Hard News: The next four years
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Sacha, in reply to
(If you paste the link to the non-mobile version of a Youtube clip it embeds automatically)
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Righto I will google that Sacha.
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Sacha, in reply to
I just removed the "m." part of the address you had pasted.
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Rich Lock, in reply to
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You do you, Donald, but why should anyone sign shit with the United States when, in the end, one party isn't coming to the table in good faith and the end result isn't worth the paper it's written on?
Excellent advice. Which hasn't stopped a number of prominent UK politicians tripping over one another in their efforts to reach Washington in order to show that a public school education gives one a particular insight into 'special relationships', and fully equips them to provide the best rimjob he's ever had.
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WH, in reply to
I saw a penguin like that once. I don't think it likes us.
Just don't say you weren't warned.
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What a difference an hour makes ...
I was intrigued to hear at 6am on Morning report that a raft of senior managers had 'resigned- en masse from the US equivalent of Foreign Affairs - then at 7am they were described as being 'dumped' by Trump...
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Rhymes against humanity...?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/88778653/scathing-donald-trump-poem-wins-new-zealand-competition -
Fen Tex, in reply to
As time goes by I am depressed to see many people do think they are. While I groan at every utterance of "Leader of the free world" quite a few people do seem to see the world in terms of a U.S led alliance they are citizens of.
And it seems to me in their minds it is a Anglo-Saxon alliance that has moral right to lead.
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Sacha, in reply to
which is true I wonder?
It is safe to assume whatever Chump says is a lie - eg: we mutually cancelled the meeting.
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mark taslov, in reply to
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
As time goes by I am depressed to see many people do think they are. While I groan at every utterance of "Leader of the free world" quite a few people do seem to see the world in terms of a U.S led alliance they are citizens of.
And it seems to me in their minds it is a Anglo-Saxon alliance that has moral right to lead.
Remember that Newshub poll on NZers' 2016 presidential preferences? NZ Firsters' large-ish support for Trump is a given, but that poll didn't mention ACT or the Conservatives, who I suspect would have been right up there.
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Sacha, in reply to
that poll didn't mention ACT or the Conservatives
May simply not have had any supporters in the sample.
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Is Trump a Dalek emissary?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/88883781/chivalry-or-a-fear-of-stairs-why-donald-trump-held-hands-with-british-pm-theresa-mayI suspect Theresa May put up with his hand clutching just so she knew where his hands were...
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Nothing's going to happen...
Who knew that we had Seinfeld to blame for the ascension of Steve Bannon and his orange sock puppet...Bannon, 62, is a former Navy officer and Goldman Sachs banker who made a fortune after he acquired a share of the royalties from a fledgling TV show called Seinfeld.
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A new map of Hell...
Wired has a great link to an interactive visual of the Trump universe and its multitudinous connections:
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Katharine Moody, in reply to
Interesting link, thanks. This quote in particular:
While others saw the world rebounding from the financial crisis of 2008, Bannon just saw it becoming more divided by class.
The elites that had caused the crisis - or, at least, failed to stop it - were now rising higher. Everyone else was being left behind.
"The middle class, the working men and women in the world... are just tired of being dictated to by what we call the party of Davos," Bannon said in a 2014 speech to a conference at the Vatican in a recording obtained by BuzzFeed.
The party of Davos :-) - he's not far wrong on that one.
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Hilary Stace, in reply to
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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-our-likes-helped-trump-winI hope the left can out data them somehow.
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I hope the left can out data them somehow.
We are now at a place where introducing Nazism as analogy, isn’t just being a dick on the internet anymore.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
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Laurel be damned...
Excuse me, is that fasces on your shoulder?introducing Nazism as analogy, isn’t just being a dick on the internet anymore
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I have to confess to being a little Trumped-out, like most people here I’m sure. While there’s something compulsive about watching a former empire being demolished in such a public manner, otherwise interesting stories can get lost in the maelstrom of Trump’s daily outbursts. Here’s a couple which stood out for me.
We’ve heard the stories of Trump stiffing contractors but we assumed he’d more or less stop that when he got the top job. But nope. The electrical contractors who worked “nonstop” to get Trump’s new Washington hotel ready for a televised campaign stop in September are still owed over two million dollars. The Trump organisation has offered them a third of that amount. Leopard… spots…
Here’s an excellent piece from Google engineer Yonatan Zunger asking if the muslim ban is effectively a trial run for a coup.
A couple of interesting images to follow.
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The Guardian's Martin Rowson on Trump's meeting with May.
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And a nice spoof on Trump and his rich white friends signing away women’s rights.
I'm glad I'm not American.
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steven crawford, in reply to
Here’s an excellent piece from Google engineer Yonatan Zunger asking if the muslim ban is effectively a trial run for a coup.
I also wonder if the inner circle would be perfectly happy to see the US economy crumble to the point its citizens resort to grubbing for worms.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
...the US economy crumble to the point its citizens resort to grubbing for worms.
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