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****er. ;(
Wtf is that BBC link, goes via go.skimresources.com for me? Seems like a bullshit middleman revenue generating site - is that STW implemented or something frankconway added or even my browser? Kind of alarming a hover-over displays the correct BBC URL but if you copy the link out you'll see it changes to https://go.skimresources.com/?id=91808X1545679&isjs=1&jv=13.26.2-stackpath&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fsingletrackworld.com%2Fforum%2Ftopic%2Fdonald-trump%2Fpage%2F399%2F&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld-us-canada-51449739&xguid=&xs=1&xtz=0&xuuid=2780f47960f4058ec005697d549ab165
Our web gateway blocks such crap behaviour thankfully...
It's a "feature" of STW forum
Fuzzywuzzy - link works fine for me?
I'm still confused :p I never even knew skim links were a thing but apparently they've been around for years. It only seems to happen for me through Chrome (although I'm not logged into STW when using Edge). My test link above breaks as it redirects via go.skimresources.com (which is blocked where I work) but Fasthaggis's link works fine so still no clue if it's my-side or Forum-side and why it's not consistent (and why a BBC link would go via a monetisation site)?
Googling suggests it's a Forum-side thing that's enabled so the owners can generate revenue but I've only just noticed it today and even it they weren't blocked it would annoy me, especially if they're not Amazon type links I'm clicking on - the only reason I'm a subscriber is to contribute to forum running costs, I don't want my browsing history tracked by a 3rd party (or JavaScript potentially being run) as a result!
fasthaggis
Just some old burial sites ,blast away boys
Man, that's shocking. It's just so [i]backwards[/i].
Fuzzy - suggest you raise with STW mods/tech; no problem with my post/link - as confirmed by morecash's post.
I'm not in the game of scamming.
Your test post re hydrogen powered yacht works fine for me.
I don't see the skimresources stuff. Maybe it gets removed by AdBlock Plus?
I don’t want my browsing history tracked by a 3rd party
I'm afraid that rules out about 90% of the modern web then.
Money. Laundering. Trump. (and Russia).
...please, this time, take him down!
“Trump wealth order probe urged over Scottish golf resorts”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-51666413
"We saw patterns of buying and selling that we thought were suggestive of money laundering"
"Trump's known sources of income don't explain where the money came from for these huge cash transactions”.
"There are reasonable grounds for suspecting that his lawfully obtained income was insufficient”.
It says something when potential charges of money laundering by the Scottish government just washes over us all doesn’t it!
#trumpfatigue
I don’t want my browsing history tracked by a 3rd party (or JavaScript potentially being run) as a result!
Then use Firefox, DuckDuckGo or Brave, with a VPN. If you use a browser associated with Google, then it’s difficult to see a way around everything you do being tracked.
I use all of those, and it’s not unusual to have a search result tell me I’m in America, rather than the U.K.
It says something when potential charges of money laundering by the Scottish government just washes over us all doesn’t it!
'Potential' - but theres not that much potential. Theres no threat of an investigation being made the Scottish government, the idea is just being mooted by an MSP.
Wanna see how a meth tweaker acts when he’s cornered and knows the game is up
https://twitter.com/thepubliususa/status/1234253914234609664?s=21
Holy **** that's painful to watch.
I know they've recovered a bit now, but, really, we should have taken the bugger at his word.
Ah but that says Dow Joans. He was talking about something completely different to the Dow Jones. Nothing to see here, fake news!
I think that Dow Jones quote was shown to be fake, which surprised me as it sounded exactly like something he'd say.
I'm ashamed to say that I gave a rueful chuckle at his pathetic boast that no Americans had died of Covid 19 due to his greatness, only for some poor sod to prove him wrong the next day.
Stone looks as if he’s trying to disguise a medical condition in that clip? Parkinson’s or similar? It doesn’t look like it’s as a result of rage, it’s less controlled.
Just when you think he has reached peak bellendory, he takes it up another level.
Trump offers 'large sums' for exclusive access to coronavirus vaccine
Trumps gone, surely that's him out the door without so much as a "cheery bye" after his most recent speech (just watched on BBC news) where he mumbled about how strong the markets are and talked utter shite for the rest of his speech then walked out and left pence to update and take questions.
There's no way he's getting reelected this year, id bet money on it which is not something id ever consider 3 months ago.
He's looking incredibly fragile at times, but still too many believers, and I'm not sure the Democrats have the balls to play dirty and throw his handling of the virus crisis back at him. Unless they can pin high numbers of US deaths on him - politically and morally risky - he may squeak past again
Just when you think he has reached peak bellendory, he takes it up another level.
Trump offers ‘large sums’ for exclusive access to coronavirus vaccine
But his voters will love him for that -“Hey, I wanted to get vaccines for us all to keep us safe but the foreigners wouldn’t sell it. Told you we can’t trust them” will be his narrative.
Trumps gone, surely that’s him out the door without so much as a “cheery bye” after his most recent speech
Did you see this one? Asked if he took responsibility for disbanding the Whitehouse Pandemic Response Office he basically shrugged, denied having anything to do with it and blamed "the Administration". 😲🤦♂️
https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/1238572800186757120
Article with transcript for those unable to ****ter:
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/14/trump-says-no-idea-pandemic-response-team-disbanded-thats-true/
He's awarded himself 10/10 for the response to covid-19.
Nobody seems to be putting 2 and 2 together though and saying "remember how you kept demanding the federal reserve take action to boost the economy, purely to boost your polling? This is why they didn't". Instead it's being portrayed as "trump gets what he's been asking for", rather than "disaster measures wisely retained for an actual disaster"
GrahamS : yeah i watched that live, what i cannot understand is why the acolytes he has surrounded himself with do not have the balls to stand up against his stupidity? - do they not realise this is the end for our culture of personality politics? - we need experts and this goes for our current government especially cabinet who are nothing more than neophytes grasping for an out of reach handhold on reality, all those who surround trump when he spews up utter nonsense in these publicised outbursts are just as culpable as trump in my view. I sincerely hope this will be a turning point in the culture of greed is good capitalism and personality politics that is ensuring the stagnation of the human race.
Nah.....on reflection the shite will rise to the top as usual
what i cannot understand is why the acolytes he has surrounded himself with do not have the balls to stand up against his stupidity?
Because they owe him their jobs and salaries? Just a thought...
Should import my comments about orange faced buffoon from main coronavirus thread to this one.
Referring to him as a buffoon is inappropriate; he is a danger to humanity.
Oh for an assassin.
“People are dying who have never died before”
Oh for an assassin.
Good ones are very smartly turned out.
^so thats what CFH gets up to on his worldly jaunts, explains everything.
People are dying who have never died before
You think that’s bad, I once arrested a bloke for being a total dick to everyone in the street and he told me I was a disgrace (which may well be the case) for arresting him because he was a soldier and had “died for his country” (which I suspect was not the case).
^ you sure it wasn’t D-Day hero Mark “pudding face” Francois coming back from territorial drills down the play park.
Hmmm, not sure, I don’t think this lad was as thick as that self-important talking sausage.
“It may work, it may not work,” he said on Friday. “I feel good about it. It’s just a feeling. I’m a smart guy … We have nothing to lose. You know the expression, ‘What the hell do you have to lose?’”
Er.....no!
P.S. First time the double arrow has taken me to the last page.
Aye,me too!.
Wonder if I'll drop back pages after posting this?...
Interesting twitter outbursts from trump this morning, he's gone full attack on main steam media/coronavirus conspiracy - i think he'll be removed very soon.
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1241911188952408067?s=21
Interesting twitter outbursts from trump this morning, he’s gone full attack on main steam media/coronavirus conspiracy – i think he’ll be removed very soon.
Nah
hes saying it'll all be fixed by easter because its such a 'beautiful day' - even tho every sane person in the world can see that is a massive steaming turd of a lie, but its the presidential frottage many of his fans will be loving
when its all gone to hell & many 1000s of Americans are dead he will blame state governors for not fixing it
& he could well win re-election off the back of it
good article detailing how badly he's mishandled this here (& disturbing similarities with mistakes our own government have made)
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-are-sick-lost-february/608521/
WHO now saying the states will be the new epicentre, and he's on about miracles, sunny days and slaughtering journalists...
The first part of this piece is somewhat damning - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52012049
somafunk
– i think he’ll be removed very soon.
I think so too.
I can't see anyone invoking the 25th amendment to remove him, no matter how batshit crazy he is. Suggesting social distancing could end by Easter will get a lot of people killed, though.
He almost makes Joris look like a statesman (and that is a worry)
whitestone
Member
The first part of this piece is somewhat damning –> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52012049
The whole (v good) article is damning. I can't get my head around how a supposedly civilised, educated country voted this guy in - without a good universal health system and the sort of dangerous nonsense he's now spouting (done by easter) USA is in a lot of trouble I fear.
you do get the feeling that Donalds inner monologue is "USA USA USA USA USA USA USA....."
No.
"me me me me me me me me me me..."
WHO now saying the states will be the new epicentre,
New York state is looking very hot. Unless they are simply testing a lot more than most countries. Big problem with the states might be the different responses from different states...
UCL - Mark Handley's daily graphs
look for the US states graph of new cases.
same thing
fair enough
and whoops, mixing my topics a bit there
I can't see the Americans removing him until an awful lot of them have died and they realise that Trump's actions/inactions are partly to blame. And even then I'm not sure
eskay
He’s at it again…https://microco.sm/out/VwTZh/blockquote >
then...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/52012242
With the level of bi-partisan politics going on, and there literally being "two nations" in terms of political ideology, I can see the distant spectre of civil war approaching.
DezB
Subscriberthen…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/52012242/blockquote >Hilary Clinton is an arsehole, but I did like her tweet on this subject "Please don't take medical advice from a man who stared directly at a solar eclipse"
With the level of bi-partisan politics going on, and there literally being “two nations” in terms of political ideology, I can see the distant spectre of civil war approaching
My lad was in the States last summer for the World Scout Jamboree and met a lot of American kids out there. He came back shocked at the split between the "liberals" and the "conservatives" or however you want to class them, and said he couldn't see how it could stay as one united country.
“Please don’t take medical advice from a man who stared directly at a solar eclipse”
But he's good at this stuff. His uncle was a genius and it's been passed down to him by osmosis. What a ****ing moron.
Given his 'wealth', how big a donation has trump made to covid-19 research?
As a stable genius he should be able to understand the benefits of doing this - doing the right thing, leading by example, being presidential.
Oh, right so that's only his self-promotion? Got it, sorry for misleading you.
Even with my low expectations I had to check this one was real. Of course it is.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1243812810699739136
Here, you can have a virus and you and you and you.....
what an idiot
They all seem to be watching him sign that document very closely. Perhaps it's either because he is likely to make a spelling mistake, or maybe it's because he normally uses crayons and the novelty of a pen is worth close inspection.
No, it's because they all run companies likely to benefit from $2t...
I’m a left wing pacifist but hopefully Trump will go down with corona soon.
all he is worrying about is getting voted back in. He thinks the virus might stop people voting for him.
He does not care who lives or dies so long as he is prez.
Sadly his popularity figures are still high, because Merkin's like his positive message.
Even when it is dangerous cobblers.
Wow trumps handling of Covid has been an eye-opener and Fox is currently banging on about getting people back to work.
They are going to be in a world of pain, its scary watching them bang on whilst the figures are escalating.
There was me worrying that the UK approach to CV-19 was putting our September holiday to the US at risk, but given the way he's carrying on, how much of the US will be left by then?
Surely all they need are thoughts and prayers.
I think you will find that "thoughts and prayers" are only for trying
to stop bullets.
I had to leave an american based MTB group because of the way they were ignoring what was going on. Too many folk not wanting to believe how serious this is
The US is heading for hundreds of thousands of deaths from this even into 7 figures.
I have nothing to say. I just wanted to be the 16,000th post.
I just wanted to be the 16,000th post.
We're on target overtake the Barak! Obama! thread at this rate.
The tangerine bawbag does lend himself nicely to a long thread. Don't think he's done anything impeachable today but not being following too closely.
I’m a left wing pacifist but hopefully Trump will go down with corona soon.
I’m a lefty too and I genuinely hope somebody assassinates the giant ****wit. I can’t understand how he’s been in charge for this long
I genuinely hope somebody assassinates the giant ****
Unfortunately the kind of people that tend to get a bit assassinate-y tend to also be Trump supporters. I'm never sure whether he spouts all this Deep State conspiracy stuff because he believes it or just to keep the bomb-makers-in-attics on his side.
I’ve been thinking, I wonder if Agent Orange might go down in history as the leader of a country who allowed or was constructive in the deaths of the greatest number of his people, it being a toss-up between dTrump, Pol Pot, Mao Tse Tung and Stalin.
I don’t think time will be kind to the Orange despot.