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I don't actually have him on ignore but I do ignore him and scroll past the word salad.Zapp Bannigan wrote: ↑Thu Mar 06, 2025 6:26 pm Let's be honest here before he's castigated by dissatisfaction about his posts.
Has he broken any rules? No.
Just because the majority of the posters on here hate Trump, should he be banned for posting pro cunt, sorry, Trump bullshit? Again, no.
If I Zapp him, that is effectively censoring free speech, which this forum proudly upholds, unlike the slightest mention of a sausage on the other place.
ATM, he has broken no rules so sorry, you can block him, but, until he oversteps the mark, he's free to post.
Zapp.
Him too :)
How badly would China / the US (and us too) screw themselves by going to war given how much shit we buy from there?Guy Smiley wrote: ↑Thu Mar 06, 2025 11:07 pm The Chinese have entered the game. Holy shit…
https://news.sky.com/video/chinas-us-em ... d-13321941
My pie in the sky solution would be for the Commonwealth nations join Europe and China in a trading alliance and isolate the US, let them Get All Great Again on their own.Niegs wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 1:04 amHow badly would China / the US (and us too) screw themselves by going to war given how much shit we buy from there?Guy Smiley wrote: ↑Thu Mar 06, 2025 11:07 pm The Chinese have entered the game. Holy shit…
https://news.sky.com/video/chinas-us-em ... d-13321941
Two years is a long long time and plenty of time to fire anybody who opposes them and stack courts even more in their favour.
Got to laugh at his take all this is hurting the arms industry.Lobby wrote: ↑Thu Mar 06, 2025 4:10 pmMilitary Industrial Complex I assume.Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Thu Mar 06, 2025 4:06 pm Just out of interest, and so I can put Firewater's entertaining gibberish in the right box, can anyone sane tell me what MIC actually stands for? The only conspiracy theory I could find was about information being fed to Presidential candidates during debates.
THOSE four judges though?Biffer wrote: ↑Wed Mar 05, 2025 5:26 pmAstonishing that four judges would agree that it's legal to not pay for contracted work that has already been completed.geordie_6 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 05, 2025 4:01 pm Supreme Court reject Trump's request to withhold payment from foreign aid groups. Coney Barrett and Roberts joined the liberal judges for a 5-4 decision.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-suprem ... 025-03-05/
It might not be what they thought they were going to get, but he's mostly doing what he said he'd do, or trying to. So if they aren't going to believe him when he speaks, I mean I know he lies a lot, but surely you don't take from that, that he's secretly holding out on a wonderful truth...
Yup. EU companies are winning while US Arms manufacturers are losing._Os_ wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:24 amGot to laugh at his take all this is hurting the arms industry.Lobby wrote: ↑Thu Mar 06, 2025 4:10 pmMilitary Industrial Complex I assume.Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Thu Mar 06, 2025 4:06 pm Just out of interest, and so I can put Firewater's entertaining gibberish in the right box, can anyone sane tell me what MIC actually stands for? The only conspiracy theory I could find was about information being fed to Presidential candidates during debates.
The share prices of European arms manufacturers are going up at such a pace they're almost vertical. Rheinmetall must really be suffering from their 172% increase over the last year which has accelerated since the Hegseth speech. They're going out of business for sure.
There's a significant subsection of tghe alt right who have been conditioned to believe in a higher, hidden truth for years now, through QAnon and conspiracy theories. It's the default mindset - what you see isn't the whole story, the truth is being kept from you.Raggs wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 9:06 amIt might not be what they thought they were going to get, but he's mostly doing what he said he'd do, or trying to. So if they aren't going to believe him when he speaks, I mean I know he lies a lot, but surely you don't take from that, that he's secretly holding out on a wonderful truth...
That's actually part and parcel what I mean. Because they've got a chance to rein this in, or it could go the other way and 4 years of this kind of damage may well be irrecoverable.Uncle fester wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:02 amTwo years is a long long time and plenty of time to fire anybody who opposes them and stack courts even more in their favour.
Tell me again I'm the nutter when you have the US Secretary of State going on TV like this! Other prominent US politicians and supporters have been doing the same. It reminds me of the trends that used to take over at my secondary school in the 70's when everyone wanted to be part of the gang and had to have the latest gear.Slick wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 12:10 pmNutterdpedin wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 10:30 amApparently I was a nutter and a bit mental just a few weeks ago, now it seems everyone is getting on the same page now? I am not sure I have enough Tin Foil Hats to go round!
On a serious point I accept it is difficult for folk to handle or accept the complete destruction of system of government in the so called biggest and greatest democracy in the world but that is what is happening in plain sight. The coup is well underway and its chances of success are very very high. The pillars of Government are now completely powerless - Trump controls, mostly through coercion etc, both Houses and they just ignore the judiciary and carry on. Even if the courts find against the Gov who implements the court findings - the DOJ - and who heads that up? A certain Pam Bondi a leading light in the development of Project 2025! They actually told us what they were going to do and to be fair to them they are sticking to their promises as listed in Project 2025. The clever nutters behind Trump have ensured they have their zealots in place in every position of authority and power in the US Government, including the military. Couple this with the financial backing of the Tech Bros and other right wing capitalists and the coup is almost complete. The US has all but gone! This will not end after 4 years, by then the dictatorship will have been well established and future elections will be no fairer than those in Russia. The Prussians are not coming over the horizon to win the battle for the goodies!
Did I expect it to be mad - yesdpedin wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 10:18 amTell me again I'm the nutter when you have the US Secretary of State going on TV like this! Other prominent US politicians and supporters have been doing the same. It reminds me of the trends that used to take over at my secondary school in the 70's when everyone wanted to be part of the gang and had to have the latest gear.Slick wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 12:10 pmNutterdpedin wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 10:30 am
Apparently I was a nutter and a bit mental just a few weeks ago, now it seems everyone is getting on the same page now? I am not sure I have enough Tin Foil Hats to go round!
On a serious point I accept it is difficult for folk to handle or accept the complete destruction of system of government in the so called biggest and greatest democracy in the world but that is what is happening in plain sight. The coup is well underway and its chances of success are very very high. The pillars of Government are now completely powerless - Trump controls, mostly through coercion etc, both Houses and they just ignore the judiciary and carry on. Even if the courts find against the Gov who implements the court findings - the DOJ - and who heads that up? A certain Pam Bondi a leading light in the development of Project 2025! They actually told us what they were going to do and to be fair to them they are sticking to their promises as listed in Project 2025. The clever nutters behind Trump have ensured they have their zealots in place in every position of authority and power in the US Government, including the military. Couple this with the financial backing of the Tech Bros and other right wing capitalists and the coup is almost complete. The US has all but gone! This will not end after 4 years, by then the dictatorship will have been well established and future elections will be no fairer than those in Russia. The Prussians are not coming over the horizon to win the battle for the goodies!
https://x.com/dm_deluca/status/18977062 ... h8tOyeCXzQ
It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny what you see happening in front of your eyes! As Orwell said 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.' These guys have gone completely loco, a bunch of grown men with crosses marked on their foreheads is for me a sure sign the US is lost. Yes I know the links to Ash Wednesday etc but this is more a signal that right wing, radical white supremacists, religious zealots now control the US Government. God help us!
And the subject at hand was Gaza?dpedin wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 10:18 amTell me again I'm the nutter when you have the US Secretary of State going on TV like this! Other prominent US politicians and supporters have been doing the same. It reminds me of the trends that used to take over at my secondary school in the 70's when everyone wanted to be part of the gang and had to have the latest gear.Slick wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 12:10 pmNutterdpedin wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 10:30 am
Apparently I was a nutter and a bit mental just a few weeks ago, now it seems everyone is getting on the same page now? I am not sure I have enough Tin Foil Hats to go round!
On a serious point I accept it is difficult for folk to handle or accept the complete destruction of system of government in the so called biggest and greatest democracy in the world but that is what is happening in plain sight. The coup is well underway and its chances of success are very very high. The pillars of Government are now completely powerless - Trump controls, mostly through coercion etc, both Houses and they just ignore the judiciary and carry on. Even if the courts find against the Gov who implements the court findings - the DOJ - and who heads that up? A certain Pam Bondi a leading light in the development of Project 2025! They actually told us what they were going to do and to be fair to them they are sticking to their promises as listed in Project 2025. The clever nutters behind Trump have ensured they have their zealots in place in every position of authority and power in the US Government, including the military. Couple this with the financial backing of the Tech Bros and other right wing capitalists and the coup is almost complete. The US has all but gone! This will not end after 4 years, by then the dictatorship will have been well established and future elections will be no fairer than those in Russia. The Prussians are not coming over the horizon to win the battle for the goodies!
https://x.com/dm_deluca/status/18977062 ... h8tOyeCXzQ
It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny what you see happening in front of your eyes! As Orwell said 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.' These guys have gone completely loco, a bunch of grown men with crosses marked on their foreheads is for me a sure sign the US is lost. Yes I know the links to Ash Wednesday etc but this is more a signal that right wing, radical white supremacists, religious zealots now control the US Government. God help us!
How can you talk about conspiracy theories based around crosses on people’s heads and then in the next breath accept that it’s a pretty normal thing for practising Catholics to do on Ash Wednesday?dpedin wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 10:18 amTell me again I'm the nutter when you have the US Secretary of State going on TV like this! Other prominent US politicians and supporters have been doing the same. It reminds me of the trends that used to take over at my secondary school in the 70's when everyone wanted to be part of the gang and had to have the latest gear.Slick wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 12:10 pmNutterdpedin wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 10:30 am
Apparently I was a nutter and a bit mental just a few weeks ago, now it seems everyone is getting on the same page now? I am not sure I have enough Tin Foil Hats to go round!
On a serious point I accept it is difficult for folk to handle or accept the complete destruction of system of government in the so called biggest and greatest democracy in the world but that is what is happening in plain sight. The coup is well underway and its chances of success are very very high. The pillars of Government are now completely powerless - Trump controls, mostly through coercion etc, both Houses and they just ignore the judiciary and carry on. Even if the courts find against the Gov who implements the court findings - the DOJ - and who heads that up? A certain Pam Bondi a leading light in the development of Project 2025! They actually told us what they were going to do and to be fair to them they are sticking to their promises as listed in Project 2025. The clever nutters behind Trump have ensured they have their zealots in place in every position of authority and power in the US Government, including the military. Couple this with the financial backing of the Tech Bros and other right wing capitalists and the coup is almost complete. The US has all but gone! This will not end after 4 years, by then the dictatorship will have been well established and future elections will be no fairer than those in Russia. The Prussians are not coming over the horizon to win the battle for the goodies!
https://x.com/dm_deluca/status/18977062 ... h8tOyeCXzQ
It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny what you see happening in front of your eyes! As Orwell said 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.' These guys have gone completely loco, a bunch of grown men with crosses marked on their foreheads is for me a sure sign the US is lost. Yes I know the links to Ash Wednesday etc but this is more a signal that right wing, radical white supremacists, religious zealots now control the US Government. God help us!
Not this obvious and seriously not in many countries. Never saw it before moving to Ireland where this is nowhere this obvious.Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 12:07 pmHow can you talk about conspiracy theories based around crosses on people’s heads and then in the next breath accept that it’s a pretty normal thing for practising Catholics to do on Ash Wednesday?dpedin wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 10:18 amTell me again I'm the nutter when you have the US Secretary of State going on TV like this! Other prominent US politicians and supporters have been doing the same. It reminds me of the trends that used to take over at my secondary school in the 70's when everyone wanted to be part of the gang and had to have the latest gear.
https://x.com/dm_deluca/status/18977062 ... h8tOyeCXzQ
It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny what you see happening in front of your eyes! As Orwell said 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.' These guys have gone completely loco, a bunch of grown men with crosses marked on their foreheads is for me a sure sign the US is lost. Yes I know the links to Ash Wednesday etc but this is more a signal that right wing, radical white supremacists, religious zealots now control the US Government. God help us!
I’m not a Catholic but it’s pretty common among those that are actively so in anglophone countrieslaurent wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 12:34 pmNot this obvious and seriously not in many countries. Never saw it before moving to Ireland where this is nowhere this obvious.Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 12:07 pmHow can you talk about conspiracy theories based around crosses on people’s heads and then in the next breath accept that it’s a pretty normal thing for practising Catholics to do on Ash Wednesday?dpedin wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 10:18 am
Tell me again I'm the nutter when you have the US Secretary of State going on TV like this! Other prominent US politicians and supporters have been doing the same. It reminds me of the trends that used to take over at my secondary school in the 70's when everyone wanted to be part of the gang and had to have the latest gear.
https://x.com/dm_deluca/status/18977062 ... h8tOyeCXzQ
It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny what you see happening in front of your eyes! As Orwell said 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.' These guys have gone completely loco, a bunch of grown men with crosses marked on their foreheads is for me a sure sign the US is lost. Yes I know the links to Ash Wednesday etc but this is more a signal that right wing, radical white supremacists, religious zealots now control the US Government. God help us!
PS my grandparents where practicing catholics and I was spending my childhood wednesday at my grandparents place.
A couple of us mentioned it a day or two ago without going into the detail. Carlos shat on Musk from a great height, long may it continue,
People used to say it was hard to believe he'd be allowed to ride roughshod over congress. but it seems to be happening.tabascoboy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 2:42 pm Hard to believe this could happen, but with the current admin...
Rattling on about the 1908 treaty and garbled justifications for land grabs. That kind of thing sound familiar yeah?Biffer wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 2:50 pmPeople used to say it was hard to believe he'd be allowed to ride roughshod over congress. but it seems to be happening.tabascoboy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 2:42 pm Hard to believe this could happen, but with the current admin...
People used to say you couldn't have a convicted felon as President, but it's happened.
If resistance continues to be as passive as it has been, I think two years time is too late.Flockwitt wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 9:58 amThat's actually part and parcel what I mean. Because they've got a chance to rein this in, or it could go the other way and 4 years of this kind of damage may well be irrecoverable.Uncle fester wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:02 amTwo years is a long long time and plenty of time to fire anybody who opposes them and stack courts even more in their favour.
'Fun' fact. That border would run right through the town where I grew up.tabascoboy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 2:42 pm Hard to believe this could happen, but with the current admin...
Constitutions can be changed, he can ask his pal Vlad for advice on thatfishfoodie wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 11:18 pm I love that while bone spurs continues to show what a coward he is when faced with a determined adversary, the Canadians are taking their time to kick America in the balls !!
Kudos to Ontario for boycotting all American booze, & putting surcharges on energy exports until the tariffs are withdrawn completely, instead of just the bullshit delays. Its a truism that all bullies are cowards, & the best way of dealing with them is standing up to them & making them back down !
While the Mid-Terms might be two years away, the primaries are much closer, so in reality the GOP has a year at the most before they need to make uncomfortable decisions; i.e. they need to choose between survival & a President who can't Legally stand again !