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No laughing stock in England, they just went all in for Trump by a landslide. Now they will soon get a great trade deal with our country w/o having to go thru the ultra liberal European Union.
Brexit is now a fait accompli. |
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| nw30 wrote: | No laughing stock in England, they just went all in for Trump by a landslide. Now they will soon get a great trade deal with our country w/o having to go thru the ultra liberal European Union.
Brexit is now a fait accompli. |
IQ30, they were not voting for trump, did you ever see their trump blimp...
lets see you back up youtr stupidity you no-to low level non-thinker.... you never back up your russian propaganda.
London protests against Donald Trump kick off with 'Trump baby' blimp
A blimp depicting US President Donald Trump as an orange baby has taken off in London, kicking off a day of protests. Trump has outraged British politicians with his comments in a tabloid interview.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_baby_balloon
Donald Trump baby balloon
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Donald Trump baby balloon
The helium balloon floating outdoors, held by restraining cords, surrounded by protesters, with the Houses of Parliament in the background
The balloon being flown in Parliament Square in London on 13 July 2018 (Westminster Abbey is in the top left)
Artist Matt Bonner
Completion date July 2018
Medium Plastic inflatable
Subject Donald Trump
Dimensions 6 m (20 ft)
| Quote: | During an official visit to the United Kingdom by President of the United States Donald Trump, an inflatable caricature of Trump (usually known as the Trump Baby or less commonly the Baby Trump)[1] was flown in protest of him, his visit, his history of alleged sexual misconduct, and his policies.[2] The balloon depicts Trump as an angry orange baby holding a smartphone.
The balloon was flown over Parliament Square, London, on 13 July 2018, where the police estimate that over 100,000 protestors were in attendance,[3] and 50,000 more in the Meadows, Edinburgh, the following day, where protests were also held.[4] Although Trump was not visiting Edinburgh, he was spending the weekend at his Turnberry golf course,[5] but permission to fly the balloon there was refused by Police Scotland.[6]
The balloon has also been flown in France, Argentina, Ireland, and Denmark. With permission, activists made a copy of the balloon and it has been flown in numerous locations in the U.S. |
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| Any national leader who mocks another national leader for putting government transparency ahead of a grip'n'grin party is, IMO, a child. |
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| isobars wrote: | | Any national leader who mocks another national leader for putting government transparency ahead of a grip'n'grin party is, IMO, a child. |
you dumb f, no brainer lowest level non-thinker ever.
there was no transparency, his meetings were hidden in a special server that does not allow transparency. And he would not allow document production to witness production. Hence there is no transparency and those he loves and helps are all virtual dictators who hate democracy.
you are so dumb it defies snail logic. your stupidity is a clear and present danger to america and for which she stands as well as the constitution. IE moscow Iso.
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what an idiot
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“What does the world see when they look at the USA now?
Here’s what one of Ireland’s respected (mainstream) political writers says. Brace yourself! ”
Irish Times, April 25, 2020. By Fintan O’Toole
THE WORLD HAS LOVED, HATED AND ENVIED THE U.S. NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE PITY IT.
| Quote: | Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the US until now: pity.
However bad things are for most other rich democracies, it is hard not to feel sorry for Americans. Most of them did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016. Yet they are locked down with a malignant narcissist who, instead of protecting his people from Covid-19, has amplified its lethality. The country Trump promised to make great again has never in its history seemed so pitiful.
Will American prestige ever recover from this shameful episode? The US went into the coronavirus crisis with immense advantages: precious weeks of warning about what was coming, the world’s best concentration of medical and scientific expertise, effectively limitless financial resources, a military complex with stunning logistical capacity and most of the world’s leading technology corporations. Yet it managed to make itself the global epicentre of the pandemic.
As the American writer George Packer puts it in the current edition of the Atlantic, “The United States reacted ... like Pakistan or Belarus – like a country with shoddy infrastructure and a dysfunctional government whose leaders were too corrupt or stupid to head off mass suffering.”
It is one thing to be powerless in the face of a natural disaster, quite another to watch vast power being squandered in real time – wilfully, malevolently, vindictively. It is one thing for governments to fail (as, in one degree or another, most governments did), quite another to watch a ruler and his supporters actively spread a deadly virus. Trump, his party and Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News became vectors of the pestilence.
The grotesque spectacle of the president openly inciting people (some of them armed) to take to the streets to oppose the restrictions that save lives is the manifestation of a political death wish. What are supposed to be daily briefings on the crisis, demonstrative of national unity in the face of a shared challenge, have been used by Trump merely to sow confusion and division. They provide a recurring horror show in which all the neuroses that haunt the American subconscious dance naked on live TV.
If the plague is a test, its ruling political nexus ensured that the US would fail it at a terrible cost in human lives. In the process, the idea of the US as the world’s leading nation – an idea that has shaped the past century – has all but evaporated.
Other than the Trump impersonator Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, who is now looking to the US as the exemplar of anything other than what not to do? How many people in Düsseldorf or Dublin are wishing they lived in Detroit or Dallas?
It is hard to remember now but, even in 2017, when Trump took office, the conventional wisdom in the US was that the Republican Party and the broader framework of US political institutions would prevent him from doing too much damage. This was always a delusion, but the pandemic has exposed it in the most savage ways.
Abject surrender
What used to be called mainstream conservatism has not absorbed Trump – he has absorbed it. Almost the entire right-wing half of American politics has surrendered abjectly to him. It has sacrificed on the altar of wanton stupidity the most basic ideas of responsibility, care and even safety.
Thus, even at the very end of March, 15 Republican governors had failed to order people to stay at home or to close non-essential businesses. In Alabama, for example, it was not until April 3rd that governor Kay Ivey finally issued a stay-at-home order.
In Florida, the state with the highest concentration of elderly people with underlying conditions, governor Ron DeSantis, a Trump mini-me, kept the beach resorts open to students travelling from all over the US for spring break parties. Even on April 1st, when he issued restrictions, DeSantis exempted religious services and “recreational activities”.
Georgia governor Brian Kemp, when he finally issued a stay-at-home order on April 1st, explained: “We didn’t know that [the virus can be spread by people without symptoms] until the last 24 hours.”
This is not mere ignorance – it is deliberate and homicidal stupidity. There is, as the demonstrations this week in US cities have shown, plenty of political mileage in denying the reality of the pandemic. It is fuelled by Fox News and far-right internet sites, and it reaps for these politicians millions of dollars in donations, mostly (in an ugly irony) from older people who are most vulnerable to the coronavirus.
It draws on a concoction of conspiracy theories, hatred of science, paranoia about the “deep state” and religious providentialism (God will protect the good folks) that is now very deeply infused in the mindset of the American right.
Trump embodies and enacts this mindset, but he did not invent it. The US response to the coronavirus crisis has been paralysed by a contradiction that the Republicans have inserted into the heart of US democracy. On the one hand, they want to control all the levers of governmental power. On the other they have created a popular base by playing on the notion that government is innately evil and must not be trusted.
The contradiction was made manifest in two of Trump’s statements on the pandemic: on the one hand that he has “total authority”, and on the other that “I don’t take responsibility at all”. Caught between authoritarian and anarchic impulses, he is incapable of coherence.
Fertile ground
But this is not just Donald Trump. The crisis has shown definitively that Trump’s presidency is not an aberration. It has grown on soil long prepared to receive it. The monstrous blossoming of misrule has structure and purpose and strategy behind it.
There are very powerful interests who demand “freedom” in order to do as they like with the environment, society and the economy. They have infused a very large part of American culture with the belief that “freedom” is literally more important than life. My freedom to own assault weapons trumps your right not to get shot at school. Now, my freedom to go to the barber (“I Need a Haircut” read one banner this week in St Paul, Minnesota) trumps your need to avoid infection.
Usually when this kind of outlandish idiocy is displaying itself, there is the comforting thought that, if things were really serious, it would all stop. People would sober up. Instead, a large part of the US has hit the bottle even harder.
And the president, his party and their media allies keep supplying the drinks. There has been no moment of truth, no shock of realisation that the antics have to end. No one of any substance on the US right has stepped in to say: get a grip, people are dying here.
That is the mark of how deep the trouble is for the US – it is not just that Trump has treated the crisis merely as a way to feed tribal hatreds but that this behaviour has become normalised. When the freak show is live on TV every evening, and the star is boasting about his ratings, it is not really a freak show any more. For a very large and solid bloc of Americans, it is reality.
And this will get worse before it gets better. Trump has at least eight more months in power. In his inaugural address in 2017, he evoked “American carnage” and promised to make it stop. But now that the real carnage has arrived, he is revelling in it. He is in his element.
As things get worse, he will pump more hatred and falsehood, more death-wish defiance of reason and decency, into the groundwater. If a new administration succeeds him in 2021, it will have to clean up the toxic dump he leaves behind. If he is re-elected, toxicity will have become the lifeblood of American politics.
Either way, it will be a long time before the rest of the world can imagine America being great again. |
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https://www.reddit.com/r/IntelligenceNews/comments/gy27my/exanc_spy_shot_at_pointblank_range_in_los_angeles/
Ex-ANC spy shot at point-blank range in Los Angeles protest
| Quote: | Ex-ANC spy shot at point-blank range in Los Angeles protest
When former ANC spy Bradley Steyn saw a woman being assaulted by a policeman at a march against police brutality in Los Angeles last Saturday, he had a flashback.
It was to a day in 1988, when, at the age of 17, he watched helplessly as notorious "Wit Wolf" gunman Barend Strydom opened fire on a bus full of black people in central Pretoria, killing eight.
"My biggest regret has always been that I didn't do anything to stop Strydom hurting anyone. That's why I went to help the woman on Saturday. I hate bullies," said Steyn.
His decision cost him - Steyn was beaten and shot in the scrotum.
As he moved to push the policeman off the cowering woman, he took a baton to the chest from another officer.
He said the officer then aimed his rifle at Steyn's genitals and fired a rubber bullet directly into his scrotum.
"This is not the land of the free nor the home of the brave. This is the land of cowards who beat and hurt innocent people," said Steyn, recovering in bed following emergency surgery. |
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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-do-you-keep-hiring-people-you-believe-are-wackos-n1231575?cid=eml_mra_20200619
'Why do you keep hiring people you believe are wackos and liars?'
Asked why he keeps hiring people he considers "wackos and liars," Trump didn't answer. That's a shame - it's a question in need of a response.
| Quote: | | President Donald Trump stared in silence on Thursday afternoon when CBS News reporter Paula Reid asked him why he keeps hiring "wackos" and "liars," referencing the president's own label for his former national security adviser John Bolton... "Mr. President, why do you keep hiring people that you believe are wackos and liars?" Reid shouted at the end of a White House roundtable, to no response from Trump. |
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this is interesting, my father was involved with the scientists to prove that the patriot missiles fired to defend Israel way back that not one of the Patriot missiles actually intercepted a missle. They proved it by physics. but here this is troubling, that only one cruise missiles was able to get to the target out of 100. What did that cost us several hundred million dollars. and makes our military the laughing stock of the world. My guess is they should not have been fired from such a long distance as that is a easy target to intercept. Makes america weaker without knowing how to use weapons properly. The manufacturer was very happy I am sure.
The Russians claimed they hit the majority of the Tomahawk missiles during the US missile attack at Syria. The US denied it. How can you prove which one told the truth?
| Quote: | I sympathize with a lot of people who have difficulty with this one. There are two conflicting stories. I would be surprised if there were any active Quorans, who were in Syria on the night of April 14, 2018 or who has had the opportunity to examine the wreckage. As a result, most of us are left to choose from two second hand accounts. However, there is one clue, which might help point us in the right direction.
We know for a fact that over 100 cruise missiles were fired that night. We also know that only one target was struck: an abandoned research facility. It is highly unlikely that the US would direct over 100 cruise missiles against a single abandoned research facility. In all likelihood, there would have been other targets. However, the fact that no other targets were struck suggests that the missiles did not reach their targets. Among the possible reasons why a cruise missile might not make it to its target, getting shot down tops the list. Based on the fact that only one target was hit, despite the fact that hundreds were launched that night, it is more likely than not that the majority of them were shot down. |
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