Donald Trump Appreciation Thread

[Gloucester Saint]

10 hours ago, Turkish said:

 

So in 200 years we’ve come up with 3 in the world. 

Context is key. You could argue if your family took up the right to buy scheme in the 1980s that Margaret Thatcher did - there’s a counter argument that the lack of re-investment into social housing has created the current crisis. Tony Blair’s government introduced the national minimum wage despite broadsheet claims it would cost 1.7m jobs (it didn’t) and the successful Sure Start centres, but many other policies carried on the Thatcher legacy of benefitting the middle classes and wealthy. 

So if you’re looking for politicians who really focused on the lowest paid and took a universal approach, you’re looking at Attlee/Bevan, and the consensus period up to 1976 when economic policies emphasised full employment and economics ran to the Keynesian model. Callaghan and Healey shifted to monetarism and public sector cuts to the role of the state to jump start an economy stagnating after the oil shocks, energy crisis and militant unions, and Thatcher accelerated that where you get to Lawson as CoE and the quote about unemployment being a price worth paying and the opening up of a north-south divide with de-industrialisation and shift to a heavily service-based economy. 

Edited Friday at 07:48 by Gloucester Saint

[whelk]

We can all be cynical but is consciences of politicians obviously reacting to public opinion, who moved us out of the Victorian era to the pretty fair society we have now

[badgerx16]

Trump threatenng to reduce military cooperation with South Korea because they didn't support the attack on Iran.

[spyinthesky]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

Trump threatenng to reduce military cooperation with South Korea because they didn't support the attack on Iran.

And he is best buddies with the fully Democratic Leader of North Korea who consistently said they are preparing weapons of mass destruction aimed at the nasty USA and are testing the development of them in Ukraine

[inspectorfrost]

6 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

Trump threatenng to reduce military cooperation with South Korea because they didn't support the attack on Iran.

It gets better,

he's now threatening to bomb Oman for reaching an agreement with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran must be finding this hilarious

[Weston Super Saint]

Kenny had it spot on all those years ago.

https://youtu.be/xGMWZJlA0QA?si=NzoI2Tht-oRFcqvX

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Weston Super Saint

[egg]

1 hour ago, inspectorfrost said:

It gets better,

he's now threatening to bomb Oman for reaching an agreement with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran must be finding this hilarious

It won't open. An open strait means no need for an oil pipeline to the med. 

[Turkish]

2 hours ago, inspectorfrost said:

It gets better,

he's now threatening to bomb Oman for reaching an agreement with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran must be finding this hilarious

What happens when you get a bloke who thinks he runs the world but the thinks the whole world is the USA

[Holmes_and_Watson]

3 minutes ago, Turkish said:

What happens when you get a bloke who thinks he runs the world but the thinks the whole world is the USA

You get a world series competed by a single country?

[Turkish]

4 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

You get a world series competed by a single country?

Apparently so..: