Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Nov 25 - 07:21 PM

BWM if you put Jack Dart's ideas in your own words you might become more articulate and master certain techniques that become leadership skills. You already have a creative heart.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 07 Nov 25 - 12:08 PM

Just read the most perfect description of the Orange Rapist, from Oliver Kornetzke (political commentator)…

”Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but always has been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshipped like gospel. It is America's shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn't just lose its soul - it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.”

Couldn’t put it better myself. And yet still they vote for him…

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Helen
Date: 07 Nov 25 - 12:47 PM

He says it all, BWM. I just sent it to my Hubby as well.

If anyone needs a link there is a copy of it on this page: Oliver Kornetzke - on Trump but there are a lot of other references to the quote when I searched for it.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 07 Nov 25 - 02:14 PM

He certainly has a way with words, Helen! ;-)

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Nov 25 - 06:29 PM

National Airport downtown has canceled 151 flights due to flight controller staffing problems, due to the government shutdown.

There is a report that Food Stamps may work as soon as Monday, but national news has not confirmed.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Nov 25 - 05:34 PM

Daft as it may sound now, the British royal family issues could have a direct bearing here.

The Andrew formerly known as Prince could well be proven to be guilty of crimes associated with Epstein. If that does happen there will be a knock on effect to Trump. The British royal family may not have much power or influence nowadays but they were one of the most predominant families in the world for a long time. If they cannot cover this up, I doubt if anyone can. Including the turnip.

Only speculation of course. We can but hope...

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Nov 25 - 08:08 PM

Royal secrets have existed for centuries. Can Andrew directly implicate Trump with crimes? It is not yet known. Implications already abound, but are being covered up by the Trump machine.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Helen
Date: 10 Nov 25 - 01:58 AM

So, if it all goes to plan the government shutdown might end in the next week. (Not a moment too soon.)

Even if the Democrats do not manage to achieve all they set out to do, they have shown themselves as strong, brave individuals who are prepared to stand their ground in the fight for truth, justice and the American way - i.e. the democratic way that America was originally envisaged as becoming before Trump and his cronies began trying to hijack it.

Fingers crossed and strong prayers that it all turns out well.

I take heart in the fact that Trump was booed at the NFL game between Washington Commanders and Detroit Lions.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Aethelric
Date: 10 Nov 25 - 03:33 AM

So, the BBC apologises, and heads roll, for lying about the world's biggest liar. It's a strange world.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Nov 25 - 03:38 AM

very strange.But I dont think that Trump is the only one, Bill Gates, Possibly Blair and Clinton?

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 10 Nov 25 - 04:59 AM

In trying to stitch up Trump, the BBC have succeeded in stitching up Truth.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Nov 25 - 06:20 AM

can you prove that they have been biased, or stitched up the truth.
I do not think any establishment news channel is unbiased in any country.
But when people like Trump and Farage accuse them of bias it isa question of the pot calling the kettle black.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Nov 25 - 07:15 AM

would sky news be unbiased?,

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Aethelric
Date: 10 Nov 25 - 09:24 AM

"very strange.But I dont think that Trump is the only one, Bill Gates, Possibly Blair and Clinton?"

But nobody does it better than Trump.

"In trying to stitch up Trump, the BBC have succeeded in stitching up Truth."

They could have handled it better, but don't forget that Trump was impeached for "Incitement of Insurrection:" and 57% of senators voted in favour of the impeachment. But a 67%
majority was needed to convict.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Nov 25 - 11:17 AM

Bill Gate's wife divorced him because of his continued friendship with Epstein, whatever the nature of those transactions. Bill Clinton has an asterisk next to his name ever since Monika Lewinsky, but I tend to think he's smart enough not to fall into that trap twice. "The company you keep" is sweating a lot of men right now; Epstein cultivated connections but not all of them as sordid as the Andrew one.

Back to Trump - he has Hegseth firing generals as they try to build up an immoral base in the military, or so it appears. Anyone with scruples is gone.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Helen
Date: 10 Nov 25 - 11:47 AM

As for the BBC, look on the bright side. When they make an error of judgement, they own up to it and take the consequences. The direct opposite of Trump and his cronies.

Also, the words were Trump's words, not AI generated. It was the piecing together of two parts of one speech which created the problem. Trump said those words and should take responsibility for his actions but he chooses to blame everyone else but himself. He never owns up to his own actions or errors of judgement.

What goes around, comes around. My bet is that he won't get away with all of this, and when it all comes back to bite him ... well, I can't wait to see that.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 10 Nov 25 - 12:11 PM

Helen, the mistake they made was in not making it clear that those were two sections edited to look like one continuous piece. If they had said something along the lines of, “Followed later by…” between the two short clips, the Orange Rapist wouldn’t have a leg to stand on.

That’s what I meant in my earlier comment - “In trying to stitch up Trump, the BBC have succeeded in stitching up Truth.”

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Helen
Date: 10 Nov 25 - 12:34 PM

Yep, I get all that.

But, we are all so overwhelmed with this avalanche of information so is one slip-up a criminal offence or just a regrettable mistake? Was it deliberate? I can't imagine the BBC being deliberately deceptive, any more than our very own Oz ABC.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 10 Nov 25 - 01:01 PM

What’s very strange is that the BBC are giving a great deal of airtime to extreme-Righty Nigel Farage and his bunch of Reform UK NEO-fascists. Farage and Reform UK appear to be trying to import Trumpism into UK politics, so it’s very difficult to understand how the BBC can be deemed to have Left-bias on the one hand, but Right-bias on the other.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Nov 25 - 01:31 PM

Well said, I agree

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Helen
Date: 10 Nov 25 - 03:30 PM

What a surprise! It's all about money and stopping news media from telling the truth as they see it.

Trump threatens to sue 'corrupt' BBC for $1.5b over 'salacious' documentary

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Aethelric
Date: 11 Nov 25 - 03:33 AM

He must have a pretty big army of mercenary lawyers all baying for money.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Nov 25 - 09:01 AM

Today is Veterans' Day
It's not a payday
Instead it betrays
soldiers that survive

Some were blue or gray
Others were khaki green
Some are not what they seem
a few are left to strive

Most experienced pain
that left a stain
It's a common refrain
for families to cry

Plump shlump Trump
As lucky as Forest Gump
Says veterans are suckers
But Donald is just a fucker

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Nov 25 - 09:14 AM

No, he strong-armed a bunch of big legal firms into giving him millions in pro bono work for his projects in return for not blocking them from working with the Justice Department. Quite a few of them agreed, though it wasn't legal and those that fought back and sued still have the privilege of work with the Justice Dept. without the huge donation to Trump's pet projects. Like suing the BBC and anyone who says anything true (but nasty) about him.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Nov 25 - 10:02 AM

Yes I think him suing the BBC is extremely worrying

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Nov 25 - 10:21 AM

It's how he makes money these days. Lots of settlements.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Nov 25 - 12:33 PM

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/at-least-10-pardoned-insurrectionists-face-other-cr


Do the pardoned stay pardoned? 70 more criminals have recently been given symbolic pardons because they have not yet been indicted.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Helen
Date: 11 Nov 25 - 01:07 PM

Regarding his recent pardons, I read an article which said that many of them were state-based cases so his pardons for them mean nothing in the real world. They have no effect in the real world if they are not related to state cases because the President can only issue pardons on Federal cases.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Lighter
Date: 11 Nov 25 - 02:00 PM

No effect in the real world except to alert red state governors that he wants the subjects pardoned and to remind his disciples that the "election was rigged" and the courts are "corrupt."

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Helen
Date: 11 Nov 25 - 03:38 PM

Firstly, let me confess that I have never read this play, although I might have seen it on TV many decades ago. However, the words "hollow crown" came into my mind after reading your comment, Lighter, so I looked it up and I suspect that Trump might make a similar observation towards the end of his "reign" - if he will ever be capable of comprehensive understanding of himself and his life, of course.

Speech: “No matter where; of comfort no man speak”
By William Shakespeare
(from Richard II, spoken by King Richard)

No matter where; of comfort no man speak:
Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
Let’s choose executors and talk of wills:
And yet not so, for what can we bequeath
Save our deposed bodies to the ground?
Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke’s,
And nothing can we call our own but death
And that small model of the barren earth
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison’d by their wives: some sleeping kill’d;
All murder’d: for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,
Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
To monarchize, be fear’d and kill with looks,
Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
As if this flesh which walls about our life,
Were brass impregnable, and humor’d thus
Comes at the last and with a little pin
Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood
With solemn reverence: throw away respect,
Tradition, form and ceremonious duty,
For you have but mistook me all this while:
I live with bread like you, feel want,
Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus,
How can you say to me, I am a king?

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Nov 25 - 03:54 PM

No critical thinker, Trump would not understand anything so philosophical as that, but it is a wonderful speech. I also probably saw the play decades ago, so have little memory of the text.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Helen
Date: 11 Nov 25 - 04:11 PM

Aaah! Just imagine what Shakespeare would have done with this complicated story! I already know what the title would be: Unprecedented.

I have heard that word used so many times by media presenters.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Helen
Date: 11 Nov 25 - 05:20 PM

The more I read about Richard II, the more apt the descriptions are:

part of paragraph 1 of 3 from SparkNotes summary page

"Richard II, who ascended to the throne as a young man, is a regal and stately figure, but he is wasteful in his spending habits, unwise in his choice of counselors, and detached from his country and its common people. He spends too much of his time pursuing the latest Italian fashions, spending money on his close friends, and raising taxes to fund his pet wars in Ireland and elsewhere. Commoners and the nobles alike feel perturbed when he begins to 'rent out' parcels of English land to certain wealthy noblemen to fund one of his wars, and then seizes the lands and money of a recently deceased and much respected uncle to help fill his personal coffers. As a result, the subjects turn against their king."

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Nov 25 - 06:59 PM

Trump is like a very odd fraction with a numerator of a weak, strong man con man and a denominator of an ignorant liar. He has proven that the quality of lies matters not. The sine qua non of his leadership is to break any rule, law, or Constitution. By the time he is found guilty, he has already escaped.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Nov 25 - 05:29 PM

The USA will need a great national shower to wash off the slime from the emerging Epstein/Trump ass ociation.

You know about Trump's sexual remarks about his daughter and other sex crimes, but the facts and cover-up regarding Epstein, up to and including a possible murder, may be stranger than a Twilight Zone episode. Episode 1 should occur in time for holiday conversations.