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"In God We Trust" .... Laughable. "To Golf We Must" is more accurate.
ChatGpt:
During his most recent inauguration in January 2025, Donald Trump did not place his hand on either of the two Bibles that his wife, Melania Trump, was holding for him. His left hand remained by his side while he raised his right hand to take the oath of office.
- Bibles Used (and not touched): Two Bibles were present: his family Bible, given to him by his mother, and the historic Lincoln Bible, which was also used in his 2017 inauguration and by President Barack Obama in his two inaugurations.
- Constitutional Requirement: The U.S. Constitution does not require a president to use a Bible, or any religious text, when taking the oath of office. It simply requires the president to swear or affirm their fealty to the Constitution.
A properly God Fearing Orange Ringpiece...
Back to the social media thing - if they are checking via passenger lists how do they know they have the correct John Smith? Or is that discovered when they check the phone in immigration?
You are asked to disclose social media account names and to make them public when applying for a visa, probably also when applying for an electronic waiver (anyone done that recently?).
Excellent takedown of the orange shitgibbon by Jack White (yes…THAT jack white)
Hell yeah Jack White!!!
7 Nation Army on FULL Blast time methinks! 👊🏻
Interesting timing. I was just doing some house tidying and came across an old passport with my Indefinite Non Immigrant Visa for the USA. The documentation related to it is all very polite and pleasant..., how things change.
Jeez, I had no idea Hegseth was that ****ing deranged. Properly terrifying.
I think it’s deep rooted embarrassment and anger at never becoming a special forces operative and being able to kill brown people without repercussions. “What did you do in the war, daddy?” “I wrote about it…”
He’s got crusader tattoos n’all, being made Secretary of War probably means he wakes up with a stiffee every morning.
This helps to explain a lot of Dozy Don’s bizarre behaviour…
Interesting timing. I was just doing some house tidying and came across an old passport with my Indefinite Non Immigrant Visa for the USA. The documentation related to it is all very polite and pleasant..., how things change.
Having a nostalgic moment for which box to tick for ‘Moral Turpitude’ on a piece of card on finals to SFO. Oh I miss the old days….
I think it’s deep rooted embarrassment and anger at never becoming a special forces operative and being able to kill brown people without repercussions. “What did you do in the war, daddy?” “I wrote about it…”
I think it was the closeted J D Vance who thoroughly enjoyed spending his military career taking pictures of sailors and marines.
Hegseth I believe was a not too surprising grunt, and involved in quite a bit of combat action.
Trump of course was a draft dodger .. some medical condition apparently - bone spurs or hands too small to hold a gun I think.
He’s got crusader tattoos n’all, being made Secretary of War probably means he wakes up with a stiffee every morning.
I hadn't been aware of the tattoos, and I'd rather leave thoughts of a stiffee to his recently widowed good friend.
Hegseth I believe was a not too surprising grunt, and involved in quite a bit of combat action
I’m not sure that bit is particularly true.
“Pete Hegseth, who now serves as Secretary of Defense in the second Trump administration, is often presented as a “combat veteran” and military expert. He is both — but only in the most generous, shallow sense.
Hegseth served in the Army National Guard after graduating from Princeton, and he did deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan. He was awarded a Bronze Star and a Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB), having served in civil-affairs operations and as an adviser in Afghanistan.
But let’s be clear: Hegseth was not a front-line leader of combat troops under sustained fire. He did not command an infantry company in protracted combat or lead exhausted soldiers through night patrols and firefights.
He served honorably — but his service is not what he markets. What he sells is the image of the modern American warrior as loud, aggressive, and built for Instagram, not endurance or humility.”
https://medium.com/the-political-prism/what-pete-hegseth-doesnt-get-about-combat-f879777ecbee
He also rose to the rank of major, but then fizzled out. That means that he was a competent middle manager but judged unsuitable for managing larger organizations. I suspect a lot of his grudge is that he doesn't understand why he wasn't promoted to more senior ranks and is resentful of those who were.
I suspect a lot of his grudge is that he is jealous of those who actually did the business but at the same time has no idea of what effective leadership entails FTFY
he wakes up with a stiffee every morning.
well he was waving his chopper about on Saturday morning Tv
Oh you wanna know about Hegseth? He's a Gin Soaked Moron
This series is excellent BTW, the one on Rat Fink (Stephen Millar) is excellent and terrifying also
That's somehow the least creepy of the photos...
Leaked files ‘show US wants to persuade four nations to leave EU’
The countries seen as targets to follow Brexit are Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland, according to leaked details of the US national security strategy
Sounds like a Putin wishlist to me. It's crazy watching this unfold in our lifetimes.
How are they ever going to sell that?
" See what happened to the UK? It's going so well for them - let's have some of that...!"
How are they ever going to sell that?
Immigration. Muslims. Jews. LGBT+. Sovereignty. Common sense. Weak leaders. Globalisation. The good old days. Foreign interference (the irony).
That's you not getting into the states. I just keep seeing the news and think, what the heck has he just said ! The man is bonkers. Oops, that's me not getting allowed in.
Be careful what you wish for. You know who’ll take over…
That's you not getting into the states. I just keep seeing the news and think, what the heck has he just said ! The man is bonkers. Oops, that's me not getting allowed in.
As classy as ever, how depressing to read this stuff. that's me not getting in either!
I'm buying a very nice champagne when he dies
Sweet Jesus! He continues to surpass himself with what an utterly graceless and thoroughly unpleasant **** he can be.
Imagine posting that publicly after a man and his wife have just died?
All his supporters would sure to be very understanding when we all get to post equally nice things about him
He really is quite mad.
A Congress with a spine would invoke the 25th amendment.
He’s staying as classy as ever and doubling down, just in case he’s not quite been insensitive and offensive enough….
Asked by a reporter if he stands by his statement on Rob Reiner’s death after a number of Republicans have denounced it, Trump doesn’t offer any sympathy, doubles down on his dislike for Reiner AND refers to himself in the third person.
Well, I wasn’t a fan of his at all, he was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.
He knew it was false, in fact it was the exact opposite, but he said that I was a friend of Russia, controlled by Russia, the Russia hoax, he was one of the people behind it.
I think he hurt himself career-wise, he became like a deranged person, Trump derangement syndrome.
So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all, in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country.
Double P
Trumps sues the BBC. Part of the claim says that while Panorama isn't broadcast in the USA through either BBC-USA or iplayer, BritBox is, and 'something something' people are watching Panorama there (although it's not part of the Britbox package). The claim goes on to say the evidence for this is the increase in VPN use...Coincidentally; Florida has recently banned Pornhub...
There’s something about a network in Canada carrying it as well. It’s all nonsense… but it’s designed to be long noisy expensive nonsense in court… the pressure for an out of court settlement starts now…
Convenient timing. Now we are all talking about how unfair the bbc treated him, and not that's he's an utter disgrace after his comments yesterday
Well idiots are...right minded people see right through this charade
Trumps sues the BBC. Part of the claim says that while Panorama isn't broadcast in the USA through either BBC-USA or iplayer, BritBox is, and 'something something' people are watching Panorama there (although it's not part of the Britbox package). The claim goes on to say the evidence for this is the increase in VPN use...Coincidentally; Florida has recently banned Pornhub...
President Trump wants $10bn from the BBC.
It's based on the hope that they'll cave-in and agree a settlement like CBS and ABC did in the US, rather than the expectation of a legal win.
I'd expect the BBC to sit back and let him get on with his claim. In the words of one BBC show, "Don't pay him a penny, Pike"
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-sues-bbc-defamation-over-editing-january-6-speech-2025-12-16/
And walk away from this too. It's already being wielded as a weapon and will cost us a stack of energy, water and access to our data while employing about five people when the construction is finished.
AI is forecast to be the next big financial bubble to burst
Dec 15 (Reuters) - The United States has suspended a technology deal it struck with Britain earlier this year which was intended to boost ties in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and civil nuclear energy, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
British officials on Monday confirmed the U.S. suspended the deal last week, the FT said, adding that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration was pushing for Britain's concessions in areas of trade outside the tech partnership.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-suspends-technology-deal-with-uk-ft-says-2025-12-16/
It's based on the hope that they'll cave-in and agree a settlement like CBS and ABC did in the US, rather than the expectation of a legal win.
Those settlements had nothing to do with the merits of the claims though. The CBS one in particular was just a cost of doing business - paid to prevent a delay in a larger transaction. Trump has a bunch of other suits with other news outlets NYT and WSJ - that are just going nowhere becuase they are baseless.
Most sources saying a 10 billion claim this morning, but the BBC news on the 6 Music bulletin definitely stating 5 billion. Bit strange.
I would just like the BBC to read out his convictions everytime they refer to him.
Most sources saying a 10 billion claim this morning, but the BBC news on the 6 Music bulletin definitely stating 5 billion. Bit strange.
NYT saying its two claims of $5bn each - one for 'defaming trump' one for 'violating Florida's Deceptive and unfair Practices Act'
there may of course be a difference between what Trump's legal team (crack lawyers that they are) have said they've done and what the BBC's lawyers have actually received from them.
I would just like the BBC to read out his convictions everytime they refer to him.
I would like that very much.
I would also like UK airports to reciprocate the checks on phone and social media history,to all Americans flying in*
It's only fair.
* and the people in transit
It might take a while reading this lot...
Sounds like Trump hasn't got a leg to stand on with his claim against the BBC. He's just totally trying it on in his continued campaign to bully the media generallly into not saying anything negative about him. And why wouldn't he, given the propensity of US media organisations to collapse and wave the white flag upon the sight of a legal letter?
If you were interested in how Trump became so litigious then this has just come on Netflix, after no streaming services would touch it for a while. Its a brilliant film about Trumps early career and specifically his relationship with dodgy lawyer Roy Cohn, another truly vile human being who seemed to have taught Trump everything he knew. It explains a lot....
Is it wrong that every time I see new activity on this thread, I open it hoping to read of his demise?
The very same thought goes through my head every time.
If you were interested in how Trump became so litigious then this has just come on Netflix, after no streaming services would touch it for a while.
I did think about watching it, then decided it would be healthier for my heart to switch on Paramount ,and catch up with the latest from South Park 🤣
Is it wrong that every time I see new activity on this thread, I open it hoping to read of his demise?
The very same thought goes through my head every time.
Imagine the collective cheer that will be raised throughout the country when he eventually turns turtle?, but very quickly we will realise what follows behind is so much worse - Vance/Miller/Bannon, the tech bros, the Christian fruitloops, etc…
We need the USA to vote him (or his surrogate) out. Trump dying in office is the worst possible outcome for democracy over there.
We need the USA to vote him (or his surrogate) out. Trump dying in office is the worst possible outcome for democracy over there.
It won't help with anyone not in the US, but there are some in the US, optimistically for them, suggesting hell find himself increasingly neutered domestically as the GOP look to a post Donald presidency, after a run of losses or close calls that shouldn't have been close are starting to focus minds on Trump no longer being a means to stay in power, but to lose it.
If, and that's a big if. That does pan out. It might actually be even shittier for everyone outside of the US as I believe hell still have lots of foreign policy levers to pull, such as interference in European elections, murdering fisherman, whatever racist drivel he shits out each day
Sounds like Trump hasn't got a leg to stand on with his claim against the BBC.
His lawyers cite (checks notes) "no less an authority than the United Kingdom's former Prim Minister Liz Truss" in their submission to the court.
Is it possible to have fewer than zero legs to stand on?
Those lads in the background were fighting for their lives. International cameras focussed on you whilst your Commander in Cheif is spouting some unhinged bollocks. I feel for them.
His lawyers cite (checks notes) "no less an authority than the United Kingdom's former Prim Minister Liz Truss"
Prim Minister? That's a cracker, made me chuckle anyway, thank you 😊
Those lads in the background were fighting for their lives. International cameras focussed on you whilst your Commander in Cheif is spouting some unhinged bollocks. I feel for them.
Go back to the video and watch the Master Sergeant on the left; his eyes are everywhere and his non-verbals are off the scale
Those lads in the background were fighting for their lives. International cameras focussed on you whilst your Commander in Chief is spouting some unhinged bollocks. I feel for them.
Go back to the video and watch the Master Sergeant on the left; his eyes are everywhere and his non-verbals are off the scale
It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic. Sign up to serve and get made to look like a bellend' by your commander. I know some good blokes that side of the pond, and they're dismayed at the reputational harm he's doing to the service. Amongst a few other things that I won't derail the thread with.
So apparently Trump has declared fentanyl a "weapon of mass destruction". I mean, what could go wrong.
Donald Trump designated Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction, and everyone got that 'here we go again' feeling - 15 swift clapbacks - The Poke https://share.google/nnzYjxQNq0Au59ThQ
Sign up to serve and get made to look like a bellend' by your commander.
Most of them voted for him
Correction: "huge majority", not just "most"
A lot of people must now be realising what a terrible idea it was to vote for Trump. Turkeys and Christmas and all that. There was an article in the Observer on Sunday about the farmers of the mid west who all voted for the orange toddler. Their main crop? Soya. Their main market? China.
Now they're all, somewhat predictably, utterly and completely ****ed! Trumps tariffs decimated their entire financial model overnight and now they're all going bust and losing their farms. The beneficiary of all this? Argentina, who said thanks very much, we'll happily supply the Chinese market with all the millions and millions of tonnes of soya they could ever need.
Making America Great Again indeed, eh?
Those lads in the background were fighting for their lives. International cameras focussed on you whilst your Commander in Cheif is spouting some unhinged bollocks. I feel for them.
More of a question than anything...but can you refuse this shit? It seems to happen more there than here, but it does happen here too? Being made to be a backdrop to a political grand stand. Not a governmental one as such, but a political one with a huge dollop of self interest. If you join the military they have very much bought you...but there has to be a line somewhere.
Yes, I suspect the MAGA crowd are beginning to realise they were useful idiots - it was always going to happen eventually. Even turkeys realise their mistake when the cleaver is coming for them.
Of course it doesn’t really matter now they’ve served their purpose….
Those lads in the background were fighting for their lives. International cameras focussed on you whilst your Commander in Cheif is spouting some unhinged bollocks. I feel for them.
More of a question than anything...but can you refuse this shit? It seems to happen more there than here, but it does happen here too? Being made to be a backdrop to a political grand stand. Not a governmental one as such, but a political one with a huge dollop of self interest. If you join the military they have very much bought you...but there has to be a line somewhere.
Of course you can refuse. If you think the response is worth the career suicide and in some cases, the jail time.
There is also the impact on future career opportunities with a discharge due to military offences. We call it an administrative discharge, they have a wider variety like 'dishonourable' etc. but same sort of issues as being sacked essentially.
Yeah, sadly I've been the backdrop of a few, Brown visiting Iraq, Cameron Afghanistan. I actively tried to avoid them but as you point out, they own your arse so unless it's in unlawful order territory you're voluntold.
Yeah, sadly I've been the backdrop of a few
Took me a while but I managed to find RM.....
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Yeah, sadly I've been the backdrop of a few
Took me a while but I managed to find RM.....
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I've tried to keep my gender secret. Now you've blown it. Also, waaaaaay to thick and ugly to even consider the RAF. I'd have been lucky if they let me clean the windows.
But since you didn't ask, here's it is. I'm on the far left.
MPs warn that UK agreements with Donald Trump are ‘built on sand’
Exclusive: UK government’s ‘naive belief’ that Trump is a good faith actor ‘could cost UK taxpayer billions’, says health select committee chair
No shit!
But since you didn't ask, here's it is. I'm on the far left.
Not where I would have thought to look for you....... / sarcasm/
Its all beginning to look rather sad and somewhat disturbing.
If Trump has mental decline to the point that Alzheimer's is the underlying issue, then what we have could be kind of a case of elder abuse where he's basically being manipulated by those around him.
Just when you thought you couldn't hate the potus anymore than you already do, along comes the renaming like a proper unhinged dictator, The Trump - Kennedy Centre...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp84pxvp87eo
I wonder if due to fate the same unlucky outcome will await the additional namesake of this wonderful building. It would truly be a sad end to a naming partnership such as this.....
I believe Del and Rodders will shortly be residents of Donald Mandela House
So when are the Epstein files being released today?
BBC News - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwyk526vlnlt
Live: Thousands of long-awaited Epstein files released by US justice department - BBC News
Mostly black rectangles.
And the war on scientific evidence continues, to be replaced by the evidence-free quackery of tinfoil-helmeted fruitloop Robert F Kennedy
Government by conspiracy theory.
Truly terrifying shit!
So when are the Epstein files being released today?
As per most things Trump. It appears that he's over promised and wildly underdelivered. Who could have ever seen this coming?
I do wonder just how bad the files are for Trump that he has to go this far to block them being meaningfuly released.
And the war on scientific evidence continues, to be replaced by the evidence-free quackery of tinfoil-helmeted fruitloop Robert F Kennedy
although all the DOGE cuts failed to actually make any of the claimed savings, and it seemed like their actions were chaotic and uncoordinated what was achieved very effectively was the removal of the all the aspects and mechanisms of government to gather, measure, collate and publish data. Its a curious strategy as Musk and his nerd army would be people who value data over pretty much anything else, and its not a case of grabbing data for themselves, or manipulating data for an end but creating conditions for there being no data. No information now and a huge gap in the records going forward that can never be plugged. The effects of RFK's various batshit initiatives are never going to be fully understood because data collection across all aspects of public health (and all aspects of government activity) has stopped.
Now I will admit that I find it weird that Michael Jackson is still deified by many given the allegations against him...but even Epstein looks uncomfortable in that photo.