What has Trump done now?

[facthunter]

  JUST tell ME the Country you would RATHER be living in.  Nev

[red750]

[red750]

[facthunter]

A gift from the FRENCH.  Nev

[Marty_d]

I'll never forget this brilliant David Rowe cartoon from 2016.

Probably still usable now with Lady Liberty thinking "Oh shit... I did it again..."

Edited January 24 by Marty_d

[red750]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14318347/Trump-demands-1-trillion-investment-reduction-oil-prices-Saudi-Arabia-fantastic-guy-MBS.html?ito=social-facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawH_4TpleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHVfQ0fY-9lwrJWt24lMxVDHWd5Z_IFyKjwp22uM2VWHB6O6A-jMmG5KbUg_aem_gy2S8cc-PQUQIsP_RMuYZg

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

 

1960's American and Aussie conscripts fared little better. Johnson, Nixon, Menzies, Holt ... all Nazi leaders.

 

[octave]

Republican Floats Constitutional Amendment to Allow Trump a Third Term

 

This seems a little Putinesque to me. 

[red750]

He realises he won't be able to complete all the damage he wants to in four years. With any luck he'll be dead before then.

[old man emu]

The 22nd Amendment which Limits the number of times a person can be elected President took 3 years, 343 days to be ratified as set out in the Constitution. To become part of the Constitution, an amendment must be ratified by three-fourths of the states (38 since 1959). 

 

I can't see the Blue States ratifying such an amendment, by which time the election for the next President will have been held - an election that Trump could not contest under the present Constitution.

[octave]

And let's face it,  he may not even see this term out.  I am betting there is a plan afoot for Donald Junior to stand in 2028

[facthunter]

Will the  vote be free and fair? That's all that matters. Nev

[facthunter]

That gives you the power to boot them out..  Nev

[red750]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14314325/transgender-inmates-panic-donald-trump-executive-order-mens-prison.html?ito=social-facebook

[red750]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14318959/donald-trump-executive-order-JFK-assassination.html?ito=social-facebook

[onetrack]

There's not going to be much in the JFK investigation archives that will reveal anything new, 99% of the information has already been released. It's a typical Trump stunt to try and get more self-glorification. Maybe he's hoping the records will reveal that the shooter on the Grassy Knoll really did exist, and they actually know his name!?  😄

[red750]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14314645/donald-trump-warns-joe-biden-pardon-himself.html?ito=social-facebook

[red750]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14314841/Gina-Rinehart-Donald-Trump-Australia.html?ito=social-facebook

[old man emu]

8 hours ago, red750 said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14314841/Gina-Rinehart-Donald-Trump-Australia.html?ito=social-facebook

The story that the above links to is an example of the glorification of Trump by the giga-rich. It especially irks me that present day giga-rich very often got that way by starting with the backing of mega-rich parents. One wonders if the giga-rich have ever done the slightest bit of actual work themselves.

[old man emu]

Glancing over the previous posts made since Trump was inaugurated and started his autographing blitz, I have come to the conclusion that he is the greatest destroyer of the good order and discipline of the worldwide economy. If his orders regarding the functioning of the US economy are followed, I envisage a collapse of the world's  trading and financial system. His policies are spreading terror, not only in his own country, but elsewhere. 

 

He has made a mockery of the democratic principles that the USA has said it was defending since 1945. By the way, who voted for the USA to be the World's Policeman? He has made a mockery of the once respected Office of the President of the United States. The rest of the world is either laughing at him openly, or, or they want to curry favour (Russia, China and North Korea) they are doing so with a covered mouth.

 

We have be taught that Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Kim Yong Jun and Mao represent the worst of political leaders, but I think Trump eclipses them.

 

Do you think that the following description of Fascism applies to the USA at present?

 

Fascism arises as a desperate attempt by the ruling capitalist class to maintain its power. It is a form of authoritarianism that emerges when capitalism is in a state of decay, During periods of economic crisis or decline, the ruling capitalist class may face challenges to maintain their dominance. In response, they might turn to authoritarian and nationalist movements as a means to protect their interests and maintain control. Fascism is the extreme manifestation of these efforts. Economic collapse can generate fear and insecurity in society. Fascist leaders often thrive on this fear, offering a sense of order and protection in exchange for loyalty and obedience.

[nomadpete]

An interesting quote, OME. Where did you get it from?

[old man emu]

Where dja gettit? I was Googling for a definition of 'fascism'. I got his quote from Lenin

Then I searched for that quote and came up with this: https://orinocotribune.com/fascism-is-capitalism-in-decay/

[facthunter]

Lenin's no Dill.  That doesn't Define Me as anything, but some would put me is a BOX for saying it.  Nev

[old man emu]

Donald Trump this week turned the United States into a matriarchy. Matriarchy is a social system in which positions of dominance without violence and privilege are held by women. How did he do that? Quite simply by signing an Executive Order written by his minions who only had the most elementary knowledge of how male/female sex is determined by chromosomal type.

 

I take it that you know that the sex of a human is determined by a specific type of chromosomes designated as X and Y, with females having two X chromosomes (XX) and males having one X and one Y chromosome (XY), meaning the presence of a Y chromosome determines male sex. You also know that a chromosome is the way in which genes are collected together, a bit like putting a whole heap of assembly instructions in one folder.

 

OK so how did Trump turn everyone in the United States female? Simply by defining, that a "female" as "a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell." The order defines "male" as "a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell." At conception either a sperm carrying an X chromosome, or one with a Y chromosome may enter the ovum produced by the female, to match the X chromosome of the female. The genes located on the Y chromosome which cause the developing embryo to eventually be male do not come into action for about six weeks after conception. Therefore at conception and for up to six weeks thereafter, an embryo's sex is female. 

 

The noun "sex" for centuries has had the meaning  meaning "quality or character of being either male or female", based upon the anatomical distinction between male and female as evidenced by physical characteristics of their genital organs and the part taken by each in reproduction." It's usually assigned at birth as male or female, since until only since recent times could those physical characteristics be observed before birth.

 

Ironically, as a result of this Order, all previously heterosexual marriages have become same-sex marriages. 

 

Here's a picture of the Trump Administration's Chief Scientific Advisor 

[red750]