Trump again

[scawsby steve]

Christ up above!

We think WE have a poor generation of politicians.

https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1776282144416972941

Is the irony of your first sentence intentional?

[BillyStubbsTears]

Well, well, well...

[MachoMadness]

If Trump goes to jail (which is unlikely at this point) he can still be elected president, but can't vote for himself under Florida law, passed by his mate DeSantis. Weird system.

[andy didcott]

Orange man baby. Ha!

[tommy toes]

Just listened to his diatribe outside court.
The blokes living in la la land, yet millions of Americans will vote for him.
Unbelievable.

[SydneyRover]

Yep, hopefully he'll get sanctioned again for contempt of court.

[MachoMadness]

Just listened to his diatribe outside court.
The blokes living in la la land, yet millions of Americans will vote for him.
Unbelievable.

Guaranteed to be riots either way around November time. Jan 6th was just the warm-up.

[TonySoprano]

He'll win.
Aided by the horrific alternative of a man who can't form a sentence, read an autocue or remember his name, so the defacto president would be kamala harris.

Let that sink in


Unless they cancel the election of course .  . .....

[IDM]

And what’s wrong with Harris.??

[BillyStubbsTears]

This is how democracies end.

The REAL case that he should be facing is the one in Georgia of election interference that would carry a mandatory 5 year minimum prison sentence.

But that ain't going to happen before the election because Trump stuffed the Supreme Court with his supporters, and he's appealed to to Supreme Court to cancel that prosecution.

And get this. The justification for that appeal? He's claiming that no ex-President can be tried for ANY crime they may commit while President.

And guess what? The Supreme Court, instead of doing the right thing, which was to say "Get f**ked, what an utterly stupid claim" has said "Yes, we will seriously consider this claim" delaying the trial for a year.

Meanwhile, pudding headed folk justify supporting this man who WILL bring down democracy in the States if he wins, by bothsidesing the issue.

"Yeah one is a career criminal and would be destroyer of democracy, but the other one misread his autocue sometimes."

[TonySoprano]

And what’s wrong with Harris.??

She's deeply unpopular with the American electorate.
She's their dianne Abbott

[BillyStubbsTears]

And what’s wrong with Harris.??

This is how people who want to support a right wing dictator justify supporting a right wing dictator, by saying they couldn't possibly support someone who's about as left wing as Starmer.

[BillyStubbsTears]

And what’s wrong with Harris.??

She's deeply unpopular with the American electorate.
She's their dianne Abbott

She's deeply unpopular with the 40% who would still support Trump if he buggered a dead baby, "because, the other side is as bad."

[BillyStubbsTears]

The collective minds of the American Republican supporters will make a fascinating case study one day.

See this graph.
https://x.com/Pinkybum1/status/1795890489704780134

Inflation (blue line) consistently outstripped wages under Trump.

Under Biden, wages have consistently outstripped inflation.

The Biden administration has dealt with the economic issues coming from COVID and Putin's War in a consummate way. Inflation is down. Unemployment is at historically low levels. Wages are up. Economic growth is powering ahead.

Yet in polls, 80-90% of Republicans consistently say that the economy has fallen apart under Biden. And so they are going to vote for a career criminal.

[DRFC_AjA]

Oh the hilarity of watching DeNiro stood in a crime ridden, homeless immigrant ridden, violent New York saying Trump would be a disaster

[BillyStubbsTears]

Here's the real nightmare situation for American democracy if Trump wins in November. That Supreme Court decision.

That can only go two ways.

1) The SC rules that Trump's appeal is valid and no-one can be tried for crimes they committed while President. Including trying to interfere with the electoral process that kicked him out.

2) The SC rules that the appeal is invalid and a sitting American President is on trial for electoral interference and facing 5 years in the pen.

But yeah, the other side is just as bad.

[Bristol Red Rover]

How long before BST hands in his membership to the Democrat Party. There are no options in the USA. Their system is corrupt from its core, including on, erm.... both sides.

[TonySoprano]

No ones allowed an opinion unless they agree with billy,  everyone is a far right racist if they don't agree with him. 

[BillyStubbsTears]

Tony.

The bit that people like you don't get is that, along with you absolutely being allowed an opinion, other people are allowed to tell you when your opinion is b*llocks.

In this case, your opinion  appears to be that Kamala Harris is so dangerous you'd prefer a criminal you tried to threaten election officials into fiddling votes to keep him in the White House, then incited an attempted coup.

And I'm saying, if that's your opinion, it is b*llocks.

[scawsby steve]

OK, guys, I don't want to get too much into this, but we all want to be around next April to see Rovers get promoted. If a nuclear war kicks off, Putin has made it clear that the UK is getting it first. Under whose administration in the USA is that scenario most likely to happen?

Ask the experts, both military and political. They'll tell you.

[MachoMadness]

Surely if Putin sends a nuke our way we can enlist Richard Wood to head the f**ker back?

[BillyStubbsTears]

OK, guys, I don't want to get too much into this, but we all want to be around next April to see Rovers get promoted. If a nuclear war kicks off, Putin has made it clear that the UK is getting it first. Under whose administration in the USA is that scenario most likely to happen?

Ask the experts, both military and political. They'll tell you.

The worry that military strategists are very concerned about is this.

Trump wins and totally or effectively pulls the USA out of NATO.

Putin takes that as a green light to invade the Baltics and Poland.

That puts us in 1938 territory. The rest of Europe then either takes a stand against a fascist aggressor, or we turn a blind eye and let the Russians have their empire. Only this time without America to protect the Western half of Europe.

[BillyStubbsTears]

What the big countries in Europe (us included) need to do is re arm as fast as possible and make it clear to Putin that if he puts one toe over those borders, we will give the defenders thousands of Storm Shadows and Jaguars and it's make Ukraine look like a cake walk for him.

[drfchound]

Surely if Putin sends a nuke our way we can enlist Richard Wood to head the f**ker back?

 

[MachoMadness]

Trump about to deliver an autocue-free speech outside Trump Tower. His supporters are there, waving a massive flag that says "Trump or death".

[BillyStubbsTears]

f**king hell, Trump is upping the ante with that speech.

Accusing the judge of being conflicted and a devil.

He's going all in. He knows that if this conviction tips the voters against him, he'll end up in prison for the rest of his life. So he's claiming the entire legal system is broken.

That's a man who wants to be President, saying the courts are f**ked. Imagine what he's doing if he gets back in as President.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Christ it's like listening to someone on the bus who's lost it and is shouting about every thought that comes into his head.

"This judge. He put a man in prison. Good man. Man who worked for me for. Ruined his life. He did a plea. "15 YEARS IN PRISON". Who's not gonna take that plea. So he said to him, testify against Trump. And he had a car. Maybe two cars, I don't know, you guys might know. Any of you got cars? You know they might...so they made him take the plea."

[River Don]

OK, guys, I don't want to get too much into this, but we all want to be around next April to see Rovers get promoted. If a nuclear war kicks off, Putin has made it clear that the UK is getting it first. Under whose administration in the USA is that scenario most likely to happen?

Ask the experts, both military and political. They'll tell you.

If Trump appeases Putin and surrenders Ukraine by cancelling all support, do you think that will make Europe safer?

We already know Putin is eyeing up Moldova and Georgia. He's already making threatening noises to the Baltics, Poland, Finland and Sweden. We know about his ambition to rebuild a Russian empire.

Surrendering Ukraine will just hand Putin a new reservoir of conscripted troops.

The lesson of WWII is appeasement doesn't work.

Our old ally Poland can see the threat, they are on the frontline and they are investigating heavily in the military. They probably have the most effective conventional forces in Europe now. We should take note.

[BillyStubbsTears]

"He did something with the bank. Got in trouble for it. I don't know what it was, all you guys know what it was. But it wasn't crimes. And they made him sign an NDA. You know what an NDA is? Everyone has an NDA. And you know what. HE signed an NDA and it's. You know I'm leading the polls and they brought it back. It's very bad for family and businesses."

[River Don]

"it's very bad for family and business"

Spoken like Tony Soprano.