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Re: President Trump 2.0

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36209031)

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...mp-2026-01-15/

This bodes well…

Spoken like a real dictator. I am so awesome who needs elections:erm:

Re: President Trump 2.0

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Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 36209033)

Spoken like a real dictator.

You didnt need the 'tator' bit ;)

Re: President Trump 2.0

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Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 36209033)

Spoken like a real dictator. I am so awesome who needs elections:erm:

Especially ones that it looks like my party will lose, biggly!

Re: President Trump 2.0

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Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado tells reporters outside the US Capitol that she presented Donald Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal.

It's unclear whether Trump has accepted the medal.

https://news.sky.com/story/venezuela...#liveblog-body

:eeek:

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I bet she didn’t give him the prize money…

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Of course he accepted the medal, why wouldn't you if you had zero scruples and a massively over inflated sense of self importance.

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The Nobel committee already stated a few days ago that award are none transferable. So it is a meaningless gesture and the committee may even revoke it after that.

Re: President Trump 2.0

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Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 36209068)

The Nobel committee already stated a few days ago that award are none transferable. So it is a meaningless gesture and the committee may even revoke it after that.

It's not meaningless if it gets her his support for the presidency. It's ridiculous, everythjng that's going on is so ridiculous, the damage that man is doing to American society, standing and alliances won't be fixed with him being gone and the time its taken to do it in...

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36209066)

I bet she didn’t give him the prize money…

He doesn't need the cash, he'd have probably paid her for it and given the transactional nature of everythjng with him, he probably will

Re: President Trump 2.0

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Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 36209068)

The Nobel committee already stated a few days ago that award are none transferable. So it is a meaningless gesture and the committee may even revoke it after that.

Yes, she should lose it IMO. MLK promoted peace. Gandhi did. Hell, John Lennon did. Trump is too much like Tony Stark at the beginning of Iron Man: "Peace through superior firepower". Admittedly his weapons were being abused without his knowledge and certainly without his approval.

Yeah. One might recall "The Arsenal Of Freedom" and what happened to the people of Minos.

Though I will concede that 'Fight For Peace' is not a contradiction - that's exactly what the Allies did in WWII. That, however, is not what Trump is doing.

Hmm. I wonder what Echelon (which I bet is AI by now) makes of all this. Up yours, you damn bug! :mad:

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There’s an episode of The Office in which Tim beats Brent and Chris Finch at the annual quiz, so Finch makes up an extra game involving throwing shoes over the building in order to declare himself the real winner and steal Tim’s prize.

Just thought of that for some reason.

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On that note, I just gave my six year old grandson the trophy I received for being the RAF Support Command High Jump Champion in 1976 - he’s really pleased he can now clear 1.90m…

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Oh, boy. NATO troops - French, though Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland, Norway and the UK are involved - have landed in Greenland.

I think DefCon has just gone up. This is no 'exercise'. The French President is talking about "land, sea and air assets".

In other words, if the nutter wants a fight, NATO will give him one. :erm:

Now he's talking about tariffs on the affected countries. Yeah, you prat, go ahead and kill American trade, why not? Next thing you know, he'll do a U-turn and he'll be found in bed (perhaps literally?) with Putin. Russia and China can just sit back while NATO self-destructs...then pick up the pieces.

In Firefly, America and China came together. Well, Whedon was almost right.

Das vidanya, tovarishch! :p:

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Unfortunately Trump is a petulant child with a big army behind him to back him up.

Re: President Trump 2.0

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Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 36209148)

Unfortunately Trump is a petulant child with a big army behind him to back him up.

Although the Constitution plus NATO Article 5 should hamper his ambitions.

Re: President Trump 2.0

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Originally Posted by Dingbat (Post 36209157)

Although the Constitution plus NATO Article 5 should hamper his ambitions.

I'm pretty confident he doesn't feel constrained by either...

https://wapo.st/49B3hPa

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Trump Cabinet secretaries conspired to violate Constitution, judge says

“The Cabinet secretaries and, ostensibly, the president of the United States, are not honoring the First Amendment,” U.S. District Judge William Young declared.

A federal judge Thursday decried what he said were “breathtaking” constitutional violations by senior Trump administration officials and called the president an “authoritarian” who expects everyone in the executive branch to “toe the line absolutely.”

In remarks laced with outrage and disbelief, U.S. District Judge William Young said Donald Trump and top officials have a “fearful approach” to freedom of speech that would seek to “exclude from participation everyone who doesn’t agree with them.”

Young, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan, leveled the searing critique during a hearing in Boston to determine the appropriate remedies for the administration’s detentions of pro-Palestinian students last year. The judge had ruled in September that senior administration officials engaged in an illegal effort to arrest and deport noncitizen students based on their activism.

On Thursday, he again denounced the administration’s conduct in unusually stark terms. “Talking straight here,” he said. “The big problem in this case is that the Cabinet secretaries and, ostensibly, the president of the United States, are not honoring the First Amendment.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio engaged in an “unconstitutional conspiracy” to deprive people of their rights, Young said. “The secretary of state,” he said, his voice full of incredulity, “the senior Cabinet officer in our history, involved in this.”