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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Lighter Date: 06 Jan 26 - 07:00 AM See Aesop and Thucydides. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Lighter Date: 06 Jan 26 - 06:51 AM CNN: “ 'We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else,' deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told CNN’s Jake Tapper. 'But we live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,' Miller said. “ 'These are the iron laws of the world' .” Used to be. Could be again. Is that what the world wants? Is that what 51% of American voters want? |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Backwoodsman Date: 06 Jan 26 - 06:29 AM And Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederickson, speaking to the tRump regime yesterday… ”I have to say this very directly to the United States: It makes absolutely no sense to talk about the need for the US to take over Greenland. The United States has no access to annex one of the three countries in the Commonwealth. The Kingdom of Denmark - and therefore Greenland - is a part of NATO and is therefore covered by the alliance's security guarantee. We already have a defense agreement today between the Kingdom and the United States, which gives the United States wide access to Greenland. And we from the Kingdom have invested significantly in the security of the Arctic. I would, therefore, strongly urge that on the side of the United States, stop the threats against a historically close ally and to another country and another people, who have very clearly stated that they are not for sale. Mette Frederiksen Prime Minister” https://www.facebook.com/100044576643050/posts/pfbid028b3fU6wPS662QyxspasKxbLhPxgT4PH5i2apPrZcEUa4V5wYjifWiWe8sBguXT7pl/? |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Backwoodsman Date: 06 Jan 26 - 05:43 AM Graham Jones is a former Labour MP for Accrington South, a Front-Bencher for several years and, during that time, the Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Venezuela. Here’s his opinion on the US-Venezuela situation, and it’s a very informative piece indeed, well worth reading the entire piece. It’s a long read, so I won’t reproduce it here, and I’ll leave it to those sufficiently interested to follow the link. I believe that Graham Jones’ piece sheds light on the reasons for the failure of other world leaders, including Keir Starmer, to condemn the actions of the Trump regime. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Backwoodsman Date: 06 Jan 26 - 03:53 AM Well said Ray. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: r.padgett Date: 06 Jan 26 - 03:34 AM Politics is a bag of worms ~so many twists and turns and decisions made by countries' leaders are often it seems pragmatic and in the countries interests ~to later return to "bite your bum" not all decisions are seen the same from different stand points!!but it is important to work within established legal precedent Ray |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Richard Atkins Date: 05 Jan 26 - 09:14 PM So with you on this one Nigel |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Nigel Parsons Date: 05 Jan 26 - 03:38 PM Oh dear. I've just found myself agreeing with a comment by Jeremy Corbyn on his facebook page: "Invading another sovereign nation and abducting its president is a violation of international law. What is preventing Keir Starmer from admitting something so glaringly obvious to us all?" |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Backwoodsman Date: 05 Jan 26 - 02:57 PM A very interesting response to tRump’s Venezuelan ‘adventure’, from the ‘I F**king Love Australia’ FB Page. In true Aussie style, it’s blunt, sweary, but right on the button… One response to tRump’s Venezuelan ‘adventure’… As usual, for the benefit of the Facebookphobes, here’s the text (which, unfortunately, doesn’t include the piece that prompted the IFLA response, but which can be viewed by following the link). And, FWIW, on the basis of their opinion, I f**king love Australia too… ”Alright, here we fuckin go. To all you absolute knobjockeys clapping like trained fuckin seals because Trump “got the job done” in Venezuela, let me ask you something real slow so it lands. Do you morons actually understand what the precedent is here, or are you just addicted to the sound of your own outrage? This is one country marching into another country and ripping out their leadership. Elected, rigged, corrupt, whatever label you wanna slap on it to feel good at night. That’s still foreign invasion. That’s still smashing sovereignty with a crowbar and calling it freedom. And spare me the dictator bullshit. Coming from Donald Trump, that’s fuckin rich. This is the same bloke who incited an insurrection because he lost a free and fair election. Stormed his own Capitol like a drunk bloke who got told the pub was closed. And now he’s pointing fingers about corrupt elections? Get absolutely fucked. Then they wheel out the narco-terrorism line. Oh yeah, suddenly he’s the world’s top drug cop. Except he pardoned the former president of Honduras, a bloke tied to moving hundreds of tons of cocaine. Hundreds. Tons. That’s not a typo. That’s Scarface levels of gear. But nah, tell me more about law and order, champ. This is where you should be shitting yourself. Because once you cheer this shit on, you’ve basically said, “Yeah cool, powerful countries can just take what they want if they don’t like who’s running the place.” That’s the fuckin rule now. No UN. No norms. No alliances. Just vibes and missiles. So what’s next then, legends? Why not take the Panama Canal back? Why not grab Greenland because it’s “strategic”? Why not bully some other country that’s sitting on oil, minerals, shipping lanes, or anything else Wall Street’s got a hard-on for? That’s how dictators think. That’s how empires rot. There used to be an order. Messy, flawed, but there was a basic understanding of lines you don’t cross. UN charters. International law. Allies not stabbing each other in the back for profit. That baby has now been hurled out the window with the bathwater, and you’re all cheering like it’s a fireworks show. And let’s not pretend this bloke’s in control. This is an erratic, decaying president whose health is clearly going south, whose popularity is in the toilet, whose economy promises turned out to be bullshit. Grocery prices didn’t drop. Rent didn’t drop. Wages didn’t surge. Instead they cooked the inflation numbers, massaged unemployment stats, and expect you to swallow whatever slop the agencies shovel out. The walls are closing in on him, and when that happens, strongmen don’t calm down. They lash out. They get reckless. They need distractions. They need enemies. They need cheers from idiots online telling them they’re doing a great job. And that’s the last fucking thing the world needs right now. A bloke with a fragile ego, nuclear toys, and a crowd of mega trolls jerking him off every time he destabilises another region. This isn’t strength. It’s not leadership. It’s not justice. It’s a slippery fuckin slope straight into global instability, and you muppets applauding it are the same people who’ll be crying later going, “How did it all go so wrong?” You’re watching it go wrong in real time, you dumb bastards.” |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Aethelric Date: 05 Jan 26 - 11:46 AM A view not seen in the Media. Venezuala and the Truth - Craig Murray Here is an excerpt:- The mainstream media covered Venezuela non-stop yesterday. They many times mentioned Delcy Rodríguez, Vice President, because Trump stated she is now in charge. They never mentioned that 2026 marks the 50th anniversary of the torture to death of her father, socialist activist Jorge Rodríguez, by the CIA-backed security services of the US-aligned Pérez regime in Venezuela. That would of course spoil the evil communists versus nice democrats narrative that is being forced down everybody’s throats. Nor did they mention that the elected governments of Hugo Chávez reduced extreme poverty by over 70%, reduced poverty by 50%, halved unemployment, quadrupled the number receiving a state pension and achieved 100% literacy. Chávez took Venezuela from the most unequal society for wealth distribution in Latin America to the most equal. Nor have they mentioned that María Corina Machado is from one of Venezuela’s wealthiest families, which dominated the electricity and steel industries before nationalisation, and that her backers are the very families that were behind those CIA-controlled murderous regimes. Economic sanctions imposed by the West – and another thing they have not mentioned is that the UK has confiscated over £2 billion of the Venezuelan government’s assets – have made it difficult for the Maduro government to do much more than shore up the gains of the Chávez years. But that Venezuela is a major production or trafficking point for narcotics entering the USA is simply a nonsense. Nicolás Maduro has his faults, but he is not a drug trafficking kingpin. The claim is utter garbage. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Stilly River Sage Date: 05 Jan 26 - 10:32 AM Minnesota's Tim Walz (former VP running mate of Harris) is not going to run for a third term as governor because of the Somalian welfare check scandal blooming in his state (much to Trump's glee and promotion). Most of the Somalian's who left Africa were not pirates but it takes just a few bad eggs to set up a scheme and profit from it. During COVID, apparently (remember that, Mr. Trump?), and from there out. Minnesota's US Senator Klobuchar is interested in running. Now if the stars (literally!) align and New York's Senator Gillibrand admits she was wrong about Al Franken during the "Me, Too" movement and keeps her mouth shut after that, Franken should run again and resume his seat from Minnesota. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: r.padgett Date: 05 Jan 26 - 09:14 AM Lol ~ yea that is the way I am looking at it positively Time will tell ~ country building blocks are emerging and countries being offended or not will respond eventually UK had to have backs to the wall before pent up feelings emerged, I recall Playing with fire can get you burnt Ray |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Aethelric Date: 05 Jan 26 - 09:10 AM I wonder if he'll get his old friend Putin to send a few ships to Greenland to validate his proposed takeover. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 05 Jan 26 - 06:53 AM Ray, the online bots are certainly picking on you, so you must be doing something right! |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: r.padgett Date: 05 Jan 26 - 01:08 AM I am banned from fb and now it seems X thinks I am a robot Probably for the best as I do not agree American policy for many years thank you for your ongoing thoughts on the matter Ray |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Richard Atkins Date: 04 Jan 26 - 09:44 PM As the Trump continues his own objectives without senate approval with many "executive orders". Nixon was impeached for less than this USA dictator, who sides with Putin. The world is in a bad place now because of him. Greenland next and Putin Europe then as his disregard to international law example. As for diplomatic emmunity the felon has his on charges against him, but not on a president another country that ignores that one also. He places the world in a bad place now till voters have any sense then. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Helen Date: 04 Jan 26 - 04:42 PM What I keep thinking about is covered in this article - I don't have access to the full article: A Pardon and a Prosecution in New York Show Trump’s Personal Geopolitics "The facts in the cases of Nicolás Maduro and Juan Orlando Hernández are strikingly similar. The men’s fates are not. "A man in a blue puffer jacket is escorted by dozens of security officers. "When President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras was extradited in 2022, his nation’s capital celebrated. President Trump pardoned him last month anyway. "Two Latin American strongmen were charged in Manhattan with corrupting their governments, using state power to import hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. "One, the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, was abruptly pardoned by President Trump last month. "The other, President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, was captured on Saturday in a military raid that Secretary of State Marco Rubio characterized as a law enforcement operation. Mr. Maduro was brought to the United States to face fresh allegations of narco-terrorism." |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 04 Jan 26 - 04:29 PM (Heart-)Breaking news: the **** in Chief is after Greenland again. Mebbe Venezuela was just a warm-up exercise, and to check whether anyone would give him the spanking he's been begging for since before he was out of nappies. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 04 Jan 26 - 03:49 PM Herself has a Theory: "I'm not saying it's the whole thing, but [Agent Orange] may have a downer on Maduro because he managed to hang onto power despite losing an election, while he couldn't despite his worst efforts." My theory is different: A junior officer in the Pentagon was given the exercise: "If you needed to take the head of Venezuela captive and put him on trial, how would you do it?" .... and this ended up (marked "2/10 See Me") in Stinkpuss's stash of top-secret bog paper in the Throne Room at Mar-a-Lago, then he read it and thought "because *Biden*" .... I'm waiting for the heads of the (currently) Free World* to actually man up and call him out on this, but suspect on current form that I'll be waiting forever. I'm particularly disgusted at Starmer repeating the same mealy-mouthisms on a loop tape: that frog in particular is now well and truly boiled. * I no longer believe I can include the USA in this. Apologies to those afflicted. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 Jan 26 - 01:41 PM International Law and the U.S. Military and Law Enforcement Operations in Venezuela from Just Security, a forum on Law, Rights, and US National Security. Partway down the page, after a description of the events of January 3, is a description of the focus of this article: In this article, we explain several international law issues raised by the operation, some of which have been addressed in greater depth in the Just Security collection of articles on the drug boat strikes and other operations dealing with Venezuela. In particular, Operation Absolute Resolve implicates the prohibition on the use of force against other States (e.g., under the UN Charter), extraterritorial law enforcement, and initiation of an international armed conflict (e.g., under the Geneva Conventions). |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Backwoodsman Date: 04 Jan 26 - 01:00 PM For those who, like me, wonder how, in the name of all that’s holy, the fat, ugly, orange baboon managed to get himself elected POTUS not once, but twice, here’s Michael Jochum (drummer with Korn and, inter alia, self-confessed political commentator) on his Facebook page yesterday… https://www.facebook.com/1176851850/posts/pfbid02SgSnXqGUcncHJJvx7Wg3MiWty16NzGD6XMiW8HjTRL438GhvQQdkRYBZRxk1pTfAl/? I think he could have a point… For the benefit of the Facebook-phobic on here, the text follows… “I’ve been watching an absolutely heroic amount of pearl-clutching lately from people who insist that J.D. Vance would somehow be “worse” than Trump once Trump’s inevitable political and biological expiration arrives. Let’s get something straight: it has never been about Trump, not for one second. Trump is just the mascot. The real story is the people who finally saw themselves in him and felt validated by what they saw. I actually believe most of them will drift away when the cult collapses, like embarrassed fans of a one-hit wonder. Many of them will swear they were never really into him at all. The MAGA amnesia is going to be epic. I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016 and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic, morally vacant, and psychologically mangled he is. I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. He wasn’t a candidate. He was a mirror. If you were a racist, you found your guy. If you were a misogynist, you found your guy. If money was your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart was armored shut, you found your guy. If you mocked disabled people, you found your guy. If you hated intelligent people, you found your guy. If you were a rapist, you found your guy. If you enjoyed golden showers with Russian sex workers, you found your guy. If you’d done absolutely nothing to confront your emotional wreckage, you found your guy. If you were a serial cheater, you found your guy. If you were a perpetual bankrupt, you found your guy. If you stiffed honest workers, you found your guy. If you were a conman, you found your guy. If you mocked people’s appearances, you found your guy. If you longed for a toxic Daddy, you found your guy. If you were dissociated and disembodied, you found your guy. If you were unconscionable in every economic dealing, you found your guy. If you lied as naturally as breathing, you found your guy. If you’d never eaten a green vegetable, you found your guy. If you were a white supremacist, you found your guy. If your ego contained a hole so large not even the presidency could fill it, you found your guy. If you were a sociopath who cared not one molecule about other humans, you found your guy. If he had only two of these traits, he never would have won. He won because he had hundreds of them, and millions of people recognized themselves in at least one. This has never been about Trump. It has always been about the people who finally had their worst instincts validated. Trump didn’t create the cruelty, he licensed it. He handed out permission slips for hate. He is merely a symptom of a far deeper disease: collective toxicity. If there is one sentence that explains Trump’s power, it is this: “He says the things I’m thinking.” That’s the part that should chill the spine. Who knew that tens of millions of Americans were thinking such unconscionable things about their fellow citizens? Who knew how many white men felt so threatened by women and challenged by minorities that they were ready to torch democracy to feel big again? Who knew that after decades of apparent progress on race and gender, so many people were living in seething resentment, waiting for a demagogue to legitimize their worst selves and convert their bitterness into political power? Perhaps we were living in a fool’s paradise. We aren’t anymore. – Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.” |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: r.padgett Date: 04 Jan 26 - 08:20 AM Trump may well be in the process of exerting pressure on a number of south American countries ~ on drugs charges This could well be seen badly by EU, and Russia and the world Ray |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: r.padgett Date: 04 Jan 26 - 03:16 AM Dangerous precedent ~ kidnapping ~ potential burglary) check definition ~ he cares nowt for the law! very dangerous Europe MUST be galvanised into at least starting to work together to reel in this monster Ray |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Richard Atkins Date: 03 Jan 26 - 09:42 PM The Trump learns from Putin. Ignore international law for what you can get out of it. I guess he will continue earning disrespect for America |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Stilly River Sage Date: 03 Jan 26 - 07:01 PM Venezuela by Jesse Wells. (The other song "Venezuela" I know is sung by Richard Dyer Bennet and bears no relation to this situation). Try to spend a quiet Saturday away from social media and it still creeps into your consciousness, that he's done something bigger and stupider - again. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Helen Date: 03 Jan 26 - 04:57 PM Maybe he'll solve it all with his self-administered aspirin overdosing based on his more-is-better philosophy. "Recognizing the Early and Severe Signs of Toxicity "The initial signs of Aspirin poisoning are generally subtle, affecting the auditory and gastrointestinal systems. The most classic early symptom is tinnitus, described as a persistent ringing or buzzing sound in the ears. This is frequently accompanied by impaired or muffled hearing. "Gastrointestinal distress is also common in early toxicity, presenting as nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Patients may experience hyperventilation (rapid or deep breathing) as the body attempts to compensate for the drug’s effects on the acid-base balance. Other mild indicators include excessive sweating and unusual thirst. "As poisoning progresses to a severe stage, symptoms become more pronounced and involve the central nervous system. **Severe signs include confusion, agitation, and a noticeable change in mental status, sometimes progressing to hallucinations.** The inability to regulate temperature can lead to a high fever, and metabolic disruption can cause metabolic acidosis and dangerously low blood sugar. In the most severe cases, patients may experience seizures, develop cerebral or pulmonary edema, become comatose, or suffer kidney failure." **Problem identified??!! LOL |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: The Sandman Date: 03 Jan 26 - 03:36 PM only Russia or China can stand up to Trump, |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Donuel Date: 03 Jan 26 - 01:32 PM Relax, Farage could take Monaco and Lichtenstein but not India. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Backwoodsman Date: 03 Jan 26 - 12:39 PM The fat, ugly, orange baboon on BBC TV News Channel just now, announcing that the US is ‘taking over the running of Venezuela temporarily’. This is the same fat, ugly, orange baboon who has been begging for the Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded to him. And, in the meantime, his 34 felony convictions fade into the dim and distant past, and his involvement in the Epstein Files is forgotten. Sorry USA, you are totally fucked (and we will be the same in the UK if his puppet, Farage, manages to get Reform UK elected to power at the next GE). |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 03 Jan 26 - 12:37 PM The Felon-in-Chief has basically jumped the shark. As we speak, he's blethering on about the US running Venezuela, and how (surprise) it'll be paid for with Venezuelan oil. Straight out of his controller's playbook*. I foresee a phone call to (the rubble of) the White House, in which someone will say to him those three little words which mean so much:
.... The one I feel sorriest for right now is Zelenskyy. Agent Orange may have wanted to distract from the legacy of Epstein, but his controller doubtless has his eyes on Kyiv, and wants to forcibly change its spelling back. --- I'm staying out of it, and staying as far as possible from the TV news. I resent having to give the worthless little oik any headspace whatsoever, and will be much happier once he's parked back on the thunderbox† where his emenations belong. * I don't have a copy of Mein Kampf to czeck whether it's there too. † Irony is not dead. An alternative name for this (in)sanitary item is "throne". |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Dave the Gnome Date: 03 Jan 26 - 12:35 PM I suspect this one is a test to see what the rest of the world does. If they throw Venezuela to the dogs, Greenland is next, followed by Mexico and Canada. OK - They say Maduro is a crook and corrupt. So is Trump. It is also exactly what Putin says about Zelenskyy Roll on the November elections. If he lasts that long... |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Stilly River Sage Date: 03 Jan 26 - 11:11 AM No, it's all about the next distraction from his bad behavior. I'm reading a book by the famous American satirist Andy Borowitz. Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber. He focuses on Reagan, Bush II, and Trump, and I'm in the Reagan chapter now in which we learn how his enablers pretty much wrote the playbook that 45/47 is running with now. Reagan demonstrated that, in the hands of a talented TV performer, one joke could sink a thousand facts. But he had enjoyed another advantage as he cruised to victory in 1980: an all-star roster of morally dubious advisers. His gang of goons included Roy Cohn, the disgraced former aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy, and three hard-charging political consultants, Roger Ailes, Roger Stone, and Paul Manafort. It was hard to imagine another Republican presidential assembling such a team, or coming up with a campaign slogan as winning as Reagan's: "Let's Make America Great Again."40 Reagan was able to dismiss all of Jimmy Carter's knowledge and facts by uttering "There he goes again" and deploying lots of hackneyed Hollywood film lines whenever he didn't know what he should really say. When a satirist writes history it's fascinating and to the point. And from the introduction to the book: One final point. For the past twenty years or so, I've written a column in which I've made up news stories for the purpose of satire. In this book, I've made nothing up. All the events I'm about to describe actually happened. They're a part of American history. Unfortunately. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Backwoodsman Date: 03 Jan 26 - 11:09 AM What was it the fat, ugly, orange baboon was saying about the Nobel Peace Prize? |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: r.padgett Date: 03 Jan 26 - 10:10 AM and the Venison is to stand trial in USA Ray its all about drugs apparently |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Aethelric Date: 03 Jan 26 - 08:52 AM Hmm, he has just kidnapped the head of a foreign state. I wonder if this sort of thing will catch on? |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Lighter Date: 02 Jan 26 - 07:45 AM Cause for hope? Or alarm? From "The Hill": "Back in 2001, 54 percent of Americans reported trusting the federal government, a slight increase from the 47 percent who felt that way in the 1980s. Now, public trust in government is scraping historic lows across every metric: As of 2025, only 17 percent of Americans believe that what their government is telling them is true." The whole article is a downer worth reading: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/opinion-trump-presides-over-america-140000536.html |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Lighter Date: 02 Jan 26 - 07:13 AM Fun fact: "Government propaganda" was almost unknown before the First World War. (No pre-war encyclopedia, including the 1911 Britannica, for example, has an entry for "propaganda.") The point isn't that the DHS picture is propaganda, but that its message is (shall we say?) startling. Furthermore, the idea that America will resemble a surfer's dream in 1966 (but without surfboards or people) is (shall we say?) unconvincing. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Backwoodsman Date: 02 Jan 26 - 01:10 AM DHS should be re-named by tRump to DHP - Department of Homeland Propaganda. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Lighter Date: 01 Jan 26 - 03:41 PM DHS says "Happy New Year!" (U.S. population: 330 million.) https://www.facebook.com/homelandsecurity/posts/the-peace-of-a-nation-no-longer-besieged-by-the-third-world/1355505993287242/ |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Helen Date: 01 Jan 26 - 12:13 PM Thanks BWM, that says it all. And I agree with SPB-Cooperator, too. I'm hoping that karma will kick in this year for the unnameable Prez. Big time! Bring it on! |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Backwoodsman Date: 01 Jan 26 - 07:41 AM I’m so tired of him. I’m tired of people pretending he’s not an idiot. I’m tired of his lies. I’m tired of his sickening amorality. I’m tired of his face, his voice, his smirk. I’m tired of his inability to say even one thing remotely kind, or humble, or appropriate - ever. I’m so fucking tired of him. (Thanks to an unidentified FB source - sums up my feelings about the fat, ugly, orange bastard perfectly). |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 01 Jan 26 - 06:41 AM well the turnip has got 2026 off to a good start, hasn't he. where the rest of the world spoke of goodwill, his message to his opponents was to 'rot in hell'. Let's postpone 2026 for 24 hours and start the year again on the right footing. Lets also campaign for Jan 1st to be designated the UN international day of goodwill and any world leader who fails to observe it be named and shamed by the UN gen sec at the next meeting. In the meantime this could be a popular movement starting on social media. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Stilly River Sage Date: 31 Dec 25 - 07:42 PM Dick, that's not what's happening. The Heritage Foundation has their talons in Trump. As Raggy says, that 1.7M is puny, meaningless in this context. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Raggytash Date: 31 Dec 25 - 06:51 PM I would suggest that in the politics of USA $1.73 million is a drop in the ocean. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: The Sandman Date: 31 Dec 25 - 04:16 PM I do not think he is senile I think he is a tool of the USA armament industry In the 2024 election cycle, Donald Trump's campaign and affiliated outside groups received roughly $1.73 million from the defense sector. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Helen Date: 31 Dec 25 - 12:13 PM Both - and more. And my bet is what I have been referring to as McDonaldsitis i.e. any or every health consequence - major and minor - of eating junk food at least once a day. I saw on Stephen Colbert's The Late Show (I think) an image of the meals provided on Air Force One when RFK Jr travelled on it and it was huge amounts of Big Macs and fries etc and not a spec of healthy food, unless you count what passes for salad on a Big Mac. RFK Jr can't have been impressed with that, surely!!?? But then again, he is a hypocrite. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Backwoodsman Date: 31 Dec 25 - 12:04 PM He is senile, or insane, or both. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Stilly River Sage Date: 31 Dec 25 - 10:12 AM BINGO cards for the year will include things like "midterm election," "Federal courts," "assassination," and "blood clot" as to what might come into play for the orange gipper in 2026. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Don't Say His Name From: Donuel Date: 31 Dec 25 - 09:45 AM Mr. Hegseth has openly told our Generals to return to the days of My Lai and the descent into obeying the madness of illegal orders to massacre. The general public is not completely desensitized by evidence of the 7 million strong no kings march. Precedents have been made and the psychology of our citizens are still vulnerable to the increased propoganda and media takeover. The descent into social madness may still succeed if it goes slow enough. Free speech does not include calls to violence or slander. While more intimidation and censorship of free speech and critics is progressing, the President continues to call for violence and slanders his perceived enemies daily. There is currently more push back compared to the earlier extortion of universities and lawfirms. MAKE NO MISTAKE, total authoritarian takeover of the USA is still on a precarious see saw. |
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Subject: RE: Convicted felon US Prez 47/Christmas song From: Donuel Date: 27 Dec 25 - 09:50 AM Trump is sueing us that dirty liar Lawyers clipping off our nose MAGA hymns being sung by a choir And folks dressed up like frozen crows Everybody knows he's a turkey with some missing toes Help save the country from his blight Tiny tots with their eyes cast below Will find it hard to sleep tonight Do you know the Crash is on the way? There'll be fewer toys and goodies in this fray Everybody's mother's child is going to spy To see if any Trumps really know how to cry And so I'm offering this simple phrase From kids from one to ninety-two Although it's been said many times, many ways Merry Christmas, except for you know who |
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