A centrist with an interest in world affairs. Sometimes too much of a thinker. Probably wastes too much time trying to understand things. Always good over evil.
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Good ole Ian Miles Cheong. Always ready in the wings to stir things. He has given all sorts of 'local' experience over the years. His 'local' experience is often so ignorant that it suggests he's probably never been outside his bedroom. I left X because of the likes of that clown. 🤡
That's fear for ya
They were mostly Ukranian made drones. AFAIK
Dragons are overrated.
He's getting his information from TikTok.
Its within your power to change all that nonsense. The UK should adopt proportional representation. It would immediately give a more accurate parliamentary position. This system where a party can get 40% of votes and yet have a huge majority is simply wrong. Yes PR leads to coalitions. So what?
I love the ticker headline- Is America on fast track to Authoritarianism. It's already there!!
Everything he does should set off alarm bells
Trump wants to meet Kim again. He obviously wants advice on how to improve his dictatorship. He said "Kim has a lot of experience on that. Did you know that. But I dunno. They're like a family of dictators. It's beautiful". Reports say Trump has got a special notebook and pencil for the trip.
Ironically, the US now has a "Republican" socialist government. Maybe they should rename to "National Socialists". I don't think we've had anything like that before. Have we? 🤔
RELEASE THE FILES
Is it true that the Trump Regime plan on renaming The White House to Mar-A-Lago? He thinks he owns it anyway. He has probably raised finance on it.
To quote a famous book. The Trump Regime. 'All illegal immigrants are equal, but some illegal immigrants are more equal than others.' Thank you for your attention to this matter.
To quote a famous book... The Trump Regime. 'All illegal immigrants are equal, but some illegal immigrants are more equal than others.' Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Trumps fraud case... the judges said the fine... was excessive and likely violated protections in the US Constitution against severe punishment. But it's okay to pick an innocent person up off the street and deport them to a concentration camp in a foreign country. Independent justice my ass.
Let's hope that is reflected by the British public during his state visit.
Whatever Kompromat the Russians have on Trump, it must be really bad. Maybe they have the EPSTEIN FILES.
I don't work for "Forecasts"!
Moral high ground doesn't win elections in America in 202X. Sending sternly worded letters? Waste of time. Threatening legal action when the Regime ignores the law? Nonsense. I suppose it makes some reps feel better about themselves. They can say "well I tried to do something." No fight anymore
When Trump lost the 2020 election all we heard from GOP was the election was stolen, rigged etc... They didn't let up for 4 years. Checks were done to prove transparency. Trump wins or steals 2024 and what do we hear from Dems? Nothing. No checks of results, verification etc Moral high ground!
What the US President says has far reaching consequences. Financially, politically, militarily. It's like he has no idea about this. As a result thousands of people die, have their lives turned upside down or suffer immeasurably. Either he is completely ignorant or an incredibly cruel person.
I don't know if it's Trumps mental state, but he doesn't see to have any concept of what the Russian Ukraine situation is. Nonsense just keeps spewing out of his mouth. Security guarantees but no guarantees. It's like he just says what he thinks people want to hear at a given moment.
Joni, you're thinking too strategically for the Europeans leaders. Either they can't think strategically or they are more concerned about their local politics (short term). I've said many times Europe needs a true leader to shake the continent to see the real danger being posed and to act.
Perhaps, but that (again) undermines Trump in the eyes of the Americans. And by agreeing to the meeting Putin is acknowledging Ukraine which a problem for him. That is Joni's point.
He's always had a problem with his balls.
The party of law and order
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"US commitment to offer security guarantees to Ukraine in the event of peace." Welcomed by many including Europe and Zelensky. So, what's the price? 🤔
No other leader has received the same red carpet welcome by Trump as Putin - who is a mafia style, genocidal mass murderer. America - just let that sink in. What would all those previous Repulican Presidents who stood up to the USSR/ Russia think. In a word HORRIFIED
Good on ITN News UK. They are broadcasting Trump meeting Putin, shaking hands, and then showing Russian military shelling and apartment block on the front line TODAY. Putin doesn't do peace. Trump just wants a photo op.
We need to get this on msm
Rumour is Boss Hogg is giving Rubio to Putin as a gift.
Europe has effectively allowed this to happen. Europe needs to take the French attitude after WW2.... We'll never depend on anyone to help us in the future.
It's criminal to criminal respect protocol
Putin, under an arrest warrant from the ICC for genocide and crimes against humanity, arrives in Alaska and is greeted by another criminal (rapist/ suspected pedophile). They will try to do a deal on an independent third party state without their consent. This is the crazy world we now live in.
Trump will tell us.. "I won that peace prize, by alot. But it was rigged. It's a witch hunt by the peace prize people. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. Thank you for your attention to this matter."
So, Putin is already deciding on how the talks will. We know he's in charge of them. www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...
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Society isn’t allowed not to pay for the goods and services, and neither should the Capitalists be allowed not to pay their charge.
Society, therefore, provides the service back to consume the goods and services that the Capitalist provides. The charge that Society levies for this ‘consumer service’ is taxation. Therefore, it is reasonable that Capitalists pay this charge.
Some thoughts on the Billionaires tax situation. Capitalism works. It works better than the alternatives. However, there is a defacto Capitalism Contract. That is that Capitalists (business owners) make money out of providing goods and services to Society.
The word "Fire" could be interpreted in two ways.
I previously mentioned that the Regime is taking in additional taxes thru tariffs and the sharing them amongst themselves. It straight theft. Simples
Found the welfare queen! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...
It should be MADA Make America Democratic Again.
www.rte.ie/news/ukraine... Leavitt talking through her **** again - "Trump will exhaust all options for peace". He wouldn't understand the options. Trump: Okay my friend [Putin], what do you want? Putin: Alaska, your wife and your kids Trump: OK, you drive a hard bargain Putin: Art of the deal
More from RTE [Putins] "comments signalled that Russia will raise the issue of nuclear arms control as part of a wide-ranging discussion on security when he sits down with Mr Trump for the first Russia-US summit since June 2021." Their nuclear arms are falling apart and they can't afford new ones.
Irish broadcaster RTE: Putin (preparing) "was speaking to his most senior ministers and security officials as he prepared for the meeting with Mr. Trump in Anchorage, Alaska tomorrow that could shape the endgame to the largest war in Europe since World War Two". Trump was probably playing golf.
I never thought the the US would be invaded from within. COUP IN PROGRESS
Maybe she's going to work to find the $100's millions in pension funds her father stole from his employees.
Putin has bunker (he ran there when Prigozhin) made his move. Trump can join Putin.
It's another photo op for Trump. Nothing more.
I think the error in your comment is that you use the word "justice". There is clearly a lack of justice throughout the US at the moment. People still saying he's breached the constitution or he's breaking the law. Neither 'the constitution' nor 'the law' are being upheld. They are irrelevant.
And being enabled by 'average' US citizens (national guard, police, FBI agents). They could simply unite and refuse to deploy. What could he do then. Why does these staff blindly follow. If he orders them to start shooting innocent people, will they just do it?
With such ignorance, how in God's names did.... (I won't bother saying the rest)
Perhaps they are pissed, but are they pissed enough to do anything. The Europeans always respect the agreed world order that the US was/ is the world "policeman". Europe has had too many wars to forget that rule.
This seems to be the norm for many countries. In the UK, the railways were private 1800's, then nationalized in 1947, then privatized again 1997 and now because they were profiteering and providing poor service, they are being nationalized again to save them. Next, the UK water system....!
This is good, but Europe needs to stand up now and show some leadership. Trump has no leadership skills, so there is a window of opportunity for leaders in Europe to step up, especially from a NATO POV. Not to take it over, but to ensure solidarity and unity. Putin's goal is to break NATO up.
100 per cent
I thought he was at deaths doorstep a while back?
I don't see that. I see him doing whatever he wants everyday. They're pushing the limits everyday to see how far they can go and getting away with it.
I agree with the sentiment, however, as other respondents have said, doing what the video recommends is useless. It seems to me that the US has reached the point where stronger action is required. The current calm protests only give the Regine license to remove more elements of democracy.
I never thought I'd be writing this: US rapist pedophile Dictator to meet Russian murderous war criminal Dictator to help Russia. Crazy.
The world cannot and should not tolerate a deal between the US and Russia to take Ukrainian land. It would create a precedence that encourages war. It will take us straight back to the 1800's and first half of the 1900's. WW2 was supposed to be a lesson learned. War does not work. This is danger
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No surprises there. It's the 'Russian World' (or Mir) and in their eyes, one is either with them or against them. It just so happens that the majority of the world falls into the latter.
Then Trump diverts all this new government tax into projects to support himself and his friends. For example government contracts to Elon Musks Space X. So it ends up being a transfer of wealth from the general US population to the billionaires. Simples.
It's simply a 'sales tax' and in the eyes of billionaires it's better than income tax. If it were an income tax, richer people would pay more than poorer people. As it's a form of sales tax, Elon Musk pays the same amount on a product he buys as the poorest in the country. Simples.
TV - "Viewers we now going to the White House to watch LIVE coverage of corruption taking place." Break for adverts - 'This presentation is brought to you by Apple Corporation - home of the iPhone'. Banana Republic.
And the only reason gasoline prices might be going down is because the economy is shrinking and less business activity.
He's beginning to look very orange.
I thought America was "the land of the free, and home of the brave." Authority: Hey you, arrest that man for doing nothing and put him in a concentration camp. Staffer: Yes sir.
You forgot Kleptocracy. Theft of state while in power (aka 'Putinism').
The brown ones should certainly reconsider because they may get picked up and end up in a concentration camp. ICE will have a bonus system in place.
Is this the end of the UNITED States? It cud be. It would be a logical conclusion that some states decide to no longer be part of this fascist federation. They may simply choose democracy for themselves. Its possible. The EU is a loose grouping of sovereign states with their own tax, laws etc...
Who is this helping? #Pinks
And let's remember her father, Robert Maxwell, a newspaper tycoon, stole his employees pension funds to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. So, the scumbag side to her was not unique to the family.
The drug researchers should talk to Europe about continuing their research there. Europe has the resources, money, capability, and know-how to continue their work. Perhaps China does too.
Amidst all these headlines about increasing tariffs here and there, let's just remember that Trump doesn't actually have the right to do that. This seems to now be forgotten, and all news media are reporting as if he does have that right. The fentenyl excuse has been pushed aside. Just a fact.
When I see all the inhumane things going on, for the first time ever I really hope that the religious story about heaven and hell are true and that all of those treating others so cruelly do actually go to hell. I assume none of them believe in it and so act as they do without fear of consequences.
Wait until they're both in there because.... they're women* * Note: the reason is not important and could be any reason e.g. for breathing air without federal approval, waving flags in an illegal fashion, wearing shoes etc...
Why?
Trump and his Regime want to "privatize" debt to be given to his billionaire friends, and when they are finally removed from power, the debt will be "socialized" and repaid by the US people. It's quite simple. Everything else going on is simply diversionary. It'll be straight up theft.
The redistricting
What's going to happen if they just go ahead and do it?
Anyone surprised...? bbc.com/news/article...
Super genius
🚨 WARNING- Pardon incoming
I'm afraid it's a banana Republic 🍌
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I agree with Laura, general strike. They have a significant effect on the leaders of power. It's not ideal, but it's easy to achieve. Everyone feels the effect.
He's either a liar or he is profoundly incompetent. It would be interesting to see which HE thinks he is. 🤔
But I could be wrong.
Don't know if that works as the buddies will all be significantly poorer. With significant debt, backed by these less valuable assets, the debt could be called in at short notice causing significant sell off of assets to repay the debt causing further downward pressure on the value of assets held.
No morals.
I think a serious issue facing the US economy is the reluctance to face reality. It's falling behind more competitive economies, and there doesn't seem to be any easy solution to that. It's probably true to say it's starting to become a little lazy, like all empire type economies.
The idea that there can be a "republican" or "democratic" supreme court is ridiculous. Also, the idea of an appointment for life is crazy. Sure, the appointment should be a long one but e.g. 10 years should be the max. The judiciary should propose nominees, not the president or any politicians.
Because a large section of the US population is too stupid not to believe it. It's an awful truth, but it is the truth.
If she is serious, she has 3 years to build a new team across the Democratic Party. A team that needs to contain new energetic blood. In some ways, she needs to do what Trump did to the GOP without the corruption, hate, lies etc... If not, the US may fall into Kim dynasty form of rule.