Donald Trump
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Presumably they aren't hoping to be elected for public office at a rather high level
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"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
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Economic policies 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Go and speak to some Poles, or Lithuanians, or Latvians or Estonians or Finns or Swedes or Norwegians or Georgians about letting the Russians keep some territory that they've invaded.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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The unfortunate fact remains that most Americans simply don't care about anything outside of their border. Maybe about their "mother country" but that recedes with each generation. World affairs? Pah!
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
A friends wife is from the USA and she says that the schools only taught geography, history and current affairs from the USA point of view and almost nothing about the world outside the USA. Also most of the USA media doesn't cover much world news.
So not surprising many Americans are fairly ignorant about the rest of the world.
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Even if you think Trump's economic policies only favour the wealthy - well that's a reason for the wealthy to vote for him. His last administration wasn't an economic disaster - I can see some electors thinking Trump is in their economic interests. Maybe if your industry is under threat from cheap Chinese imports ...?
The Ukraine point is Latvia, Poland etc aren't key electoral battlegrounds in the US election.
[Castle Donington Ladies FC - going up in '22]0 -
Nope, but they do vote.
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Meh, I think this is not far off what we do. It was drilled into us at a level how much worse the Belgians were than the plucky Brits during the Scramble for Africa.
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You could be onto something there. We had a worldwide empire so had a worldwide interest.
USA does not have an empire so does not care about worldwide interests.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
I'm fascinated by Trump's frequent references to 'the weave' - it's like he knows he can't hold a train of thought (see also his contact references to his cognition), so has tried to turn it into something that proves he's a genius. I have to say that the mind games those opposed to him (for instance The Lincoln Project, and George Conway) seem to have worked... having trolled him at the start, he can't let go, so has carried on doing their work for them.
Anyway, I guess that in 24 hours we'll know what degree of shittery the US & the world are in.
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I must admit that every time I watch Trump I have to admire his weave.
It begins above his brow. 😂
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.3 -
Saw an old chap in Tesco yesterday with a proper old fashioned syrup on his head, the kind that is badly fitting and a colour mismatch so it resembles a dead gerbil slapped on top. With all the modern hairpieces and weaves these days, you don't often see those anymore.
It was quite nostalgic.
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My 4x great grandfather was a peruke (wig) maker, so I ought to campaign for their return to fashion. Not sure if the style of the time would catch on though... they would be quite eye-catching...
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What a great bit of family history. Definitely time for a return of the powdered wig, I think you need to resurrect the family tradition BT!
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. . . and photos or it didn't happen
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You might have to make do with a portrait...
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]2 -
The other nice bit is that the family they married was a barber, so one chopped it off, the other stuck it back together again. A marriage of convenience.
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Just goes to show how enduringly popular the mullet has been over the centuries.
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His "weave" reminds me of Lou Reed Walk on the Wild Side on the live "Take No Prisoners" album. The song is definitely in there, but there's 16 minutes of whatever absolute nonsense comes into his head.
I don't think Lou Reed would have made a good president either.
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“You know, I do the weave,” Trump said. “You know what the weave is? I’ll talk about like nine different things, and they all come back brilliantly together, and it’s like, friends of mine that are, like, English professors, they say, ‘It’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen.’”
How Americans fall for this incoherence, masquerading as intellect, is beyond me.
Michael Spicer a.k.a. The Room Next Door sums it up perfectly 👇🏻
https://x.com/MrMichaelSpicer/status/1835604630010507635
"It's like watching a Sealion fumbling around with a grenade." 😅😂🤣
You're the light wiping out my batteries; You're the cream in my airport coffee's.1 -
Oh fuck...
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We could be looking at a thousand pages now, easy, come on that's thread greatness!
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Sentencing on the 26th will be interesting. Give him community service, something useful to keep him busy for four years.
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as the supreme court essentially gave carte blanche for acts as president, biden should have him offed, downside is vance would be worse, upside is the orange fucker would finally pay for his many crimes
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Yep, this one has got another 4 years or so run...
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
I suppose the Biden thread will die, so we're back to Trump Mk2.
Jeremy Warner is just about the only Telegraph writer worth reading for anything other than comedy value (not sure how he keeps his job there):
"Trump draws his inspiration from the 1890 Tariff Act championed by Harrison McKinley. This imposed across the board tariffs of up to 50pc, and was seen at the time as a possible substitute for income tax. It didn’t work back then, and it won’t work today.
What it will do is poison the rules-based international order the US was instrumental in establishing in the aftermath of the Second World War and isolate the US from its natural allies in Europe and beyond.
Trump says he’s going to end inflation, but what does he think is going to happen to food prices once agriculture’s access to cheap migrant labour is cut off, or to American exporters when overseas jurisdictions take retaliatory action against Trump’s tariffs?
Last time around, he ended up having to subsidise US soya bean farmers as compensation for loss of once-buoyant export markets in China.
Maybe I’m old-fashioned, and my belief in free and open markets is past its sell-by date. But the planned mix of deregulation, tariffs, closed borders, tax cuts, Sinophobic measures and crony capitalism looks to me like an incendiary one.
An initial almighty boom seems fully baked in. So too does an eventual almighty bust."
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I guess we'll need to see what the gap is between the rhetoric and what actually gets implemented - there seemed to be gaps the last time he was president. Also the US economy didn't do too badly in the 2017-2020 period: to what extent that was because of, or in spite of his policies is something that can be debated.
The future may or may not not be bright - but it is definitely orange...
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
I suppose I oughtn't to be surprised that you look favourably on his ballooning of Federal debt while giving tax cuts to the top earners, since you cheered Truss's plan to do the same.
Despite saying during the 2016 campaign he would eliminate the national debt in eight years,[16] Trump as president approved large increases in government spending, as well as the 2017 tax cut. As a result, the federal budget deficit increased by almost 50%, to nearly $1 trillion (~$1.18 trillion in 2023) in 2019.[17] Under Trump, the U.S. national debt increased by 39%, reaching $27.75 trillion by the end of his term; the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio also hit a post-World War II high.[18]
I'm not sure what parts of that can be called a success.
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Depends what metrics you look at. GDP growth and wage growth were pretty decent in the period, for example.
As I said, can be debated.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Billionaires don't need to worry about that.
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