No more Musk, Melania MIA and TACOs for tea: The Idiocracy beds down - Trump thread #144

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Second '100 days' working out much like the first, but with a Vance-proof Pope, a bigly white elephant plane, a few more legal push backs and way more grifting.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5327971-idiotam-habemus-trumpum-the-bigly-xxx-trump-thread-143

Such a persuasive statement- not.

Taco Trump and his ilk need to go.

@SerendipityJane AI now has a disclaimer that it makes mistakes, and to check its answers. Yesterday I had a long tussle with ChatGPT over not giving me the answer I was looking for, so I can see its limitations in certain situations.

Today's answer to my very specific question (I learned my lesson yesterday!) concisely organised my own thoughts (except the bit about length of waiting time for cases to be heard in court, that I wasn't aware of).

As you can tell, I'm an advocate for the usefulness of AI, but then I'm very old and selfish and it works for me.😁

@Evenstar I agree.
The 🍊🌮 is not worthy of breathing the same air as those troops.

As for the Big Birthday Bash with Tanks, Teslas and Tacos is it to late to post him a card?
Obvs I'd have to refine my message, and possibly be reasonably polite...
Yeah, no.
Sorry.
Not sure I can do that and not stab out my own eyes with a crochet hook.

Also, there's a "thing" called punctuation! 😶

Do we know how much is it's costing the American taxpayer to save to save California from it's hard working, law abiding residents?

AI now has a disclaimer that it makes mistakes, and to check its answers.

But you know that government approved "AI" won't, because it can't get anything wrong. After all, if it can, what's the point ?

Not as much as retrofitting an enormous flying golden knob.

More sense. Interesting note about numbers of troops vs. number of available troops.

Also suggestion that the National Guard weren't backed up with food and supplies ... the sort of clownshow you'd expect by now.

Alternatively ...

This aged well

Gavin Newsom interview on today’s Pod Save America. Terrifying in this day and age that he’s talking about the contingency planning they are doing in case he is arrested.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pod-save-america/id1192761536?i=1000712215344

Gavin Newsom interview on today’s Pod Save America. Terrifying in this day and age that he’s talking about the contingency planning they are doing in case he is arrested.

If he needs asylum, Canada would be a better bet than the UK, with out "no questions asked" US extradition treaty

https://www.alternet.org/mckibben-trump-mother-jones/

E2A: I'd be quite happy for Great Britain to be the first country in the world to recognise an independent California. The irony appeals to me.

Who knows, maybe we could beat France this time.

Interesting article @SerendipityJane. The past few days I've been wondering if the USA is just too big and diverse to survive in tact.

I've often thought thst and marvelled that they've managed to maintain a countrywide acceptance of laws across the board. To see Bigly and his gang trying to kick it all to pieces is utterly sickening.

I try 😀

The unpalatable truth from afar is that the US never finished it's civil war. Yes, hostilities ceased. But the divide didn't.

The way the UKs fracture lines still mirror our civil war, and the role they played in Brexit are illuminating.

I've often thought thst and marvelled that they've managed to maintain an illusion of countrywide acceptance

Fixed that for you ....

While king Trump is posturing and sending troops in, his face is getting more and more 🍊

It's a most peculiar look

Perhaps he's about to explode? (Please let it be so!)

If he is going to blow, can we have a little bit of warning to get the 🍿 and 🍻

😇

Trump talking about the military parade this weekend is quite chilling -

From CNN:
“For those people that want to protest, they’re going to be met with very big force. And I haven’t even heard about a protest,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “This is people that hate our country, but they will be met with very heavy force.”

Well, I expect he's looking, forward to it then. Bigly show of Heavy Force. What a Strong Leader you've found yourselves, you must all be thrilled.

"Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism"

https://www.thepoke.com/2025/06/09/this-protestors-iconic-response-to-being-teargassed-in-la-went-wildly-viral-and-needs-to-be-hung-in-the-louvre-pronto/

Watching Pete Hegseth speak at Fort Bragg is physically painful. “Our allies know we stand with them” 🤨 do we now? What a twat.

😢

Such a small thing but so incredibly sad.