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Post by ellie on Sept 13, 2019 16:04:49 GMT
Boris really is the Pound Shop Trump. Now he’s resurrected his plan to build a bridge from Northern Ireland to Scotland. The undersea terrain means it will likely be impossible to build and, more to the point, nobody wants it. Because unless you live in NI and want to go to the Scottish Highlands or vice versa there’s nowhere else that getting the boat or plane to wouldn’t be quicker. Doh!
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Post by onebluestocking on Sept 13, 2019 16:10:28 GMT
What is it with these guys, and building unnecessary structures?
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Post by ellie on Sept 13, 2019 16:11:47 GMT
I have no idea. It’s bizarre. But not as mad as the fact they’ve both ended up in charge of entire Nations. That really is unfathomable.
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Post by mllemass on Sept 13, 2019 18:34:40 GMT
I don’t live in the US, but Trump has always had fans here in Canada. Back when The Apprentice was on tv, a good friend of mine was obsessed with him and his show. She used to talk about it all the time, and she read his books. She and her son (in his early 20’s at the time) would watch the show together, and he would dream up big plans for some business he would create to become as rich and successful as Trump. When she was telling me about it one time, I reminded her that I didn’t like Trump and I didn’t watch his show. She said to me “Oh, that’s right! I forgot that having lots of money doesn’t interest you.” She said it in a nice way - like she admired me for not being ambitious. Huh? Why wouldn’t I want to have lots of money?? I remember that I told her that my ideal of becoming rich and successful would be more like J.K. Rowling than like Trump.
A couple of years later, my friend’s “rich and successful” son was charged in a drug-trafficking ring. The police arrested my friend and her daughter, too, but the charges against them were dropped a few hours later. Her son was eventually found guilty, but I think he has yet to serve his prison sentence because he keeps appealing the case.
Whenever I see Trump, I think of the influence he had on my friend and her family. My friend ended up losing her job because she wasn’t able to take time off work to deal with her son’s legal problems. Her employer didn’t care that she was a widow and had no husband to help her deal with what was happening. What her son had learned from his obsession with Trump was how to win at any cost.
The judge that sentenced him agreed that the jail time seemed excessive, but that was because my friend’s son came from a “good family”, was educated and had a good job. Others arrested in the drug ring were living on the streets and had a history of committing crimes. But my friend’s son got involved out of “pure greed”, and the judge felt that it deserved a harsher sentence. That’s the Trump influence!
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 13, 2019 22:30:19 GMT
The ironic part is that Trump didn't work for his fortune. He born rich. Those self-helping books are pure fiction.
He is clearly very incompetent and impulsive but I think he understand to certain degree that he is a fraud. In one of the early leaks of his administration, there is this call he has with Mexico's ex-president and he is practically begging him that please don't say publicly that Mexico won't pay for the wall. He suggests he knows it's an impossible plan but it would be great if Mexico just play along with him. It's very stupid not just because the obvious reasons but because any Mexican politician would had acepted to do that! Much less in what was an election year!
It was hysterical!
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Post by queenzod on Sept 14, 2019 4:05:42 GMT
It’s got something to do with their dicks. 😑
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 13, 2019 15:55:30 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 17, 2019 12:12:05 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 15, 2020 22:03:01 GMT
I forgot to post this last week. It's a long interview with James Graham in which he talks extensively about Brexit and the polemic around the film, www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000gsm5
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Post by sgev1977 on May 28, 2020 11:44:40 GMT
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