The King of Crazytown Can't Control The Chaos - Trump Thread #159

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“Whether you’re a military analyst or a political analyst, whether you’re in the Democratic or Republican party, there’s a reality here. Donald Trump has met the moment of truth. The kind of fictional life that he’s led and evoked over the last four or five decades has now been unmasked as a deadly drama. It’s going to cost the lives of so many people. It’s going to devastate the US economy and the regional economy. It’s going to set back America and its standing in the world. It’s a horrific moment.”
Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota.

Heaven Obi-Wan Kenobi help us. You're our only hope.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5506514-bored-of-peace-lets-mambo-trump-thread-158?page=9

This could happen in weeks and a dual system in 12 months.

all the debt that the US has to refinance this year would become much more expensive.

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@smfls 13 hours ago Brit here. Might be biased but Trump feels like the most American president you've ever had. He's like a distillation of how the international community has seen the US for a long time. He's the perfect product of your system, and the clearest example of its decay. He is Unsustainability personified. An aging demented husk desperately and greedily abusing everyone and everything around him. A vacuum of wealth and power that sucks the lifeblood out of everything he touches. He won't stop until he is dead. Even if you get him out of the Oval, so long as he breathes, he'll remain a cancerous reminder that anyone can be president so long as they are horrible enough. ← 1k タ Reply

That was why the US invaded Iraq in 2003. Iraq, Syria and North Korea (remember the "axis of evil") all tried to sell oil in other currencies. A move which - if it caught on - would bankrupt the US.

That's why they had to be stopped. And seen to be stopped. Pour (dis)encourager les autres

New.
Emirati troops could support US occupation of Iranian islands
Abu Dhabi lobbying UN to authorise its involvement in conflict.

Trump's address will be very interesting if he comments on this:

China and Pakistan have released a joint “five-point initiative” to restore peace in the Middle East following a meeting between the foreign ministers of both countries on Tuesday.
The plan includes an immediate ceasefire, initiating peace talks “as soon as possible”, protecting civilians and non-military targets, securing shipping lanes – mainly the Strait of Hormuz – and strengthening multilateralism through the UN charter.
Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign minister, and Ishaq Dar, his Pakistani counterpart, met for one day in Beijing to “strengthen” co-operation between the two countries amid the conflict in the Middle East, according to a statement from China’s foreign ministry.
While Beijing has kept its distance from the conflict, Pakistan, which shares a 560-mile-long border with Iran, has been vying for the role of peacemaker between Washington and Tehran.
Telegraph.

So many options for this bingo. Card 2 att with suggestions.

Food for thought. Who can we trust? How will Iran respond if its bank accts are frozen? A lot depends on Trump's next move. #electricity_plants.

https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/uae-saudi-arabia-iran-war-us-tt2hdmpsh

Doing these Bingo cards made me think. Are we not in "enabling act" time ? I think that was predicted for about now. What with the mid terms stuff being underway.

This address to the nation might really be about something else. I am thinking packing SCOTUS. That would be his enabling act. A few sycophantic Judges added to make up for his disappointing ones ?

I think this is what will happen once Trump ups and go.
Some countries are already allowed safe passage under this rule and I think it will become a condition to pass through.
I hope the world has a fleet of tankers and shipping vessels ready to re-open the Strait after Trump ships away. Maybe waiting around the Gulf ports. I hope we can get the supply going, particularly to places where the population is already suffering of supply shortages.

I just hope that he really packs it and go. And why does he need two weeks? He could just leave now!

I think his madness is ramping up.
I think we could see him meltdown in real time tonight.
I could be projecting though, it might be me close to meltdown- how would I know? 😂
Bloody hell I hope he's gonna completely lose it and start the totally raving gibberish and be carried off on camera. I would so like to see that.
Add it to the bingo card @RedTagAlan ? Or are you all out of spaces?

For the bingo cards
Trump personally built the bestest rocket ever for the moon landing, and hand picked the crew himself and they love him for it.

@RedTagAlan a few other suggestions:
My sheets have to be burned after one use.
I completed a round of Golf in 17 shots.
Melania, my tan is fading.
The moon is all mine, it's gonna be painted in stars n stripes.
Fetch me more diet Coke.
The Joint Chiefs know I can do war better than them.
That English King guy, he's coming here to pay homage to me.
I slept with Diana first.

Add it to the bingo card? Or are you all out of spaces?

@RedTagAlan You're gonna need a bigger bingo card. 🦈

@TemporarilyCantDoMyself I’d pay to watch that kind of meltdown.

And for what it’s worth, I don’t think he’s far off it at all. His recent speeches have been batshit.

I found the scenes in Godfather two in Cuba really interesting and they’ve always stayed with me.

Iranians are fighting for their future. they’ve see what has happened to their neighbours in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine. They are a proud people, and they understand Donald Trump far better than he understands them.

The are also pointedly not "Arabs"

Well, everyone is supposed to have a different card. I won't do that, but I can do another card. That gives us 3, and we can each pick what one we want to play :-)

We need to share the bingo caller job. I might not be able to watch given my web issues.

Bingo card 3....
Nobel peace prize.
Norway didn't give me Nobel Peace prize
Fifa gave me their peace prize which is much better than Norway one anyway.
My friend Bibi deserves one too

Yep. Despite the fact I'm on a bus to London for a brief and packed 4 days I might have to stay up tonight and watch because I really think we could be close to his most epic, public meltdown.
A girl can dream.

It could so easily end with the news that he has launched a nuclear strike.

I think it’s time to wheel out the Barry Goldwater mantra and keep repeating it

’in your guts, you know he’s nuts’ as deep down they must know the lift doesn’t go all the way to the penthouse any more.

Well if it does I definitely want to be awake to see it, because I will be drinking and eating and smoking if it's all about to go tits up.

The boxes are awfull wee you know.

Sort of baby button mushroom size after it has been fried to a crisp in lard.

Thanks for the new thread. I'm placemarking with some personal news. I had a mammogram this morning and it was all clear. I'm still cancer free.

I’m so happy for you