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

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Surely it's time.

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

This is beautiful! Just delurking to say that DH works for a company that supplies scientific equipment to research labs and says lots are relocating here to the UK as well

Update to that Yiannopoulos story:

Right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj06jgq62v9o

He has also cheered on ICE raids, writing on X last year: "Total legal immunity for ICE agents when they're on duty."
He posted in 2025: "We have got to deport millions and millions of people. Without that, nothing else matters."
Yiannopoulos also advocated "on the spot deportation for anyone who can't prove they are in the US legally" on social media.
Laura Loomer, a far-right commentator and Trump ally who has feuded with Yiannopoulos, took credit for his arrest by ICE.
She posted on X on Friday night that his flight back to the UK had already departed.
"This subversive foreign agent is already out of the United States and DHS tells me he's NEVER allowed to come back to the United States ever again," she said.

Hoist by his own petard.

Yiannopoulos is another person who has the "we" problem: "We have got to deport millions and millions of people."

Who's "we"?

Yiannopoulos has been in the US since 2019 and presumably said this while living there. So it sounds like he imagines himself to be "we" with the US...

And further, that he believes other people in the US aren't "we".

Funny, that.

I am loving this for Milo. I hope he gets Eswatini. Or that big jail in El Salvador. But there's me getting ahead of myself, enjoy your detention Milo.😁

Trump has taken 1/5th of all the VZ oil reserve.

Wonder if he has cancelled all those sanctions against VZ that forced him to set up sanction avoiding accounts in Qatar.

Trump says US reaches deal with Venezuela to control 65 billion barrels of country’s oil reserves | CNN Politics

Had to be done.

"Lake America". Fuck me Loretta!

Why doesn't he just name it "Lake I'm going to take my ball and go straight home!". It would be much more apropos.

I've never loved Canada as much as I love Canada now. Even if I won't be able to get my favourite brand of gluten free biscuits and crackers or they'll now cost a bomb.

The man who bankrupts casinos, now bankrupts navies

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-the-trump-administration-is-eroding-the-us-military-edge

I also saw a proposal that Canada rename Lake Huron as Hu'rontheepsteinlist 😁 And with the change to America (should you choose to accept it), the acronym for the Great Lakes is now SHAME. Fitting.

I just read an article interviewing Ohio residents. Most sounded sane but one had drunk the koolaid. “I think Canada had … high tariffs on our stuff. And then Trump made it equal. And that's when people started getting all pissy.”

Not so sure I trust the blue tick here ....

How do you deadname something that isn't alive now and wasn't alive then?

Unless maybe the US consulate in Toronto believes in nixies.

Sigh, they’re bringing up The Falklands again.

https://news.sky.com/story/uk-support-for-falklands-unwavering-after-reports-us-may-oppose-british-rule-of-the-islands-13578535

I've been away for a mere two days and came back to the news of US rape of VZ oil reserves, with the connivance of the left-over from Maduro's regime, Delcy Rodriguez. The VZ people will be lucky to see 10th of what they are due, as her gov't's corrupt as well.

Reading this made me feel physically sick.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/fa1bcd25345908d8

The United States has threatened to oppose Britain’s sovereignty over the Falkland Islands if Andy Burnham does not increase defence spending, The Telegraph can reveal.
The proposal is among measures being drawn up by senior defence officials at the Pentagon as an incentive to hit Nato’s 5 per cent spending pledge.
A senior US official told The Telegraph that Britain was likely to receive “special attention” in Washington’s review of its allies’ commitment to Nato, which will examine whether member nations have credible paths toward the target.
Officials in Washington believe that while Britain has the potential to be a leading defence partner, the defence investment plan, announced by Sir Keir Starmer in June, was not enough of a “step in the right direction”.
“I would expect the UK to receive special attention because it has so much potential,” the official said of the review. “We will therefore continue efforts to incentivise and enable the UK to step up in a major way.”
Asked about the prospect of the US changing its position on the Falklands, they added: “I can say that they [conversations] are candid and nothing is being ruled out as far as options for encouraging the sort of burden-sharing that we seek.”
The discourse from Washington will concern Mr Burnham and John Healey, his Chancellor, whose first Budget will fail to commit to spending 3 per cent of GDP on defence by 2030.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/b0bce6ea11e694a9

But deadnaming actual people is all good as far as they're concerned

Trump wants the US to control the UKs defence spending. And how Canadians label food. What else will he want the US to control ?

Sovereignty ?

This dude is losing his mind.

Can’t win a war but obsesses in AI like the unhinged boomer he is
https://bsky.app/profile/adamkinzinger.substack.com/post/3muak25ze3s2r

Did he actually post that?

If so, WTAF

He's insane
And getting worse.

Yep, yep and yep.

also posted this - hope he gets a cease & desist

That's sickening.

I have to say, I really don't understand the point of all this. Surely it's just doubling down with the base that already support them no matter what? This can't be winning over any new fans, so why bother?

Need your help @SerendipityJane . You know this stuff.

Attached Truth from Trump. connecting ANTIFA to HAMAS etc. Text is

Friday, August 28, 20266:05 PM Truth Social

^EXCLUSIVE: State Dept reveals Portland Antifa connection to Hamas, Iran's IRGC in sweeping terror action: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-state-dept-reveals-portland-antifa-connection-hamas-irans-irgc-sweeping-terror-action^

I can't open Fox, but I got this alternate site.

EXCLUSIVE: State Dept reveals Portland Antifa connection to Hamas, Iran’s IRGC in sweeping terror action | The New York Ledger (thenyledger.com)

"Autistici/Inventati, called the A/I Collective by the State Department, is an Italy-based group that builds highly sophisticated digital infrastructure used by violent left-wing organizations in the United States and Europe, along with Islamic terrorists, according to the State Department. The collective’s services include encrypted chats and email, web hosting, secure video conferencing and streaming and anonymity shields, according to the memo."

My question is just simply, is this possible for this group to be doing this from a tech point of view. It all seems a bit suspect to me. Are they writing this code, or is it just a server hosting commercial apps, if you see what I mean? Much like " Acme Holdings" might do.

This all seems to be propaganda to me. As in, Trump is managing to propagandize almost the entire US Government. Esp against "the left".

I also saw a thread on here yesterday. MN Goodwins alert.. about a US Guv commissioned report on " Authoritarian Leftists" who are pro trans being more likely to see political violence as being ok. And knock me over with a feather, who would have thought anyone who identifies as authoritarian would see political violence as ok.

Now, I have no skin in this trans thing on MN. And I could not open that report, but I could get enough info from reports on the report to see that many posters had a "propaganda" reaction to it. That is, there was no rocket science in the report, it was basically just saying something already known, that authoritarians are more likely to be authoritarian. But many posts were calling for "the left" to be cracked down on. And that seems to me the exact reaction the US Guv were looking for.

I am just interested that's all, and you know IT stuff.

@SerendipityJane

Further to my above post, It was just coincidence that I used the term Acme Holdings in my above post. Because when I looked up " Autistici/Inventati" they refer to ACME on their site header :-)

But the site is blocked for me of course.

I find search results are a good way to spot propaganda. Is the subject widely discussed or do all the hits mostly feed back to a single source. In this case, when I search for this group, apart from their own site, all my results are referring back to the US dpt of state. So that sets off the alarm bells.

A country I follow in terms of propaganda do this all the time. The circular results thing. But I gotta say, they are much better at it than the US.

Oh, I just got this

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Understanding How Businesses Can Go Beyond Compliance to Actively Promote Human Rights - July 31, 2024 at 19.39.07 (righttoconnect.org)

And ha ha. The irony.

Brings to mind something I sometimes say to conspiracy folk. That in authoritarian states, the data protection and web laws are designed to protect the State from the individual. In the free world, the same laws are designed to protect the individual from the state. Or that is how it is supposed to work in the free world.

Stuff like this makes me wonder what sort of chance likes of the Iranian protestors have. Their government who they are against crack down on their secure coms, and so is the US Government too.

Tha best way to deal with blackmailers is to call their bluff and tell them to fuck off. Give in and the stakes get higher.

In this case I hope Burnham says do that and your airbases are gone. Take a leaf out of Canadas book.