President Trump

bluethrunthru said:
I give it until the end of April. By then hundreds of thousands of laid off Federal workers will be defaulting on mortgages and have cut back spending as they have no income. Things they want to buy will have 20% tariffs on from China and 25% from most elsewhere. Stories will be out how large companies are cutting shifts to save costs or who can't sell to people who have less money to spend. That will lead to further job cuts and your local coffee shop and bakery will be closing down. Farms and other businesses will have cut back massively as so much of their workforce have been removed or won't show up for fear of removal. Inflation will be spiralling and things will be going to shit ....... not my suggestion but that of several economists in the US that I have read
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Sounds like the same situation as in Weimar Germany after the wall st crash

During times of civil upheaval , the masses look to a strongman to make the decisions to solve all their problems
 
west didsblue said:
We all know what the terms of the US deal will be. Same as the one he did with the Taliban where he surrendered Afghanistan to them. His deal will do exactly the same to Ukraine. The current elected government will be replaced by a Russian proxy. Any promises made by the Russian side will not be honoured in exactly the same way that the Taliban ignored their promises.
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I said this yesterday. Putin doesn’t need a war with Ukraine if he can get a Russian proxy running the country, because Putin then becomes the de facto leader without killing another soldier. It’s also exactly what was happening before the CIA helped unseat a Russian proxy and force elections.

Trump is so stupid and craven that he doesn’t care who runs Ukraine as long as they don’t threaten the U.S. and Elon gets his “raw earth” minerals deal. The best part of that is Putin’s favor and a healthy deposit in an offshore account for later use.

Trump is a crook. It’s all he knows, because it’s all he has ever been.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
The self selection “at university overseas” means they’re already in the 1% and certainly not a representative slice of the American population. For starters, they have a passport. Secondly, they’ve used it. Thirdly, they didn’t use it just to see London and say, “Oh look, Honey! Isn’t that quaint!” 427 times per day!

The quality US. universities are some of the best institutions in the world. You’ll also notice the global student base there.
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Yes I realise that, and as you say good universities across the globe attract talent from everywhere. I suppose I was just musing on the longer term migratory implications if this doesn't turn out to be a short term issue in the US. The US has always been big enough and diverse enough to fulfill ambitions of all types without having to leave it's shores, but if Project 2025 were to embed itself long term maybe that won't continue to be the case?
 
threespires said:
Yes I realise that, and as you say good universities across the globe attract talent from everywhere. I suppose I was just musing on the longer term migratory implications if this doesn't turn out to be a short term issue in the US. The US has always been big enough and diverse enough to fulfill ambitions of all types without having to leave it's shores, but if Project 2025 were to embed itself long term maybe that won't continue to be the case?
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I think we need to see what four years brings, rather than the shock and awe of four weeks.

More and more students (and universities) are realizing the positive aspects of a year of studying abroad, and England is a prime location for non-second language Americans.
 
Donmcfc said:
She didn't show much respect to the democratically elected leader of the miners' union. Using the police to beat the crap out of the miners showed what a callous cowardly bitch she was. I will hate her with my dying breath.
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You mean the leader of the miners’ union that didn’t call a ballot on the strike?
 
ChicagoBlue said:
I think we need to see what four years brings, rather than the shock and awe of four weeks.

More and more students (and universities) are realizing the positive aspects of a year of studying abroad, and England is a prime location for non-second language Americans.
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Indeed though I suspect we won't need to wait the full term to see which way the wind is truly blowing. Even though it's only been a few weeks, it's entirely possible he's already changed Europe's perspective on it's relationship with the US for at the least the foreseeable future. I imagine he would claim that's a good thing for the US and what he was after, but I'm not sure how much considereration he's given to the law of unintended consequences.
 
I read this in the Observer....

Inside the Trump White House, officials blamed the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for the meltdown in the Oval Office on Friday, and expressed frustration that he pushed for security guarantees even though the US had made clear they wanted to negotiate that later, according to people familiar with the matter.

The officials had told their Ukrainian counterparts in advance of the meeting that Trump wanted to sign an economic partnership this week at a ministerial level, as aides worked on the details about security guarantees.

So Trump wanted Zelensky to sign away what little leverage he had in exchange for a vague promise to think about a security backstop, and we're supposed to be surprised he didn't sign it.

Remind me to never read The Art of the Deal.
 
Blue Mist said:
The fact that the miners had brought the country to their knees is ignored by those with hatred blinding them.
3 day weeks, no electricity, bins overflowing.
Hate her all you want but the country was broken.
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Have you ever worked a single 8 hour shift manually picking and shovelling coal from a coalface whilst lying on your side with rock inches from you in almost every direction, and then been told that your pittance of a working class wage is too high?

Just like in Covid we were able to see who the real heroes of the country were and which industries actually kept the country running.

It wasn't a very safe working environment, but there were still safety regulations in place, yet the government choose to get their coal from European collieries with little to no regulated working safety conditions due to it being cheaper whilst simultaneously closing our still viable collieries and effectively laying off 20,000 workers.

Grrrrrrrr!

Anyway, Trump and Vance....

.....what a pair of cunts!
 
BlueRockape said:
She got back into power on the back of dead servicemen in the Falklands.
For that she can rot in hell
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I’m no fan of Thatcher but political experts/pollsters have consistently said that the “Falklands Factor” was negligible.
 
Trump and Vance parrot the Putin line that Ukraine is on its arse, they've lost the war, they're done, dead, a corpse still standing only because it's propped up by the West, primarily the USA. One only has to threaten to kick the prop away and Ukraine will accept whatever surrender terms Putin and Trump desire.

But Trump over played his hand. Now, as never before in the post war world, Europe alone is uniting to face a common enemy. The UK, France and Germany are the main drivers, but with the exception of Hungary, all of Europe is looking at ways to prop up Ukraine for at least two years, while they cobble together their own security backstop, we're looking at the beginnings of a European army in all but name.

Right now the lines to Ankara must be clogged with European leaders sweet talking Erdogan, if he can be persuaded to throw his weight behind this he can name his price.

Things will move very quickly now, as a Brit and a European I feel a sense of excitement that something good might be forged out of this terrible situation.

Trump says he wants to Make America Great Again, but it seems the oaf might have inadvertently started the process of making Europe Great Again.
 
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DelToro said:
I’m no fan of Thatcher but political experts/pollsters have consistently said that the “Falklands Factor” was negligible.
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Same as mate but it did her no harm.
I was serving at the time as part of a immediate reaction force we new six weeks before it kicked off.
We were told everything had to be ready to go we didn't know where or when.
Odds on was Ireland Disney land was a 100 to one amongst the betting feternity.
We had noidea it was the Falklands but I bet the British government did and did nothing
 
ChicagoBlue said:
I think we need to see what four years brings, rather than the shock and awe of four weeks.

More and more students (and universities) are realizing the positive aspects of a year of studying abroad, and England is a prime location for non-second language Ameri
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gordondaviesmoustache said:
You mean the leader of the miners’ union that didn’t call a ballot on the strike?
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142,000 out of 187,000 miners went out on strike. That's a clear majority in my book. Thatcher despised trade unions and the feeling was mutual.
 
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