Donald! Trump!

Sometimes I just say things to get from one sentence to the next, you know how it is.

If you listen to the attached video the text has a part chopped out from the middle that makes it make slightly more sense.

I’m embarrassed to say that I can’t quite connect the dots on this one. Help anyone?

there was an interesting point I heard recently which was the press are (naively) guilty of sane-ifying Trump when they report his announcements by summarising and paraphrasing him in print. I suppose they’re doing that out of politeness to their readers – because who wants to read a paragraph of that – but the reality is people need to read what he says , not having it conveyed to them what he supposedly means.

just quoting Trump as Harris is doing there really reveals more about him than actually listening to his drivel

There’s a new series of the Coming Storm on BBC iplayer having another look at the conspiracy nutters in the US, fascinating and scary all at once

I’ve watched both episodes of The Trump Heist.  3 things strike me…

1. I find it really odd/disturbing to see “normal” people walking round with assault rifles
2. I don’t see how the US can ever have a normal election again, given how easily people are taken in by utterly garbage conspiracy theories
3. do they really accept that the “greatest country on earth” is such a banana republic that its election can be so grossly manipulated

Just watched the first episode of Trump Heist.

Jesus **** Christ, it was insane. And terrifying. God knows what will happen this time around.

I find it really odd/disturbing to see “normal” people walking round with assault rifles

As i understand it(and could be wrong) but arent assault rifles capable of being fully automatic, and these are facsimiles are made to look like one, because the type of owner of such weapons has a fragile ego.

Heard a suggestion somewhere(might have been here) but the best way to get the AR-15 banned or discontinued is to make it the No1 gun for African Americans to own.

Episode 2 of 2 of Trump Heist on now – madness. C4. What a madman.

As i understand it(and could be wrong) but arent assault rifles capable of being fully automatic

In the American context, no. Broadly, fully automatic weapons were banned in 1986, so a normal civilian Ar15 / AK47 / AK74 will be semi auto i.e. self loading, one bullet per trigger pull
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act

There are exceptions for military, police, gun manufacturers and dealers for samples for sale to police or military. Existing full auto (aka machine) guns were grandfathered in and are still transferrable to a new owner if you fill in the right forms and pay the tax stamp.

The dealer exemption has been abused most famously by Larry Vickers who had a large personal collection of “samples”. Probably a mistake to then make lots of very popular YouTube videos with said samples!

And whilst semi auto weapons can be converted to full auto, they have to be designed to make it very hard to do – so not just block off the switch position for full auto. Generally they’ll have a different fire control group (trigger and gubbins) that can’t be swapped or easily modified to make it full auto. A full auto trigger group is considered to be a machine gun in itself with big penalties for manufacture or possession.

Although recently very simple devices for Glock pistols have appeared that make them full auto and presumably uncontrollable.

Enjoying episode 2 – William Barr doesn’t pull any punches does he?

Probably plenty of bump stocks knocking around they can put on their semi AR15s

In the American context

There’s also the ‘bump stock’ technicality…

Basicaly a spring loaded rifle butt/brace that takes a lot of the recoil out of a shot from a high power rifle, that allows for faster re-aimimg between shots.

I think they are techincally illegal now, but there’s nothing to stop anyone buying a ‘legal’ assault rifle, taking the stock off and fitting an after market bump stock.

Enjoying episode 2 – William Barr doesn’t pull any punches does he?

Its a shame he struggled to find that backbone 4 years ago

Heard a suggestion somewhere(might have been here) but the best way to get the AR-15 banned or discontinued is to make it the No1 gun for African Americans to own.

https://californialocal.com/localnews/statewide/ca/article/show/4412-california-gun-control-reagan-black-panthers/

The NRA supports gun control when, well, racism.

Basicaly a spring loaded rifle butt/brace that takes a lot of the recoil out of a shot from a high power rifle, that allows for faster re-aimimg between shots.

Kinda, but it’s integrated into the grip so when it springs forwards the trigger hits the users finger.

think they are techincally illegal now, but there’s nothing to stop anyone buying a ‘legal’ assault rifle, taking the stock off and fitting an after market bump stock.

It was actually Trump that banned bump stocks after the shootings from the hotel in Las Vegas. The Supreme Court recently overturned the ban and they’re legal to buy once again

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68419279

It was actually Trump that banned bump stocks after the shootings from the hotel in Las Vegas.

Would be interesting to see how his attitude to gun legislation might change if he gets in again. Selfishness and vanity are at the core of his decision making. Given that A: he’s had guns trained on him twice now, and B: With a criminal conviction (that he can’t pardon himself for) he’s now disqualified from owning a gun himself…. will he tighten gun ownership laws –  ‘If I can’t have them nobody can’  – or loosen them so that criminals like him are able to own them? 🙂

Just watched the first episode of Trump Heist.

Jesus **** Christ, it was insane. And terrifying. God knows what will happen this time around.

I watched it last night and was amazed at the level to which Republican politicians were prepared to completely debase themselves in the service of Trump, with utter bullshit and lies. Also the levels of violence and intimidation they were prepared to use to subvert democracy

Christ only knows what they’ve got lined up for this time

I think people around Trump will definitely have a plan to try and contest the vote if he loses

but Trump himself is looking old & tired compared to 2020 even, if he lost this time I dont think he’d be as desperate to get the job, especially now he has that immunity decision from the Supreme Court

but Trump himself is looking old & tired compared to 2020 even, if he lost this time I dont think he’d be as desperate to get the job, especially now he has that immunity decision from the Supreme Court

He will want the job, if for no other reason than it will enable/help him to get revenge on people he feels have wronged him over the last 4 years

He will want the job, if for no other reason than it will enable/help him to get revenge on people he feels have wronged him over the last 4 years.(and keep on wringing money out of everything he can while in power).

As said above, it is ( or maybe not) always amazing how he gets away with the stunts he pulls,but then his enablers/support crew* around him are just ‘the next rung down’ on the super grifter ladder,so will make a big effort to keep the gravy train rolling.

*pond scum

I’m currently reading “Siege: Trump under fire” and one thing that jumps out is that Trump and his family are not conventionally clever (to say the least), but he is very good at getting what he wants.

I think people around Trump will definitely have a plan to try and contest the vote if he loses

The plan is already in motion….Network of Georgia election officials strategizing to undermine 2024 result

Or this Trump’s plan to steal election is taking shape

I am due to arrive in phoenix Arizona on November 5th for about a week.Arizona is a swing state so do you think it will be fun or scary. I thought I might do as it happens reporting live for stw news.

Arizona is a swing state

Which roughly translates as every other person you meet feels Donald Trump is capable and competent of being their leader. Rather you than me.

Utah would be funner. Undoubtedly the wackiest state I’ve been to. Flying into salt lake was a definite how can this nation function moment.

I am due to arrive in phoenix Arizona on November 5th for about a week.Arizona is a swing state so do you think it will be fun or scary. I thought I might do as it happens reporting live for stw news.

You’ll be fine. The cities are less wild than rural areas. There are a good number of Dems in Phoenix. You’ll probably see a few trucks with Trump flags on them. But not as many as in previous elections. Apocraphally.

am due to arrive in phoenix Arizona on November 5th for about a week.Arizona is a swing state so do you think it will be fun or scary.

They’ve got gins…

So be careful who you agitate….

I like gins, don’t like guns though.

No one wants stricter gin control!

The Vodka marketing board beg to differ

Just watching the second part of the channel 4 doc. Guiliani really is a piece of work, isn’t he?

Trump really is an absolute lunatic! He’s terrifying in what he’s prepared to do to further fuel his own enormous ego. He wouldn’t give a flying **** if countless people died as long as he won power. As for the charlatans who knew full well this was all bollocks, but just went along and continue to go along with him? What a bunch of spineless self-serving shithouses!

its difficult not to fear the worst about what’s going to happen in November

its difficult not to fear the worst about what’s going to happen in November

its difficult not to fear the worst about what’s going to happen in November

North Carolina is running very close in the polls and has 16 electoral college seats, so Trump pretty much has to win it to have much hope. Republican candidate for governor has been outed as having posted some very weird shit on pornography websites, including admiring Hitler, an apparent desire to join the KKK, and being into tranny porn, all of which is a bit hard to explain for a black politician who is running as a conservative Christian who opposes trans rights. Hopefully it drags Trump down too and costs him the state.

North Carolina Republican candidate for governor called himself ‘black Nazi’ – report State’s lieutenant governor Mark Robinson used description on pornography website, CNN reports

Doesn’t seem like anything that’ll put MAGA off, so long as he is pro Trumpet

No one wants stricter gin control!

I do! Drunk a full bottle of the shite in my early twenties and now I think it should be a banned substance.

I really do feel sorry for the normal people in the US. When you sit back and take a long hard look at the situation, you just end up at how? How is that man running for office, let alone POTUS? How did it even happen the first time? How can anyone listen to any of his speeches (and I use that term very loosely) and come away from the experience anything but utterly bewildered?

Shits **** up

Because for years now Fox news has been telling them hourly that if the Democrats get in, they will be doomed to live in a hellscape where their teen daughters will have to share a bathroom with men, babies will be killed, brown people will live in their town, they will be forced to use them/they pronouns, people who don’t deserve it will get affordable health care and other such living horrors.

It was telling in that Channel 4 documentary that all the clips of crazy stuff was from Fox News. I’m not sure whether a more balanced view of the wider media output would have been a better idea or not.

You have to question the motives of the grifters who rode the coat tails of his presidency, even if for wider GOP reasons, but there was a clear break between those who sucked up with the Stop the Steal bollocks and those who took the “he lost, get over it” route and were horrified by what happened next.

I do! Drunk a full bottle of the shite in my early twenties and now I think it should be a banned substance.

Similar formative  experience here but with an over indulgence in puddings at a young age which is why I’m passionate about banning Assault Trifles

unjust desserts in my opinion