[Politics] Donald Trump, US President

[Driver8]

 

[BadFish]

Not sure how I feel about it , it's certainly an interesting debate. It's not really how society works in this country. I wouldn't be happy if groups of people just set up their own community , with their own laws , not paying all taxes etc, whether they were the original settlers or not or even whether they were forced Into that hundreds of years ago ..... That's the past, time to move on....

But regardless of this 2/3rds of the Indian community voted for trump so he must have been good for them before..... Unless you are calling them idiots.

I am taking photos at a rally to support the Australian indigenous folk in asking for the date of Australia day to be changed.

I will make sure I let them know that someone on a UK football forum has decided that it was all a long time ago and they should just move on

'yeah nah, mate the fall out may still be affecting your people and laws still crating inequality for you but Dwayne has decided you should move on'.

Any chance of a little back ground info and statistics on this subject that I can share to ensure they understand that it is 'all in the past'?

More for my benefit than theirs because I have always wondered: how long does it take for a culture to 'move on' from the invasion, almost total genocide and continued persecution of their people?

 

[A1X]

Time for some hot NATO on NATO action?

 

[Greg Bobkin]

I'm not surprised he got elected because he seems to know more about everything than anyone.

At this rate, he'll beat 'BoJo' to the title of World King!

 

[spence]

Congratulations to Pete Hegseth in his new roll. Another win for MAGA

 

[BadFish]

Congratulations to Pete Hegseth in his new roll. Another win for MAGA

Great post, you have included a comprehensive list of all the qualifications and attributes that make him the best candidate for the job while ignoring those that make him a concerning appointment.

You will be rewarded with an extra portion of koolaid and a laughing emoji.

 

[smillie's garden]

Congratulations to Pete Hegseth in his new roll. Another win for MAGA

Who’s he rolling with? Ah yes, ultra-right christian nationalists; such a comforting prospect that he’s at the reins of the World’s most powerful military.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Who’s he rolling with? Ah yes, ultra-right christian nationalists; such a comforting prospect that he’s at the reins of the World’s most powerful military.

If he can stay sober long enough to achieve anything.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Corruption alert.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Corruption alert.

The boxes from the ‘how to set-up a dictatorship’ playbook keep getting ticked.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Congratulations to Pete Hegseth in his new roll. Another wino for MAGA

Corrected for you.

 

[BN41Albion]

Congratulations to Pete Hegseth in his new roll. Another win for MAGA

Please expand as to why you're so delighted?

 

[carlzeiss]

I am taking photos at a rally to support the Australian indigenous folk in asking for the date of Australia day to be changed.

I will make sure I let them know that someone on a UK football forum has decided that it was all a long time ago and they should just move on

'yeah nah, mate the fall out may still be affecting your people and laws still crating inequality for you but Dwayne has decided you should move on'.

Any chance of a little back ground info and statistics on this subject that I can share to ensure they understand that it is 'all in the past'?

More for my benefit than theirs because I have always wondered: how long does it take for a culture to 'move on' from the invasion, almost total genocide and continued persecution of their people?

As far as I am aware Donald Trump is the elected president of the United States Of America and not Australia .
Hope your photo's turned out OK turn out . Could you post a few here ?

 

[Springal]

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

 

[The Fits]

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Apologies if this has been covered already but this bit of writing on the Occupy Democrats FB page is so good... and sums up my thoughts better than I could.

Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?"

Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:

"A few things spring to mind.

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.

For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.

So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.

I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.

But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.

And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.

Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.

Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.

And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.

Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.

He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.

He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.

That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.

There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.

After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.

In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:

'My God… what… have… I… created?

If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."

We don’t like Trump but we love Farage and Johnson. Funny old world.

 

[Cordwainer]

The boxes from the ‘how to set-up a dictatorship’ playbook keep getting ticked.

Autocrats gonna autocrat.

 

[The Fits]

He’s incredibly psychedelic.
They all are actually. Both in govt. and business. It’s surrreal and odd and nonsensical.
Feels like tripping without the warm feeling and pretty visuals.

 

[Bodian]

He’s incredibly psychedelic.
They all are actually. Both in govt. and business. It’s surrreal and odd and nonsensical.
Feels like tripping without the warm feeling and pretty visuals.

But he knows more about tumbleweed than anyone. Even botanists have told him they are amazed at how much he knows about tumbleweed.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

He's promising the Canadians lower taxes and better healthcare if they become the 51st State!
It's the same link Aaron Ruper Fox News, as above.

He's completely delusional.