Who are they kidding? It's Oil, Oil, Oil, baby - Trump Thread #152

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Back on US soil, an American citizen in a peaceful neighbourhood is gunned down by masked agents sent there to make people afraid.

Despicable, wretched people lying, lying, lying - all day, every day, about everything.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5458156-war-crimes-and-peace-prizes-trump-thread-151?page=1

Well the US civil war was fought to answer one question. And that is how does the individual states rights stand in relation to the operation of the federal government ?

The answer was "subservient to".

I mean if people aren't happy with that decision then by all means have another war. However unless I missed the past 151 years of history, the South is still as poor as it was in 1860, relative to the North.

Which resulted in the 14th Amendment, equal rights under law which is a cornerstone in Civil Rights. It states that "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States" which has been surmised as being intended by the writers as a way to bar secession 'implicitly' as well as to protect the rights of freed slaves. Obvs this has never been tested.

We've touched on this before. Until SCOTUS actively and emphatically rule against POTUS, I am of the opinion they won't and therefore the constitution is a waste of grammar.

Same for congress - whatever that is. Until they show they are going to use the powers this "constitution" supposedly gives them I regard them as an irrelevance. As indeed does Trump. It may be the two things we agree on.

Tony Blair, to my eyes, is beginning to resemble Wallace. Doesn't look right without Grommet.

Time to remind peeps that Trump's golf courses in Scotland were allegedly funded by Russian money.

https://www.estatesgazette.co.uk/news/turnberry-not-built-with-russian-money-fumes-trump/

tsk, tsk, whom shall I believe?🤔

TRUMP PHONES folks. This from a few days ago.

FTC Investigates Why the Trump Phone T1 Still Hasn't Shipped (androidheadlines.com)

Quote from the article:

"To make matters worse, consumers who wanted to buy the phone had to put down a $100 deposit. This is the crux of the letter, where the lawmakers want to investigate if customers might have been cheated."

I hope the MAGAs appreciate the dems fighting their corner against these "deposit harvesting" scams. Or will they come out with their now stock line: "It is our right to be scammed cos that's FREEDUMB"

Those 100 buck deposits they paid might be needed now. Given that Trump Crypto is now less than 5 bucks ( from a high of 77). And their Trump watches might be in need of repair by now.

:-)

Unhinged

https://bsky.app/profile/trumpton.bsky.social/post/3mcr6y6jyx22q

I've typed several responses to this but none of them do it justice.

Just die already.

I think this article was written before that last example of the lunatic being in charge of the asylum. It gives me hope that this won’t go on much longer, at least in his current form:
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-greenland-tariff-threats-tensions-push-europe-allies-toward-divorcing-america-transatlantic-power/
I’m not sure about the bias here, though. I’d love it to be all true!

I see Starmer will address the nation shortly about all of this. I honestly have nothing to say to that letter, he’s utterly nuts.

Good grief, this whole situation is INSANE. On the one hand I think, why are we even giving the Greenland thing headspace, he can't do it, he won't do it, it's just one mahoosive Epstein distraction, like taking a toddlers mad outburst seriously. On the other hand, that letter...

This can't go on for another 3 years, it just can't. But who can stop him?

Unfortunately I’m increasingly in the “he can’t do it, he shouldn’t do it, he will do it” camp 😵‍💫

Just bloody mad @Igotjelly - it does all seem a bit 'watch me then...'

I can't see Trump backing down, he's too much of a spolit baby, so god knows how all this is going to play out. Very scary indeed.
Interested to hear what Starmer has to say.

According to Trump "we" (USA) had boats landing on Greenland too therefore have as good a claim of sovereignty as Denmark.
In the early 1700s.
Before the United States actually existed.

There is dissent in the Republican Party but they have a poor record of having any balls.

That letter to Norwegian leader is basically Trump drafting the case to invoke the 25th Amendment. Bonkers

Whatever people might think of Starmer and his Govt, it’s reassuring just to have a leader that doesn’t speak as though he’s a few branches short of a tree and evil as sin with it.

When you have "super Christian" speaker Johnson saying " "I wish the US had taken that spot instead of China...", re the proposed Chinese Embassy in London.... I think they are all lunatics.

And hey, while there are issues with the embassy, it has nothing to do with the USA. The USA already has a billion dollah mega Embassy in London, complete with moat.

He is sounding near exactly the same re Greenland as the PRC does re Taiwan. He is practically doing more for the CPC now than Xi.

Putin has been invited to join the Gaza Peace Council. Lord give me strength!

What. The. Actual. Fuck?

🤯🤯🤯A war mongering bastard.
There will be money in it for Trump or He's doing what Vlad tells him to do.

How soon before we either expel the US from the UK or seek to disarm them.

I'm not so sure I want any armed US forces on British soil anymore. They could be ordered to attack British civilians. (Which the already do anyway, with impunity, like their Russian chums. Just ask the Dunn family).