Donald Trump, US President #47, US President #45, convicted felon, twice impeached, four times indicted, liable of rape, convicted for financial fraud, guilty of hiding hush money payments to porn actress in attempt to influence 2016 elections

✨ Samsung | AliExpress | Wise | Sharesies | GoodSync | Free white papers

Welcome Guest.

You haven't logged in yet. If you don't have an account you can register now.

To post in this sub-forum you must have made 100 posts or have Trust status or have completed our ID Verification

Forums › Politics › Donald Trump, US President #47, US President #45, convicted felon, twice impeached, four times indicted, liable of rape, convicted for financial fraud, guilty of hiding hush money payments to porn actress in attempt to influence 2016 elections

1 | ... | 1664 | 1665 | 1666 | 1667 | 1668 | 1669 | 1670 | 1671 | 1672 | 1673 | 1674 | ... | 2317

Rikkitic

Awrrr
18657 posts

Uber Geek

Lifetime subscriber

#2908997 1-May-2022 18:46

Send private message

On a more philosophical note, if Musk really has $150 billion, that is to my mind proof of a badly broken economic system. No single individual should ever have command over that kind of financial power. I don't care if he is a genius, or crazy, or just lucky, this is out of all proportion to anything that makes any kind of sense. Maybe it is another indication of the dying days of empire. How many denarii would Twitter cost today?

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

quickymart

13925 posts

Uber Geek

ID Verified

#2909002 1-May-2022 19:20

Send private message

Looking forward to the new Trump book (This Shall Not Pass) being released. Apparently it has some stuff that hasn't been put out into the public domain before.

But I don't think it would make much difference to his base - he can do absolutely no wrong by them.

Sideface

9350 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

DR

Lifetime subscriber

#2909004 1-May-2022 19:30

Send private message

quickymart: Looking forward to the new Trump book (This Shall Not Pass) being released. ...

The Guardian - This Will Not Pass: Trump-Biden blockbuster is dire reading for Democrats

today [no paywall, long review]

This Will Not Pass is a blockbuster. Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns deliver 473 pages of essential reading.

The two New York Times reporters depict an enraged Republican party, besotted by and beholden to Donald Trump.

They portray a Democratic party led by Joe Biden as, in equal measure, inept and out of touch. ...

Sideface

kingdragonfly

11190 posts

Uber Geek

Subscriber

#2909006 1-May-2022 19:53

Send private message

Sideface:They portray a Democratic party led by Joe Biden as, in equal measure, inept and out of touch

There's always the hope that Trump will do a Ralph Nader; he could form the "stable genius with huge hands" independent party and split the conservative vote.

Or perhaps there will be two Republican parties: "Republican (Trump) and "Re-Republican (Ron Desantis)"

kingdragonfly

11190 posts

Uber Geek

Subscriber

#2909011 1-May-2022 19:56

Send private message

Vox: Ron DeSantis is following a trail blazed by a Hungarian authoritarian

In June of last year, Hungary’s far-right government passed a law cracking down on LGBTQ rights, including a provision prohibiting instruction on LGBTQ topics in sex education classes.

About nine months later, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill banning “classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity” up through third grade. According to some knowledgeable observers on the right, these two bills were closely connected.

“About the Don’t Say Gay law, it was in fact modeled in part on what Hungary did last summer,” Rod Dreher, a senior editor at the American Conservative magazine, said during a panel interview in Budapest. “I was told this by a conservative reporter who ... said he talked to the press secretary of Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida and she said, ‘Oh yeah, we were watching the Hungarians, so yay Hungary.’”

...It’s easy to see the connections between the bills — in both provisions and justifications. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán described his country’s anti-LGBTQ law as an effort to prevent gay people from preying on children; Pushaw described Florida’s law as an “anti-grooming bill” on Twitter, adding that “if you’re against the Anti-Grooming Bill, you are probably a groomer” — meaning a person preparing children to become targets of sexual abuse, a slur targeting LGBTQ people and their supporters that’s becoming increasingly common on the right.

This is not a one-off example. DeSantis, who has built a profile as a pugilistic culture warrior with eyes on the presidency, has steadily put together a policy agenda with strong echoes of Orbán’s governing ethos — one in which an allegedly existential cultural threat from the left justifies aggressive uses of state power against the right’s enemies.
...

quickymart

13925 posts

Uber Geek

ID Verified

#2909024 1-May-2022 21:45

Send private message

Oh I know the Democrats have problems - plenty of them - although I think Joe is being (somewhat) unfairly blamed for inflation and the cost of living rising; he has control over some things in the American economy, but not everything. Sadly, voters don't see it like that.

Sometimes I wonder how Trump would have handled this sort of thing if he had actually won. Christ alone knows he "accept[s] no responsibility" for his slow coronavirus response. What would he do here. Blame the Democrats? That's a nice, easy point-the-finger and pass-the-buck solution for him.

neb

11294 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#2909028 1-May-2022 22:31

Send private message

kingdragonfly: "Savaging the racial-justice protestors around the country as 'terrorists,' Trump urged the governors to exact 'retribution' while demanding a swift return to public order," Martin and Burns wrote [...] Trump threatened to deploy federal troops if the governors did not move swiftly enough."

Trump could easily have issued a Presidential Decree for the Protection of People and State and used that to restore public order. It was quite effective the last time this was done, no more disturbances from the public after that.

neb

11294 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#2909029 1-May-2022 22:37

Send private message

quickymart:
Sometimes I wonder how Trump would have handled this sort of thing if he had actually won. Christ alone knows he "accept[s] no responsibility" for his slow coronavirus response. What would he do here. Blame the Democrats? That's a nice, easy point-the-finger and pass-the-buck solution for him.

He wouldn't necessarily have blamed the Democrats but he would have found someone else to blame, or maybe several someones, and his worshippers would have eaten it up. Autocrats do well in adversity because it allows them to create a common enemy for their followers to unite against. In fact doing more-or-less OK is actually a bad thing for them because they're not doing well enough to be able to say "look what we've done for you" but also not doing badly enough that their followers are outraged and willing to go after whichever enemy they're told is to blame for it.

Sideface

9350 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

DR

Lifetime subscriber

#2909628 3-May-2022 13:02

Send private message

Tiny steps ...

The Washington Post - Judge issues big rebuke of GOP effort to delegitimize Jan. 6 committee

today

A federal judge has issued a potentially very significant ruling in the House Jan. 6 committee’s favor, turning aside the Republican National Committee’s claims that the investigation is improperly constructed and doesn’t serve a valid legislative purpose.

In his ruling, the judge - an appointee of President Donald Trump - validated the Jan. 6 committee’s aims, thereby helping its efforts to gather information and testimony.

Some have cast it as a “landmark” ruling that could be cited in other cases.

It also contains some notable rebuttals of the RNC *, and of broader GOP efforts to cast the committee as an illegitimate witch hunt. ...

* RNC =

Sideface

quickymart

13925 posts

Uber Geek

ID Verified

#2909682 3-May-2022 15:26

Send private message

I love it how all these judges Trump appointed are not doing what he thinks they should do, but follow the rule of the law.

Donald my boy, you may be able to get a group of idiotic voters and some politicians to follow you and hang on your every word...but (fortunately) not everyone does, like you think they should. And that is a very good thing.

Rikkitic

Awrrr
18657 posts

Uber Geek

Lifetime subscriber

#2909690 3-May-2022 15:42

Send private message

Trump's Supreme Court judges may be about to ban women's right to control what happens with their own bodies. That is a less good thing.

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

quickymart

13925 posts

Uber Geek

ID Verified

#2909962 4-May-2022 08:50

Send private message

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/03/politics/donald-trump-2024-republican-primaries/index.html

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/03/2022-primary-elections-ohio-indiana-00029491

I'll be interested to see how well his endorsed candidates do in their primaries - I think Ohio is today our time?

This part is quite telling though: In a March poll by NBC News, 40% of respondents who were Republican or leaned Republican identified themselves more as supporters of Trump than of the GOP. Fifty-three percent said they were more supporters of the party. Just before the 2020 election, 54% said they were primarily Trump backers and 38% favored the party.

So the glow is beginning to fade a little (I hope so)?

quickymart

13925 posts

Uber Geek

ID Verified

#2910559 5-May-2022 13:15

Send private message

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/04/donald-trump-democrats-republicans-midterms-robert-reich

It would be nice if this happened (man that Robert bloke reminds me of Dr Johnny Fever!)

Sideface

9350 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

DR

Lifetime subscriber

#2910569 5-May-2022 13:48

Send private message

The Guardian Opinion cartoon 05 May 2022

Martin Rowson on the threat to Roe v Wade and Trump in 2024

key:

centre: embyonic Trump, reborn in 2024? ("after Leonardo Da Vinci")

top left: flag & mirror writing: a quotation from Keats' The Second Coming

top right: Gilead Visitors Guide | The Handmaid's Tale ("After reading please burn this book")

bottom left: Oklahoma anti-abortion legislation

bottom centre: "Salem - Discreet Private Clinic. No questions asked. Special rates for GOP interns."

bottom right: leaked Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade draft

Sideface

Sideface

9350 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

DR

Lifetime subscriber

#2911313 7-May-2022 15:24

Send private message

The Guardian - San Francisco judge rejects Trump lawsuit challenging Twitter suspension

breaking

A US judge on Friday dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Twitter that challenged his suspension from the platform.

In a written ruling, US district judge James Donato in San Francisco rejected Trump’s argument that Twitter violated his right to freedom of speech guaranteed by the first amendment of the US constitution. ...

Before he was blocked, Trump had more than 88 million followers on Twitter and used it as his social media megaphone.

Good, but Twitter will soon be under new management ... 😶

Sideface

1 | ... | 1664 | 1665 | 1666 | 1667 | 1668 | 1669 | 1670 | 1671 | 1672 | 1673 | 1674 | ... | 2317

News and reviews »

Air New Zealand Starts AI adoption with OpenAI
Posted 24-Jul-2025 16:00

eero Pro 7 Review
Posted 23-Jul-2025 12:07

BeeStation Plus Review
Posted 21-Jul-2025 14:21

eero Unveils New Wi-Fi 7 Products in New Zealand
Posted 21-Jul-2025 00:01

WiZ Introduces HDMI Sync Box and other Light Devices
Posted 20-Jul-2025 17:32

RedShield Enhances DDoS and Bot Attack Protection
Posted 20-Jul-2025 17:26

Seagate Ships 30TB Drives
Posted 17-Jul-2025 11:24

Oclean AirPump A10 Water Flosser Review
Posted 13-Jul-2025 11:05

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7: Raising the Bar for Smartphones
Posted 10-Jul-2025 02:01

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 Brings New Edge-To-Edge FlexWindow
Posted 10-Jul-2025 02:01

Epson Launches New AM-C550Z WorkForce Enterprise printer
Posted 9-Jul-2025 18:22

Samsung Releases Smart Monitor M9
Posted 9-Jul-2025 17:46

Nearly Half of Older Kiwis Still Write their Passwords on Paper
Posted 9-Jul-2025 08:42

D-Link 4G+ Cat6 Wi-Fi 6 DWR-933M Mobile Hotspot Review
Posted 1-Jul-2025 11:34

Oppo A5 Series Launches With New Levels of Durability
Posted 30-Jun-2025 10:15

Geekzone Live »

Try automatic live updates from Geekzone directly in your browser, without refreshing the page, with Geekzone Live now.

Are you subscribed to our RSS feed? You can download the latest headlines and summaries from our stories directly to your computer or smartphone by using a feed reader.

RSS feeds: Main feed; Forums feed
Copyright: ©2002-2025 Geekzone®

Site features: Geekzone BI dashboard; Geekzone Badges; Geekzone Status Page

Affiliate links: Samsung; AliExpress; Wise; Sharesies; GoodSync

Site Information: Subscribe to Geekzone; Privacy Statement; Forum Usage Guidelines (FUG); Advertising; Trademark and copyright