before.

That.

Working class people manipulated by right wing media. It's bizarre.

bianchimoon

lostboysaint wrote:

bianchimoon wrote:

Something that is overlooked a lot in Trumps rise to victory and Brexit is Rupert Murdoch's power, the control he has over the people that read his publications and watch Fox news is stunning. Murdoch, still sat in the background pulling the strings just as he did in the Blair and Thatcher years before.

That.

Working class people manipulated by right wing media. It's bizarre.

Yes if it was just the labour party! but conservatives and Repugs that's quiet a wide base to cover

Matthewfalle

FishFish wrote:

Well personally I want to be part of Europe. But not part of the currency and certainly not subordinate to the European Parliament and I think that is generally true among people. Free trade and the right to move and work will do. And whilst the European Parliament did provide good laws and protections to us in the past, our own parliamentary processes can do just as well.
Sadly I don't want to be subject to the current government here in Britain - I have contempt for it and hope that we have an election to change things.

Its not true amongst me.

But although you have contempt for the current government they are the ones enacting the legislation that you and the country democratically voted for.

And no, your parliamentary process won't enact all the stuff that makes your life easier/cheaper - it will be domestic only.

Anyhow, back to Trump. Shall we open a book on what the announcement ins?

Matthewfalle

I also read in the Torygrapgh or Guidian that they are looking at changing the powers over the nuclear codes so that Dotard can't do it when he gets a sad on. Think that's quite telling about how the people in the head shed feel about him.

pblakeney

Matthewfalle wrote:

Anyhow, back to Trump. Shall we open a book on what the announcement ins?

His tour of the East was a success. A huge success, a massive success, the biggest success ever.
He has secured World peace in our time.

dinyull

“Red carpet like I think probably nobody has ever received. That really is a sense of respect, perhaps for me a little bit, but really for our country, and I’m very proud of that.”

lostboysaint

Dinyull wrote:

“The reddest, biggest, red carpet like I think probably nobody has ever received. That really is a sense of respect, perhaps for our country a little bit, but really for me, Clinton and Obama have never had a welcome as red and as big as that and I’m very proud of that.”

Corrected for accuracy.

pinno

PBlakeney wrote:

Matthewfalle wrote:

Anyhow, back to Trump. Shall we open a book on what the announcement ins?

His tour of the East was a success. A huge success, a massive success, the biggest success ever.
He has secured World peace in our time.

Are you Trump's speech writer? That was uncanny.

PhilipPirrip

Easy to think this was a spoof story by The Onion but it actually happened.

With so many mass shooting in the US Trump got confused when sending his condolensences for the latest mass shooting and referenced another mass shooting from nine days previous instead.

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2017/11/15/ma ... get-mixed/

The smartest brain. Best brain.

pinno

PhilipPirrip wrote:

Easy to think this was a spoof story by The Onion but it actually happened.

With so many mass shooting in the US Trump got confused when sending his condolensences for the latest mass shooting and referenced another mass shooting from nine days previous instead.

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2017/11/15/ma ... get-mixed/

The smartest brain. Best brain.

In Scotland you would call someone like that a 'Bampot' (aka 'Po').

noun
Word forms: plural pos
British an informal word for chamberpot.

bianchimoon

The Trump admin have just lifted ban on bringing elephant hunting trophies back into US, the pics of dotards two sons cutting tail of an elephant and holding up a leopard they had just shot is a real use of the word SAD

tangled_metal

Seasonal Affective Disorder or are you shouting the word sad?

pblakeney

bianchimoon wrote:

The Trump admin have just lifted ban on bringing elephant hunting trophies back into US, the pics of dotards two sons cutting tail of an elephant and holding up a leopard they had just shot is a real use of the word SAD

Changing laws so your kids can play.
Classy. :evil:

PhilipPirrip

bianchimoon wrote:

The Trump admin have just lifted ban on bringing elephant hunting trophies back into US, the pics of dotards two sons cutting tail of an elephant and holding up a leopard they had just shot is a real use of the word SAD

When you think are no more depths of depravity to the dotard, the dotard finds one.

motogull

bianchimoon wrote:

The Trump admin have just lifted ban on bringing elephant hunting trophies back into US, the pics of dotards two sons cutting tail of an elephant and holding up a leopard they had just shot is a real use of the word SAD

Mongtards, the lot of them.

rolf_f

Is there anything that it is possible to agree with Trump on and not be a disgusting person for so doing?

Both Democrats and Republicans should, if they have any decency, agree that whoever gets into the White House next just repeals everything that Trump has done without argument. Just regard his presidency as lost years.

surrey_commuter

Rolf F wrote:

Is there anything that it is possible to agree with Trump on and not be a disgusting person for so doing?

Both Democrats and Republicans should, if they have any decency, agree that whoever gets into the White House next just repeals everything that Trump has done without argument. Just regard his presidency as lost years.

That members of NATO should pay their share and not expect the USA to do it for them.

rolf_f

Surrey Commuter wrote:

Rolf F wrote:

Is there anything that it is possible to agree with Trump on and not be a disgusting person for so doing?

Both Democrats and Republicans should, if they have any decency, agree that whoever gets into the White House next just repeals everything that Trump has done without argument. Just regard his presidency as lost years.

That members of NATO should pay their share and not expect the USA to do it for them.

Nope. That expectation is only fair if you are equally prepared to do your bit elsewhere. So I'd say that I don't agree with Trump whining about NATO contributions whilst at the same time he reneges on the Paris agreement.

tangled_metal

Was that just after the UK met that requirement or after cuts that brought us just below it? I understand at one point we were the only other nato member to meet the requirement for spending.

pinno

Is this the beginning of the end?:

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/us-politician ... 36346.html

surrey_commuter

Rolf F wrote:

Surrey Commuter wrote:

Rolf F wrote:

Is there anything that it is possible to agree with Trump on and not be a disgusting person for so doing?

Both Democrats and Republicans should, if they have any decency, agree that whoever gets into the White House next just repeals everything that Trump has done without argument. Just regard his presidency as lost years.

That members of NATO should pay their share and not expect the USA to do it for them.

Nope. That expectation is only fair if you are equally prepared to do your bit elsewhere. So I'd say that I don't agree with Trump whining about NATO contributions whilst at the same time he reneges on the Paris agreement.

i will just have to be a disgusting person then as I think the Europeans are mugging him off

rick_chasey

It's a fair criticism.

Though there's an argument to say the US arming Europe keeps global spending on the military lower and ergo safer.

rolf_f

Surrey Commuter wrote:

Rolf F wrote:

Surrey Commuter wrote:

Rolf F wrote:

Is there anything that it is possible to agree with Trump on and not be a disgusting person for so doing?

Both Democrats and Republicans should, if they have any decency, agree that whoever gets into the White House next just repeals everything that Trump has done without argument. Just regard his presidency as lost years.

That members of NATO should pay their share and not expect the USA to do it for them.

Nope. That expectation is only fair if you are equally prepared to do your bit elsewhere. So I'd say that I don't agree with Trump whining about NATO contributions whilst at the same time he reneges on the Paris agreement.

i will just have to be a disgusting person then as I think the Europeans are mugging him off

Yes but if you take it to a component level then probably Donald Trump thinks shoes are a good idea and I'd agree with him on that. You'd only be a disgusting person if you agreed with Trump that it's fine to complain about other people not paying their way when it suits you but not when you are the one who is taking advantage.