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Because there’s a massive bunker there, so when the inevitable planet killer comet hits the Earth we can all hide there for a year or so, then re-emerge and rebuild the planet, well the western bits.


Unfortunately, Engineers, scientists and artists are invited, people with human and gender studies degrees will be left to perish.

And no, I’m not drinking………much


https://www.imdb.com/find/?q=greenland&ref_=nv_sr_sm

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Don Jr has already left Greenland, disappointed after realising that all the white stuff is just snow…

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To be the man to build the first golf course there? ;)

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Agreed. All that good tea going to waste in 1773 pains me. We need to take back control.

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I know - all US hotels seem to offer is Orange Pekoe…

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Maybe he needs to watch the "documentary" Candian Bacon.

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Some special relationship!! Sounds like what the USA and the USSR would have done with a hostile regime and not a fellow NATO member.
https://www.ft.com/content/dd4b066c-...e-82c334a740cf

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Ed Davey has the right idea:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-...090103566.html

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Bungee jumping?

Kayaking?

Roller Coaster?

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There must be something behind all the Canada/Greenland/Panama hot air. Normally populists will try and distract the audience when there is something they don't want you to focus on or they are planning something they don't want you to know about. I wonder ... :erm:

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Trump has a massive ego and being the President that adds a state and/or increases America's size would be huge for him.

Plus both Greenland and Canada are genuinely advantageous for security and economic purposes.

Canada is a non-starter but he probably thinks there is an outside chance of Greenland.

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Trump listens to people who tell him what he wants to hear. Someone has told him that Greenlanders are trying to loosen their ties with Denmark and this means he must surely have an opportunity to swoop in. If he actually does want to get old of it, then when he fails to do so he will fire someone and move on.

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But there are a lot of MAGA voters that are wondering WTF he is doing wasting his time on this stuff, they voted for him to cut the price of eggs, so to speak.

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...chmentid=31261

Attachment 31261

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The problem for the MAGA cult is that Trump is a second term president. He doesn’t have to worry about re-election so he not quite so at the mercy of domestic politics (though only to some extent - if he upsets enough people in the first 2 years, a poor showing at mid-term elections could render Capitol Hill totally unmanageable in his last 2).

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Well, now that Jack has screamed "Not fair, NOT FAIR!" will he allow the President-elect of the USA to get on with the grown-ups stuff? :rolleyes:

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Jack wrote a report that stated Trump “inspired his supporters to commit acts of physical violence” on January 6 2021 when they stormed the US Capitol by knowingly spread a false narrative about election fraud in the 2020 race. He didn't scream anything.

The grown-up, Biden, is indeed getting on with the grown-up stuff.

Trump himself is doubtless whingeing in a dark corner of social media to his echo chamber knowing, however, that he evaded justice thanks only to being elected.

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:rofl:

he doesn't know his arse from his elbow most of the time he's clearly 20 years past his use by date

Re: Trump wins US Presidency for a 2nd Term
 

and yet he's presided over the fastest economic growth in history and not added 7 trillion to the deficit like donnie did, perhaps that's the grown up stuff Kursk was talking about, why is it whenever a Republican leaves the presidency there has to be a rescue or recovery act to clean up after them going all the way back to Reagan

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Donald Trump's inauguration moved indoors due to 'dangerous' cold

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceq9917rl18o

Shouldn’t be an issue - Trump supporters already know how to get into the Capitol without an invite…

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:LOL::LOL:

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:D

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It'll still be the biggest crowd ever, also in a break with tradition Joe Biden isn't going to incite a violent mob to overthrow the incoming government or relentlessly bleat about the election being stollen

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Stollen is a type of bread Daddy. I know, I know...but it hurts my eyes :)

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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-b2398249.html

;)

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Thanks Hugh, I stopped reading all the details a while ago. My apologies to TheDaddy :).

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Should be an interesting first day in office, apparently.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8ymk73xj5o

In the meantime, our leader seems to think we'll be fine.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c391vezrzxyo

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After U-turning on both Ukraine and making food prices cheaper, who knows what Trump has in store for his second team.

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up to 200 executive orders on day 1 according to sky news

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"up to" doing a lot of heavy lifting there…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...orders-border/

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Just going to be a dictator on day one.

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“resurgent fascism”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...p-inauguration

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He’s planning to sign an executive order banning gender-woo-woo from all government business. In fact the text leaked to select US journalists actually uses the definition ‘woman: adult human female’ exactly as has been circulated by a British feminist campaigner, Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, since 2018.

(You may have seen a billboard, tee shirt or sticker randomly about the place - here’s one I spotted on holiday in Penzance last summer).

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...1&d=1737367267

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What on earth is "gender-woo-woo"?

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Gender identity ideology - the (nonsensical) claim that one may ‘identify’ as anything other than the male or female they were born as, ostensibly due to the existence of a gender identity (sometimes called a ‘gendered soul’) that may or may not match the biological sex of one’s body.

You might very charitably call it a social science. It is more accurately a neo-religious philosophy. And it is presently infecting great swathes of public life in the western world, with such real-world consequences as women losing places in sports teams to men (who not only claim to be women, and think of themselves as women, but then actually expect everyone else to carry on as if they really are women), women prisoners at risk of harm from men being housed with them, women being told they aren’t allowed to require a woman in intimate or stressful situations such as hospital treatments or rape crisis counselling.

But I’m sure you knew all this already. Feel free to performatively clutch your pearls at this point. ;)

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Straight to the ad hominem attack. I was going to agree with you about the conflation of "female" individuals that, as most people would agree, need to segregated from females in hospitals, prisons, etc. but then point out there is room to cater for those people that can clearly present as adult women after gender reassignment therapy/surgery. I think this nuance is one that will be lost going forward with the shouting match between the two extreme sides of this debate.

I think the Trump presidency will increase hostility to the idea of Trans individuals given his sponsorship by the Evangelical Right. Remains to be seen if this change will be mirrored here in the UK

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My apologies for getting over excited :Peaceman: The truth is, I’m pretty down at the thought of what Trump is likely to do over the next 4 years so I’m euphoric at getting a win on day one. Major social shifts like this do tend to cross the Atlantic and should have an effect on the policy discourse here.

Yes, I agree, finding ways to deal compassionately with those who have undergone surgical intervention is going to be difficult going forward. We can at least give thanks to Hilary Cass for putting the brakes on activist attempts to exascerbate that problem. Nobody should be in any doubt that the medicalisation of psychological distress in children and teenagers has been a key plank of trans activism. Creating a class of young adults who have undergone such intervention is a useful Trojan horse.

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I'm avoiding all news and news channels for few days.


I don't want to swear at my TV and raise my BP any higher than it is.

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Sensible advice. No one forces people to watch the news at ten or to listen to politicians of all persuasions who wind them up.

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Gets my vote.

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interestingly shaped bollard :naughty:

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Well, the corollary is of course that a man is an adult human male …

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Same here. Even the shopping channels are more appealing than listening to his droning voice.

Re: Trump wins US Presidency for a 2nd Term
 

:D

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

Right, so this is happening.

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:woot: yes America!

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Love that Biden preemptively garden hos brothers and sister in the last minutes as President.

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

The world just became a very dark place.

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

So I guess then that on Wednesday the Ukraine War will be over then?

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Wow that speech and list of stuff was very depressing, Trump just turned the clock back about 80 years.

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

Did I mishear or did he say Americans split the atom?

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

He said he’d end the war in 24 hours.

Of course he didn’t say which 24 hours, or whether each hour will be in sequence.

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I'm going to get cryogenically frozen for 4 years. It's for the best.

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

My money is on him not even lasting the full 4 years.

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So Biden shows himself in the last minutes of his office to be a liar. Family and pardons !

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

<cough cough>

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...t#post36185583

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Jump into the freezer with all the other vegetables :)

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Stroke/ heart attack ? We can only hope, but that means JD Vance, with less intellectual capability than an amoeba.... Only a slight improvement.

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

Preemptive pardons, in case the orange one starts conjuring up trumped-up charges against them.

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

He stated it was not going to do it. Don't care why a lie is a lie:D

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Boris Johnson pictured at Trump inauguration

The Prime Minister was not invited to the swearing-in of the 47th US President although Mr Johnson, former PM Liz Truss and Reform leader Nigel Farage were.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...armer-breaking

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He's going to piss an awful lot of people off.
Not just in other countries, but in the US as well.
I dont rate his chances of making the full 4 years.

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

That’s a policy I can get behind.

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If Biden can make it, he’ll make it.

Though I’m sure they’ll find something to try and impeach him on.

Anyway, if I was an American I’d be much more optimistic for the future of the USA, than I am for the U.K. under Labour and Starmer.

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Is that a bad thing? The way things are going and how they are now, it doesn't sound that bad to me.

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Well he’s overweight, he’s pushing 80, mentally unstable, not that I’d wish death on anyone but nature does have a habit of ironing things out.

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Totally agree. We still have a auto sales business, told we have had the best day for 3 years :D

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People buying stock before Trumpflation kicks in.

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Anyone else spot Musk doing a Nazi salute? The mask slipped a bit there.

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:D

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No.

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:LOL::LOL::LOL:

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In fairness to Pierre, his TV was switched off. ;)

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Here is the video. People can decide for themselves but I suspect those who like him will say it's a normal salute and those who will say it's a Nazi one. I think the 1st one he does you can say it's not quite obvious enough to say, a Nazi salute tends to be straight in front of you. The 2nd one looks a lot worse though.

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I haven’t been watching everything, I’m probably not as obsessed with it as you are.

I have now seen it, via a 3 second clip on X.

Difficult to make an assessment of that.

I suppose the question is, do you think Musk is a Nazi? And how have you come to that opinion?

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Is he a Nazi?

Would love to see what he has done, throughout his life that would evidence that v a 3sec video.

I’ll wait…….

(Not aiming that at you Damien, I know you didn’t make such a claim)

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I suppose the question is: If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, is it a duck?

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……..

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Are calling Kamala Harris a Nazi?


Shame on you…..

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Read Damien's post. It's the second salute that's questionable. Your meme is about the first salute.

And no, giving a Nazi salute does not make you a Nazi. But it crosses the boundaries of publicly acceptable behaviour in many countries.

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I don't know if he is a Nazi or not and I don't care because we don't know what his thinking is.

I suspect he either did it by accident or to wind people up. He seems to like stirring things up and doing a 'sort of/maybe' Nazi salute for everyone to argue about on inauguration day seems like the kind of thing he would do.

He is a very strange guy.

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

Yes. And if it goose steps like a Nazi, yells like a Nazi and salutes like a Nazi, it’s a Nazi. Musk on the other hand does none of those things, and tbh his hand/arm gesture in that photo looks more like a Superman reference than an Aryan one. A Nazi salute is straight back, eyes front, arm sharply up and back down. I believe the heel click is optional.

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

Do you mean if it looks like a goose, quacks like a goose and steps like a goose? :)

To be fair, his dad did say: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-new...rican-34198513

I guess having Nazi grand parents and growing up on Apartheid South Africa has its effect ...

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Snap!

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

A) I have no idea
B) Because I have no idea

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Bingo :tu:

Double bingo.

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… having watched the video rather than just look at the still, it looks more like an ancient Roman salute than anything else. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a feature of some nerdy online game he likes playing. :D

One thing’s for certain, the Nazis never went in for the chest beating. Far too sensual and inefficient.

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

The important aspect here is: If Musk took the spotlight off Trumpn on his big day, Trump won't be happy!

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Wasn't the nazi salute based on the Roman salute, in fact iirc fascism is based on Rome and it's emperors

Anyone think he will do GOOD this time??

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Its unclear at best - a Nazi Salute to those who want it to be, not so much for the rest of us.

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He knew what he was doing, just a case of him being provocative with plausible deniability.

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

What a clown, 100% tariffs on Spain :spin: :dunce:

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

You could have stopped after three words ;)

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

I was thinking after two words! :D

Trump is now making Biden look like a Mastermind contestant. His cognitive decline is a worry.

For those who don't know what we're rambling on about:

https://apnews.com/article/trump-spa...865ca8bede4077

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And this idiot is in charge of the nuclear codes.

The world is for a very bumpy ride over the next 4 years.

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

You think joint president musk would have told donnie the S stood for South Africa :shrug:

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

He might well have done but Trump forgot it.

I read he wants all water systems to remove flouride..

Do they have to do it??

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

They can do it. Flouride isn't universally added to water in Western nations. France doesn't add it nor do many European countries (although they add it to salt for some reason). We added it because of a concern over dental health.

I think now people are better at dental hygiene and have fluoride toothpaste so it's less pressing. Adding it to water is much more effective when people aren't brushing their teeth.

Fluoride is perfectly safe though. It's just this bro-science where a community of people have decided it's not safe because in large amounts it's dangerous but a lot of healthy and safe things are in excessive amounts. You'll never expose yourself to anything close to dangerous levels unless you start eating pack after pack of toothpaste in one sitting.

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

It occurs naturally in water. To remove it completely t
Would be a total waste of money.

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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

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

I am seeing a new name for Musk: "Twitler" :) Maybe inviting him to the inauguration wasn't the "Reich" move ;)

Re: President Trump 2.0
 

:D

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Another new name has also arisen for all the billionaire tech bros supporting Trump: "The Nerd Reich*"…

*first appeared on Bluesky August ‘23