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

[sinkov]

Just for you BT https://x.com/benonwine/status/2007791596180504759

A fine example of Free Market Capitalism working at it's best.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Sad to see so many supporters on here of the US abandonment of any pretence that international law, ingrained democratic norms, or even basic respect for national sovereignty constrains the Orange Manbaby's thirst for total American power.

Mexico, Greenland, Colombia and Cuba up next. What's in it for you lot?

[Supersub6]

Sad to see so many supporters on here of the US abandonment of any pretence that international law, ingrained democratic norms, or even basic respect for national sovereignty constrains the Orange Manbaby's thirst for total American power.

Mexico, Greenland, Colombia and Cuba up next. What's in it for you lot?

Peace of mind because I can do bugger all about it, therefore, I don't worry about it. As always, "Que sera, sera"
Money rules and Trump and his backers have plenty and it is only those with more money who will dictate what happens next. I am happy because I have nowt so I just get on with life regardless.
I also appreciate the fact that so many people are worrying about what might or might not happen so that I don't have to. It's a good life if you don't get bogged down with politics, football or anything else.

[sinkov]

Sad to see so many supporters on here of the US abandonment of any pretence that international law, ingrained democratic norms, or even basic respect for national sovereignty constrains the Orange Manbaby's thirst for total American power.

Mexico, Greenland, Colombia and Cuba up next. What's in it for you lot?

Never mind what's next, just look at the recent past, Hamas eviscerated, soon to lose their weapons and their power base in Gaza, Hezbollah no longer a force in the region, currently directionless as they try to re-group, hemmed in by the IDF on one side and the Lebanese Army on the other while their paymasters self-destruct in Iran. The Houthi leadership decimated, their daily rocketship service to Israel seems to have been suspended. Assad currently enjoying the Russian winter, soon to be joined by the Mad Mullahs of Tehran. Murderous narco terrorist Nicolas Maduro taken out by US Special Forces, now languishing in a New York jail as China and Russia lose their access to Venezuelan oil.

What's in it for me ? I just love watching TDS infected Lefties running around like headless chickens as the Donald bestrides their world like a Colossus. Halcyon days mon ami.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Never mind what's next, just look at the recent past, Hamas eviscerated, soon to lose their weapons and their power base in Gaza, Hezbollah no longer a force in the region, currently directionless as they try to re-group, hemmed in by the IDF on one side and the Lebanese Army on the other while their paymasters self-destruct in Iran. The Houthi leadership decimated, their daily rocketship service to Israel seems to have been suspended. Assad currently enjoying the Russian winter, soon to be joined by the Mad Mullahs of Tehran. Murderous narco terrorist Nicolas Maduro taken out by US Special Forces, now languishing in a New York jail as China and Russia lose their access to Venezuelan oil.

What's in it for me ? I just love watching TDS infected Lefties running around like headless chickens as the Donald bestrides their world like a Colossus. Halcyon days mon ami.

He's totally destabilising the globe sinkov. If we are both still here in 5 years, let's review the inevitable $hitstorm he is creating.

Those of you on the wrong side of humanity do not give a $hit about what happens to millions of people affected by this lunatic.

I despair, I really do.

[outwoodclaret]

Those of you on the wrong side of humanity do not give a $hit about what happens to millions of people affected by this lunatic.

I despair, I really do.

I wonder who is on the wrong side of humanity? Tell that to the millions of Venezuelans freed from this murderous human being. They’ll be dancing in the streets of Caracas while Lefties cry foul.

I despair. I really do.

[sinkov]

Sad to see so many supporters on here of the US abandonment of any pretence that international law, ingrained democratic norms, or even basic respect for national sovereignty constrains the Orange Manbaby's thirst for total American power.

What on earth is the above all about ?? FFS, come on mon ami, you're a fully paid up Lefty of many years standing, what's got into you, surely you can come up with something better than these meaningless platitudes. What the feck are 'ingrained democratic norms' ? Pull yourself together man, you can do a lot better than this.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

What on earth is the above all about ?? FFS, come on mon ami, you're a fully paid up Lefty of many years standing, what's got into you, surely you can come up with something better than these meaningless platitudes. What the feck are 'ingrained democratic norms' ? Pull yourself together man, you can do a lot better than this.

Trump is wreaking havoc with global democracy, he attacks democratic institutions, spreads lies, glorifies political and military violence, and places his personal grievances above the rule of law and people on here I thought would know better are amplifying his nonsense. It's sad beyond words.

[sinkov]

Trump is wreaking havoc with global democracy, he attacks democratic institutions, spreads lies, glorifies political and military violence, and places his personal grievances above the rule of law and people on here I thought would know better are amplifying his nonsense. It's sad beyond words.

The problem for you Lefties mon ami, and you are a fine example, is that Donald Trump is living rent free in your head, and you cannot, try as you might, evict him. He's simply banged up a gangster who was flooding the USA with cocaine, people trafficking, gun running, election rigging and colluding with China, Russia and Iran to the detriment of the US. The Biden administration increased the bounty on Maduro from $15 million to $25 million so the Dems clearly wanted him apprehended, but now that Trump has done as they wished they're losing their heads, wailing and gnashing their teeth.

It's a bugger that Trump Derangement Syndrome, and there's no known cure.

[sinkov]

"When I look at the Maduro seizure it delights me to the same degree that it horrifies leftists, progressives, Establishment Rightists and mainstream Globalists. Their horror is my joy. Their shock is my awe. And their newly mouthed carping on about international law my pure comedy gold. Ah, yes, international law. The international law which demands that western nations pay the vast bulk of the unnecessary costs of the Net Zero fantasy. The international law under which people who were never slaves demand reparations from people who were never slave owners. The international law that tells nation states they must feed, cloth, shelter and provide welfare to Third World rapists and savages who have illegally entered western countries. The international law that provides an international class of leftist legally trained parasite with weapons by which to assiduously work for the destruction of the nations they come from. The international law that says you can?t stop drug traffickers killing 70,000 of your citizens a year. Which is also part of the rules based system that is absolutely fine with rigging elections, stealing elections and denying elections so long as the people being denied are white or rightwing and the institutions controlling the fix are leftist and Globalist. And then we have e this beautiful Trump admimistration. The admimistration that blows drug trafficking boats out of the water. The administration that in 35 minutes decapitates the leadership of an enemy nation achieving more for real western success, real progress, and real decency than 30 years of pointless, vastly expensive, go nowhere Globalist wars have achieved. I look at the sheer bloody beautiful competence of it and contrast it with decade after decade of wars that achieved nothing. And it amazes me that anyone can think it?s the same thing, just as it amazes me that anyone has failed to notice that international law is a crock of s-h-i-t."

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Trump's Empire of the Americas is now in full swing.

2 million square kilometres of European territory is now under severe threat of annexation.

The Old Order is gone.

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=ain%27t+no+stopping+us+now+mcfadden&&mid=AB610B98B4AD356BC7EDAB610B98B4AD356BC7ED&FORM=VAMGZC

[The Bedlington Terrier]

The reality for all of us common folks is the Old European Colonial Order is now declared officially dead.

We have a new Orange Sherrif in town. European hegemony in the Western Hemisphere is now consigned to the dustbin of history.
Trump’s Empire of the Americas is threatening to annex two million square kilometres of European territory into the US version of the Western Hemisphere.

What is worse is the Orange Manchild knows there is nothing a motley collection of European governments can do about it.

Be afraid, be very afraid, because there is a distinct possibility an Armada from Trump’s Empire of the Americas will be turning up imminently at a harbour close to you.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

January 2029 is still a long way off, and we’re seeing every indication that the Orange Manchild is going to be making sinkov and Sir Outwood (and others on here) smile for many years to come.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

From the spokesperson for the UN high commissioner for human rights:

It is clear that the operation undermined a fundamental principle of international law – that states must not threaten or use force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.

The US has justified its intervention on the grounds of the Venezuelan government’s longstanding and appalling human rights record, but accountability for human rights violations cannot be achieved by unilateral military intervention in violation of international law. The people of Venezuela deserve accountability through a fair, victim-centred process.

As has been clear in the UN Human Rights Office’s consistent reporting on the continued deterioration of the situation in Venezuela for about a decade, the rights of the Venezuelan people have been violated for too long. We fear that the current instability and further militarisation in the country resulting from the US intervention will only make the situation worse.

Trump is no doubt laughing his bollox off.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Just read this on Facebook, no way on earth could I better this...
"I’ve been watching an absolutely heroic amount of pearl-clutching lately from people who insist that J.D. Vance would somehow be “worse” than Trump once Trump’s inevitable political and biological expiration arrives.
Let’s get something straight: it has never been about Trump, not for one second.
Trump is just the mascot. The real story is the people who finally saw themselves in him and felt validated by what they saw.
I actually believe most of them will drift away when the cult collapses, like embarrassed fans of a one-hit wonder. Many of them will swear they were never really into him at all. The MAGA amnesia is going to be epic.
I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016 and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic, morally vacant, and psychologically mangled he is.
I don’t wonder anymore.
I think he won for that exact reason.
He wasn’t a candidate. He was a mirror.
If you were a racist, you found your guy.
If you were a misogynist, you found your guy.
If money was your only religion, you found your guy.
If your heart was armored shut, you found your guy.
If you mocked disabled people, you found your guy.
If you hated intelligent people, you found your guy.
If you were a rapist, you found your guy.
If you enjoyed golden showers with Russian *** workers, you found your guy.
If you’d done absolutely nothing to confront your emotional wreckage, you found your guy.
If you were a serial cheater, you found your guy.
If you were a perpetual bankrupt, you found your guy.
If you stiffed honest workers, you found your guy.
If you were a conman, you found your guy.
If you mocked people’s appearances, you found your guy.
If you longed for a toxic Daddy, you found your guy.
If you were dissociated and disembodied, you found your guy.
If you were unconscionable in every economic dealing, you found your guy.
If you lied as naturally as breathing, you found your guy.
If you’d never eaten a green vegetable, you found your guy.
If you were a white supremacist, you found your guy.
If your ego contained a hole so large not even the presidency could fill it, you found your guy.
If you were a sociopath who cared not one molecule about other humans, you found your guy.
If he had only two of these traits, he never would have won. He won because he had hundreds of them, and millions of people recognized themselves in at least one.
This has never been about Trump. It has always been about the people who finally had their worst instincts validated.
Trump didn’t create the cruelty, he licensed it. He handed out permission slips for hate.
He is merely a symptom of a far deeper disease: collective toxicity.
If there is one sentence that explains Trump’s power, it is this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
That’s the part that should chill the spine.
Who knew that tens of millions of Americans were thinking such unconscionable things about their fellow citizens? Who knew how many white men felt so threatened by women and challenged by minorities that they were ready to torch democracy to feel big again? Who knew that after decades of apparent progress on race and gender, so many people were living in seething resentment, waiting for a demagogue to legitimize their worst selves and convert their bitterness into political power?
Perhaps we were living in a fool’s paradise.
We aren’t anymore."