Donald Trump

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  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    pblakeney said:

    Trumpster currently attacking his main outlet.
    Hope they shut him down. They won't though, too much clickbait.

    Now that would be funny if they cut him off.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,207

    He's just flown over Cape Canaveral in Air Force One to view the Spacex Nasa rocket. That's what bullsh1t1ng can do for you and it shouldn't be taken for granted!

    Imagine if someone had accidentally hit the launch button...
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 7,193
    Pross said:

    He's just flown over Cape Canaveral in Air Force One to view the Spacex Nasa rocket. That's what bullsh1t1ng can do for you and it shouldn't be taken for granted!

    Imagine if someone had accidentally hit the launch button...
    Ha, yeah. I bet they made sure the cameras were off the astronauts at that time.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 17,685
    pblakeney said:

    Trumpster currently attacking his main outlet.
    Hope they shut him down. They won't though, too much clickbait.

    Ha, he really is going nuts tonight.

    WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE OF AMERICANS IS WRONG!

    OBAMAGATE MAKES WATERGATE LOOK LIKE SMALL POTATOES!

    Twitter has now shown that everything we have been saying about them (and their other compatriots) is correct. Big action to follow!

  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,584
    edited May 2020
    I'm currently thinking that his biggest objective right now is to have the USA fully open and back to normal for 4th July. Whatever the cost. Victory!
    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.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,195
    He's a couple of small issues to sort:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSewS7-eb8U
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • step83
    step83 Posts: 4,170
    pblakeney said:

    I'm currently thinking that his biggest objective right now is to have the USA fully open and back to normal for 4th July. Whatever the cost. Victory!

    Does appear to be his game plan. He is forcing states to relax the restrictions while some of them are posting their highest death and infection figures yet.

    The whole social media attack is going to be very interesting. He is throwing claims out without any evidence bar the voices in his head and has signed another executive order, what this actually means no one actually has a clue theres been no details on whats in it as yet but it's likely along the lines of they must bow to him and be "impartial" (as in bias toward the Trumps and pedal what ever nonsense they decide).

    Very strange times, all getting a bit too George Orwell
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,123
    It turns out that both Trump and his press secretary who have been claiming that vote by mail are guarantees of voter fraud... have voted by mail.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,207
    'When the looting starts, the shooting starts'. Very Presidential! The need to put everything into a childishly simplistic phrase is embarrassing.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,123
    Pross said:

    'When the looting starts, the shooting starts'. Very Presidential! The need to put everything into a childishly simplistic phrase is embarrassing.

    He's just desperate to get suspended from Twitter. Simple as that really.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,498

    Pross said:

    'When the looting starts, the shooting starts'. Very Presidential! The need to put everything into a childishly simplistic phrase is embarrassing.

    He's just desperate to get suspended from Twitter. Simple as that really.
    The people who run Twitter are smarter than him. They won't bite. They'll just fact check the odd thing. Then he'll flounce off. Then he'll come back.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,215

    Pross said:

    'When the looting starts, the shooting starts'. Very Presidential! The need to put everything into a childishly simplistic phrase is embarrassing.

    He's just desperate to get suspended from Twitter. Simple as that really.
    The people who run Twitter are smarter than him. They won't bite. They'll just fact check the odd thing. Then he'll flounce off. Then he'll come back.
    This is such a big opportunity to lure the big western social meedja firms over to Europe.

    UK is tricky because of its onerous libel laws, but RoE.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,123

    Pross said:

    'When the looting starts, the shooting starts'. Very Presidential! The need to put everything into a childishly simplistic phrase is embarrassing.

    He's just desperate to get suspended from Twitter. Simple as that really.
    The people who run Twitter are smarter than him. They won't bite. They'll just fact check the odd thing. Then he'll flounce off. Then he'll come back.
    It's not possible to win this against him, he's absolutely not operating in anything approaching good faith. He claims fact check equals censorship, so will keep pushing.

    Anger drives his brand, which is why this is getting his attention rather than the 100,000 dead or the 40 million unemployed.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,215

    Pross said:

    'When the looting starts, the shooting starts'. Very Presidential! The need to put everything into a childishly simplistic phrase is embarrassing.

    He's just desperate to get suspended from Twitter. Simple as that really.
    The people who run Twitter are smarter than him. They won't bite. They'll just fact check the odd thing. Then he'll flounce off. Then he'll come back.
    It's not possible to win this against him, he's absolutely not operating in anything approaching good faith. He claims fact check equals censorship, so will keep pushing.

    Anger drives his brand, which is why this is getting his attention rather than the 100,000 dead or the 40 million unemployed.
    Absolutely tanking in the polls though.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,123

    Pross said:

    'When the looting starts, the shooting starts'. Very Presidential! The need to put everything into a childishly simplistic phrase is embarrassing.

    He's just desperate to get suspended from Twitter. Simple as that really.
    The people who run Twitter are smarter than him. They won't bite. They'll just fact check the odd thing. Then he'll flounce off. Then he'll come back.
    It's not possible to win this against him, he's absolutely not operating in anything approaching good faith. He claims fact check equals censorship, so will keep pushing.

    Anger drives his brand, which is why this is getting his attention rather than the 100,000 dead or the 40 million unemployed.
    Absolutely tanking in the polls though.
    Which is why voter suppression is so important. Combine restrictions on mail-in ballots with reductions in number of polling places in the right districts and the risk that the pandemic will still be ongoing and you have a helpful bump.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,877

    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,215
    edited May 2020

    Pross said:

    'When the looting starts, the shooting starts'. Very Presidential! The need to put everything into a childishly simplistic phrase is embarrassing.

    He's just desperate to get suspended from Twitter. Simple as that really.
    The people who run Twitter are smarter than him. They won't bite. They'll just fact check the odd thing. Then he'll flounce off. Then he'll come back.
    It's not possible to win this against him, he's absolutely not operating in anything approaching good faith. He claims fact check equals censorship, so will keep pushing.

    Anger drives his brand, which is why this is getting his attention rather than the 100,000 dead or the 40 million unemployed.
    Absolutely tanking in the polls though.
    Which is why voter suppression is so important. Combine restrictions on mail-in ballots with reductions in number of polling places in the right districts and the risk that the pandemic will still be ongoing and you have a helpful bump.
    Postal voters are more likely to be rep than dem.

    He's tanking with the over 65s who are the swing voters in key states like Florida.

    I know we're all 'once-bitten-twice-shy' with this, but it's like he's doing what he can to lose an election.

    Even his strategy to try and get an economic rebound by opening up really early puts his key voters, the over 65s at increased risk.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,498

    Pross said:

    'When the looting starts, the shooting starts'. Very Presidential! The need to put everything into a childishly simplistic phrase is embarrassing.

    He's just desperate to get suspended from Twitter. Simple as that really.
    The people who run Twitter are smarter than him. They won't bite. They'll just fact check the odd thing. Then he'll flounce off. Then he'll come back.
    It's not possible to win this against him, he's absolutely not operating in anything approaching good faith. He claims fact check equals censorship, so will keep pushing.

    Anger drives his brand, which is why this is getting his attention rather than the 100,000 dead or the 40 million unemployed.
    Absolutely tanking in the polls though.
    Which is why voter suppression is so important. Combine restrictions on mail-in ballots with reductions in number of polling places in the right districts and the risk that the pandemic will still be ongoing and you have a helpful bump.
    Postal voters are more likely to be rep than dem.

    He's tanking with the over 65s who are the swing voters in key states like Florida.

    I know we're all 'once-bitten-twice-shy' with this, but it's like he's doing what he can to lose an election.

    Even his strategy to try and get an economic rebound by opening up really early puts his key voters, the over 65s at increased risk.
    Well for every one of them that dies, that's half a swing vote saved.

    Savvy.
  • step83
    step83 Posts: 4,170

    Pross said:

    'When the looting starts, the shooting starts'. Very Presidential! The need to put everything into a childishly simplistic phrase is embarrassing.

    He's just desperate to get suspended from Twitter. Simple as that really.
    The people who run Twitter are smarter than him. They won't bite. They'll just fact check the odd thing. Then he'll flounce off. Then he'll come back.
    It's not possible to win this against him, he's absolutely not operating in anything approaching good faith. He claims fact check equals censorship, so will keep pushing.

    Anger drives his brand, which is why this is getting his attention rather than the 100,000 dead or the 40 million unemployed.
    Absolutely tanking in the polls though.
    Which is why voter suppression is so important. Combine restrictions on mail-in ballots with reductions in number of polling places in the right districts and the risk that the pandemic will still be ongoing and you have a helpful bump.
    Postal voters are more likely to be rep than dem.

    He's tanking with the over 65s who are the swing voters in key states like Florida.

    I know we're all 'once-bitten-twice-shy' with this, but it's like he's doing what he can to lose an election.

    Even his strategy to try and get an economic rebound by opening up really early puts his key voters, the over 65s at increased risk.
    His drive to re open the economy so quickly is actually lining up for a second wave of Corona Virus cases, if/when that happens the downturn in support he has currently will be nothing to what will come.

    Also Twitter are playing it very carefully, for obvious reasons, a number of his tweets have technically breached twitters policies but probably out of fear of reprisal they have let it slide till now.
    His tweets and Twitters response are now under the microscope. With the likely change in law hes moving the responsibility onto twitter, which is the exact opposite of his "plan" (loose term there is no real plan with him). This likely will backfire as until now they have taken the role of a conduit to broadcast un moderated.

    If now they have to start policing user content, he's pretty quickly going to fall foul of the very changes he want's to prevent his supposed restriction of free speech.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,215
    Twitter has leverage. He's using their platform more and more for his campaign and it's election season.

    If he shuts them down or they censor what he says, where's he going to go to?
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,498

    Twitter has leverage. He's using their platform more and more for his campaign and it's election season.

    If he shuts them down or they censor what he says, where's he going to go to?

    Facebook?
    Bikeradar?
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 26,123
    Facebook has specifically said that they will not censor political adverts that are untrue. So there's that.

    Apart from they then did, when Adriel Hampton announced he was running for governor of California purely to allow him to write lies to test the policy. They fact checked him.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,195
    Trump has 'terminated the US relationship with the WHO'.

    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,215
    I think this is the point at which trump supporters should be doing their victory lap.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,215

    I think this is the point at which trump supporters should be doing their victory lap.

    Not least as in the dying embers of his presidency he has made “anti-fascists” a terrorist organisation.

  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,498

    I think this is the point at which trump supporters should be doing their victory lap.

    Not least as in the dying embers of his presidency he has made “anti-fascists” a terrorist organisation.

    I suspect the republican party is quietly hoping he has a diagnosable illness at some stage in the near future. He's definitely getting more extreme. He'll be going over Prince Phillip's back catalogue over China soon.

    And he was voted in on the misguided ethnic minority vote. This is why Obama has come out of hibernation and why there have been some "leaks" from the democrat camp. The "Obama says" will be ramped up in the next few months. The latest from Minnesota couldn't be worse for Trump in that sense.

    I just wish the democrat nominee didn't look like Kirk Douglas just before his death.
  • john80
    john80 Posts: 2,965

    I think this is the point at which trump supporters should be doing their victory lap.

    Not least as in the dying embers of his presidency he has made “anti-fascists” a terrorist organisation.

    I suspect the republican party is quietly hoping he has a diagnosable illness at some stage in the near future. He's definitely getting more extreme. He'll be going over Prince Phillip's back catalogue over China soon.

    And he was voted in on the misguided ethnic minority vote. This is why Obama has come out of hibernation and why there have been some "leaks" from the democrat camp. The "Obama says" will be ramped up in the next few months. The latest from Minnesota couldn't be worse for Trump in that sense.

    I just wish the democrat nominee didn't look like Kirk Douglas just before his death.
    I think that by not nominating bernie they have lost to the monkey.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,584
    I think all three are in the later stages of dementia.
    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.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,498
    john80 said:

    I think this is the point at which trump supporters should be doing their victory lap.

    Not least as in the dying embers of his presidency he has made “anti-fascists” a terrorist organisation.

    I suspect the republican party is quietly hoping he has a diagnosable illness at some stage in the near future. He's definitely getting more extreme. He'll be going over Prince Phillip's back catalogue over China soon.

    And he was voted in on the misguided ethnic minority vote. This is why Obama has come out of hibernation and why there have been some "leaks" from the democrat camp. The "Obama says" will be ramped up in the next few months. The latest from Minnesota couldn't be worse for Trump in that sense.

    I just wish the democrat nominee didn't look like Kirk Douglas just before his death.
    I think that by not nominating bernie they have lost to the monkey.
    That's a misread, in the sense that Bernie was a bit Corbyn. Had a core support but his politics made him unelectable. He'd be considered moderate here, but large parts of the US regarded him as communist. Seriously, it pretty much gets conflated with "socialist" over there.

    That's not to say Biden is the answer either, but his best bet is not being Trump.