The Orange Man and the State of his Union - Trump thread #139

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Thanks to @JoshLymanSwagger for the thread title.

Trump, Vance and Musk are building a bigly bridge across the Bering Strait...
...and creating a gaping chasm in the Atlantic.

Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/chat/5275361-an-unholy-trinity-or-just-a-seedy-threesome-trump-musk-and-putin-trump-thread-138

Headlines today
Carney
US stock market tanking
X cyber attack
Tesla plummeting sales

I’m not going to say I don’t like it 😂

The stock markets are very much not his friend just now are they!

Musk is blaming Ukraine for the x problems

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lk2focxrwk2s

It was always coming. Just wait he’ll pull Starlink imminently 😭

Not all of it. Just annexe a bit. Maybe over some treaty that Putin disagrees with.

I don’t want anyone to get hurt but after that conference with Zelensky where Trump was insistent that no security guarantees were needed because he’d listen to Trump then Putin just marching straight into Alaska would be hilarious.

We’ll also need a fly on the wall for when Trump finds out though.

New: The DDOS attack against X (formerly Twitter) is real, according to an industry source I spoke with.

As for the amount of rogue traffic emanating from Ukraine: “Insignificant.”

Biggest chunks of malicious traffic coming from US, Brazil, Vietnam, etc.

https://bsky.app/profile/raphae.li/post/3lk2j4i4kn22j

https://www.reuters.com/technology/social-media-platform-x-down-thousands-users-downdetector-shows-2025-03-10/

As far as the CHIPS Act goes it's 'Obama or Biden=Bad, Scrotus=the most perfect ever'.

Obama or Biden could have balanced the budget, eliminated the deficit, and had everyone in the US earning 6 figures. It would still be called 'terrible horrible awful' by Scrotus. Whereas he can tank the economy, demolish the Federal Govt, and trash the fabric of the Country and in his eyes it's 'the most perfect' thing any President has ever done.

Chimes with this 50 day progress report from Pennsylvania. Trump still being backed by the middle aged white tubby male voter block here

news.sky.com/video/after-50-days-of-trump-what-do-the-people-of-pennsylvania-make-of-his-second-term-so-far-13324312

#TeslaTakedown

And a free Tesla with every carton of eggs!

Irish Taoiseach will be in WH on Wednesday (13th) this year for the usual St Patrick's Day events. I was wondering about this and if it would go ahead given the strong Irish support for Gaza etc. Can't see Trump or Vance giving good craic.
www.politico.eu/article/ireland-white-house-us-visit-patrick-day-donald-trump-taoiseach-micheal-martin-pm-gaza-ukraine-feud/

the Radical Left Lunatics, as they often do, are trying to illegally and collusively boycott Tesla, one of the World's great automakers, and Elon's "baby," in order to attack and do harm to Elon, and everything he stands for. They tried to do it to me at the 2024 Presidential Ballot Box,

What crazy shit is this, coming from his diseased mind? By that, does he mean, voted for someone else?

How the Republicans can stand by and behind this person is more mind boggling every single day.

I don’t think he’s made voting for somebody else at the ballot box illegal yet has he? So it’s not quite the same thing.

Watching the MAGA Twitter pivot from the markets are booming because Trump was elected to sticks falling is good because Biden had made the stock prices too high is a thing of beauty.

The mental gymnastics they undertake to ensure they align with the glorious leader are quite something to behold.

It's worth a pause to remember Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery bus boycott.

Fascists hate people power.

Also a bit puzzled by the thing about boycotting being illegal. I hadn't realised we were quite there yet. I seem to recall they were quite keen on it as a pressure technique when it was MAGAs boycotting Budweiser...

Honestly I’m learning loads about how having 40% wiped off the value of your investments in a day is a good thing.

We’re 40 ish days in. At this point all the Trump’s first 100 days segments on news channels are going to need to be a documentary series.

Musk is taking companies to court for not advertising on Twitter. The logic being that they are an organised cartel and so their behaviour breaks RICO laws.

Remember here in the UK, councils aren't allowed a free choice in purchasing.

YOUR (sic) NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT

<stomps foot, throws self on floor wailing>

Irish Taoiseach will be in WH on Wednesday (13th) this year for the usual St Patrick's Day events.

Correcting myself 🙄
Not important in the scheme of things but Wednesday is 12th not 13th.

He doesn't like his "numbers" does he? Bigly business man is worried.

"It's NOT inflation ! It's just prices are rising."

And we know there are a proportion of thick cunts who will swallow this.

And I - for one - am sick and tired of the attempt to push a narrative that it's somehow the fact that stupid people have been called out as stupid that has made them act stupid.

Even Fox News are starting to say “Ummmm…”

https://x.com/democraticwins/status/1899190070135189671?s=46&t=vZsKCHJJ4lL6NrAoNyJFww

Oh me too. It's the classic abuser technique, look what you made me do. Infuriating.

Diaper Don's grammar and spelling seems to be even worse than usual in his latest rants.