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Panda-monium - Trump Thread #170

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Spandauer · 29/09/2026 19:01

Mid-terms looming, approval falling, prices rising, wars ongoing - Ping Ping and Fu Shuang must be wondering what heinous crime they committed to be banished chosen as envoys of friendship between China and USA. 🐼🐼

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5572772-it-costs-a-lot-of-money-to-be-this-cheap-trump-thread-169

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AcrossthePond55 · 10/10/2026 17:23

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 10/10/2026 14:08

I wonder how six-shooter Lauren deals with Matthew 25:35-40, and in particular with "I was a stranger, and ye took me in"; after all, Jesus ended that little homily with "Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."

I'd assume that goes contrariwise too, and that if you torment and murder others, you have done it unto Jesus.

I'm a Christian but I won't quote the Bible in response to your post. But I will quote The Bard.

I'm not speaking of your quoting of scripture, but rather how people like Boebert use the Scriptures to justify their hatred.

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!” ― William Shakespeare

TemporarilyCantDoMyself · 10/10/2026 17:25

logicisall · 10/10/2026 17:00

Where's the trade mark emoji when you need it?

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AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 10/10/2026 18:00

AcrossthePond55 · 10/10/2026 17:23

I'm a Christian but I won't quote the Bible in response to your post. But I will quote The Bard.

I'm not speaking of your quoting of scripture, but rather how people like Boebert use the Scriptures to justify their hatred.

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!” ― William Shakespeare

From The Merchant, Antonio to Bassanio? It's a beastly play, and the behaviour of the "Christians" is as unchristian as can be; I disliked the content more even than I disliked The Shrew, but oh my! The poetry!

I was at a Quaker school until they chucked me out (long story, I really had to work for that expulsion) and picked up a lot of their outlook; good people, in the main, and not ones to use the bible to preach hatred. We had to learn a short text every day before breakfast; not only biblical, but for instance the "I have a dream" speech, broken up into two or three sentences at a time. Some of it stuck; enough for me to recognise where misquotations or interpretations I utterly deplore came from, and what their context properly is.

To this day I cherish the memory of a lovely Elder who grinned at me when I was being even more than usually obnoxious about a biblical text, and pointed out that, according to both Peter and Paul, I ought not to be wearing plaits.... (1 Peter 3:3-4 and 1 Timothy 2:9-10)

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Justsaynonow · 10/10/2026 18:09

TemporarilyCantDoMyself · 10/10/2026 10:26

I'm not sure things have ever looked like they're lining up worse than now.
Midterms.
Public execution by firing squad.
ICC sanctioned and publicly vilified.
Russian diesel yes please says USA.
Ukraine will be reprimanded for sabotaging Russian fuel.
Europe will support Ukraine and the ICC which will directly contravene all Trump's directives and inclinations.
That's without all the Iran Middle East Hormuz Israel stuff.
Without climate change disruption etc.
Things look bad to me.

And armed soldiers in front of vote drop boxes

logicisall · 10/10/2026 18:13

RafaistheKingofClay · 10/10/2026 16:51

The whole context of that verse has gone right over her head hasn’t it. My guess is she’d be a Pharisee in this story.

meanwhile - and this isn’t entirely down to RFK.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/controversial-vaccine-trial-touted-by-rfk-jr-gets-go-ahead-in-guinea-bissau/ar-AA2dVbhj?ocid=socialshare

Probably best for anti vaxxers to carry this out in Africa. Would be unfortunate if it turns out we’d damaged white babies by not vaccinating them against Hep B.

Is it because children in Africa are more expendable than children here?”

'Course it is and even better, they won't sue like Americans can. If I had millions, I would sue on their behalf. For some reason, this news is really getting to me.
Is he dead yet? now applies to more than the orange one. Privilege vs the defenceless. We are a sick society for even allowing this.

RafaistheKingofClay · 10/10/2026 18:22

logicisall · 10/10/2026 18:13

Is it because children in Africa are more expendable than children here?”

'Course it is and even better, they won't sue like Americans can. If I had millions, I would sue on their behalf. For some reason, this news is really getting to me.
Is he dead yet? now applies to more than the orange one. Privilege vs the defenceless. We are a sick society for even allowing this.

Denmark having a national ethics committee that wouldn’t assess this study because it is taking place in another country and then allowing the university to set up its own ethics committee to decide whether it’s ethical seems like the sort of loophole than needs closing. Preferably before RFK and his fellow antivaxxers get more ideas.

RedTagAlan · 11/10/2026 02:02

I marked off our Nobel bingo. We got the 4 corners, one short of the full house.

"Saturday, October 10, 2026 12:04 PM Truth Social

I settled 8 WARS, am close to ending or settling 2 more, got all of the Israeli hostages back, including the final 28, both living and dead, had hundreds of hostages, from countries all over the World, released and sent back home, won a war in Venezuela, and captured the violent dictator who so viciously ran that country, and stopped the number one state sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran, from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon -- AND MUCH MORE! Yet, with all of that I, or the United States of America, did not get the Noble Peace Prize. WOW!"

That was a taster. Now for the main event, the main course, the money shot.... his superbly composted argument that HE should have got it.

"Saturday, October 10, 2026 3:39 AM Truth Social

This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things. I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel. I don't know what the woman has done. I settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every President and Prime Minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I'm about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and, Russia/Ukraine. They're both happening at breakneck speed but, forget them, it's the 8 that I've already settled, any one of which, in particular, Pakistan and India, would be far more than necessary to win the Nobel Prize. In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1. The 8 Wars are: Cambodia and ThailandKosovo and SerbiaThe Democratic Republic of the Congo and RwandaPakistan and IndiaIsrael and IranEgypt and EthiopiaArmenia and AzerbaijanIsrael and Hamas Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond! I saved more lives than anyone in History and, as Maria Corina Machado, a truly fine person, stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year, "Donald Trump settled many Wars, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it." Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to do it Nobody believed this was possible! I removed the World's Evil Dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Venezuela, and am in the process of making Venezuela a rich Democracy. Likewise, with Iran, I stopped them from destroying Israel, the Middle East, and Europe. I am also preventing, on a constant basis, a War between South Korea and North Korea, and Japan and North Korea. Add China and Taiwan, and numerous other hot spots, which have not been involved in Wars, only because of President Donald J. Trump, and the United States of America. I am responsible for having NATO countries increase spending from 2% to 5% of GDP, creating a stronger alliance and defense, another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries in Eastern Europe. Additionally, I have brought 196 hostages HOME from captivity, from all over the World, and did it without having paid a ransom, unlike Biden and Obama who would pay Billions of Dollars. On top of it all, I have created a soon to be very prosperous Arctic. Despite all of this, the Nobel Prize was given today to a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of. In all of the Wars that I have settled, I never spoke to the United Nationsthey were of no help. The United States of America, represented by me, as your President, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn't. This is an indelible stain on Norway, one that will never be forgotten. The Nobel "Peace" Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of Radical Ideologues who are Anti-Democracy, and Enemies of Civilization! President DONALD J. TRUMP

So well done the USA. You have now joined the " The Nobel Peace Prize is Worthless" club of nations. And your pals in that club ? China, North Korea, Afghanistan.... Iran...

What was the phrase GW Bush used..... all yes... the "axis of evil". Your membership card is in the post. Together with the Mexican cheque to pay for the wall.

Edit - strikethrough.

Panda-monium - Trump Thread #170
RedTagAlan · 11/10/2026 04:47

It is so childish. If my DD came out with an excuse like this, a sit down chat would be in order.

"On Friday, the National Park Service, a division of the Interior Department, said in a court filing that it planned to begin removing 169 trees on Saturday, part of what it said was routine maintenance to eliminate potential hazards from the public golf course. In all, the NPS plans to remove as many as 529 trees at the site, according to court documents."

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Crews begin clearing 169 trees at DC golf course Trump plans to convert to championship course | CNN Politics

Crews begin clearing 169 trees at DC golf course Trump plans to convert to championship course | CNN Politics

The East Potomac Golf Course is home to one of several Trump administration renovation projects wrapped up in litigation brought by preservationists.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/10/politics/tree-removal-dc-golf-course-trump

OnePeppyFatball · 11/10/2026 07:23

I mean, it’s only water after all. What’s in a name?

“President Donald Trump on Saturday floated the idea of renaming more bodies of water, following his efforts to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario.
“We’ve got the gulf. We’ve got a beautiful lake,” Trump said at a rally in Clarksville, Tennessee. “Now, somebody said, you need a river. … We need a river. We need an ocean.”
Trump mused that he could rebrand either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, and he appeared to joke that the new name could be in honor of him.”

“We call it ‘Trump Ocean’ or, or, ‘Ocean of the Americas,’ something like that,” Trump said to some laughter and applause. “Before I get out, I think we should have an ocean. And we need a great river.”

Excerpt From
“Trump suggests ‘Ocean of Americas’ as new name for Atlantic or Pacific”
Dan Diamond
The Washington Post
https://apple.news/A_RR-4T6DSOKFaG4wfBJijg
This material may be protected by copyright.

Trump suggests ‘Ocean of Americas’ as new name for Atlantic or Pacific — The Washington Post

The president also floated the idea of naming an ocean after himself.

https://apple.news/A_RR-4T6DSOKFaG4wfBJijg

Spandauer · 11/10/2026 08:27

That made me look up who has the most things or places named after them. Seems like it's probably the Virgin Mary but most places in the world apparently goes to Queen Victoria.

So 🍊💩 has away to go yet. He's trolling but at the same time you know he's also deadly serious.

The lead up to the midterms is proving to be particularly shitty so as Dusty said let's keep on "Wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin'
Plannin' and dreamin'".

Panda-monium - Trump Thread #170
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Pedallleur · 11/10/2026 08:39

Zelensky needs to step down according to Mango. Must be instructions from Putin. No doubt Putin has 'promised' Trump that Nobel prize. Go Norway with its huge oil reserves and enormous Wealth fund

OnePeppyFatball · 11/10/2026 08:57

Pedallleur · 11/10/2026 08:39

Zelensky needs to step down according to Mango. Must be instructions from Putin. No doubt Putin has 'promised' Trump that Nobel prize. Go Norway with its huge oil reserves and enormous Wealth fund

Edited

Yep.

“Donald Trump has called for Volodymyr Zelensky to be ousted, saying Ukraine needs a new leader who can end the war with Russia.
Ukrainian strikes on Moscow’s oil refineries provoked a furious response from the US president, who had agreed a deal to buy diesel from Vladimir Putin a day earlier.
Responding to two drone attacks on Saturday, Mr Trump said: “[Mr Zelensky] better damn well stop.
“I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal.””

Excerpt From
“Trump: Zelensky must be ousted”
Natasha Leake, Camilla Turner, Lily Shanagher
The Telegraph
https://apple.news/A-quupf3ISs2Wndofj8AtUw
This material may be protected by copyright.

Trump agrees major deal to buy diesel from Putin — The Telegraph

US president’s attempt to lower fuel prices ahead of midterms is ‘a gift’ to Russia, says Zelensky

https://apple.news/PgYnWSn0iLad6IRerFhPE_u

Pedallleur · 11/10/2026 09:20

I wonder if the Trump family are getting a cut off this diesel deal. Also how long will the fuel take to reach America? It has to be loaded (Black Sea?) then cross the Atlantic then unloaded and put into the system so 1 month? Also is the fuel market not owned by oil companies so how is the price lowered? I thought America was a supplier of diesel

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 11/10/2026 12:35

Donald Trump has called for Volodymyr Zelensky to be ousted, saying Ukraine needs a new leader who can end the war with Russia.

On that basis, Putin (who frequently states that he refuses to negotiate) ought to go. And the sooner the better.

Come to that, since Trump has consistently failed to end that war or even begin to end it, he too ought to be ousted.

PerkingFaintly · 11/10/2026 12:47

Well indeed. Russia needs a new leader.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 11/10/2026 12:51

Ideally one who dislikes the futile war and will blame the whole thing on Putin as a way to get out of it.

Spandauer · 11/10/2026 12:52

I wonder if the Trump family are getting a cut off this diesel deal?

As my DF used to say - "Does the Pope wear a pointy hat?"

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AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 11/10/2026 12:54

Mine used to enquire whether bears are catholic....

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 11/10/2026 15:32

Does Trump shit in his own backyard?

SerendipityJane · 11/10/2026 15:35

If anyone what's to know what Trump is trying to obscure ...

https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/security/iran-threatens-wider-tanker-attacks-as-vlcc-struck-in-gulf

AcrossthePond55 · 11/10/2026 15:35

@RedTagAlan

I'm finishing your lyrics for you.

The lead up to the midterms is proving to be particularly shitty so as Dusty said let's keep on "Wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin'
Plannin' and dreamin, his death is the start, we'll finally be rid of the fart!'".

RedTagAlan · 11/10/2026 15:55

AcrossthePond55 · 11/10/2026 15:35

@RedTagAlan

I'm finishing your lyrics for you.

The lead up to the midterms is proving to be particularly shitty so as Dusty said let's keep on "Wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin'
Plannin' and dreamin, his death is the start, we'll finally be rid of the fart!'".

Mid terms.

I am wondering if we need an A3 size bingo card :-)

I think we do need a classic style, with lots of squares. And a State tick list. Needs some thought?

Hmm

placemats · 11/10/2026 17:06

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 11/10/2026 15:32

Does Trump shit in his own backyard?

Smart and intelligent criminals don't do that.

Ergo.

AcrossthePond55 · 11/10/2026 17:07

@RedTagAlan

I am wondering if we need an A3 size bingo card :-)

Are you sure that will be big enough to contain his verbal vomit?

I think we do need a classic style, with lots of squares. And a State tick list. Needs some thought?

State tick squares would be great in number. Calif alone has 52 HoR seats, all up for grabs. Maybe a row with 'Dems get the HoR', 'Dems get the Senate', 'It's a 'Blue Wave'' (for if they get both), and then ending the row with 'Scrotus has an apoplexy'. lol

placemats · 11/10/2026 17:10

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 11/10/2026 12:54

Mine used to enquire whether bears are catholic....

Do bears shit in woods and is the Pope a Catholic.

Is either a solid fact as in most bears do an historically most Popes are.

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