O/T:- Trump Presidency 2.0 [hic sunt dracones]

[Lullapie]

Perhaps now he is POTUS we need a thread of Trumpisms.

For example:



and



Interesting battles going to happen before he even hits Panama and Greenland.

The Americans aren't the best with geography.

We were talking to a gentleman in Florida recently and he asked us where we were from. We said New Zealand and he said, 'is that near Ukraine?'

He then proceeded to tell us that the US and the world had missed out on possibly the next great leader because Harris had been defeated in the election.

They move all around us.

[Old_pie]

The Americans aren't the best with geography.

We were talking to a gentleman in Florida recently and he asked us where we were from. We said New Zealand and he said, 'is that near Ukraine?'

He then proceeded to tell us that the US and the world had missed out on possibly the next great leader because Harris had been defeated in the election.

They move all around us.

I suppose we had more than a few Brits wondering why the Argentinians were taking over an island north of Scotland.

[Lullapie]

I suppose we had more than a few Brits wondering why the Argentinians were taking over an island north of Scotland.

To be honest, I don't think anybody had heard of the Falklands prior to President Galtieri and his band of merry men occupying the islands. In fact, me personally, I'd heard more about South Georgia because of doing history work on Shackleton, than anything else.

[BigFatPie]

Good post. BFP has now resorted to arguing what Trump said he would do in 2016, but didn't do, as proof for Biden setting a precedent in pardoning his cronies in 2025.

My word, talk about drawing a long bow.

This bloke?s inability to read properly must be why he says so many dopey things.

[Jampie]

Boy, a voice of reason.

I find it so humorous all of those that slag off Trump for 'drill baby drill' and hypothesising about his relationship with Putin, when they probably have 100% of their products in their homes and clothes that they wear, made in either China or India.

China and India are buying all the cheap Russian oil and churning out consumer products in their smoking factories. China is also the biggest manufacturer of electric cars.

So not only are those people helping to destroy the planet, but they're funding Putin's campaign in Ukraine - oh the irony!

This is one of those things where you need to understand a bit of nuance.

If the world stopped consuming Russian oil tomorrow the global economy would pitch straight into a depression. The long term solution? Electric cars - regardless of who makes them.

As to people buying consumer goods from China and India, list their other options please?

[Lullapie]

The crazies are starting.

The BBC reported that apparently 'social media' was up in arms when Elon Musk 'appeared to make a Nazi salute' after thanking the crowd for 'making it happen' yesterday. Really????

Sounds more like lazy journalism to me, quoting social media.

Some social media warriors also thought they saw him goosestep off the stage before cleaning his Luger in the wings. (I made THAT bit up).

They walk amongst us.............

[slack_pie]

Muskollini's 'awkward gesture' was, also worrying, or just an incredibly powerful billionaire autist having fun and saying **** you I'm untouchable now, which is also worrying.

When I heard about the gesture, I just assumed it was the media clutching at straws, but having seen it, it's impossible to defend. He knew what he was doing, and I honestly think he just likes ruffling feathers and getting people all worked up so he can then post how they're having a meltdown on X. It's all a big game.

[Mapperleypie]

When I heard about the gesture, I just assumed it was the media clutching at straws, but having seen it, it's impossible to defend. He knew what he was doing, and I honestly think he just likes ruffling feathers and getting people all worked up so he can then post how they're having a meltdown on X. It's all a big game.

Comforting I'm sure. Especially for the Jewish contingent.

[LaxtonLad]

This is one of those things where you need to understand a bit of nuance.

If the world stopped consuming Russian oil tomorrow the global economy would pitch straight into a depression. The long term solution? Electric cars - regardless of who makes them.

As to people buying consumer goods from China and India, list their other options please?

The future has to be nuclear power whose only drawback is the disposal of the radioactive waste, not a problem if it's shot out into the cosmic void, a one -way trip to Jupiter? Or Australia? It's not beyond the possibility of future science finding a way to make it useful or at least neutral, not that it would matter if it was Australia, or the USA.

There's no pollution, it's cleaner, a lower cost of production and safer than any alternative. We could have led the world if we had started it in the early 199o's when Maggie shut the pits.

[drillerpie]

When I heard about the gesture, I just assumed it was the media clutching at straws, but having seen it, it's impossible to defend. He knew what he was doing, and I honestly think he just likes ruffling feathers and getting people all worked up so he can then post how they're having a meltdown on X. It's all a big game.

Yeah exactly the same here. When I saw the headline I thought it would be a somewhat ambiguous gesture and the outrage machine was doing the rest. Then I clicked on the video and thought oh my word.

To be honest I think he's a troubled man who was bullied and maybe disrespected for a lot of his childhood and adolescence and has now found an army of adoring fans on the right / far right. Every time he wants a dopamine hit he can throw them some red meat by doing something like this and chalk it off as trolling the libs.

Funnily enough his justification of some people being too eager to call others Nazis or fascists is actually true in a lot of cases, but clearly doesn't apply if you stand there sieg-heiling in front of an adoring crowd for the whole world to see. He's supposed to be the actual genius helping the very stable genius, but I am not too confident in his judgement. I'm certainly not comfortable with him speaking to foreign dictators and potentially deciding the outcome of wars, deciding the future of US government departments, deciding elections in other countries and so on.

Even if you take for granted that he has the wisdom take the right decisions in those areas, which is far from a given, then how do we know he's doing it for the right reasons and not for the likes?