Donald Trump

[swaledale]

You really need to get out more!

Your wrong I think he needs to be kept in more!

I mean how delusional can you get when you think no deal is better than a bad deal, when you don't even know what a bad deal looks like?

[swaledale]

So you're saying that BJ is a dictator now?

He exhibits certain qualities, like not wanting dissent or scrutiny, so packs his cabinet full of brown nosers rather than intelligent capable people, try's to avoid parliamentary scrutiny by peroguing parliament, tendency to top down centralised control, as evidence by the management (mismanagement) of the pandemic rather than consulting and using local authorities etc. The proposed new planning reforms take power from local people and local elected bodies and hand control to the central government, all recognisable methods that dictators ahve used in governing.

[Ram59]

I genuinely don’t begin to understand how you’ve reached that conclusion.

I’ve agreed with MA that he matches many of the criteria for what makes a sociopath.
That is clearly something he shares with Trump.

The fact that Putin and Kim Jong-un also share some/many of those characteristics means they may all have sociopathic tendencies...it doesn’t mean I’m saying Johnson is a ‘dictator’. Please don’t put words in my mouth, you’re better than that.

Look at what you have written RA.

If I said "I'm not comparing RA with other forest fans", wouldn't that imply that RA is a forest fan? The crucial word is the your addition of the word 'other', which implied to me that they are all part of the same group.

So you would be happy if I said that I'm not comparing you with other *****philes?

[Trickytreesreds]

You really need to get out more!

You're telling me to get out more? hilarious

[MadAmster]

To those who appear to be suggesting that BoJo isn't trying to become a dictator (that or Cummings' dictatorial mouthpiece), they should look at some of the things he has done thus far which are not that far removed from actions performed by Austrian Adolf back in the 30s.

Not saying the man's a Nazi but he has mirrored some of the things Hitler did.

It's a worrying recipe.

[Trickytreesreds]

To those who appear to be suggesting that BoJo isn't trying to become a dictator (that or Cummings' dictatorial mouthpiece), they should look at some of the things he has done thus far which are not that far removed from actions performed by Austrian Adolf back in the 30s.

Not saying the man's a Nazi but he has mirrored some of the things Hitler did.

It's a worrying recipe.

Ohhhhhhhhh this is going to be good.
Do please elaborate.

[AdiSalisbury]

So you're saying that BJ is a dictator now?

Have you been learning journalism with the BBC?

[Ram59]

To those who appear to be suggesting that BoJo isn't trying to become a dictator (that or Cummings' dictatorial mouthpiece), they should look at some of the things he has done thus far which are not that far removed from actions performed by Austrian Adolf back in the 30s.

Not saying the man's a Nazi but he has mirrored some of the things Hitler did.

It's a worrying recipe.

I don't normally agree with Tricky, but could you please enlighten us ignorant folk.

[ramAnag]

Look at what you have written RA.

If I said "I'm not comparing RA with other forest fans", wouldn't that imply that RA is a forest fan? The crucial word is the your addition of the word 'other', which implied to me that they are all part of the same group.

So you would be happy if I said that I'm not comparing you with other *****philes?

Fair cop, Ram...shouldn’t have used the word ‘other’. Freudian slip!

To be clear...I consider Putin and Kim Jong to be dictators...and I think sadly many of their sociopathic characteristics are shared by Johnson and Trump.
I’m not suggesting the latter two are also dictators, although I’m far from convinced that, given the opportunity and the circumstances, they wouldn’t want to be.

[ramAnag]

You're telling me to get out more? hilarious

Lol...you have half a point, in so much as I’m self isolating at present. Having spent three of the last four weeks abroad, it’s the price one has to pay for, well...’getting out more’. .

Either way, my point was...if the only two motivational speeches that have resonated with you are from eighty and around 400 years ago then you perhaps need to broaden your worldview.