Well if this thread has taught us anything, it's that Ricky Gervais still isn't funny
CountZero
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/china-warns-north-korea-youre-on-your-own-if-you-go-after-the-us/2017/08/11/a01a4396-7e68-11e7-9026-4a0a64977c92_story.html?utm_term=.69ede9e4926a
How times have changed eh, Now it's down to China to sound a note of sensible and grown up caution!
'Locked and loaded' FFS. Nothing like a bit of Vietnam draft-dodging to give you that gung-ho feeling.
Let's hope Donnie Jr and Eric have their heel spurs locked and loaded ready to deploy in case things really kick off.
some interesting stuff on r4, a correspondent was saying he talked to a US military strategist who had seen the plans for war/conflict with NK, apparently a conventional war turns nuclear very quickly to nullify NK bombardment of Seoul.
its all a bit pointlessa conventional war turns nuclear very quickly to nullify NK bombardment of Seoul.
the last thing that the fat one will do is risk his power base and the destruction of his regime
the last thing the orange one will do is fire nukes despite his need to look tough.
I expect another few months of increasingly deranged "diplomacy" with nothing happening at all despite the tough talking.
NK will be wiped out near instantly in any war conventional or otherwise.
Anyone else keeping an eye on the winds and jet streams?
Trumps been watching this :
Scorched Earth...
[url= http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-is-donald-trump-still-so-horribly-witless-about-the-world ]why is donald trump still so horribly witless about the world?[/url]
Ro5ey - Member
Well if this thread has taught us anything, it's that Ricky Gervais still isn't funny
Horses for courses.
I think he's hilarious. Especially when he's taking the piss out of some stupid religion or other.
Anyway - Trump. Eh? Nutter or what?
Ninfan has you all played. I've read quite a bit of the thread and I can't remember where he's actually said he supports trump, he just seems to be playing devils advocate by disagreeing with the majority. No one in their right mind would actually support the orange fool, but he seems to be taking great delight in winding up folks enraged by the POTUS.
Don't get me wrong, he's no DTF but he's done a pretty good job on here for 300+ pages...
NK will be wiped out near instantly in any war conventional or otherwise
Whilst I'm sure this is true, is isnt the biggest issue. With China asking them both to calm down, Germany also on that bandwagon and Japan shifting missle defences around, it's about who else gets involved and what happens next IMO.
The world's a small place. Light that particular fire and it could soon spread very quickly.
Yep what china does is more important
personally I think they like the buffer country between them and the west in South Korea so they would rather the regime prevail
How far they are willing to go to maintain this is the real question
Again i dont think even trump will attack first so it will just be endless posturing from two deranged mad men making ever increasing threats they wont carry out
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Ro5ey - Member
Well if this thread has taught us anything, it's that Ricky Gervais still isn't funny
Horses for courses.
I think he's hilarious. Especially when he's taking the piss out of some stupid religion or other.
I'm not a fan at all, but he has quite a sharp wit, and the sofa line is pretty good. Not rib cracking hilarious, but then it's not meant to be.
[quote=slowoldman ]why is donald trump still so horribly witless about the world?
He's doing quite well according to that article - it was dated August 4th, and his latest blunder was all the way back on July 25th.
Maybe the writer sent in that article by post.
NK will be wiped out near instantly in any war conventional or otherwise
Really? At the first hint of a strike a nothing to loose red button would decimate the top half of South Korea, it's been well documented that they have a vast amount of bunkers and shielded underground storage for weapons and troops.
NK has a very large conventional military and unless the US is happy to simply bomb them into oblivion with no regard for civilians it will be tough.
Then any remaining nuclear material can just be strapped to anything that flies.
So option B nuke NK - commit mass murder and annihilate civilians and those trapped under a brutal regime. To do that would endanger SK and China on the borders, along with the oceans around.
I can't see a simple and fast solution there.
I'm more inclined to think North Korea is a proxy for China, they like having a "lunatic" state to prod the US and let it know its not welcome in the region without actually having to do it themselves, quite handy I would have thought.
Imagine this whole thing turned around, with China setting up camp on our doorstep with airbases and bombers and whatever pointed our way.
(edit: there is no good start, middle or end to any conflict so best to take donalds phone away for while.)
What a guy....
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got my vote if i had one !
Dear Mother,
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How times have changed eh, Now it's down to China to sound a note of sensible and grown up caution!
I know, who'd a thunk it, eh?
personally I think they like the buffer country between them and the west in South Korea so they would rather the regime prevail
That's exactly right, what China [i]doesnt[/i] want is a reunified Korea that's aligned with the US and the West, however, having a raving lunatic in charge isn't exactly helpful either.
Just started watching Games Of Thrones and within the first couple of episodes their have been two clues that Trump is a fan.
First off Jaime Lannister shook the hand of the 'barstard' and sharply pulled his hand towards him, which looked very like what Trump tries to do.
And then there was the Wall as well.
I'm encouraged by news that China has opened the door to there own sanctions with NK. It feels as though they are more on the side of averting an inident as not.
Hope this gives Kim the impression its not just the West or SK who think hes in the wrong...
Mr Classy been a tweeting again !
Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President's Manufacturing Council,he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!
Saw that clunk, for context the guy quit Trumps team in protest over his refusal to call a Nazi a Nazi
Trump Jr probably worse
retweeting a message from a fake Julian Assange account
Trump condemned hours ago. Did Obama denounce BLM or Antifa? Hillary? CNN? Double standard is driving the hate. True equality will fix it.
No wonder Trump was looking into his ability to pardon his kids & himself
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/trumps-business-of-corruption
[url= https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/14/donald-trump-kevin-plank-under-armour-quits-advisory-council-charlottesville ]more childish tweets in the offing ? [/url]
Like this one:
"Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President's Manufacturing Council,he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES"!
and this one:
".@Merck Pharma is a leader in higher & higher drug prices while at the same time taking jobs out of the U.S. Bring jobs back & LOWER PRICES"!
Much ado about nothing. 😆
Bring jobs back & LOWER PRICES"!
Similar Venn diagram to 'people who aren't nazis vs people who are nazis'?
The Donald [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40935770 ]now wants to know why 1.3 million people didn't turn up to his inauguration to make it even biglier.[/url].
[quote=chewkw ]Much ado about nothing.
Comedy of Errors
[quote=whitestone ]The Donald now wants to know why 1.3 million people didn't turn up to his inauguration to make it even biglier..
no mention there about a particular timescale they want to harvest IP addresses from, so should we all be visiting http://www.disruptj20.org/ in order to "improve" the signal to noise ratio?
(it's somewhat peculiar that the website address in the BBC story isn't clickable)
Done. I now await my extradition.so should we all be visiting http://www.disruptj20.org/ in order to "improve" the signal to noise ratio?
If you're managing to piss off the Anne Frank Centre, you might be doing things wrong.
If you're managing to piss off the Anne Frank Centre, you might be doing things wrong.
sticking up for nazis tends to upset people
+ I thought he was some sort of businessman?
10 of his 30 strong manufacturing council CEOs have quit, his handling of charlottesville is an impressive bit of self harm
If you're managing to piss off the Anne Frank Centre, you might be doing things wrong.
They're always banging the drum over something or other.
ninfan - Member
If you're managing to piss off the Anne Frank Centre, you might be doing things wrong.
They're always banging the drum over something or other
yeah bet they are still pissy about the holocaust and everything 🙄
obvious troll is, well.... obvious ?
[quote=ninfan ]They're always banging the drum over something or other.
How very dare they?!
I am not referring to President Trump nor N.Korea Dear Leader coz they are the normal ones. 😆aracer - Member
chewkw » Much ado about nothing.
Comedy of Errors
I bet this must eat away at The Donald.
Odd, how Trump professes to hate the "Fakemedia" and yet seems utterly obsessed by his need to be all they talk/write about.
Jamie - Member
I bet this must eat away at The Donald.
That is highly amusing, the orange one will no doubt be tasking some of his staff to find the evidence proving that this is somehow fake, it'll be just like his inauguration crowd obsession
That, or trying to find out the IP addresses of those who liked it so they can be shown the error of their ways
Oops
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40952820 ]Trump disbands business councils after bosses resign[/url]
Was always going to happen when Dubya was looking like a class act next to trump
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40946386
Trump disbands business councils after bosses resign
Talk about flouncing off home with your ball. 🙂
It's being reported the other way around here, you can't disband when everyone has left.
Talk about flouncing off home without your ball.
fify 🙂
Has he got any toys left in the pram?
a good point of view there, if nothing else it's a cheap way to destabilise the white house and paralyse the government.
Back to the one where you never assume you are the only one playing the game or that you are the best player.
The man certainly knows how to do businesses a favour:
http://mashable.com/2017/08/16/donald-trump-amazon-tweet/#7GzomlSikaq2
And he just gets better:
http://mashable.com/2017/08/16/terrible-trump-executive-order-obama-flood-standards-climate/#SUfYQ276wkqE
I like the way the guy that boasts how clever he is for not paying taxes, slates amazon for not paying taxes...
pot & kettle
I like the way the guy that boasts how clever he is for not paying taxes, slates amazon for not paying taxes...
pot & kettle
There was a documentary named "Sand Wars" which is very interesting viewing regarding many cases that are blamed on climate change and sea level changes but in reality it is (still) mankind fault, but it is the removal of vast amounts of sand for making concrete:
https://videopress.com/v/hmxKgpG9
Might also have some relevance to Trumps infrastructure changes.
Well Amazon are taking the p1ss and I don't blame Trump for pointing this out.
Online retailer’s Luxembourg unit took £5.3bn sales from British internet shoppers, a rise of 14%, but Amazon.co.uk Limited recorded profit of just £34.4mAmazon’s booming UK business paid just £11.9m of tax last year, while the online retailer’s Luxembourg unit took £5.3bn of sales from British internet shoppers without being subject to UK tax, according to company filings.
from
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/24/amazons-uk-business-paid-119m-tax-last-year.
Not at all TG, we know what Amazon paid as their tax returns are available. I'm sure Trump would go toe to toe and release his...
Some results in the HuffPost/YouGov poll conducted 14-15th August:
48% of the Trump voters polled said that the white nationalists at Charlottesville were either [i]"mostly right"[/i] (11%) or [i]"went too far, but they have a point"[/i] (37%).
68% of the Trump voters polled said that [i]"there is a lot of discrimination against white people"[/i].
Only 3% of Trump voters polled think Trump personally supports white nationalism. Conversely only 3% of Clinton voters polled think he opposes it.
Shows some quite incredible divides between the Democrat and Republican voters. Seems pretty clear that Charlottesville is just a beginning 🙁
I'll give him 40 days now.
When Steve Bannon is looking more reasonably then the President something has gone very wrong. It's pretty much just Trump, Nazi's and the KKK on one side and everyone else on the other.
When you're a paper skinned narcissist, it's hard to condemn people who are hailing you. Or should that be heiling?
You forgot bawbag.
Trump and the Guardian managed to piss the wife off hard today. Trump has made references to Pershing killing Moro rebels in the Philippines using bullets dipped in pigs blood. The Guardians issue is that its a made up story and at the same time called those Filipinos "Islamic Militants".... you know... despite it being a war of aggression with colonialist intent waged against both Filipino Catholics and Moros. So yeah.... colonialism and glorification of genocide... fine... making shit up... string him up.
On the subject of Trump bemoaning the removal of statues and sculptures.
Ah so this is what Tom was taking about
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40969475
The man just loves the fake news!
Not to mention if he's suggesting executing Islamic insurgents with bullets died in pigs blood, it's fairly obvious that's going to only incur more violence ?
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Looks like Bannon is out. (Story breaking on BBC now)
Bastard - got all excited there for a minute
It's academic really. His poisonous ideology runs through the administration. Watch Trumps press conference the other day again. He truly believes that shit. So whether Steve Bannon is in some official position or not is an irrelevance
It's academic really. His poisonous ideology runs through the administration. Watch Trumps press conference the other day again. He truly believes that shit. So whether Steve Bannon is in some official position or not is an irrelevance
I'd imagine it was a 'him or me' ultimatum from John Kelly, after this weeks debacle. I still wouldn't bet on him seeing out the month either
Young Turks summary of his interview with American Prospect here:
Seemed to pretty much directly contradict Trump on North Korea. Not sure if he knew he was already for the chop at that point or if this was the last straw.
Interesting to see if breitbart turn on Trump now.
Either way not sure it'll stop trump from getting his info from crackpot right wing conspiracy theorists.
Something had to be done, trump's handling of the the Nazi thing & his response to the Spain attack looking properly bonkers.
3 of his advisory boards disbanded, trumpcare non-existent, chances of getting tax reform through now?
Meuller investigation gathering pace he' be in danger of his entire administration walking out!
I bet bannon has some great dirt on trump and I hope he spills it!
Interesting to see if breitbart turn on Trump now.
One of their senior editors just tweeted "#WAR" !
Could get messy.
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I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the Obama household and hear what Barak makes of all this!