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Uncle fester wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 10:35 am I'm waiting for the banning of trans fat.

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 1:20 pm

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 10:35 am I'm waiting for the banning of trans fat.

The US food industry would cease to exist.

Blackmac wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:10 pm Trump Turnberry has been vandalised. Buildings and greens. Surprised it has taken this long and doubt it will be the last time.

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:16 pm

Blackmac wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:10 pm Trump Turnberry has been vandalised. Buildings and greens. Surprised it has taken this long and doubt it will be the last time.

Ayrshire to become the USA's 52nd state?

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 4:44 pm

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:16 pm

Blackmac wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:10 pm Trump Turnberry has been vandalised. Buildings and greens. Surprised it has taken this long and doubt it will be the last time.

Ayrshire to become the USA's 52nd state?

Nuke ‘em from Greenland.

Blackmac wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:10 pm Trump Turnberry has been vandalised. Buildings and greens. Surprised it has taken this long and doubt it will be the last time.

Blackmac wrote: ↑Sun Mar 09, 2025 10:28 am

Blackmac wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:10 pm Trump Turnberry has been vandalised. Buildings and greens. Surprised it has taken this long and doubt it will be the last time.

I'm the last one to advocate criminal actions but I fully support this. Targeting his courses are the only direct action people can take against Trump in Europe. They can't be boycotted like we can do to Tesla as they are mostly out of the reach of locals, so this is fine with me. Any way to express our hatred of the man is good.

Gumboot wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 4:00 am Trump's been in office for less than 2 months and he's gone from bragging about the dawn of a new golden age to warning about a possible recession.

Which in turn is crashing the markets.

And the price of eggs is projected to increase by 40% this year.

So much winning...

I will shortly be declaring a National Emergency on Electricity in the threatened area. This will quickly allow the US to do what has to be done to alleviate this abusive threat from Canada

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 4:02 pm Is this what Tertiary syphilis looks like ?

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 5:13 pm He was every bit as crazed as this during his first term, let alone 4 years ago during Biden's. His social media rantings have long been incoherent and frenzied. The difference between now and the past is his cabinet are enabling rather than reigning him in or working around him to keep semblance of normalcy.

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 5:13 pm He was every bit as crazed as this during his first term, let alone 4 years ago during Biden's. His social media rantings have long been incoherent and frenzied. The difference between now and the past is his cabinet are enabling rather than reigning him in or working around him to keep semblance of normalcy.

Slick wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 5:41 pm

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 5:13 pm He was every bit as crazed as this during his first term, let alone 4 years ago during Biden's. His social media rantings have long been incoherent and frenzied. The difference between now and the past is his cabinet are enabling rather than reigning him in or working around him to keep semblance of normalcy.

I meant during the first term. It's worth having a look, he has definitely got worse

TB63 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 2:46 pm

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Based on Ontario, Canada, placing a 25% Tariff on “Electricity” coming into the United States, I have instructed my Secretary of Commerce to add an ADDITIONAL 25% Tariff, to 50%, on all STEEL and ALUMINUM COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM CANADA, ONE OF THE HIGHEST TARIFFING NATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. This will go into effect TOMORROW MORNING, March 12th. Also, Canada must immediately drop their Anti-American Farmer Tariff of 250% to 390% on various U.S. dairy products, which has long been considered outrageous. I will shortly be declaring a National Emergency on Electricity within the threatened area. This will allow the U.S to quickly do what has to be done to alleviate this abusive threat from Canada. If other egregious, long time Tariffs are not likewise dropped by Canada, I will substantially increase, on April 2nd, the Tariffs on Cars coming into the U.S. which will, essentially, permanently shut down the automobile manufacturing business in Canada. Those cars can easily be made in the USA! Also, Canada pays very little for National Security, relying on the United States for military protection. We are subsidizing Canada to the tune of more than 200 Billion Dollars a year. WHY??? This cannot continue. The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State. This would make all Tariffs, and everything else, totally disappear. Canadians’ taxes will be very substantially reduced, they will be more secure, militarily and otherwise, than ever before, there would no longer be a Northern Border problem, and the greatest and most powerful nation in the World will be bigger, better and stronger than ever — And Canada will be a big part of that. The artificial line of separation drawn many years ago will finally disappear, and we will have the safest and most beautiful Nation anywhere in the World — And your brilliant anthem, “O Canada,” will continue to play, but now representing a GREAT and POWERFUL STATE within the greatest Nation that the World has ever seen!

We need a cuckoo emoji..

Biffer wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 7:38 pm

TB63 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 2:46 pm

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Based on Ontario, Canada, placing a 25% Tariff on “Electricity” coming into the United States, I have instructed my Secretary of Commerce to add an ADDITIONAL 25% Tariff, to 50%, on all STEEL and ALUMINUM COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM CANADA, ONE OF THE HIGHEST TARIFFING NATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. This will go into effect TOMORROW MORNING, March 12th. Also, Canada must immediately drop their Anti-American Farmer Tariff of 250% to 390% on various U.S. dairy products, which has long been considered outrageous. I will shortly be declaring a National Emergency on Electricity within the threatened area. This will allow the U.S to quickly do what has to be done to alleviate this abusive threat from Canada. If other egregious, long time Tariffs are not likewise dropped by Canada, I will substantially increase, on April 2nd, the Tariffs on Cars coming into the U.S. which will, essentially, permanently shut down the automobile manufacturing business in Canada. Those cars can easily be made in the USA! Also, Canada pays very little for National Security, relying on the United States for military protection. We are subsidizing Canada to the tune of more than 200 Billion Dollars a year. WHY??? This cannot continue. The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State. This would make all Tariffs, and everything else, totally disappear. Canadians’ taxes will be very substantially reduced, they will be more secure, militarily and otherwise, than ever before, there would no longer be a Northern Border problem, and the greatest and most powerful nation in the World will be bigger, better and stronger than ever — And Canada will be a big part of that. The artificial line of separation drawn many years ago will finally disappear, and we will have the safest and most beautiful Nation anywhere in the World — And your brilliant anthem, “O Canada,” will continue to play, but now representing a GREAT and POWERFUL STATE within the greatest Nation that the World has ever seen!

We need a cuckoo emoji..

Just so everyone knows, those dairy tariffs he’s referring to only kick in after a certain amount of completely free tariff trade. That amount has never been met, in any year since this agreement was put in place. That agreement was put in place during the last Trump administration.

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A President reduced to car salesman is historically degrading.

But there’s something else very revealing in all this: amidst growing protests & collapsing sales, Musk is panicked.

holy shit -- Trump was reading from a literal Tesla sales pitch, complete with pricing, during his White House event with Elon Musk. (Andrew Harnik/Getty)

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 9:36 pm Seems like a clear ethics violation, but then again why would he care about that?

"Executive branch employees may not use their Government positions to suggest that the agency or any part of the executive branch endorses an organization (including a nonprofit organization), product, service, or person."

Kiwias wrote: ↑Wed Mar 12, 2025 12:03 am

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 9:36 pm Seems like a clear ethics violation, but then again why would he care about that?

"Executive branch employees may not use their Government positions to suggest that the agency or any part of the executive branch endorses an organization (including a nonprofit organization), product, service, or person."

He has no need to be worried as both he and his daughter-wife got away with similar actions in his first term

geordie_6 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 12, 2025 8:11 am

Kiwias wrote: ↑Wed Mar 12, 2025 12:03 am

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 9:36 pm Seems like a clear ethics violation, but then again why would he care about that?

"Executive branch employees may not use their Government positions to suggest that the agency or any part of the executive branch endorses an organization (including a nonprofit organization), product, service, or person."

He has no need to be worried as both he and his daughter-wife got away with similar actions in his first term

They'll probably just slap on a tagline of "warning: this presidency contains product placement" and carry on.

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 11:23 pm Should be start a clock on when he gets committed, & JD takes over ?

.... and becomes the first openly gay US President ..... if the rumors are correct

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 11:23 pm Should be start a clock on when he gets committed, & JD takes over ?

.... and becomes the first openly gay US President ..... if the rumors are correct

Hugo wrote: ↑Wed Mar 12, 2025 1:41 pm Was reading up on Trumps Middle East envoy yesterday, a fellow New Yorker, property developer that he's known since the mid 80s. Noticed how he's going after Massie calling for him to be primaried.

It's been said many times before but it is truly striking how Trump operates as a mafia Don. If a NYC Godfather from the 70s got into the White House he'd operate in the exact same fashion as Trump. The calculus is always about strength, muscle. And then when you go for your enemies there are no half measures, you set out to destroy them. I guess that is the mentality of someone who made their money in real estate in New York, kill or be killed.

Trump criticises Ireland during Irish PM's visit to White House

Donald Trump has criticised Ireland for using its tax policies to lure away US companies.

Speaking in the White House next to the Irish premier, Micheál Martin, he took aim at Ireland’s use of its tax system to attract pharmaceutical and other companies.

He claimed that Ireland is among the countries taking advantage of the US.

He also doubled down on his vow to impose reciprocal tariffs to help rebuild US manufacturing.

Trump on said his tariffs plan will restore fairness to US trade, even as major partners announced countermeasures to new US tariffs on steel and aluminium.

“We’ve been abused for a long time and we will be abused no longer,” he said.

He added that he would even out his country’s “massive deficit”.

Trump spoke with reporters at the start of a meeting with the Irish prime minister in the Oval Office.

- Telegraph