Does Trump just say whatever comes into his head?

I mentioned this earlier, but it's well worth listening to - so funny

https://pod.link/1651876897/episode/93f93793e3d115b28d5e35b364b33c2b

I have read it. He calls it a "love letter to hillbillies", but then proceeds to bitch about hillbillies for the rest of the book, calling them lazy, feckless and irresponsible. Apart from him, of course.

@Elissaisnotmyname
I recently watched a film about Vance’s life story, he comes from a very humble background and his family were hillbillies.

You don’t say …..,

Oh yes, it was really funny when he mimicked the disabled journalist with cerebral palsy. He's a cunt.

Gosh I wonder why the Palestinians are radicalised???

Sadly, if Gaza ever gets rebuilt beautifully, it won’t be done for the benefit of the Palestinians…

Given that our PM reads off an autocue like a robot, while looking like he is being held at gunpoint, we can hardly talk!

The comments about Palestinian are interesting.. At the time I thought he meant because it's such a terrible mass of rubble and destruction, it would be easier to rebuild it with no one there?.
Then I thought in a day dream imagine if someone dud rebuild it "beautifully" and the Palestinians could go back to a very beautiful high end type of place... But of course with their consultation and in put and so on. But it may weaken the grip of hammas to say look stunning housing, schools and hospital and so on.
I know it's a pipe dream but I thought what an amazing result that could be for them after all they have been through

Me too. Dubya couldn't spell and didn't know much about well geography or history or politics. But he would be a conquering hero if he turned up today.

But that’s not what he’s doing 🙄. He’s not asking them he’s telling them - he wants them gone. This is not an act of charity. Jesus, can people not see this man for who he is?? Astounding 😬😩🤬

I agree with you on this.

In the article that I read, trump said that he wanted to get the Palestinians out of gaza for their own safety, as Gaza is such a dangerous wartorn area at the moment.

OMG, lightbulb moment! Of course! I get it now…Moving the Palestinians out of Gaza is all for their own good. How could I have been so blind?

@Deetelves

I don't know if you've heard this, but it's an absolutely hysterically funny breakdown of Hillbilly Elegy
https://pod.link/1651876897/episode/93f93793e3d115b28d5e35b364b33c2b

Having spent a lot of time in the Appalachians, I am aware there are many, many ordinary, hardworking people and successful people getting in with their lives, supporting their communities. To hear JD tell it, he’s the only one from Ohio who even got to college…

‘The book, Hillbilly Elegy is largely true, with plenty of shadings at Vance's convenience. Interestingly, Vance is actually a beneficiary of plenty of the DEI programmes (in his case rural poverty) he so loathes.’

I’ve read the book. The ‘true’ bit? Mmm. Well it’s his story to tell, plucky little middleclass boy with an addict mother rises above all the lazy, shit, addicted people of the Appalachians to be a success. a diamond out of millions of lumps of coal - to hear JD tell it.

He did benefit from all the DEI programs, but like many insecure people who’ve been successful, the first thing he wants to do is pull up the ladder behind him to make himself seem all the more speshal.

The Gulf of America nonsense just goes to show the deep rooted insecurities in the whole fucking nation. All the USA USA! Stuff

Decades ago, the USA was the land everyone wanted to live in, the All American Dream, the President was the most important man in the world. People watched the movies and read the books and thought what a wonderful idyllic place the US is.
Now, in the last 20 years or so, with the advent of the internet, social media and accessible travel, the world is realising that actually, the US is really no better than anywhere else. They have shedloads of poverty, deprivation, crime, drug addictions, illegal immigrants, just like the rest of us. It's no longer somewhere to aspire to live and work for many people. Americans, for the most part, just can't accept the reality that their country isn't the American Dream for the rest of the world it once was.

The Gulf of America nonsense just goes to show the deep rooted insecurities in the whole fucking nation.

No. It shows the deep rooted insecurities of 49.7% of the roughly 59% of the vote eligible population that turned out in 2024.

It's no more representative of an entire nation than Brexit was of the UK.

The Gulf of America nonsense just goes to show the deep rooted insecurities in the whole fucking nation. All the USA USA! Stuff.

re-naming things after yourself or your country and threatening OTHER countries with takeover is straight from the dictator handbook. Not sure why Trump thinks the rest of the world are going to sit by while he threatens Greenland or anywhere else.
He’s absolutely fucking crackers. He’s also OLD which I imagine why he doesn’t give a damn about climate change or the future of the planet.

BooToYouHalloween · Yesterday 20:42

Most Palestinians are originally from Egypt and Jordan so his statement actually has some historical context.

That's an oft repeated lie, most of the Palestinians are indigenous and those who aren't are from the border regions and part of the same ethnic group.

There's actually quite a lot of information about this, but as usual, if you're down a right wing information rabbit hole, you're not getting it. A Hollywood movie of an autobiography isn't much to judge on. The book, Hillbilly Elegy is largely true, with plenty of shadings at Vance's convenience. Interestingly, Vance is actually a beneficiary of plenty of the DEI programmes (in his case rural poverty) he so loathes.
https://time.com/7002807/jd-vance-bootstrapped-myth/

His political views have done a rapid 180 since being bought a senate seat by Peter Thiel and becoming radicalised by Curtis Yarvin, among others.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/18/jd-vance-world-view-sources-00168984

Yes he’s written a book called Hillbilly Elergy which is meant to be good. He also studied law at Yale so he must be bright especially considering his background

Yes he does. Along with Liz Truss, he is living proof that the world is not a meritocracy

My hot take is if you don't know how to spell the name of a country, your opinion on it can be safely disregarded

What an utterly bizarre comment. 😅 sorry if I offended a fan of the dolphin porn obsessed ( look it up) birth rate obsessed, immigrants munching on the pets obsessed, short arsed weirdo with a knack for saying the wrong thing ALL the time that is JD Vance
It really is just an opinion. Plenty of far right extremists think he really is the cats PJs…

Maybe the more important question should be; why doesn't Columbia want it's own citizens back?
What have these Columbian's done which makes them undesirable by their own government.

I'm guessing they are criminals, thugs, troublemakers which their country don't want to deal with and were hoping the US would just allow non-vetted illegal migrants to remain.

He wasn't saying that he didn't want them back, he was complaining about the manner in which it was done. He said that they were Colombian citizens and should be treated with dignity, and sent the presidential plane to assist with bringing home deportees. He later issued a statement saying that their borders are open to anyone who wants to come.