Thu Nov 30, 2017 12:54 pm
Mexicola wrote:You can try and rationalise this however you like. In the eyes of Britain First and their ilk, he yet again gave the Presidential seal of approval to their grotesque world view. I'd feel the same if he was championing ISIS propaganda. He is exploiting the fears of a subset of the population in a dangerous and frankly pretty disgusting manner. Sure, that's what politicians have done throughout history. But that doesn't make it acceptable. I'd rather call him out than defend him.
Thu Nov 30, 2017 4:43 pm
Thu Nov 30, 2017 8:35 pm
Mexicola wrote:'Prepares to defend whatever papa Trump just said regardless of whether it makes me cringe'
Thu Nov 30, 2017 10:38 pm
Fri Dec 01, 2017 2:05 am
Mexicola wrote:Yeah, I think I'll give the ethnic purity rubbish the same wide berth I would with anything else that stinks the room out. Poor form in my view.
Fri Dec 01, 2017 9:30 am
Fri Dec 01, 2017 2:11 pm
Fri Dec 01, 2017 2:25 pm
Mexicola wrote:I think we're getting some distance from the Commander in Tweets pandering to the far right, but regardless.
It's a well intended but dangerous path you're advocating I'm afraid. The difference is surely that societies and cultures evolve and change over time. The phrase once used by some fairly horrible types in the UK was 'Mongrel Nation', as though that's something to be feared. That ignores that much of what passes as British came about directly from other cultures. I'm from the North East of England. I likely have genetic makeup that encompasses Viking, Scottish, Saxon, French...
There is plenty of comment better than mine, pointing out (as if it should need saying) that the USA that Captain Arsehole claims to want to 'Make Great Again' is the version of the US founded on mass immigration in the first place. I wonder what the native Americans make of that hypocrisy? They of course have the reservations you talk about. I visited a couple on the Arizona / Utah border. While I agree the loss of ancient cultures isn't something to be lauded, it felt like a tourist trap. I'm sure enforced segregation isn't the answer either. Too close to apartheid for me.
Getting back on track, at least somewhat, the interesting thing to come from his latest attack of online diarrhoea is the call in Parliament yesterday for him to be arrested should be make his long promised (yet conspicuously no date arranged a year later) state visit to the UK. Publicly the GOP are backing him. Privately the rumours are of increased unrest.
I predicted end of 2018. Time is short for that to happen, but you have to wonder how much longer Republicans let this go on before the endgame begins.
Fri Dec 01, 2017 3:04 pm
Fri Dec 01, 2017 8:08 pm
Fri Dec 01, 2017 9:47 pm
Fri Dec 01, 2017 10:49 pm
Mexicola wrote:I guess I just hoped that when the revolution came, it didn't involve a misogynistic, bigoted, egomaniac giving succour to neo-nazis. If this current shower of excrement is the best we can summon up as a species (and I include Putin, Nigel fucking Farage et al) then perhaps we don't deserve better. Except, my 5 year old daughter does. So no, I can't accept it and I won't.
Sat Dec 02, 2017 9:10 am
Sat Dec 02, 2017 1:23 pm
OrangeRomeda wrote:Flynn is flipped. Mueller is moving fast. You do not fuck with the FBI.
My prediction for the US: we've got 6-8 months. 6-8 months either Trump is removed from office OR we cease to become the America we once knew. The GOP Senate just passed a tax bill tonight that's going to fuck every one of us making less than 250K/year. 6-8 months.
The US is in deep trouble right now....
Sat Dec 02, 2017 3:41 pm
Sat Dec 02, 2017 4:55 pm
Mexicola wrote:Did anyone ever genuinely buy that Trump was going to 'drain the swamp'? I'd say he's a charlatan, but that's an insult to talented con artists the world over. Again, while I'd genuinely love to see a sea change in the political establishment, he was never it. You don't fix corruption and vested interests with more overt corruption and vested interests.
Wonder if the tweets were an intended diversion from the Flynn testimony?
Fox must be hours from showing a blank screen and playing military band music.
Sat Dec 02, 2017 5:49 pm
Sat Dec 02, 2017 6:50 pm
Mexicola wrote:Becoming? He always was.
Sat Dec 02, 2017 7:12 pm
Sat Dec 02, 2017 8:03 pm
Mexicola wrote:I'll be honest, I don't have time to plough through most of it pal