DUMP on Trump
Peter Reynolds wrote:thermalben wrote:burleigh wrote:Good. Government funded ABC needs to be put in their place. This isn't Australia buddy, you're with the big boys now.
Eh?
John is a respected journalist, asking a valid question.
No its not, its a 'baited' question for which he rightly got sat down and told to shut up. What do you expect Trump to say? He wouldn't have a clue about how much he's worth from day to day, he's a billionaire who's fortune depends on the stock market, would you prefer him to say "well I was worth 5% more yesterday but lost those gains today due to stock market going down this morning". He is a snarky, snide ABC labor hack looking for his gotcha moment in the sun.
So PR, let's reverse the scenario. If this was a Democrat President in power and there was a perception that they/their family were using their elected office to line the pockets, and this was a Fox journalist asking a similar question. Would your position be the same? Be honest....
Peter Reynolds wrote:thermalben wrote:burleigh wrote:Good. Government funded ABC needs to be put in their place. This isn't Australia buddy, you're with the big boys now.
Eh?
John is a respected journalist, asking a valid question.
No its not, its a 'baited' question for which he rightly got sat down and told to shut up. What do you expect Trump to say? He wouldn't have a clue about how much he's worth from day to day, he's a billionaire who's fortune depends on the stock market, would you prefer him to say "well I was worth 5% more yesterday but lost those gains today due to stock market going down this morning". He is a snarky, snide ABC labor hack looking for his gotcha moment in the sun.
Right on Peter. Someone finally making sense in here.
burleigh wrote:southernraw wrote:burleigh wrote:Cant imagine a "MAGA nutjob" as many of you liked to call the killer here would be in a relationship with a transgender person.
Ringo staying pretty quiet on these mistakes.
And what does that say about MAGA nutjobs @burlz?
Ahh, yep. Quite a set of morals you're working with there.Nice try at the deflection Southern. You're the main culprit.
Good to hear! :-P
Right on alright.
He’s off to visit another Charlie, very good friends apparently.
Windsor castle in preparation for King Don
A good splainer on the psychology of the Maga Mushbrains.
'That is why they don't necessarily cheer policy, they cheer cruelty".
burleigh wrote:Cant imagine a "MAGA nutjob" as many of you liked to call the killer here would be in a relationship with a transgender person.
Ringo staying pretty quiet on these mistakes.
Bruv, Caitlyn Jenner is a maga nutjob, and she's literally a transgender person.
Hiccups wrote:burleigh wrote:Cant imagine a "MAGA nutjob" as many of you liked to call the killer here would be in a relationship with a transgender person.
Ringo staying pretty quiet on these mistakes.
Bruv, Caitlyn Jenner is a maga nutjob, and she's literally a transgender person.
*He
burleigh wrote:Hiccups wrote:burleigh wrote:Cant imagine a "MAGA nutjob" as many of you liked to call the killer here would be in a relationship with a transgender person.
Ringo staying pretty quiet on these mistakes.
Bruv, Caitlyn Jenner is a maga nutjob, and she's literally a transgender person.
*He
Hook, line and sinker.
Trump : “You know, your leader is coming over to see me very soon. I’m going to tell him about you!"
John : "Thanx for the Scoop Prez!"
[L] PM Turnbull : "John Stood up to the Bully! That's how ABC Johnno scored Oz a meeting with the Prez
Oz [L] Party : "Not Sky's Woke Sharri...Twas Auntie's Attack Dog John that Tee'd Up a meeting with the Prez!"
Gina : "John Asks the tuff questions...gets results! That's why I awarded Johnno #1 Oz Journo!"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-17/john-lyons-named-journalist-of-th...
Albo : "I refuse to lock in evil Auntie Johnno's Hate Media Hook Up...in case Trump chickens out again!"
@SR
That was a worthy vid with the psychiatrist.
Cheers
southernraw wrote:A good splainer on the psychology of the Maga Mushbrains.
'That is why they don't necessarily cheer policy, they cheer cruelty".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T8jF8BEeCM
Describes CK perfectly.
Cheers @mattlock.
Peter Reynolds wrote:would you prefer [Trump] to say "well I was worth 5% more yesterday but lost those gains today due to stock market going down this morning"
oh, man. ^ Imagine if the USA had a leader who, despite being an imbecilic corrupt playa of proven moral bankruptcy, at least had the mental wherewithal to say something so much less cringey and dismissive than yesterday's condescending little dummy-spit.. I would feel a teensy bit less sorry for the Mericans.
I see the point of view that people should afford heads of state a certain dignity, and would possibly debate whether Trump has (or hasn't) lowered the tone of media interviews and public political interactions so faaarrrking low that he's rendered such traditional, unspoken norms redundant. But I'd certainly not bother doing so with flaccid thinkers who desperately want to perpetuate and add fuel to us-and-them divides:
Peter Reynolds wrote:[John Lyons] is a snarky, snide ABC labor hack looking for his gotcha moment in the sun.
John Lyons is not these things.
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udo wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/four-arrested-after-imag...
whaa haapened?
Hiccups wrote:
You wouldn't read about it.
Wel you can't now.
Crazy
What Making America Great Again really means was well explained in the video SR put up . Some farmers won’t be feeling so great, maybe JD Vance can loan them a few bucks . https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-misses-out-billions-dollars-china...
The land of the free and home if the brave....
Yeah yeah, nah, nah, said by Mike Nolan...
https://www.owenjones.news/p/trump-plots-far-right-dictatorship?fbclid=I...
thermalben wrote:Peter Reynolds wrote:thermalben wrote:burleigh wrote:Good. Government funded ABC needs to be put in their place. This isn't Australia buddy, you're with the big boys now.
Eh?
John is a respected journalist, asking a valid question.
No its not, its a 'baited' question for which he rightly got sat down and told to shut up. What do you expect Trump to say? He wouldn't have a clue about how much he's worth from day to day, he's a billionaire who's fortune depends on the stock market, would you prefer him to say "well I was worth 5% more yesterday but lost those gains today due to stock market going down this morning". He is a snarky, snide ABC labor hack looking for his gotcha moment in the sun.
"He is a snarky, snide ABC labor hack looking for his gotcha moment in the sun."
Righto.
I'd say it was a legitimate question going on the evidence
"President Donald Trump has reportedly put $100 million into bonds since taking office in January"
"Trump’s bond-buying binge stands out because he, unlike other presidents, has not put his investments into a true blind trust. Otherwise, Trump’s bond purchases, whether directed by him or the person in charge of his finances, look like the typical bet of a deep-pocketed investor—one who thinks interest rates are set to fall, said Russell Rhoads, a clinical associate professor of financial management at Indiana University.
Because bond prices typically rise when interest rates fall, it’s possible Trump made the bets hoping he could later sell the bonds at a profit. Rates are likely to drop faster for corporate bonds than for government bonds because they are riskier, said Rhoads. Trump’s insistent pressure for the Fed to cut rates could also be akin to him “talking his book,” added Rhoads.
“You could take the way that he’s been pushing so hard for the Fed to cut rates as like a portfolio manager going on CNBC and talking positive about a stock that’s a big holding of theirs to try to get other people to buy it,” Rhoads told Fortune."
https://fortune.com/2025/08/21/trump-bond-buying-spree-100-million-stock...
15 billion eh , let’s see if it gets to court. https://apnews.com/article/trump-lawsuit-new-york-times-b2a615192ebe2dce.... The authors don’t seem too fazed , nicely titled book, that would have him seething. https://www.amazon.com/Lucky-Loser-Squandered-Fathers-Illusion/dp/059329...
The Brits are going all out to welcome Donny.
"After Charlie Kirk's Murder, Elite Arrogance Still On Full Display
College students saw Charlie Kirk as the ultimate enemy, so awful he needed deplatforming or worse, but educational swindlers are the real enemies of youth
From Bret Stephens in the New York Times:
It’s too bad that Kirk, raised in a Chicago suburb, didn’t attend the University of Chicago. It wouldn’t have hurt getting thrashed in a political debate by smarter peers. Or learning to appreciate the power and moral weight of views he didn’t share. Or recognizing that the true Western tradition lies more in its skepticism than in its certitude.
It’s too bad Bret Stephens never debated Charlie Kirk. He’d have had to defend the idea that students at places like the University ofthan ignorant red-staters (and students at schools like Cambridge), but more schooled in the “Western tradition” of “skepticism,” as opposed to “certitude.”
Does Stephens mean currently? If so, that’s rich. The cultural schism now widening under all of us in America has surely been caused at least in part by a shift in the attitudes of the very people Stephens calls “the greatest scholars.” Professors abandon skepticism for certitude in a range of hot-button issues, including a conspicuous one that may have had an impact on Kirk’s murder, transgender ideology.
And “smarter”? Stephens needs a fresh look at what passes for instruction and re-examine whether students are really being taught to think better. He should ask if it’s not instead true that institutional America is and has been systematically ripping off its young, a question Kirk threw at students everywhere, often with devastating results. It’s not surprising that scenes of kids who casually admit they “hate books” but were welcomed to pay tuition anyway haven’t made too many of the “Kirk’s greatest misdeeds” reels currently circulating:
This major plank of Kirk’s traveling-debate act is almost never mentioned in mainstream press rundowns of his views. Press accounts focus on alleged bigotry, xenophobia, and misogyny. However, Kirk’s schtick as a non-college graduate moving from town to town doing verbal battle with ostensibly enlightened clientele of higher education had a key subtext: college embarrasses its customers.
His eponymous book gives predictable focus to the ideological-indoctriniation portion of liberal arts education in particular, but most of his argument centers on things I heard for years from student loan forgiveness advocates: college doesn’t prepare students to enter the workforce, does little to secure income, and is particularly devastating to seas of humanities students duped into thinking they need to mortgage their futures for careers that, like my own, often don’t require degrees.
This part of Kirk’s act has been edited out of the public debate. Most infuriating of all has been listening to media figures at outlets like Salon denounce “Debate Me, Bro” culture as commercial hucksterism that’s “ruined civil discourse.” Not only is Kirk guilty of this, apparently, but also the likes of Joe Rogan, whose podcast is part of the regrettably rising tide of “people who don’t know what they’re talking about arguing with each other under the guise of debate.” These people have the gall to denounce The Joe Rogan Experience as an ignorance-spreading machine when the higher educational system has been gorging itself on trillions in federally-backed loans, just to crank out people with professional skills and so shredded intellectually, they think they have to use terms like “birthing persons.”
Set aside the motive of Kirk’s shooter, which will likely come out in time. The scene of the crime was a college, and the damage such institutions did to young brains in this country is the story that’s most visible on Kirk’s videos, but which America’s opinion-making classes are most interested in keeping hidden:"
Kimmel isn't very funny, but this is a joke.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-18/jimmy-kimmel-live-cancelled-indef...
Hiccups wrote:Kimmel isn't very funny, but this is a joke.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-18/jimmy-kimmel-live-cancelled-indef...
The US is stuffed completely.
That place is going down the gurgler
Roadkill wrote:Hiccups wrote:Kimmel isn't very funny, but this is a joke.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-18/jimmy-kimmel-live-cancelled-indef...
The US is stuffed completely.
That place is going down the gurgler
Dill & Hiccup, you cheered on censorship during covid but now you're both crying about it. You reap what you sow you basic chumps.
sypkan wrote:"After Charlie Kirk's Murder, Elite Arrogance Still On Full Display
College students saw Charlie Kirk as the ultimate enemy, so awful he needed deplatforming or worse, but educational swindlers are the real enemies of youth
From Bret Stephens in the New York Times:
It’s too bad that Kirk, raised in a Chicago suburb, didn’t attend the University of Chicago. It wouldn’t have hurt getting thrashed in a political debate by smarter peers. Or learning to appreciate the power and moral weight of views he didn’t share. Or recognizing that the true Western tradition lies more in its skepticism than in its certitude.
It’s too bad Bret Stephens never debated Charlie Kirk. He’d have had to defend the idea that students at places like the University ofthan ignorant red-staters (and students at schools like Cambridge), but more schooled in the “Western tradition” of “skepticism,” as opposed to “certitude.”
Does Stephens mean currently? If so, that’s rich. The cultural schism now widening under all of us in America has surely been caused at least in part by a shift in the attitudes of the very people Stephens calls “the greatest scholars.” Professors abandon skepticism for certitude in a range of hot-button issues, including a conspicuous one that may have had an impact on Kirk’s murder, transgender ideology.
And “smarter”? Stephens needs a fresh look at what passes for instruction and re-examine whether students are really being taught to think better. He should ask if it’s not instead true that institutional America is and has been systematically ripping off its young, a question Kirk threw at students everywhere, often with devastating results. It’s not surprising that scenes of kids who casually admit they “hate books” but were welcomed to pay tuition anyway haven’t made too many of the “Kirk’s greatest misdeeds” reels currently circulating:
This major plank of Kirk’s traveling-debate act is almost never mentioned in mainstream press rundowns of his views. Press accounts focus on alleged bigotry, xenophobia, and misogyny. However, Kirk’s schtick as a non-college graduate moving from town to town doing verbal battle with ostensibly enlightened clientele of higher education had a key subtext: college embarrasses its customers.
His eponymous book gives predictable focus to the ideological-indoctriniation portion of liberal arts education in particular, but most of his argument centers on things I heard for years from student loan forgiveness advocates: college doesn’t prepare students to enter the workforce, does little to secure income, and is particularly devastating to seas of humanities students duped into thinking they need to mortgage their futures for careers that, like my own, often don’t require degrees.
This part of Kirk’s act has been edited out of the public debate. Most infuriating of all has been listening to media figures at outlets like Salon denounce “Debate Me, Bro” culture as commercial hucksterism that’s “ruined civil discourse.” Not only is Kirk guilty of this, apparently, but also the likes of Joe Rogan, whose podcast is part of the regrettably rising tide of “people who don’t know what they’re talking about arguing with each other under the guise of debate.” These people have the gall to denounce The Joe Rogan Experience as an ignorance-spreading machine when the higher educational system has been gorging itself on trillions in federally-backed loans, just to crank out people with professional skills and so shredded intellectually, they think they have to use terms like “birthing persons.”
Set aside the motive of Kirk’s shooter, which will likely come out in time. The scene of the crime was a college, and the damage such institutions did to young brains in this country is the story that’s most visible on Kirk’s videos, but which America’s opinion-making classes are most interested in keeping hidden:"
Motive of Kirk's shooter?
We will never know.
Whole thing is suss as fook.... the story we are being fed is bs, unless he was really a very diligent English student!!
https://m.
&pp=0gcJCRsBo7VqN5tDhttps://m.
&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1VUw%3D%3D Oh yeah where the the Epstein pdf files?
burleigh wrote:Roadkill wrote:Hiccups wrote:Kimmel isn't very funny, but this is a joke.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-18/jimmy-kimmel-live-cancelled-indef...
The US is stuffed completely.
That place is going down the gurgler
Dill & Hiccup, you cheered on censorship during covid but now you're both crying about it. You reap what you sow you basic chumps.
Not a surprise it’s over your head.
Daily in this thread you prove how little you comprehend.
Carry on :)
burleigh wrote:Roadkill wrote:Hiccups wrote:Kimmel isn't very funny, but this is a joke.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-18/jimmy-kimmel-live-cancelled-indef...
The US is stuffed completely.
That place is going down the gurgler
Dill & Hiccup, you cheered on censorship during covid but now you're both crying about it. You reap what you sow you basic chumps.
hahahah. Here he goes again, making up stories like his orange jesus.
The Don is currently trying to make a deal with uncle Charlie, he’s offering Charlie a knighthood in exchange for the Nobel peace prize.
Had this saved for @noinfo but it seems to apply here
Roadkill wrote:burleigh wrote:Roadkill wrote:Hiccups wrote:Kimmel isn't very funny, but this is a joke.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-18/jimmy-kimmel-live-cancelled-indef...
The US is stuffed completely.
That place is going down the gurgler
Dill & Hiccup, you cheered on censorship during covid but now you're both crying about it. You reap what you sow you basic chumps.
Not a surprise it’s over your head.
Daily in this thread you prove how little you comprehend.
Carry on :)
You're right, Covid was way worse. Doctors lost their careers for speaking up about an experimental vaccine and you cheered it on.
WAY worse.
sypkan wrote:"After Charlie Kirk's Murder, Elite Arrogance Still On Full Display
College students saw Charlie Kirk as the ultimate enemy, so awful he needed deplatforming or worse, but educational swindlers are the real enemies of youth
From Bret Stephens in the New York Times:
It’s too bad that Kirk, raised in a Chicago suburb, didn’t attend the University of Chicago. It wouldn’t have hurt getting thrashed in a political debate by smarter peers. Or learning to appreciate the power and moral weight of views he didn’t share. Or recognizing that the true Western tradition lies more in its skepticism than in its certitude.
It’s too bad Bret Stephens never debated Charlie Kirk. He’d have had to defend the idea that students at places like the University ofthan ignorant red-staters (and students at schools like Cambridge), but more schooled in the “Western tradition” of “skepticism,” as opposed to “certitude.”
Does Stephens mean currently? If so, that’s rich. The cultural schism now widening under all of us in America has surely been caused at least in part by a shift in the attitudes of the very people Stephens calls “the greatest scholars.” Professors abandon skepticism for certitude in a range of hot-button issues, including a conspicuous one that may have had an impact on Kirk’s murder, transgender ideology.
And “smarter”? Stephens needs a fresh look at what passes for instruction and re-examine whether students are really being taught to think better. He should ask if it’s not instead true that institutional America is and has been systematically ripping off its young, a question Kirk threw at students everywhere, often with devastating results. It’s not surprising that scenes of kids who casually admit they “hate books” but were welcomed to pay tuition anyway haven’t made too many of the “Kirk’s greatest misdeeds” reels currently circulating:
This major plank of Kirk’s traveling-debate act is almost never mentioned in mainstream press rundowns of his views. Press accounts focus on alleged bigotry, xenophobia, and misogyny. However, Kirk’s schtick as a non-college graduate moving from town to town doing verbal battle with ostensibly enlightened clientele of higher education had a key subtext: college embarrasses its customers.
His eponymous book gives predictable focus to the ideological-indoctriniation portion of liberal arts education in particular, but most of his argument centers on things I heard for years from student loan forgiveness advocates: college doesn’t prepare students to enter the workforce, does little to secure income, and is particularly devastating to seas of humanities students duped into thinking they need to mortgage their futures for careers that, like my own, often don’t require degrees.
This part of Kirk’s act has been edited out of the public debate. Most infuriating of all has been listening to media figures at outlets like Salon denounce “Debate Me, Bro” culture as commercial hucksterism that’s “ruined civil discourse.” Not only is Kirk guilty of this, apparently, but also the likes of Joe Rogan, whose podcast is part of the regrettably rising tide of “people who don’t know what they’re talking about arguing with each other under the guise of debate.” These people have the gall to denounce The Joe Rogan Experience as an ignorance-spreading machine when the higher educational system has been gorging itself on trillions in federally-backed loans, just to crank out people with professional skills and so shredded intellectually, they think they have to use terms like “birthing persons.”
Set aside the motive of Kirk’s shooter, which will likely come out in time. The scene of the crime was a college, and the damage such institutions did to young brains in this country is the story that’s most visible on Kirk’s videos, but which America’s opinion-making classes are most interested in keeping hidden:"
Blaming the colleges Syp? Doesn't sound like you :-P
As i've mentioned many times in the past, there are elements of extreme left leaning ideologies that loiter in the background of universities and colleges, but overall, they're extremely valuable places to get an education and share philosophical thoughts.
I'd say it's more an issue of disenchanted youth, regardless of if they go to college or don't.
Too much time on internet and computer games, most shooters seem to always have a background in guns and have pics of them posing with guns, and most, seem extremely lonely and nihilistic in their views of the world. Maybe they latch onto ideologies in a college, maybe they latch onto ideologies in a MAGA base, but the foundation of their motives seems to be rooted in the above lonely disenchanted nihilistic youth that have access to guns. What could go wrong!!??
Bitch, whine, whatever...
First edition 5/10...
This term NONE so far...No end of war
...No 51st state(Canada)
....No new Green land
....No Great America
...No resort on the edge of the Mediterranean
...Not one mine opened in Ukraine
...NO new laws passed, just executive dictator orders