Monday 3rd March 2025

[refitman]

Morning all.

[Frog222]

Morning!

On Mad King Donny , he really mumbled the last bit , but it was -- "we should revisit the possibility of a Syphilis diagnosis.”

[Frog222]

Zoe Williams -- " If I were Volodymyr Zelenskyy, I’d be thinking, either Keir Starmer has a fiendishly intelligent and subtle mind, or he is bananas. "
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... radictions

Anyone who trusts Trump has forgotten that he mused abut invading Canada Greenland and Mexico and is currently destroying the US Federal infrastructure, and from one day to the next will impose 25% tariffs, or NOT ! --

"" Here’s the kicker: “this effort must have US backing”.

Well, OK, but who on earth would assume that backing? And what would it cost? Do we have to watch Zelenskyy get beaten up live on air, for the US to fall in with the crowd but still feel like it won?""

" US backing" belonged in the Cold War when NATO had large armies and even (really) 'tactical' nukes, right down to 155mm artillery shells , and people were not pretending ! Today, without going nuclear, the US could knock out RU missile launching sites etc, but only if Trump felt like it ...

Assuming conventional military stalemate, Vlad would be delighted to continue his successful destabilisation strategy on the propaganda and sabotage fronts .

[Frog222]

[Frog222]

There are thirteen Appalachian states , looks like "JD" is being disowned in a few already

[refitman]

[refitman]

[AnatolyKasparov]

He did get into a bit of bother about this in the closing stages of last year's GE campaign. It is a definite bruise and others should keep on punching it.

[Frog222]

Not immediately visible here . Click on youtube ! !

If Trump was President in 1940, Led By Donkeys .

[AnatolyKasparov]

There were plenty of people like Trump now in 1940 USA - they were called isolationists.

[Frog222]

But Trump is very Internationalist too

In his own way, like the Mafia .

[refitman]

The hell is Starmer banging on about?

Sir Keir Starmer has told MPs that US President Donald Trump's commitment to achieving peace in Ukraine is "sincere".

The prime minister said Europe would have to do "the heavy lifting" as part of a peace deal but reiterated that a peacekeeping force would need "strong US backing".

As Sir Keir was speaking in the House of Commons, Trump posted on social media: "Europe... stated flatly that they cannot do the job without the US – probably not a great statement to have been made in terms of a show of strength against Russia. What are they thinking?"

He also accused Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky of not wanting peace adding: "America will not put up with it for much longer."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9deq4ypx57o
How is that in ANY way a sane interpretation of recent events?

[AnatolyKasparov]

I think it is called "diplomacy".

[refitman]

I think it is called "diplomacy".

Telling the leader of a country being invaded, that he doesn't want peace doesn't seem very diplomatic.

I guess I'm just not sensible & grown-up enough to understand.

[refitman]

[Frog222]

Interesting one on the AI Hype --




I feel a bubble coming on

[AnatolyKasparov]

I think it is called "diplomacy".

Telling the leader of a country being invaded, that he doesn't want peace doesn't seem very diplomatic.

I guess I'm just not sensible & grown-up enough to understand.

Er, that was Trump saying the above - not Starmer.

[Frog222]

Nice photo

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[Frog222]

They're more subtle in the UK, they just CUT the staff at HMRC --