President Trump

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

It always amazes me that people can do these ridiculous, piss-easy driving tests, get themselves an international driving licence, and legally drive somewhere with actual standards. I did the Vietnamese one once. It's exactly like it was on Top Gear.

Americans do tend to struggle when driving in the UK. Usually because they aren't used to driving in tight spaces and narrow lanes (unless they're from New York).

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Watching on from the outside it's like a TV drama, deep in season 3 and heading for a huge cliffhanger with the election result.

Americans have the choice for season 4. Is it going to be Trump 2nd term and project 25, or Trump trials unleashed and the jailing of MAGA.

I'm hoping for one of the best court room dramas of all time. I find it crazy the polls are even close.

I haven't been this excited since someone shot JR.

 

[BrianW]

I'm not sure we should be gloating too much. A substantial minority in the UK would love Nigel Farage as PM.

That's about as sane as wanting me to play centre-forward for City.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

I'm not sure we should be gloating too much. A substantial minority in the UK would love Nigel Farage as PM.

That's about as sane as wanting me to play centre-forward for City.

If you’re no good, the rags have a vacancy currently if you’re looking . . . :)

 

[Elbow beards]

Americans do tend to struggle when driving in the UK. Usually because they aren't used to driving in tight spaces and narrow lanes (unless they're from New York).

Or driving on the right side of the road.
Hello Anne Sacoolas.

 

[KS55]

I'm not sure we should be gloating too much. A substantial minority in the UK would love Nigel Farage as PM.

That's about as sane as wanting me to play centre-forward for the rags.

More insanity included.

 

[west didsblue]

I'm not sure we should be gloating too much. A substantial minority in the UK would love Nigel Farage as PM.

That's about as sane as wanting me to play centre-forward for City.

Sad but true.
Same in just about every country.

And when someone who doesn’t abide by societal norms when it comes to honesty and integrity is prepared to appeal to the uneducated with promises that they have no intention of fulfilling and are supported by unscrupulous billionaires who own popular media outlets, anything can happen. That’s what brought us Trump, Johnson and any number of other cunts around the world that have misused democratic processes to meet their own ambitions and those of their billionaire sponsors. Obviously the democratic processes are not fit for purposes if they can be subverted but presumably when they were put in place they didn’t fully anticipate the lengths that tyrants would go to to get round them.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

If you were to show me Trump in isolation, what he says, what he’s done, how incoherent he is, the fact he’s manifestly suffering from cognitive decline and is most likely clinically insane and throw his age into the mix through the prism of an election for a four year term, and asked me what percentage of the vote he could secure in a mature democracy - and I’d guess at no more than 15%.

I think his supporters probably need to play the same mental trick on themselves that bidens did for the past few years. You could just replace the word trump for biden in that post and it would still be as true.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Sad but true.
Same in just about every country.

And when someone who doesn’t abide by societal norms when it comes to honesty and integrity is prepared to appeal to the uneducated with promises that they have no intention of fulfilling and are supported by unscrupulous billionaires who own popular media outlets, anything can happen. That’s what brought us Trump, Johnson and any number of other cunts around the world that have misused democratic processes to meet their own ambitions and those of their billionaire sponsors. Obviously the democratic processes are not fit for purposes if they can be subverted but presumably when they were put in place they didn’t fully anticipate the lengths that tyrants would go to to get round them.

It's a general malaise in western politics. We've gradually come to accept unachievable/ broken promises as the norm I think.

 

[grandsolo]

I think his supporters probably need to play the same mental trick on themselves that bidens did for the past few years. You could just replace the word trump for biden in that post and it would still be as true.

Biden isn't a criminal. Big difference

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Biden isn't a criminal. Big difference

Indeed, but that wasn't mentioned in the post I was referring to

 

[west didsblue]

Indeed, but that wasn't mentioned in the post I was referring to

However clinically insane was, and it’s fairly clear to most that Biden isn’t that however forgetful and stumbling he has been.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Indeed, but that wasn't mentioned in the post I was referring to

Biden also isn't clinically insane, and accomplished a lot, both as President and prior to becoming President, so your post doesn't work on that level either.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Is Trump the first president who’s never served in government prior to winning last time?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Indeed, but that wasn't mentioned in the post I was referring to

Clinical insanity was.

Maybe you think he’s sane tbf.

 

[KS55]

Is Trump the first president who’s never served in government prior to winning last time?

George Washington?

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Clinical insanity was.

Maybe you think he’s sane tbf.

Maybe I think biden is also insane? I actually don't think trump is insane, just a narcissist with a borderline personality disorder and like biden clear signs of age related cognitive dysfunction.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Is Trump the first president who’s never served in government prior to winning last time?

Washington, Taylor, Grant and Eisenhower were all generals prior to serving as President and never held elected office. Herbert Hoover was Secretary of Commerce and had served in a lot of bureaucratic roles in the 20s, but had never been elected to anything. But if you consider serving in the Army or being a bureaucrat "serving in the government", then yes.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

To go back to a subject long past (because I like this kind of shit!): “mathematics”. The plural morpheme is there because it's made up of several distinct fields of study (algebra, geometry and arithmetic being the most obvious). However, those fields are considered to make up, collectively, a whole, generally dealing with the field of numbers, so that whole is treated in English as an uncountable — or mass — noun, and logically takes the third-person singular as a following verb form.

It's just different ways of looking at it. By the way, in my “other” language, we say « les mathématiques », and that noun phrase therefore governs the following verb form, as in « les mathématiques sont très complexes ». And of course the adjective has to agree. However, in the distant past French did have « la mathématique », so it gradually evolved.
Anybody looking for pure logic in natural languages is going to find themselves on a wild goose chase, by and large. They just don't work like that, or only very imperfectly.

Now, Trumps and his politic. Where were we… ? (By the way, why do we say “Rodders?”)

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

To go back to a subject long past (because I like this kind of shit!): “mathematics”. The plural morpheme is there because it's made up of several distinct fields of study (algebra, geometry and arithmetic being the most obvious). However, those fields are considered to make up, collectively, a whole, generally dealing with the field of numbers, so that whole is treated in English as an uncountable — or mass — noun, and logically takes the third-person singular as a following verb form.

It's just different ways of looking at it. By the way, in my “other” language, we say « les mathématiques », and that noun phrase therefore governs the following verb form, as in « les mathématiques sont très complexes ». And of course the adjective has to agree. However, in the distant past French did have « la mathématique », so it gradually evolved.
Anybody looking for pure logic in natural languages is going to find themself on a wild goose chase, by and large. They just don't work like that, or only very imperfectly.

Now, Trumps and his politic. Where were we… ? (By the way, why do we say “Rodders?”)

I’ve no idea Del, you tell me.