icowden
Squire
I'm assuming his interest comes from mishearing it. After all, he's a big fan of gulf courses...
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I'm assuming his interest comes from mishearing it. After all, he's a big fan of gulf courses...
icowden
Squire
This is an interesting read about the man who would be king (it's a free read):-
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/...unlocked_article_code=1.uE4.7gY8.hucw94ggYrCh
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/...unlocked_article_code=1.uE4.7gY8.hucw94ggYrCh
ebikeerwidnes
Senior Member
That is a more detailed version of what I was thinking
The Tories have done similar things just less dramatically
Lots of "Oh look - DEAD CAT!!!!!"
and the media are all over the terrible circumstances of the Dead Cat and interviewing cat charities and at owners
and in the meantime 100 dogs are killed and the sounds are drowned out by the current fuss over a dead cat
Trump just does it with far bigger stuff
multitool
Pharaoh
Trump has scored a spectacular long-term own goal with the freezing of foreign aid.
Foreign aid is as much about keeping enemy states out and limiting their influence as it is about anything else.
What a stupid thing to do when he is launching a trade war against China
This Trump presidency is set to be as much, if not more, of a disaster as the last one.
Foreign aid is as much about keeping enemy states out and limiting their influence as it is about anything else.
What a stupid thing to do when he is launching a trade war against China
This Trump presidency is set to be as much, if not more, of a disaster as the last one.
The Crofted Crest
Active Member
And most of that money will stay in the States.
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And when US wants minerals of military bases or something from other countries the world will remember the US as an unreliable partner who only understands self-interest so everyone will be less inclined to trade/help/cooperate/etc.
Ian
Ian
Trump has scored a spectacular long-term own goal with the freezing of foreign aid.
Foreign aid is as much about keeping enemy states out and limiting their influence as it is about anything else.
What a stupid thing to do when he is launching a trade war against China
This Trump presidency is set to be as much, if not more, of a disaster as the last one.
Additionally that it's such a small %age of US Gov. expenditure. And the examples of waste White House Press Secretary is giving out are trivial (as well as being of questionable accuracy and with no evidence).
And when US wants minerals of military bases or something from other countries the world will remember the US as an unreliable partner who only understands self-interest so everyone will be less inclined to trade/help/cooperate/etc.
Ian
Ian
ebikeerwidnes
Senior Member
And China will be there to remind them with a cheque book in their hand
The Chinese leadership must be sitting there thinking that he couldn't be doing better for them if they had paid him
multitool
Pharaoh
He's not quite worked out whether he wants to go for regressive isolationism or Billy Big Balls swaying his scrotum around globally.
But the two are not mutually compatible. Soft power is about, ultimately, markets. For somebody so keen to impose tarrifs on foreign products in order to favour US products he seems to be neglecting the foreign markets that made the US rich.
How long has it been? 3, 4 weeks? He's managed to scare some people but it looks like we are just heading for the same incoherent chaos we had during his first term.
Hope the Dems manage to regroup. They may well have won had it not been for Biden's disastrous run at a second term.
multitool
Pharaoh
multitool
Pharaoh
Deliberate. He saw the attention Musk got from doing one and he realises he's slipping into oblivion, no longer central to Trump/MAGA so he thought it would get him into the news and being talked about, etc.
Ian
ebikeerwidnes
Senior Member
so - mission accomplished then
