Oh, peacemaker, peacemaker make me some peace - Trump Thread #167

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Many, many more months of the Mango Mussolini's maniacal merde.

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Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5545753-green-is-the-new-blue-trump-thread-166

Is that an abacus on the desk ?

oh yuck, just saw this clip. Very funny (ie. not at all)
Trump: Ilhan Omar and her brother are thinking about moving together. Very much in love. She should get the hell out of our country.

yup

We like'em home grown in these parts

Under US law it would be pretty hard to libel McConnell, even alive. It would have to be so blatant and outrageous it would tank your reputation for a very long time.

Or make your reputation.

After that intro I expected the worst, but I had a listen out of curiosity and for the first twenty minutes or so he was surprisingly coherent. Boring, but coherent.

Come on Brazil the world knows that Trump doesn't interfere in another country's politics. FIFA WC, sim, politics, não.

Brazil has denied visas to two senior US State Department officials who planned to examine the country's electoral system ahead of the October 4 presidential vote, with Brazilian officials calling the trip an attempt at election interference.

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Current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is running for another term. Polling suggests his strongest opposition will come from Flavio Bolsonaro, a right wing senator whose party formally put him forward as their candidate on Saturday.
Flavio is the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who remains a close ally of Trump.The elder Bolsonaro is currently confined to house arrest after being accused of plotting a coup following his loss to Lula in the 2022 election. He also received a political ban lasting eight years for spreading false information about Brazil's electronic voting machines during that campaign.

https://www.timesnownews.com/world/brazil-denies-visas-to-us-officials-over-election-interference-concerns-article-155178926

Just didn't envisage that ANYONE other than toxic males in the manosphere could openly support the Tates.

I will admit that nowadays, my belief in the intrinsic good of humankind is being severely tested.

It is shocking @logicisall and if we get to the point where we are not shocked and outraged then I give up.

If you catch https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0nz0jk1 they have a pop at Tate, rather forgetting to #bekind

What we ought not to be is surprised. Nothing is too frightful for this showers of shite to perpetrate, so nothing appalling they do should be a surprise.

Shocked, disgusted, outraged, nauseated, revolted, sickened, repelled, revolted.... But not surprised.

I know there have been a few comments about his increasing obsession with Communism on these threads:

Trump revives old tropes as he pushes warnings of ‘communist menace’ | Donald Trump | The Guardian share.google/0iIKYyAogOkiw9We2

I am reading that the problem with that is it's totally lost on the generations that did not grow up in 1950s America.

Much as (sadly) Europe and the UK appears to have lost it's fear of fascism.

Yeah. The Red Scare would not work very well on my DD or her pals.

I gotta hand it to Zelensky, he sure is diplomatic and good at it.

After being ‘bamboozled by Russian propaganda,’ Laura Loomer says she’s all in for Ukraine | CNN Politics

Personally, if it was me she told she had a change of heart and changed direction, I would have said " Who are you ? Very good, now eff off"

And I am usually all for rehabilitation.

There is more joy in heaven, etc.

Yeah I did think that, but them remembered he is Jewish. And I looked it up and saw secular Jewish.

¿ I was referring in a more cultural sense to Ms. Loomer. ?

🤔

Oh. She is Jewish too. Shows how much attention I pay.

Had a bit of trouble over hanging out with antisemites though.

Laura Loomer says her ties to antisemites shouldn’t discount her | The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)

"Loomer — who describes herself as an investigative reporter but was banned from Uber, Lyft, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in 2017 and 2018 for Islamophobia — has long been associated with the far right."

I have no idea how to get banned from Uber. I know a guy who was banned from a local Chinese takeaway in the UK though. Maybe that is similar.

I thought she had been pushed out from the Trump court if favour of that younger woman who follows Trump around with a printer in her bag.

You know it's funny how the right incessantly whines about identity politics when it is their main line of attack against anybody.

Which is a tactic that easily enables them to target their "kind" and avoid wasting it on people like most posters on this thread who couldn't really care less what someones identity is, but are more interested in what they actually do.

Yeah. I am sure I have read somewhere that she is Jewish, I must have seen it, but I appear to have dumped that from my memory banks. My noggins hard drive is still measured in Mb. not Tb.

But if I were to read a story about her in GB news, and read the comments, I would be in no doubt. It would likely be THE story.

One could argue that the US under Trump already has quite a few of the disadvantages of Communism

Fascism and communism reach around electorates and shake hands behind them.

Single party state ✅
State control of all organs of government and media✅
State expectation that all activity should support and promote the state✅
Conflating the head of state as the state.✅

It seems it may have had the opposite effect to what he intended actually, when you consider the election of Mamdani as Mayor of New York.