Yep. It's called fascism.Quote:
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Yep. It's called fascism.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostonhibby
Not sure illegal immigration was an issue in Nazi Germany...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostonhibby
Seriously though, is Trump not just playing to the voters here in his usual inflated manner? Pledging to get tough on undocumented migration was a big vote winner for him (as it tends to be in many countries these days) and he's already reduced crossings from Mexico to a relative trickle by vastly increasing troop numbers at the border.
People hold their hands up in horror at Trump's behaviour, but the 'can you believe what he's done now' reaction doesn't really wash. Everyone knew what they were buying into by electing him. There are years of this to come (unless he dies in office).
Hear what you say, I suppose my point was a wannabe dictator transitioning from democracy to dictatorship wants something to create a disproportionate "national emergency" around to do what they do.Quote:
Originally Posted by He's here!
Tried it in south Korea recently, I doubt the states leaders in the orange guys clique have it in them to make a stand.
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Journalists covering the LA protests being shot with rubber bullets.
Damn immigrants.
Deliberately. The shot was aimed and was intentional.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
Oh no question. 100% a deliberate act.Quote:
Originally Posted by grunt
If the current situation doesnt deescalate in the coming days, it will be interesting to see the reaction of the police authorities and national guard. It will be a litmus test of how loyal they will be to Trump. Trump will be watching this experiment and the outcome will determine how far he thinks he can go.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostonhibby
He's pretty much got his lackies in key judicial positions and suspect he will make sure the "right" guardsmen are there to carry out his will whilst he sits in the background stirring again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
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As we're discussing the pros and cons of Trump as President...
I totally get the viewpoint expressed a couple of pages back about the fact that Trump's US has not (so far) invaded any other nations. In fact it's a point I raised during his last incumbency as President that, IMO, there had been much worse behaviour by previous presidents in invading multiple other countries (Iraq. Vietnam, etc), overthrowing lawfully elected leaders by covert means (e.g. in Central America) and undermining economies and businesses in countries that were supposed to be their allies.
However...
....it's very clear by now that he was held back in his first presidency by a number of 'Jackasses' (his words) that he appointed to various roles, and he's been determined to get his work done properly this time by only appointing those that are 100% loyal and never question his decisions.
In the last few months, he's done the following:
- Constantly insulted their (previous) greatest ally, Canada, with demeaning, nonsense arguments, even going so far as to describe them as a possible future '51st State'
- Openly discussed taking over Greenland, by force if necessary, and sending his representatives to the territory to pressure/scare the people of Greenland and Denmark.
- Created so-called 'retaliatory' tarrifs against almost every other nation (excluding Russia) that massively tanked the markets.
- Has sinced gone back and forward on these Tarrifs, in a form of bullying behaviour that negatively affected multiple nations, including those traditionally viewed as allies.
- Engaged in multiple instance of illegal behavour, in regard to Tarrifs etc, by giving family and friends an illegal heads-up on when it was a good time to invest (normally this would result in multi-million dollar fines, or even jail), and personally accepting bribes and other favours
- Removed USAID, and other spending, estimated to already having lead to the deaths of tens of thousands of people (who needs war?)
- Filled the Supreme Court with people that bend to his will, thereby removing the traditional separation of State and Law.... and boy has he taken advantage of that!
- Pardoned the Criminals that stormed the capitol, an event that was unprecedented in US history and lead to serious injuries and even deaths of people that were simply doing their jobs.
- Presented a bill to reduce the taxes of the richest people in the US by billions of dollars, and at the same time to reduce spending on healthcare and in poorer communities.
- Rescinded laws and government funding intended to help tackle the world's climate crisis and instead granted multiple licences for mining raw materials that are harmful to the environment.
....I could go on but I'll leave it at that for now
….. or peacefully at home.:greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by He's here!
In Trumps first term he dropped about 73,000 bombed on other countries?Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
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Yep simply despicable. Determined to start some sort of a catastrophic warQuote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
Hitler is not dead when Trumps walking about.
Musk saying he regrets his comments about Trump. I don’t know if he’s retracted them yet. There’s a game of 4 dimensional chess going on just now with these two barstwards.
You credit them with too much intelligence.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
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It's not 4D Chess Jim, it's a game of tiddlywinks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
And Musk has taken all the yellow ones and stomped off.
Musk has likely realised that Trump has the power - and is petty enough - to cancel the enormous US Gov contracts with Musk's companies. So now he's crawling back. The only chess being played is pigeon chess.Quote:
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The ketamine just wore off, he'll be back at it soon enough.Quote:
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I see a pattern that was evident in the early days of Putin's Russia, where massively rich oligarchs dared to disagree with Putin and suffered pretty serious consequences (prison, exile or mysterious deaths).
Putin's climb to power was actually bankrolled by some of these people and many of them, if they were lucky, lived to regret it.
Sound familiar?
Putin - Khordokovsky is a good reference point.[emoji106]Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
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Elon’s dad attended a summit in Russia and basically said he’d have to say sorry.
It’s all utterly depressing
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Originally Posted by grunt
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Sounds like the Dream Team for that department. Heaven help the people 🙄Quote:
Originally Posted by grunt
It's a shame that it's not possible for the consequences here to be visited only on those who voted for the gang that are now running their country.Quote:
Originally Posted by tamig
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He really is a complete idiot. The coming recession will be a biggy and will no doubt affect us here in the UK.
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Changes are coming? 🤔 He’s left a big unanswered question there as to how he’s planning to fill these roles that were previously filled by immigrants and only receive applications from “criminals”. Will be good to see how the changes will address this. Man’s a buffoon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
Lucky he spotted all Biden's mistakes really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
Before too long we will be hearing that it's actually Biden in all the pictures with Epstein and not a big fat orange guy
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