Parsad Posted January 21 Posted January 21 2 hours ago, cubsfan said: Haha - yeah - but Trump is forcing all the changes! You guys never quit! If he forced himself on your wife or daughter, would you let him do it? That's the logic you are using. Cheers!
cubsfan Posted January 21 Posted January 21 4 minutes ago, Spekulatius said: Listen to this masterpiece though. He runs the arc from his grandma, him becoming a baseball player, mental institutions, California homeless. It’s better than Lincoln’s Gettysburg address . Lincoln never made it on TV unlike Trump. Ha, that's exactly why Trump packs stadium after stadium with 20,000 people at a crack. He's the populist that America's love - instead of a stuffed shirt pompous ass globalists like the Democrats put on their tickets. What was Kamala's biggest rally?? a few hundred that she had to pay to attend..
Parsad Posted January 21 Posted January 21 2 hours ago, Gregmal said: LMFAO and Im sure you watched every minute of it. Then hawked his social media accounts waiting for the next statement.... It really is kinda wild how the people most obsessed with Trump are.....the very ones whom go around telling everyone else they are obsessed with Trump. Greg, frankly I am obsessed with Trump. And if you aren't, you should be. He is changing the world order. It won't matter to us on a day to day basis, and we have plenty of money to stuff our faces with steaks and bourbon, but it will have some effect on your children and grandchildren. I'm 56 years old in a 75 year old's body...I'll be lucky if I live another 10 years. I have no children. My Mom who I take care of will probably also be dead by the time I die. But I do have a younger brother who will probably be around for another 30-40 years...a niece and nephew who will be around for another 80-90 years. Yeah, what this fucking asshole does matters and will matter in the future. The destruction of entities that kept the World safe...militarily, economically, medically, etc...all being destroyed or sacrificed...some rightfully so, others will be a profound loss! Your lack of empathy is a sad fact, but unfortunate reality of what we are seeing today! It's a malaise that has permeated half of your country, and like a virus or bacteria, has spread to other parts of the world. The engine of this disease is the President of your country...a creation of the mistakes of his predecessors and the greed/power-lust of his supporters going back decades. I had a terrific fettucine and a nice glass of wine this evening! Nothing will change my world tomorrow...I will eat well, I will sit on my toilet and read my daily newspaper, I will watch the Canucks play while I sip on a gin and tonic, I will look at my portfolio and go "bleah...nothing new, nothing changed". But the world will be different for my niece and nephew! Cheers!
Parsad Posted January 21 Posted January 21 1 hour ago, cubsfan said: Hey, I love Trump! Good to see he lives rent free in your head and @dwy000's head for a different reason. Greatest US President since Lincoln. Cubs, isn't Trump the best player to ever play for the Cubs? He hit a 500-footer out of Wrigley Park, didn't he? It bounced so hard it hit the Green Monster in Fenway! Cheers!
Parsad Posted January 21 Posted January 21 1 hour ago, Mephistopheles said: Cops uniting to stand up against the Gestapo..let’s see how the “blue lives matter except capitol police” crowd reacts Pretty sure she was a professional agitator hired by some groups to infiltrate the Minneapolis Police Department! We know how these depraved people work! Cheers!
LC Posted January 21 Posted January 21 22 hours ago, UK said: I think I fall in the category, but I do not get what you mean. Why wouldnt I approve or not individual things on their individual merits, instead of lumping them into some kind of weired group? I am close to 50/50 on Trump, just as was close to 50/50 on Biden or whoever was before:). Same with EU, many great things, but not all and some are just stupid. For the record, I think Trump is wrong on FED/USD, could solve Greenland differently and the initial composition of Board of Peace makes me sick!:( I wasn't going that far - rather just saying that Europe is just as selfish as Trump re: their approach to managing climate change by shipping it off to developing countries. Climate change is a worthwhile problem to address but IMO the EU's approach is more optics than impact. Similar to Trump's nonsense.
Parsad Posted January 21 Posted January 21 19 minutes ago, Spekulatius said: Listen to this masterpiece though. He runs the arc from his grandma, him becoming a baseball player, mental institutions, California homeless. It’s better than Lincoln’s Gettysburg address . Lincoln never made it on TV unlike Trump. LOL! Pretty sure they had black and white tv's during Lincoln's era. He just wasn't good enough as an orator! Cheers!
UK Posted January 21 Posted January 21 1 minute ago, LC said: I wasn't going that far - rather just saying that Europe is just as selfish as Trump re: their approach to managing climate change by shipping it off to developing countries. Climate change is a worthwhile problem to address but IMO the EU's approach is more optics than impact. Similar to Trump's nonsense. Oh, sorry then, totally agree!
Parsad Posted January 21 Posted January 21 21 minutes ago, Spekulatius said: Listen to this masterpiece though. He runs the arc from his grandma, him becoming a baseball player, mental institutions, California homeless. It’s better than Lincoln’s Gettysburg address . Lincoln never made it on TV unlike Trump. Spek, this reminds me of whenever I go to watch my Canucks play at a sports bar, and there is always one guy who wants to talk to you and tell you all of these stories. Frankly, he might actually make a good partner to drink with...it would be enormously entertaining, not politically correct at all, and pretty damn funny! Cheers!
Parsad Posted January 21 Posted January 21 16 minutes ago, cubsfan said: Ha, that's exactly why Trump packs stadium after stadium with 20,000 people at a crack. He's the populist that America's love - instead of a stuffed shirt pompous ass globalists like the Democrats put on their tickets. What was Kamala's biggest rally?? a few hundred that she had to pay to attend.. Like I just said to Spek...he might be great at a bar...but he definitely does not belong as the representative of the United States! Cheers!
NnnnotSoSmart Posted January 21 Posted January 21 (edited) The Arctic Smokescreen The most dangerous mistake about "Greenland is believing it is about Greenland. We are told this is a diplomatic spat, a real estate obsession, a chaotic throwback to 19th-century imperialism. The press treats it as spectacle. Commentators debate whether the administration is serious or simply trolling. Europeans express outrage at the affront to sovereignty. The whole affair is framed as noise: eccentric, embarrassing, ultimately inconsequential. This framing is comfortable. And almost surely wrong. The conventional reading of the Greenland saga is diplomatic incompetence in real time. The administration threatens force, gets rebuffed, escalates, gets rebuffed again, then retreats to the language of a purchase. Commentators shake their heads. Europeans express bewilderment. What looks like flailing is a classic Trump-style negotiation sequence. You open with an outrageous demand precisely so your real demand seems reasonable by comparison. It goes like this: Signal acquisition. Denmark scoffs. Mention force. Denmark recoils. Insist on force, loudly, repeatedly. Denmark reaches peak indignation. Others come to their side. Then pivot. A purchase offer that eliminates Denmark's entire national debt ($142B) and nearly doubles Greenland's GDP (~$450B)... And suddenly the question is no longer "how dare you" but "wait, how much?" Edited January 21 by NnnnotSoSmart
John Hjorth Posted January 21 Posted January 21 Seen here this morning, according to Sky News, which I don't have access to, thus also nor the source for this :
Luke Posted January 21 Posted January 21 8 hours ago, dealraker said: Greg's kinda like me and Cubs, obsessed with Trump but unaware he's obsessed with Trump. Hell, the entire world is in a Trump bubble. I was first though, I've been following the worthless POS for over 50 years...so that's a real obsession. LOL, if you are reading this you too are obsessed with Trump. Eventually if you follow Trump long enough you'll too laugh at yourself for trying to not follow him. He's fun to watch. He has patterns, they just repeat. People sucked in, people pull themseves out...but still they/we all stay obsessed. +1 7 hours ago, cubsfan said: Hey, I love Trump! Good to see he lives rent free in your head and @dwy000's head for a different reason. Greatest US President since Lincoln. Doesnt get more true the more you repeat it - Trump is a laughing stock outside MAGA now. American Anthem gets booed in many countries now, they joked about him at the WEF etc. He destroys the valuable reputation the US has.
John Hjorth Posted January 21 Posted January 21 30 minutes ago, Luke said: +1 Doesnt get more true the more you repeat it - Trump is a laughing stock outside MAGA now. American Anthem gets booed in many countries now, they joked about him at the WEF etc. He destroys the valuable reputation the US has. That's not even close to an exageration, more an understatement, @Luke. The issue here is also, that some American citizens think it's for them to judge about that. I don't really know the name of this bias, but I soeculate it likely has a name.
UK Posted January 21 Posted January 21 2 hours ago, Luke said: +1 Doesnt get more true the more you repeat it - Trump is a laughing stock outside MAGA now. American Anthem gets booed in many countries now, they joked about him at the WEF etc. He destroys the valuable reputation the US has. I am not sure about the reputation but he is definitely not a laughing stock anymore, at least in my circles:)
Parsad Posted January 21 Posted January 21 Another one bites the dust...and another one gone, and another one gone...another one bites the dust! Cheers! https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/20/politics/lindsey-halligan-judge-vitriol-charade
cubsfan Posted January 21 Posted January 21 2 hours ago, Luke said: +1 Doesnt get more true the more you repeat it - Trump is a laughing stock outside MAGA now. American Anthem gets booed in many countries now, they joked about him at the WEF etc. He destroys the valuable reputation the US has. Believe me, that is perfectly ok. So long as he saves us from the fate of our pathetic allies in Europe - he will have done his job.
Gregmal Posted January 21 Posted January 21 20 minutes ago, cubsfan said: Believe me, that is perfectly ok. So long as he saves us from the fate of our pathetic allies in Europe - he will have done his job. The US caring about what the European establishment thinks would kind of be like LeBron James worrying about what a D2 assistant coach thinks of him.
73 Reds Posted January 21 Posted January 21 9 hours ago, Parsad said: What makes you think he's a lame duck President? Everything he's done so far has pushed the boundaries of the Constitution, freedom of speech and due process. He's pardoned almost every single criminal who was charged on January 6th and fulfilled his "Revenge Tour" against the media, government agencies, prosecutors, etc. There are threats to kill the mid-terms. Why are you so convinced your hero isn't going to stay in power or put in a puppet regime to do his bidding? Cheers! Sanjeev, it saddens me (really!) that otherwise intelligent people lose all perspective when it comes to Trump. You tell us what we "should" be doing, thinking and believing. Evidently you and only you can properly interpret the Constitution, Freedom of Speech and Due process. Such a presumptive air of authority won't get you anywhere other than to encourage more "Trumps" in the future.
Sweet Posted January 21 Posted January 21 (edited) 10 hours ago, Parsad said: He was the Governor of the Bank of Canada...not a whole lot you can do if your boss is hard left Liberal. Even as an advisor to Trudeau, do you think Trudeau listened to him on a lot of things? Remember Trudeau had the sense to wear blackface at a couple of Halloween parties as a nearly 40 year old teacher! And in England as the Governor of the Bank of England, again, he wasn't making the decisions other than on fiscal/monetary policy. During his own term, so far he's been making centrist decisions...smart decisions...acting with decorum in the face of huge adversity with their bully neighbor and biggest trading partner...while still protecting broad progressive ideals that have been completely negated and destroyed in the U.S. There's a reason why our banks didn't fail during the GFC! Cheers! Mark's political leanings was well known in the UK when he was bank of England governor. He brought the DEI crap into the Bank of England. He referred to Brexit voters as far-right populists, undoubtedly he didn't mean all Brexit voters, but that's what he viewed the movement as being led by. I know you can't choose what your child becomes, but one of his is trans and received therapy at the Tavistock clinic which could only have happened with parental approval. At time of being an advisor to Trudeau he wasn't in public office, and even as governors of both the BoC and BoE, both those positions are independent of politics. He has claimed often that those who claim the system are broken are often looking to destroy the system rather than reform it, a convenient way to dismiss the criticisms and do nothing. And ironically, whilst this has been his criticism of the PP (whom he has criticised as a 'populist') he has subsequently identified many of the same problems that PP did several years prior. So he doesn't get a pass in my view. Of course everyone can read it whatever way they want but that's my own view. Edited January 21 by Sweet
dealraker Posted January 21 Posted January 21 (edited) 11 minutes ago, 73 Reds said: Sanjeev, it saddens me (really!) that otherwise intelligent people lose all perspective when it comes to Trump. You tell us what we "should" be doing, thinking and believing. Evidently you and only you can properly interpret the Constitution, Freedom of Speech and Due process. Such a presumptive air of authority won't get you anywhere other than to encourage more "Trumps" in the future. Isn't your first sentence a description of yourself, not others? Yes, there will be more Trump-like's coming. Edited January 21 by dealraker
Sweet Posted January 21 Posted January 21 7 hours ago, NnnnotSoSmart said: The Arctic Smokescreen The most dangerous mistake about "Greenland is believing it is about Greenland. We are told this is a diplomatic spat, a real estate obsession, a chaotic throwback to 19th-century imperialism. The press treats it as spectacle. Commentators debate whether the administration is serious or simply trolling. Europeans express outrage at the affront to sovereignty. The whole affair is framed as noise: eccentric, embarrassing, ultimately inconsequential. This framing is comfortable. And almost surely wrong. The conventional reading of the Greenland saga is diplomatic incompetence in real time. The administration threatens force, gets rebuffed, escalates, gets rebuffed again, then retreats to the language of a purchase. Commentators shake their heads. Europeans express bewilderment. What looks like flailing is a classic Trump-style negotiation sequence. You open with an outrageous demand precisely so your real demand seems reasonable by comparison. It goes like this: Signal acquisition. Denmark scoffs. Mention force. Denmark recoils. Insist on force, loudly, repeatedly. Denmark reaches peak indignation. Others come to their side. Then pivot. A purchase offer that eliminates Denmark's entire national debt ($142B) and nearly doubles Greenland's GDP (~$450B)... And suddenly the question is no longer "how dare you" but "wait, how much?" They have already made an offer to buy Greenland, now and in 2019. I don't know if there was a discussion of money but Denmark has been clear that Greenland is not for sale. So whilst the sequence may be correct the pivot to an offer to buy Greenland seems off as Denmark doesn't appear to be interested in the money.
Gregmal Posted January 21 Posted January 21 9 hours ago, Parsad said: Greg, frankly I am obsessed with Trump. And if you aren't, you should be. He is changing the world order. It won't matter to us on a day to day basis, and we have plenty of money to stuff our faces with steaks and bourbon, but it will have some effect on your children and grandchildren. I'm 56 years old in a 75 year old's body...I'll be lucky if I live another 10 years. I have no children. My Mom who I take care of will probably also be dead by the time I die. But I do have a younger brother who will probably be around for another 30-40 years...a niece and nephew who will be around for another 80-90 years. Yeah, what this fucking asshole does matters and will matter in the future. The destruction of entities that kept the World safe...militarily, economically, medically, etc...all being destroyed or sacrificed...some rightfully so, others will be a profound loss! Your lack of empathy is a sad fact, but unfortunate reality of what we are seeing today! It's a malaise that has permeated half of your country, and like a virus or bacteria, has spread to other parts of the world. The engine of this disease is the President of your country...a creation of the mistakes of his predecessors and the greed/power-lust of his supporters going back decades. I had a terrific fettucine and a nice glass of wine this evening! Nothing will change my world tomorrow...I will eat well, I will sit on my toilet and read my daily newspaper, I will watch the Canucks play while I sip on a gin and tonic, I will look at my portfolio and go "bleah...nothing new, nothing changed". But the world will be different for my niece and nephew! Cheers! If you truly believe that it’s an existential crisis, then I think it warrants the question of whether this is new or not. Because the issue is that the same characters have been falling for the media propaganda and lying about the severity of these “existential threats”…for over a decade now. I wish we had the archives to make a Wall of Shame for all the suckers who 100% scarfed down Russiagate; and then every manufactured crisis after it. Just total fools. Now, I could see sympathy if when the baton passed, this same sort of unhealthy and bizarre scrutiny carried over to the next President…..but it didn’t. They proceeded to watch a guy duck the media, trip all over himself in a literal sense, and slur off one syllable word based teleprompter speeches only to tell us, dead ass serious, it was a far right conspiracy theory that he was shot. And as if that couldn’t conceivably be topped, now those same clowns want to be taken seriously when offering up their medical assessment of “Trumps health” LMFAO…you can’t make this shit up. Im starting to get the way I was towards the end of Trumps first term. Where I really wouldn’t mind a change of scenery, only because the bitches and whiny children are just soooo annoying you just want them to go away and shut the fuck up lol. It’s fun watching them go bananas, but even that after awhile becomes redundant. Thankfully for all, midterms are 9 months away. We should get some reprieve.
Gregmal Posted January 21 Posted January 21 15 minutes ago, 73 Reds said: Sanjeev, it saddens me (really!) that otherwise intelligent people lose all perspective when it comes to Trump. You tell us what we "should" be doing, thinking and believing. Evidently you and only you can properly interpret the Constitution, Freedom of Speech and Due process. Such a presumptive air of authority won't get you anywhere other than to encourage more "Trumps" in the future. There will be more Trumps in the future. The next is going to be some hard left version that’s even more powerful and agitating. Then it will be a right wing guy. Then it will be a lefty. The cycle needs to break, but likely is unfixable.
dealraker Posted January 21 Posted January 21 A big wonder to me is: How much is Stephen Miller actually the ideas of Trump? How much is Stephen Miller actually running our country? I'd wager is is far more than we suspect.
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