The Donald Trump thread

If only the Guardian could be as positive with its news as The Daily Mail :shrug:

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Originally Posted by Dorcus

I can't see much negativity with it to be honest but nonetheless we must all be grateful Shirley that the Nobel Awards committee is impartial and free from fear or favour. Congratulations to the Venezuelan winner.

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Yeah it's great news and whilst I don't know her full story, what has been happening in Venezuela, with all the resources at it's disposal is a very sad story.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5...se-qatar-base/

Apparently MAGA is a bit sniffy about a chunk of Idaho coming under Sharia Law.

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Originally Posted by JamesWales

Yeah it's great news and whilst I don't know her full story, what has been happening in Venezuela, with all the resources at it's disposal is a very sad story.

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of course you don't but ya coulda if you did a bit of research and homework.

Now as we all know the governments in many south american countries are corrupt! Take brazil for example that just got 20b from Igolf Shitler. just because you live in a back hole corrupt country, doesn't mean you can't win the NPP. you should know , you live in one :biggrin:

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Originally Posted by jon1959

Revenge of TOCO!


Attachment 6676

As President Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves.

The result is a “scathing and revelatory” (The New Yorker) White House memoir that is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration, and one of the few to date by a top-level official. With almost daily access to the President, John Bolton has produced a precise rendering of his days in and around the Oval Office. What Bolton saw astonished him: a President for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation. “I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn’t driven by reelection calculations,” he writes. In fact, he argues that the House committed impeachment malpractice by keeping its prosecution focused narrowly on Ukraine when Trump’s Ukraine-like transgressions existed across the full range of his foreign policy—and Bolton documents exactly what those were, and attempts by him and others in the Administration to raise alarms about them.

He shows a President addicted to chaos, who embraced our enemies and spurned our friends, and was deeply suspicious of his own government. In Bolton’s telling, all this helped put Trump on the bizarre road to impeachment. “The differences between this presidency and previous ones I had served were stunning,” writes Bolton, who worked for Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43. He discovered a President who thought foreign policy is like closing a real estate deal—about personal relationships, made-for-TV showmanship, and advancing his own interests. As a result, the US lost an opportunity to confront its deepening threats, and in cases like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea ended up in a more vulnerable place.

https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/b.../9781982148041

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Former Trump national security adviser indicted

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgql2qzkz5zo

An Arc de Trump in Washington DC?

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2...dmarsdn8syijsb

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Originally Posted by jon1959

An Arc de Trump in Washington DC?

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2...dmarsdn8syijsb

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I thought...Canary...maybe that's grown up as a media source since I was reading it a few years ago..

..read literally the first word of the article and realised it hasn't

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Originally Posted by JamesWales

I thought...Canary...maybe that's grown up as a media source since I was reading it a few years ago..

..read literally the first word of the article and realised it hasn't

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No The Canary can still be an annoyingly crude site for stories that broadly reflect left wing politics. It has been good with its coverage of benefits and disability rights, very good with its coverage from inside Gaza, and completely lunatic with its regular horoscope!

But leaving aside the style and focus of the site - how excited are you by the idea of an Arc de Trump in Washington?

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Originally Posted by jon1959

No The Canary can still be an annoyingly crude site for stories that broadly reflect left wing politics. It has been good with its coverage of benefits and disability rights, very good with its coverage from inside Gaza, and completely lunatic with its regular horoscope!

But leaving aside the style and focus of the site - how excited are you by the idea of an Arc de Trump in Washington?

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It's ridiculous, although the name is funny enough that I could be swayed!

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Originally Posted by jon1959

An Arc de Trump in Washington DC?

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2...dmarsdn8syijsb

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That’s exactly what we need in DC…more bleeding monuments/memorials.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-events-states

Americans across all 50 states began marching in protests against the Trump administration on Saturday, aligning behind a message that the country is sliding into authoritarianism and there should be no kings in the US.

Millions of people have turned out for the No Kings protests, the second iteration of a coalition that marched in June in one of the largest days of protest in US history. Events are scheduled for more than 2,700 locations, from small towns to large cities, reflecting a decentralization in an anti-Donald Trump protest movement that focused on demonstrations in Washington DC during his first presidency.

The rallies are a turnaround from just six months ago, when Democrats seemed at a loss as to how to counter Republicans’ grip of the White House and both houses of Congress after stinging national election losses.

“What we are seeing from the Democrats is some spine,” Ezra Levin, a co-founder of Indivisible, a key organizing group, told the Associated Press. “The worst thing the Democrats could do right now is surrender.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYUxab58ObU

This thread will never make it to 300 pages.

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Originally Posted by jon1959

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYUxab58ObU

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Communism is a hell of a thing :biggrin:

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Originally Posted by jon1959

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-events-states

Americans across all 50 states began marching in protests against the Trump administration on Saturday, aligning behind a message that the country is sliding into authoritarianism and there should be no kings in the US.

Millions of people have turned out for the No Kings protests, the second iteration of a coalition that marched in June in one of the largest days of protest in US history. Events are scheduled for more than 2,700 locations, from small towns to large cities, reflecting a decentralization in an anti-Donald Trump protest movement that focused on demonstrations in Washington DC during his first presidency.

The rallies are a turnaround from just six months ago, when Democrats seemed at a loss as to how to counter Republicans’ grip of the White House and both houses of Congress after stinging national election losses.

“What we are seeing from the Democrats is some spine,” Ezra Levin, a co-founder of Indivisible, a key organizing group, told the Associated Press. “The worst thing the Democrats could do right now is surrender.”

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Trump disputes the King label.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...98251623299921

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Originally Posted by Wales-Bales

Communism is a hell of a thing :biggrin:

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It certainly is. :biggrin:

But what has that got to do with a self-styled Democratic Socialist who caucuses with the Democrats (the party of Clintons and Biden)? :shrug:

Has your political identification dial been 'tampered with' by your MAGA mates? You know, the ones who constantly call mild-mannered Church-going liberals 'the radical left'? :sherlock:

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Originally Posted by Wales-Bales

Trump disputes the King label.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...98251623299921

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Final proof!

Over 7 million on the 'No Kings' ('No Dictators, No Tyrants') protests at the weekend!

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Originally Posted by jon1959

Over 7 million on the 'No Kings' ('No Dictators, No Tyrants') protests at the weekend!

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Sorry to say orange face said very poor turnout he is a knob

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Originally Posted by jeepster

Sorry to say orange face said very poor turnout he is a knob

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Yep - a chicken-chinned (thanks Time!) knob with rapidly deteriorating mental capabilities - and a Timotei hairpiece.

I think JD Vance is already eyeing the bling in the Oval Office with a smile on his face!

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-doj-...y?id=126731700

Trump to sue the Department of Justice for £230 million - for their investigations into his wrongdoing - and says he will be the one to make the final decision on the claim (although he won't be the only one signing it off).

Amazing.

A President boasting that he will enrich himself via a lawsuit payoff from his own government (funded by US taxpayers), and he sees it (as does a large part of the press/media) as a good news story, or at least not a damaging one!

He did make a throw away claim that any settlement would go to charity.

I assume Trump Towers, Mar A Lago and the Trump International Golf Course near Aberdeen are all registered charities?