What has Trump done now?

[Jerry_Atrick]

Do I detect an opportunity for Aussie wine and other drinks: 

 

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

Except later on when I reached out to ministers trying to find out if we'd get some compensation for doing what they wanted us to do under duress. Of course they wouldn't, and that's when it kicked in that a bloke really felt like a sucker and a loser. So to me at least, it doesn't matter when I began to feel that way, it was very true, and I'm glad Trump said it because it's exactly how I feel, and my guess is that about 60-70% of other conscripts feel the same way. That group NashoFairGo knows it too.

[Marty_d]

7 hours ago, onetrack said:

A wise old Aunty told me once, that as you age, you can get BETTER, or get BITTER.

 

Wise advice.  Although possibly confusing to Kiwis.

[octave]

1 hour ago, Grumpy Old Nasho said:

I'm glad Trump said it because it's exactly how I feel, and my guess is that about 60-70% of other conscripts feel the same way.

 Just to be clear, Trump was not referring to conscripts, but he was referring to soldiers in a war cemetery near Paris.  He also did not want to be seen publicly with injured veterans at a proposed military parade.

 

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/02/trump-troops-fallen-soldiers-john-kelly

 

 

 

Former President Trump didn't want to visit a cemetery near Paris for Americans who fought and died in World War I because it was filled with "suckers" and "losers," John Kelly, his longest-serving chief of staff, said in a statement to CNN on Monday.

 

 

• Trump saying at a 2017 Memorial Day event in Arlington National Cemetery: "I don't get it. What was in it for them?"
• Kelly said Trump did not want to include military amputees at a White House military event in 2018 because it would make spectator's uncomfortable, and added that Trump had said their presence "doesn't look good for me."
• Kelly also noted that Trump in 2016 publicly belittled the parents of Humayun Khan, an Army captain and Gold Star recipient who was killed in Iraq in 2004, after they criticized him for his anti-Muslim rhetoric.

 

 

 

 

[old man emu]

This clip highlights the absolutely stupid consequences of Trump's DEI directive. 

 

[octave]

When I first saw the Enola Gay story, I thought it must be satire, but no.  

[facthunter]

There's ONE country that has dropped Atomic Bombs on PEOPLE.  Nev

[Marty_d]

It's more about the stupidity of the Trump administration and the war on everything they consider "woke".

 

Obviously they've tried to use AI to pick up any published picture that has the word "gay" in it and ordered its removal from government sites.  

 

Of course, as one of the 26,000 documents they've ordered removed, one is a photo of the plane that dropped the atom bomb - the Enola Gay.

[red750]

https://www.wownews.info/news/legal-experts-cant-believe-donald-trump-is-using-rare-legal-rule-in-response-to-his-executive-orders-being-blocked/

 

* * * Do not click. See following posts. *  *  *

 

 

 

[rgmwa]

Red

I clicked on that link and got a message saying my phone was infected with two viruses and was directed to a website to remove it. I didn’t, thinking it could be a scam. 

[red750]

That's odd. My antivirus usually rings bells and kicks up a stink blocking many pages. I clicked on the link above and it opened without a murmur.

 

The jist of the article is that Trump has created a new rule where anyone challenging his executive orders will have to pay the legal costs of the challenge up front to deter anyone taking action.

[rgmwa]

Yes it was weird. I thought the link might have been hijacked unless something is going on. Phone seems to be OK. It’s behaving normally.

[Jerry_Atrick]

I had it as well.. only the once.. maybe they have some dodgy advertisers..

 

[old man emu]

Trump has used social media to attack former Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull after an interview was broadcast in which Turnbull gave his opinion of the effects of the trump Administration economic policy. Turnbull has the academic qualifications and experience to for his opinion. (Let' leave local politics out of your responses. I'm not referring to them.)

 

Trump's use of social media to broadcast his feelings about all the things that are going on leaves me floundering for a word to describe it. There is a time and a place in politics for the use of social media, but using it to attack sundry opponents is neither. The leader of a country, especially a country held to be as influential as the USA, should be wise enough to keep shtum about what could impact their country. Trump's Reality TV addiction has turned the allies of the USA away. I wonder if Xi Jinping is watching what is going on, scratching his head and uttering, WTF.

 

It is very clear that the creators of Project 2025 and their associates are keeping Trump in office to use him as a decoy during the setting in place of their ulterior motives. 

[facthunter]

The BAD guys have CONTROL NOW and there is NO WAY such people give Power up easily.

     America's ENEMIES. (They have created Plenty) Will indeed be Laughing and celebrating. Brexit was an OWN GOAL but this SHOW easily Eclipses it and has yet to Unfold, fully,  to Its inevitable, Ignominious END.  Nev

[old man emu]

Here is Malcolm Turnbull on the ABC's 7:30 Report providing comments on Trump's social media post. I think Turnbull gives a fair explanation of why he said that Xi Jinping is most likely to act in a polar opposite way to Trump. Turnbull's opinion is that Trump would be unlikely to support Taiwan if China attacked it. Finally, Turnbull is of the opinion that, despite Albo's best efforts to gain tariff exemptions, Albo is being set up to fail. Being set up, by who knows whom, is completely different from failing due to one's incompetence. 

 

 

 

[rgmwa]

Turnbull hasn’t made it any easier for Albo by laying into Trump. That wasn’t a very smart thing to do. 

[Jerry_Atrick]

No, but it has to be said...

 

Here is a claimed real consequence of his actions: https://time.com/7265679/satellites-front-failing-hundreds-dead-fallout-trump-ukraine-aid-pause/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb

 

 

 

[red750]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14480439/trump-new-demands-zelensky-war-ukraine-russia-minerals.html?ito=social-facebook

[red750]

[old man emu]

8 hours ago, rgmwa said:

Turnbull hasn’t made it any easier for Albo by laying into Trump. That wasn’t a very smart thing to do. 

Hardly "laying into". Simply stating the obvious. The leader of any country whose economy would be adversely affected by Trump's actions has a duty to speak out. That puts the leader between a rock and a hard place. What should a leader do - defend the country, or defend against internal political pint-scoring? In the interview with the ABC, Turnbull stated the obvious that, even in the schoolyard, sucking up to a bully will not stop the bullying.

[facthunter]

Even Trump knows there's an opposition in Australia. TURNBULL IS NOW A COMMENTATOR. Nev

[rgmwa]

33 minutes ago, old man emu said:

Hardly "laying into". Simply stating the obvious. The leader of any country whose economy would be adversely affected by Trump's actions has a duty to speak out. That puts the leader between a rock and a hard place. What should a leader do - defend the country, or defend against internal political pint-scoring? In the interview with the ABC, Turnbull stated the obvious that, even in the schoolyard, sucking up to a bully will not stop the bullying.

Yes but Turnbull is no longer the leader and he should be more aware of the  likely consequences of what he says.

[facthunter]

Rubbish,.  There's plenty worse with BIG mouths.  Nev

[old man emu]

9 minutes ago, rgmwa said:

Yes but Turnbull is no longer the leader and he should be more aware of the  likely consequences of what he says.

So, Trump's ego must be stroked at all times? Remember the moral of The Emperor's New Clothes.

 

Turnbull simply spoke of the possible effects of Trump's economic policies. It was Trump who attacked Turnbull. In fact, Trump defamed Turnbull.