“Shut up, piggy”.

And what was the alternative they were offered? Someone rushed through at the last minute because the incompetent Democrats couldn't get their shit together…

And what was the alternative they were offered? Someone rushed through at the last minute because the incompetent Democrats couldn't get their shit together…

‘A bit useless’. Come on….you're joking right? This government is beyond useless on every level. And we have a chancellor scarily out of her depth, who we’re depending on to turn the chaos round, who keeps u turning on everything because she is clueless, and who in less than a week is going to be delivering a budget that is probably going to bring us to our knees. ‘A lot useless’ would be closer to the truth.

It's not really similar at all. We have a government who are a bit useless. The US has a corrupt, perverted, grifting toddler wielding a wrecking ball.

JD Vance was pretty sensible 10 years ago when he wrote Hillbilly Elegy. In it he said people didn’t like Obama because he wasn’t like them but that wasn’t to do with race, it was because he was middle class, educated and articulate.

Basically, they like Trump because, despite being a billionaire who was born into considerable wealth, he talks and acts more like they do. He says the sort of things lots of working class folk say down the pub. Same for Farage.

I genuinely don't know what Americans expect at this point. He has a criminal record. He did the whole "grab em by the pussy" schtick. He is in the Epstein report. He has been bankrupt and has corruption track records going back decades. He always tries to spark division and hate. He has presided over telling people autism is caused by paracetamol and doesn't believe in Climate Change. He banned abortions FGS.

They VOTED for him. It isn't a game, they chose this.

I don't think that there has been a free and fair election in the US for a long time. Never mind Elon hacking the polling machines last year or whatever went on in Florida in 2000, the amount of gerrymandering and voter suppression is appalling.

Similar to the situation we are in the UK really. Dumb people voting in Labour, not because Starmer was going to be a great leader, but because they wanted the useless Tories out. And now here we are with a government who is slowly bringing our country to its knees, with its main players exiting left stage due to fiddling/corruption (one currently who has escaped due to other big news story saving her arse) and we’re left with someone who is of no use because every time he tries to vote through anything of significance, his lefty back benchers vote against it, so we’re left with a leader who is not fit for purpose.

Anything before the ‘but’ can always be discounted…

Trump told a female reporter this. How come this behaviour is accepted but if it was former president Obama, people would have lost their mind. Obama had to practically be ‘perfect’. When Obama wore a tan suit, it was such a huge deal.

Racism is a sick illness.

Always a " but" somewhere.

This.

It's a series of increasingly head-in-hands dead cats from the WH.

My (depressing) belief is that we've seen the last free and fair presidential election in the US for a period of time. No country has an automatic right to a democracy, after all. Not even America.

Really worrying times.

I wonder why he despises the media 🤔

Which media do you follow instead?

The mainstream media…shit stirring trouble makers who cause division!

Well so has the UK ignored all the human rights abuses and murders, via Saudi because we want their money poured into our sport. It's actually worse than Trump's political motives. We protect the worse people imaginable. We don't ask for individual explanations from police officers and leaders why they've ignored child sexual abuse. There never was the prosecutions over Hillsborough/the Post Office scandal and now the morning sickness drug scandal etc. We can't point fingers.

Thinking rationally here; he said "Quiet, piggy!". Not the same as saying "Shut up!". He's not a fan of Bloomberg which she is a reporter for. The outlet is probably a heavily-biased news outlet favoured by Democrats. He was probably thinking a lot worse but was tame in his words given he was on camera. 'Piggy' is hardly insulting and if you find that it is, then, well, no advice for you from me. It's all tabloid fodder designed to rile people up, and it's worked.

The mainstream media…shit stirring trouble makers who cause division!

The mainstream media…shit stirring trouble makers who cause division!

What utter nonsense. Which media are you referring to specifically?

Trump told a female reporter this. How come this behaviour is accepted but if it was former president Obama, people would have lost their mind. Obama had to practically be ‘perfect’. When Obama wore a tan suit, it was such a huge deal.

Racism is a sick illness.