Or throw enough stuff, some of which may stick, purely as a distraction while in the background turning the country into a one-party state with the President as king?
"Gold fixtures"? Isn't that what Trump calls his toilet?
Ah, as successful as a UK entry in the Eurovision song contest!
Not sure this is strictly true...
He'd have a struggle to find a rationale for invading Gaza, though. And that would be a war, that's for sure.Ah, as successful as a UK entry in the Eurovision song contest!
Not sure this is strictly true...
War Powers Resolution
It provides that the president can send the U.S. Armed Forces into action abroad only by declaration of war by Congress, "statutory authorization", or in case of "a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces".
War Powers Resolution - Wikipedia
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Given the part I've bolded, there would appear to be means and ways of him kickstarting something without the need for approval by Congress if he really wanted to. Is he above false-flag operations? He certainly has a very good friend who he may have learnt from.
Maybe a Greenlander accidentally spilled the pint of a US worker in their local bar?
It's precisely because it is loathsome, absurd, and almost universally rejected, that it is not something being taken seriously. If you ridicule the idea you take away it's power, you highlight it's absurdity, you laugh at the person who made the proposals of turning it into a tourist destination.
He wouldn't be invading Gaza, though. Israel would claim that it is their territory, and invite the US in to redevelop it. Any US military presence would be to protect the workforce.
Hmm, you may be right. Perhaps this is exactly what Trump and Netanyahu discussed. However, the Gaza Strip has never been recognised as part of Israel. It belonged to Egypt until the 6 Day War and its status since the subsequent Israeli occupation has never been agreed, so far as I am aware. Nonetheless the US Congress, with the combined might of its ignorance of world affairs and the power of the Israel Lobby, might take Netanyahu's view.
You might be a little too sensitive. Too much emotion doesn't help any problem. Gaza is bombed out. There is little to "save".
If anything actually happened it would just be rebuilding a more prosperous and sustainable economy in Gaza. Nothing that it's likely to happen but continual outrage with no change isn't helpful either.
"Lighten up". You would not be saying this if these were American citizens.
It worked in Afghanistan and only cost 2 trillion. By "worked" I mean not really.
As always it is the response of T's enablers that is most pertinent.
I think we have to stop using that outmoded title “leader of the free world”. Trump’s USA has telegraphed it no longer has any interest in that - and is rapidly abandon those principles at home. The baton passes now to the EU to show leadership on democratic values and the impartial rule of law.
Yeah, I was using "" to express the irony we non-Americans likely feel at its use.
My... intense dislike for roughly half of Americans is probably pretty apparent, but the thing is it is normal--for Americans. We are inculcated with vile, odious and nonsensical bullshit pretty much from birth. From the Horatio Alger "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" garbage to the depraved idiocy of Manifest Destiny, we were brought up to be entitled, elitist, selfish pricks. There's not even any sort of noblesse oblige corollary in American discourse: we owe nothing to anybody but ourselves. And even when you consider some of the more decent aspects of American culture, like the inscription on the plaque on the Statue of Liberty, "Give me your tired..."--that was written by Emma Lazarus, a Jewish lady, hardly a real American (especially in the Bible Belt). Pretty much anything good comes from outliers and outsiders.
has reminded us elsewhere: his views are more mainstream.
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That's racist isn't it? I listened to Count Basie live once, so I've got that going for me...Also, to quote the greatest living drummer in the world, Charles Hayward:
My ‘bag’ had been severely, severely ruptured very, very early on in my life. I was very, very, lucky. My father had been a prisoner of war and he joined the army and gone to war, (and was) obliged to listen to British dance music, because that’s all there was, Victor Silvester and stuff like that. And then he had the misfortune to become a prisoner of war. And other people who were also prisoners of war were American GIs.
He gave me a resume. The white guys were arseholes. The black guys were fucking fantastic. ‘So what do you mean, Dad?’ ‘The white guys – all they ever did was boast about how their Red Cross was superior to our one.’ (adopts American accent) ‘ You guys ain’t got chewing gum. What, you only got one roll of lavatory paper’, you know, all that sort of stuff. Whereas the black guys were like, hey, ‘do you want to hear this?’ and calling my dad over and saying look, ‘listen to Count Basie’.
(Emphasis mine.)Abstract Concrete – an interview with Charles Hayward
In advance of his imminent European tour AND a 3 day residency at Cafe Oto, here is an interview with Charles Hayward talking about his roots, Quiet Sun and his latest project, the superb Abstract …
It needs to be an entity with some heft in international affairs, though. The EU has this, though the leadership it shows, occasionally, is of a collective kind rather than via a charismatic individual. Things such as regulation of IT and data, climate change, free movement of people, civilised social security provision, and so forth.Yeah, I was using "" to express the irony we non-Americans likely feel at its use.
I say we pass the moniker to Starmer! Or, just to piss Trump off, to Trudeau!