Originally Posted by thenry (Post 36189819)

No grudge like actions then. Interesting. I do wonder if he'll start lecturing those who don't really stand with America. Do this, do that.. how about you focus on America first which he said he would do. Happy days :woot:

Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 36189823)

Why "Happy days"?

Originally Posted by thenry (Post 36189824)

"You live your way and I'll live mine my way". None of that 'do as I say not as I do or you'll never see daylight again' attitude!

Who was the mod on here that had KISS in her signature. Keep it simple stupid.

Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 36189825)

Still not clear, you are just writing phrases with no context. Do you mean the US should just let Putin, or whoever, do what he likes?

Maybe KISS meant "Keep it Stupid ... Simple" :)

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36189792)

Perhaps the ”World”s smartest man*" should have considered that, since he has been vociferous in supporting far-right movements like the AfD, and he was on a stage making a political speech in front of a right-wing audience, elongating his arm diagonally in the air both forcefully and repeatedly, might be misinterpreted?

*according to his supporters

Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36189848)

He has Asperger’s and is awkward in the way he tries to communicate. The whole video clearly shows he is touching his heart and pushing it out to the crowd.

You’re attacking a neuro-diverse person for not behaving conditionally in a way that is acceptable to you. You’re not being inclusive and are being borderline bigoted against people with disabilities or at least non-conforming to societal norms……………..

I hope you’re proud of yourself.

Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36189849)

Are you saying Trump is disabled?

Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36189848)

and is awkward in the way he tries to communicate.

Originally Posted by Russ (Post 36189853)

Has he ever stated this?

Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36189855)

No, it’s an observation. Why does he have to state it?

Why would he state it?

People with Asperger’s are, and if you’ve ever watched him talk at length, it’s blindingly obvious by the way he talks.

If he was unable to walk, would he have to state it to you, for you to believe it? Or could you use your eyes?

Originally Posted by Russ (Post 36189858)

You’re making a pretty ignorant and sweeping statement about people with Asperger’s. Some of us have communication issues, some do not.

Originally Posted by Russ (Post 36189853)

Has he ever stated this?

Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36189865)

No I’m not, I’ve said it’s an observation based on watching him talk in previous interviews.



you obviously think that. Based on nothing but what you wish to believe.

As I said, anyone that watched the whole video and accepted that this was a man that has Asperger’s and can be awkward projecting and controlling and containing excitement and emotions would reasonably come to another conclusion.

It’s fairly amusing that someone who fiercely defended individuals with ADHD, because he was diagnosed with it, against those that dismissed it as bollocks and an excuse for bad behaviour in children.

Will happily accuse another neuro-diverse individual with a condition as being “deliberately ambiguous”………….very telling, and I thank you for it.

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 36189999)

I am much more worried about this: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2686079.html

I thought the Greenland stuff was just Trump putting on a show but he seems pretty determined to get it.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36190017)

Hopefully, though if Canada and Greenland become the 52nd and 53rd States of the US, we’ll be the 54th! At least we will then be on side…

Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36190020)

Yeah, but we wanted our sovereignty and not to be ruled by other countries (remember? :confused:)
Maybe Greenland, unreasonably, wants the same.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36190021)

Well, not the bureaucratic EU, anyway!

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36190017)

It will end with a compromise that will ensure that the US can put its military bases there. He would call that a negotiation. You would perhaps call it intimidation, but it works.

Hopefully, though if Canada and Greenland become the 52nd and 53rd States of the US, we’ll be the 54th! At least we will then be on side…

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36190017)

It will end with a compromise that will ensure that the US can put its military bases there. He would call that a negotiation. You would perhaps call it intimidation, but it works.

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36190025)

It already has a military base there...

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 36190137)

Wasn't sure where to put this but it impacts Trump's Presidency so it's as good a place as any: https://www.reuters.com/technology/c...ut-2025-01-27/



I think this is a much bigger story than covered so far. America thought they had a big lead in AI simply because of the power and cost involved in training models and they limited China's supply to American chipsets to capitalise on it.

China just dropped a model trained at 1/10th of the cost is matches or exceeds OpenAI's o1 model, their most advanced, in nearly all benchmarks.

It's tanked American AI stock prices and upends the entire market. It raises a lot of questions on what these American AI companies have been doing with the money when it clearly could have been done a lot more efficiently.

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36190144)

Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say.

Even so, I’d be very wary of how I engaged with anything living on a Chinese server and dedicated to learning from its interactions with me.

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 36190152)

Plus I always say please or thank you in case the robots rise up and remember how we treated them.

Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36190146)

Most "AI" is not really AI (so Im told by people who know far more about it than me).
Its just a good human language interpreter that can look up information based on what you ask.

Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36190161)

Yes, Large Language Models, they’re glorified search engines.

Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 36190186)

Welcome to MAGA America:

Trump administration fires DOJ officials who worked on criminal investigations of the president

Trump's Treasury nominee just said "extending" Trump's tax handouts for billionaires is their TOP priority: "This is the single most important economic issue of the day."

Trump fires first woman to head a U.S. military service

California Citrus Mutual: “We’re in the middle of our citrus harvesting ... Yesterday about 25% of the workforce, today 75% didn’t show up.”

Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36190190)

How long have you lived there?

Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 36190186)

Welcome to MAGA America:

Trump administration fires DOJ officials who worked on criminal investigations of the president

Trump's Treasury nominee just said "extending" Trump's tax handouts for billionaires is their TOP priority: "This is the single most important economic issue of the day."

Trump fires first woman to head a U.S. military service

California Citrus Mutual: “We’re in the middle of our citrus harvesting ... Yesterday about 25% of the workforce, today 75% didn’t show up.”

Originally Posted by Itshim (Post 36190300)

What a surprise ( for a politician) doing what he said he would :shocked:

Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 36190304)

Not quite true: I don't recall "I'm going to enrich the billionaires even more than before at the expense of the middle & workings classes" or "I'm going to trash the agriculture sector", guess I must have missed these policy announcements ...

Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36190307)

That must be why he likes Starmer

Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 36190304)

Not quite true: I don't recall "I'm going to enrich the billionaires even more than before at the expense of the middle & workings classes" or "I'm going to trash the agriculture sector", guess I must have missed these policy announcements ...

Originally Posted by Itshim (Post 36190333)

I don't either, he doing what he said however . Stamier did not say he was putting an accounts complaint clerk in charge the economy , but he has

Originally Posted by thenry (Post 36190350)

Trump on the attack. FAA push for diversity is being knocked back. People with disabilities and mental health don't have a place in the position of aviation control. He said something about the previous transport head being bullshit. Sorry I don't remember I can't stop laughing :LOL:

Originally Posted by thenry (Post 36190359)

Here's a link

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...i-plane-crash/

And the main takeaway..

Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 36190186)

Welcome to MAGA America:

Trump's Treasury nominee just said "extending" Trump's tax handouts for billionaires is their TOP priority: "This is the single most important economic issue of the day."

Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36190377)

That’s not what he says, and if you’re reduced to using a one minute TikTok video on Reddit, you’ve lost the point before you’ve made it.


Try harder.

Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36190403)

Billionaires?

Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36190403)

Billionaires?

Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36190403)

Billionaires?

Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36190406)

Maybe it's a mere rounding up error :shocked:

Originally Posted by thenry (Post 36190425)

It's beyond me how these people live out in the real world. Outside their bubble is a world which is very unforgiving.

Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 36190429)

They have a point though.
Ronnie should have made a simple statement expressing his and the nations condolences to the families of those lost and trying to bring the nation together after a horrible and tragic accident.

Instead choosing to divide and sling political nonsense around. It really isn't very presidential to utter quite what he did. Deciding what happened is up to the NTSB and no one else. Let them investigate and then report their findings. At present there is no blame as we do not know what happened.

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36190434)

What is a "woke unicorn"?

Originally Posted by thenry (Post 36190435)

I don't know I just said it. Woke would be somebody that gets offended by anything and unicorn, someone from the rainbow mob that is gender confused but is really a third wheel. Zesty individuals. Bunch of myths.

Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 36190436)

So using woke to describe someone rather than using it to something or person is too woke.

Seems like the word has literally lost any and all meaning. As by its definition is to be aware of social and political injustice. Not the negative uses many have tried to make it.

So it's a meaningless word.

Originally Posted by thenry (Post 36190430)

Na they're woke unicorns. The guy at the top gave his honest take on things.

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36190434)

What is a "woke unicorn"?

Originally Posted by thenry (Post 36190435)

I don't know I just said it.

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36190461)

Trump is a narcissist who believes that his train of thought is inherently interesting. He has no statecraft of any kind. It’s hardly surprising that if all he has been thinking about for the past few days is DEI that it would come squirting out of his mouth like so much verbal diarrhoea.

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 36190508)

Tariffs were announced on Mexico and Canada who've responded in kind. The stock market might have quite the hit on Monday as most 'analysts' said Trump wouldn't actually do it.

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36190511)

Larger US car manufacturers are very dependent on parts from Canada and Mexico (and vice versa).They and consumers will feel this extra tax soon as supply chains can't be changed overnight.

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36190526)

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...1&d=1738519781

https://www.usaid.gov/about-us/organization

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...2&d=1738519925

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/e...b2690812.html#

Originally Posted by Paul

I thought his motto was supposed to be Make America Great Again, not Make America A Laughing Stock.

The way hes going he'll end up joining that select list of ex presidents : Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley & Kennedy. :erm:

Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36190643)

This is what strength looks like.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02.../trump-tariffs

Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36190643)

This is what strength looks like.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02.../trump-tariffs

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36190645)

That’s what smoke and mirrors looks like.

Much of what Mexico and Canada have supposedly conceded was already under discussion; some of it had already been agreed with Biden; all of it could have been worked out via the usual diplomatic means.

Trump has burned a whole lot of diplomatic goodwill in order to toss some red meat to the MAGA fools who think he’s the messiah.

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36190647)

See post #984. This is what reannouncements look like.:D

Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36190651)

Of course, if you think Mexico would’ve sent 10,000 troops to the border, at this time, if Harris was in power………..

Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36190654)

Would you have seen this headline in the first couple of weeks under a Harris administration ?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuarta...key-countries/

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36190653)

what Biden had already discussed and agreed with both parties is the point.

Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36190654)

Would you have seen this headline in the first couple of weeks under a Harris administration ?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuarta...key-countries/

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36190657)

It was published under a Biden-Harris administration

The article was published 25 October 2024.

Trump took office three months later on 20 January 2025.

Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36190673)

Trump did his usual, "look at me, Im a big bully do as I say" (or else).

As a result, the stock market took a hit, and his business "friends" no doubt pointed out what a disaster this could turn into (and I expect he realised he's likely losing money as well) so he used a get out of jail free card by agreeing to what was largely already agreed, so he could "postpone" them, and still look good.

Everyone already knows what a complete pratt he is, but somehow he's still managed to look an even bigger fool to the world.

He'll end up upsetting the wrong (powerful) people, ones with the means to remove him.

Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36190686)

Now he wants to "take over" Gaza.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/clyn05y9x2xt