The Politics Thread

Abuse of anyone and anything that stands in his way? Like America, for example:


He's clearly right though, according to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

 

Unfortunately Trump's personality and general orangeness often get in the way of thinking about what he is actually saying. Today we are treated with the gem that American / Russian relations have never been worse. Wow, you mean worse than during the Berlin airlift or the Cuban missile crisis or a number of other crises? Shame that the subject of history seems to have no value these days (economists should think more about history for a start, but that's another story).

Anyone else glad that Trump wasn't president during those crises?

 

I consider Trump to be like that senator in Stephen Kings' "The dead zone" .
I am similarly convinced that he will have his 'dead zone' moment
that coldly betrays him for what he truly is, before his term is done.

 

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Errrm...

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Well, we're safe on the 'no intelligence' part

 

Having recently been elected as Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez stated he wanted to remove General Franco's remains from the state-funded Valle de los Caidos and turn the building into a memorial for all those who died in the Spanish Civil War

Here's how the local population responded...

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I'm not entirely sure this turned out quite like Trump intended.....

http://news.sky.com/story/donald-tr...encies-over-election-meddling-claims-11439065

 

I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out exactly how he planned it tbh. Everything is fake news, including 17 of his own intelligence agencies, apart from Putin, Kim Jong Un and Fox news

 

I give it another three months before he says something he said just five minutes before in the same press conference is "fake news"

 

Donald Trump. Now referred to as the "Toothless Chicken!"

 

The FBPE mob have been a bit quiet after the Tories scraped through their Customs Bill vote by a majority of just three votes. Would this have anything to do with Anna Soubry, who the FBPE mob consistently praise to the heavens as the shining light who defies her Tory masters, once again proving that she talks of rebellion yet once again voted in line with what her party wanted, or is it because both Vince Cable and Tim Farron didn't bother to turn up to vote in the first place?

If the three of them actually lived up to the FBPE mob's talk, the Tories would've lost the vote by a majority of one - but of course, it;s somehow Jeremy Corbyn's fault...

 

The political world appears to be in a mess.But there is one happy soul......why it's uncle Vlady!

 

Kudos to MGM Resorts International for their new spin on victim blaming, namely suing the victims of the Mandalay Bay attack to prevent them for suing MGM Resorts International for negligence. I'm sure that's not going to be a financial or PR holocaust happen to them overnight...

 

Now UK, let's look at what you could have won!........

http://news.sky.com/story/european-...-after-striking-agreement-with-japan-11439525

 

Quick, mobilise the gammon-faced angry blokes to whine "But Remain cheated toooooooooooooooooooooooo"

 

It's not getting any reporting this morning (apart from the once I heard it mentioned as an aside) that there may have been shenanigans with the "paring" system for the vote. This is where if one side have people that can't attend they pair off with people from the other side who then don't vote, so effectively cancel each other out. I understand that there were at least three MPs from the anti side who were absent last night who arranged to be paired off with government MPs, but those government MPs subsequently voted anyway. If true this is a massive abuse of parliamentary procedure. I believe an apology for an 'admin error' was issued, but it sounds extremely dodgy to me! Would have thought there would be more about this in the news.

Edit: I subsequently found this on Sky news:
https://news.sky.com/story/conserva...iring-row-with-new-mum-jo-swinson-mp-11440272
This accounts for one of them. I also believe Vince Cable and Tim Farron were also involved as HBIC said, but not sure they "didn't bother" - would be interested to know if they were also paired up.