US Politics - Trump cancels summit having to do with North Korea

America is a strawberry floating shithole.

That's a tad unfair but the attitudes of many Americans does leave a lot to be desired.
They seem to hate the idea of poor people getting any help at all and that if they do get help in the form of communist things like subsidised public transport or heaven forbid, maternity leave they'll all decide to just stay at home jobless and live a life of luxury with all that sweet government unemployment money even if the unemployment benefit is terrible.
Why should working people pay taxes to help the arts or prison system (their ideas about who should go to prison and what the police should be able to do are also strawberry floating shocking) when those things should be private run for profit as for profit never goes wrong despite the obvious evidence otherwise.

Pretty much the idea is poor people are only poor because they're lazy and anyone who hasn't got a job even if they had a job for decades and got made redundant and are struggling to find another as the area was reliant on the employer that closed down should be given nothing and this will somehow force them into work because they obviously weren't trying hard enough while on unemployment benefit.
They will say that people should just move to find work and consider any reasoned argument as to why that may not be possible (kids at a good school or being near to sick relatives who can't move) as just the sad tears of a weak liberal with an unamerican attitude.

The funny part is while US conservatives are being a bunch of selfish assholes they claim they go to church and give to charity and that whatever town they live in is wonderful with the only problems being caused by liberals and the conservatives are the ones who really care for the poor by giving out tough love.

I've been to the Jersey Shore beach and don't remember having to pay to access the beach.

Christian Christie ffs. :lol:

I'm just wondering when Greenpeace are going to show up and try and roll him back in the water.

Trump planning UK visit this month?

Theresa May’s team on standby for visit by Donald Trump

Ministers are on the alert for a flying visit to Britain by Donald Trump this month.

Senior government officials say they expect the American president to make an unscheduled stop at his Aberdeenshire golf course as part of his trip to Europe to attend France’s Bastille Day celebrations on July 14.

Theresa May’s team are on standby for Trump to visit Downing Street as well. It is understood that any visit would be confirmed only 24 hours in advance so anti-Trump protesters did not have time to disrupt his visit.

A source close to the White House said: "There is a window of opportunity for the president to visit Britain when he is in Europe later this month. It is likely it will be hastily arranged and it is possible no official confirmation of his arrival will be given until at least 24 hours before to stop any large-scale protest against his visit from being mobilized.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ther ... -5p0z8grgl

I hope they manage to produce a big protest anyway.

Dressed as wrestlers with CNN masks on.

Karl wrote:I hope they manage to produce a big protest anyway.

I hope immigration refuse him permission to come in.

There's so many people signed up to the protest on short notice already :lol:

Forbes wrote:Donald Trump Used WWE Footage For Anti-CNN Tweet, And It's Not A Coincidence

Donald Trump, President of both these United States and every ounce of scandal that comes with it, is celebrating Independence Day by riling up the media with WWE footage.

Trump, who was enshrined in the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013, went into overdrive on Twitter, even by his standards, with a barrage of tweets aimed at what he feels is the “fake news” media.

Trump’s heated, ongoing feud with the mass media reached new levels of absurdity when one particular tweet showed footage of him attacking Vince McMahon at WrestleMania 23 during their infamous Battle of the Billionaires. In this particular footage, however, Vince McMahon’s head was superimposed with the CNN logo.

Given Trump’s longstanding relationship with Vince McMahon and WWE, the use of its clip can hardly be considered a coincidence.

Trump and WWE have a business relationship that dates back to 1988 for WrestleMania 4 and WrestleMania 5, both of which were hosted by Trump-owned casinos in Atlantic City. 18 years later, Trump’s non-wrestling role in the “Battle of the Billionaires” opposite Vince McMahon led to a buyrate of 1.250 million for WrestleMania 23. This broke pay-per-view buyrate records, and stood for five years until WrestleMania 28 set a new all-time high of 1.253 million buys for a main event between The Rock and John Cena. To date, WrestleMania 23 is the second-highest purchased pay-per-view event in WWE history.

And while the stranger-than-fiction story of Trump’s unlikely rise to the Whitehouse in 2016 will credit everything from middle America to neurolinguistic programming, the McMahon family was a relatively silent partner in the most shocking upset in United States Presidential history.

In April, Dan Alexander of Forbes noted that Vince and Linda McMahon were listed as the biggest donors to the Trump Foundation, with $4 million donated according to a 2007 IRS filing from the foundation. The contribution represented 8% of WWE’s profits that year.

The gravy train did not stop there as Linda McMahon, who has since been tabbed as chief of the Small Business Administration, donated a total of $7 million to a pro-Trump super PAC.

Sidebar: CNN was owned by Ted Turner, former owner of World Championship Wrestling and chief rival of Vince McMahon throughout the mid-to-late 90s in what would be dubbed the "Monday Night Wars".

It's all so surreal. 'Merica.

Moggy wrote:
Karl wrote:I hope they manage to produce a big protest anyway.

I hope immigration refuse him permission to come in.

No no, admit him and then deport him publicly. The short term retaliation would be bad, but as soon as the Democrats get back in, the UK is golden.

The Democrats are finished. Like new labour, they're just a lite version of the republicans.

BID0 wrote:The Democrats are finished. Like new labour, they're just a lite version of the republicans.

The Democrats will win the next election. If someone like Michelle Obama went up its game over.

DML wrote:
BID0 wrote:The Democrats are finished. Like new labour, they're just a lite version of the republicans.

The Democrats will win the next election. If someone like Michelle Obama went up its game over.

I think you underestimate how toxic the Obama brand is (quite irrationally I might add) to vast swathes of Americans. Honestly at this point I am expecting a second term for Trump unless he stands down or is impeached.

Obama herself said she wouldn't but I'm hoping she's had a change of heart after seeing just how batshit Trump has been.

I'd be surprised. The left wing Dems that support Bernie wouldn't support Michelle and the right wing in general wouldn't support her because she's a woman and also black.

Bernie is not going to be an issue at the next election. He is 76 this year. :lol:

I don't get why Michelle Obama's name crops up. Sure we all liked her, but she is not a politician and she has said she has no interest in ever becoming one.

If the last US election taught us anything it should be that politically inexperienced people shouldn't be allowed to run for office and that the wives of former Presidents shouldn't either.

Moggy wrote:Bernie is not going to be an issue at the next election. He is 76 this year.

I don't get why Michelle Obama's name crops up. Sure we all liked her, but she is not a politician and she has said she has no interest in ever becoming one.

If the last US election taught us anything it should be that politically inexperienced people shouldn't be allowed to run for office and that the wives of former Presidents shouldn't either.

I bet she could easily beat Trump in a wrestling match though.

Moggy wrote:Bernie is not going to be an issue at the next election. He is 76 this year.

I don't get why Michelle Obama's name crops up. Sure we all liked her, but she is not a politician and she has said she has no interest in ever becoming one.

If the last US election taught us anything it should be that politically inexperienced people shouldn't be allowed to run for office and that the wives of former Presidents shouldn't either.

Maybe, maybe not. But his movement would probably only follow him or someone he would endorse at this stage. They're trying to set a third party up right now (I'm not sure how far that's got) which will split the Dem vote in two. I wouldn't be surprised if the Republicans were in power for the forseeable future. It just depends how much of a mess they make of it in the mean time :slol:

Having just been to the U.S., you have to realise a lot of people there don't think things through like we do. They're totally brain washed by the media and told outright bullshit. For example, on the day that guy was testifying in court about being asked to let the investigation go, the only channel that covered it was CNN (hence trump's hatred of them. Fox (:dread:) was running a smear piece on Obama the whole day for some reason.

People want Michelle to run because her name is Obama and it sort of gets Barak back in the white house.

This is a photo took of the news report the night before the guy was due to testify. This was the main story they were running and repeating all night:
https://i.imgur.com/ieVgBQi_d.jpg?maxwi ... elity=high

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