He Has No Deal, He Has No Dice - Trump Thread #162

[Spandauer]

Old enough to remember whole years in which I barely thought about the American president.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/chat/5513875-depraved-desperate-deluded-and-dangerous-trump-thread-160

eta: in my haste I think I've numbered the thread incorrectly! Oh well.

The Hormuz Hustle (loving the play on words)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXD_bPJDNIA/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/senate-races-democrats-blue-wave-cook-report-b2956791.html

Amanda Ungaro is letting loose on Melania and her 'pedophile' husband tonight.

I hope she isn't near any high windows.

Sure you'd have missed out on all the fun in da mentalism.🤣🤣🤣

Not having a go. I'm an Irish Catholic woman of a certain age who grew up next to a bog. You can't imagine how many fun beliefs my granny had.🙈

Until today, I thought Baal was the horned golden calf god, but he isn't. I blame Cecil B DeMille.

Thanks for this!

It looks like the US has not stopped any ship today. At least I cannot find any reports about it.
Let's see what tomorrow brings...100 ships crossing or 0 ships crossing. And I bet for none....
They should be getting back to those talks pronto!
Or just go back home and leave the rest of the world to sort it!

Stopping none because none habe dared pass or stopping none because it's an empty threat, I wonder?

Same Bible, different interpretation. The Baptists are 'hell-fire and damnation'. Every Sunday we had the Bible pounded on the pulpit and got hollered at for an hour (or more) about how "unworthy we were of God's love so we better mend our wicked ways. Now, it's time for the offering. Remember, He's watching".

I refused to attend when I turned 14. Later I found churches who actually preached a 'God of Love and Joy'. It was a revelation.

Oh the whole Catholic Church was pure idolatry for "praying to Saints" when I was a kid. According to the Baptists (at that time) the lot of them were bound for hell. They weren't even considered Christians. Many of my maternal aunts wept tears when a cousin converted to marry a Catholic because she was consigning herself to eternal damnation. My own mum had wised by then and had left the Baptists for the much kinder Presbyterian Church.

I don't know if the stance has softened. I haven't set foot in a Baptist church since before quite a few of you were even born.

I liked how he explained the blockade "options", ex naval officer, long term serving around the Persian Gulf, he says

Oh, I meant no one will dare to pass.

I think Trump is crazy enough to shoot at tankers and container ships and cargo ships and sheep on boats, if they find any! Flying donkeys too. With the greatest navy the world has known...blah blah blah

The Baptist Union in the UK is nothing like that these days, though there are more exclusive Baptist churches still. (My DH and I are members of a Baptist church.)

When I was little one of my little best friends was Catholic. Our respective pastor and priest forbade us from visiting the other's Sunday School.

She taught me the Rosary when she was going to catechism. Well, she taught me genuflecting 'In the name', the Creed, the Our Father, the Hail Mary, and the Glory be. Of course, at that age I just thought they were pretty words. I thought my mum was going to have a coronary.

I’m feeling really pissed off today and wondering what could have been if people weren’t so tucking stupid.

I believe you! The Southern Baptists are (or were) a breed apart.

We were out all evening so I'm just catching up and I thought for a minute you meant that literally. Big relief when I figured it out 😊

Yup. I thought that daily from 2016-2020 too. And don't even get me started on if the Labour Party hadn't chosen Ed over David Miliband

When I was a kid on holiday, evangelical Baptists came and ran a "summer school" on the beach. So my mum sent us down there every morning where we did challenges and learnt stuff for stickers.

When we got home, me and my sisters sang one of the songs we'd learnt (with the all the wee actions) for my granny and she went mental at my ma.🤣🤣🤣

The Rev. Ian Paisley regularly preached the pope was the anti-Christ and that us papists celebrated cannibalism, amongst other stuff.😒

I'm expecting some incidences of accidentally looking the wrong way and not seeing and ships until Trump gets bored of this particular ruse, declares it a success and gets distracted by plans for aa celebratory goldish monument.

Ok, trying out my conspiracy theory on y'all.

The New York Times ran a story today on Trump's deteriorating mental health, a topic they ordinarily skitter around as obliquely as possible. We all know that team Vance seems to have taken up leaking like a London water main of late. They trotted out Usha Vance a week or so ago to start trying to humanise him. I think White House sources might be starting to try to very gradually lay the groundwork for preparing the public for moves to remove him.

Am I crazy?

Vance is dismissing it as a joke

“I think the president was posting a joke” — JD Vance on Trump’s tweet depicting himself as Jesus

Not crazy at all (if only the same could be said for Trump).

The NYT piece about the lead-up to the war was clearly well-sourced and intentional. It would be odd for this to be an isolated one-off.

It's much more likely to be part of a campaign... and now you've flagged more of the campaign.

Cannibalism? Yikes! Even Billy Graham never went that far!!!

Do you remember the song? I can still do most of the Rosary I learnt. But probably not in the right order!

I think it's wishful thinking, but let's do as Jiminy Cricket says; "When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true".

I think anything that they do to show Vance in a 'good light' is more about positioning him for the nom in 2028.

Totally agree 💯 👍

Vance couldn't take control of a sofa delivery. Never mind the presidency.

When the NYT starts questioning the sanity of the President, time's up.