President Trump

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On the eve of his inauguration, Trump launches yet another grift.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/20/donald-trump-meme-coin-price-melania-token

[Steve H]

I see the man in he white coat has comme for Trump, with a strait-jacket over his arm...

[Nearly Sane]

Interesting article on talking to Trump voters


https://goodbyedonald.substack.com/p/dont-call-me-stupid

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Interesting article on talking to Trump voters


https://goodbyedonald.substack.com/p/dont-call-me-stupid

I couldn't read this without thinking of Stewart Lee on Brexit voters.

[SqueakyVoice]

I couldn't read this without thinking of Stewart Lee on Brexit voters.

This one?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jan/19/information-dark-age-elon-musk-donald-trump-jeff-bezos
I didn't know it was published until today. So, um...tha...thank..  you....W....wal... Waltzy...

[Nearly Sane]

This one?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jan/19/information-dark-age-elon-musk-donald-trump-jeff-bezos
I didn't know it was published until today. So, um...tha...thank..  you....W....wal... Waltzy...

wow, I think Lee could do with reading the article I posted from Lawrence Donegan
 

[Aruntraveller]

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[Steve H]

Barron Trump with his hand over his left lung, and Melania with hers over her left tit.. It's always interesting, when watching Yanks during the singing of the national yankthem, to see who knows basic anatomy. Clearly not these two: the heart is in the middle, not way over to the left. It just leans to the left (unlike nearly all Yank politicians).

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Entirely predictable, yet highly unlikely to pass, Republican house member puts forward an ammendment to the constitution to allow third terms for president. I think we'll see lots of this kind of thing during the next four years.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/trump-third-term-amendment-constitution-ogles.html

[Harrowby Hall]

Who knows what kind of condition he will be in in four years time! He may even be dead.

[Nearly Sane]

Who knows what kind of condition he will be in in four years time! He may even be dead.

So President Vance

[Aruntraveller]

I've got to stop reading these articles....but FFS:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/27/trump-vengeance-critics

[Steve H]

If only...
Messing about with an AI image generator.

[Dicky Underpants]

I caught a bit of an interview with Rory Stewart this morning. He has apparently been talking to v.p. Vance. It seems that the latter and Trump himself are obsessed with people's IQs, and intent on asserting how high their own are. I'm just about prepared to believe that Vance's is quite high (though it's apparent that his moral compass will move in any direction according to the political advantage involved*). But does anyone think Trump has a superhuman IQ? The fact that he has to keep informing us of the fact seems to indicate that "he doth protest too much".

*Vance is a born-again Catholic, and intent on asserting 'family values' in political life above anything, even quoting Thomas Aquinas to support his view. If he'd known his Bible, he'd have known that Jesus himself had said that in following him, a person would make enemies among his own household, and as Rory Stewart pointed out, the parable of the Good Samaritan indicates that goodness can often be found in the 'Outsider'.

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Vance is only slightly more intelligent than Trump. He uses eyeliner and has sex with couches.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

I caught a bit of an interview with Rory Stewart this morning. He has apparently been talking to v.p. Vance. It seems that the latter and Trump himself are obsessed with people's IQs, and intent on asserting how high their own are. I'm just about prepared to believe that Vance's is quite high (though it's apparent that his moral compass will move in any direction according to the political advantage involved*). But does anyone think Trump has a superhuman IQ? The fact that he has to keep informing us of the fact seems to indicate that "he doth protest too much".

*Vance is a born-again Catholic, and intent on asserting 'family values' in political life above anything, even quoting Thomas Aquinas to support his view. If he'd known his Bible, he'd have known that Jesus himself had said that in following him, a person would make enemies among his own household, and as Rory Stewart pointed out, the parable of the Good Samaritan indicates that goodness can often be found in the 'Outsider'.

Straight off, Vance,  seems to be consistent with much of Stateside christianity in abandoning context for picked and pungent verse quoting that can support everyman for himself and his genes and ends up supporting Karma, manifest destiny and social Darwinism.
Not only do I think Reagan might be spinning in his grave over Vance, I might imagine Aquinas doing so as well.
American Catholicism seems to be leaning into Trumpianity now too.

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Trump has gone into full chaos mode. I'm pretty sure he doesn't know how tariffs actually work. This will all end in tears at some point, I'm sure, when groceries and fuel cost even more; when the US has eroded every last bit of trust anyone had in it and nobody will want to trade with them; when Musk has gutted every single federal department; when nobody will want to share intelligence with them because they appointed outright traitors like Gubbard and Patel; and when dangerous diseases make a comeback because they appointed brainworm RFK as health secretary. Then they'll realise their country is ruled by oligarchs who turned it into russia 2.0, in otherwords a complete shithole, and they'll realise their mistake. Some of us will laugh at these MAGAtards and say "You voted for this, you fucking dumb fuck!"

[Gordon]

From The Guardian's Live US Politics Blog today.

NBC News has reported overnight that dozens of Education department employees who attended a diversity training course during Donald Trump’s first term has president have been put on leave.

A letter to the affected employees obtained by the news network said they would continue to receive their full salaries and benefits and wouldn’t be required to do any work-related tasks.

Citing union sources, Yamiche Alcindor reported that “at least 55 employees had been placed on leave as of Friday evening.”

Sheria Smith, president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, which represents hundreds of Education Department employees, said:

"It looks like they’re entrapping people, because they encouraged people to take these trainings. [They are] now maybe using these trainings as a basis to put them on administrative leave."

My impression, and I may have the wrong impression, is that we are watching a developing Orwellian dictatorship where certain activities are ceased and people who, presumably, have expertise in these activities and could challenge dogma, are simply removed.

Wouldn't be surprised if in a couple of years time moves are made to change electoral arrangements/convention so that Trump can continue at the end of this term. This has happened before in the case of FDR, on the basis of the circumstances of the Depression followed by WWII, where he started a 4th term but died soon afterwards.

[Steve H]

Currently re-reading 'The Code of the Woosters' by (obv) PG Wodehouse. What we need is evidence of some embarrassing secret of Trump's. I wonder if he designs women's underwear in his spare time - some high-up in the Democratic party could whisper "Eulalie" (or whatever) in passing, and there'd be no more nonsense about tariffs or buying Greenland.

[jeremyp]

Wouldn't be surprised if in a couple of years time moves are made to change electoral arrangements/convention so that Trump can continue at the end of this term. This has happened before in the case of FDR, on the basis of the circumstances of the Depression followed by WWII, where he started a 4th term but died soon afterwards.

It's already started

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/trump-third-term-amendment-constitution-ogles.html

[Dicky Underpants]

Currently re-reading 'The Code of the Woosters' by (obv) PG Wodehouse. What we need is evidence of some embarrassing secret of Trump's. I wonder if he designs women's underwear in his spare time - some high-up in the Democratic party could whisper "Eulalie" (or whatever) in passing, and there'd be no more nonsense about tariffs or buying Greenland.

But haven't there already been enough embarrassing secrets revealed? Trump just does not care, because he knows he just has to keep repeating "Fake news" ad infinitum, and he knows there will be enough gullible numpties out there who'll believe him - even to changing the constitution to allow him a third term.
Roderick Spode seems an all-too human figure compared to Trump.
On Question Time last night he was described as "a copper-bottomed ocean going imbecile" (or something) Let's hope there's an iceberg waiting somewhere along the line.

[Nearly Sane]

Currently re-reading 'The Code of the Woosters' by (obv) PG Wodehouse. What we need is evidence of some embarrassing secret of Trump's. I wonder if he designs women's underwear in his spare time - some high-up in the Democratic party could whisper "Eulalie" (or whatever) in passing, and there'd be no more nonsense about tariffs or buying Greenland.

Oddly enough I was reading that this week, too. I suspect Trump does not suffer from.embarassment in the same way as Spode

[Roses]

Trump thinks he is always RIGHT and everyone who disagrees with him is WRONG and should be prosecuted. That ghastly excuse for a human has the genes that create a dictator. He is only interested in things going his way no matter how many innocent people are killed and maimed in the process.

[Nearly Sane]

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[Sassy]

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Money and politics should not mix.
Being sent by God?  He tells the end from the beginning. Where is it in the bible that God was sending Trump?
We know God knows every leader who will come upon earth,
Why would he tell someone to let his people go and stop the person letting them go? Doesn't make sense.
We have to rethink things.