Trump (again!)

[Newcastle George]

Says the Trump fan.

George

[BruceS]

I am NOT a trump fan for Christs sake!!
Stop trying to put me in that category FFS!
If you want to pick on something go pick your nose.
Did I ever try to aim my comments at any one on this forum.
I insist you retract that comment. You, as an adultshould know better.

[Newcastle George]

I'm sorry Bruce, it just seemed that way.

George

[T1 Terry]

Battling local politics is a sure fire way to start a forum war ..... so please, don't start a local or Australia based political thread, I will close it if I can catch it quick enough to avoid all out war on the keyboards .....

To me, Trump and the US is nothing to do with our political system, the US has their own brand of democracy, you can't even get a sausage when you vote. Adding to that, Trump does do stuff that we see as funny, I'm guessing the US citizens aren't laughing, but we sort of get to laugh at them for being too lazy to get out there and vote.

I am glad we have a system that requires everyone to vote, if you intentionally make you vote invalid, then you can't honestly complain about the end result.

It will be interesting to see what happens as the Trump saga unravels ..... it will show, once and for all, if the president does actually have the power of a dictator or king, or the president is still a servant of the people.

No matter what, it is a wake up call to remain vigilant in regards to who is really running the country, the filthy rich, or the elected government and laws that control them ....

T1 Terry

[Greynomad]

I agree with T1 (a rare occurrence!), let’s keep Oz politics off this forum.
I vaguely recall that comment on this contributed to the flying mud and personal insults that shut down the forum from which the majority of OUR members are refugees.
(I shall not risk naming the club involved for fear of receiving a piece of lawyer’s paper.)

Of course, the rest of the world could see that Don Taco is a creation of TV producers, and his “amazing business acumen” was carefully scripted for entertainment. The problem was, he believed the script was reality!
His candidacy for President of the (then) powerhouse of the world economy was a joke. It’s just that Americans don’t have that satirical humour, so they didn’t see the joke.
THAT’s why this thread is in the JOKES page!
He IS a walking talking disaster area — I mean JOKE.

[T1 Terry]

The best explanation I've heard is the fence post tortoise analogy:

It's clear the tortoise didn't get there on its own, someone put it there. Now it's there, all it can do is wave its legs and head about due to it being totally out of its element and no idea about what it should do now it's there. Unless someone removes it from the position it finds itself in and returns it to crawling around in the mud, it will die, because it is exposed to elements beyond its control or understanding

T1 Terry

[Greynomad]

SPOT ON, T1!!

[T1 Terry]

The explanation regarding this one will be interesting ....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzCX7a3NEkY
so ..... where did he get that much cash .... he already has a freeze on his bank accounts and assets, so who could have sold something for cash worth between $30 & $50 million

T1 Terry

[Greynomad]

T1,
I have doubts about the legitimacy of the piece.
It sounds like an AI generated voice, given several mispronunciations of basic words Rachel would not stumble over, and pauses in the wrong place which changed the emphasis of several sentences.
It refers to “former President Trump”, so it either refers to the Biden interregnum or a time after Trump leaves office.
Either way, I don’t believe it is “Breaking News” as labelled.
If it refers to the Biden era, there is a possibility that Trump did try to smuggle $30~50m in cash and was caught.
However, no-one can effectively block a story that big for so long. Someone in the know is bound to share it with a friend who would tell another friend who would…
You get the idea. Eventually it would reach someone who would tell the media.
Remember that old saying, “Never believe everything you read in the newspapers.”
Updated, it refers even more strongly when you bypass the filter of journalism, and every nutcase with access to a keyboard and the software can post any crackpot story in a manner which seems real and (almost) reasonable.

[Greynomad]

Interesting replay of the 7:30 interview with Kamela Harris.
She pointed out that 33% of Americans voted for Don Taco; 33% voted for Kamela; and 33% didn’t bother to vote.
It was also the closest Presidential election result in US history.
So Don Taco won with just a smidge more than a third of the population supporting him. Two thirds of Americans didn’t.
Those two thirds are now mobilised against him (in the main) and unless he has successfully rigged the electoral boundaries — which he has blatantly tried to do — it’s possible he will lose the Republican majority in at least one chamber of the Congress.
At the moment, only the Judiciary is holding him back. Even judges he appointed have ruled against him.
The mid-term elections will be very interesting — and important.
WATCH THIS SPACE…