He's got Merkel and Trudeau speechless and impotent, he's got De Niro and woke Hollywood having an utter wetty, and there's every chance he's going to end the Korean war. All in one weekend.
The man is a genius.
He's got Merkel and Trudeau speechless and impotent, he's got De Niro and woke Hollywood having an utter wetty, and there's every chance he's going to end the Korean war. All in one weekend.
The man is a genius.
Not if John Bolton has any influence on proceedings. The man never saw a war he didn't like.
Blowing up the G7 was funny though. And while the old order deflates the SCO partners continue to get their thang together on the other side of the world. 'Win-win' instead of 'Full Spectrum Dominance'. And imagine a free trade area that maintains and respects national sovereignty. Sounds good to me.
To be fair, all an increased majority would have done would have been to allow May to pursue a worthlessly soft Brexit more easily.
The real problem is that the party and personnel in charge of leaving the EU don't actually want to leave the EU or believe in leaving the EU. The result will be a worthless compromise that will result in the issue continuing to blight our politics for another generation.
I would very much like to retain my vote, or spoil my ballot paper, or protest in some other way; but doing so simply increases the possibility of Youknowwhoo getting elected. And despite the fact that the current consrvative party seems to be about 75% socialist, it's still preferable to that gang of commies.
To be fair, the Labour Party is at least meant to be full of raving communists. The tories, on the other hand, have betrayed everything and everyone they're supposed to represent. They are traitors and can fvck off.
If we end up with Trotterdammerung, then so be it. Politics deserves Corbyn. We all deserve Corbyn for voting for an endless parade of gobsh1tes determined to pursue agendas wholly at odds with the interests of this country for so long. Fvck it. Tear it up and start again.
All that you say is true, but consider the consequences of such an election result. Not just the capital flight, massive money-printing programme and destruction of the economy, the Venezuela-like inflation and food rationing; no, consider also the number of personal freedoms they will stamp on. You think the police posting on twitter about hate crimes is worrying? Just wait until Abbott is making police policy.
What principled alternative is there? :shrug: Vote for a Tory party I fvcking despise and which is destroying the country slowly simply in order to keep out a Labour Party I despise and which will destroy the country quickly? What kind of choice is that?
No, sorry. I would rather forego my democratic 'privilege' thanks very much.
Ah, Putin! The globalists’ favourite bogeyman.
Here’s the secret about Putin that nobody wants to acknowledge - least of all him - but which Boris let slip the other day: Putin, with his obsolete military and economy the size of Australia’s, doesn’t actually matter. He’s irrelevant.
I think you're overstating a truth. He does matter but falls more easily into the irritating category than the dangerous category. Unless, of course, you care about the Russian people themselves which I expect few people do.
The problem with Trump is that left to his own devices he could do something really stupid, and not just the infantile posturing which we've seen so far (and that sells really well in the US of A) but something really, really stupid i.e. an all out trade war, that would have a significant impact. So far the intelligent people around him have stopped him doing it but there's always the possibility that at some point they won't be able to or willing to control him.
In fact, two of his recent appointments seem as crazy as he is. We'll laugh at him and enjoy him until it happens, only.
Wait, the day he was elected all you pansies were pissing your knickers because he was definitely going to start a nuclear war, invade Mexico, destroy the US economy, gas, or at best, deport all muslims and brown people and make homoing illegal. Oddly, none of that seems to have happened. Indeed, the US economy seems to be doing remarkably well, and far from nuclear wars happening, it would appear that North Korea is preparing to give a little.
Why, given the evidence to date, do you think he's going to do something 'really stupid'?
He’s very useful to the status quo merchants because every time electorates do something they don’t like, they can alternately blame Putin or suggest that he’s been made happy by what’s occcurred. It prevents them having to blame themselves and their terrible policies and is intended to scare the public into acquiescence. It doesn’t work.
Trump has many, glaring faults, but millions of people are looking at the mess his more ‘rational’ counterparts are making of pretty much everything and thinking they fancy a bit of that. That ought to give his critics pause for thought.
Because I don’t want to vote for a party that’s busily fúcking me over? That seems a pretty reasonable position to me. :shrug:
If our politicians are so keen to make clear to us that there is no point in voting because they’ll just do what they fúcking well like anyway, let them discover the consequences.
Some years ago I worked with a very intelligent German chap who tried to convert me to Scientology. He took me through why he became a Scientologist and after a few conversations it became apparent to me what they actually do. They can't 'fix' anything or actually make you any better so what they do is start by making it clear to you what a disaster your life is, how desperately unhappy you really are. If they've managed to do that, they have you. They then do very little other than point out how happy you are now, and you believe it at that point.
Trump does the same thing. He tries to convince everyone how terrible things were i.e. the trade deals that perfectly intelligent, competent people signed that have had positive impacts on many economies, and then claims to have fixed everything by doing very little that anyone else couldn't have or wouldn't have. Did Trump bring NK to the table? Or the fact that their people are starving and they recently blew up their nuclear testing facility? Is Britain really a terrible place? Is the EU really collapsing?
No, of course not. Trump is much like Putin, less dangerous than anyone thinks but always irritating. The difference is that as the owner of the largest economy and strongest military in the world there is always the chance etc etc
It's the people around him that concern me, Burney. That national security adviser has a long record of being borderline psycho and xenophone of the highest order. Trump is fine as long as the people around him are.
What you've described there is every democratic politician who seeks election ever.
Btw, a 'xenophone'? Someone who refuses to speak a foreign language or a huge fan of 'Anabasis'?
Did you know the film 'The Warriors' was based on Anabasis?
Do you even know what Anabasis is? :-\