Flaming June - Will The Wheels Finally Fall Off Don Snoreleone's Bus? - Trump Thread #165

[Spandauer]

Nobody likes you, everybody hates you.
Guess you should go and eat worms.

Trump’s Final Term Ends in: - Countdown Timer

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5529015-nacho-nacho-man-trump-thread-164

It's belt and braces isn't it ?

Plan A is still somehow to subvert the constitution - probably still the best bet at this stage - and find a way to invalidate the midterms and become president for life. (Hopefully not a long term, but he will have Russian expertise on that front).

However if Plan A fails, then Plan B has already been implemented. And that is the plan to fuck the US so thoroughly that the next administration will never be able to fix it and will be ejected in favour of TrumpyMAGA 4 years after.

It was trialled by the Tories in the UK.

Thank you for sharing that. Excellent read, and it brings so much hope with it.

In one way, Trump is lucky that it's Indian sailors dead and not Pakistani ones, seeing Pakistan is trying to help broker a peace deal. In another way not so much...India is a nuclear power.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/in-a-first-india-deploys-12-nuclear-warheads-in-big-policy-shift-report/vi-AA25btpg?ocid=socialshare

I am trying to imagine telling a child they no longer have a father, but that it's OK - at least it wasn't a Pakistani child instead.

I can. But only because I am old and closer to death than birth.

I'm distracted from Trump at the moment and just horrified by the ongoing news out of Northern Ireland, which I've thought was such a beacon of hope and progress recently so I'm so bloody sad to see this.
How are you doing @TooBigForMyBoots ? Sending a hug, for all it's worth.

Iran and surrounding countries obviously don't follow him on TS, so this will come as a complete surprise. It's never going to end whilst he's still breathing.

I think if I were a Mainer I would have voted for him too, for the Greater Good.

Being on the 'other coast' I'm sure we aren't getting the full story the way people in Maine are since you have local stations. I've found 'locals' are often more informative than the national media, which likes to focus on the 'big story'.

I'm glad there was a huge turnout. At least Mainers learnt the lesson that many here in California don't yet have appeared to learn; not voting = voting for 'the other guy".

https://bsky.app/profile/northjules.bsky.social/post/3mnyxz2z6hc23

For nearly 30 years - Democrats and Republicans gathered at Arlington National Cemetery to honor fallen women veterans. Trump and Hegseth canceled this year’s event. The Democratic Women’s Caucus decided to hold their own event. #Pinks

They cancelled it? Fucking misogynistic arseholes.
Well done women Dems. 💗🩷💔

@logicisall will factcheck me on this, but I call BS on his VZ claim.

Data I can find says VZ oil exports are up to 1,23 million BPD in April. That is the highest since 2008.

Before trump, exports were at 1.08 Million BPD

That's 0.15 Million BPD difference.

For reference, the gulf was on 20 million BPD pre war, and have been between 2-3 mil BPD since, when not zero that is.

These things take time. More than 2 weeks.

These men are beyond the pale. They are shamelessly disgusting racists as well as fucking misogynistic arseholes. I could go on but I would be done for hate speech and incitement to violence.

Me too @Jaichangecentfoisdenom .
I cannot find enough words of disgust and loathing to begin to express how I feel about them.

That happens when you use (or the article uses) two - dashes for an emdash and they are next to some text.

So this bit will be crossed out if I am right.

interesting

Maddly annoying before I realised what was happening, because I habitually used to use two dashes for an emdash. I have since discovered that Control+caps held down while I press u, 2,0,1,3 produces a real emdash: –

But it is a little laborious.

Remember the days when adding a hyphen (or underscore, etc) before and after a word was the only way to format on MN?

I seem to remember then there was a big leap forward so you could just add the hyphen at the beginning and end of the phrase, not individual words...

<old gimmer>

On a Mac keyboard:
a hyphen is just -
an n-dash is OPTION+ -
an m-dash is SHIFT+OPTION+ -

So a single dash has the same effect? -hmmmm-

No, apparently it doesn't.
underscore at each end does still.

Different strokes for different keyboards, but generally you can find your own; this set-up uses Linux and I have the occasional hunt-around to find useful things to memorise, one at a time over several weeks each.

So Trump is already backtracking on his threat to take Kharg Island. What an embarrassing wanker. Are there any adults in charge at the White House?

I'm totally gobsmacked that the Orange Moron is still president.

I have honestly never had even the remotest of interests in football before, but the unfolding drama around this guy captures the imagination. How fabulous for him to get this, and no doubt richly deserved.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/11/somali-referee-barred-from-world-cup-super-cup-final-uefa-omar-artan

Per CNN TV just in:

The House has failed to pass the FISA extension bill. The vote was 198-218 vote, so not 2/3 majority. The Senate failed to pass it 6 days ago.

I'll bet 'someone' is throwing a tantrum about now. Anyone got a good method for removing ketchup stains from gilded walls?

Things are quiet today, but public transport is to stop at 5:30pm, so many shops and hospitality venues will close early.

A lot of children weren't at school today.😢

Women voted for them

On a slightly different note. Any sign of Trump’s name coming off the Kennedy centre building? (Deadline’s tomorrow) and did that lawsuit trying to ban the UFC fight on Sunday go anywhere?