Nah power them on "clean" coal that never burns out.Quote:
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Nah power them on "clean" coal that never burns out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostonhibby
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Have you considered running for president of the United States?
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****ed if I know, maybe we should all eat cats and dogs?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostonhibby
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Anyone else watching this live presser? Absolutely gobsmacked. I shouldn't be, but I am.
Unreal.Quote:
Originally Posted by McSwanky
"I have no information, but this has happened because Joe Biden hired people for diversity reasons."
It’s a ******* circus and many more people are going to come to serious harm before it’s over.
Even for him that was horrific.Quote:
Originally Posted by McSwanky
No sympathy with Americans whining about him for the next 4 years. Will just keep shrugging my shoulders at each new outrage. Actions have consequences.
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That's a bit mean, no?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
Would you say the same to Brits whining about the Labour government?
It’s probably very mean but I’m past caring. They knew what Trump is all about but did it anyway. This is not unexpected. If the want rid of vaccines and reproductive healthcare then why should I care when they suffer the negative outcomes. Hell mend them.Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
My only concern for them is in international geopolitics.
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i turned over from Bloomberg after listening to him for two mins, my last words before flicking channels were "that THING is a freakin president" a slaver of a man, a total slaver, he talks roond in circles
we have cameras looking up to the sky, you know, cameras looking up to space
the helicopter could have turned left, it could have turned right
RFK jr yesterday, i lost count of the times he said he didn't say things only to pointed out it was on record, lol
the only times he sorta gave an answer to a question was when it was from a republican and he probably knew what their questions would be :greengrin he just would not give a direct answer to Dems
Otto English on X: "Please stop whatever you are doing and watch this. The charlatan snake oil merchant RFK on the ropes as his very own words become knockout blows. https://t.co/pcaUEPJgW0" / X
Air crash because of women, gays and black folks according to Trump.
I get where you're coming from, and there's certainly an argument that Democrats protecting voters from the consequences of their choices is misguided. He told us exactly what he was going to get up to, and people who should know better let it pass because they assumed it was bluster (from the guy who wanted to be leader of the post powerful nation on the planet ffs:rolleyes:). Others suggested that grown-ups would stand in the way of the offensive, ridiculous or dangerous stuff. Then he replaced the 'grown-ups' with barely qualified / unqualified loyalists with dodgy pasts - like he said he would - and he was still given the benefit of the doubt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
All the same, most Americans didn't vote for him. Just under half of the people who actually voted, voted for him. And in such a fractured media environment, it's really hard to get accurate information to the people who need to hear it; they hear Trump and his proxies' allegations and hysteria, and they don't hear any fact-based refutations of it. They hear Trump blaming non-colour blind / woke hiring practices for air-traffic controllers or helicopter crew (and he seems to have blamed both at different times this morning) before there's been any investigation, and the stations his people are watching will air little or no considered and evidence-based coverage to counter or moderate it.
Just like they'll have heard him ranting nonsense about taps being switched off on pipes from the Pacific Northwest by Gavin 'New****' and that's all it would have taken to stop the fires, so he got the US military to turn the water back on and Bob's your auntie! They won't have read the Californian water authority pointing out that all that happened is that a federal (not California state) pump was turned off for maintenance for a few days, and federal employees switched it back on when it was fixed.
He does what he always does when something big happens - he gets in there and seizes the narrative as soon as possible. He blames somebody, calls them names, says they should be in jail and that maybe that's a direction they should go down, says he would have fixed it straight away and in fact, if he was in charge then it wouldn't have happened anyway and he had an uncle who taught at MTT so he's got a kinda inherited gift for science. He throws in some snippets of information or gossip that he's heard and somehow or other, it sticks for a big chunk of the population.
Apologies for saying not very much in a very long-winded way...:greengrin Some of us have to live here :eyes: - we're 2 weeks in and I'm exhausted already. I saw somebody post yesterday, "It's like being strapped to a chair and watching a toddler play with a loaded gun." That's where I'm at. :panic:
Incidentally, I live a few miles from the site of the crash and pretty close to the flight path of the main runway, which is the busiest in the country and situated in a tight and complicated airspace. Every time Congress tries to add a new flight for their members who don't want to travel 50 mins to Dulles or Baltimore to get to their home state (which they seem to have the authority to do?), the airport management say that they are already over-capacity in an airport that was not designed for that amount of traffic and it's an accident waiting to happen. And each time they're over-ruled.
Add to that the various helicopter operators: each military branch/ Coastguard / National Parks / Police /Customs and Borders / various hospitals. Plus Marine 1(and its decoy helicopters) / Marine 2 (plus decoy), up and down the river and over the city, and past the ends of the airport runways. Constantly. There's a ridiculous amount of stuff in the air.
[N.B. To be clear, this is actually a great place to be living for a while. I'm not moaning :greengrin. And if you've not been, it's worth a visit, even if you feel you need to wait until the madness is over!] [But there are definitely too many planes and helicopters.]
Things more people didn’t vote for him than did vote for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
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I’ve even less sympathy for those who voted for third parties in that election.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bristolhibby
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Not enough staff in control tower?
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Nice to think American's of both persuasions get what is coming to them, Democrats for not seeing it coming and Republicans just because.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibby70
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Yup.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
I pretty much always say any time someone gets elected, whether it’s here, America or anywhere else that generally speaking, it’ll never be nearly as bad as the doomsday scenarios that you’ll usually hear people discussing. Generally speaking, I’d largely still say that’s the case.
This presidency however has a truly horrific, dangerous feel to it.
He does not have enough info at this point to be pointing fingers at or exonerating anyone, not the helicopter, not the airline and not the ATC. A message of condolence is all that is needed from him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
But no, he tried to score some points. And the. Blaming diversity as the issue?
3 soldiers and 60 citizens are dead and that’s the time to go after woke?
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Every time you think he has reached the bottom of the barrel he goes lower. He is utter **** and the more brazen he gets the more it sounds like the NazisQuote:
Originally Posted by Bristolhibby
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Doesn’t get much lower than this.
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I'm not sure there is a bottom to his lack of empathy and concern over anything that isn't him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
That's the way fascism works. He has to go lower then lower because if he mellows he'll lose support from those who put him where he is. The hard facts are that a huge proportion of the American electorate want to see people hurting, they believe that certain groups of people are to blame for all their perceived troubles and think it will make their lives better. When bad times come calling, people turn on each other, from burning witches to Nazi extermination camps, we've seen it all before. The only question is, how far will Trump go to be seen to be "draining the swamp"?Quote:
Originally Posted by wookie70
Democrat Governor for Illinois J B Pritzker:
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He's not really bothered if people die as a consequence of his actions to further personal aggrandisement. In fact freeing his Capitol Hill rioters tends to suggest if there's an opportunity to feel even more popular he'll take it irrespective.Quote:
Originally Posted by grunt
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Given his downward descent into depravity, could the title of this thread, this time round, become a reality, sooner than we think and hope. Fingers crossed.
I was thinking that as well. There’s surely a very, very real chance he gets assassinated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
Well I can’t deny the thought did pass through my mind. But I was thinking more that Trump’s behaviour and utterances might become so debased that even his fellow Republicans will not tolerate it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
More likely impeached. No chance it happens before mid terms.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
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And be left with Vance? Not sure that would be any better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
Maybe Vance will switch to his original views on the Orange one? Anything for power and all that.Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
The chance to be Obergruppenfurher must be tempting, assuming Musk and all the other unelected gang members allow it.
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What - Get Luigi out on day release for a stint at the Book Repository?Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
To be fair, he seems to be specifically blaming the physically and mentally disabled for this one. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Colr
Maybe he will do an impression of disabled people again.
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The past couple of days, government websites are being stripped of research and other content, on subjects such as LGBTQ, HIV, climate change, demographics and 'unfortunate' aspects of the country's past. These sites belong to the likes of the US Department of Agriculture, the National Park Service, the National Institutes for Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Census Bureau, with staff trying frantically ensure that the content is downloaded or retained on the Internet Archive or elsewhere.
Worth noting that there is currently a TB outbreak and bird flu cases that the CDC isn't allowed to communicate about, since last week's edict that they can' talk to the outside world.
And today in, "the truth is what I say it is", he issued an Executive Memorandum (complete with video of him gazing thoughtfully at a folder and gently nodding approval) that the plane crash was the fault of Joe Biden and DEI.
3 years and approx. 50 weeks to go.:rolleyes:
Hope you're not being too optimistic.Quote:
Originally Posted by s.a.m
Oh no! Another plane crash, this time an air medical transport carrying a sick child and her mother.
Another chance for Trump to blame the democrats for this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg0m5n8g0do
Can’t help feeling a department where people have been offered early redundancy can’t have the best motivation to work.
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It’s an unfortunate coincidence that the poor souls in the air crash in Philadelphia were Mexican. Loads of ammunition for the conspiracy theorists.Quote:
Originally Posted by s.a.m
Its bound to be the gay, liberal dwarfs’ fault.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim44
The woman doing the press briefings is bonkers.
He may have been watching the new live action Snow White and mistook it for reality.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colr
Trump has signed in 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods and 10% on Chinese, he confirmed that the EU will be next.
Whisky producers will be hoping the rumours UK will be left are true as it will give them a price advantage over Irish whiskey in the big US market
I'm probably approaching this too simplistically but the Americans do seem to buy, and maybe rely on a lot of foreign made goods.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stairway 2 7
Whether it's because they can't produce them economically or are just so complacent that they think prices will stay low or even drop now the big orange guy is lashing out, it seems like they might be heading towards higher prices and /or a bit less availability- a bit like post Brexit UK.
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US Tariffs have previously affected Scottish businesses, most recently the 25% tariff on whisky.
One of the most devastating, though, was in the early 90s, when US tariffs caused devastation to the Textile industry in the Scottish Borders.
Bizarrely, the latter was initially triggered by a war between US owned banana producers and their EU supported counterparts in the Caribbean.
Being a continental-sized nation, they're far less reliant on imports than the UK, by about 15% to 30% of GDP. Because their economy is so big, however, exporting to the US is important for foreigners. It seems like they want to go back to 19th century government financing and zero income tax.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostonhibby
Depends which stats you use. US stats suggest the US exports more to us than we do to them. UK figures suggest otherwise.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stairway 2 7
[emoji106] good luck to them with that, seems like there's a huge assumption that other more productive nations will just roll over like Colombia did recently.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Tubs
I'm not confident the USA can fire up it's own production economically during the orange guy's term, especially given the way he flits from soundbite to soundbite and that he doesn't really foresee that his statements often have consequences.
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Even if foreigners don't completely roll over, it will be the consumer that pays in the end so it'll probably be a more regressive than income tax. Bugger for Champagne and Ferraris though.Quote:
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I’m willing to help out with the spare champagne that they won’t be taking.Quote:
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I wonder if we are heading for a Black Monday on the stock markets tomorrow? None of this looks good for business and US stocks (especially the ‘magnificent 7’) are massively over valued just now.
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I think he’s totally overplaying his hand.
No doubt the tariffs will have the expected negative impact on their targets but I think he’s totally underestimated how they’re going to affect themselves.
I’ve also heard that their military bases are busying themselves as if they’re going to take action on someone over the next few weeks, military action on Panama being the most likely.
It’s going to be an even rockier next few years economically imo.
He's specifically said this is what he wants to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Tubs
And although, like you say, they've got a lot of land. Theoretically, they could be self-sufficient (which would presumably mess up the 'replacing income tax with tariffs' plan), but they're not. It would take a number of years of scarcity of food and crucial goods before they got there. If you add to that the planned purge on illegal immigrants - who are a significant proportion of the food production and agriculture and construction sectors - that's going to be a challenge.
I don’t see how it does not result in massive inflation?Quote:
Originally Posted by s.a.m
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Nvidia has already had $Bns wiped off its value. Canadian energy is a big one although he's only hitting Canada 10% for that. I remember watching an ex CEO of Google giving a lecture on energy, he spoke of when in office he would be approached by new starts asking for finance, $10m - $20m, then it grew to $50m - $100m, then $1bn - $5bn and then when he asked how much you need they told him money wasn't the problem they needed energy, the USA and its grid couldn't cope with the electricity needed for modern day data storage and the AI revolution. His answer was "you better stay good friends with Canada". Canada are now threatening to turn the power off in retaliation to the tariffs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
Yeah. And, potentially a new 'Big Short'..Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
"In January, investors have placed 10 times more bets on US stocks falling than equivalent bets that shares in leading American companies would rise, the investment bank said."
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Worth a read on tariffs.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas...=1000688157475
And worth a listen. Only 15 mins long but explains well what’s happening and the limits and weaknesses in the Trump admin.
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I've had a few grand in the S&P 500 for a couple of years. On Friday I sold everything and stuck it all in gold. Happy to sit this next 6 months out and see how it goes, if it dives then I'll buy back in at some point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
The guy's a lunatic.
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About those tariffs - "will there be some pain? Yes, maybe"
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Sensible. The best retaliation suggestion I've seen is 100% tariffs on Teslas.Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Exile
That plus targeting red states. Last time when Trump put tariffs on EU steel, the EU put tariffs on Harley Davidsons which were made in Mitch McConnels state. Canada (and Mexico) needs to target trump voters as much as possible.Quote:
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Trump has been saying he’s going to introduce the tariffs for a long time and those they’re being imposed upon have had plenty of time to come up with a suitable strategy - like the Harley Davidson one mentioned above.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
The EU don’t want a trade war but are ready for one.
:aok: British Columbia have already announced a ban on purchase of alcohol from red states, and Nova Scotia have ordered all American alcohol to be removed from shelves on the 4th.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
Think I’ll treat myself to a bottle of Canadian Rye in solidarity.Quote:
Originally Posted by s.a.m
I'll continue my long standing efforts to avoid all things American as best I can. To be honest as long as you're not addicted to cheap processed fast food it's not that hard even though more and more outlets seem to be springing up.
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Cholula instead of TabascoQuote:
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Originally Posted by Colr
Buy Mexican and Canadian it is then.
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Anyone know what, if anything these means for us here in Scotland / the UK?
He seems to confuse a subsidy with just normal plain trade with another country.Quote:
Originally Posted by grunt
They have things you want. You buy them from them. That isn’t a subsidy. That’s just trade.
Does he mean deficit? That’s fine, but it’s not always a bad thing. Especially if your trading partners have things you REALLY want.
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Yeah. He does the same thing with NATO countries' spending commitments. Then there's his misunderstanding of the way tariffs work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bristolhibby
I'm never sure whether he believes this bollocks, or if he knows but thinks his following is too stupid or incurious to figure it out.
He seems to be blindsided by the link between tariffs and co-operating on drug smuggling the way he thinks it can be stopped.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bristolhibby
It's almost as if no illegal drugs are grown, manufactured or distributed in the USA, maybe even by the orange guys supporters.
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I never understand the American medical system and how they lay so much.
My wife is taking a medication that costs £99 across here. It’s made in America but in America the cheapest is $1300.
How is that even possible?
Why does the BBC call it a "tariff dispute"? It's an economic attack by Trump on Canada, Mexico and China using tariffs. There's no dispute involved.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cqjvg82lg4yt
I think a lot of media outlets and governments are still tiptoeing around Trump, they’ll do that until they feel safe from punishment for calling things out as being exactly what they are.Quote:
Originally Posted by grunt
I’d maybe go further than your launching of an economic attack and describe as a declaration of trade war - an unwinnable war where there are only losers.
Who elected Musk?
Note that the www.usaid.gov is no longer accessible.
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To be fair, he could turn water into wine, it's a trade I'd seriously consider.Quote:
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Maybe they could do something with bleach?Quote:
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F. F. S. Is that real? :dunno:Quote:
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It was an online wind-up, she didn't actually say that.
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I’m not sure he was fine. They nailed him to a cross if I recall. That’s not fine.Quote:
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Originally Posted by Colr
Trump would probably call him a Communist.
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Sorry guys. It's so hard to tell these days.Quote:
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oh and the price of Eggs are rocketing, well done MAGA
Why eggs?Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
The price of eggs is alleged to have been one of the factors in swing voters coming out for Trump. He said he'd reduce the price of eggs. It was a lie, of course.Quote:
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Did he saying anything about laying eggs? He often has that strained look on his big orange coupon[emoji16]Quote:
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Is that why he wears that nappy? The one that leaked when he was in Paris?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostonhibby
Part of his giant man baby act?Quote:
Originally Posted by Colr
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He says he wants to replace Income Taxes (which congress controls) with tariffs ( which he controls).
Never just believe what you read online, always fact check, otherwise you could end up looking silly.
Europe next in line for tariffs. He says Uk might be ok.
We’re only going to be ok because we don’t make anything, which is not really ok.[emoji2369]Quote:
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We outsourced and closed down our manufacturing under Thatcher.Quote:
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I’m sure the factory owners have done alright
Whisky? £5.6bn last year.Quote:
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Admittedly, not all to the US, but it's a fair chunk.