Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: r.padgett
Date: 16 Mar 26 - 08:30 AM

and now he wants Nato to join in his war

Middle East is ablaze and suffering blasts from drones and rockets and it seems all the countries are suffering from latent feuds quarrels and arguments

Big T has awoken the sleeping Genie by his ineptitude and blind faith badly placed in Netanyahu's

Jaw jaw not War 111

Too much rush, no planning, no research. I thought the idea was that no one makes war with out the expectation that a better leader and government would likely take over ~ no such expectation is/was in prospect the country is Iran with its own ways

I am frankly furious and aghast that Big T is still there!

Ray

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 16 Mar 26 - 11:16 AM

Interesting fallout:

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns

This is not satire, but we wish it was

The Ig Nobel Prize, which satirizes its more noble namesake, is moving its award ceremony to Europe following concerns about the safety of those attending the US event. [...]

Marc Abrahams, founder, emcee of the ceremony, and the magazine's editor, said: "During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country. We cannot in good conscience ask the new winners, or the international journalists who cover the event, to travel to the USA this year." [...]

I've always been a fan of the Iggies. See also the Comments, which are, as usual, wide-ranging, and cover many points made here.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: r.padgett
Date: 16 Mar 26 - 02:41 PM

Well what do you expect when US shows all the signs of a 3rd world country led by a despot who cares nothing for law unless it can be swung his way

he is delusional and has surrounded himself with YES men and women

Well done Sir Keir and Mark Carney

UK has no need to be drawn into a war that will go at this rate for many months and cause a lot of grief, we need a peace not a war escalation

Back off Trump ~little chance for a Big head with no where to go ~ no escalation needed now WIN THE PEACE

Ray

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 16 Mar 26 - 04:40 PM

He can't win, whatever he says. As with all sieges, the aggressor must conquer totally, but the defender need only survive. Even in Gaza, all Bibi has done is postpone the reckoning for a generation. Meanwhile ....

Iran-linked cyber crew says they hit US med-tech firm

.... and the first comment:

If a foreign cyber crew wants to really hit the Trump regime where it hurts, they would steal and release the full, unredacted Epstein files.

.... and (at Herself's suggestion) top it off with Agent Orange's medical records. Let's show everyone how gloriously healthy the Stable Genius™ is.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Mar 26 - 05:25 PM

F you f your mother f your trade
Now give me your blood and treasure to fix. Hormuz

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Hrothgar
Date: 16 Mar 26 - 07:25 PM

If anything happens to Trump:
(a) You get Vance - I don't want that
(b) He won't go to jail -I do want that

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: r.padgett
Date: 17 Mar 26 - 04:15 AM

Big T,s mercenaries meanwhile wreak havoc in US ~ the world has seen more than enough of the far right tactics being employed without proper redress

Killings have happened and been so far dismissed and no control is still being enforced ~ This seems to be the state of Big T's US

A headless chicken?

Ray (uk)

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 17 Mar 26 - 06:00 AM

He. Is. Insane.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 17 Mar 26 - 08:11 AM

Via a Linux Weekly News article:

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements (404 Media)

This 404 Media article looks at how the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) is using location data from phones to track the location of people of interest.

    Specifically, CBP says the data was in part sourced via real-time bidding, or RTB. Whenever an advertisement is displayed inside an app, a near instantaneous bidding process happens with companies vying to have their advert served to a certain demographic. A side effect of this is that surveillance firms, or rogue advertising companies working on their behalf, can observe this process and siphon information about mobile phones, including their location. All of this is essentially invisible to an ordinary phone user, but happens constantly.

I have no idea whether this applies also to web browsers with ad-blocking extensions loaded (I use uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger in Firefox). Apps are basically web browsers in handcuffs that can't have ad-blockers attached, so the user's in handcuffs as well.

Protest safely out there.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 17 Mar 26 - 09:45 AM

Michael Jochum on his FB page yesterday - absolutely right on the button! The empty, filthy, spineless husk of a human being that Amerika chose to elect as its President…

“A Question of Character

There were a thousand reasons Americans should have left Donald Trump at the ballot box. A thousand flashing red warnings about the character of the man. But for me, the moment that forever defined him came years ago when he stood on a stage and mocked a disabled reporter. That grotesque performance of cruelty should have ended his political career instantly. Any society with a functioning moral compass would have recoiled in disgust and shown him the door. Instead, millions of Americans shrugged, laughed, or rationalized it away like it was just another episode in the Trump reality show. That moment told me something chilling about the country I’ve lived in for sixty-seven years: cruelty, when delivered with swagger and amplified by power, can be forgiven by people who should know better.

So when Donald Trump now mocks Gavin Newsom for having dyslexia, no one paying attention should be surprised. Outraged, yes. Surprised, absolutely not. This is the same man who has spent his entire public life ridiculing anyone he believes is beneath him. Dyslexia, something that affects nearly one in five Americans and has nothing to do with intelligence, becomes another cheap insult for a man whose entire political identity revolves around humiliation. Trump calling dyslexia a “mental problem” or a “cognitive deficiency” doesn’t diminish Gavin Newsom in the slightest. What it does is confirm, yet again, that the man sitting in the Oval Office possesses the emotional maturity of a schoolyard bully and the moral depth of a puddle in a parking lot.

The hypocrisy is staggering. This is a man who routinely mangles basic facts, confuses names, invents imaginary accomplishments, contradicts himself mid-sentence, and recently referred to Gavin Newsom as the President of the United States. A pathological liar whose speeches read like a neurological stress test somehow believes he is qualified to lecture anyone about cognitive ability. If it weren’t so corrosive to the dignity of the presidency, it would be dark comedy.

But for me this isn’t abstract politics, it’s personal. I live with the reality of a body that has endured nine spinal surgeries and the daily negotiations that come with pain, nerve damage, and the long aftershocks of physical trauma. Millions of Americans live with disabilities, learning differences, chronic pain, or bodies that don’t cooperate the way the world expects them to. They build lives anyway. They raise families, show up to work, create art, serve their communities, and fight through obstacles with resilience most people will never understand. Trump mocks that reality because he has never had to develop empathy. A man born into wealth, insulated by privilege, and protected by an army of sycophants has spent his life confusing cruelty with strength and arrogance with intelligence.

What Trump is doing with these attacks isn’t just political rhetoric, it’s ableism dressed up as leadership. It is the same grotesque instinct that led him to mock Serge Kovaleski, the disabled reporter from The New York Times, contorting his body and voice in front of a cheering crowd. It is the same instinct that leads him to weaponize slurs and insults whenever someone refuses to kneel before his ego. For Trump, human dignity is expendable if humiliating someone buys him a few seconds of applause.

And let me be clear about something: my hatred of Donald Trump has nothing to do with party affiliation. I am not motivated by left or right, liberal or conservative. My hatred is rooted in something far simpler, basic human decency. When the President of the United States repeatedly mocks the disabled, ridicules the vulnerable, and turns cruelty into a political strategy, it is not just offensive. It is morally repugnant.

Trump thrives on humiliation because humiliation is the only language he understands. He divides because division feeds his ego. He belittles people because he is terrified of anyone who might expose the emptiness behind the bluster. Strip away the gold plating, the rallies, and the social media theatrics, and what remains is a small, vindictive man who has spent his entire life punching down.

Some Americans may find that entertaining. I find it disgusting.

Because when a president mocks people with disabilities, he isn’t just insulting one person. He’s insulting millions of Americans who fight through challenges every single day with courage and dignity he will never possess.

My contempt for Donald Trump is not political. It is personal. When he sneers at people he considers inferior, he sneers at people like me, and at millions of others who live with bodies or minds that don’t fit his warped definition of strength.

And I will never stop calling him out for it.

—Michael Jochum
Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition”


Original piece here…

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02kpcgog9oHk1xagFL653Py3TQSvYBa2uA8tmCJoUjGzvMvHhPCsj4qeqmQrP3eNcHl&id=1176851850

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: r.padgett
Date: 17 Mar 26 - 10:17 AM

"And let me be clear about something: my hatred of Donald Trump has nothing to do with party affiliation. I am not motivated by left or right, liberal or conservative. My hatred is rooted in something far simpler, basic human decency. When the President of the United States repeatedly mocks the disabled, ridicules the vulnerable, and turns cruelty into a political strategy, it is not just offensive. It is morally repugnant.

Trump thrives on humiliation because humiliation is the only language he understands. He divides because division feeds his ego. He belittles people because he is terrified of anyone who might expose the emptiness behind the bluster. Strip away the gold plating, the rallies, and the social media theatrics, and what remains is a small, vindictive man who has spent his entire life punching down.

Some Americans may find that entertaining. I find it disgusting." well said sir

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: r.padgett
Date: 17 Mar 26 - 12:36 PM

Big T just on tv from US show live on uk tv

He continues to lie and his current lie verified by BBC tv announcer is that the piece on storming the Capitol building, that "he never said that" and it was AI generated ~ these Big T monologues were said BY him , the error was in the editing ~ though imv this was in keeping with what went before and what happened later ~ the incitement element is clearly present

Get rid of this buffoon

Ray (UK)

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: r.padgett
Date: 17 Mar 26 - 12:53 PM

UK current policy is towards wind farms to obviate the cost of obtaining transporting and refining Oil

Proper policy Sir \Keir

Many wind turbine made in England, Scotland and other European countries

Yes China is leader in the field ~ is Big T going to take then on next

Ray(uk)

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: r.padgett
Date: 17 Mar 26 - 12:57 PM

Note Iran has a population of over 90 million people

THis is a BIG country

This war will continue for a very log time and other countries will suffer not least in immigration and refugees created as consequence of Big Ts war with Netanyahu

Some sanity is needed and is sadly lacking

Ray (Uk)

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Helen
Date: 17 Mar 26 - 04:39 PM

An ABC (Oz) article worth reading, especially for the glimmer of hope it might provide for the Democrats, and it has a suggestion on how the Dems could develop an effective strategy to win the mid-terms:

MAGA's civil war over Donald Trump's conflict in Iran descends into personal attacks

"A civil war within the MAGA movement is getting more lewd by the day as prominent right-wing figures feud online over the war in Iran.

"Fox News commentator Mark Levin, a staunch supporter of Israel and the war, started the latest bout when he went after former co-worker-turned-podcaster Megyn Kelly."

...

"The rupturing right

"But the war in Iran has caused a growing rift within the very movement Donald Trump created.

"Some of the most prominent and vocal figures that helped propel him to the Oval Office a second time have also been some of the most aggressive critics of his foreign policy, arguing it is not 'America First'."

...

"Americans' social media feeds have been littered with vitriol and name-calling between right-wing commentators who support or oppose the military operation against the Iranian regime.

"'I find it to be very infuriating,' conservative podcaster Liz Wheeler told the ABC.

"She says the 'podcast wars' are stirring up problems for the future, and that conservative commentators should be focused on trying to talk to the American people while 'debunking the lies that are coming from the mainstream media and from the left'.

"'If I were a Democrat right now, I would be like, 'Guys be quiet, let them self-destruct,' she said.

"'We're the thought leaders of the Conservative movement … if we're actually just talking about ourselves and hurling ad hominems, then we're being delinquent in what we are called to do.

"Under Trump's presidency, Wheeler believes conservatives can reform and 'dismantle institutions that have been captured by the left'.

"'It is a once-in-a-generation opportunity and it is being squandered now by people who would rather throw insults on X.'"

...


The last section of the article, "The midterm effect" is worth reading in full for further strategic insights, IMO.