Depraved, Desperate, Deluded and Dangerous - Trump Thread #160

[Spandauer]

More of the same. 🤬

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5510944-the-king-of-crazytown-cant-control-the-chaos-trump-thread-159

Vance is currently interfering with the Hungarian democratic election to keep Putins man in. The whole current US administration can fuck off and then fuck off some more . It infuriates me every day that Americans voted in this circus .. twice.

U.S. and Arab officials say talks are now centering around getting a deadline extension, not a deal. That could change as about four hours remain for a potential breakthrough, the officials noted.-WSJ
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A regional source said “some good news is expected from both sides soon” and that discussions were steered directly by Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir. The source added that a deal is expected to be closed tonight.
bsky.app/profile/shipwreck75.bsky.social/post/3miwo6jav622k

I'll be turning in to sleep as normal.

There's so much shit pours out of his mouth I can't be bothered to react much until something actually happens.

I'm all for "prepare for the worst but hope for the best,", but I can't see any preparing I can do for this one so I'm just going to get a good night's sleep.

It’s glorious today where I am. Bees buzzing around and children playing in the park opposite whilst their parents look on with a picnic gathering.

@placemats not sure you realised you just described the scene before skynet launches.

There are, at present count, more than 20 USAF planes over the Mediterranean. B52s left RAF Fairfield earlier.

I need to get to sleep now, conscious I might wake up to a very different world.

https://x.com/KaivanShroff/status/2041561144834261499/mediaViewer?currentTweet=2041561144834261499&currentTweetUser=KaivanShroff

Hilary had it, years ago

I agree.
"Time for bed" said Zebedee.

edit spelling

Bigly plaicematting. Thanks for new thread @Spandauer

CNN is reporting: “some good news” may come soon, with a deal possibly closing tonight, driven directly by Pakistan’s Army Chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir.

I've only just got in so I'll be awake for hours yet. Fun times.

There are, at present count, more than 20 USAF planes over the Mediterranean. B52s left RAF Fairfield earlier.

Worrying...but I'm still going to turn in.
Hope there's something left for Artemis II to return to on Friday.

Michael Bentine (if anyone here is old enough to remember him)

'many people are saying' it sure looks like the White House wrote this for Pakistan’s PM, who posted it then quickly deleted the top part 😬
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3miwpirwmps2n

Hopefully he's knocked heads together and sent them to bed with no tea.

Did we miss this?

Ali Akbar Velayati, a former Iranian foreign minister and adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader, issued the warning on social media. “The unified command of the Resistance front views Bab al-Mandeb as it does Hormuz,” Velayati wrote on X. “If the White House dares to repeat its foolish mistakes, it will soon realise that the flow of global energy and trade can be disrupted with a single move.”

https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/israel-iran-bab-al-mandeb-threat-global-trade-impact-red-sea-shipping-us-126040700500_1.html

The Wrap on Sky News is like an entire primary class excited on sugar. Pointing out that all guardrails have been removed; Trump is acting in a imperial manner; US correspondent astounded that not one of his diplomatic contacts can predict what Trump will do; US oil companies in ME are obvious targets for Iranian retaliation.

We got some real life heroes working on it! All hail to Pakistan guys and fingers crossed they can get the world out of this pickle!

How will the far right numpties in this country cope if Pakistan saves the day?!!

Heaven knows.

The copium from certain rightwingers on MN has been off the scale for weeks.

They've been labouring away as though scoring points in semantic arguments on a parenting forum in the UK is going to save them from the real world.

<shrug>

Right, prediction: there will be some crappy deal to cover a TACO, there will be no apocalypse tonight, all Don has done is made everything worse but it’ll somehow be fashioned into the Bigliest Victory The World Has Ever Seen, Nobody’s Ever Seen Anything Like It, They Said It Couldn’t Be Done etc etc.

But nothing will be done, no regime change, no improvement for the Iranian people, Strait still controlled by Iran, but no apocalypse, today.

It’s TACO Tuesday folks, and with that I bid you goodnight!

Lost you all for a while - thread moved quickly today.

Heading off to bed myself and hoping to awake to yet another TACO.

TACO.

Sleep tight.

Oh thank God!!

I've never been so glad to see a TACO in my entire life!!!🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮

https://bsky.app/profile/justinling.ca/post/3miwtngdbhk2i

There it is: Trump calls off the attack, declares ceasefire.

It's far from clear that Iran has actually agreed to much of anything. In the last 20 minutes, some Iranian channels started signalling that Tehran would reject the ceasefire proposal. (Which could have just been posturing and speculation.)

I have zero idea what this "10-point proposal" is.

It's also not clear whether this deal involves Israel and Lebanon. I haven't actually seen any reporting to suggest that Netanyahu was involved in the ceasefire talks.

Thank goodness for that!

So, will Iran agree?

Well 🍊 didn't write that.