Donald Trump

veronese68

I’m not the one that got it wrong.

FishFish

Is the 68 appended to your identity your year of birth or your IQ - or more generously, both.

letap73

FishFish wrote:

Is the 68 appended to your identity your year of birth or your IQ - or more generously, both.

What is wrong with you?

robert88

Robert88 wrote:

G7 summit starts tomorrow. I am hoping for good things to come out of it.

Trump at G7: US president calls for end to tariffs and trade barriers

That could do the ftse 100 some good after a poor week. We shall see..

surrey_commuter

FishFish wrote:

There is no group photo in this link unless you mean the one of Xi and Putin and the staged cheerleading that, whilst being utterly disingenuous, is by no means fake.

What is unarguably fake is G7 which like Davos became a place where people (6 in the case of G7) could get their photo taken with the President of USA.

More than 6 other people in those photos

veronese68

FishFish wrote:

Is the 68 appended to your identity your year of birth or your IQ - or more generously, both.

I’m not the one that keeps insulting other people’s intelligence whilst claiming to be highly qualified and able to hold down a good job.
Is your superior intellect and ability down to your great genes?

briantrumpet

letap73 wrote:

What is wrong with you?

Trolls gonna troll, as long as people bite.

robert88

Robert88 wrote:

Robert88 wrote:

G7 summit starts tomorrow. I am hoping for good things to come out of it.

Trump at G7: US president calls for end to tariffs and trade barriers

That could do the ftse 100 some good after a poor week. We shall see..

As you were :roll:

G7 summit ends in disarray as Trump abandons joint statement

At least you know where you stand with Trump - in a swamp of treachery, confusion and chaos.

PhilipPirrip

Robert88 wrote:

Robert88 wrote:

Robert88 wrote:

G7 summit starts tomorrow. I am hoping for good things to come out of it.

Trump at G7: US president calls for end to tariffs and trade barriers

That could do the ftse 100 some good after a poor week. We shall see..

As you were :roll:

G7 summit ends in disarray as Trump abandons joint statement

At least you know where you stand with Trump - in a swamp of treachery, confusion and chaos.

Yet again the President of Cheese throws his toys from the pram.

And now Putin has criticised him re; the Iran deal he'll be having a Twitter strop about that later.

bianchimoon

Imagine a world with only two countries, and only two products. One country makes cars; the other grows bananas
People in CarNation want bananas, so they buy $1 million worth from people in BananaLand. Residents of BananaLand want cars, so they buy $2 million of them from CarNation.

That difference is the trade deficit: BananaLand has a $1 million trade deficit; CarNation has a $1 million trade surplus.

But this does not mean that BananaLand is “losing” to CarNation. Cars are really useful, and BananaLanders got a lot of them in exchange for their money.

I like the sense of humour of the NY Times in explaining trade deficits to its readers with Trump as leader of Banana land

FishFish

Robert88 wrote:

Robert88 wrote:

Robert88 wrote:

G7 summit starts tomorrow. I am hoping for good things to come out of it.

Trump at G7: US president calls for end to tariffs and trade barriers

That could do the ftse 100 some good after a poor week. We shall see..

As you were :roll:

G7 summit ends in disarray as Trump abandons joint statement

At least you know where you stand with Trump - in a swamp of treachery, confusion and chaos.

Going back to your point about FTSE - look at the two opposing ETF's - LUK2 and SUK2. I could see (well guess) what was going on Thu pm and bought and sold sequences of these and made £300 and am now holding LUK2 for tomorrow to sell just after opening and either make a bit more or lose the lot. If you have the appetite for leveraged synthetic traded funds then these will test your nerve. No stamp duty to cover - you probably need about £10k to make it worthwhile. Don't hold them too long because the capitalisation is ultra low.

FishFish

Veronese68 wrote:

FishFish wrote:

Is the 68 appended to your identity your year of birth or your IQ - or more generously, both.

I’m not the one that keeps insulting other people’s intelligence whilst claiming to be highly qualified and able to hold down a good job.
Is your superior intellect and ability down to your great genes?

You've nailed it there!

It is not MY intelligence or MY eye colour or MY propensity to deafness - the credit is to a genetic conjunction maybe 50 generations ago and possibly extending forward if there is a future to this miserable and fated planet. I cannot change any of those things determined by genetic predisposition.

Ability I think is down to exposure. Most people could do my job well - but the difference is that I've got the job. That was a result of qualifications. I'm also prepared to travel willingly which is a choice rather than a propensity.

If you think about it most people could do a heart transplant - obviously with the training and exposure that the surgeons get but the issue is that you don't get the job because the medics select from the most qualified from school. Loosely this correlates with the brightest. This is maybe why the GP's are defecting in droves - because they are bright they get bored more easily and it is a fairly cr@p job.

And regarding insulting people - just put that down to me being a tw@ if you wish.

ok?

imposter2.0

FishFish wrote:

just put that down to me being a tw@ if you wish.

FishFish wrote:

You've nailed it there!

kingstongraham

rjsterry wrote:

TheBigBean wrote:

FishFish wrote:

Seems to me it is missing the point without China and India and BRIC.

I know it is quite common in acronyms to repeat the last letter (PIN number etc.), but China, India and BRIC seems to be going a bit over the top.

And Brazil is not quite the powerhouse everyone thought it would be a few years ago, so that leaves Russia, which is on the naughty step.

Indian should be in, not China or Russia.

It's not just the biggest economies.

ayjaycee

FishFish wrote:

And regarding insulting people - just put that down to me being a tw@ if you wish.

I suspect everybody reading your efforts on here did that some time ago!

kingstongraham

This is the Trump thread, not the FishFish thread. There's enough there surely without diverting.

bianchimoon

KingstonGraham wrote:

This is the Trump thread, not the FishFish thread. There's enough there surely without diverting.

Definitely, now retaliation, British golf courses FIRST! There are too many foreign golf courses flooding the market! Tariffs on trump owned courses in the U.K... that’s if the moles, weed killer etc don’t work!
But seriously why would anyone be proud to be a member of one of his British or Irish clubs?

letap73

briantrumpet wrote:

letap73 wrote:

What is wrong with you?

Trolls gonna troll, as long as people bite.

I agree - but aren't trolls suppose to wind up people rather than be upset themselves?

veronese68

KingstonGraham wrote:

This is the Trump thread, not the FishFish thread. There's enough there surely without diverting.

Indeed, apologies but I couldn’t resist.

Now on to Singapore and the rocket man v dotard summit...

rjsterry

Apparently ranting about Trudeau is all about looking tough in front of Kim. Can't help thinking that letting your staff tell the world that this is what you're up to might reduce the effectiveness of such a strategy, but what do I know about international diplomacy?

robert88

I would say you know more than Trump if you don't mind the faint praise.

The summit will confirm the North Korean's belief that they can't trust the USA. As if they didn't know that after Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan..

FishFish

rjsterry wrote:

Apparently ranting about Trudeau is all about looking tough in front of Kim. Can't help thinking that letting your staff tell the world that this is what you're up to might reduce the effectiveness of such a strategy, but what do I know about international diplomacy?

In answer to your question - nothing. And it is not restricted to international diplomacy.

orraloon

FishFish wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Apparently ranting about Trudeau is all about looking tough in front of Kim. Can't help thinking that letting your staff tell the world that this is what you're up to might reduce the effectiveness of such a strategy, but what do I know about international diplomacy?

In answer to your question - nothing. And it is not restricted to international diplomacy.

2/10. Must do better.

robert88

orraloon wrote:

FishFish wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Apparently ranting about Trudeau is all about looking tough in front of Kim. Can't help thinking that letting your staff tell the world that this is what you're up to might reduce the effectiveness of such a strategy, but what do I know about international diplomacy?

In answer to your question - nothing. And it is not restricted to international diplomacy.

2/10. Must do better.

Meet the guys who tape Trump's papers back together

White House aides realized early on that they were unable to stop Trump from ripping up paper after he was done with it and throwing it in the trash or on the floor, according to people familiar with the practice. Instead, they chose to clean it up for him, in order to make sure that the president wasn’t violating the law.

Lartey did not work alone. He said his entire department was dedicated to the task of taping paper back together in the opening months of the Trump administration.

We had to endure this under the Trump administration,” Young said. “I’m looking at my director, and saying, ‘Are you guys serious?’ We’re making more than $60,000 a year, we need to be doing far more important things than this. It felt like the lowest form of work you can take on without having to empty the trash cans.”

Lartey, 54, and Young, 48, were career government officials who worked together in records management until this spring, when both were abruptly terminated from their jobs. Both are now unemployed..

Lartey said he was fired at the end of the work day on March 23, with no warning. His top-secret security clearance was revoked, he said. Later, five boxes of his personal belongings were mailed to his home.

Young, who was terminated April 19, said he fought back and had his official status changed from “resigned” to “terminated.”

“I was coerced to sign a resignation letter at that time,” he said. “Then they escorted me to the garage and took my parking placard.”

He described the firing as traumatic and frustratingly Kafkaesque. “The only excuse that I’ve ever gotten from them,” he said, “was that you serve at the pleasure of the president.”

The Divine Right of Presidents!

kingstongraham

Robert88 wrote:

G7 summit starts tomorrow. I am hoping for good things to come out of it.

So how's that "hope" thing coming along?

tangled_metal

Just been reading the trudeau thing and that CNN interview with the negotiator. Trump bad! Biggly bad!

Sorry I jest when I'm really bothered by the way the US of A has a leader like Trump. The way the levers of power are running to support / cope with him. How international relations seems to be more run on a presidential whim that changes way too quickly to make sense. Without trump the UK Brexit incident would clearly have been the most stupid international political debacle of recent times. At least we've got trump as our saving grace.

bianchimoon

Tangled Metal wrote:

Just been reading the trudeau thing and that CNN interview with the negotiator. Trump bad! Biggly bad!

Sorry I jest when I'm really bothered by the way the US of A has a leader like Trump. The way the levers of power are running to support / cope with him. How international relations seems to be more run on a presidential whim that changes way too quickly to make sense. Without trump the UK Brexit incident would clearly have been the most stupid international political debacle of recent times. At least we've got trump as our saving grace.

I thought Trump was going to save 'us' with a unique trading arrangement, seems as i've said many times before, there's never been more need for Britain to be part of a strong cohesive trading group and alliance of friends.

rick_chasey

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/ ... tem-635164

President Donald Trump’s odd and enduring habit of ripping up papers when he’s done with them — what some people described as his unofficial “filing system.”

But White House aides realized early on that they were unable to stop Trump from ripping up paper after he was done with it and throwing it in the trash or on the floor, according to people familiar with the practice. Instead, they chose to clean it up for him, in order to make sure that the president wasn’t violating the law.

kingstongraham

He has decided the best way to show he's serious about the talks with N Korea is to agree to sign a joint statement with the G7, then change his mind as soon as he's left, and insult the people he's just been meeting. That makes him look strong.

bianchimoon

KingstonGraham wrote:

He has decided the best way to show he's serious about the talks with N Korea is to agree to sign a joint statement with the G7, then change his mind as soon as he's left, and insult the people he's just been meeting. That makes him look strong.

haha, yeah picking on the most pleasant/genial leader that was there