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Is Donald Trump ill? Otherwise what would explain such imbecility?

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longwayoff · 03/06/2019 10:33

Has he missed some 💊 on his international flight? Who visits someone and promptly pisses on the doorstep? His comments about Sadiq Khan are beyond disgraceful. Disgusting creature.

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Thallo · 03/06/2019 12:30

The three supposedly fascist tendencies you impute to Trump aren't true.

Yes they are.

HTH.

floraloctopus · 03/06/2019 12:32

Maybe he is autistic but if he is then that's nothing to do with the fact that he's a grade A cunt. Pure coincidence.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 03/06/2019 12:32

What does Khan do or not do that makes him such a bad Mayor?

For me, he didn't fulfil his Manifesto pledges to turn London into a green garden city and plant hundreds of trees and build green corridors.

Lweji · 03/06/2019 12:33

The three supposedly fascist tendencies you impute to Trump aren't true.

Just because you say it, it doesn't make it true.
He shows many fascist tendencies.

Madeleine Albright isn't in the habit of insulting people.

www.vox.com/world/2019/2/14/18221913/fascism-warning-madeleine-albright-book-trump

Helmetbymidnight · 03/06/2019 12:35

uk.video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-ima-002&hsimp=yhs-002&hspart=ima&p=trump+imitates+disabled+journalist+video#id=1&vid=78f64cc00bf636941e575a867ce80ed9&action=click

So forthright, so refreshing, so telling it like it is.

And of course Sadiq Khan is just as bad - he didn't plant the trees. Hmm

ADropofReality · 03/06/2019 12:36

So here we have intellectual bankruptcy in its full glory - whether it's justifying demonising Trump, or wanting Killdren to play at Glastonbury, or throwing a milkshake at Nigel Farage.

"So-and-so is a Nazi, or has behaved like a Nazi. I get to make up whatever it is is Nazi-esque about them.

Nazis are beyond the pale, obvs. It doesn't matter they're not Nazis; I define them or their behaviour to be Nazi.

People beyond the pale may be rightly subject to any amount of demonisation or violence.

We're the good guys and we're nice. We would never tolerate abominable behaviour to decent people.

But remember: if these people hadn't been such Nazis in the first place, we wouldn't have been forced to behave so disgracefully to them"

The next step is your own political opponents, who until now have been intellectually honest, sacking that off and using the same logic against you.

TheTitOfTheIceberg · 03/06/2019 12:37

Has Sadiq Khan said something other than that tweet? Because that to me reads like a measured and accurate assessment of the state of the world. Is there another tweet from him with a childish insult? If not then no - they are not as bad as each other.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 03/06/2019 12:37

Well, it was in his Manifesto and he didn't do it.

For me, it makes him a bad mayor. Your opinion might differ.

Helmetbymidnight · 03/06/2019 12:38

Oh God. The guy is a fucking arsehole, what do you want people to say?

Lweji · 03/06/2019 12:38

he didn't fulfil his Manifesto pledges to turn London into a green garden city

The bastard. And he's had 3 years to do it already.

I haven't lived in London for 9 years, but this seems to be a shitty reason to think he's a bad Mayor. He's not Alladdin.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 03/06/2019 12:40

I'm not disputing anyone's negative opinion on Trump.

juneau · 03/06/2019 12:40

Trump is rude, crude, ignorant and vulgar, because that's what his 'base' in the USA admires about him - and that's why he doesn't give a shit who he offends on the world stage. Ultimately the only people he has to please are the ones who voted for him last time and who he hopes will vote for him again in Nov 2020.

So whatever he says to Sadiq Khan, Theresa May, Angela Merkel, etc, doesn't matter and actually, the more blunt he is, the better he looks to his redneck voters who want nothing more than a strong man in the White House. He admires Putin, because Putin is just that - a strong man who pushes other countries around and has resurrected the image of Russia as a strong nation that others push around at their peril.

Is Trump in the early stages of dementia? Quite possibly. If you watch videos of him speaking from the 1980s, you'll see that he used to have a much larger vocabulary and he could discuss things at length without constantly losing his train of thought and talking nonsense, like he often does now.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 03/06/2019 12:41

I haven't lived in London for 9 years, but this seems to be a shitty reason to think he's a bad Mayor. He's not Alladdin.

Well, I have.

Lweji · 03/06/2019 12:41

@ADropofReality

Are you on drugs?

Saying someone is behaving like a fascist and giving reasons for it is an analysis of their behaviour. It's not name calling. Also, nobody had mentioned the nazis (yet).

Helmetbymidnight · 03/06/2019 12:41

You said Sadiq Khan was just as bad as Donald Trump.

So yeah, best let's agree to disagree.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 03/06/2019 12:41

Sorry, what's Alladdin to do with that?

Lweji · 03/06/2019 12:42

Well, I have.

And apart from not magically turning into a green city, what else have you got on him?

Lweji · 03/06/2019 12:42

Alladdin has a genie to magic up things. Wink

PaulHollywoodsSexGut · 03/06/2019 12:42

Guys, surely Trump hates Khan because Khan is Muslim.

That’s it.

Right?!

Lweji · 03/06/2019 12:44

Pretty much.

The blonde Boris is much more likeable.

ADropofReality · 03/06/2019 12:44

The same logic that says "Donald Trump is such a Nazi - because I say so - therefore I'm justified in doing and saying X, Y and Z" also says "Jess Phillips is such a 'feminazi' (sic) - because I say so - therefore I'm justified in doing and saying X, Y and Z".

Both are vile and wrong.

BertrandRussell · 03/06/2019 12:46

Apparently he has already planted 8 times more trees than Johnston dis in his whole time as Mayor.

Thallo · 03/06/2019 12:46

Saying someone is behaving like a fascist and giving reasons for it is an analysis of their behaviour. It's not name calling.

Indeed. Not sure what the point of that person's stream of consciousness waffling was. They appear to be offended by the truth.

Lweji · 03/06/2019 12:46

He's also named Boris. He probably thinks he's of Russian origin.

Helmetbymidnight · 03/06/2019 12:47

The same logic that says "Donald Trump is such a Nazi - because I say so - therefore I'm justified in doing and saying X, Y and Z" also says "Jess Phillips is such a 'feminazi' (sic) - because I say so - therefore I'm justified in doing and saying X, Y and Z".
Both are vile and wrong.

If only we knew what you were on about it.

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