NACHO, NACHO Man - Trump Thread #164

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Chy-na calling.

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I was listening to the news earlier and the reporter said that how Trump conducts US policy is he throws out loads of ideas and just waits to see what sticks. This will be why we have the Schrödinger effect on a daily basis. On/off; open/closed; war/not war.
History will not be kind to him with his distractions from the Epstein files and use of the US presidency for personal/family monetary gain.

The FT is reporting that Trump's Board of Peace fund is empty

“.. four months after its establishment, the board’s financial fund set up by the World Bank has received no money from donors, according to four people familiar with the matter. ‘Zero dollars have been deposited,’ one said.”

I used to read Breitbart during his first term. And I am sure that is how many policies were "fed" to him. I also think it is used as a Trumpster sounding board. Put an idea there and see the reaction.

He does seem to be "fishing" for ideas in all these interviews he does.

More winning for the art of the deal stable genius.

12 months after Australia started letting American beef into the country the numbers are in!
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230kg or 8000 USD worth one way, 4,2 billion USD the other. Think of what you will of beef, this is truly art of the deal levels stuff.
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I keep meaning to look up how many of those massive pickups were sold into Vietnam. I remember he made a big deal at the time.

And the Penguins of Heard Island. Wonder how that went ? Maybe they signed up to join the US navy. They will be able to do Kamikaze missions in water that is too cold for dolphins. Greenland for example.

Now I have an image in my head of that Greenland falla with his MAGA hat, sat on alone on a dock waiting for the hospital ship. The ship finally turns up, the bow opens, and thousands of armed penguins storm out.

Just seen that NY democrats have introduced a bill that has cross party support that will tax payments from Trumps slush fund by 100%. Not so dum(with a b) now are they.

I don't need to look to the Met Office (which the BBC no longer use, apparently) to know that this week is too bluddy hot for usual-till-now May.

I have a thermometer all of my very own, in my garden, in the shade.

Yup. I just clicked on the story expecting all the usual climate change denials, but it has all changed to "the weather reports are faked". I am sure it is Trump connected.

The problem the Met Office (and by extension BBC) have, is that to support the narrative of anthropogenic climate change, they always skew the same way in presenting ranges.

It a little like always rounding up with random data regardless of the actual value. Making 5.1 and 5.9 both "6" in forecasts for example.

Both climate change and eschewing climate change can generate profit.

My lived experience is that the BBC underestimated the highest temperature in this area yesterday, and have done so again today. For what that is worth, in Trump's post-truth world.

Yeah well you know...that's fake news too. Don't you know 'they' sneak into people's gardens when no one's looking and hold a lighter under analog thermometers to raise the reading? Yeah, that's the ticket. And they do it multiple times a day!!! And don't get me started on how 'they' control digital thermometers remotely!!!

<taps side of nose, adjusts tin foil hat>

I once had a discussion with someone on the then Twitter (now X) regarding microclimates within gardens and temperatures in the shade and how to deal with that when planning plants, especially in hot weather events. The main subject was climate change.

He said there's no such thing and his piece de resistance sign off was that I was ugly.

Remember that weather isn't climate. The Met office and BBC also underestimated my neck of the woods by 2C

I never really grasped the pig headedness of people who quite happily accept there was an ice age (several in fact) yet in the same breath deny the climate can change - let alone that it's human behaviour that is exacerbating (not causing) it.

It's a perennial struggle in archaeology.

"Why was this settlement abandoned in the Bronze Age ?"
"Because all the water dried up. You know - the climate changed".
"Don't think we can say that. How about they were wiped out by people in small boats"
"Spiffing idea. And thanks for the grant".

Depends on where the weather stations are I suppose.

I have seen a few flat earth vids where the flat earther sets out to prove that the moon gives out cooling at night. Seriously.. They usually use a big old fashioned wood framed thermometers. Under a bush for 10 mins. out in open for ten. Then they proclaim that the bushes provide shade from the moon's cooling rays.

Loss of civilization settlements in archaeology is specially noted when it comes to invasion of sites that understood how local climates worked and acted accordingly. The invasion looted and killed but eventually abandoned the site because no one knew how to manage it.

They wouldn't know how to set seeds. Probably would think a carrot is a dangerous vegetable but die getting high on shrooms.

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Remember that weather isn't climate.

Hey, play fair! I said nothing whatever about climate; all I said was that I can tell when it is hotter than usual for the time of the year. Which I can. And since I don't move the thermometer around, it's been recording the temperature in the same place every year for the past eighteen.

Depends how hard you fling the carrot, I should think.

It wasn't a dig. More of a placemarker to head off any distractions ....

Loss of civilization settlements in archaeology is specially noted when it comes to invasion of sites that understood how local climates worked and acted accordingly. The invasion looted and killed but eventually abandoned the site because no one knew how to manage it.

So much of what I "learned" in the 70s and 80s regarding history has been comprehensively overturned by archaeology.

"The Dark Ages" ? Anything but.
"Britannia was the arse end of the Empire" ? The amount of unique archaeology being uncovered suggests that is simplistic at best.
"The native 'Britons' were wiped out by the plucky Angles and Saxons" ? If only the DNA evidence supported that.

careful readers will notice how many of those old "historical" facts were the product of a very particular mindset that was extant in the Empire. Especially the Victorian age.

But we digress. Let's just get back to calling Trump and his cronies despicable cunts.

Nah. I wanna talk about the coracle people. Coming over here, nicking our tin, pricing us native Celts out of our roundhouses, overloading our shaman offices on a Monday morning. And they refuse to integrate.

As for the Romans. Don't get me started on them. That guy Bigus Orangas Turdas. What a knob he was.

What have the Romans ever done for us, eh.

Anyway, has he sorted out the Ukraine war yet. That reincarnation of Bigus Orangas Turdas ?

Perhaps they gave the money to Trump for safe keeping.

That money was just resting in my account.

Alternate article here. It appears any funding so far is paying for offices and technocrat salaries.

"Morocco has contributed about $20mn, which has helped fund the office of Nickolay Mladenov, the “high representative” for postwar Gaza, and salaries for the Palestinian technocratic committee formed by the board to govern Gaza, FT reported. "

Donald Trump Board of Peace official fund empty, separate account received donations | The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)

Was that Board of Peace not established before Trump started a war? If I were the UAE I’d be demanding my (frozen, granted) funds back.
Arsewipe. (Trump, I mean, in case there was any doubt.)

I wondered what all those garden gnomes get up to. Poor taste in garden ornaments can't be that widespread...

You know what is coming now don't ya :-)

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And OMG... Wallmart do them too.

Homestyles President "GnomeDonald" the Look-A-Like Trump Gnome an American Commander-in-Chief Military Large Outdoor Garden Statue 15"H - Walmart.com