dbd33

I think that's quite harsh. Mind, elsewhere in the internet people are waiting for him to "go the full Caligula - marry his daughter, abolish elections, appoint a horse as secretary of state, eat a baby ..."

dave_j

I suspect that you may be deliberately avoiding the arguments I'm attempting, perhaps not very well, to make.

I definitely have not been 'howling about jews' simply making the self evident case that Trump has acted to attract support from the jewish diaspora. Current events should indicate the truth of the matter and I wonder for what reason you choose to think otherwise..

The Pol Pot, et al, argument goes a little deeper. It makes the case that there have always been leaders who have chosen to behave outside the norm. These people have been allowed to do what they do because they surround themselves with others who. for whatever reason, decide not to act against them. Trump has shown himself to be self serving and ruthless where he deems allegiance to himself to be questionable. The two are alike in thought and deed except with Pol Pot the phrase 'You're Fired' was just that. In a more authoritarian US, Trump might even now be rounding up 'illegals' with who know what results. I concede that I might be stretching a point, but at the moment it's only the US constitution that holds this man in check, his party isn't.

Tumbling_Dice

I am not sure I understand your post - are you being sarcastic? My sarcasm detector has gone down given that I now live in Canada where they seem oblivious to it.

The sheer volume of commentary by those august publications is absurd and the content, I'm afraid, no less so. See adjectives I listed above. As for the Graun... they are more shrill than the DM, aside from the likes of Harris and one or two others on a good day.

This is to say nothing about the comments on social media about Trump where absurdity ... n+1 (you get the drift) ... is, in my view, entirely accurate. I come back to the safe spaces and puppies, ffs. Just cos Trump got elected????

My opening comment on this thread was about Iran being foolish, as is the Jerusalem embassy thing. But American presidents have, certainly since the second world war, been pulling nonsense like this all the time. So I do not see Trump as anything to get excited about... he is an American president.

dbd33

My last sentence wasn't serious.

Moderate piece from the Gruaniad today: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ight-jerusalem I'd say this is typical. I don't see shrill pieces there but then I don't know what this puppies and safe space stuff is about either.

Tumbling_Dice

I am pleased my sarky meter is still sort of working then.

The rest of it is a matter of opinion, on which I have opined sufficiently, I think. More pressing matters, such as what to have for tea, are weighing upon me.

Shard

Looks like Trump is about get played by Little Rocket Man.

Atlantic Xpat

I skimmed an article yesterday the precis of which is that the evangelical christians, the very people you'd think would despise Trump for multiple reasons, are strongly supportive, particularly of his move to destabilize the Middle East through the Jerusalem embassy move. Apparently that'll likely provoke armageddon shortly followed by the rapture so everything will be just ticktey-boo for them and the rest of us obviously are screwed.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices...-a8352961.html

Shard

It's a good example of how the hocus pocus of religion can have enormous real world impacts.

MillieF

dave_j

My name's Brock and.... yep, I'm a badger.
Now I know that I've got a bad name and that every farmer and his dog's been trying to convince you kind people that I'm infected with.. sorry, gotta cough and throw up a little.
Ah that's better.. now where was I?
Ah yes, you thought I looked like Trump. Well it's just not true!
If you look at Wikipedia you'll read that badgers "have rather short, wide bodies, with short legs for digging. They have elongated, weasel-like heads with small ears."
OK OK, I know that Trump has those as well, but let's be serious, it also says that us badgers "have black faces with distinctive white markings, grey bodies with a light-coloured stripe from head to tail, and dark legs with light-coloured underbellies".
Oh.. I see what you mean.
But here's something you might not know. Did you know that " The European badger is one of the largest; the American badger, the hog badger, and the honey badger are generally a little smaller and lighter." so Trump can't be a badger because as we all know, the american Trump won't allow himself to be smaller than any european equivalent.
But.. he does look like me after all...

BristolUK

Ahem. Nobody?

BristolUK

BristolUK

All is okay. He didn't not mean could or wouldn't or would but couldn't, he meant to not say something or other differently to the way he didn't not say it.

Or it could have been something else. Or not.

moneypenny20

He's a ****ing moron.

Danny B

Another huge win for Trump is expected tomorrow #kavanaughconfirmation

The US unemployment rate is at a 48-year low
When does Trump stop winning?