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Judges are picked because of politics, not because they're the best judges. They have to have reached a high enough point in their careers to be even considered, but beyond that, it's a political decision.

I just googled Jackson and she seems to have already been on one of the highest courts and had previously been approved by the Senate. She was one of the favourites to be selected from the off. Amy Coney Barrett, Trump's pick, was also at the same level.

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I'm wondering if/when "Donald" becomes a euphemism or used more colourfully.
I'm just going to the bog for a donald.
Don't buy one of those its donald.
He is having a bit of a donald moment.
The name is already linked to food (McDonald)


Trump won't work the same as the term is used for something beneficial but that term could be merged - Nothing can trump a donald/what can trump a donald/anything can trump a donald.

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“When”?

People have been saying that for 6 years

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Well, we already say things are a bit Donald Ducked when they go wrong.
So not too long a stretch to evolve to things are a bit Donald. ;)

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You could say going for a Donald Trump - dump:D:angel:

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:D

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This is very disturbing on so many levels:

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...0&d=1742848210

Not least that it reveals their attitude to Europe:


Attachment 31350

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The thing I find so perplexing about their attitude to Europe is that it’s as if none of them has ever studied their own history of the last century. While European states could, and should, have been doing more, the basic imbalance is by design. America has all the guns, which means Europe can’t start any more world wars.

For all their fulminating about European, and particularly UK, posturing on Ukraine, their foreign policy stance on European security is forcing Europe to act alone, and simultaneously weakening America’s ability to do anything about it. It is so unbelievably dim-witted it is hard to comprehend where these people have even come from.

I’ve seen one or two Xitter wits proposing a new interpretive framework called ‘Trumps Razor’, in which the stupidest possible explanation is probably the right one.

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I've thought this for a while, all this donnie is a Russian asset stuff, putin has stuff on him, like what? The things we already know about him make him a thoroughly unlikable, loathsome individual, what could vlad have on him that's worse than we already know? It makes more sense to me knowing what we do of his characteristics that he's after a Nobel prize, mainly because Obama has got one.

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Europe has been taking the piss for 30+ years.

When Trump went to Germany, first time around, and correctly stated, that they were spending billions protecting Europe from Russia, But Europe was giving Russia billions in gas and oil purchases funding the very threat America was supposed to be protecting them from.

I think the US should have a very healthy scepticism of Europes capabilities and intentions.

We need to prove we can do it without the US……….then maybe the US may help back us.

We are , Europe generally, a very poor partner to the US.

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Checkout the interview on this post https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...postcount=1332

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Trump’s Razor can surely be the only way of understanding how:

- Senior defence and security officials discussed their latest bombing run on the Huthis on an insecure Signal chat group.
- Someone added the Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic to the chat group, leaving them no possible means of denying it.

The Atlantic, predictably, ran a very long-form expose, with screenshots, in its online edition last night. I will be reading it shortly with a large coffee.

(Edit). Also predictably, the article is out from behind the paywall. Read it and weep:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...-plans/682151/

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Europe can’t afford to have American foreign policy as a noose around its neck and pay US price premiums for gas and technology to support American interests and not ours.

Scaremongering over Chinese involvement in technology and infrastructure, and objecting to buying Russian gas, are about protecting American interests and nobody elses. Both Russia and China are making inroads with soft power in the global south, and America is threatened by that.

If you suggested a mere 18 months ago that America could have kill switches in advanced weapons it sells or queried the independence of the UK nuclear deterrent you’d have been dismissed as a hard left crank. How there’s legitimacy to asking these questions as America proves itself to be an unreliable ally.

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what i find incredible is Trump withdrawing clearance from joe Biden and Hillary due to security concerns and then this bunch of retards broadcast a live military attack :dunce:

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I still think the idea of a kill-switch in the Trident missile is fanciful - they are not remote-launched and by their nature their location is unknown, as would be the timing of any launch. Establishing telemetry with a rocket is hard even when two-way comms have been carefully set up prior to launch and are actively maintained throughout flight. Big red buttons with ‘KILL’ on them are movie shorthand, they are not real life.