01-10-2025, 12:21
|
#1966
|
|
Remoaner
Cable Forum Team
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 32,842
|
Re: President Trump 2.0
This is why you don't let lawyers create countries. Far too smart for their own good.
|
|
|
|
01-10-2025, 14:57
|
#1967
|
|
The Invisible Woman
Cable Forum Team
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: between Portsmouth and Southampton.
Age: 73
Services: VM XL TV,50 MB VM BB,VM landline, Tivo
Posts: 40,352
|
Re: President Trump 2.0
Quote:
Originally Posted by Carth
I'm starting to get the feeling that he deliberately spouts a load of old bollox because he knows the media will lap it up.
|
Yep!
__________________
Hell is empty and all the devils are here. Shakespeare..
|
|
|
|
|
04-10-2025, 03:23
|
#1968
|
|
RIP Tigger - 12 years?!
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Bolton
Age: 59
Services: BT Superfast Broadband
Posts: 1,581
|
Re: President Trump 2.0
Now the Guardian is asking when generals are going to stand up to Trump - especially as his using military forces for law enforcement is illegal.
Um...well, they should, I agree, but the problem there is that nutter or not, he is the Commander-In-Chief of the US Armed Forces. Disobeying the orders of your superior officer is, by definition, mutiny, and they don't come any more superior than the C-in-C.
Anyone want to bet he wouldn't declare martial law or something and have them shot? Wouldn't put it past him.
Unless they find the same courage Data did in "Redemption", that is.
Not likely, though, not in an army which (as Heinlein pointed out in the '50s!) has insignia distinguishing officers who have led men in combat from officers who haven't.
OTOH, it is their duty to refuse illegal orders. We'll see.
(And once again in case Big Brother is reading, UP YOURS, ECHELON!) 
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
- Commander William Adama
Battlestar Galactica 2003
Is it me, or is that the way the world's going?
__________________
"People tend to confuse the words 'new' and 'improved'."
- Agent Phil Coulson, S.H.I.E.L.D.
WINDOWS 11, ANYONE?!
Last edited by Anonymouse; 04-10-2025 at 03:29.
|
|
|
|
|
04-10-2025, 03:34
|
#1969
|
|
Dr Pepper Addict
Cable Forum Team
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Nottingham
Age: 62
Services: IDNet FTTP (1000M), Sky Q TV, Sky Mobile, Flextel SIP
Posts: 29,960
|
Re: President Trump 2.0
I thought he was using the National Guard ?
They are state based militias, not quite the same as the main US military.
__________________
 Baby, I was born this way.
|
|
|
|
|
04-10-2025, 08:26
|
#1970
|
|
laeva recumbens anguis
Cable Forum Team
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 68
Services: Premiere Collection
Posts: 43,744
|
Re: President Trump 2.0
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul
I thought he was using the National Guard ?
They are state based militias, not quite the same as the main US military.
|
Except in DC, only the State Governors can call in the National Guard.
Trump also sent 700 Marines into California, and the Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the military from engaging in domestic law enforcement without permission from Congress.
__________________
Thank you for calling the Abyss.
If you have called to scream, please press 1 to be transferred to the Void, or press 2 to begin your stare.
If my post is in bold and this colour, it's a Moderator Request.
|
|
|
|
|
07-10-2025, 17:38
|
#1971
|
|
XIV
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Crawley
Age: 35
Services: Three Unlimited
Posts: 15,328
|
Re: President Trump 2.0
Trump's pushing Mark Carney on the 51st state but Carney firmly said no so they are competing over investment which wouldn't be the case if Canada were the cherished 51 state.
|
|
|
|
|
07-10-2025, 20:11
|
#1972
|
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 15,384
|
Re: President Trump 2.0
Quote:
Originally Posted by thenry
Trump's pushing Mark Carney on the 51st state but Carney firmly said no so they are competing over investment which wouldn't be the case if Canada were the cherished 51 state.
|
The Canadian people don't want it to happen so this rather whacky idea is dead in the water. It's just a matter of years before Trump is no longer President, and things get back to a more normal status. Hopefully, he'll have brought peace to the Middle East and Europe before he goes.
|
|
|
|
07-10-2025, 20:13
|
#1973
|
|
XIV
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Crawley
Age: 35
Services: Three Unlimited
Posts: 15,328
|
Re: President Trump 2.0
What is normal?
|
|
|
|
|
07-10-2025, 20:23
|
#1974
|
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 15,384
|
Re: President Trump 2.0
Quote:
Originally Posted by thenry
What is normal?
|
Not staking claim to Canada and Greenland and having trade deals that alter by the minute.
|
|
|
|
|
07-10-2025, 20:27
|
#1975
|
|
Woke and proud !
Join Date: Jun 2004
Services: TV, Phone, BB, a wife
Posts: 9,921
|
Re: President Trump 2.0
Quote:
Originally Posted by thenry
What is normal?
|
Don't think we'll ever get back normal whilst the muggles keep falling for populists like Trump/Farage/Boris. Then complain that everything is t*ts up, and vote for the next populist. Rinse, repeat, the world is screwed.
|
|
|
|
|
07-10-2025, 20:28
|
#1976
|
|
XIV
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Crawley
Age: 35
Services: Three Unlimited
Posts: 15,328
|
Re: President Trump 2.0
Life changes in any moment and anybody would like to be somewhere else. It's normal behaviour.
I think you mean somebody barking orders. I'm still soo very happy that America did not force Harris on the world 
|
|
|
|
|
07-10-2025, 20:36
|
#1977
|
|
Woke and proud !
Join Date: Jun 2004
Services: TV, Phone, BB, a wife
Posts: 9,921
|
Re: President Trump 2.0
Quote:
Originally Posted by thenry
Life changes in any moment and anybody would like to be somewhere else. It's normal behaviour.
I think you mean somebody barking orders. I'm still soo very happy that America did not force Harris on the world |
Why ? How has the US election affected Crawley/yourself?
|
|
|
|
|
07-10-2025, 20:40
|
#1978
|
|
The Dark Satanic Mills
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: floating in the ether
Posts: 13,189
|
Re: President Trump 2.0
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr K
Don't think we'll ever get back normal whilst the muggles keep falling for populists like Trump/Farage/Boris. Then complain that everything is t*ts up, and vote for the next populist. Rinse, repeat, the world is screwed.
|
You left Kier out of that list, although he clearly belongs on it.
__________________
The wheel's still turning but the hamsters dead.
|
|
|
|
|
07-10-2025, 20:43
|
#1979
|
|
Remoaner
Cable Forum Team
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 32,842
|
Re: President Trump 2.0
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pierre
You left Kier out of that list, although he clearly belongs on it.
|
Starmer isn't a populist, though. He's much more of an (ineffective) technocrat. Corbyn was a populist.
|
|
|
|
|
07-10-2025, 20:44
|
#1980
|
|
XIV
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Crawley
Age: 35
Services: Three Unlimited
Posts: 15,328
|
Re: President Trump 2.0
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr K
Why ? How has the US election affected Crawley/yourself?
|
I like world peace. Figureheads that bark orders like they themselves are perfect is beyond acceptable behaviour. It's not peaceful. It's very disturbing.
Bullshit rhetoric. Everybody is bad except me. Piss off! Thank God she's not president!!!
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT +1. The time now is 00:15.
|
Join CF
You are here: 
