President Trump

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Sproggy4830, Jan 20, 2025.

  1. Chrisd

    Chrisd Supporter

    Thanks, they are officially mad!
     
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  3. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    Elon is named after a character in a sci-fi novel by Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, who his mother greatly admired. In the book, “Project Mars,” The Elon is leader of the planet. His Mars obsession may originate in some Mommy-dearest sense of destiny.
     
  4. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    In other words he's a complete nut job living a fantasy and prepared to happily ruin millions of people's lives in order to get more government money to fund his idiot scheme. Trump must have made a deal - Save me 2 trillion and I'll give you half to build rockets. Ooh, ooh, can I start with those darkies? It could be like SA on the good old days. 'course you can, I hate poor people generally, they should be more grateful, give them a kicking and make them desperate.
     
  5. I remember Cape town in the late 70s.
    Fun! Not for our mixed heritage shipmates though.:(
     
  6. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    My bro was there in the late 70's writing anti-apartheid articles for the Durban Times and others until they kicked him out.
     
  7. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    He's just had to recall "nearly every" cybertruck because they used "the wrong glue" and the panels are falling off.
    The man's such a conman. lol
    What he likes doing is taking Ketamine and playing video games and sacking people on a whim.
    Tesla have "lost" $1.4B in their accounting. That's a lot not to be able to account for. No wonder he had to buy the presidency!
     
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  8. Maybe he just wanted a big enough team to go into his own accounts as he's forgotten passwords and stuff? DOGE should be sufficient. ;)
     
  9. Chrisd

    Chrisd Supporter

    Back to the puppet or puppeteer, your choice, but now the Americans will never learn to spell colour or labour etc properly as he has scrapped the Federal Education department completely.
     
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  10. Marty SmartyCat

    Marty SmartyCat Supporter

    Another classic shoot from the hip policy making by His Excellency The Donald...

    US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, fulfilling a campaign pledge and a long-cherished goal of some conservatives.

    Accusing the agency of "breath-taking failures", the Republican president vowed to return the money it controls to individual states.

    "We're going to shut it down as quickly as possible," Trump said



    However, all is not as it seems. The White House acknowledged that closing the agency outright would require an act of Congress - so he can't shut it down and dismantle it entirely.
     
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  11. mikedjames

    mikedjames Supporter

    Somehow I think that amongst the disposessed with the right to own guns, two will shoot straight.
     
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  12. Grassy knoll or book depository?
     
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  13. Professor plump with the lead pipe in the library
     
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  14. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    Worries me that reform are fielding so many untried and just trained candidates in the local elections. It’s an easy pathway to having some sway in local government as they’re usually very poorly turned out elections and no one seems to be taking these Mickey Mouse politicians seriously. They are making a beeline for the Labour vote on social media by highlighting and capitalising on the PIP and pension payment issue and being very derogatory to the socialist voter. They’re not attacking the Tories so much as they are just Tories in disguise and puppets of the right. They’re as scary as Trump!
     
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  15. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    Martial law towards the end of April after Trump sets the army on peaceful protesters to make the protest violent?
    He's really going for it isn't he?
    USA will become a completely unregulated free for all that the rest of the world won't touch (financially) with a barge pole, or will treat as a casino where they can manipulate the results without fear of prosecution. Already Tesla is over-valued by between 6 and 10x (depending on who you believe) compared to comparable car manufacturers. Earnings to value.
    Donald is right now shutting the departments that oversee the stock market, looking out for signs of corruption, insider dealing etc. Insider dealing is where it's at baby. He's already conned people out of billions with his worthless trump coin thing. Every day he tweets to his cult followers telling them how special they are and he'll give them a gold star if they want to just click this link and donate to his "campaign fund". Seriously!
    Cancel the education department because "education is still rubbish". Americans aren't all daft, but on average they're way down the list at thirty something.
    Abortion. Some states have now decided to criminalise abortion. Even in a life or death situation, you have to first get counselling, then appear before a judge when you've had 24 hours to ponder the situation. These states were previously not actually prosecuting anyone, but now they are. A midwife just got 23 years in Texas IIRC.
    Social security. They've simultaneously closed all the phone lines, 25-30% of local offices and made it a requirement to either use internet or visit an office in person. Here's what the Commerce secretary, billionaire Howard Lutnik is peddling. He also has form chuckling away that the best way to weed out fraudsters is stop payments - everyone knows that. Anyone who complains is a criminal. I could probably find that one too if I tried but this is the same message, without the overt threat of cancelling everyone's cheques. You might not like Racheal, but Listen to Lutnik.
     
  16. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    What about RFK Jr? He's a... something. Disturbing?
    Dumped a dead bear cub in central park. Yes.

    When he was getting divorced he claimed he couldn't possibly pay the alimony asked for because he was unable to work due to having a "brain worm". He claimed doctors had found a dead parasitic worm in his brain. This could actually be true.
    Have you heard him lately?
    He's a vaccination denier.
    He's the secretary of health and human services.

    Press secretary is best known for being a troll.

    JD Vance, the vice president. just a couple of years ago said Trump "could be America's Hitler".


    Hegseth the Defence secretary, the one who made a special trip to Europe to insult everyone?
    I thought he was a bloke off Fox News isn't he? Everyone remotely Blue at the top end of the military has been or is being fired and replaced with Reds.

    Fox defended themselves in court for all the total crud they make up or put out unchallenged by claiming not to be a News channel, but an entertainment channel, so no need to be factual. I think they won.

    Trump's going after big law firms now, you know, any that might have at any time dared to represent anyone he doesn't like. He says he'll decree that they aren't allowed in the courts for security reasons!

    What a strange time to be in the USA.
     
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  17. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    You’re being very informative Zed. Worrying times indeed!
     
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  18. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    I've been keeping my eye on the madsters. Did I mention 3rd term? They're testing defying the courts. When someone is ignoring the rules, has his cronies in charge of the armed forces, has Elon's private army armed within government buildings and being used as marshals to forcibly take over government buildings.... What happens when the courts rule against him? He rants that it's unconstitutional that one judge can stop him, the ruler! They must be a bad Democrat judge and part of a plot. Who will ultimately stop him?
    When he used a terrible law (that saw them making reparations to Japanese Americans after how they were treated in WW2) to deport 300 Venezuelans without trial on the pretext of having tattoos to a El Salvador detention camp, a judge in no uncertain terms ordered the planes to turn around and was ignored. The law is for wartime use. As far as I know USA is not at war with Venezuela but has now declared war on a gang with tattoos.

    Of course they know very well they are breaking the law and the constitution which is why they do this stuff late Friday/early hours of Saturday. When VP said Trump could be America's Hitler he wasn't kidding. He must have thought about that when Trump won the primary's and decided to join the stompers rather than be stomped.
     
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  19. Chrisd

    Chrisd Supporter

    The chilling of democracy continues. A friend who is a known academic from the Netherlands has just cancelled a trip they were intending to make to present a paper. They have decided not to go because of the many academics that have been detained in recent days at US boarders. Their political views would not engender them to the current ICE henchmen that Trump has unleashed to guard America from thoughts that don't match their version of free speech.
     
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