he has to learn that countries, unlike campaniles, have pride and wont just take shit just to make money

Well, other than a tory UK, May and co seem quite happy to suckle on his moobs.

Vs his biggest election gains, I’d say China are trying regime change by tariff

<span style=”font-size: 0.8rem;”>https://farm1.staticflickr.com/880/27356041498_3580124f84_z.jp</span&gt;

There’s nothing like a trade war to expose some of the frailties of what you thought was a flourishing economy. Trump and his advisers have seen recent US growth (and stock market gains) and assumed they were in a position to dictate terms to economies like China.

But with large swathes of the country dependent on agricultural exports, it will be interesting to see how much resilience and capacity for outlasting China there is in rural, Trump-supporting America.

When you’re already $500 Billion DOWN, you can’t lose!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 4, 2018

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? 😆

ninfan

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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…

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&gt;
<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

Oh yeah

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-seizes-records-related-to-stormy-daniels-in-raid-of-trump-attorney-michael-cohens-office/2018/04/09/e3e43cf4-3c30-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html?utm_term=.11adf24868ea

mikewsmith wrote:

<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.

A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 10, 2018

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.

While Trump International Hotel Las Vegas does not wish to deprive itself of the services of potentially valuable associates by establishing a policy excluding the employment of relatives, it must be acknowledged that such employment can result in the appearance of a conflict of interest, collusion, favouritism, and other undesirable work environment conditions.

Therefore, management reserves the right to limit the employment of relatives in situations within the company if a conflict of interest is deemed to exist.

Prohibited activity includes ‘offensive sexual jokes, sexual language, sexual epithets, sexual gossip, sexual comments or sexual enquiries’ and unwelcome flirting.

another one jumps off the merry-go-round

Trump’s tweet yesterday is telling

Attorney–client privilege is dead!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 10, 2018

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”.

Why do we keep broadcasting when we are going to attack Syria. Why can't we just be quiet and, if we attack at all, catch them by surprise?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 29, 2013

In war, the elememt of surprise is sooooo important.What the hell is Obama doing.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 2, 2013

<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…

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-12/wall-street-sinks-donald-trump-russia-missile-strike-syria-tweet/9643352

Great podcast here, fascinating stuff

uturn donald

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.