War (crimes) and Peace (prizes) - Trump Thread #151

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Don Snoreleone trying to stay awake long enough to bring all his racist dreams to fruition. So when can we bring about his personal "civilisational erasure”?

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5436537-cobwebs-in-congress-bigly-ballrooms-tariff-tantrums-dementia-denials-trump-thread-150

The comedian has been honing his skills for many years
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_(comedian)

We so need the smiley emoji

Hah. Did you see him on Jimmy Kimmel where they were trying to get passers by to recognise him? It was very amusing

Props to the bluesky poster who notes in the comments that we're expected to believe both that he has skin so thin it bleeds and bruises at the smallest contact and, simultaneously, that he healed so well from a gunshot to the ear that the wound was invisible in days.

*Not that I'm promoting any conspiracy theories. Just asking questions, as our MAGA friends like to say.

I also loved the thing about how he's not sleeping in meetings, he's blinking. Those are some mighty loooooong blinks. He might want to see someone about that.

Happy New Year everyone

https://x.com/i/status/2005671129319424443

It is funny and sad.

The inauguration of Mamdani was a really good event / very uplifting. Made a lovely change

I think the quantity of daily aspirin is contributing to a series of 'mini-strokes' thus losing words, meandering off, suddenly dozing. Never mind, he has the Best Doctors, Doctors to the Stars. Like Matthew Perry did.

It really was. My fingers are crossed for his success. NYC is notoriously tricky to manage, but he's a rare political talent and seems to have done some real work around assembling his team.

I did note Mamdani saying he'd make it easier for small businesses and building by freeing up bureaucracy and red tape.

Distinctly Tory sounding and would be anathema to the DSA

But the dirty truth is a lot of "red tape" is really just another grift.

I mean the ultimate "red tape" is the law. And people do very nicely out of ensuring that remains the preserve of the elites.

For every cheer from MAGA as a DEI regulation is scrapped there is a groan from a bunch of Trump supporting grifters who have built a business around "compliance".

I actually think it's a pretty brilliant strategy on his part to pick and choose between different philosophies to figure out what's actually going to work. I mean, this is straight up from the 'abundance' democrats' playbook, since it seems to be primarily around getting housing built. Good on him.

Elon Musk demonstrating just how important it is to him to protect women from male abuse. Again.

Elon Musk's Grok AI alters images of women to digitally remove their clothes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98p1r4e6m8o
Clare McGlynn, a law professor at Durham University, said X or Grok "could prevent these forms of abuse if they wanted to", adding they "appear to enjoy impunity".
"The platform has been allowing the creation and distribution of these images for months without taking any action and we have yet to see any challenge by regulators," she said.
XAI's own acceptable use policy prohibits "depicting likenesses of persons in a pornographic manner".

It's worse than that, it involves minors.

Jeez Louise! I am so glad that I 1-have no SM (ie Facebarf, Insta etc) and 2-was a young woman pre-internet.

As far as I'm concerned these deepfake/AI generated nudes should be considered a form of sexual assault, not just some sort of non-consensual 'dissemination of images'. To me it's no different than someone ripping my clothes off in a public place.

In happier news, I gather Vance got a raucous welcome going home for the weekend.
Alt National Park Service are whooping.

Ooh look Iran is back on the bingo card. How exciting 😒

I am following the Iran stuff VERY closely.

Hopefully the US and Israel will leave the Iranian people to make their own decisions.

Oh dear, Talkinpeace , response to that can only be hollow laughter. I wonder what's stirring up dissent in Iran necessitating a response from Pigly at a time when he feels he's not got enough favourable spotlight on him. It's a mystery.

I have been folowing the stuff there since 2022
when Trump was not in office.

Explosions being reported in Caracas.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5yqygxe41pt?app-referrer=push-notification

CBS reporting that Trump ordered the strikes.

Well he’s got to do something about his falling poll number, doesn’t he….

Looks like the Nobel Institute made the right decision.

Is this a -1 on his number of wars stopped?

That and 'Epstein files' trending on blue sky yesterday [more files released over holiday period]

Military installations rather than drug trafficking targets this time