Political Thread in memory of David Reid. (R.I.P.)

[ballcock]

FFS ballcock is this the best you have got?

You are obviously rubbing off on me 😀

[The Bedlington Terrier]

TACO President (Trump Always Chickens Out).

Has he bombed Iran yet?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer called on communities to “stand together” in the face of what he said was an “horrific antisemitic attack” after 4 Jewish ambulances were firebombed in Golders Green.

Why do Jews have their own ambulances?

Are Mossad in town and what's wrong with NHS ambulances?

How does Starmer know this was a “horrific antisemitic attack”.

[sinkov]

ICE agents are now deployed at the nation’s airports, including the world’s busiest, conducting immigration enforcement while TSA workers go without pay. And it turns out Trump was offered a clean plan to fund TSA and end the airport chaos, and said no. Resulting in two pilots dead and plane crash on the tarmac in New York. The man is a clown.
Has he bombed Iran yet?

Talking of clowns mon ami, you should realise that TSA are responsible for airport security and ICE will be assisting them in that regard. It seems ATC cleared the fire engine to cross the runway while a plane was landing, nothing to do with TSA or ICE.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Talking of clowns mon ami, you should realise that TSA are responsible for airport security and ICE will be assisting them in that regard. It seems ATC cleared the fire engine to cross the runway while a plane was landing, nothing to do with TSA or ICE.

If the Orange Buffoon would actually pay them perhaps this $hit would not happen.

BREAKING NEWS: A Republican senator just confirmed what many people suspected about the TSA shutdown.

Senator John Kennedy admitted that TSA workers could already be getting paid, but Trump personally told Republicans not to make a deal with Democrats. Kennedy said, “He said ‘No deals with the Democrats.’ We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week. But the President said ‘No deal.’”
That means this shutdown isn’t about negotiations breaking down or Congress being stuck. According to a Republican senator, the deal was there. The votes were there. The funding could have happened.
It was stopped on purpose.

So, TSA agents are working without pay, airports are dealing with delays and staffing problems, and millions of Americans are dealing with the consequences — not because a deal was impossible, but because the White House didn’t want one.

This isn’t dysfunction.

This is a decision.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Well, here we are. Exactly where a old BT said we’d end up.

But no, no. You MAGA voters knew better. The economists were wrong. The generals were wrong. The historians were wrong. The diplomats were wrong. Basic pattern recognition was wrong. Only the guy in the orange makeup yelling in all caps had the real plan.
And thank God you saved us from Kamala Harris. Because obviously the greater danger was a competent adult who can read a briefing folder without turning it into a hostage situation.
Instead, you gave the nuclear codes back to a man with the emotional regulation of a toddler who just had his iPad taken away at an Applebee’s.

You were warned he’d alienate our allies. He did.
You were warned he’d turn America into an international joke. He did.
You were warned he’d govern by impulse, grievance, flattery, and whatever dumb thing last crawled across his television screen. He did.
You were warned that putting a narcissistic idiot in charge during a global crisis might end with America isolated, hated, and dragged into a catastrophe.
And now, unbelievably, the narcissistic idiot part is really coming through. Today he said negotiations with Iran to end hostilities were showing promise. The Iranians replied, "What negotiations?". Did he say it to manipulate the markets? We don't know. He joins the Iranians in having no credibility.
So now Trump has managed to pull off something genuinely impressive: nearly everyone at home outside the cult hates him, most of the world hates him, our allies don’t trust him, our enemies don’t fear him in the way MAGA fantasizes they do, and the global economy is getting worked over because one emotionally unstable man wanted to cosplay Churchill after spending years acting like a drunk uncle in a Facebook comments section.
Brilliant. Absolutely first-rate patriotism.
And now all the options are bad.
If the U.S. backs off and Iran’s regime stays in power, Trump looks like the reckless fool he is.
If the U.S. stays in and tries to “finish the job,” we own the chaos, probably alone, because after years of insulting allies and blowing up trust, it turns out other countries are less enthusiastic about joining his latest tantrum. They’re not staying out because they’re cowards. They’re staying out because Trump has spent his second term threatening NATO, curtailing aid to Ukraine, damaging allied economies with tariffs, and proving over and over that he has no strategy beyond whim, impulse, and whatever grievance is currently foaming at the top of his brain.
And if his followers think there’s some magic fourth option where Trump struts around, everyone trembles, oil prices behave, and democracy survives the experience—yes, that does sound like something a person would believe right before buying commemorative gold sneakers from a man under criminal indictment.
You cheered him on as he alienated allies.
You cheered him on as he sneered at diplomacy.
You cheered him on as he replaced serious people with cranks, hacks, and human chain emails.
You cheered him on because cruelty felt good, because ignorance felt authentic, and because hatred finally had a candidate who spoke your dialect.
That’s the part worth saying plainly.
A lot of this wasn’t about policy. It was about permission: permission to hate, permission to sneer, permission to feel like the decent people were the suckers and the assholes were finally back in charge.
And now look at it.
America more isolated.
The world less stable.
The economy wobbling.
Bad choices everywhere.
And your big orange patriot in the Oval Office, pacing around with Lindsey Graham, furious that after setting fire to the neighborhood, nobody is showing up with a casserole and moral support.
Because this is the part MAGA never understood: allies make sacrifices when they believe a country stands for something, when they believe their sacrifice will matter, and when they believe the people in charge will remember it five minutes later.
Under Trump, they don’t.
He acts on impulse, denies responsibility when things go wrong, and then lies about what he said the week before. At some point other countries stop looking for hidden logic and start accepting the simpler explanation: the President of the United States is just an unstable idiot with no strategy.
But yes. Tell us again how Kamala would have been worse.
That remains one of the funniest unintentional jokes in modern American politics.
America used to have a brand. Imperfect, hypocritical, often violated in practice, yes — but still a brand. The idea that we at least aspired to something larger than appetite. That we could be counted on, however inconsistently, to defend allies, uphold norms, and stand for something other than “what’s in it for us?”
No more.
Now we’re a country that stands for less and less beyond naked self-interest, tantrums, and the moods of one vain, impulsive old man. No one trusts us. No one considers us reliable. No one expects us to stand up for what’s right. They assume any contribution they make will count for nothing, because a few days or weeks later Trump will change his mind, forget it happened, or lie about it anyway.
Trump has ruined his own reputation forever. He might have permanently ruined America’s too.
Nice work, MAGA voters and our very own Clitheroe set.
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[The Bedlington Terrier]

Operation Epic Fury has just hit the bin because TACO arrives again.

Have the US invaded Iran yet?

[Supersub6]

Well, here we are. Exactly where a old BT said we’d end up.

...........
Nice work, MAGA voters and our very own Clitheroe set.
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Blimey, surely they haven't started to allow people living in Clitheroe to vote in the US Elections ---have they?

[sinkov]

If the Orange Buffoon would actually pay them perhaps this $hit would not happen.

BREAKING NEWS: A Republican senator just confirmed what many people suspected about the TSA shutdown.

Senator John Kennedy admitted that TSA workers could already be getting paid, but Trump personally told Republicans not to make a deal with Democrats. Kennedy said, “He said ‘No deals with the Democrats.’ We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week. But the President said ‘No deal.’”
That means this shutdown isn’t about negotiations breaking down or Congress being stuck. According to a Republican senator, the deal was there. The votes were there. The funding could have happened.
It was stopped on purpose.

So, TSA agents are working without pay, airports are dealing with delays and staffing problems, and millions of Americans are dealing with the consequences — not because a deal was impossible, but because the White House didn’t want one.

This isn’t dysfunction.

This is a decision.

It's simples mon ami, CNN sums up what it's all about, you're just tying yourself in knots with your lies and Lefty FAKE NEWS.

"The department has been shut down since February 14, after Senate Democrats refused to fund ICE without major changes to its tactics and protocols."

You do know that Trump is not a Democrat don't you ? The irony is that although the Dems have refused to fund DHS, it doesn't affect ICE, whose funding is intact, which is why they're getting paid while TSA workers aren't. This somehow makes sense to Dems, which I suppose is why they're called the Loony Left.

[sinkov]

Well, here we are. Exactly where a old BT said we?d end up.

But no, no. You MAGA voters knew better. The economists were wrong. The generals were wrong. The historians were wrong. The diplomats were wrong. Basic pattern recognition was wrong. Only the guy in the orange makeup yelling in all caps had the real plan.
And thank God you saved us from Kamala Harris. Because obviously the greater danger was a competent adult who can read a briefing folder without turning it into a hostage situation.
Instead, you gave the nuclear codes back to a man with the emotional regulation of a toddler who just had his iPad taken away at an Applebee?s.

You were warned he?d alienate our allies. He did.
You were warned he?d turn America into an international joke. He did.
You were warned he?d govern by impulse, grievance, flattery, and whatever dumb thing last crawled across his television screen. He did.
You were warned that putting a narcissistic idiot in charge during a global crisis might end with America isolated, hated, and dragged into a catastrophe.
And now, unbelievably, the narcissistic idiot part is really coming through. Today he said negotiations with Iran to end hostilities were showing promise. The Iranians replied, "What negotiations?". Did he say it to manipulate the markets? We don't know. He joins the Iranians in having no credibility.
So now Trump has managed to pull off something genuinely impressive: nearly everyone at home outside the cult hates him, most of the world hates him, our allies don?t trust him, our enemies don?t fear him in the way MAGA fantasizes they do, and the global economy is getting worked over because one emotionally unstable man wanted to cosplay Churchill after spending years acting like a drunk uncle in a Facebook comments section.
Brilliant. Absolutely first-rate patriotism.
And now all the options are bad.
If the U.S. backs off and Iran?s regime stays in power, Trump looks like the reckless fool he is.
If the U.S. stays in and tries to ?finish the job,? we own the chaos, probably alone, because after years of insulting allies and blowing up trust, it turns out other countries are less enthusiastic about joining his latest tantrum. They?re not staying out because they?re cowards. They?re staying out because Trump has spent his second term threatening NATO, curtailing aid to Ukraine, damaging allied economies with tariffs, and proving over and over that he has no strategy beyond whim, impulse, and whatever grievance is currently foaming at the top of his brain.
And if his followers think there?s some magic fourth option where Trump struts around, everyone trembles, oil prices behave, and democracy survives the experience?yes, that does sound like something a person would believe right before buying commemorative gold sneakers from a man under criminal indictment.
You cheered him on as he alienated allies.
You cheered him on as he sneered at diplomacy.
You cheered him on as he replaced serious people with cranks, hacks, and human chain emails.
You cheered him on because cruelty felt good, because ignorance felt authentic, and because hatred finally had a candidate who spoke your dialect.
That?s the part worth saying plainly.
A lot of this wasn?t about policy. It was about permission: permission to hate, permission to sneer, permission to feel like the decent people were the suckers and the assholes were finally back in charge.
And now look at it.
America more isolated.
The world less stable.
The economy wobbling.
Bad choices everywhere.
And your big orange patriot in the Oval Office, pacing around with Lindsey Graham, furious that after setting fire to the neighborhood, nobody is showing up with a casserole and moral support.
Because this is the part MAGA never understood: allies make sacrifices when they believe a country stands for something, when they believe their sacrifice will matter, and when they believe the people in charge will remember it five minutes later.
Under Trump, they don?t.
He acts on impulse, denies responsibility when things go wrong, and then lies about what he said the week before. At some point other countries stop looking for hidden logic and start accepting the simpler explanation: the President of the United States is just an unstable idiot with no strategy.
But yes. Tell us again how Kamala would have been worse.
That remains one of the funniest unintentional jokes in modern American politics.
America used to have a brand. Imperfect, hypocritical, often violated in practice, yes ? but still a brand. The idea that we at least aspired to something larger than appetite. That we could be counted on, however inconsistently, to defend allies, uphold norms, and stand for something other than ?what?s in it for us??
No more.
Now we?re a country that stands for less and less beyond naked self-interest, tantrums, and the moods of one vain, impulsive old man. No one trusts us. No one considers us reliable. No one expects us to stand up for what?s right. They assume any contribution they make will count for nothing, because a few days or weeks later Trump will change his mind, forget it happened, or lie about it anyway.
Trump has ruined his own reputation forever. He might have permanently ruined America?s too.
Nice work, MAGA voters and our very own Clitheroe set.
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Trump Derangement Syndrome. What a load of tripe. Today Saudi Arabia and the UAE announced they will actively join the war against Iran, and the Saudis have given permission for the US to use their bases from which to attack Iran. Most other Gulf states are also considering taking action against Iran.

You seem to have been sucked in completely mon ami, did you ever really think Trump would authorise attacks on Iranian power stations ? You probably did. And has it occurred to you yet about the 5 day ceasefire, that's about the same amount of time it will take the USS Tripoli and it's 2,500 marines to arrive in position. What an amazing co-incidence eh ?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

If and when the US needs to rely on Saudi Arabia and the UAE to be regional military allies is the day Benny the Pole will have a heart attack.

Talking of which, under cover of Trump's darkness Benny the Pole is still attacking the civilian infrastructure in Gaza and stealing chunks of the West Bank every day.

[sinkov]

If and when the US needs to rely on Saudi Arabia and the UAE to be regional military allies is the day Benny the Pole will have a heart attack.

Talking of which, under cover of Trump's darkness Benny the Pole is still attacking the civilian infrastructure in Gaza and stealing chunks of the West Bank every day.

The USA don't need Saudi Arabia or the UAE to be military allies, they're joining in because they also want rid of the Islamist terrorists running Iran. I'm just pointing that it's the Islamists in Iran who are the Billy No Mates in the region, not the US or Israel.

[sinkov]

If and when the US needs to rely on Saudi Arabia and the UAE to be regional military allies is the day Benny the Pole will have a heart attack.

Talking of which, under cover of Trump's darkness Benny the Pole is still attacking the civilian infrastructure in Gaza and stealing chunks of the West Bank every day.

The USA don't need Saudi Arabia or the UAE to be military allies, they're joining in because they also want rid of the Islamist terrorists running Iran. I'm just pointing that it's the Islamists in Iran who are the Billy No Mates in the region, not the US or Israel.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

According to the the Evil Orange Emperor of the New World Order and his Polish Jewish gimp Benny the Pole, the Iranian nuclear threat had been totally obliterated. Seems not, what's next lie mon ami.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Now that Operation Epic Pfhuck Up is not going to plan have the Evil Orange Emperor of the New World Order and his Polish Jewish gimp Benny the Pole bombed Iran again yet?

Talked to my son last night and he says there are no media reports in the UK of Israel being bombed by Iran...

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/3/26/netanyahu-boasts-about-breaking-boundaries-in-every-sense-of-the-word

For President TACO - peace in the middle east seems to be the last thing he wants.