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Slick wrote: Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:30 am

Blackmac wrote: Fri Oct 14, 2022 8:35 am

Slick wrote: Thu Oct 13, 2022 7:05 am

By the way, my elderly neighbours still asking if you are looking for be customers!

Sorry I didn't see if you had asked this before. If it's down in Porty it is a bit too far out of my way. I mainly concentrate on Midlothian, Marchmont and Colinton area and I am right on my limit at the moment.

It's New Town, our ex neighbours. Lovely old couple who have a much loved garden but are just getting a bit old to manage it all. No problem at all if not but just said I would ask.

Sorry, that's probably still a bit out of my way. I do the grounds at Marchmont St Giles church and that's about the furthest I venture into town. I can ask around because I know that it's getting almost impossible to find a reliable gardener in Edinburgh who isn't taking the piss, price wise.

TL

Many people don't know what happened yesterday.

To put it simply, Biden forced all Americans working in China to choose between two options: either resign immediately, or lose United States citizenship.

Then all the American executives and engineers of all semiconductor manufacturing companies in China resigned collectively on this day - China's semiconductor manufacturing was directly paralyzed overnight.

The lethality of one Biden sanction is greater than that of Trump's more than four years of performance sanctions combined.

TB63 wrote: Fri Oct 14, 2022 1:29 pm Avatar
Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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I will be putting out my response to the Unselect Committee of political Hacks & Thugs tomorrow morning at 8:00. Thank you!




Chairperson
The Select Committee
to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol
Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Chairman Thompson,


THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN!

Good chance this subpoena will backfire and embolden his fanatics.

tabascoboy wrote: Sun Oct 16, 2022 8:00 am

TL

Many people don't know what happened yesterday.

To put it simply, Biden forced all Americans working in China to choose between two options: either resign immediately, or lose United States citizenship.

Then all the American executives and engineers of all semiconductor manufacturing companies in China resigned collectively on this day - China's semiconductor manufacturing was directly paralyzed overnight.

The lethality of one Biden sanction is greater than that of Trump's more than four years of performance sanctions combined.

This is basically declaring cold war on China, isn't it?

Uncle fester wrote: Sun Oct 16, 2022 11:19 am

tabascoboy wrote: Sun Oct 16, 2022 8:00 am

TL

Many people don't know what happened yesterday.

To put it simply, Biden forced all Americans working in China to choose between two options: either resign immediately, or lose United States citizenship.

Then all the American executives and engineers of all semiconductor manufacturing companies in China resigned collectively on this day - China's semiconductor manufacturing was directly paralyzed overnight.

The lethality of one Biden sanction is greater than that of Trump's more than four years of performance sanctions combined.

This is basically declaring cold war on China, isn't it?

Yep !

It totally destroys their Semiconductor sector. Within days, they're have to shutdown equipment, as they won't have access to spares, & this equipment is maintained by the supplier FSE's, & the most senior ones are American, & because the US has had export controls for years on Semi tech, Chinese Nationals have very restricted access.

Any places to read up on the background to this?

Likely impact on Intel? (Slight interest to declare here)

Uncle fester wrote: Sun Oct 16, 2022 11:29 am Any places to read up on the background to this?

Likely impact on Intel? (Slight interest to declare here)

I'm ex-intel. I haven't dug out any links yet.

Well Intel actually sold their fab in China at the end of 2021, so they're lucky. The rumors are that they're going to do another round of layoffs, so potentially some Non-US nationals could be recruited to fill the gaps in expertise, but the likes of AMAT, or LAM, just don't give full access to anyone outside the company, & if you don't have access to spares, your buggered, whoever is doing the maintenance.

Time to stock up on popcorn.

BBC News - Trump subpoena: Former president ordered to testify to January 6 committee
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63319431

There was another big loss this week, in California, where Eastman, the idiot lawyer heavily involved in Jan 6th lost his attempts to twart the 6th Committees access to his emails.

He claimed Attorney-Client privledge, & the Feds said that the Crime-Fraud exception should mean that they were not so protected.

The Judge went thru hundreds of emails, & found that there were some covered, but crucially, there were a number where Eastman & the Shitgibbon were indeed conspiring in criminal conduct, & that the conduct was ongoing, so they should be released to the Feds.

The mails are discussion around the lies about election fraud in Georgia; & attempts to rig the number of fraudulent ballots, which quelle surprise, were the ~11,000 votes mentioned in a certain well known phone call

The kicker is Eastman saying that the SG didn't like the specific numbers of claimed fraudulent ballots being in the court doc; because they couldn't prove any of them. But in the end, they left the made up number in the statement, & the SG signed it; knowing well that they were made up.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald ... -rcna53047

Uncle fester wrote: Fri Oct 21, 2022 6:12 pm Time to stock up on popcorn.

BBC News - Trump subpoena: Former president ordered to testify to January 6 committee
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63319431

Is anyone running a book on how many times the Orange Buffoon will invoke the 5th?

I can see it backfiring to be honest. He'll just do his usual word salad and his fanatics will lap it up.

Uncle fester wrote: Sat Oct 22, 2022 8:15 am I can see it backfiring to be honest. He'll just do his usual word salad and his fanatics will lap it up.

The Committees subpoena is already asking if intends to invoke the 5th, or any other imaginary privileges.

They don't want their time wasted, & they want to either get him deposed, or go straight to court if he doesn't cooperate.

Insane_Homer wrote: Mon Oct 24, 2022 2:29 pm

This was the Chinese being naughty right? When they tried to bribe federal officers.

EnergiseR2 wrote: Fri Oct 28, 2022 7:52 pm See one of the fat fucks minions broke into Pelosi's house with a hammer and attacked her husband. Great

Attacks an 80 year old with a hammer .... what.a.hero !

As usual, mainstream politicians hitch their wagon to a populist star thinking they can control the situation, or cast it aside once they're done with it, and suddenly find that the monster has devoured their party and they are hostages to the extremists, and woe bedtide anyone, in the party or outside it, that stands in the way.

I hope someone breaks into Shitgibbon Jrs house tonight, & just for shits, 'n giggles, blows his kneecaps off with a shotgun !

I sure he'll enjoy the joke.

Steve Bannon now expanding his target and calling for Bolsonaro not to concede defeat.

fishfoodie wrote: Mon Oct 31, 2022 9:14 pm I hope someone breaks into Shitgibbon Jrs house tonight, & just for shits, 'n giggles, blows his kneecaps off with a shotgun !

I sure he'll enjoy the joke.

And we can then tell tall tales about him having bum sex with the attacker.

Good to see Biden come out to support Lula as tje new President, thus breaking the longstanding tradition of the US supporting right wing coups in South America.

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He's fucking mental!..

A Radical Left Lunatic Judge in New York City, who controls a newspaper dedicated largely to defaming me, who was appointed, & is controlled by, my worst political enemies, & whose purpose was to just do preliminary motions & preparatory work on a case brought by the corrupt and highly partisan Attorney General of New York State prior to being routinely sent to the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court, is refusing to let go of the case. He is a partisan disaster. A Rigged & Corrupt System!


The New York State Court System is being ridiculed all over the World! You have a Corrupt, Racist, Weak on Crime Attorney General, Letitia “Peekaboo”James, who campaigned on “I will get Trump, even though she knew NOTHING about me. Then you have a highly political, biased Judge, who is totally controlled by my worst enemies. His rulings and manner are SICK. He gave his quick hearing, & ridiculous decision, right before Midterms - A No No! He’s worse than Peekaboo, and a real “Trump Hater."


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TB63 wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 1:19 pm C
He's fucking mental!..

A Radical Left Lunatic Judge in New York City, who controls a newspaper dedicated largely to defaming me, who was appointed, & is controlled by, my worst political enemies, & whose purpose was to just do preliminary motions & preparatory work on a case brought by the corrupt and highly partisan Attorney General of New York State prior to being routinely sent to the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court, is refusing to let go of the case. He is a partisan disaster. A Rigged & Corrupt System!


The New York State Court System is being ridiculed all over the World! You have a Corrupt, Racist, Weak on Crime Attorney General, Letitia “Peekaboo”James, who campaigned on “I will get Trump, even though she knew NOTHING about me. Then you have a highly political, biased Judge, who is totally controlled by my worst enemies. His rulings and manner are SICK. He gave his quick hearing, & ridiculous decision, right before Midterms - A No No! He’s worse than Peekaboo, and a real “Trump Hater."


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No, No; remember Sneaker assured us he was a genius playing 4D chess, while us poor grubs didn't understand what a genius he really was

The cause of the rant was the Judge in NY stopping his shell game, to transfer assets out of Shitgibbon Corp, to a new Shitgibbon Corp II. Now there's a Court appointed supervisor, (paid for by the Shitgibbon), who will have sight over all financial transactions

He knows he'll lose the case, & now he can't move the assets to escape the fines, & tax judgements.

EnergiseR2 wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 2:59 pm Laugh it up. The guy is still standing and growing again all the time. It's unbelievable but it's a fact. They have been and continue to piss around the edges.

He's going to be charged after the Mid-Terms in Federal Court over the Documents, & down in Georgia, over the Election tampering, & both are very makeable cases, & the one in Georgia will exclude him from running !

EnergiseR2 wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 3:17 pm After the midterms he becomes too big to fail again. They are letting it slip away.

Nah; there are other smarter, less toxic, but equally detestable Candidates in the GOP. The only thing he has, that the GOP wants, is all that money the rubes have been giving to him.

The one thing that trump and the rest of the GQPer's have shown - is that the Democrats are completely incompetent when comes to being political operators.

They are always 2 steps behind. How they haven't managed to unite the independents and moderates against the scum that is the GQP is beyond me.

fishfoodie wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 3:21 pm

EnergiseR2 wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 3:17 pm After the midterms he becomes too big to fail again. They are letting it slip away.

Nah; there are other smarter, less toxic, but equally detestable Candidates in the GOP. The only thing he has, that the GOP wants, is all that money the rubes have been giving to him.

Inclined to agree with R2D2. They've had loads of time and can't seem to land anything on the guy.

Thor Sedan wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 3:35 pm The one thing that trump and the rest of the GQPer's have shown - is that the Democrats are completely incompetent when comes to being political operators.

They are always 2 steps behind. How they haven't managed to unite the independents and moderates against the scum that is the GQP is beyond me.

And what should they do exactly? Who are these independents and moderates that the, Democrats should catch that is winning politics? Let's not forget how close Trump came to winning the last election despite everything and all those people willing to vote anybody but Trump. The US voters like their scum.

Flockwitt wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 5:18 pm

Thor Sedan wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 3:35 pm The one thing that trump and the rest of the GQPer's have shown - is that the Democrats are completely incompetent when comes to being political operators.

They are always 2 steps behind. How they haven't managed to unite the independents and moderates against the scum that is the GQP is beyond me.

And what should they do exactly? Who are these independents and moderates that the, Democrats should catch that is winning politics? Let's not forget how close Trump came to winning the last election despite everything and all those people willing to vote anybody but Trump. The US voters like their scum.

From the vantage point of knowing what I know about US politics is what I read about here and in limited observations of the social discourse in the States...

the Democrats and their supporters just haven't made the quantum leap into deranged mud flinging that their opponents are so deeply into. They still seem to hold to values. Full stop. There lies the contrast.

Flockwitt wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 5:18 pm

Thor Sedan wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 3:35 pm The one thing that trump and the rest of the GQPer's have shown - is that the Democrats are completely incompetent when comes to being political operators.

They are always 2 steps behind. How they haven't managed to unite the independents and moderates against the scum that is the GQP is beyond me.

And what should they do exactly? Who are these independents and moderates that the, Democrats should catch that is winning politics? Let's not forget how close Trump came to winning the last election despite everything and all those people willing to vote anybody but Trump. The US voters like their scum.

This is pretty much what I was going to say verbatim

Looks like republicans are not going to have it all their own way but they'll have enough to scupper Biden.

That's 2 of Trumps acolytes taking a beating

but De Santis and Rubio winning comfortably.

The shitweevil is trying to publicly blackmail Desantis into not running for POTUS.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... dApp_Other

Uncle fester wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 9:22 am The shitweevil is trying to publicly blackmail Desantis into not running for POTUS.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... dApp_Other

Saw this earlier, it's absolutely incredible that rules or decency do not apply do him

Kudos to Jnr for calling it so early.

Does this help JB to try and run again? A President in his mid 80s! Got to be somebody better surely.

EnergiseR2 wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 7:43 am

Uncle fester wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 7:07 am Looks like republicans are not going to have it all their own way but they'll have enough to scupper Biden.

That's it in a nutshell. They are shoeins in a few years but tbf with the way the world is going to look in 2023-2024 that's likely either way. Good to see Trump is dragging them down though as it should have been a blow out

The GOP will do a much better job of ripping each other to shreds, than the DNC could ever do !

The toxic turd is now going to have his candidacy challenged by DeSantis, & he'll spend all the money pile he has on destroying him.

They'll fight like rats in a sack trying to get on the ticket with him, even though they know he's toxic.

It's always nice when someone tells you exactly who they are.

As votes rolled in from across the country Tuesday night, Donald Trump said something truly incredible when asked about how much credit or blame he should get for the election results.

“I think if they win, I should get all of the credit, and if they lose, I should not be blamed at all,” Trump told NewsNation, adding: “But it will probably be just the opposite.”

Yes, he really said that. And, no, he wasn’t kidding. He would, quite simply, like to have his cake and eat it, too.

In Trump’s world, all good things are the direct result of his action while all bad things are definitely someone else’s fault. He is forever telling himself a story in which he is the forever hero – fighting off the losers and the haters who are dragging him down.

If it's good; it's all down to me; if it's bad; it's someone else's fault !

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/09/poli ... index.html

For someone who doesn't drink; I think that's the finest example of, "In vino, veritas", I've ever seen; In his case, it's probably more like; "In viterol, veritas"

Rupert was clearly not amused by yesterday's results.