(Soon to be) Former President Donald Trump

[Hibrandenburg]

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Swapped out my American rye whisky (Ragtime and Sazerac) for Canadian and was very pleasantly surprised how nice the Canadian stuff is!!!

Need to track down some Canadian corn whisky to substitute for bourbon now!

Good job, every little bit helps.

[lapsedhibee]

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Swapped out my American rye whisky (Ragtime and Sazerac) for Canadian

Hope you were like 'bye bye pish American rye' as you were doing it.

[Colr]

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Good job, every little bit helps.

I’m prepared to put my shoulder to the wheel when it’s important!

[K-Zazu]

How bad is Twitter/X these days? Went on it and it’s just stuff about people fighting each other and half naked birds and all sorts of crap.. really not good for someone’s mental health spending too much time on it at all.

[Colr]

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How bad is Twitter/X these days? Went on it and it’s just stuff about people fighting each other and half naked birds and all sorts of crap.. really not good for someone’s mental health spending too much time on it at all.

Try Bluesky. It’s like Twitter used to be.

Bit quiet at the moment but getting better as more people switch

[JohnM1875]

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How bad is Twitter/X these days? Went on it and it’s just stuff about people fighting each other and half naked birds and all sorts of crap.. really not good for someone’s mental health spending too much time on it at all.

It's awful. Can't even open the app on the tram to work for the fear it'll just be chebs all over the shop.

[Andy Bee]

Trumps buying Gaza apparently, anyone got a link to the Ebay listing?

https://x.com/afshinrattansi/status/1888719257846038658

[grunt]

Reporter: Why do you want to be chairman of Kennedy Center board?

Trump: Some of the shows were terrible. They were a disgrace.

Reporter: Have you seen any shows there?

Trump: No, I didn’t go.

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[Keith_M]

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Reporter: Why do you want to be chairman of Kennedy Center board?

Trump: Some of the shows were terrible. They were a disgrace.

Reporter: Have you seen any shows there?

Trump: No, I didn’t go.

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I think he's trying to ensure the high moral standards that Americans expect and oppose the Moral Degenerates.


And as a Fraudster, Sex Offender and self proclaimed Pussy Grabber, he knows more than anybody about Moral Degenerates.

[grunt]

Carole Cadwalladr: "This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.

It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next."

[grunt]

https://popular.info/p/the-nsas-big-delete

Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

Those 27 banned words, not to be used on any NSA report or website:

[grunt]

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - Washington DC Head Office being closed down.

[Paulie Walnuts]

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https://popular.info/p/the-nsas-big-delete

The big delete

Essentially, it sounds like anything that has one of the 28 keywords is to be deleted in its entirety, no questions asked. Given that there’s things like the word ‘gender’, you’ve got to wonder quite what massively important stuff is going to disappear at the NSA.

[s.a.m]

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The big delete

Essentially, it sounds like anything that has one of the 28 keywords is to be deleted in its entirety, no questions asked. Given that there’s things like the word ‘gender’, you’ve got to wonder quite what massively important stuff is going to disappear at the NSA.

And 'bias' is a standard statistics term. Probably appears in everything research related.

[Paulie Walnuts]

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And 'bias' is a standard statistics term. Probably appears in everything research related.

Privilege being another that will be used all over the place.

He’s going to run that country into the ground.

[Paul1642]

Despite our external laughter, Trumps approval rating is doing very well despite all the mental ****. Compare that to Starmer’s approval after a short time in the job.

He’s playing a PR blinder right now, even if there is no real substance to back it up because he is being seen as doing what he promised to do.

Elon Musks very frequent DOGE updates are a good example of this. He’s broadcasting multiple times a day the things they have found eye watering amount of tax money being spent on. Yes it’s pure propaganda but it’s also very effective, as well as a good reminder as to how capable governments are at wasting our money.

It might be tiny amounts in the grand scene of a budget but when your local community is seeing its local library or whatever closed due to lack of funding, posts like:

“ Items your tax dollars are being spent on: -$750,000 to study if the moon landing line was “One small step for Man” or “One small step for ‘A’ man”— the study was inconclusive”

are powerful.

Truthfully I’d like to see a non mental version of a similar thing in this country.

[Bristolhibby]

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - Washington DC Head Office being closed down.

This is just mind blowing. As a Civil Servant myself, the thought that a Government could come in and just shut down departments is crazy.

These are people with lives, families, mortgages. People who work hard to deliver Government programmes and get little thanks for doing work. All they get is gardening leave and redundancy.

J

[Paulie Walnuts]

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Despite our external laughter, Trumps approval rating is doing very well despite all the mental ****. Compare that to Starmer’s approval after a short time in the job.

He’s playing a PR blinder right now, even if there is no real substance to back it up because he is being seen as doing what he promised to do.

Elon Musks very frequent DOGE updates are a good example of this. He’s broadcasting multiple times a day the things they have found eye watering amount of tax money being spent on. Yes it’s pure propaganda but it’s also very effective, as well as a good reminder as to how capable governments are at wasting our money.

It might be tiny amounts in the grand scene of a budget but when your local community is seeing its local library or whatever closed due to lack of funding, posts like:

“ Items your tax dollars are being spent on: -$750,000 to study if the moon landing line was “One small step for Man” or “One small step for ‘A’ man”— the study was inconclusive”

are powerful.

Truthfully I’d like to see a non mental version of a similar thing in this country.

His supporters are ****ing idiots. If they see him doing his exaggerated signature on the tele then that’s proof to them he’s doing a good job.

I don’t think there’s anything that will convince the idiots that voted for him that he’s making a mess of it. As you say, the PR is really good and they’ll lap it up.

[Colr]

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I don’t think there’s anything that will convince the idiots that voted for him that he’s making a mess of it. As you say, the PR is really good and they’ll lap it up.

It takes a while. It took a while with Brexit and it’ll take a long, long time to undo the damage.

[MKHIBEE]

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How bad is Twitter/X these days? Went on it and it’s just stuff about people fighting each other and half naked birds and all sorts of crap.. really not good for someone’s mental health spending too much time on it at all.

I couldn’t agree more. I left and have no regrets whatsoever, it’s a toxic hell hole.

[nonshinyfinish]

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"I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America."

Just keeps coming.

[Paulie Walnuts]

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"I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America."

Just keeps coming.

Land of the free baby. 🇺🇸

[Sylar]

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"I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America."

Just keeps coming.

We started writing a proposal with colleagues in the US back in October and hit the 'pause' button to see how things were going to shake out. Safe to say we've now abandoned it (it was in the space of climate adaptability).

I know a lot of colleagues over there who are looking at either new jobs or relocating.

[nonshinyfinish]

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it was in the space of climate adaptability

Communist!

[The_Exile]

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We started writing a proposal with colleagues in the US back in October and hit the 'pause' button to see how things were going to shake out. Safe to say we've now abandoned it (it was in the space of climate adaptability).

I know a lot of colleagues over there who are looking at either new jobs or relocating.

This is where countries like ours have a tremendous opportunity to make the UK, THE PLACE to be to undertake scientific R&D. I can't imagine it would cost much in the grand scheme of things to make the UK as attractive as possible in terms of grants and conditions etc. Could really pay off for us long-term.

[Lendo]

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This is where countries like ours have a tremendous opportunity to make the UK, THE PLACE to be to undertake scientific R&D. I can't imagine it would cost much in the grand scheme of things to make the UK as attractive as possible in terms of grants and conditions etc. Could really pay off for us long-term.

100%, the UK and EU need to jump on the inevitable US brain drain. Massive opportunity for everyone.

[Smartie]

If only we hadn't sabotaged the finances of our own higher education establishments by leaving the EU, a move driven by exactly the same sort of moron who is going to drive the smart people out of the USA.

I agree that it is an absolutely colossal opportunity though. Hopefully somebody decent takes it.

[Ozyhibby]

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This is where countries like ours have a tremendous opportunity to make the UK, THE PLACE to be to undertake scientific R&D. I can't imagine it would cost much in the grand scheme of things to make the UK as attractive as possible in terms of grants and conditions etc. Could really pay off for us long-term.

Unfortunately the Reform lot - and Starmer who seems to be doing all he can not to upset the Reform lot - don't want immigrants. So they can't come here. Shame really.

[lapsedhibee]

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Unfortunately the Reform lot - and Starmer who seems to be doing all he can not to upset the Reform lot - don't want immigrants. So they can't come here. Shame really.

Don't they dislike experts, too, so two reasons not to want them here?