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And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdog...And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
He’s going to walk his re-election.
I’d be surprised if he doesn’t. Frightening.
That’s a brave assumption
No, it's the law in the US. The current presidency ends.
He needs to be voted back in or a replacement voted in. Let's hope the morons protesting are still too ill to go and make their mark
BBC News - Coronavirus: Could Donald Trump delay the presidential election?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52326166
Ah, I've rechecked and it's the January after that date in November.
Damn...
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.