Donald Trump Appreciation Thread

[spyinthesky]

We have to expect that Trump and his band of cult members will detach from NATO at some stage within his remaining years and the threat of Russia invading another of the countries in their purported sphere of influence will increase.
Hopefully the Ukrainians will do their utmost to keep Putin occupied.
The country getting the most benefit from Trump is probably China.
Meantime the cost of jet fuel will rise and adversely affect foreign travel plans.
Hopefully this will mean that far fewer people will be attracted to the USA for the forthcoming World Cup.
I truly hope so.

[sadoldgit]

3 hours ago, Saint86 said:

I can't see any way he gets 67% of the senate to back leaving Nato. That just isn't happening. The midterms are also coming up in November, at which point he looks set to lose control of the house and will be a lame duck president.

I don’t think that Trump is too bothered about getting the approval of Congress. He has ridden roughshod over them on many occasions so far. If he wants something he has enough useful idiots in positions of power to deliver for him. I wouldn’t rule anything out. 
As for Vance, he may be even more problematic than Trump. We can only hope that the Democrats get their act together and put the brakes on these lunatics.

[badgerx16]

13 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

I don’t think that Trump is too bothered about getting the approval of Congress. He has ridden roughshod over them on many occasions so far. If he wants something he has enough useful idiots in positions of power to deliver for him. I wouldn’t rule anything out. 

 

Even the Supreme Court would not back him against Congress. The Law on elections is cast in stone, that is why so much effort is being put into gerrymandering, by both sides, and why Congress, with it's current balance of power, has proven unable pass the SAVE Act  - he simply cannot command the majority needed to pass the Bill.

Edited 20 hours ago by badgerx16

[sadoldgit]

17 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

Even the Supreme Court would not back him against Congress. The Law on elections is cast in stone, that is why so much effort is being put into gerrymandering, by both sides, and why Congress, with it's current balance of power, has proven unable pass the SAVE Act  - he simply cannot command the majority needed to pass the Bill.

He could do plenty to stop American participation in NATO without pulling out of the membership.

Remember too that the President needs to get approval from Congress to go to war and that hasn’t stopped him in Iran.

Edited 3 hours ago by sadoldgit

[Turkish]

Where has Nic gone? 

[whelk]

23 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Where has Nic gone? 

Reckon Lighthouse hit him with a stick 

[tdmickey3]

🤣

Putin ready to help resolve war in Middle East, Kremlin says

Vladimir Putin ⁠is talking to regional leaders in the Middle East and Russia is ready to contribute to resolving the Iran conflict, Moscow has said.

In his daily briefing with reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "The president is ⁠continuing these contacts, and if our services are ⁠somehow required, we are, ⁠of course, ready ‌to make our contribution to ensuring that the military ‌situation transitions to a ‌peaceful course as soon as possible."

Peskov ⁠was responding to a question about Donald Trump's speech to the nation about the Iran war and his separate comment ‌that he was considering pulling the ‌US out ⁠of NATO - an alliance which Peskov said Russia viewed as "hostile".

Discussing the prospects of a Russian-Arab summit, he added: "Certainly, easing tensions in the region and minimising the negative consequences of this war are only possible through negotiations, through dialogue, for which such a summit could potentially become a good platform in the future."

[tdmickey3]

31 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Where has Nic gone? 

To a special institution for the unstable to get help

[inspectorfrost]

Inevitable that Putin sees an opportunity by offering to resolve the conflict (see Syria several years ago)

Iran have just stated that the Strait of Hormuz is open to any ships that aren't American/Israeli or belong to any related country. If an agreement could be reached where the Iranians let their countries' ships pass through the Strait in return for stopping the US/Israelis use any of their countries as a platform to launch attacks from.

Shame Starmer caved in to Trump's noise and didn't take a leaf out of the Spaniard's books. 

[sadoldgit]

20 minutes ago, inspectorfrost said:

Inevitable that Putin sees an opportunity by offering to resolve the conflict (see Syria several years ago)

Iran have just stated that the Strait of Hormuz is open to any ships that aren't American/Israeli or belong to any related country. If an agreement could be reached where the Iranians let their countries' ships pass through the Strait in return for stopping the US/Israelis use any of their countries as a platform to launch attacks from.

Shame Starmer caved in to Trump's noise and didn't take a leaf out of the Spaniard's books. 

Wasn’t the deal that the American’s could only use bases for “defensive” operations as part of protecting possible UK targets?

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, whelk said:

Reckon Lighthouse hit him with a stick 

Visited on Monday but not posted for a couple of weeks. Unless he’s training for another 5k walk I suspect we’ll see another login soon if not created already 

[badgerx16]

1 hour ago, inspectorfrost said:

Inevitable that Putin sees an opportunity by offering to resolve the conflict (see Syria several years ago)

Iran have just stated that the Strait of Hormuz is open to any ships that aren't American/Israeli or belong to any related country. If an agreement could be reached where the Iranians let their countries' ships pass through the Strait in return for stopping the US/Israelis use any of their countries as a platform to launch attacks from.

Shame Starmer caved in to Trump's noise and didn't take a leaf out of the Spaniard's books. 

The UK imports almost all of it's oil from the US, Norway, Libya, and Nigeria.  The problem is that a lot of our diesel comes from refineries in the Low Countries, which rely on imports from the Middle East.

Edited 56 minutes ago by badgerx16