Unlike the film Dave, they haven’t been able to find another person who’s sufficiently like Trump to pass off as him. Not surprising really. There aren’t that many men if Trumps “calibre” to choose from… and besides, Melania probably prefers him this way…
If it wasn’t already crazy stupid, you only have to listen and watch the man talk. I’m not going through an airport, and I’m not a doctor, but even I can tell RFK is about the least healthy man in the US at the moment. I wouldn’t listen to a single word he had to say on how to be healthy!
Or functioning brain cells…
If it’s not the prayer, it must be the “thoughts” that get the job done…
Oh yes….
Falling down the steps of Air Force 1, ending up in Putins rectum, taking them both out at the same time
We’re getting closer to GOP Will Eat Itself…
Agreed. I meant talk as if he were an expert when he knows nothing… “1,500% reduction in prices…”
I’ve always thought of him as a kind of Walter Mitty character. It’s like Cliff Clavin has taken over the White House. Talks expertly about things he has no real idea about. Finds himself in situations playing out, but behind him, the backers agenda is very dangerous
Look at the people funding his campaign donations. Look at the people funding Project 2025, look at who fund the heritage foundation etc.
It’s like the opposite of the Tesla ‘I bought this before Elon lost it’ sticker. In the UK we have banned a group called ‘Palestine Action’. Lots of people wearing Plasticine Action t-shirts are confusing police…
I can only imagine a lot of reality programs like The Apprentice, artificially contrive conflict to maintain interest. Is it any wonder that the whole US economy is now beholden to this process?
He can’t even end it in 24 hrs when he gives Putin what he wants… because then he just wants more…
Russia had the greatest opportunity after the end of the Cold War. Masses of natural resources, and an intellectual population that could have massively contributed to the world. Unfortunately leaders decided corruption and theft and self enrichment were better options. Lesson for the US…
As head of Ukraine military, is there any chance he can turn up in full military uniform, just to make it clearer to everyone that he’s fighting a war… Perhaps that’ll shut JD up…?
There was a time when republicans hated ‘Commies’. Now they’ve let the Commies best friend into the White House… America is finished. History will tell of Trumps incompetence, but really it was all just part of Russias plan
Because Putin spends the entire time reminding Trump what he’ll do if Trump doesn’t ‘behave’. Every ‘I’ll be tough” statement by Trump is matched with a “in two weeks” caveat - and by then we’ve moved in. He’s done nothing, and that’s the way he likes it
It’s the avoidance that’s killing it. I bet ‘he’ didnt buy the houses out of $110m after-tax earnings… he’ll have gotten an off-shore corporation to but they, funded by loans, secured in assets…
It has come to something when Russia, having already taken territory from Ukraine, does so again, and instead of defending the Ukraine and pushing back the Russia, the US supports Russias claim to land. I despair…
He’s old and past it, and his golfing sessions are just ways of letting him recover after some hard work. 18 holes with a golf buggy is not exercise, it’s being half asleep. He’s no better than Biden was 6 months into office. In two years time he’ll be a cabbage.
By the time his presidency comes to an end, anyone still supporting him really must be considered deplorable. Hillary was right, just ahead of her time…
It’s a slip in that he’s going to cede Alaska to Russia when they meet (so the meeting will be in “Russia” - you know, cos it used to be a part of a Russia back when America was great…
I works have thought it really should be the other way round. People generally grabbing JD and saying that to him…
Not quite sure what you mean by that, but I was wondering if you mean she may be the victim of an ‘accident’ if she does make it outside…
You don’t really need a pardon if in reality you get most of the benefits of not being incarcerated…
I’m sorry, but it really feels like it’s too late now. The inexorable slide towards fascist dictatorship looks almost unstoppable given the obsequiousness of Congress and the Courts. Go only knows what will come from meeting Putin - I wouldn’t even rule out asking Putin to take over the presidency
But he’s got to deploy National Guard to Washington first to suppress any protests when he does so… It will be an interesting mix. Q Anon and the Left, all protesting the same thing!
I suppose you could always blank out the ‘DE’ to make it more relevant for Charlie…
Is the really ‘news’…?
Criminally adjudicated sex abuser says anything to get herself out of prison…
Sea-gulls steal-meals on-the-sea-shore…. Brings a new twist to the old tongue twister…
Dems need to get their stuff together now. Act as one. Fight. Resist. Plan. It’s going to take years to turn all this around. You arrive in 2028 and flood the zone, make heads spin, cover the ground quickly. To do so, you need to plan NOW.
Celebrate reading books… on an app… on a smartphone….
Two weeks is a clear news cycle. The time it takes for people to move into something else. It’s one of his tactics… Just like not knowing about anything tricky when he’s asked about it. Any other politician - particularly Biden - not knowing so much of what’s going on would be slaughtered…
Not all white men would have won. Kamala did a hell of a lot better than Joe would have. It was close, and can definitely be recovered in 2026. I think if Joe had carried on, it would have been an absolute bloodbath. (But I also think you’re right, but wish you weren’t)
Is there any chance that he got the idea to do those things from Kamala…? Only joking, he’s just working his way through Project 2025 playbook, that he’s never heard of….
But you know what Trump’s like with numbers… he makes Nigel from Spinal Tap look genius… this one goes to 90,000… You know he mis-numbers the floors in his tower just to make it seem bigger….. Man’s got a complex…
Perfect metaphor for how his whole LIFE has gone… there, corrected it!
God, you lot can be thick sometimes. Do you really love guns so much? Are you so wedded to rules you invented 200 years ago, when the guns and your world were fundamentally different? You’re all going to hell in a handcart
Suggest you just park it till 2028, and then not let him have it when he leaves office. It’s pointless spending all that money for nothing. Fraud and abuse? Yeah it’s just like the ‘fake news’… all coming from the same place…
When we look back at this as history, there’ll be those who sided with Trump, considered weak and supplicant, and those who didn’t, considered heroes…
This is the problem. Trumps all performative, chasing ‘low hanging fruit’ to make the numbers. He’s not even getting rid of more illegals than Biden - but it’s the wrong ones, with a big show, rather than competence
God… listen to the sound of that windbag…
“Flooding the zone” is as much about sowing confusion as it is trying to get things done. In the context of Epstein that means throwing out as much rubbish as possible so the real crimes look almost tame in comparison. It doesn’t really matter if any of it is true or not as long as it covers…
I’m not sure that’s with how it works. Think you have to show fealty to Trump by saying he’s not guilty before he’ll give you the pardon / get the rigged court to agree to the appeal…
Fraud and abuse! Right there! Look!
How on Earth do you get yourself into a mental cul-de-sac like this…? How can you get this far down without reaching for a “hang on a minute… I think I’ve just lost my mind…” DIDNT she have friends to set her straight?
Oh come on. We need you to give us more difficult-to-find stuff. Has anyone got a video of Trump not cheating…?
What you’re doing is working with a completely incompetent government. You should have just built a shiny gold palace with gowns and a crown and let Trump see soldiers marching past every day, then kept on with government separately. He has no grand plan - just whimsy for shiny things.
What you mean he’s the offspring of an immigrant?(!). He’s gonna have to talk to JD… he won’t get very much credit for not being a ‘proper’ American…
I mean, that usually peeves me, but when he voted over here and uses our security services paid for from our tax-pounds… that really irks me. Bugger off back to the US and water your own countries tax dollars playing golf…
As an Englishman, I have to correct you. Everything you say is right, but if he’s in Scotland, he won’t be eating shit. It’ll be some of the best food he’s ever had. Not the locals… perhaps they’ll throw all kinds of shit at him…
“They will squeeze you empty, then fill you up with themselves…”
Yeah cos we all know they’re sending all the rapists and murderers away…
Marie-Antoinette in the 21st century… let them eat internet memes…
How does the GoP reconcile being ‘holy’ and anti-abortion, with supporting people who’ve been accused of/ found guilty of sexual assault… is it okay to go to confession and then everything’s okay? Is that how it works?
Don’t they have to agree on Ghislaine’s new testimony…? Who’s betting she incriminates lots of dems, and fails to mention Trump? Time to lock em all up and turn US into a dictatorship…
What’s all the prevaricating about? Epstein aside, hasn’t he already been found guilty of sexual assault? Why are we still talking about him as President? In any decent society of 300m people, there’d be better candidates for the job. There’s one hell of a compromat pile for this to make sense
I have no problem understanding Israel’s concern about violent Hamas extremists. It’s always been like this. I don’t understand the calculus supporting harming so many innocent civilians. How on Earth do they not realise this causes more militancy in the long run?
They’re not ashamed of their actions. They’re ashamed of the consequences. There’s a big difference.
Brings a new meaning to “drain the swamp”… of any evidence…?
He’s absolutely right. Project 2025 / Heritage Foundation knew that they could take the White House with Trump, and knew he would be easily manipulated for their agenda as long as he got to put his big signature on lots of paper…
Look, if you’re going to go back into the EU, you go back in properly right…? It’s like if you get remarried after divorce, if you’re serious about it, you don’t hold onto the bachelor pad down the road just in case… Personally I have no issue with that…
A personal favourite… marjoram, or lavender… lost count how many breed there are…
Too much red, not enough blue…
How much has been spent to date? Who are the contracts with? What is value of work delivered? What kind of contract? What performance conditions? I don’t see much more than a few hundred thousand pounds worth of work. Need to understand where estimates of cost come from
But imposing tariffs will let someone make a tidy little earner by speculating on the commodities market ahead of the announcement…
And that’s the difference between the private sector and government work. In your own company, you can take a risk. In government, you’re specifically dealing with difficult stuff, and people expect you to be responsible and not risk lives
And it’s absolutely great that Mexico did that. But that’s what Trump assumes will happen. Everyone else is a sucker and will do the decent thing. That’s why he doesn’t have to. The whole lot of them just take advantage, and everyone lets them
But I guess the people who own the homes can rationalise the number of places and put prices up, increasing overall profit… okay, so some people go without, but hey, shareholders will be happy.
Well, if the tax payers don’t pay for it, sooner or later there’ll be fewer taxpayers…
Went back again pretty fast too…
Don’t you mean Roadrunner…?
The Kelly-Anne alternative ones…
No one seems to have noticed the ones they got on November 6 last year..
Because CEOs generate so much shareholder value… by suppressing workers pay…
Should be ready in about two weeks… You know, that favourite time frame, which coincidentally is the same amount of time it takes the media to get bored and move into another topic…
If they wanted to raise the birth rate, they’d make it easier to have a family - paid leave, higher wages, better access to healthcare, better schools… all need paying for, so, nah, keep your minimum wage jobs to support my ever burgeoning business Empire…
Only a great idea if you want Vance as pres - I would worry about him more than Trump…
I think this is really dangerous. Two reasons. 1. Is he being ‘controlled’ by others (like his claim for Biden - auto pen). 2. Are they going to use this as an excuse to avoid prosecution / punishment in the event that the Dems get back control
Can you make it retroactive…?
Not wife… one of my wives…
I’d certainly welcome finding out what’s been going on… I’ve never known laying a few flags take so long. I’m surprised there are any businesses left in the precinct
Ah… Wag the Dog…
Send to be the way things work in America nowadays…
Harder to prove would be if there was any threat to start with. If you bomb and there’s nothing left, how do you know if there was anything there to start with. Not saying there wasn’t, but Iraq didnt work out so well, and intelligence said no threat…?
Iran could be 3-6 months from making a bomb. Most Americans are only a few minutes away from being able to commit massive atrocities like school shootings… but most of the time, they don’t because they don’t want to. But you don’t hear people screaming that they should have their guns taken away
It’s like every time they edit the bill, it automatically increases the tax break…
I really don’t understand this… how much do you need…? After you’ve got $100m, how much better does your life get with each million? What do you need it for? Do you can spaff it on election campaigns to get your candidate elected to give you even more tax cuts…?
Interesting… I just assumed they’re all be busy doing their new jobs for ICE…
Of course they’re meeting a quota. That’s the depressing sh1tty end of the stick. Wouldn’t surprise me if they were on a performance-related bonus too. That’s when your ethics get properly challenged
She didn’t die and get replaced by a robot, did she…?(!)
Old enough to remember those pumped-up, macho 1980s Hollywood movies, mostly with Schwarzenegger in some dystopian future… it’s getting closer
They’re the absolute Clampets
Ha! Why don’t the de-find the whole state. Stop all federal govt flows…. Oh yeah, that’s right… California gave a net $83bn TO federal govt…. Defund! Ha!
That was obviously in the U.K. before USA existed. I guess the precedent only applies in the U.K. so perhaps the US needs to create its own precedent - perhaps they can do it the same way…
It’s called the Peter Principle…
Absolutely
All he has to do now is say he’s going to invest $250m in campaigning against anyone who votes for it…
“Checked out”… okay, so that’s the euphemism we’re using, is it…?