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Thread: OT a frightening thought

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    Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post

    I think one of the disturbing features of this thread was that MA’s initial lighthearted, but relevant, opening comment led to at least two people immediately jumping to Trump’s defence.
    If you fail to recognise, even after his post election behaviour, that he is a deluded madman there’s really not much hope.
    I’m not sure anyone here is defending Trump, just seeking objectivity.

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    I like Trump, he's a mate of my nephew. One of the more charismatic snooker champions of recent time. I just don't get why people have such a downer on him, even if he is from Bristol area with its glorification of slavery

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    Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
    I like Trump, he's a mate of my nephew. One of the more charismatic snooker champions of recent time. I just don't get why people have such a downer on him, even if he is from Bristol area with its glorification of slavery
    You judd had to take the thread off topic didn't you?

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    It would be my mastermind specialist subject 😉 but I'd be crap at Just a Minute, always deviating

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    TR is right, slagging off Trump is precisely that as the media refuse to give an objective account of anything he does. It always gives a distorted and one-sided account of an anything he says or does. To be sure, Trump is a danger to anyone who gets in his way mainly because of his bizarre and unprecictable behaviour and tweets which are often directed at individuals and people who he doesn't like. Over the last few weeks, he has proved he is not to be trusted in terms in terms of homeland security. However, my concern has always been the way the media has covered him, his administration, his behaviour. It is breathtakingly biased.

    Yes he's dangerous particularly because of his determimnation to leave office with a bang, the hallmark of Trump. But the accusation by the media that he incited violence is hypocritical beyond belief. Madonna, admittedly an aging pop star in desperate need of publicity, urged her supporters to burn down the White House. Robert De Niro talked of punching Trump in the face as did Biden. The cartoon of a beheaded Trump could have incited a crazed attack on him. The list goes on. Our media ennsures you hear nothing of this or any other theats of violence against the President.

    Trump will be impeached. Then the real danger will begin with Biden not knowing his a*se from his elbow and at the first siign of a threat to the West, running around like Corporal Jones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andy_Faber View Post
    I’m not sure anyone here is defending Trump, just seeking objectivity.
    It’s not ‘objective’ to suggest there are other dangerous leaders in the World...we all know that...it’s just deflection, as is
    Gunt’s above post.

    The point surely is...and think on this for a moment...we have now reached a point where the President of the USA, the most powerful man in the world and the ‘leader of the free world’ no less...is considered too incendiary and insurrectionist to be allowed a Twitter Account.

    That, as MA originally said, is a ‘frightening’ (imo terrifying) thought.
    Last edited by ramAnag; 12-01-2021 at 12:32 PM.

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    Actually the twitter issue is an irrelevance. He is no more or no less dangerous because of it. So let's look at some facts: what desperately frightening, nay terrifying, things have actually happened on his watch? Erm, still thinking, can't blame him for covid, nor a policeman in Minnesota, he didn't instigate brexit or build his Mexican wall.

    In fact its all been hot air for his term of office, until the mob rule in Washington recently.

    For sure he is a bogeyman, but have some faith in the checks and balances in the US constitution which have largely thwarted his extremes.

    So I ask you - what has he done to terrify you?

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    Firstly, I said the notion of where we were currently at with him was ‘terrifying’.
    Secondly...he has most certainly begun to build his ‘Mexican wall’ and yes, I have seen it.

    What has he done, not necessarily to terrify me, but that is truly disturbing? Incited racial hatred across the World’s most multicultural country, proved to be the most divisive US leader of our lifetimes, seriously and publicly suggested that people should take bleach internally to prevent Covid, totally downplayed the pandemic telling the nation it would all be over by (last) Easter, name called other countries and leaders (China and North Korea), lied repeatedly...about his own conduct and the origins of his predecessor, made racist statements about Mexicans and Muslims and incited insurrection in his own country’s capital city having lost the recent election.

    How’s that for starters?

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    but I asked what has he done to terrify you? What has happened to make you wake up at night in a cold sweat, scared ****less and asking Mrs rA to calm you down?

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    Secondly...he has most certainly begun to build his ‘Mexican wall’ and yes, I have seen it.

    According t the BBC, as at October 2020, he had built 15 miles of new wall, with some more under construction and at planning stage, and had reinforced a bit more of pre existing wall.

    The border is some 2000 miles long

    Using Andy Dutchmath techniques that means that it will take about 271 years to complete, by which time Id guess at least 3/4 of it will have fallen down

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