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Well, he’s done Putin’s job and helped the Chinese with their aims... the US pretty much finished as a serious global power now. Even if someone sensible gets in after the next election (which I doubt), he’ll have made the place so partisan that there is now way even a saint will be able to make changes.
If China could get a handle on its serious oppresssion and human rights issues, it could slip into the ‘world leader’ role with only Russia to piss off.
Ah, I’ve rechecked and it’s the January after that date
My 50th birthday 🙂
Not sure if he’s like Nero or Caligula.
He’s what you’d get if one humped (Trumped?) the other. Christ, I can’t believe I just wrote that! 🤢
That piece by Nat White from Quora is spectacular! I wish I’d written that, it should be immortalised as one of the great quotes of the century.
It’s not racist. It comes from C-H-I-N-A
I am three episodes into the Netflix series about him, he really does not like the press even back in the early days.
The people he screwed over on the taj mahal casino was terrible it seems a lot of his empire has been built with other people's money.
That is a very well done rant without resorting to shouting, arm waving or thumping the table and is all the better for it. Not one stumble or wavering from the point. Bravo.
When they make the movie about this, Pacino is a shoe in to play Andrew Cuomo
And that is why the Dems should dump Biden and make Cuomo the nominee; trump is using the crisis to electioneer but Biden is unable to campaign publicly.
Looking forward to some angry tweets in reply from the orange ****!
On now if you want to watch “The Trump Show”
Yeah he seems to have worked out what per capita means. Now using it for the death stats (funny that)
He truly is nuts. ‘We have a stockpile of ventilators’...err, no you don’t.
And that is why the Dems should dump Biden and make Cuomo the nominee; trump is using the crisis to electioneer but Biden is unable to campaign publicly.
A few friends have told me now, Cuomo is a details man, bit of a control freak. Great in a crisis but quite hard to work with they reckon. Perhaps not suited to president? He keeps saying he's not interested but who knows.
He truly is nuts. ‘We have a stockpile of ventilators’…err, no you don’t.
He's so frustrating to watch. Got these same lines he delivers EVERY time - the hospitals he built, the hospital ship, the 184 countries fighting the virus 'some people didn't even know there were that many countries', the '1917 pandemic' (I correct him every time), WHO, China, everybody else's stats are wrong, the stockpile cupboards were bare and the tests Obama left him didn't work. Unbelievable.
Classic, the people (in democrat areas) didn't know how to use the kit (ventilators) they had, he helped them with that too.
He is either reading (badly, my kids 8 & 10, can read better than him) as soon as he stops reading he's just a loose cannon shooting off insults, nonsense, propoganda and shite. Hs team must be terrified each time he looks up..
Jamze - one of my sons lives in upstate NY with american wife and young son; they wouldn't agree with your take.
We’re basically watching the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth (debatable) descending into insanity/ dementia/ Alzheimer’s etc live and in real time.
Other leaders have faded during their reign. Yeltsin and Reagan spring to mind immediately. Their failings were well managed by those around them. Trump’s ego simply won’t allow that. Front and centre for the full car crash. Absolutely terrifying to think he has complete authority over launching nuclear missiles
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1251582266251243525?s=19
one of my sons lives in upstate NY with american wife and young son; they wouldn’t agree with your take.
He's impressed me. This is second-hand from some friends upstate too.
Jamze - if the dems go with Biden that's likely to gift the WH to trump; if they're able to - and choose - to endorse Cuomo, trump is up against it.
I don't want to watch Sunday's presser because it will be grisly; US deaths >41,000 with many more to come.
Given the piss poor performance of some state governors, trump referring to 2nd amendment challenges, 'planning' to re-open the economy - I would not be surprised if the US death toll exceeds 250,000.
As for Biden, he cannot get any worthwhile airtime; he doesn't have a public platform because covid-19 and trump's pressers are the only subjects the news media want to cover.
Pelosi gets much more coverage in mainstream media.
Biden is, I think, a busted flush; combination of him being too old and 'circumstances'.
The US is looking at hundreds of thousands dead for sure. They still do not know what is about to hit them
I’m watching the latest episode of the trump show live at the moment and it’s more entertaining than anything on Netflix yet I also find it increasingly disturbing to watch the president of the United States unravel word by word on live tv, hows this going to end come the election later this year as it now seems he’s praising the armed militia groups, this could get ugly pretty quickly.
Biden won't be a whole lot better than Trump, he likely has dementia, is in the pockets of big business and has a quite a bit of sexual assault/inappropriateness in his background. His only real positive is he's not Trump. I also think even if Biden wins, the Democrats won't take the Senate so he'll struggle to get much done and his Presidency will be mostly about trying to fix a badly damaged economy and international relations, that will take more than 4 years so Democrats will be screwed in 2024 as voters remember the bad times as being Democrat-led
I'd still bet on Trump winning this election anyway
He seems to me to be a case of NPD: bullying, humourless, demeaning, planet-sized (but fragile) ego-centrism combined with a traumatic event around the age of 8 at which point his conceptual, emotional and linguistic development came to an abrupt halt. Bigly.
Traumatic event...? I'm pretty uninformed, so I don't know what that was - can you tell us?
I’m watching the latest episode of the trump show live at the moment and it’s more entertaining than anything on Netflix yet I also find it increasingly disturbing to watch the president of the United States unravel word by word on live tv, hows this going to end come the election later this year as it now seems he’s praising the armed militia groups, this could get ugly pretty quickly.
Yep, another classic Trump performance. Even Piers Morgan was pleading with him on CNN yesterday to stop the nonsense and start behaving as a president should in a crisis.
Some interesting back-story on Trump if you look for articles by Tony Schwartz.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all
Last night he started off by reading out an opinion piece from the WSJ saying (his view) what a great job Trump was doing (titled 'Trump Rewrites the Book on Emergencies'), played footage of Cuomo saying what a great job the feds had done (and got frustrated when the video showed didn't include the 'good bit' and got them to play it again later).
He left the death stats to Mike Pence when he was out of the room. Later when a CNN reporter queried if it was the time for self-congratulation when over 40,000 people were dead, his response...
'You're CNN. You're fake news. You don't have the brains you were born with...It's not about me. Nothing is about me.'
'Traumatic event'.....speculation based on arrested development.
Ah, okay - thanks Bill, just wondered if there was a specific event.
Fuzzy - trump has dementia, is in Putin's pocket, behaves like he is a puppet for oil and coal companies, does not have the wealth he claims, is deeply in hock to Deutsche Bank, is a misogynistic sexual predator who's lust for his elder daughter is barely disguised, has done more than any other pres to damage the US constitution - if it wasn't for the way the constitution is written, try to imagine how bad it could be.
Biden is showing signs of dementia, has allegations of sexual misbehaviour against him; as for being in the pocket of big business - nope, don't see that.
I think dems will retain the house and take the senate.
It's clear that Cuomo has what it takes; do the dems?
The US is looking at hundreds of thousands dead for sure. They still do not know what is about to hit them
You'd have thought it, with their initial denial, lots of big transit hubs, lack of a centrally coordinated response and now a rush to open up again, but the numbers do seem to be slowing. Don't really understand it.
– trump has dementia
Biden is showing signs of dementia
I find these kinds of throw away diagnoses quite troubling. I don't see anything different in Trump today than I haven't seen of him at any stage in his career. His inability to hold a consistent position on anything, let alone things he said yesterday has been a trait he's always had. Its not a failing memory its a disinterest in truth. He's so disinterested in truth he has no idea whether or not he's lying or not or whether anything he has said previously was true or not.
With Biden any suspicion of Dementia seems only to have come in from of innuendo from people in competition with him as a way of turning the accident of them being younger than him into some sort of achievement. They're implying that dementia is an inevitable consequence of age. Which it isn't.
Suggesting Trump has dementia is giving him an excuse for his actions that he doesn't deserve.
That Cuomo vid is great, but how many Trump fans will get to see it?
And even if they do, how many will get past the first 30 seconds before saying "Yo Cletus, let's go hunt"?
I am with maccruiskeen. Trump is not showing any signs of dementia. what is being revealed more and more clearly is his personality disorder. His problem is his reality and the actual reality are not aligned - and as president in this situation he cannot simply sack everyone who disagrees with him. ( although he can with his political appointments he cannot with the press and those he does not have hire and fire power)
Its when the two realities clash we see the breakdown in his personal world thus the outbursts. You have to remember that in his mind he is always right. When shown to be wrong he cannot accept it
You have to remember that in his mind he is always right. When shown to be wrong he cannot accept it
He should start posting on here then 😀
He should start posting on here then 😀
Lolz
That Cuomo vid is great
What you don't see on that vid is he was responding in real-time.
It seems Trump was watching Cuomo's daily briefing, and tweeted...
'Governor Cuomo should spend more time ‘doing’ and less time ‘complaining’. Get out there and get the job done. Stop talking!...' etc.
The press in Cuomo's briefing made him aware and read out the tweet, and the response was that vid.
"Iran! is a much different country than it was. When I first came in Iran was gunna take over the entire middle-east. Right now they just wanna survive - they're having protests every week, they're loaded up with the plague - which I don't want! I've offered to help them if they want. If they need ventilators, which they do, I would send them ventilators - we have 1000s of excess ventilators coming in and and here! we have a stockpile of ventilators and we're starting to send them - so hospitals can fill up their stockpile, which they should've - New York had a chance to get 16000 ventilators, which they chose not to do it and I understand that, it's a hard decision for a thing that may or may not happen. I fully undertand that. I'm not even complaining about that - I'm only saying this: Iran! was a terror! when I came into office.. right now, they don't wanna mess around with us, they don't wanna mess around with us... 2 things: North Korea: same sanctions we've always had, except more - we haven't given anything, I think you'll hopefully take that back to the Wall Street Journal cos they really don't understand it, they really don't. And with, with IRAN! I mean that's a different country right now! And they wanna make a deal? the only reason they don't, they're being shamed in, because the guy that gave them the sweetheart didn't wanna met with them many times he should never have met with them and in my opinion he's telling them "Don't.. wait... maybe Trump will lose and then you can negotiate with a patsy, with a weak guy and you'll take over between you and Russia?!" Nobody's been tougher on Putin, he knows it better than anybody nobody's been tougher on Putin than me - look at the sanctions, look at what I did with their pipeline - going into Europe, nobody even knew about it - I even exposed it, now everybody talks about it. I think it's a terrible thing for Germany to do - but at the same time I have a very good relationship with Putin..."
eh wot?
Biden: Call that a speech, somebody hold my...er..thing...with sleeves...that has to be done up...mother gave me one....
tjagain
SubscriberYou have to remember that in his mind he is always right. When shown to be wrong he cannot accept it
oh the irony.. 😉
@jam bo a bit uncalled for. Since TJ had a bit of an enforced break from here he's been more mindful of alternate views and has been know to shift stance too.
I've just watched that Cuomo video posted earlier,it's the first time in years that I've had any confidence in a USA politician.
If he's consistently as good as he is in that video the Dems should wheel him out more often.
@jam bo a bit uncalled for. Since TJ had a bit of an enforced break from here he’s been more mindful of alternate views and has been know to shift stance too.
And he's also not nearly such a prolific womaniser as he used to be. 😉
He’s promising to show us things we have never seen before, turns out it’s ventilators, phew.....thought I was about to witness a “Louis CK” moment on live tv. He seems quite upbeat tonight now he is full campaign mode, let’s hope the reporters questions manage to upset him.
Don't think Larry Hogan was too impressed being called out for ordering half a million tests from South Korea. So for days, Trump has been saying testing is 100% down to the governors to sort, but when one gets fed up trying to source tests in the US so imports some, Trump has a go at him?
And then they devote an hour of the briefing describing how the feds are working on sorting the testing supply chain? No wonder everyone is confused.
Trump telling obvious blatant lies and then denying it. Sounds familiar...
Trump said Cuomo is visiting the White House today, wouldn't say why when asked.
Why is the skin around his eyes such a different colour? He looks like a piece of old spam that’s not been cooked properly.
The best negative test, everybody’s saying so
Why is the skin around his eyes such a different colour?
Perhaps cause of those little Goggles used on sunbeds?
Enjoyed this on Twitter, dunno if the link'll work - "drunk in the club" :
https://twitter.com/BusyPhilipps/status/1252461189667254277?s=20
He's off again, very pleased with his ratings obviously. Can you imagine any other leader in the world boasting about their pandemic daily briefing ratings? 🤦🏻♂️
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1252552057170649088
Perhaps cause of those little Goggles used on sunbeds?
Nobody else has it to that degree though. Christ, I’m not that daft Kryton 😂
He’s off again, very pleased with his ratings obviously.
Whole thing is just about ratings to him obviously. Absolutely no awareness that it's millions of people in disbelief or laughing at what an idiot he is.
It really is quite surreal, isn't it?
I mean, Boris is a complete bell end, but I can't really imagine him taking to social media to point out to the nation, as thousands of people die, that his 5 o'clock press conferences are getting higher viewing figures than Strictly and Countryfile
And they love all this shit and are about to re-elect him
Mericans are absolutely mental, aren't they?
White eyes and hands are where the fake tan has washed off
And then they devote an hour of the briefing describing how the feds are working on sorting the testing supply chain? No wonder everyone is confused.
Would that be the same officials that are hijacking any PPE they get to know about and taking it away to a central point?
So much so that governors are using their guardsmen to escort the cargo or sending it around the state in food trucks.
His ratings are through the roof because of its the best comedy show on at the moment.
I wish he'd just **** off or that someone would shoot him.
#MAGA 🙄
It's a simple choice..
Hopefully the lockdown protests will thin out trumps maga following to such an extent that his voting base collapses
Just read a piece about the Stephen Colbert show, and there’s a great description of Agent Orange at the end, my highlight...
It’s *checks notes* eleventween days into lockdown, and we’re all starting to get, as Stephen Colbert puts it, “a little kooky in the ol’ squirrel cage.” For me, that’s manifesting as a desire to read a lot of murder mysteries. For Colbert, it’s work-drinking and interrogating his teenage son about whether Toni Morrison’s Beloved is funny. For a lot of folks in certain states, it’s glomming onto illogical, heavily astroturfed protests against social distancing measures.
Colbert pointed out one protester in Washington state carrying a sign reading “Give me liberty or give me COVID-19.”
“Buddy, you’re in a large crowd, you’re not wearing a mask, you’re not six feet away from people — you might not need to choose.”
“I get that this is the land of liberty,” Colbert went on, “but these protesters aren’t just putting themselves at risk. The whole reason we are socially distancing in the first place is to prevent the spread of the virus, especially to our older relatives. I mean, there’s a reason the Boston Tea Partiers didn’t throw Nanna in the harbor.”
Colbert also called out Trump’s endorsement of both social distancing measures and the protests, with his now-infamous “LIBERATE” tweets.
“To be clear, Trump is now encouraging people to protest his own recommendations — that’s how much he needs to hear a chanting mob. He’s like Angry Tinkerbell. ‘Quick, kids! Scream LOCK HER UP or I’ll die.’”
#AngryTinkerbell 🤣
Since TJ had a bit of an enforced break from here he’s been more mindful of alternate views and has been know to shift stance too.
I fell off my chair at that.
Colbert's view of Trump on weekdays gives you some hope that all Merkin's aren't utterly moronic. Seth Meyers' Closer Look, too. They cut through the crap and cheerfully point out the lies and contradictions of the Prez
WTF is wrong with these people. Cut your own ****ing hair with the dog clippers you set of self entitled cocks. People are dying and all they care about is having their teeth cleaned. Morons, the lot of them. Don’t know why but this has properly pissed me off.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52370928
Would imagine Donald will be doing a bit of arm twisting over trade deal to get us to ease lockdown sooner rather than later
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-52363769/a-lot-of-people-love-trump-right
Just more Trump words vomit.
So much of their strategy is still about making it all china- partly for racism obviously but mostly just because it's literally all they did. Disease was already up and running in the US population so banning travel couldn't possibly stop it but even now it's "we banned china".
I think I'm going to use Libety as my stage name
So much of their strategy is still about making it all china- partly for racism obviously but mostly just because it’s literally all they did.
I believe Minnesota or Michigan, one of those states begins with an ‘M’, anyway, is going to sue China for not taking steps to stop C19 early enough, causing then financial difficulties.
Good luck with that plan, guys!
#onlyin’meriKKKa
I believe it's Missouri.
Yeah, not a chance in hell. It would be funny if the intent behind it wasn't so malignant.
I believe Minnesota or Michigan, one of those states begins with an ‘M’, anyway, is going to sue China for not taking steps to stop C19 early enough, causing then financial difficulties.
Good luck with that plan, guys!
#onlyin’meriKKKa
They can't, there is no law that allows it and it will just be thrown out at the first sitting (unless given to a crazy merican political judge)but I would love China to send in a defence tourney who just highlights Trumps many many inactions when he was presented with an opportunity.
I think I’m going to use Libety as my stage name
Were you previously using "Tranny"? 😂
I actually need to avoid Trump news now! I woke in the night and was really disturbed by the lockdown protesting! They are protesting lockdown as if it is for punishment, not for protection! How utterly thick can you be?? Are any other countries experiencing protests like that, or is the USA actually the single most stupid nation on this planet?
there were some rioting in Paris (when isn't there 😉 ) and protests in Brazil
Can't blame it all on Trump then. Phew
Weren’t the protests in Brazil because their trump wannabe ahole hasn’t imposed a lockdown?
I actually need to avoid Trump news now! I woke in the night and was really disturbed by the lockdown protesting! They are protesting lockdown as if it is for punishment, not for protection! How utterly thick can you be?? Are any other countries experiencing protests like that, or is the USA actually the single most stupid nation on this planet?
They remind me of the folk that had that welcome party on top of the skyscraper in Independence Day. Turned out well for them, I think?