Trump

[cashead]

This looks like the guy who plays Jesus on Family Guy, though it seems perhaps unfair to involve Jesus in a discussion around fake news

Good grief, all I was going to say was "he looks like a guy who rides around in an unmarked van, offering candy to children and probably has a 4TB external hard drive chock full of kiddie porn."

[Digby]

While he wanks himself off to the attention, all the energy industry people he has surrounded himself with are pushing legislation in his face and handing him a crayon. He has started eating away at the Clean Water Act so mining and oil companies can dump waste directly in waterways. Nice. I mean, who needs clean water?

Luckily in taking healthcare backwards rather than forwards he can avoid paying for some of the damage this will result in

[morepork]

Ha Ha.

Fuck you you intellectually handicapped orange donkey's pizzle.

[kk67]

While he wanks himself off to the attention, all the energy industry people he has surrounded himself with are pushing legislation in his face and handing him a crayon. He has started eating away at the Clean Water Act so mining and oil companies can dump waste directly in waterways. Nice. I mean, who needs clean water?

Rich people don't need clean water.....unless they're in the Maldives
Rich people don't need public healthcare.....their employers pay for it.
Rich people don't need a pay rise,.....they really do not.
Rich people become obsessed with being rich and it makes them go a bit mental.
Rich people can go a bit mental because of their situation,....or because they were already a bit mental or they come from a mental family of insane megalomaniacs. Research suggests that a lot of our world leaders and entrepreneurs can be considered to be clinically psychopathic. Hence the lack of any sense of altruism. Now I think of it we actively encourage these lads in public school and some of them are proper wankers.

and Rich people are constant targets of some very nasty people even though some of them are decent.


After all the times I've written 'rich people'.....include the words ' politician, financial advisor and accountant'.
That's how modern politics is being operated.

[kk67]

Sorry.

[jared_7]

While he wanks himself off to the attention, all the energy industry people he has surrounded himself with are pushing legislation in his face and handing him a crayon. He has started eating away at the Clean Water Act so mining and oil companies can dump waste directly in waterways. Nice. I mean, who needs clean water?

They've targeted the Endangered Species Act next. Animals, shmanimals, its not like some stupid bird like the Bald Eagle has any importance or anyth..... oh, wait.

[caldeyrfc]

It's nice to see you lot are looking after John the racist, call it care in the community

[kk67]

It's nice to see you lot are looking after John the racist, call it care in the community

Now then,....let's be inclusive, you knut.

[Vengeful Glutton]

Since when did unqualified dickheads with a webcam become the authority on all issues??

'round about the same time as you lot did.

[WaspInWales]

Since when did unqualified dickheads with a webcam become the authority on all issues??

'round about the same time as you lot did.

Wow. Burned.

[kk67]

I worry that like myself some people might be under the misapprehension that there is a benevolent civil service, a kind of Bond esque patriarchal overlord mastering the UK's necessities.
Meh...

[Lord Lucan]

Trump never ceases to amaze me, I knew he was good, but I didn't imagine he could see into the future.
Just two days after the "last night in Sweden" bombshell. hey presto we have riots in Stockholm.
Looked on the BBC website and on their news broadcast, and as I suspected, no mention of it.

[Which Tyler]

Trump never ceases to amaze me, I knew he was good, but I didn't imagine he could see into the future.
Just two days after the "last night in Sweden" bombshell. hey presto we have riots in Stockholm.
Looked on the BBC website and on their news broadcast, and as I suspected, no mention of it.

you needed to look harder then: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39047455.
So err; that makes you a liar, liar, pants on fire... again.
Besides that; it happened AFTER Trump talked about it having happened - which means he was still lying at the time.
You may also notice that there's a difference between (really, really minor*) rioting, and terrorist attacks.


NB, my reply comes 4 minutes after your post, and 4 hours after the BBC article; which is article #2 on European news (behind Brexit) and #4 on World news (Behind US deportation of imigrants; Yiannopoulos quitting Brietbart; and Brexit)


* Really, really minor by the standards of just about any country that isn't Sweden, anyway.

[Lord Lucan]

Trump never ceases to amaze me, I knew he was good, but I didn't imagine he could see into the future.
Just two days after the "last night in Sweden" bombshell. hey presto we have riots in Stockholm.
Looked on the BBC website and on their news broadcast, and as I suspected, no mention of it.

you needed to look harder then: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39047455.
So err; that makes you a liar, liar, pants on fire... again.
Besides that; it happened AFTER Trump talked about it having happened - which means he was still lying at the time.
You may also notice that there's a difference between (really, really minor*) rioting, and terrorist attacks.


NB, my reply comes 4 minutes after your post, and 4 hours after the BBC article; which is article #2 on European news (behind Brexit) and #4 on World news (Behind US deportation of imigrants; Yiannopoulos quitting Brietbart; and Brexit)


* Really, really minor by the standards of just about any country that isn't Sweden, anyway.

Just so we're clear here, do you think Sweden has a problem?

[Which Tyler]

Just so we're clear here, do you think Sweden has a problem?

I do not think that Utopia exists - though the TV series was great.

I also think that what you and I consider to be "a problem" are very different things; and that I would find Sweden to be a far more suitable place than you would.

Incidentally, Sweden came 4th in the most recent (that I can quickly find) "lottery of life" list. Swedens "problems" are so much less than most places.

[Lord Lucan]

Just so we're clear here, do you think Sweden has a problem?

I do not think that Utopia exists - though the TV series was great.

I also think that what you and I consider to be "a problem" are very different things.

okie doke.

[rowan]

Trump never ceases to amaze me, I knew he was good, but I didn't imagine he could see into the future.
Just two days after the "last night in Sweden" bombshell. hey presto we have riots in Stockholm.
Looked on the BBC website and on their news broadcast, and as I suspected, no mention of it.

Obviously this addresses the symptom rather than the cause. The cause are the wars the West is making right across the Middle East and the societies it has destroyed beyond repair. Sweden is very much a lackey of the US, as evidenced by its complicity in torture programs and pursuit of the non-case against Assange.

[Sandydragon]

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/21/14682 ... on-economy

Now, though, as we transition into a new and terrifying age, we’re experimenting with an exciting form of macroeconomics: the one man attention economy. To succeed, you only need to grab the attention of one man: Donald Trump.

This isn’t hard, as by most accounts, Trump has the attention span of a toddler. He doesn’t read books. He’s addicted to TV and repeats phrases, word-for-word, that he hears on Fox News. During the presidential debates he preferred not to do prep work, and now, as president, for his intelligence briefings he likes bullet points or “as little as possible.” Trump seems to have no guiding ideology, and this means his opinions — on policy, on people, on pretty much anything — flap back and forth like a flag in the wind. So, if you want to change them, you just have to grab his attention. Even momentarily.

Here are some examples of adaptation to the one man attention economy we’ve seen so far:

• PAC VoteVets bought ad space during MSNBC’s Morning Joe (which the President regularly tweets about) in order to “get in front of his face” and put him “on notice.”

• John Oliver did the same thing, creating ads for morning TV shows in the Washington area in an attempt to educate Trump about the nuclear triad using a catheter-loving cowboy.

• Short-sellers are issuing market reports with lines intended to goad Trump. If he tweets about the companies in question, their stocks will likely fall and the short-sellers will make money.

• Others are cutting out the middle man, and using bots that automatically trade stocks based on a sentiment analysis of the president’s tweets.

• White House insiders have to play the same game, with the NYT reporting that officials have considered “feeding suggested Twitter posts to the president” in order to steer his policy decisions.

This really isn't a surprise. It is very worrying though that a person in such a position of power really can be that incompetent.

[OptimisticJock]

In the first 100 days of his Presidency he said, not 30 days, lets wait and see what happens.
Obama failed miserably at defeating Daesh, so he's not exactly a hard act to follow.

How is it to be done, from a laymans point of view the following actions should help.

1/ Co-operating with Russia.
2/ stop the Chinese from buying oil from Daesh.
3/ Stop the supply of weapons and ammunition, and those brand new 4x4 trucks they parade around in.

Start with this, then let loose the dogs of war,

B-52 carpet bombing.
F-16 bombing raids.
Spectre gunships.
A-10 Warthogs.
Delta Force.
Seal teams.
Rangers.
Green Berets.
Marines.
101st & 82nd airborne.
1st Armored division.

A combination of, or all of the above should do the trick. While they were there they may as well wipe the floor with Hezbollah, be a shame not to really.

[Stones of granite]

In the first 100 days of his Presidency he said, not 30 days, lets wait and see what happens.
Obama failed miserably at defeating Daesh, so he's not exactly a hard act to follow.

How is it to be done, from a laymans point of view the following actions should help.

1/ Co-operating with Russia.
2/ stop the Chinese from buying oil from Daesh.
3/ Stop the supply of weapons and ammunition, and those brand new 4x4 trucks they parade around in.

Start with this, then let loose the dogs of war,

B-52 carpet bombing.
F-16 bombing raids.
Spectre gunships.
A-10 Warthogs.
Delta Force.
Seal teams.
Rangers.
Green Berets.
Marines.
101st & 82nd airborne.
1st Armored division.

A combination of, or all of the above should do the trick. While they were there they may as well wipe the floor with Hezbollah, be a shame not to really.

He forgot the RAF Regiment...

[Digby]

Didn't Trump saying something like he had a plan to defeat ISIS, but he wanted to give the generals 30 days to come up with a plan to quickly and soundly defeat ISIS, and if he liked the generals' plan he'd go with that, he might use some elements of his plan and the generals, or he might go with his secret plan he didn't want to go into details about?

Any which way he's missed his deadline, and can't possibly have had any idea what he was talking about.

[OptimisticJock]

In the first 100 days of his Presidency he said, not 30 days, lets wait and see what happens.
Obama failed miserably at defeating Daesh, so he's not exactly a hard act to follow.

How is it to be done, from a laymans point of view the following actions should help.

1/ Co-operating with Russia.
2/ stop the Chinese from buying oil from Daesh.
3/ Stop the supply of weapons and ammunition, and those brand new 4x4 trucks they parade around in.

Start with this, then let loose the dogs of war,

B-52 carpet bombing.
F-16 bombing raids.
Spectre gunships.
A-10 Warthogs.
Delta Force.
Seal teams.
Rangers.
Green Berets.
Marines.
101st & 82nd airborne.
1st Armored division.

A combination of, or all of the above should do the trick. While they were there they may as well wipe the floor with Hezbollah, be a shame not to really.

He forgot the RAF Regiment...

[morepork]

Trump has the wrong Florida resort. I got an email about a conference at Gaylord Palms Resort & Conference Center, Kissimmee, Forida.

What wonders await? The Bell End Ballrooom? Beef Curtains Bar and Grille?

Carry On Florida.

[Sandydragon]

In the first 100 days of his Presidency he said, not 30 days, lets wait and see what happens.
Obama failed miserably at defeating Daesh, so he's not exactly a hard act to follow.

How is it to be done, from a laymans point of view the following actions should help.

1/ Co-operating with Russia.
2/ stop the Chinese from buying oil from Daesh.
3/ Stop the supply of weapons and ammunition, and those brand new 4x4 trucks they parade around in.

Start with this, then let loose the dogs of war,

B-52 carpet bombing.
F-16 bombing raids.
Spectre gunships.
A-10 Warthogs.
Delta Force.
Seal teams.
Rangers.
Green Berets.
Marines.
101st & 82nd airborne.
1st Armored division.

A combination of, or all of the above should do the trick. While they were there they may as well wipe the floor with Hezbollah, be a shame not to really.

He forgot the RAF Regiment...

I've almost choked on my tea reading that classic.

[OptimisticJock]

Dinnae be slagging the 3rd elite now.