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mbk is struggling to come up with anything meaningful as always
I'm not sure about horn smoking, but there's a lot of gum flapping going on.
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One has to ask where farage stands on all this...
Last thing we heard from him was "The world would be a “better, more secure place” if America took over Greenland, Nigel Farage said at Davos"
The usual suspects tend to back both him and the orange rapist, so where is their condemnation of their 'little messiah'?
Last thing we heard from him was "The world would be a “better, more secure place” if America took over Greenland, Nigel Farage said at Davos"
The usual suspects tend to back both him and the orange rapist, so where is their condemnation of their 'little messiah'?
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Yep, I'm not too far from the now closed Headley court (vets hospital), lots of poor young chaps dealing with the after effects of being on the front line and my BnIL served in Afghanistan too. Trump needs to apologies, but asking privately would be the best way.
Not to make light of it, but I did find it stupid to be saying "you'd all be speaking German..." in Switzerland.
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Nigel Farage MPOne has to ask where farage stands on all this...
Last thing we heard from him was "The world would be a “better, more secure place” if America took over Greenland, Nigel Farage said at Davos"
The usual suspects tend to back both him and the orange rapist, so where is their condemnation of their 'little messiah'?
Donald Trump is wrong. For 20 years our armed forces fought bravely alongside America's in Afghanistan.
I read an interesting article in Time just before Christmas. The thrust of it was that we had seen 'peak' Trump and it would be all downhill for him from now on. I didn't expect it to happen so soon. The sad old duffer is spiralling faster than most people thought possible. There is talk everywhere, from sensible centrist commentators, that he is seriously mentally unwell. And because of his particular issues, such as malignant narcissism, something massive and disastrous is brewing. Hopefully, there will be a blue wave in November and Congress can start to rein him in.
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He's off to china soon. That will be interesting.
I recall his last presidency going exactly the same. A few good ideas, a bit of getting things done and then it all went weird.
Trump is desperate to leave his mark in history, but not in infamy. Barak Obama lives rent free inside his head, simply because he was recognised globally and was respected. Trump yearns for the same. His first term was a disaster and ended miserably. His second term is marked as a revenge fest which is equally as reprehensible if it wasn't for the failures. His cabinet is a joke. I can only imagine the chaos visible, inside the ropes.
Something calamitous will happen, and it wont be pretty. The world will thankfully return to normal one day.
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So who's worse
Trump or Putin?
Trump or Putin?
I cant wait to see what Trump says when he comments on what Starmer has said.
More tariffs!
Belated comment from the 'man of the people' when he suddenly realised he'd f*cked up and backed the wrong
There will be much of the same - lots of fawning, telling him his awful hair and orange hue looks great, wonderful speech, brilliant murder of innocent women on Americas streets, your drilling is brill baby - to his face. And the likes of filly will be quick to repeat the adulation on here and will sincerely believe that they were telling the truth.
It's not difficult to play Trump, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's easy to manage. Having the attention span an Alzheimer's goldfish would be proud of, doesn't help, especially if they don't have his favourite Maccies Happy Meal.
I've have no idea what Trump would make of a pair of chopsticks....?
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I'm sure he'll manage.
I asked another quite complex question:
'is the us sliding into autocracy faster than russia, hungary or turkey'
AI Overview
Based on analyses in 2025, some researchers and experts have warned that the United States is undergoing a rapid, and in some ways faster, "autocratization" process compared to the early stages of democratic backsliding in Russia, Turkey, and Hungary. While Russia, Turkey, and Hungary are already considered firmly established hybrid or autocratic regimes, observers note that the US has seen a faster, more intense, and wider-ranging authoritarian turn in a shorter period (often cited under the second Trump administration) than those countries experienced in their initial phases.
Key Findings on the Speed of Backsliding:
'is the us sliding into autocracy faster than russia, hungary or turkey'
AI Overview
Based on analyses in 2025, some researchers and experts have warned that the United States is undergoing a rapid, and in some ways faster, "autocratization" process compared to the early stages of democratic backsliding in Russia, Turkey, and Hungary. While Russia, Turkey, and Hungary are already considered firmly established hybrid or autocratic regimes, observers note that the US has seen a faster, more intense, and wider-ranging authoritarian turn in a shorter period (often cited under the second Trump administration) than those countries experienced in their initial phases.
Key Findings on the Speed of Backsliding:
- Faster Than Precedents: Researchers like Steven Levitsky have indicated that the U.S. democratic decline under Donald Trump has been faster than the authoritarian turns in Hungary (under Orbán) or Turkey (under Erdoğan).
- Outpacing Putin's Russia: Some former U.S. diplomats have stated that the dismantling of democratic norms in the US has moved faster than Vladimir Putin's initial consolidation of power in Russia, which took years to achieve, whereas the US shifts were occurring within months.
- "Fastest Evolving Episode": The V-Dem Institute’s 2025 Democracy Report identified the U.S. as undergoing the "fastest evolving episode of autocratization" in modern history, particularly regarding the intense testing of executive power limits.
- Comparison to "Competitive Authoritarianism": Political scientists have argued that the U.S. has transitioned into a "competitive authoritarian" system—a state with democratic trappings but an uneven playing field—moving at an "alarming speed".
