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23 Feb 18 - 02:46 PM (#3907441) Subject: BS: Trump/ Turnbull Press Conference From: robomatic It's still going as I type this up. Turnbull is just now being asked the question I would have asked, the Australian response to the 1996 mass shooting, which was to coordinate a reduction in the firearms count in the private sector. Turnbull seems to have responded forthrightly but has emphasized that the 'context' of Australian life versus the United States is profoundly different. Good answer, from his point of view. Trump is full of his usual blandishments, making most things self-referential. |
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23 Feb 18 - 06:48 PM (#3907479) Subject: RE: BS: Trump/ Turnbull Press Conference From: McGrath of Harlow BBC News ran the confrontation full length for all the survivors and families, then as Trump indicated ge was going to give his response, it cut away to other news. Rather elegant way of dealing with the man, I thought. Hearing the young people and parents say their pieces was moving. Listening to Trump in that context would have felt like a real false note, degrading a significant occasion. We could read what he had to say in our own time- and it didn’t amount to much, and indicated the BBC had been quite right. |
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23 Feb 18 - 07:04 PM (#3907482) Subject: RE: BS: Trump/ Turnbull Press Conference From: Joe Offer Is this viewable in other countries, or just the U.S.:The recording begins with 10:30 minutes of waiting.... |
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23 Feb 18 - 07:17 PM (#3907486) Subject: RE: BS: Trump/ Turnbull Press Conference From: Greg F. What I can't understand is in light of Trump's prior interactions with him why Trumbull didn't tell tRUMP to stick it up his ass. |
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23 Feb 18 - 08:29 PM (#3907497) Subject: RE: BS: Trump/ Turnbull Press Conference From: Joe Offer It's embarrassing to listen to this. Can we blame some other country for this Trump guy? Russia, maybe? After all, he's Putin's puppet, isn't he? I sure don't like Trump's promotion of "merit-based immigration," after a long history of "need-based immigration." And it seems that Turnbull thinks the same way. Seems to me that Turnbull is Trump's kinda guy. I don't think I'd like him any better than I dislike Trump. There is an influx of right-wing leaders all over the world. The same thing happened in the 1980s, when Reagan and Thatcher and other right-wingers were in power. -Joe- |
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23 Feb 18 - 08:49 PM (#3907498) Subject: RE: BS: Trump/ Turnbull Press Conference From: robomatic I think we've got a bigger problem than right-wingers. We've got people attacking Democracy by outright subversion/ confiscation where we didn't before. Turkey - Erdogan Poland - Whoever is stacking the Supreme Court Philippines - Duterte, an outright killer with active killing squads. As far as I can tell, legitimately elected. Ukraine - Even without the Russians, major corruption in government and the military Venezuela - A once healthy Democracy subverted and impoverished by poor philosophy aided by corruption and incompetence, a perfect storm. |