It is easy to see Farage, who fawns over Trump, as the heir apparent to Oswald Mosely.
That’s not what I would call the wisest piece of political analysis I’ve ever seen.
Fourth is the broader instability that this will create when the world is in desperate need of coordinated action to tackle climate change – about which far too many remain in outright denial.
So we should be worried about fascism but wholeheartedly embrace the thwack of firm, communalist, government then?
Oh, and the other piece is that we should take any of that foreign direct investment because that’s foreigners. How fascist can you get in your economics?
It’s also easy to see Mohammed in a sliced aubergine.
So?
Coordinated action on climate change.
He does realise that half the world doesn’t give a fuck about climate change (unless they can grift more cash). Its not a concern to India, China etc except to sell us stuff.
The world outside his head is unknown to him.
It is bad to back Trump.
Backing Trump, is like backing the school bully.
I do not understand how anyone can back Trump.
His changes to abortion, mean that now abuse victims will be forced to give birth to the rapist’s child. Imagine if that was your mother, wife, daughter, or sister.
What changes has Trump made to abortion law?
He stacked the Supreme Court to make it possible for abortion to be legal in states. Now abuse victims will be forced to give birth to their abuser’s child. Imagine if that was your wife, daughter, or sister?
He stacked the Supreme Court to make it possible for abortion to be legal in states.
That doesn’t make sense, but the trauma of being bummed with an aubergine can affect your reasoning skills.
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I have never been by bummed.
Evil people abuse children. Bullies and sex abusers are evil.
Donald Trump’s longest-serving White House chief of staff has said the former president is a fascist who has spoken admiringly of Adolf Hitler and would seek to govern as a dictator, according to new reports.
John Kelly, a retired four-star general who was Trump’s homeland security chief and later ran his White House, made the comments in interviews published by The New York Times late on Tuesday.
Trump’s first term was a wash because he foolishly assumed senior military men were the costumed tough guys they LARP as, instead of the incompetent and faggoty public sector apparatchiks they are.
Has The Donald learned anything from this? Hard to say.
There is little to argue with in Kelly’s claims. They would all seem to be rationally deduced statements based on observation of Trump’s actual behaviour
Has Ritchie also been bummed with aubergines? This sounds like something an aubergine bummer would say.
Calling your political opponents Fascists or Nazis justifies using violence against them. See: Donald Trump.
Real Man
I think I am with you on that score – Murphy is a classic bully. Don’t think there’s any suggestion of abuse on his part but he is certainly an exemplar of true evil.
What’s funny is in an adjacent paragraph to comparing Trump with Hitler he’ll call for a ceasefire in Gaza – so true fascists in the form of Hamas have a chance to rebuild and carry out another October 7th attack.
The cognitive dissonance is so constant at this point it doesn’t even appear remarkable. If I had been subjected to the character assassination (let alone two actual assassination) attempts that Trump had been I think I’d be thinking some payback is in order. And frankly if he sends the likes of this evil bastard running for the hills he has my full, undivided support.
Let’s see those supporters of crap like DIE, Trans child molesters and Net Zero running scared:
To quote from Trumps allegedly ‘favourite movie’, 1988 Martial arts Romp ‘Bloodsport’
‘It’s about fucking time!!!’
Does anyone look back on the fighting retreats of the SS in the Nazi era with regret that they were losing? For those advocates of all the unholy trinity mentioned above, they are the contemporary equivalent and I hope Trump heralds their demise.
VP – Yarp.
Donald J Trump:
* Loves Jews and Israel
* Loves black people and boasts about creating opportunities for blacks
* Invited black celebs to the White House to discuss criminal justice reform
* Has employed many thousands of people from all racial, ethnic and whatever backgrounds
* Waved the LGBT rainbow flag on stage
* Is the only American president this century not to have started any wars
* Relentlessly promoted peace in the Middle East
* Is the only American president in living memory not to have enriched himself through public office
Fascism ain’t what it used to be.
“incompetent and faggoty public sector apparatchiks”: well said. There’s a piece in this morning’s Telegraph explaining – in broadly positive terms – what the writer finds “camp” about Trump.
It struck me that “camp” is a perfect description of the rows and rows, Soviet-like in their absurd numbers, of medal ribbons that senior US officers like to sport. It also applies to the absurd nicknames that US generals invent for themselves so that a fawning journalist can write that the General was affectionately known as Stone Hard, or the like.
It’s a fine description of the celebrations of a touch-down in NFL. It also applies to those absurd US and State Attornies-General who insist on being addressed as “General”. (Would you believe it, it turns out that Kamala was one of those.) The more I look around the more I see a need for a distinction between the warm, silly campness of the Trumpster (you wan fries with that?) and the cold-hearted campness of such as the US top officer corps.
In which case I suppose “faggoty” will do pretty well for the latter.
@Real Man
“His changes to abortion, mean that now abuse victims will be forced to give birth to the rapist’s child. Imagine if that was your mother, wife, daughter, or sister.”
They weren’t Trump’s changes. They were the US Supreme Court’s. Which didn’t say that abortion should or should not be allowed but that this decision should be made at the State, not Federal level. Because the US constitution is wary of allowing the national government too much power, preferring that some things are decided at state level. I’m sure if the US national government were to impose something you didn’t like on its citizens you’d whine and bitch about it. Luckily there are limits to what the national government can do and the US constitution allows individual states to decide some things.
“the rapist’s child” has committed no crime. You think the child should be executed because of what its father did?
“Imagine if that was your mother, wife, daughter, or sister”
Imagine if you were that child.
Steve
One very minor quibble:
Is the only American president in living memory not to have enriched himself through public office
Did Reagan enrich himself to a huge degree in Office or would you class him as ‘not in living memory’?
Genuinely intrigued as he is (at least for me) the yardstick against which any other contemporary leader is measured..
Of course you are spot on with the rest of your analysis:
By contrast Murphy:
* Hates Jews, loves Hamas and wants to destroy Israel
* Likes black people in so far as they enable the expansion of state power and an increase in legislation for its own sake
* thinks that blacks should be exempted from adhering to laws that apply to whites
* Has employed his own son
* supports the molestation of children under the LGBTQIAAA++ moniker
* Backs peace through appeasement and unilateral disarmament, and when faced with the inevitable ISIS attack thinks a viable strategy is to lecture them on ‘Neoliberalism’ alongside Steve Keen
* Promotes peace in the Middle East through the mass murder of Non- Muslims
Yep – Trump definitely the problem
VP – according to the internet:
After his presidency, Reagan’s net worth increased to $15.4 million
But this is peanuts compared to what the Bush, Clinton and Obama crime families have made out of “public service”.
PiP – It struck me that “camp” is a perfect description of the rows and rows, Soviet-like in their absurd numbers, of medal ribbons that senior US officers like to sport. It also applies to the absurd nicknames that US generals invent for themselves so that a fawning journalist can write that the General was affectionately known as Stone Hard, or the like.
Yarp. All those medals for repeatedly losing wars to Ewoks.
Who the fuck is Steve Keen? Another jumped-up self-appointed cunt like Tariq Ali? Who, I notice, is a past master at sponging off his wealthy bird. Just like Spud, who in many respects is the definition of the fat, 66-year-old bedsit revolutionary, sponging off adults.
He stacked the Supreme Court to make it possible for abortion to be legal in states. Now abuse victims will be forced to give birth to their abuser’s child. Imagine if that was your wife, daughter, or sister?
If you knew some history you’d know that the current situation is mostly the fault of the Dems …..
In the ’60 and early ’70s the Republican Party was relaxed about abortion, on a States rights / classic liberal position. The Democrats were anti-abortion because their client base was largely based on Catholic immigrants from Ireland, Italy and wider Europe.
When the Democrats became pro abortion they had 2 choices:
1. Amend the constitution*
2. Work on States where abortion was banned or heavily restricted.
Instead they chose a 3rd way because they wanted national control and started agitating for it to come under the control of the Federal government. This had the effect of pissing of the States’ Rights wing of the Republican party, the largest part of that organisation at the time and put them in the same tent as the Christian right, then a small inconsequential minority.
The Dems eventually got there way with R v W, which even at the time the pro abortion camp knew was a stretch and wasn’t going to last, but instead of continuing to work on the small number of states where there was opposition they went all in on defending R v W and creating a culture war in the process.
So when the time eventually came that R v W was overturned they had lost a lot of support amongst Republicans in trying to work on the states where it is banned.
Even now they keep shooting themselves in the foot, by a large margin most Americans accept abortion at roundabout the terms in Europe, 14 to 21 weeks or so, even in states where it is banned. But rather than campaigning for that level of abortion they go all in again and give in to their crazy wing and start demanding full term abortion, which just pisses of 90+% of Americans.
Its almost as if they’d rather pick a culture fight than women in states where its banned access to abortion in reasonable timescales.
*If you don’t understand why you shouldn’t even be engaging in this debate.
In which there is a glimmer of understanding from Spud about himself…..
“There are many occasions when I feel as though I live in a parallel universe…”
It’s certainly one that few others inhabit.
State Attornies-General who insist on being addressed as “General”
Are they really, *REALLY* that illiterate? The title is Attorney, not General, “general” is a *QUALIFIER*. Is Mary Peltola addressed as “At Large Peltola”?
@jgh I suppose you could make the same point of ‘general’ in the military sense, it being an abbreviation of ‘general officer’.
I meant to write Trump stacked the Supreme court to make abortion illegal in some States, so that abuser’s can force their victims to have their children.
Steve. GET THIS IN YOUR SKULL.
JD VANCE COMPARED TRUMP TO HITLER. IT WAS NOT BIDEN OR HARRIS WHO SAID. IT WAS YOUR HERO JD VANCE.
You claim to be a Christian and then talk about bumming people. I hate evil people who claim they are Christian, and then use it to excuse every form of evil abuse they act out on children.
I have never been bummed, but adults can do consensual sex to each other.
I DO NOT SUPPORT CHRISTIANS WHO SEXUALLY ASSAULT CHILDREN.
Andrew C Answer me this.
IF AN EVIL RAPIST RAPED YOUR WIFE AND GOT HER PREGNANT. YOU ARE TELLING ME YOU WOULD FORCE HER TO GIVE BIRTH TO THE RAPIST’S CHILD?
YOU ARE NOT A MAN YOU ARE LOWER THAN ANY MAN I HAVE EVER MET.
Interested: No, because that’s the right way around. To make your point people would have to be addressing them as “Officer Smith”.
Due to the vacancy of Secretary in my local party, our constitution says I stand in as secretary general. Address me as General, ya wee bollocks!
If some evil scumbag raped one of Trump’s female children, wife, ex-wife, or mother. Would he force the innocent woman to give birth to the rapist’s child?
If Trump forces women to give birth to abuser’s children then he is sick in the head.
The decision whether to grant a right to allow the murder of a foetus is nothing to do with the President.
It’s right there in the 10th Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
The Supreme Court upheld the Constitution, that’s all really, after carefully reading and finding that the right to abortion isn’t in there.
If Trump’s wife wants an abortion, Trump doesn’t get to decide, it depends what State she lives in and whether that State allows it subject to various rules, doesn’t allow it with various exceptions, or leaves it to the people of the state. Trump obviously going to be rather concerned, but nowt to do with him.
Bongo That is utter nonsense. Trump stacked the Supreme Court with those who want abortion to be .ade illegal. He chose the people put into the Supreme Court. The entire reason they were chosen was to make abortion illegal. Pay attention to the news. Stop treating me like an idiot. I am not as stupid as you think.
FACT TRUMP STACKED THE SUPREME COURT WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE MADE ABORTION ILLEGAL. SO NOW RAPE VICTIMS ARE FORCED TO HAVE THEIR RAPIST’S CHILD.
His changes to abortion, mean that now abuse victims will be forced to give birth to the rapist’s child.
Usual lying cvnt. It means nothing of the sort. In the majority of the States, abuse victims will not be forced to give birth to the rapist’s child. In the remaining States, for now, it’s possible they might. For now. The point of striking down Roe Wade was to turn the decision back to the individual States. Where it should always have been. Now it’s up to the States to decide.
This is democracy. The people deciding what their laws should be. Their laws. Not other people’s laws. Real man, you’re a fascist. That’s what you are. A ball less one, as well.
Bloke in spain; I have not lied. I am not f***ing idiot who you can boggle with nonsense and pseudo BS
Answer me this single question.
If a evil man raped your woman, would you force her to give birth to the rapist’s child against her will?
If you would force your woman to give birth to a rapist’s child then you are pure evil and pathetic.
I am not a Fascist. I am a centre left socialist liberal who hates rapists.
Here is article pointing out rape victims in US States have been stopped from having abortions.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/11/child-rape-survivors-abortion-ban
THANKS TO TRUMP’S SUPREME COURT.
I understood the phrase ‘stacking the Supreme Court’ as increasing the number of justices to say 11, and then as President you get to choose the additional two.
What Trump did was keep the number at 9 and replace justices when they retired or stood down with his own nominations (he got lucky in getting 3 in four years) who got approved by the Senate to serve on the Supreme Court to uphold the Constitution.
Which they did.
None of the justices made abortion illegal, it’s not allowed for them to make those kind of laws. Of course they all have home states where they get one vote, same as if they were not justices.
God Bless the United States of America.
Bongo Do not use weasly arguments to get around the ce tral fact that thanks to Ttump child victims of rape are being forced to give birth to the children of their rapist.
I AM NOT A F***ING IDIOT. YOU ARE USING THE SAME WEASELY ARGUMENTS.
FACT TRUMP HAS CAUSED CHILDREN TO BE FORCED TO GIVE BIRTH TO THE CHILDREN OF RAPISTS.
I am not accusing Trump of abusing children. But thanks to him stacking the Supreme Court with people who got rid of the abortion rules. Many states in the USA can have such strict abortion laws that children are forced by law to give birth to rapist’s children.
Surely Trump and the Supreme Court knew that would be the result?
He is either evil, an idiot, or both.
@Real Man
“Andrew C Answer me this.
IF AN EVIL RAPIST RAPED YOUR WIFE AND GOT HER PREGNANT. ”
Hardly likely. My wife died 5 years ago.
And ‘evil’ rapist? Are you suggesting there are other kinds of rapist?
I’m curious. Do you think writing in CAPITALS makes your argument any stronger? You’re wrong if you do. It just makes you look a little unhinged. More than a little.
Around 1% of abortions are in cases of incest or rape. Care to talk about the 99%?
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a9138933/president-net-worth/
Compare and contrast the Reagans and the Clintons…
TDS,son. Will you just listen to yourself RM – there are bad cases to consider where the rape victim is compelled to carry to term versus a baby getting murdered.
Who are you going to blame when the law says the 2nd option is permitted which seems to be your preference. It’s a decision the Federal Government doesn’t get to make. If you want the Supreme Court to say ‘feck the constitution’ and if you want to elect a President who says ‘yeah, feck that constitution schit again’, then you’re not going to live in a functioning country under the rule of law.
There’s a process for changing the Constitution in the USA. And you’re blaming Trump for pledging to protect the Constitution during his first term.
This is up to the States currently. Ohio recently changed its laws in your favour, people engaged in local elections, wouldn’t that be marvellous in the UK.
Tom J
Thanks for that. The only part of the chart I’d question is the Obama bit, largely because he’s effectively had a third term when Biden was in office and now is angling through Harris for Term 4.
Real Man – what Andrew C said times a hundred.
Hmmmmm…
Real Man…
Richard Murphy…
Am I seeing connections where there are only coincidences?
;¬)
Please don’t feed the troll, gents.
@jgh
State Attornies-General who insist on being addressed as “General”
Are they really, *REALLY* that illiterate? The title is Attorney, not General, “general” is a *QUALIFIER*. Is Mary Peltola addressed as “At Large Peltola”?
Interested
@jgh I suppose you could make the same point of ‘general’ in the military sense, it being an abbreviation of ‘general officer’.
jgh
Interested: No, because that’s the right way around. To make your point people would have to be addressing them as “Officer Smith”.
Maybe I misunderstood your original point, but ‘general’ is the qualifier to officer.