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Every day waking up to yet another insane declaration from Trump. America is losing the respect of the world

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100A · 05/02/2025 16:51

It's like a parallel universe - how did America come to this? So now he plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza we are told - to create the 'Riviera of the Middle East.' A golf course and hotels probably. The £2 million people can just go wherever. Wtf! AIBU to think America is imploding in on itself?

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Parker231 · 07/02/2025 13:09

Ilovemytulips · 07/02/2025 13:01

I sincerely hope he stays far away from the UK. For all our faults (which country doesn't have any?) We don't need him or Musk meddling in our politics.

Does the UK let in convicted felons?

BurntBroccoli · 07/02/2025 13:06

Notaflippinclue · 07/02/2025 12:44

Trump will be good for the UK - anti trans pro free speech anti two tier policing for a start some of it will hopefully rub off

Seriously?!

Can I ask what job you do? Have you ever used the NHS?

Princessconsuelabananahammock9 · 07/02/2025 13:03

Notaflippinclue · 07/02/2025 12:44

Trump will be good for the UK - anti trans pro free speech anti two tier policing for a start some of it will hopefully rub off

Your user name is definitely apt.

Ilovemytulips · 07/02/2025 13:01

I sincerely hope he stays far away from the UK. For all our faults (which country doesn't have any?) We don't need him or Musk meddling in our politics.

pananamana · 07/02/2025 12:59

@Notaflippinclue he will be dire for the UK, despite you parroting your far right fascist rubbish all day.

Notaflippinclue · 07/02/2025 12:44

Trump will be good for the UK - anti trans pro free speech anti two tier policing for a start some of it will hopefully rub off

user44456b · 07/02/2025 12:37

Turkeyneck101 · 06/02/2025 22:19

Thank god this isn't real ... having read many maga talking points this really isn't beyond the realms of possibility.

😅

Yes, it's gut-churningly awful pretty much all the time. Honestly, I go to sleep feeling sick to my stomach and wake up feeling sick to my stomach right now. Got to find a laugh or two where you can!

Humdingerydoo · 07/02/2025 11:13

(Not to mention that the population of Gaza has done something like quadruple in that same time frame, despite the ethnic cleansing of all Jews from the land, while the population of Israel has doubled. So it's not even a remotely intelligent comment to be making in the first place 😂)

Humdingerydoo · 07/02/2025 11:10

ARealitycheck · 06/02/2025 22:55

Given the massive population explosion of Jewish people in Palestine from roughly the 80's onward, it is a fair conclusion that a large number entered rather than were born. To most Palestinians the land is not Israel in the same way the Israelis don't accept Palestine

You've made so many anti-Semitic comments on this thread insinuating that Jews don't belong in Israel and how they should be ethnically cleansed from the area, and now you're saying Israel doesn't exist. Please just stop.

SuzieQ300 · 07/02/2025 10:20

I notice the 'Trump will be good for America' comments have dried up.

Cerial · 07/02/2025 10:05

ARealitycheck · 06/02/2025 22:55

Given the massive population explosion of Jewish people in Palestine from roughly the 80's onward, it is a fair conclusion that a large number entered rather than were born. To most Palestinians the land is not Israel in the same way the Israelis don't accept Palestine

Huh what?
massive explosion
roughly the 80s onward
fair conclusion
rather than born
To most Palestinians the land is not Israel in the same way the Israelis don't accept Palestine

Not a @ARealitycheck as much as Kamala-esque word salad

what’s your point?

TheSunnyMintSloth · 07/02/2025 09:09

ARealitycheck · 06/02/2025 22:55

Given the massive population explosion of Jewish people in Palestine from roughly the 80's onward, it is a fair conclusion that a large number entered rather than were born. To most Palestinians the land is not Israel in the same way the Israelis don't accept Palestine

Most Israelis live in the state of Israel, not Palestine.

Fifiworks · 06/02/2025 23:41

Most Israelis were born in Israel. History is helpful to a certain point but ultimately we (as in the world) needs to look at the situation as it now stands.

This is a real lesson from Northern Ireland from my experience. A child’s view will tell you that Northern Ireland should belong to Ireland but ultimately it’s much more complicated than that.

ARealitycheck · 06/02/2025 22:55

TheSunnyMintSloth · 06/02/2025 22:45

Entered Palestine?

Given the massive population explosion of Jewish people in Palestine from roughly the 80's onward, it is a fair conclusion that a large number entered rather than were born. To most Palestinians the land is not Israel in the same way the Israelis don't accept Palestine

TheSunnyMintSloth · 06/02/2025 22:45

ARealitycheck · 06/02/2025 19:33

Which shows incredible double standards given how recent the majority of those entered Palestine and their reasoning for doing so.

Entered Palestine?

Notaflippinclue · 06/02/2025 22:44

Middle East - basket case
Air traffic control - ditto
A new broom as they say

Mumtobabyhavoc · 06/02/2025 22:36

"He's an orange clown. It's impossible to take him seriously." @ZippyDoodle

Yet he won the election. He flipped 6 states.
Not taking him seriously is dangerously stupid.

ARealitycheck · 06/02/2025 22:24

Parker231 · 06/02/2025 20:31

Trump needs to take them into America then as neighbouring countries are refusing (and quite rightly as they have their own issues).

I'd suggest America takes the Israelis given they have a closer way of life to the west. Let the Palestinians stay, given it was their land before Israeli State even existed.

Turkeyneck101 · 06/02/2025 22:19

user44456b · 06/02/2025 18:23

Um, maintaining some semblance of a sense of humour might be all that gets us through this?

Thank god this isn't real ... having read many maga talking points this really isn't beyond the realms of possibility.

Serpentstooth · 06/02/2025 22:14

Musk has got his mitts on air traffic control? Great. He's a genius, dont you know? Albeit one with a ketamine habit. Anyway, being a genius, he can probably run it from his bedroom. If he's as good at it as he is at being top scorer in whatever game he pays someone to play in his name then why would anyone worry? They really have taken over the asylum. Wibble.

ohime · 06/02/2025 22:04

DemonicCaveMaggot · 06/02/2025 17:29

I have just read that Musk is taking over air traffic control in the US.

Oh HELL no.

GouacheEnthusiast · 06/02/2025 21:33

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Ilovemytulips · 06/02/2025 21:32

Trump is saying no US boots needed. Does that mean he expects the Israeli government to put the lives of the IDF on the line to hand Gaza to him on a golden platter?

Seriouslynonono · 06/02/2025 21:16

Eyesopenwideawake · 06/02/2025 18:48

For those wondering what prompted the orange twat to make his Gaza pronouncement, it's not the hotels on the Riviera - no, it's this;

https://unctad.org/news/unrealized-potential-palestinian-oil-and-gas-reserves

At the end of every day . . .

. . . it's always, always, always about oil.

Ilovemytulips · 06/02/2025 21:08

@PollyPaintsFlowers I think the issue most people have with is not the Palestinians who are resigned to leave but those who are insisting they will not. Forcing them out IS ethnic cleansing even if it is dressed up with faux concern.

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