Donald! Trump!

Trump believes that the human body is like a battery with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depletes.

Which actually although obviously wrong isn’t quite as nuts as it sounds. I believe that the total number of heartbeats in the lifetime of any mammal is approximately the same – whether it is an elephant or a mouse.

One exception though are humans, I think the total number of heartbeats in an average human’s exceeds the average for other mammals (this is from memory so might not be precisely right) And although exercise obviously increases the amount of heartbeats it apparently doesn’t affect the overall number of heartbeats in a lifetime because the heart rate of those who exercise regularly falls below average during periods of rest – the rest periods cancels the periods of high activity.

Perhaps Trump read something about total heartbeats and misunderstood?

Yeh, but Trumps heart rate spikes to 160 just getting out of a chair

Probably a “wrong” thing to say at this point but I look forward to Kennedy’s vigorous and creative response to the inevitable bird flu epidemic that’s in the post

He’ll be dead soon enough.. The problem is what he’s going to pave the way for in the next 4 years, for the American government… That’s a lot more worrying than Trump.

Perhaps Trump read something about total heartbeats and misunderstood?

Apparently he’s a huge Nick Berry fan and this is where the confusion came from.

Trumps heart rate spikes to 160 just getting out of a chair

It probably also spikes when Melania sits opposite him and crosses her legs.

Imagine having to live in fear of a badly painted and dyed obese body expiring on top of you?

Still, I guess the money makes it worth it.

I think you’ll find Trump has the best heart rate ever! Nobody has ever had a heart rate as good as his. Best. Heart. Rate. Ever. Anything else is fake news!

It’s not trumps heart beat you should be concerned with… He’ll be alive long enough to rip the rule book up.

The Republicans have both houses and the presidency… So anything goes really.

And the judiciary.

Aww shit.. I forgot he loaded the courts too.

Things gonna get really messed up.

🙁

I have a hard time feeling too sorry for Americans as a lot of them did vote for Trump but then a lot of UK people voted tory for 14 years and voted for Brexit and I have to put up with that so can’t be great to be on the opposite side of the vote.

Time for the likes of California to go for cessation, what is there to lose. (I know, it would never get through)

In 1990 Nelson Mandela was released having spent 27 years in prison. Much of it in brutal conditions and much of it in isolation from his fellow inmates. A little over 4 years later he was elected president carrying the dreams and aspirations of a beaten-down majority whilst having to balance the risk of provocation, capital flight and warring factions. He pledged forgiveness in return for candour.

Fast forward 25-30 years and a gilded population enjoying still almost unrestricted consumerism and consumption elects Donald Trump. A convicted fraudster born into privilege. A known sex offender. A draft-dodging cowardly crook. They elect him because, frankly, they want more for less – again. They want to reject tolerance and respect in return for a few more goodies. This freeloading, pampered parasite who has got where he is by bullying, lying and gambling is pledging revenge on people who dared to run against him, expose his lies or just oppose him democratically.

There is something very wrong at the heart of America (if it has one at all).

It probably also spikes when Melania sits opposite him and crosses her legs.

It’s been widely reported she won’t be living with him at the White House. Pretty sure the divorce would be going through if he’d lost.

That conspiracy theorist Kennedy was on the news earlier, he can’t even speak properly. What an absolute joke of a health minister. If I were an American, living in America right now, I’d be frightened.

No, because a lot of them are really appreciating that their man won and that the cost of living is going to come down for them, not just because he said so, but also because the recent price drop in petrol has shown that it is AND HE IS NOT EVEN IN OFFICE YET.

Some people, sure, they might be not looking forward to the upcoming years. Those are possibly illegal aliens, undocumented workers, LGBTQ people, poor people with complex medical condtions and young women in conservative states that have the Roe vs. Wade reversal on the books already or coming, but he fact that he won both the college and the popular vote means that a lot of people want his brand of nutjob, rapacious Republicanism running their nation, or are at least fine with it enough to _not_ vote for literally anyone else but him.

No, because a lot of them are really appreciating that their man won

That doesn’t make bunnyhop’s comment any less true though does it. Whilst the majority of Americans who voted, voted for trump, there were many millions who didn’t. And you don’t need to be a minority to feel a sense of dread if you don’t agree with anything he says.

As a white, middle class bloke, I may not be on the trump hit list, but like bunnyhop if I was American I’d have major concerns about the future of the country.

I’m beginning to wonder about how long a country can hold itself together when the government of the day is truly unqualified to run it.

I’m no manager but I fully recognize that running an operation requires good management with relevant and extensive experience, the ability to foresee difficulty and make coherent decisions.

That all seems to be something that the US will be lacking come January

Serious politicians understand the importance of building consensus, finding common ground. I suppose the domination of maga might make that a quaint notion, we shall see. But without it, an irreparably divided nation and only a matter of time before it comes tumbling down.

I’m beginning to wonder about how long a country can hold itself together when the government of the day is truly unqualified to run it.

Last time around one of the things that kept the excesses of Trump’s behaviour in check was the people around him seeking to protect not only the country (or particularly Republican ambitions for the country) and partly to try and dissuade Trump from taking actions that were illegal – things that were illegal for him to demand and illegal from them to action.

Trump’s now emboldened by the Supreme Court decision regarding immunity (which is actually quite limited). But there are 1,800 other people in the Whitehouse, the Supreme Court ruling only mentions one of them – that immunity presumably doesn’t extend to all of them or even any of them. Injecting a layer of die-hards, yes men and loons at the top of each department  doesn’t mean it possible to then fill each of those departments with people who are willing to share the magical thinking and stake their liberty and livelihood on it.

The appointment of RFK is fascinating – we hear a lot in America about the private health care system & the eyewatering amounts of money involved. Given all that – where do big pharma sit in terms of influence?

Is this like him putting someone who is Anti-NRA in charge of gun licensing?

Is this like him putting someone who is Anti-NRA in charge of gun licensing?

More like putting someone who thinks that school shootings are hoaxes in charge of gun licensing.

JFK Jr says a worm ate some of his brain and then died in there.

Are we sure it died? or is it controlling him?

Are we sure it died?

Yip……….of hunger.

As a Curb your Enthusiasm fan boi its always been really weird that Larry David’s Cheryl is RFK junior’s wife.  And they were apparently introduced to each other by LD.  I assumed that their marriage was as strong as Trump’s but she’s still hanging in there.

His wikipedia entry is full of delightful content:

During his marriage to Richardson, Kennedy was known among his friends for sending explicit nude photos of women that they presumed he had taken, according to Vanity Fair.<He reportedly engaged in multiple affairs during the marriage.

On May 12, 2010, Kennedy filed for divorce from Richardson. On May 16, 2012, Richardson was found dead in a building on the grounds of her home in Bedford, New York. The Westchester County Medical Examiner ruled the death a suicide due to asphyxiation from hanging.<Before her death, Richardson had discovered Kennedy’s personal journal from 2001, in which he recorded sexual encounters with 37 different women. According to Kennedy, Richardson passed the journal along “to her sisters with instructions that, if anything happened to her, [it should be] published in the press”.

I assumed that their marriage was as strong as Trump’s but she’s still hanging in there.

Rumours abound that she’s left/leaving him

I’d rather have the brainworm in charge of US health policy than RFK jnr.

Matt Gaetz as Attorney General

Tulsi Gabbard (who was accused of being a Russian asset) in charge of National Security.

Elon Musk in any position of power.

It’s government as a form of trolling, put the worst people in charge of stuff just because.

It’s government as a form of trolling, put the worst people in charge of stuff just because.

This is the key thing, Trump has learned that owning the libs gets him ratings. He doesn’t give a shit about policy or convention, he’s just appointing people that he knows will generate headlines.

All the buyers regret seems to be coming home with Reps now reality is setting in.

Folk with existing medical conditions didn’t know that ACA and Obamacare are the same thing.
Muslims shocked that Huckabee and Shapiro are pro-Israel.

Google searches for ‘who pays tariffs’? peaked on Nov 7th.

Pity the research wasn’t done before making their mark, but that’s US politics.

I hope the ones who voted Red are worst hit, so that the lesson may be learned before the next election.

Shares in pharmacutical companies have taken a hit on the news that the guy who’s about to be the head of all the health gubbins in the states wears a tinfoil helmet and quite fancies seeing the reintroduction of smallpox. He’ll be working for a man who thought the cure for covid was to inject yourself with belach.

Whats the opposite of ‘the enlightenment’?

Pity the research wasn’t done before making their mark, but that’s politics.

Just needed one word removing.

EDIT: ooo… someone else’s turn to post a PSB Agenda video!

The Darkness Binners.

The darkening!

I can’t decide whether that team of cretins will just provide a clown show for a few months until they just collapse and drown in a paddling pool of blancmange or unfortunately more probable do serious damage that will be felt for decades, but won’t start to really show the damage until later in his term or even after.

A lot of people have had 8 years knowing this was on the cards, I dont think they’ll be quite as poorly organized as last time.

So it turns out that Elon Musk’s claim that “hundreds of British citizens, including journalists, are reporting that they’ve been visited by the police this weekend regarding X posts” is based on this :

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/15/allison-pearson-jew-haters-tweet-is-at-centre-of-telegraphs-row-with-police

Original tweet:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1856962072757620980

I reckon Katie Price is a shoe-in for the still vacant treasury post.

This is the key thing, Trump has learned that owning the libs gets him ratings. He doesn’t give a shit about policy or convention, he’s just appointing people that he knows will generate headlines.

Well season 1 of the reboot of Trumpton, life’s just a tv program to him.

It’s taken what, three hundred years, but the Pilgrim Fathers original plan is coming to fruition – an autocratic theocracy where Nationalist Christians are in complete control of the government, where they plan on defunding the public schools, meaning that other than home schooling the only option is a school system that teaches that the Bible is the only truth that they will need.

Trump’s Defense Secretary Pick Hopes for a Christian Crusade

https://flip.it/.gkXj3

I think this Trump presidency will do a lot of damage. Even if they are completely useless, balls everything up etc – we now know there is a large proportion of the US electorate who’ll buy any bullshit so long at it reinforces their entirely unjustified sense of grievance.

Whatever the actual policy achievements or (far more likely) disasters, the nasty underbelly of the US electorate will be even nastier in 4 years.