Fullerene Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 (edited) 52 minutes ago, Shades75 said: You think he'll get a second term? Hopefully not but I am not one of the whackos who would have voted for him in the first place. Maybe they will do so again. Thankfully - even if they do and succeed - it will all be over in 2024. Long time to hold your breath I know but somehow the Americans keep dropping the bar yet the world goes on. My prediction: Betelgeuse to go Supernova first! Edited July 28, 2017 by Fullerene 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 15 minutes ago, HTG said: Has anyone spotted a proper GIRFUY tweet getting fired at The Donald? Div should be doing the needful on behalf of the Scottish football cognoscenti. Get to it Div! He gets thousands every tweet, mostly bots. Doubt if he ever reads any. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 1 minute ago, Fullerene said: Hopefully not but I am not one of the whackos who would have voted for him in the first place. Maybe they will do so again. Thankfully - even if they do and succeed - it will all be over in 2024. Long time to hold your breath I know but somehow the Americans keep dropping the bar yet the world goes on. My prediction: Betelgeuse to go Supernova first! I've got a bet with Paddy Power that Elon Musk will send an unmanned ship to Mars while Trump is president. 40/1. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARYHILLISWONDERFUL Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Not really related to what this thread is about at the moment but Trump makes May look like a decent politician and that takes some doing! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 23 minutes ago, welshbairn said: I've got a bet with Paddy Power that Elon Musk will send an unmanned ship to Mars while Trump is president. 40/1. Oh shit. Betelguese is more than 600 light years away. I can't exactly get there and say do your stuff - this bet is important. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmothecat2 Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 I have no idea who Bill Mitchell is but he seems to have invented a new game. 'Cancer Top Trumps' That's definitely not a new game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 3 hours ago, welshbairn said: And replaced him with yet another General. Banana Republic. That's an unfortunate name for a General. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 That's an unfortunate name for a General. Good porn name though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Not really related to what this thread is about at the moment but Trump makes May look like a decent politician and that takes some doing! Steady on now. [emoji3] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 That's the police distancing themselves from his speech advocating rough treatment while detaining people. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Doubt it'll stop them all the same. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 14 hours ago, mjw said: That's the police distancing themselves from his speech advocating rough treatment while detaining people. In the judicial system in a democracy people are innocent until proven guilty. What Trump said was that it's OK to physically abuse innocent people. That idea might go down well with a large part of his base but it shows his growing desperation of reverting again to morally questionable populism. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WILLIEA Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 This Mooch fellow!! Absolutely astounding that someone who looks like ( may well be for all I know ) a second lieutenant in the mafia should be in such a position. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 #TheMooch 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resk Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 Bring back Sean Spicer IMO. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 China getting the twitter treatment today. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 4 hours ago, WILLIEA said: This Mooch fellow!! Absolutely astounding that someone who looks like ( may well be for all I know ) a second lieutenant in the mafia should be in such a position. Until you realise that it's probably exactly why... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WILLIEA Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 1 hour ago, Mark Connolly said: Until you realise that it's probably exactly why... Well quite! The thought had crossed my mind. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmothecat2 Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 In the judicial system in a democracy people are innocent until proven guilty. What Trump said was that it's OK to physically abuse innocent people. That idea might go down well with a large part of his base but it shows his growing desperation of reverting again to morally questionable populism. He's a fascist. He has literally encouraged the police force to abuse people who are legally innocent. There's no other way to describe him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 2 hours ago, Mark Connolly said: Until you realise that it's probably exactly why... Speaking of which Quote http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449988/donald-trump-cant-close-deal-failing-salesman These guys don’t want to see Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross. What they want is to be Blake. They want to swagger, to curse, to insult, and to exercise power over men, exercising power over men being the classical means to the end of exercising power over women, which is of course what this, and nine-tenths of everything else in human affairs, is about. Blake is a specimen of that famous creature, the “alpha male,” and establishing and advertising one’s alpha creds is an obsession for some sexually unhappy contemporary men. There is a whole weird little ecosystem of websites (some of them very amusing) and pickup-artist manuals offering men tips on how to be more alpha, more dominant, more commanding, a literature that performs roughly the same function in the lives of these men that Cosmopolitan sex tips play in the lives of insecure women. Of course this advice ends up producing cartoonish, ridiculous behavior. If you’re wondering where Anthony Scaramucci learned to talk and behave like such a Scaramuccia, ask him how many times he’s seen Glengarry Glen Ross. Trump is the political version of a pickup artist, and Republicans — and America — went to bed with him convinced that he was something other than what he is. Trump inherited his fortune but describes himself as though he were a self-made man. He has had a middling career in real estate and a poor one as a hotelier and casino operator but convinced people he is a titan of industry. He has never managed a large, complex corporate enterprise, but he did play an executive on a reality show. He presents himself as a confident ladies’ man but is so insecure that he invented an imaginary friend to lie to the New York press about his love life and is now married to a woman who is open and blasé about the fact that she married him for his money. He fixates on certain words (“negotiator”) and certain classes of words (mainly adjectives and adverbs, “bigly,” “major,” “world-class,” “top,” and superlatives), but he isn’t much of a negotiator, manager, or leader. He cannot negotiate a health-care deal among members of a party desperate for one, can’t manage his own factionalized and leak-ridden White House, and cannot lead a political movement that aspires to anything greater than the service of his own pathetic vanity. He wants to be John Wayne, but what he is is “Woody Allen without the humor.” Peggy Noonan, to whom we owe that observation, has his number: He is soft, weak, whimpering, and petulant. He isn’t smart enough to do the job and isn’t man enough to own up to the fact. For all his gold-plated toilets, he is at heart that middling junior salesman watching Glengarry Glen Ross and thinking to himself: “That’s the man I want to be.” How many times do you imagine he has stood in front of a mirror trying to project like Alec Baldwin? Unfortunately for the president, it’s Baldwin who does the good imitation of Trump, not the other way around. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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