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Might? I'm really struggling how else you'd label his behaviour?
Ranty, unhinged, think they're popular when the truth is they aren't, not a stranger to the administrators calling by, everything they do is the bigliest and best?
Those traits adequately describe both parties here.
Was he not once linked with buying Rangers?
His (second) UK state visit looks likely to be September:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg4589pweeo
The Most Pathetic Man on Earth
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Trump reminds me of Sturgeon in many ways. Endlessly divisive, never wrong, always somebody else's fault :wink:
Prepare for some incoming..
But that rant about the media is no different to some of the rants I see on X about the BBC and their journalists by some of the more extreme Indy supporters. The MSM account that is linked here is nasty one, basically set up to abuse journalists and people seem comfortable with that as it agrees with their own views.
They might be similar, but one is the supposed leader of the free world and the other are extreme fringes of a movement that has at best stalled significantly and at worst collapsed entirely and is dead for a generation.
The comparison of Trump to Sturgeon is just laughable, beyond comprehension in all honesty and there simply isn't a debate to be had.
If John Swinney came out and said the BBC was biased against the SNP and Independence and called out the likes of Glen Campbell or Sarah Smith wanting them sacked what would your reaction be?
I know it would be welcomed by more than the extreme minority. It would be welcomed by many.
for the first time i thought right i'm going to listen to this bum Hegseth, he's spent a full five minutes pointing at the gathered press just how bad they are because they're not sucking Trump's tiny ***k, he's went through a list of how some of the press think Trump is wonderful, then back to attacking the gathered press, it's freakin incredible for how long he's slavered a load of total utter s**te, they just simply do not want ANY of the press wanting people to listen to other views. he's like Trump, talks on and on and on just repeating the same crap over and over again
He hasn't though has he?
You're comparing an elected president to a fringe element of a movement.
For the record it would depend on the context, if Swinney was being as obnoxious and unpleasant as Trump has been then I would want him sacked actually.
If there was some debate to be had over the subject I don't know, it would depend on how I felt about the situation.
Swinney, for all his faults and blandness as a Politician, wouldn't behave the way Trump has anyway.
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It’s the absolute ultimate straw man argument.
So what would you be saying if your favoured politicians started acting like immature 4 year olds? I bet you’d back them! Knowing fine well we’ll never need to worry about that.
Comparing the most powerful man on the planet and random folk on Twitter as if they hold the same levels of importance/clout when they talk is laughable.
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Did Trump give the Iranians permission to bomb a US base?
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That's arguable. The Scottish Child Payment has increased from £10 to £26 yet one in four children remains in poverty. That ratio has remained the same since the payment was introduced. Swinney, like Sturgeon before him, bangs on about Scotland being a prosperous country when he rolls out his annual independence rallying call/damp squib, but steadfastly refuses to use the devolved tax powers at his disposal to harness that wealth and sustain the public services which are so financially strapped. They will never shift the child poverty dial by continually increasing state handouts.
Child poverty in Scotland has fallen 12% leaving 21,000 less children in poverty since 2017, child poverty in England and Wales has risen by 15% putting 320,000 more children into poverty since 2017 and that's before the English Government cuts PIP and other benefits which could result in an estimated 50.000 more children going into poverty. Ohh and they're not handouts, that term suggests the people receiving them are some sort of scroungers, is that what you think?
The figures are all over the place, when I googled it I got this.
"Nicola Sturgeon introduced major policies like the Scottish Child Payment to tackle child poverty, boosting support for low-income families and setting legal targets. However, official stats show child poverty rates in Scotland stayed roughly the same during her time as First Minister—about 24% of children lived in poverty, up slightly from 23% when she started. Forecasts suggest recent measures may help meet future targets, but a big drop in child poverty didn’t happen while she was in office"
It seems to get confusing when you look at absolute and relative poverty and if you do or don't include housing costs etc. It's one of those stats that can probably be made to look it what you want it to look like.
I'm not quoting figures dug up from some obscure corner of Google, I'm quoting from the National news on Good Morning Britain which I watched live. Now according to you this is the bastion of truth and honesty with a completely unbiased agenda, are you saying they're lying now I'm lost?
I wonder if Donald Trump's been up to much today?
Is there a Caledonian version of Godwin's Law, one that says "anything wrong with the world is the fault of..... insert your own favourite Scottish demon..."?
Any chance we can save the Scottish ***** for the appropriate threads? There's plenty of them....
Trump anyone?