U.S. Presidential Election 2016 (Sponsored by Betty Croker's Hamburger Helper)

[Yevrah]

So instead of calling out bad things, we should do what, exactly?

Call out the bad things, but go about it in the right way. Trump’s biggest weakness is his competence, he simply is not fit to be president. Not because he’s a Nazi but because he simply doesn’t know what he’s doing. Go after that with a credible alternative and you can get him. Think Capone, mass murderer but done on tax fraud.

[Yevrah]

Close this thread ffs.

On the contrary, this is hitting the heart of the matter.

[Magic]

Call out the bad things, but go about it in the right way. Trump’s biggest weakness is his competence, he simply is not fit to be president. Not because he’s a Nazi but because he simply doesn’t know what he’s doing. Go after that with a credible alternative and you can get him. Think Capone, mass murderer but done on tax fraud.

Yeah if only he'd committed some crimes. Ah well.

[Yevrah]

Yeah if only he'd committed some crimes. Ah well.

Ok, let’s just keep calling him a Nazi.

[Bernanke]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trump-jd-vance-trade-deal-free-speech-b2733806.html

They are such freaks.

[Disco]

He also said recently that Britain could be the first Islamic nation with a nuclear weapon, apparently forgetting that we already have them or that Pakistan have had them since 1998. I wonder what audience this sort of stuff is for because you have to be engaged enough to hear it but also both completely ignorant and incapable of critical thought to not see through it.

[Spikey M]

He also said recently that Britain could be the first Islamic nation with a nuclear weapon, apparently forgetting that we already have them

But we aren't (yet?) an Islamic nation.

[Spikey M]

Close this thread ffs.

:D The UK may fall to Islam in time, but TTH has already become a YouTube comment section. RIP.

Please like and subscribe.

[Magic]

Now threatening to federally charge anyone defending the innocent El Salvador guy. :sick:

[John Arne]

He's not a nazi, but he is obviously a fascist, and surrounds himself with those willing to break law to get rich...


NEW YORK, April 10 (Reuters) - In the minutes before President Donald Trump's social media post on Wednesday pausing tariffs sent the U.S. stock market rallying, some unidentified options traders placed bets worth millions of dollars that the market would rebound, data shows.
The well-timed bets likely paid off handsomely. Now, some Democratic lawmakers are calling for investigations into whether Trump's policy reversal led to any market manipulation or insider trading.




https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/well-timed-options-trades-ahead-trumps-tariff-pause-draw-questions-2025-04-10/

[Ben]

There's no doubt they've been up to this shit all the way through.

But it's not insider trading if you're rich enough.

[Bernanke]

Now threatening to federally charge anyone defending the innocent El Salvador guy. :sick:

Apparently the El Salvador dude was a domestic abuser which is not gonna help the case for his release, regardless of gang affiliations.

[niko_cee]

As his lawyer rightly pointed out:


"Is the government allowed to admittedly break the law if an individual is alleged to have broken the law?"

This kind of stuff is diametrically opposed to all the magna carta bullshit the American right are usually all about. It's a mess.

Written constitutions once again in the mud.

And still undefeated . . .

[Kikó]

Apparently the El Salvador dude was a domestic abuser which is not gonna help the case for his release, regardless of gang affiliations.

Doesn't read that way in here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wife-man-mistakenly-deported-el-salvador-filed-2021-protective-order-against-him-kilmar-abrego-garcia/

(Also a dropped case isn't justification to remove due process)

[niko_cee]

Can't believe anyone would doubt the Trump administration's intense desire to protect women.

[Dquincy]

Whether he technically fits the definition of a Nazi is a childish distraction.

Then stop saying it. Fucking hell.

[Bernanke]

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Finding it harder and harder to believe we aren't living in a simulation.

[Magic]

Lol my favourite is MGT saying evil has been defeated now he's dead looool.

[Yevrah]

I can’t hear the audio, so why is there a giant rabbit there?

[Kikó]

It's Easter innit

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Because it's Easter, obviously.

[Yevrah]

I’d have wheeled the rabbit out afterwards, but I guess that’s the least of his crimes.

[Pepe]

I thought that was JD Vance.

[Raoul Duke]

I can’t hear the audio, so why is there a giant rabbit there?

What giant rabbit. I don't see anything :confused:

[Yevrah]

:D

[niko_cee]

Always good when one of your most senior intelligence people [no, not the rabbit] appears to operate a cash only (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74zv04xkkgo) policy. I mean, aside from organised criminals, who bowls around with thousands of dollars in cash to pay for 'activities'?

I guess maybe their tipping culture / black economy requires it. Another resounding win for the Secret Service.

Such a weirdly backward place.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0x50yr46lo

Lol

[Ben]

Completely anecdotal but I'm suddenly seeing BYD cars everywhere. Tesla have peaked, at least outside of the US borders.

[Magic]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0x50yr46lo

Lol

Look at the share price now.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Completely anecdotal but I'm suddenly seeing BYD cars everywhere. Tesla have peaked, at least outside of the US borders.

Two blokes in my company have suddenly got them. Having a Tesla rapidly becoming a social faux pas.

[Ben]

The resale market on Tesla (and electric in general) is going to be very interesting when there is a huge stock of used cars on the market with batteries out of warranty.

Four-year old Model 3s are going for less than an age and mileage equivalent Peugeot 2008.

[niko_cee]

https://trumpgolftrack.com/

:D

[Magic]

The resale market on Tesla (and electric in general) is going to be very interesting when there is a huge stock of used cars on the market with batteries out of warranty.

Four-year old Model 3s are going for less than an age and mileage equivalent Peugeot 2008.

I'd still take the Nazi mobile.

[Ben]

Probably, but new it cost over £10k more than the Peugeot. That's some incredible depreciation.

[niko_cee]

Aren't Teslas generally shite in terms of build quality etc?

Or is that just all EVs?

Is see trade negotiations with Japan went well.


Indeed, speculation was rife that the visitor from Tokyo might even secure the “first mover” advantage touted by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: winning advantageous terms as the country quickest to agree to a deal with the Trump administration.

And yet Ryosei Akazawa, Japan‘s economic revitalization minister, has gone home without an agreement in place—telling local media he had urged the Americans to reconsider their “extremely regrettable” action.

:D

[John Arne]

We have the 50th anniversary of Vietnamese farmers slapping the yanks about this month, and relations between the two nations are really good.. however, the Trump admin have just instructed all staff in Vietnam to not talk to the media, and basically only turn up to events if absolutely necessary. #Seething

[niko_cee]

Seeing as Labour are going all out in Washington at the moment, on the subject of non-tariff barriers to trade I came across a brilliantly baffling thing today. A pack of Sainsburys prosciutto. Made with pork from the Netherlands. Processed in Italy, as I presume is required for DOP reasons. A massive NOT FOR EU badge on the back of it. Other than willful obstructiveness how can that possibly be the case? At what point in the process has it fallen foul of EUROPEAN STANDARDS?

[Jimmy Floyd]

They should just call it 'fancy ham' and process it in Lincoln. One in the eye for naysayers of British cuisine.

By next month I'll be grating Thanet Flake cheese over my Coventry spagets. This is the entire basis of the Chinese economy, so why not us.

[Spikey M]

Italian style ham.

Aldi, as always, ahead of the curve. The Nazi cunts.

[Lofty]

Everyone lols at Aldi's memes mocking M&S as if they aren't the grey squirrel slowly killing off the red.

[randomlegend]

Trump now selling "Trump 2028" hats.

[Manc]

Obsessed.

[Pepe]

Are they made in China?

[niko_cee]

Chy-na

[Ben]

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/prowrestling/images/2/2f/Chyna_Full.png

[Lofty]

Forgot she was doing full on hardcore filth vids before she croaked, these days she'd be lauded for it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

She even did one as She Hulk.

Or so I've been told...

[randomlegend]

Now he's got the FBI arresting judges for upholding laws he doesn't like.

[Disco]

And openly selling access to himself and the white house through some unbacked crypto currency.

[Ben]

This Virginia Giuffre suicide has got to be suspicious right?

[Yevrah]

Very much so I'd say. What was all that nonsense about her being terminally ill as well? Something stinks a bit.

[Lofty]

Post it in the Randy Andy thread you heathens.

[Magic]

The photo of the judge being arrested is absolutely insane.

[Lewis]

If she did what has been alleged what is the issue? The 'rule of law' applies to judges as well.

[Bernanke]

They are now deporting toddlers with cancer.

https://americasvoice.org/uncategorized/ice-deports-3-u-s-citizen-children-held-incommunicado-prior-to-the-deportation/

[Pepe]

Lucky kid will be able to get the care he needs.

[Magic]

Lucky kid will be able to get the care he needs.

Lol touche.

[randomlegend]

If she did what has been alleged what is the issue? The 'rule of law' applies to judges as well.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[niko_cee]

If she did what has been alleged what is the issue? The 'rule of law' applies to judges as well.

What are the odds that the Trump / ICE line is in any way accurate? 50/1?

[Lewis]

What are the odds that the Trump / ICE line is in any way accurate? 50/1?

And if it is accurate, should judges be allowed to do that?

[niko_cee]

I don't know. Even on those facts it might end up quite a complicated question. If the powers of law enforcement are largely going to ignore due process and the actual laws of the country is there a positive obligation on everyone to aid and abet unlawful conduct?

Tell you one thing though, arresting judges isn't normally emblematic of a system dedicated to the maintenance of the rule of law.

[niko_cee]

if you are destroying evidence, if you are obstructing justice ... it will not be tolerated.

:lol:

[Yevrah]

Not up to speed on this one and the BBC is full of the funeral of a dead (at best) paedophile apologist, so what’s happened here?

[niko_cee]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly5xx017vko

[Yevrah]

Well I’ve read it but it doesn’t go any way to explaining the stance RL and you appear to have taken vs the one Lewis has. I’d have garnered more by just assuming to type.

[niko_cee]

The stance that I have taken, such that it is having looked into it to the extent of reading that article, is that I doubt the credibility of what the Trump administration and it's subordinate agencies say, given their somewhat dubious track record to date, and that in general terms arresting judges isn't the hallmark of what one would consider a normal western democracy.

There is also the blinding hypocrisy of it all, not least in the comments from the attorney general or whatever Pam Bondi is. I mean, obstructing justice, isn't that essentially what Donald and Co have been up to for the last four years?

RL is more right that wrong on this. They are rewriting the norms of American / liberal society.

[Yevrah]

I should have added your to type would be more of a balanced legal based one.

[Disco]

I don't if anyone has seen the 'evidence' of Abrego Garcias gang connections that showed his hand tattoos that had 'MS13' superimposed over his knuckles to show what each symbol was supposed to mean but Trump has just done an interview where he earnestly argues that those were real. He really is beyond parody.

I can only find it in a reddit thread so that will have to do.
https://www.reddit.com/r/confidentlyincorrect/comments/1kb856k/trump_abrego_garcia_ms13_tattoos_lie_exposed/