The Reaper Should Have Gone To SpecSavers - Trump Thread #168

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Surely it's time.

Trump’s Final Term Ends in: - Countdown Timer

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5551862-oh-peacemaker-peacemaker-make-me-some-peace-trump-thread-167

TBH I think this is it. She’s finally realised she’s just as disposable as the rest of them.

I am expecting quite a few of his loyal chums who found themselves condemned to the B Ark to be reassessing their relationship.

There's a song foir everything

I can understand why the security forces did this. It's not unreasonable to move the principal to safety, when your job is to keep the principal safe.

But at the human level it's profoundly difficult for anyone who now realises they were put at risk.

And what's more, that many people not essential to the succession of power were also moved to safety... but they themselves didn't make the cut.

Yowch.

Being kind, the general public know very little about grown-up security. Mostly this is a good thing, as it means they are more likely to follow any old shit from someone in a hi-viz.

It does however mean there is very little critical analysis.

The decoy plane thing was an awful thing for them to do, typical of their disregard for everyone who isn't them, but I don't think they were really in any danger as AF1 should be able to withstand anything that Iran would be able to launch at it, unless they had an inside operative. It seems to have been more of an effort to flush out how much intel about the Orange AssFace's movements they have than a real worry the plane was going to be taken down. Rubio, who was apparently one of the architects of the scheme, stayed on the decoy plane.

Revolting behaviour from them as usual, though, so no surprise.

Should have loaded the catering truck with diet cokes and skittles and overdone fast food burgers. Trump would still be in there, eating himself to death.

That would be interesting, for some value of interesting where Trump is concerned.

When I first read that, the name Zia Yusuf flashed across my minds eye.

Re-reading it, it happened again.

I wonder why ?

Ouch!

Well, the SS has missed 3 attempts now. Oh, that don't sound right.

The teen on the roof, on a big blank roof, climbed up, and got a couple of shots off without being spotted, or dealt with I should say.

The golf course guy was just crap at camouflage. The dinner fella was stopped
, but the SS managed to shoot one of their own.

I think it is just down to nobody with any skill at it wanting to, and willing to shoot him rather than SS dark arts of protection.

I reckon, statistically, it just never happens like in the movies.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/81L2LYQXt_E

Thank you, @WhereDoesThisToiletGo

BC - we were in the lower Okanagan and now home on the coast. The sunlight is pink but air quality is ok. We've been going to the Okanagan for over 30 summers and this was the worst yet. The past 10 years have been increasingly smoke/fire impacted. Where are your relatives?

Jared Kushner's $5 billion Jeffrey Epstein-style Albanian resort project plan has effectively collapsed amid Iranian accusations of a $9 billion insider trading operation against him — and after prosecutors found the land was bought with forged Ottoman documents linked to a suspected cocaine trafficker, per WSJ.

Kushner's group paid $125 million in April to Artur Shehu for land on the Zvernec peninsula. Two months later, Albanian prosecutors charged Shehu with money laundering and cocaine trafficking — alleging he used forged documents to acquire the land sold to Kushner.

The project faced mass protests for over 60 days under the "Flamingo Revolution," with thousands opposing environmental destruction and land theft. This is the second time Kushner has faced project collapse in the Balkans after local opposition — following a similar withdrawal in Belgrade, Serbia.

Previously, Iranian officials told Drop Site News that Iran has calculated $9 billion in profits from market manipulation by "individuals close to Trump," mainly Kushner and Steve Witkoff. Tehran warned Vance that Kushner and Witkoff were "more interested in exploiting insider knowledge to profit than reaching a deal."

WSJ archived article: https://archive.is/iPD1y

Wasn't expecting to hear the word Ottoman in 2026. Although it does fit rather oddly with the whole retro feel to things right now.

All we need are the Hapsburgs, and it's happy times again !

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-08-13/poland-says-it-thwarted-russian-plot-to-kill-american-citizen-in-warsaw

*“Everything that I do will not be the right path or the right decision,” Blanche said today. *

When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time.

The Five Scandals Within the "Air Force One" Scandal
Donald Trump, a Catering Truck, and the Qatari "Air Force One" represent a Russian Nesting Doll of Scandal and Corruption
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-scandals-within-the-air-force-one-scandal

Is she deserting or maybe she hasn't lost her 'baby weight' fast enough for Scrotus. Can't have a 'chubster' representing him as press secty, you know. Gotta be a 'hot girl' to make him look good.

FFS!! 🤬

Kennedy Center Board Decides to Inscribe Trump’s Name on Building
The vote to add “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump” is an aggressive test of a judge’s order to remove his name.

The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted on Thursday to inscribe President Trump’s name on the building beneath the main signage, according to two people with direct knowledge of the proceedings, aggressively testing a federal judge’s order.

According to the resolution approved by the Trump-allied board, the inscription underneath the institution’s name would read: “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump.” The board’s decision, which directs officials to act by “all legal means,” came shortly after it voted to move forward with Mr. Trump’s plan to shutter the building for renovations.

The president’s name was added to the building last year, but the judge ordered the letters taken down, finding that only Congress had the authority to change the institution’s name. The center removed Mr. Trump’s name in June but is appealing the ruling.

The move appeared to be a creative workaround to a provision in the federal law governing the Kennedy Center that says “no additional memorials or plaques in the nature of memorials shall be designated or installed in the public areas.”

In Thursday’s resolution, the board directed officials to honor Mr. Trump for bringing the center back “from the brink of disaster,” presenting a series of possibilities that include naming the center’s grounds the “President Donald J. Trump Plaza.”
“It is hereby resolved,” the measure said, “that the center desires to recognize and honor President Trump’s existential and unprecedented contributions to the survival of the center by all legal means.”

Both decisions will be subject to the scrutiny of the judge who found that the board had been “derelict” in considering the closure plan ahead of its original vote. Mr. Trump announced in February that the center would close for two years, with the objective of transforming what he called a “tired, broken and dilapidated” institution.

The board voted on Thursday to close the Kennedy Center’s main building, while keeping a newer addition to the campus, known as the Reach, open for limited programming and to operate as an active memorial to John F. Kennedy.
(Continues NYT)

My family live in West Vancouver and are lucky enough to have a sea-view (if you peer through the trees on the other side of the road and squint at the sea over the beach-side houses), and have taken many holidays in the Okanagan in the over 20 years since they immigrated from England. No pickling that I know of, though! We visited them this time last year, and went to Vancouver Island for a little holiday within a holiday. We were lucky, there were no fires and the weather was pleasant, we had an amazing time. I really like Vancouver itself, and Granville Island is one of my favourite places! The climate is a tad cold and rainy for me, though, as I’ve spent the past 15 years or so in the heat of southern Europe and the Middle East.
ETA: My apologies to everyone else for the de-rail. Elbows up 🇨🇦

A chance for printer girl to be promoted?

I saw this on the noon news and my jaw hit the floor.

I just remind myself that what goes up can be taken down!

If I were a serious non-GOP contender for 2028 I'd already have a long, long list of 'housekeeping' tasks to start working on starting at 12.30pm on 20 Jan 2029.

FFS indeed.

They'll need a czar of unfucking things with a large staff and budget