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Post by Tim on Aug 17, 2017 16:25:57 GMT
The business community are turning their back on him, Republicans are slowly distancing themselves from him, his whole administration appears to be in even more chaos than usual, the International community have lost a huge amount of respect and support for them and the whole country appears to be turning against itself with the open confidence of the fascist looney mob.
So, what's going to happen next?
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Post by racingteatray on Aug 17, 2017 17:00:22 GMT
He'll fire the Republican Party and announce himself to be an Independent President....
I have no idea whether he can actually do that, but you can imagine him doing it...
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Post by johnc on Aug 17, 2017 17:06:42 GMT
It really would be funny if it wasn't so serious.
On a related topic, I get emails regarding golf games at prestigious courses where you pay £10 and when they sell 250 tickests a name gets drawn for the lucky winner. The money goes to charity. These normally go very quickly but the current one for Trump Turnberry has been on the go for a week and I keep getting emails to tell me only 125 tickets left. Maybe the Trump effect is starting to become negative.
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Post by Big Blue on Aug 17, 2017 17:31:57 GMT
He's an unstable idiot egomaniac. Never before has there been a President more representative of his people.
The big problem is he actually wants to do the maniacal things and the administration is trying its best to tell him he can't but historically he's never been told that so he just tells the naysayers to go. I don't know if it's more troubling that he has these big ideas or that lifelong politicos can't figure out to allow him to do one of his loony projects to prove to him he can't just steamroller stuff through.
So business is against him? In the eyes of his followers they always were and that's what's rotten about the US. Same for tearing down statues of Confederate figures: those that yearn for the Confederacy are Trump voters: he can't do anything other than say, as he did, that you can't ignore history by tearing down statues but you can learn from it. He's right: if you vilify history to too much of an extent it becomes a cult.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Aug 17, 2017 18:12:32 GMT
3 and half more years of this. And I bet he stands for re-election. And gets in.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Aug 17, 2017 20:40:53 GMT
3 and half more years of this. And I bet he stands for re-election. And gets in. Nah. That couldn't happen. Oh. Hang on...
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Post by LandieMark on Aug 17, 2017 20:54:59 GMT
He's an unstable idiot egomaniac. Never before has there been a President more representative of his people. Genuine LOL. True as well. 🤣
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2017 23:24:55 GMT
Having worked with an American company, some of them are seriously smart and talented. No way they are all as bad as the established hierarchy, which is how the current president got elected, a country disenchanted with established people helping other established people. Always an equal and opposite reaction.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2017 23:30:11 GMT
While we are on the topic, what the blonde berk said happened to be true, not only would the incident not have happened if the right wing people had not marched on the streets, it would not have happened if they had been ignored and left to pointlessly wander around talking themselves up. It takes two sides to make an omelette like we saw on the idiot box. Someone died out of irresponsible behaviour on both sides and I happen to agree with what some of the slogans said, white lives matter too. ALL lives matter. I am still not going to take this too seriously despite what I wrote above.
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Post by Tim on Aug 18, 2017 8:36:51 GMT
I agree that you have to learn from history (unfortunately Trump's personal history DOESN'T include people saying 'no' to him...) but you don't have to keep all the, in this case, statues up. Perhaps if a few more of them read a book they wouldn't need to hang around lumps of metal depicting someone from a long time ago.
Anyway, the descendants of these people have been asking for the statues to be removed as they feel they're inappropriate.
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Post by racingteatray on Aug 18, 2017 12:50:33 GMT
This makes me laugh out loud:
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Post by Tim on Oct 12, 2017 14:27:38 GMT
I read the text of Donald Trump's reply from last night to a question on his favourite news channel and, well, the way it reads across amused me:-
"The country - we took it over, it owed $20 trillion. As you know, the last eight years they borrowed more than it did in the whole history of our country. So they borrowed more than $10tn, right? And yet, we picked up $5.2tn just in the stock market. Possibly picked up the whole thing in terms of the first nine months, in terms of value. So you could say in one sense, we're really increasing values. And maybe in a sense we're reducing debt."
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Post by racingteatray on Oct 12, 2017 19:19:40 GMT
I don't understand a single word of that.
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Post by Boxer6 on Oct 12, 2017 19:58:04 GMT
I don't understand a single word of that. If not even a highly educated and erudite legal professional can understand it, what chance do the rest of us have?!?!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2017 8:45:29 GMT
Just as much, as it's sub-literate nonsense!
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Post by Boxer6 on Oct 13, 2017 12:29:34 GMT
Just as much, as it's sub-literate nonsense! Fair point!
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Post by Tim on Nov 10, 2017 14:05:56 GMT
I'm rather intrigued by Trump's accusations that former Presidents are responsible for the US balance of trade deficit with China.
Somewhat naively I thought trade was based on supply and demand which, in my simplistic world, would mean that US citizens were buying more Chinese made products than the Chinese were buying of US ones.
But clearly not
Presidents obviously have massive personal buying power unfettered by Congress or The Senate!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2017 14:09:32 GMT
For some reason, the Madness song You're an Embarrassment springs to mind...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2017 16:26:36 GMT
The US is not the only nation that has allowed China to flood their markets with low cost steel. Our steel industry is about finished.
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Post by Tim on Nov 13, 2017 12:21:11 GMT
Sure but that doesn't account for kids toys, fence panels, etc does it?
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Nov 13, 2017 12:54:45 GMT
The US is not the only nation that has allowed China to flood their markets with low cost steel. Our steel industry is about finished. It's not, it's just the money is now in speciality steels and value added products - hence the investments by Liberty Steel and British Steel and the growth of their UK operations.
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Post by Big Blue on Nov 13, 2017 13:35:21 GMT
+1 to Bob's comments.
Whilst we have massive regulation and standards the steel industry is capitalising with speciality high cost, high quality, lower volume products. Not what 30,000 foundry workers want to hear but unfortunately where the profit point sits.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2017 16:19:36 GMT
There's a billionaire over here paying for TV adverts, at a cost of $10M, urging the public to call for the impeachment of Trump.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2017 10:47:38 GMT
There's a billionaire over here paying for TV adverts, at a cost of $10M, urging the public to call for the impeachment of Trump. On what grounds?
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Post by Tim on Nov 20, 2017 12:29:06 GMT
Bad hair?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2017 14:34:25 GMT
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Post by PetrolEd on Nov 23, 2017 9:04:27 GMT
The guy sounds just as mental. If he doesn't like Trump he can stand against him in 4 years time if he likes.
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Post by scouse on Nov 23, 2017 10:46:35 GMT
I can't believe that the Democrats and their 'resist' idiots can't see that all they are doing is improving the Trump's chances in 2020.
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Post by johnc on Dec 7, 2017 8:18:32 GMT
I have difficulty seeing the sense in the latest announcement that the US now recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. It has angered the US ally Saudia Arabia and many many other countries, let alone the Palestinians. It's like the one person you always get at a party who keeps doing dafter and dafter things until he becomes the centre of attention - and that often doesn't end well. The meaning of diplomacy appears to have been lost somewhere.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2017 9:15:03 GMT
Diplomacy is trying to get along. Not sure what the word for trying to piss everyone non-American off might be. Trumpism?
Occasionally I hope that my atheism is a mistake. If it is, there will be a circle set aside for people like him.
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