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.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: r.padgett
Date: 18 Mar 26 - 02:21 AM

"I am fed up that each and every post of mine is censored and stopped ~ X man up and accept the truth please! last post or attempt on X today

Ray (UK)

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Mar 26 - 06:42 AM

Operation Septic Jury is like a birthday party for Trump, but nobody came to join him. He says he didn't want them to come anyway, but the important battle of Whore Muse has left him impotent.

The MAGA schism is not a civil war among conservatives but it does reduce his stranglehold.

However there are hundreds of 20-something Bible school graduates in government positions formerly held by PHD's.

microdick Hegseth

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Mar 26 - 04:44 PM

There are 20,000 merchant seamen and sailors trapped inside and outside the Strait of Hormuz.

This should affect the global supply chain.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Mar 26 - 05:24 PM

When you smash a hornet's nest, the hornets decide when it's over.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Mar 26 - 08:21 PM

I wonder if Trump is peeing blue like eccentric King George.

The director of the CIA said she ran out of time to tell Trump there was no imminent threat from a nuclear Iran.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: r.padgett
Date: 19 Mar 26 - 02:06 AM

Trump has done "A FROLIC OF HIS own" no justification led by speeches of his own and that of Netanyahu to wage war and now look where we are

Now we have deaths and upset through out the Middle east

He has undone work of a lifetime and more by diplomatic efforts by many

Words fail me, "Rodney"

Ray

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Mar 26 - 07:54 AM

Donald Trump was having trouble
With an Epstein story
He needed a distraction
To restore his former glory
What, of what was it?
Trump had a toddler fit
He looked around
And then he found
The war for you and me
And now it's
Springtime for Donald and America
Greenland is happy and gay
We're marching to a faster pace
Look out
Here comes the big disgr+ace

Springtime for Donald and America
Winter for Iran and oil
Springtime for Donald and America
Come on, MAGAs
Go into your dance
He was born in downtown Queens
And that is why he is a dream
Don't be stupid, be a smarty
Come and join his racist party
Springtime for Donald and Neocons
Ice camps are the new camps today
Bombs falling from the skies again
MAGA is on the rise again
Springtime for Donald and America
Wr ships are sailing once more
Springtime for Donald and America
Means that we have no more allies
Not a single allie
You know we'll be going to war

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 19 Mar 26 - 08:32 AM

Posted earlier in error to the ‘Brexit & UK Politics’ thread, so copied here…

From Michael Jochum on FB…

”What exhausts me isn’t just the lying, though the lying is relentless, pathological, almost compulsive. It’s the certainty. The bloviating, chest-thumping certainty of a man who has never once been required to sit quietly with the truth. Real leadership requires restraint. It requires the ability to say, “This is complicated. This is dangerous. This will take time.” Instead, we get a carnival barker selling national security like it’s a half-price steak.”

His entire political strategy is founded in chaos - it’s a deliberate policy.

Full piece from Michael Jochum here…

If you don’t know who Michael Jochum is, here’s his Wikipedia entry…

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Helen
Date: 19 Mar 26 - 10:48 AM

BWM, thanks for the copies of some of Michael Jochum's comments. He seems very insightful. Well worth reading. I assumed he was a political analyst so my estimation of him has gone up even more now that I know he is a musician, first and foremost.

(Reminds me of other musicians with impressive qualifications or abilities, e.g. Brian Cox, Brian May from Queen, etc etc. Clever people!)

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Mar 26 - 06:11 PM

Could this be the war that leaves us dependant on solar?

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: r.padgett
Date: 20 Mar 26 - 03:00 AM

The move away from oil products to be replaced by solar, wind and nuclear will as I have said before remove the middle east dependency

Of course coal, and oil will continue to play a big part in the mean time

Well done UK

Ray (UK)

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 20 Mar 26 - 03:28 AM

My personal view of how European nations should respond to Pete Hegseth’s comments about their response to the Fat, Ugly, Orange Baboon’s latest Middle-East war, succinctly put by Greg Stuart, British writer and commentator.

For the benefit of Facebookphobes, here’s the text…

”Pete Hegseth thinks Europe should “say thank you” to Donald Trump for dragging the world into yet another catastrophic war in the Middle East.

Thank you for what exactly?

For destabilising global energy markets, sending oil prices through the roof, and putting the entire world economy on edge? ?

For escalating a conflict that is already spiralling, with thousands of targets hit and no clear end in sight? ?

For increasing the risk of a wider regional war that could drag in half the planet?

And we are supposed to stand there, cap in hand, muttering “cheers mate”?

No. If anything, Europe should be saying something else entirely, and it is not polite.

This is the same tired American exceptionalism dressed up as leadership. Start a fire, pour petrol on it, then demand applause for holding the hose.

The sheer arrogance of it is staggering. As if the rest of the world exists purely to validate Washington’s latest military adventure.

Here is a reality check. Europe is not your junior partner, your client state, or your audience.

If you want gratitude, try earning it with diplomacy, stability, and something resembling foresight.

Until then, you can keep your lectures.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Mar 26 - 07:45 AM

Succinct my ass. One should also read more carefully,
for some of these Facebook pals are not what you may intend to emulate. When they say that they are not offended politically but mostly personally, it is like saying there are good people on both sides.

If you can not stand against Nazis, you don't stand against anything.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 20 Mar 26 - 08:55 AM

Does anyone understand Donuel’s latest word-salad?

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Mar 26 - 10:58 AM

The cold wind blows and chills men's souls
Thats how war goes when sad men kill.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Helen
Date: 20 Mar 26 - 11:03 AM

Succinct answer: no. Look on the brighter side: at least it was more than two sentences, but I am struggling to find a connection to what you quoted from FB and Donuel's comment "when they say that they are not offended politically but mostly personally". Source of that comment? No clue.

(Note: as a now-retired ex-teacher of workplace and other communication, I find it very frustrating when comments are thrown down like tuppenny-banger firecrackers, out of nowhere, with no explanation and no reference to the source of a quote, and which make little sense.)

Interesting that Donuel stated this on 18 Mar 26 - 05:24 PM "When you smash a hornet's nest, the hornets decide when it's over" and almost the same comment is on that Farcebook page.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Mar 26 - 11:27 AM

No matter, I just prefer to hear ones own authentic thoughts and observations.




The cold wind blows
and chills men's souls
That's how war goes
when vengeful men kill.

They get a taste and
never get their fill
Revenge then infects
savaged nations still.

We've seen it all before
the fool that some adore
can not be criticized
but death is fantasized.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 20 Mar 26 - 01:39 PM

What don’t you understand about my opening sentence…?

“My personal view of how European nations should respond to Pete Hegseth’s comments about their response to the Fat, Ugly, Orange Baboon’s latest Middle-East war, succinctly put by Greg Stuart, British writer and commentator.”

Do try to keep up.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 20 Mar 26 - 02:16 PM

And anyway, this isn’t your forum, you don’t get to dictate what others post. Just because you choose to post meaningless horse-shit doesn’t mean others have to follow suit. Some of us prefer to post rational content, presented using intelligible English. You would do well to follow that example.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Helen
Date: 20 Mar 26 - 02:46 PM

Thanks BWM, I'll try to keep up better next time. :-D

I missed the second word in your post, i.e. "personally" so then Donuel's comment "when they say that they are not offended politically but mostly personally" seemed to come out of nowhere and be related to nothing in this thread. I still can't see a real connection between you using the words "my personal view" and Donuel's response but hey!...he just prefers to "hear ones own authentic thoughts and observations". (IMO, the fact that you clearly stated that your comment was based on your personal view shows that you want to be clear and transparent in your comments.)

Ex-teacher corrections:

"one's" own - with an apostrophe

"tuppenny-bunger" not "banger" - but it is a long, long, long time since I saw and heard teenage trouble makers throwing them down, so forgive my old lady memory, please.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 20 Mar 26 - 03:00 PM

Sorry H, I should have made it clear that my comments weren’t addressed at you (but you know that of course!). :-D

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Mar 26 - 05:53 PM

Relax, we all have preferences. I am more or less prejudiced regarding Facebook. I respect the challenges and stoic responses BMW has faced in his life.

The words in question were from a Facebook author, not BMW.

PS Chuck Norris has kicked
the bucket

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Mar 26 - 06:09 PM

correction BWM

A BMW draws applause
they are not bound
by traffic laws

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: r.padgett
Date: 21 Mar 26 - 04:02 AM

So following Big T's totally unfounded assault on election rigging in 2020 which he clearly has not forgotten he is making postal votes and other methods difficult ~ he is a crazy man and will not let go ~ he is not elected to be a god given man who can do not no wrong ~ he rules the world from a gut feeling and will not take advice

I said many years ago that he should not be President ~ his qualities are complex and motives are of a dictator ~ continues to throw the ball out of the pram

Ray (UK)

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Mar 26 - 08:01 AM

Obama could not have been more wrong when he said on Trump's inauguration day that he was not ideologically extreme.

More Marines are being readied for deployment in Iran.

Ever since the assassination attempt in Beaverton, Trump has been pathologically extreme. You could say this is natural, but I say he never got any counseling or therapy for PTSD. On top of Nazi Project 2025 this has become a super psychotic cataclysm.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 21 Mar 26 - 09:05 AM

It is all leading up to cancelling or rigging the November mid-terms. I just cannt see how yet.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Mar 26 - 10:18 AM

Not even Hitler called Europe cowards for not assisting in his war, like Trump is doing.

I suspect that when Trump has a state's voting records, an app could easily erase Democratic votes with precision.