I am guessing that you are as speechless that through sheer power of money anyone as asinine as Donald Trump could make it to a situation where he is the front runner of one of the major US political parties in the campaign to replace Mr. Obama.
He makes Miliband, Corbyn and Farage look like statesmen.
Moggy
By: snafu - 22nd December 2015 at 00:22
Pass the mind bleach! I just had a mental picture of Corbyn and Abbott’s discarded undercrackers on a seedy bedroom floor somewhere.
An East German B&B floor, after a day on a motorbike together in the late 70s?
Yuk.
By: TonyT - 21st December 2015 at 17:57
Pass the mind bleach! I just had a mental picture of Corbyn and Abbott’s discarded undercrackers on a seedy bedroom floor somewhere.
Moggy
One wonders if they both sang the Labour song first before consummating the affair, mind you her singing about having the red flag flying might come across as it being the wrong time of the month. 😀
By: Moggy C - 21st December 2015 at 16:57
Pass the mind bleach! I just had a mental picture of Corbyn and Abbott’s discarded undercrackers on a seedy bedroom floor somewhere.
Moggy
By: snafu - 21st December 2015 at 14:47
Well then, you seem to have your left-wing knickers in a knot now don’t you.
Merry Christmas.:love-struck:
Sorry, don’t wear left wing knickers, knotted or not.
By: Fadly - 21st December 2015 at 03:19
He is no worse than the lying old bitch, whose husband was a man whore while she preaches the war on women, the Democrats are fronting so —- he says what voters have been thinking for a long time.
He does not put out a line of rah, rah lies like the Washington Insiders do to sucker the public.As far as money goes, if you think the rest of the politicians are not extremely wealthy, well it is voters with that attitude that gave the swine infested chambers we now have in Washington.
One of the Dem. favorite old broads, Pelosi was elected on the back of her husband, who financed her campaign.
He owns and operates National Leasing Services plus he also was the owner of the Sacramento Mountain Lions of the United Football League.
So to use money to attack Trump is a fool’s folly.If it is his immigration policy that set you off.
Trump is a monster, a madman and a vile racist. He’s just like Hitler. Or Jimmy Carter.
During the Iranian hostage crisis, Carter issued a number of orders to put pressure on Iran. Among these, Iranians were banned from entering the United States unless they oppose the Shiite Islamist regime or had a medical emergency.
Here’s Jimmy “Hitler” Carter saying it back in 1980.Fourth, the Secretary of Treasury [State] and the Attorney General will invalidate all visas issued to Iranian citizens for future entry into the United States, effective today. We will not reissue visas, nor will we issue new visas, except for compelling and proven humanitarian reasons or where the national interest of our own country requires. This directive will be interpreted very strictly.
Apparently barring people from a terrorist country is not against “our values” after all. It may even be “who we are”. Either that or Carter was a racist monster just like Trump.Meanwhile here’s how the Iranian students in the US were treated.
Carter orders 50,000 Iranian students in US to report to immigration office with view to deporting those in violation of their visas. On 27 December 1979, US appeals court allows deportation of Iranian students found in violation.
In November 1979, the Attorney General had given all Iranian students one month to report to the local immigration office. Around 7,000 were found in violation of their visas. Around 15,000 Iranians were forced to leave the US.
I don’t see how you can consider that cruel. It’s within the legal right of the host country to deny Visa to anyone. Carter still made exemption on humanitarian ground like a patient who require treatment in US. Countries all over the world, including Iran, deported people regularly, especially those who abuse their Visa. Beside, Carter ban did not specify race or religion in it like Trump does. It only target Iran, a country that’s considered hostile to US, not Muslims or Arabs or Persians.
By: TonyT - 20th December 2015 at 22:28
I don’t have anytime for Trump, I have stepped in better, you get the feeling he has simply weighed up the Muslim vote against the non Muslim vote and is playing the Country on the fear card.
But the underlying worry I have is he is business orientated and his companies appear to require him at the helm, one just feels that his goal of the Presidency is to simply nail the sign on the front door “The Trump White House” and that he would simply use the position to further his own agenda.
He showed his true colours on the programme showing his efforts to evict some Scot from his home because he deemed it an eyesore to his Golf Course, a course that actually bulldozed protected sand dunes? and then his efforts to prevent a wind farm being built…. Totally loathsome creature.
By: RpR - 20th December 2015 at 21:53
Bad news for Disney!
Republicans are so bullish on war that 30% would bomb a fictional countryScary stuff.
Moggy
Hmmm let us see what Time Magazine says:
A new poll found that many Americans—including 30% of Republican primary voters—say they would bomb the fictional country from Disney’s Aladdin, but the poll should be trusted about as much as the movie’s villainous vizier Jafar.
The poll came from Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, which likes to troll reporters and social media with humorously worded survey questions. A previous canvass compared the favorability of Vladimir Putin, the Republican-controlled Congress and dog poop, for example).
The question was fairly straightforward: “Would you support or oppose bombing Agrabah?” (Agrabah is, of course, not a real country.)
But it came after a long series of questions about things that have actually been in the news, such as criminal background checks of gun buyers, barring Muslims from entering the U.S. and raising the federal minimum wage.
The firm asked Democratic primary voters too, and they opposed bombing Agrabah by 36% though 19% supported the proposal.
A release on the automated survey of 532 Republican primary voters did not include a margin of error. Based on its own tweets, the firm doesn’t take the poll too seriously
By: paul178 - 19th December 2015 at 14:45
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They will never find it Moggy from the Republican maps:D
By: Moggy C - 19th December 2015 at 10:37
Bad news for Disney!
More than 530 Republican primary voters were polled this week on their support for Republican candidates and foreign policy issues including banning Muslims from entering the US, Japanese internment camps from the second world war and bombing Agrabah, the kingdom from Disney’s animated classic, Aladdin.
In its poll, Public Policy Polling asked the 532 Republicans: “Would you support or oppose bombing Agrabah?” While 57% of responders said they were not sure, 30% said they supported bombing it. Only 13% opposed it.
Republicans are so bullish on war that 30% would bomb a fictional country
Scary stuff.
Moggy
By: paul178 - 17th December 2015 at 06:28
Dear God, How to fill a page up with drivel between them, and now the big one “We have found the weapons of mass destruction” surely that should read mass boredom?
Happy winter holiday!:D
By: RpR - 17th December 2015 at 05:56
It is sadder that you don’t value anybody’s life, cannot see the possibilities for terror presented by the existence of free-range firearm ownership, and appear paranoid about the (remote) possibility that your toys might be taken away from you.
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And the big one…:
“We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories … And we’ll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven’t found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they’re wrong, we found them.” – Washington, D.C., May 30, 2003Wasn’t he wonderful? Never needed to wait longer before a real zinger came along with Bush baby.
Well then, you seem to have your left-wing knickers in a knot now don’t you.
Merry Christmas.:love-struck:
By: Moggy C - 16th December 2015 at 22:58
Interesting to see that Trump and Salmond have had a lover’s tiff over windmills.
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#LosersTogether (Not my hashtag – but let’s hope it is prophetic)
Moggy
By: snafu - 16th December 2015 at 22:47
If you say so.
It is sad to see you value some lives more than others but have a paranoid fear of firearms, how very sad.
It is sadder that you don’t value anybody’s life, cannot see the possibilities for terror presented by the existence of free-range firearm ownership, and appear paranoid about the (remote) possibility that your toys might be taken away from you. Still, undoubtedly that is Obama’s fault as well?
Let us see, our president said there was no real terror threat in our country, 14 people are murdered by persons, which it now turns out, had dealings with foreign terrorist groups for years while passing through Obama’s thorough vetting by immigration officials, without any challenge, so the day after a terrorist attack kill 14 people, all our attorney general says is our government rather than deal with terrorists will prosecute people who say bad things about Muslims.
And what would you have said if Obama had said that there was a real terror threat in America – ranted about him stirring up the country, inflaming hatred, or that he was being a realist and should be backed? To be perfectly honest this thread is about Trump, so for you to harp on about a president who does not share the same political view point as you, let alone the same skin colour, is disingenuous on your behalf and makes me wonder what you might actually be trying to distract us from…
To say Trump has done anything is simply moronic chatter by the ignorant.
So his comment that a woman shouldn’t be an American president is not ‘anything’?
His speech insisting – despite a lack of any evidence – that there were cheering Arabs in New Jersey as the WTC collapsed is ‘nothing’?
His insults about women menstruating – to a Fox News anchor! – is not ‘moronic chatter’?
His declaration that a Republican politician was not a war hero because he got captured is not ‘ignorant’?
His warning that Mexicans are rapists isn’t a crazy, stupid stereotype from another? Especially when he laughs about building a ‘great wall’ and making Mexico (the ‘crime bringers’, the ‘drug bringers’) pay for it?
His repeated insistence that Obama had a fake birth certificate, wasn’t born in America and wasn’t educated in America wasn’t anything like a racist attempt at self promotion? Just like his jibe that America NEEDED a leader who wrote The Art Of The Deal (his book, just in case it’s not on your bookshelf).
How about his wise insistence that one word described Atlantic City – big business?
He rivals GWB for stupid self belief and quotes.
Funny, you never have Americans here complaining about nutty UK pols….
Depends on which websites you frequent. You could try the Black Flag Cafe, or Live Leak for members of a certain nation sharing their views on the politics of lots of other nations…
Guys…as I said before: Move here and become a citizen. Then you can vote to your heats content.
Otherwise, shut the @#%& up. 🙂 🙂
My ‘heats’ content? Is that what you call it these days?
Guess you haven’t cancelled your subscription yet…
Your continual paranoia about the nuke button is a bit silly as no one, except other paranoids or desperate political hacks desperate for anything to get attention, think about that for one second.
You ranted because Obama said there was no terror threat in your country, yet you pay no heed to the idea that IS might obtain the makings for a dirty bomb and set it off in any one of your major urban conurbations…? You think about that for a second, will you?
The reason I put that is to show why Trump or other outsiders are doing so well, we have incompetent, arrogant, dictatorial people running the country now and all the Dem. candidates and a good number of Rep. candidates are of a similar ilk.
Hmm. Incompetent. Arrogant. Dictatorial. That just about describes politicians of every hue in every country, but then I subscribe to the opinion that nappies (diapers to you) and politicians should both be changed regularly and for the same reason.
The reason Trump is being focused on is because he is guaranteed to say something asinine which grabs the headlines; his motto must be ‘no news is bad news’ and aims to hit the front pages whether in a good way or not. Meanwhile the world giggles, and if (hell no, please!) he becomes president then the world will quiver.
You only have access to political articles in what ever rag you read over there so you are no familiar with the extreme dissatisfaction many people here, including a goodly number of Democrats have with the lying, self-serving Washington insiders, or to put it another way same-old, same-old.
You make me laugh.
The dissatisfaction that you encounter will come from the world you inhabit, the company you keep, the media you frequent – the usual influences everyone has. Therefore if you hang around with rednecks, reading the rightwing press, watching rightwing TV news and believing your rightwing beliefs then it won’t be surprising that you will encounter the kind of scenario that allows you to become familiar with dissatisfaction in your current political leaders. If you change the politics of this scenario it would still hold true. How you can judge that ‘a goodly number’ of your (usually) political opponents share your dissatisfaction is a little confusing unless it is people who say they are democrats but (like Trump) are now republicans; maybe you could share your sources?
Not sure about others but the papers I read have quite an extensive review of world news, if you wish to read it. So do the news websites I frequent. (And I don’t – usually – bother to read the comments sections since they are usually a playground for mentally infirm extremists with a contrary view to the previous poster…) Can you say the same?
Unlike current politicians, Trump does not dummy down his rhetoric to avoid upsetting x concerns, he says what he says and deals with the reaction.
Like how he said he’d date his (eldest) daughter if she wasn’t his daughter? That must be comforting for the parents of young women across the world, and Ivankas husband too… Dummy is the right word, incidentally.
Not that I really want Trump but I would much, much, much prefer a pompous ass for a president than the arrogant lying two-faced slime we have had for so long.
Can’t think who you are referring to. Maybe you should provide qualifying proof of ‘arrogance’, ‘two faced-ness’, and ‘slime’ about whoever you are talking about.
Meanwhile why not try justifying the musings of a previous president whose intellect was demonstrated by such quotes as:
“I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn’t here.”
“We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.”
“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.”
“I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport.”
“I couldn’t imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah.”
“I’m the commander — see, I don’t need to explain — I do not need to explain why I say things. That’s the interesting thing about being president.”
“Oh, no, we’re not going to have any casualties.” – discussing the Iraq war with Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson in 2003
“Do you have blacks, too?” – to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso
“I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.”
“For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It’s just unacceptable. And we’re going to do something about it.”
“If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.”
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
”It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.”
”One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”
”You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you need to concentrate on.”
“I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe — I believe what I believe is right.”
“Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.” – in parting words to world leaders at his final G-8 Summit, punching the air and grinning widely as those present looked on in shock, Rusutsu, Japan
And the big one…:
“We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories … And we’ll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven’t found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they’re wrong, we found them.” – Washington, D.C., May 30, 2003
Wasn’t he wonderful? Never needed to wait longer before a real zinger came along with Bush baby.
By: trekbuster - 15th December 2015 at 20:50
Do you know which Commando ?
No, unfortunately not. He died long before I was born and neither of my other Great Uncles were very keen on taking about their experiences in the Desert and in Italy or about their brother as I recall.
All I know is what my Grandmother said in passing, but she died when I was in my 20’s so it is all a bit hazy I’m afraid.
By: Moggy C - 15th December 2015 at 16:28
Your continual paranoia about the nuke button is a bit silly as no one…. think(s) about that for one second.
And you don’t feel that maybe they should?
Moggy
By: RpR - 15th December 2015 at 16:00
It seems to me that if called upon to defend the Trump the best anyone can do is badmouth the outgoing President then Trump has a pretty tenuous claim to the role himself.
I think many of us over here would love to see Trump as President; it would be one endless laugh-fest up to the moment he pressed the nuclear button. But I have American friends and I’d hate to wish him on them.
Moggy
Your continual paranoia about the nuke button is a bit silly as no one, except other paranoids or desperate political hacks desperate for anything to get attention, think about that for one second.
The reason I put that is to show why Trump or other outsiders are doing so well, we have incompetent, arrogant, dictatorial people running the country now and all the Dem. candidates and a good number of Rep. candidates are of a similar ilk.
You only have access to political articles in what ever rag you read over there so you are no familiar with the extreme dissatisfaction many people here, including a goodly number of Democrats have with the lying, self-serving Washington insiders, or to put it another way same-old, same-old.
Unlike current politicians, Trump does not dummy down his rhetoric to avoid upsetting x concerns, he says what he says and deals with the reaction.
Not that I really want Trump but I would much, much, much prefer a pompous ass for a president than the arrogant lying two-faced slime we have had for so long.
By: John Green - 15th December 2015 at 15:08
Do you know which Commando ?
By: trekbuster - 15th December 2015 at 13:24
I can work it out ! It accounts for your confusion. That mix explains it all. You must be accustomed to dancing a jig while wearing a bowler, mixing a pizza and singing the chorus from ‘Deutchland Uber Alles’ ?
No, not confused, just enlightened!!
I should point out perhaps that 3 of 4 grand parents were born in England, the fourth in Cork whilst still part of the United Kingdom and Ireland. So he was british as well.
The first generation e.g. the children of the Italian great grandparents, fought in the Second World war… In the Eighth Army and the Commando’s
By: John Green - 15th December 2015 at 11:06
It’s democracy,baby.
Are you asking if I am muslim?
No, I have no religion. If you are wondering about my ethnicity, I have English, Irish, Italian and German great grandparents, so perhaps you can work that one out?
I can work it out ! It accounts for your confusion. That mix explains it all. You must be accustomed to dancing a jig while wearing a bowler, mixing a pizza and singing the chorus from ‘Deutchland Uber Alles’ ?
By: Moggy C - 15th December 2015 at 08:07
It seems to me that if called upon to defend the Trump the best anyone can do is badmouth the outgoing President then Trump has a pretty tenuous claim to the role himself.
I think many of us over here would love to see Trump as President; it would be one endless laugh-fest up to the moment he pressed the nuclear button. But I have American friends and I’d hate to wish him on them.
Moggy
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