https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/981521901079146499
Spoken like the master businessman who managed to find a way to lose money running casinos.
Perhaps he thinks he can declare the country bankrupt and start over ?
Well Trumps seems to have thrown his lawyer under the bus, sorta mentioning he had no idea that hush money had been paid when he could have just kept his gob shut.
And caravans....he’s developed an interest in them.. We should club together and get him membership of the caravan club...he’d really fit in with the wifeswapping there 🙂
(on a serious note his caravan stuff is so very wrong.)
Caravan of love? Who'd have thought that the man who can't find lawyers says the wrong thing legally ..
I was reading the other night about how Bezos is personally organising these caravans. Isn't it odd how something suddenly goes from never being mentioned, to being mentioned once on Fox and Friends, to being a burning issue?
The Trump Fox feedback loops great.
youse lot still kidding on you know what yer talking about? 😆
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You still haven’t explained how China can win a trade war with the US
there is no winning... almost all of the components for some of our tools come from china in bulk. If the factory we have over then did not continuously screw up assembly they would not come at all...
extra cost may mean the us plant closes and moves to Malaysia or India just like our competitors have done...
The state sponsored industry in China will survive only the small us industries without a local market will suffer... small companies will fail and big conglomerates will take up the slack. These will treat workers like crap and pay less tax per dollar revenue...
#winning...
I read somewhere recently that China is running out of American imports to stick tariffs on now...
I don’t care about facts and figures, i just want this drivel of every airwave and channel until the next election comes along.
I’m not sure how to put this to you, but you don’t have to pay attention to any of this stuff if you don’t want to, you know? You don’t have to buy newspapers, I don’t, and haven’t for ages, same as the telly offers plenty of programming you can watch as an alternative to the news, and you can avoid news on the radio pretty easily. If you want to. Of course, then you wouldn’t have something to whine about on a bike forum, would you...
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Another fire at trump tower. Donny straight to twitter bragging that because it was ‘well built’ the fire was contained. Also thanked ‘the firemen (and women)’
Mentioned nothing of the person that died in the fire. Or why his well built building didn’t have sprinklers....
<p id="story-continues-4" class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="84" data-total-count="2404">Dennis Shields, a resident who said he lived on the 42nd floor, described the scene.</p>
<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="133" data-total-count="2537">“You could smell the smoke and you could hear things falling like through the vents,” he said. “It just smelled like sulfur.”</p>
<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="116" data-total-count="2653">He said there were no orders to evacuate but he received a text message from Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Michael D. Cohen.</p>
<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="231" data-total-count="2884">Mr. Shields, who said he grew up with Mr. Cohen, continued: “He said, ‘Are you in the building?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘You better get out ASAP.’ That’s how I knew to get out, otherwise I’d still be in there.”</p>
<p data-para-count="231" data-total-count="2884"> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/nyregion/trump-tower-fire.html</p>
<p data-para-count="231" data-total-count="2884">I can see why he is struggling for legal advice these days...</p>
F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump’s Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen https://nyti.ms/2HljKJB
Tick tock tick tock
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<p data-para-count=”231″ data-total-count=”2884″>I can see why he is struggling for legal advice these days…</p>
I'm guessing Donny would also brag about how wonderful this forum is if he could claim credit for it 😉
Looks like Donny has had his early morning appointment with the porcelain as usual.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/983662953894436864
So, on a day where all the US news outlets are focussing on the FBI raiding the presidents lawyers office, Fox decide to go a different route (I wish I was making this up)
Old news!
poor old donald, he was hoping fox would tell him how to act with respect to syria this morning but now he's got to worry about sex crazed pandas on the rampage.
Pandas are Chinese though, so you know... war.
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Trump's tweet yesterday is telling
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/983662868540346371?s=19
Translation : **** ! my lawyer has got serious dirt on me, I thought I was above the law
Lock Him Up!
Lock Him Up!
oops
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/11/paul-ryan-reportedly-says-he-wont-seek-re-election
draining the swamp to replace it with
Republican candidate running, Paul Nehlen, is a vocal antisemite and white nationalist.
Ryan doesn't really want to own his mess, does he? The prospect of being minority leader and dealing with a Trump who has zero prospect of any wins can't be that appealing.
He must have thought there was a high chance of being unseated as well with the Democrats aiming more of their resources at him. Can't imagine Nehlen will sweep home, TBH. It will be the likes of Devin Nunes angling for the 'top' job.
Something that happens quite often is that criminals think attorney-client privilege is like the seal of the confessional and they can say and do anything and be protected. Then they're surprised when it turns out that actually it doesn't protect you if you're planning or conducting a crime with your attorney, and it doesn't apply to things that aren't related to crime at all.
Other limitations- it doesn't apply to conversations about non-legal matters, such as personal conversations, business matters etc. In other words it only applies when your attorney is being your attorney. And lastly, if you claim an exchange never happened, it's less likely to be protected- you can't invoke attorney-client privilege for a conversation you didn't have. So the "we never talked about it" thing specifically undermines the whole argument.
It doesn't come up that much because mostly the attorney will make sure they stay within the lines and will protect their client. But when you've got an arrogant rich dude who's spent his life getting away with it and thinks it's his right, and an attorney who's happy to cross the line over to fixer/accomplice, than that's when it gets interesting.
The latest tweet from trump reminds me of the fights we had in the playground....
"Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and 'smart!'" Mr Trump said in his tweet.
I can imagine him running round the war room with his underpants pulled over his head as he shouts "I wanna push the button....I wanna push the button.....that's not fair i'm the president....I wanna push the button".
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/372943068267573249
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/374361164547100672
<sigh>
It takes an incredible amount of effort to plan a game this long, the set up in some of these tweets is just genius
The choice of words is just so random, who the hell goes with "nice" in that situation? Nice is a word that you use to describe, for example, a fairly good but not excellent pork chop
Satire is getting so difficult these days
https://politics.theonion.com/entitled-deadbeat-finally-breaks-out-of-20-year-cycle-o-1825185530
https://politics.theonion.com/congress-demands-to-know-how-facebook-got-people-to-giv-1825180873
Oh and I wonder what he sold before speaking...
I've seen more determined flounces in here!!
In other news he will defiantly do something in Syria soon or maybe not so soon, maybe later. He does need to save the missiles for when the lawyer cracks
First thing’s first, Russia is being belligerent because it wants something.
Low oil prices and sanctions have really hurt the Russian economy and NATO has reneged on agreements not to extend its membership beyond the borders of the old Soviet Union. There’s been a deliberate tactic to sow discord, weaken the US, EU and NATO (Turkey and Hungary are increasingly Russia friendly - despite November 2015’s Su 24 shootdown, Turkey is buying Russian S400 anti aircraft missiles). Moreover, Trump having been through three Secretaries of State since 2017 have hardly helped project consistency.
Trumps tweets send mixed messages, it’s obvious that Russia and its allies (Iran and Syria) are going to exploit any sigh of weakness. They know that the American public is tired after seventeen years of constant intervention in the middle east, there’s little domestic appetite for more boots on the ground.
The hard part is steering a course of action that avoids escalation, but ensures adequate response to a rogue state deploying chemical weapons - the US simply has to respond somehow, otherwise they risk a very public humiliation.
I’d bet on a new raft of sanctions at the very least, perhaps the best diplomatic move that America could pull off is to work with China and the EU towards a range of measures which will hit the Russian economy and and strategic reliance upon imports of raw material that might be used in warfare. That won’t be easy given China’s long standing military procurement from Russia, but I don’t see how else it could possibly go.
It’s also very apparent that the west has yet to respond to Russia’s highly effective propaganda machine. That needs to be addressed sooner rather than later.
Satire is getting so difficult these days
I think satire has packed its bags and taken off to a quiet place in the country somewhere, knowing it can’t possibly compete with reality.
Why are chemical weapons so much worse than normal weapons? (morally)
Didn't USA use chemical weapons in Fallujah?
Start here
https://www.opcw.org/chemical-weapons-convention/
Chemical Weapons especially gas kills and mains with no discrimination, it wafts through an area and kills civilians, children etc. We have some strange levels of moral anguish but the impacts of chemical weapons have been shown around the world.
OK bombs aimed at civilians vs chemical weapons aimed at civilians.
I just don't get how its OK to kill 20,000 people by normal bombs or guns but if you kill 70 with chemical weapons then that's a line crossed.
I hate chemical weapons, the photos I've seen of deformed kids born in Fallujah are just ****ing heartbreaking but still I cant get my head around this red line.
Neither is OK, if conventional weapons are used against civilians then it should be challenged and punished.
If a nation breaks international agreements, goes against things it has signed up to then the challenge and punishment should be higher.
So this is it then, we're all definitely going to die.
It's been emotional.
conventional weapons used against civilians? Like the west has been ding for the last 25 years in the middle east? Like Isreal does all the time? double standards here.
the impacts of chemical weapons have been shown around the world.
Nowhere more than in Vietnam. There is a room in the War Remnants Museum in Saigon that shows the effects of Agent Orange and other defoliants. Truly heartbreaking.
I just don’t get how its OK to kill 20,000 people by normal bombs or guns but if you kill 70 with chemical weapons then that’s a line crossed.
with bombs they are a tool you can at least intend to target. Bombing indiscriminately is no different to using any other weapon indiscriminately though. But with chemical weapons they are by design indiscriminate - even extremely targeted assassinations and assassination attempts - like the one in Salisbury - harmed 3 times as many people as it targeted.
tbh whether you do a drone strike on a market or drop a chemical weapon on it you are going to get "collateral damage" as neither is that surgical or precise.
Its a bit odd to argue there are good ways to indiscriminately kill and bad ways to indiscriminately kill though I do get , and largely agree with, the distinction. Rules of war allways strikes me as a bit of an oxymoron though.
True but in the aftermath of several wars and on the back of the arms races that were going on the world decided to stop developing chemical weapons, along with the scaling back of nuclear weapons and stopping more nations developing them. Hence it's treated differently - had chemical warefare been allowed to continue the potential for massive world changing events would be significantly worse. that is why their use is banned and receives a higher level of condemnation.
In terms of drone strikes and civilian deaths it's partly up to the international community to react strongly to them and put the levels of controls in place that is required.
Jeremy Paxman co-authored an excellent book on the history of chemical weapons way back in the 1980s called A Higher Form of Killing
Worth reading for context.
Well looks like Trumps lawyers in the doo doo and if the Prague visit proof is real.
Wouldn’t be surprised if trump starts sacking now he’s started to hand out pardons as well.
had chemical warefare been allowed to continue the potential for massive world changing events would be significantly worse. that is why their use is banned and receives a higher level of condemnation.
How did that work out in Vietnam? (Google "effects of Agent Orange" if you have a strong stomach)
The difference between "conventional" weapons and Chemical (and Nuclear) ones is their scalability rather than their discrimination (or lack of) imo.
You can indiscriminately bomb civilians, but as long as you stick to conventional weapons then the effect is "relatively limited" (have a look how little damage was actually caused by over 100 cruise missiles fired at Syria yesterday for example). Once you move to chemical or nuclear arms, then the death toll vs effort is suddenly skewed enormously. One high yield nuclear device, or a via of highly aggressive nerve agent could kill everyone in a large city.
This is why we must always ensure that those weapons are not normalised....
So no stopping them reading Cohen's docs then (NY times reporting from court) and turns out fox favourites hanity is also a client, that lot will be a good read 😉
So it’s ok to normalise some weapons as they’re a bit rubbish and only kill a fraction of the people they intend to? Sweet Jesus.
TBH the real difference is just that the cat's still more or less in the bag, so if we can keep it there it's a good idea. It's much harder to outlaw things that are in widespread use and accepted- I mean, one of our allies literally shot a farmer with a high explosive tank shell the other week because he looked a bit suspicious and nobody batted an eyelid so we're not drawing a line between barbaric/not barbaric here.
It's not the only daft line there is- frinstance, it's against the geneva convention to use or develop a laser weapon designed to blind people. It's absolutely fine to use or develop a laser weapon designed to kill people. And it's fine if your killy-laser accidentally blinds someone you actually wanted to kill. But the world's still a better place for it regardless of stupidity.
The USA has a history of playing the moral narrative to its own end. Donald Rumsfeld helped Saddam Hussein in the Iraq/Iran war and this included turning a blind eye to the extensive use of chemical weapons. At the same time Israel indiscriminately is killing Palestinian civilians it keeps in worlds largest concentration camp. The 'red line' is never quite clear is it?
turns out fox favourites hanity is also a client, that lot will be a good read
Gift that keeps on giving etc.
Surely Trump must be paying Hannity under the table for the rabidly favourable coverage he gives him?
I'm sure it's been said earlier, but do you not think this is all another distraction to the FBI's investigation into Trumps lawyer?
Wouldn't be the first time, would it?
What's a distraction to what?
Everythings a distraction with Trump.
Looks like hes back to blocking the sanctions again after his UN bloke had announced them 🙂
@mikewsmith, Michael Cohen, his personal lawyer had his offices raided this weekend.
yep well aware of that, was what my post was relating too, not sure what it's a distraction from or to though, Muller passed the lead over so it's not his team dealing with it but they will get any pertinent available docs
Donald Trump, a man being investigated for colluding with a foreign government, has just said he is more of a spy than a man on trial for spying...
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/986432143189512192?s=20
Mission accomplished
Hands up who wants Trump defending you, it's a hold my beer moment after BoJo tried to help the woman in an Iranian prison.
It's getting increasingly difficult there now from what I've been reading and listening to, everything is riding on coming out of November with control of something.
I thinks it’s a win for him if he comes out of it with control of his twitter account...
Cohen's personal history is fascinating. Married to a Ukranian, as is his brother, lots of contacts and deals with various former Soviet bloc 'personalities', lots of condos bought in Trump properties. I wonder what it could all mean?
Cohen, Sater, Flynn, Manafort, Gates, Kushner...at this point it becomes quicker to list the people in Trump's orbit who don't have suspicious links with Russia or the former Soviet Union countries.
It still wouldn't surprise me if Trump was not entirely aware of just how compromised he has been by the network who have inveigled their way into his inner circle. Truly a useful idiot. I imagine that the FSB knew he was running for pres before he did.
Trump seems to go mental for some reason when anyone mentions sanctions against Russia 🙂
I suppose it’s not good for his business if they can’t buy his property or join his golf clubs.
On Sunday, Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley went on CBS’s Face the Nation and, relying on White House talking points, announced the US would impose new sanctions on Russia.
President Donald Trump, who was apparently watching TV, became furious. He hadn’t yet approved the sanctions, and apparently hadn’t seen talking points his own administration had produced, so he immediately demanded to know what Haley was talking about.
On Monday, the White House announced that Haley was not correct and that sanctions weren’t approved. National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow then told reporters on Tuesday afternoon that Haley had had an episode of “momentary confusion.”
On Tuesday night, Haley issued a statement blasting Kudlow, saying, “With all due respect, I don’t get confused.”
Kudlow apologized to Haley and clarified in a comment to the New York Times that she wasn’t confused — just out of the loop on a vital policy initiative. “As it turns out, she was basically following what she thought was policy,” Kudlow said. “The policy was changed, and she wasn’t told about it.”
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/4/18/17251484/nikki-haley-trump-larry-kudlow-russia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-43908976
<p class="story-body__introduction">Donald Trump has been urged by UK-based supporters to stay away from London and instead focus on his "ancestral home" of Scotland during his trip to Britain.</p>
In a letter to the US president, six conservative groups say the move would allow Mr Trump to avoid "major protests, crime and disorder".
Aye right.
I would make a special effort to protest his scum sucking presence anywhere in the UK .
Nothing serves to indicate just how detached from reality his ‘UK-based supporters’ are, than to suggest that his welcome would be warmer up here than in England 😀
Scotland started hating Trump long before he became President, the response to his visit would be 'colourful'.
I'm preparing my "orange bawbag" sign just in case he's dumb enough to come to scotland
Oh, I hope he does (pic linked not posted as nsfw)
We have done very little to make ourselves proud as a nation over the last few years but surely this is something we can get our teeth into. Quality humorous, cutting and very personally insulting demonstration is our specialist subject. I’ll be off work that day and would love to lend a hand to tell the yanks what we think of the tosser they elected.
{books day off work} never protested or complained about anything in my life - am making an exception for this pussy grabbing flabby sack of orange shit.
^^ pretty much what RustyNissanPrairie brilliantly said^^
I’ve started stock pilling kitchen rolls.
I’m in.
That bloated sack of self-important rancid stinking puss can fek right off, then when he’s feked off he can fek off some more & then keep fekking off.
Feking bald orange ****t.
Start storing up your piss, folks.
Patrick Harvie's pretty excited about it
I did think of stockpiling bottles of piss, but he'd probably enjoy that.
Cannon full of used sanitary products anyone?
Apparently he gets to meet the Queen. Ugh.
I'm not even remotely a royalist, in fact I'm a full-on small-R smash-the-state republican and think the monarchy should be dismantled and the lot of them installed in CCTV-monitored council flats in Dudley as part of a reality TV show until they've repaid all the cash they've had off of us over the years.
But the idea of Our Liz having to meet that ambulatory semi-sentient turd brings me right out in a Union Jack-shaped rash. Jesus.
Surely monarchs get a free-pass on killing foreigners? I'm sure we must have some obscure law on the statute books to allow HRH to run President Shithead through with a silver sabre or something, or nail him with a ceremonial musket perhaps. "Guns don't kill people. One kills people."