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

[The Bedlington Terrier]

It's April Fools Day, there's always a 'joke' story in the media, I've just looked at a few outlets and there is so much lunacy being reported on I can't identify one. My favourite is the one about the BBC expanding their 'fact checker' unit, because the nation depends on them for the truth, but that could easily be true.

I tend to read a better source of news myself...

https://www.nytimes.com/article/isra...3391cee72cf5e1

[sinkov]

I tend to read a better source of news myself...

https://www.nytimes.com/article/isra...3391cee72cf5e1

Can't read it mon ami, it appears to be behind a paywall. From the first sentence which is visible it seems to be about Israel seizing land in Gaza, if it's just going to say Israel won't be giving that land back, then I've mentioned this already. As Bibi says, 'From the border to the sea, Gaza belongs to me".

[sinkov]

Within the next 48 hours (I'm busy today) I will post some of the tosh and guffaw your man writes from Jerusalem.

That will be interesting mon ami, my source is not a journalist, as far as I'm aware he doesn't write anything. If he does I've not seen any of it.

[outwoodclaret]

Trump and tariffs, Trump and tariffs, Go together like horse**** and sheriffs. Imposing tariffs is of course not a new idea by any means even by those who supported free trade. Two hundred years ago George Canning Foreign Secretary sent the following message to the English Ambassador in The Hague. “In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent”. Canning was not hellbent on starting a global trade war. Trump is and he and his mega-rich cronies will not be the ones to suffer by it. Everyone else will. Frankly Trump needs Canning.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Can't read it mon ami, it appears to be behind a paywall. From the first sentence which is visible it seems to be about Israel seizing land in Gaza, if it's just going to say Israel won't be giving that land back, then I've mentioned this already. As Bibi says, 'From the border to the sea, Gaza belongs to me".

And forget the 2.5 million people whose ancestors lived in Palestine 2000 years ago eh mon ami? I wonder how Trump will rub the Eskimos noses in the brown stuff. For Trump and Netanyahu read Hitler & Stalin.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Trump and tariffs, Trump and tariffs, Go together like horse**** and sheriffs. Imposing tariffs is of course not a new idea by any means even by those who supported free trade. Two hundred years ago George Canning Foreign Secretary sent the following message to the English Ambassador in The Hague. “In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent”. Canning was not hellbent on starting a global trade war. Trump is and he and his mega-rich cronies will not be the ones to suffer by it. Everyone else will. Frankly Trump needs Canning.

With mates like Trump who needs enemies?

Economic officials in Israel are in complete shock over the Trump administration's decision to impose a 17% tariff on Israel. "We are in shock. We were sure that the decision to completely cancel tariffs on imports from the U.S. would prevent this move. But it didn't happen."

[The Bedlington Terrier]

What does Starmer's silence say about him?

https://www.eastpost.in/global-south...-WaoCxDBnf1lVg

[sinkov]

And forget the 2.5 million people whose ancestors lived in Palestine 2000 years ago eh mon ami? I wonder how Trump will rub the Eskimos noses in the brown stuff. For Trump and Netanyahu read Hitler & Stalin.

Be fair, they aren't being forgotten, they will be offered nice houses in other lands, somewhere peaceful and safe, or they can get a job in the beach bars, hotels and casinos that will proliferate in Gaza when Trump has rebuilt it. Win--Win for them really.

[outwoodclaret]

And forget the 2.5 million people whose ancestors lived in Palestine 2000 years ago eh mon ami? I wonder how Trump will rub the Eskimos noses in the brown stuff. For Trump and Netanyahu read Hitler & Stalin.

Never mind the Eskimos. Feathers McGraw and those other nefarious penguins who have been robbing America blind have finally got their comeuppance.

The President has also imposed tariffs on dozens of tiny territories - some of which don't even have human inhabitants.

One of those was the Heard and McDonald Islands, an external territory of Australia in the Antarctic that is inhabited only by penguins and seals.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Never mind the Eskimos. Feathers McGraw and those other nefarious penguins who have been robbing America blind have finally got their comeuppance.

The President has also imposed tariffs on dozens of tiny territories - some of which don't even have human inhabitants.

One of those was the Heard and McDonald Islands, an external territory of Australia in the Antarctic that is inhabited only by penguins and seals.

The Sun Bed King is wrecking the US economy, alienating long time US allies and generally causing chaos. The Empire will strike back.