I can’t believe those stupid bastards with their guns outside the state building.
But sadly there are enough of them to no doubt re-elect the dickhead in chief and he knows it by feeding them nonsense.
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I can’t believe those stupid bastards with their guns outside the state building.
But sadly there are enough of them to no doubt re-elect the dickhead in chief and he knows it by feeding them nonsense.
Another masterly performance;-
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...virus-briefing
Has the New York Times reporter given back her Pulitzer Prize award yet?Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
No. What's your opinion on his latest masterly performance?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
The other day, he referred to these daily pandemic briefings as 'rallies'.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
It all depends on the outcome, as we are approach the high stakes part of the game. If he's shooting blanks he won't last very long, but if he is right about the media and team Mueller, then it would indeed be a masterly performance.Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
"The game"? There's currently 165,741 people dead worldwide - almost a quarter of them in Trump's own country.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
What's that got to do with criminals facing justice? Are you suggesting that the rule of law shouldn't be enforced?Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
What has that got to do with Trump's latest fake news political rally masquerading as a Covid19 press briefing? :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
What has 'the rule of law' got to do with his cut/paste misrepresentation of Andrew Cuomo, and his infantile abuse of journalists? :shrug:
Are you on the right thread or are you just throwing out a stock deflection without bothering to read what came before? :sherlock:
I suppose we can at least be thankful that you haven't name-checked Cyril and Lardy and made more false claims about the innocence of your poster boy. :thumbup:
:biggrin:
How's the tantrum wall looking now, Cyril?
Dear me, you really are struggling lately aren't you. You make a very, very bad choice of word given what is happening in the world at the moment and start coming over all righteously indignant when someone points that out to you. Rather than make ludicrous accusations because you're rattled, why don't you stop and think about what you've just typed for a few seconds before you post it, then you wouldn't get yourself in such a mess.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
The last time I looked this was the Trump political thread, and I was commenting on his methods of challenging the agendas of establishment journalists, and the likely outcome.Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
PS If you want opinions about articles in the Guardian, then ask lardy & cyril, as it's one of their favourite (incorrect) news sources :thumbup:
Two family friends have passed away this week, and I am getting tired of seeing people trying to use this event as a political football, in an attempt to gain moral superiority.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Sorry to hear that. :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
A third has been admitted to hospital with pneumonia :frown:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs Steve R
:frown:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
Meanwhile....
'Trump asks Army Corp of Engineer General Todd Semonite to provide an update on the southern US border wall.
Semonite had been speaking about the military's effort to build field hospitals at population centres around the US when Trump asked "how about the wall?"
He then asked the general to speak on "the quality of that wall in terms of its power for stopping people that shouldn't be coming into our country".
Trump has claimed the wall will help prevent infections from entering the US - however, health experts have pointed out that there are already outbreaks occurring in every state. Many of the initial coronavirus cases in the US were linked to people travelling from China or Europe.
Construction of the wall has continued during the pandemic - but local residents in border towns in Arizona have said they fear the influx of construction workers could spread the virus.
In response to Trump, Semonite said "construction is going very, very smooth", adding that 164 miles have been built as of today.
As he leaves the briefing, he adds: "I have a lot of building to do.'
Also in Trumpland...
'Trump says governors "just don't understand" how to carry out testing.
It comes as governors complain that the federal government has not helped states get testing supplies from overseas.
Trump says the Republican governor of Maryland Mike Hogan, and the Democratic governor of Illinois JB Pritzker, "didn’t understand too much what was going on" with testing.
He says Vice-President Mike Pence spoke on the phone with governors today to tell him about their "tremendous capacity" to do tests at local labs.
Both governors have been critical of the federal response, and earlier today, Hogan attacked Trump for claiming that states had the testing capacity they needed in order to reopen.
"To try to push this off and say the governors have plenty of testing and they should just get to work on testing - that somehow we aren’t doing our job, is just absolutely false," Hogan told MSNBC.
On Tuesday, Dr Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, told AP news that the US did not yet have an adequate testing and tracing procedure in place to reopen the economy.'
In that case, I offer my condolences to you and the family and friends of the two who died, while also hoping that the third person you mentioned makes a full recovery.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
However, while acknowledging that we are all different and that there is no universally accepted right way of dealing with bereavement, I must say that the fact that you have more direct experience of the havoc the virus can wreak than most of us on here makes your use of the word "game" seem even more inappropriate to me.
Some people are calling the USA the new epicenter of CV.
It's probably impossible to compare statistics between countries in some respects but the moving bar graph on this page is interesting nevertheless: https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...demic-11964550Quote:
Originally Posted by trampie09
Thank you for your kind words, sometimes real life can be tough. When I post on here it's usually from a fairly detached perspective, and I don't take things personally. The game I was referring to above is the FBI spying and Russian collusion drama, and it is a game as you have two formidable teams both trying to outwit each other.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
New York said to be the epicenter with America, is there still flights out of the big Apple to the UK these days ?
Sound needed. Then it'll make sense.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-52396683
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...301046751.html
I hope I'm still around on the day when the world is over this pandemic and can reflect on the narrow escape it had because of the sheer madness of going through what are very dangerous times with a man like Donald Trump in what is, arguably, the most powerful and influential job on the planet.
Traffic lights v DomestosQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Argh Donnys latest deviation plan , deflecting chatter about more deaths or economy collapsing for a few days , just a simple bleaching moment
Is there anyone left here who doesn't think Trump is, at best, totally unsuited to leading the US during a health crisis, and, at worst, insane?
No replies and I'll assume we're all in agreement.
That's superb, funny, but also very pertinent and incisive - the Mash Report did a piece last night contrasting the fortunes of countries with women leaders who have just got on with the job at hand while giving their people an honest assessment of the situation and those with "strong", male leaders who "tell it like it is", I found it impossible to disagree with their conclusions.Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
I think your TDS is getting the better of you, and you should go and have a lay down in a darkened room.Quote:
Originally Posted by lardy
PS your nemesis General Flynn is innocent, and you are going to look a right idiot over this, after all the BS you posted about him.
Do you really think that comments about the use of Bleach as a remedy for CV19 followed by an utterly crass ‘I was being sarcastic’ is suitable behaviour for the President of The USA?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
Be careful TDS is very contagious, and before you know it you will find yourself screaming at the screen in front of you :biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by CardiffIrish2
The little boy has nothing, it's indefensible, he (probably)knows that, but he also can't keep this fingers out. He just has to reply with something, no matter how inane.Quote:
Originally Posted by CardiffIrish2
Before you sideline this with your usual shite ended with an emoji do you think his behaviour the last two days in particular has been appropriate of a man suited to his position?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
I don’t even know why I’m asking as I won’t get a straight reply and I can see why others laugh at your deflection attempts.
To be honest I've never paid much attention to what he says, I just know what needs to be done to get things back on track.Quote:
Originally Posted by CardiffIrish2
Are you suggesting then that a Pandemic which threatens to wreak even more havoc than it has done already when it becomes truly established in countries less equipped to cope with it than most of those affected so far is just a side issue in the real battle which, as far as tangible results are concerned, remains something of interest to obsessive and eccentrics only for now?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
Also, let's say that everything you have claimed about an elite is true and that Trump really was intend on sorting it all out by "draining the swamp", don't you have to admit that, just as with coming up with a coherent policy regarding COVID 19, he hasn't been much good at it has he as he comes to the end of his first, and hopefully only, term as President?
The 'new sheriff in town' just shot himself in the foot... and then to be sure he shot himself in the other foot as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
Yes, he's a real genius!Quote:
Originally Posted by life on mars