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cashead wrote:Feel free to have a gander at The_Donald at Reddit. They're freaking out over Trump supporting the GOP legislation that allows ISPs to sell their customers' browsing history without permission.

He is such a mutant. Wait till he does the same with health data. There is a commercial service that will take your DNA sample and give you a genetic breakdown of ancestry, and polymorphisms associated with disease (https://www.23andme.com/?utm_source=goo ... NwodfsgDIQ). The FDA put the brakes on this service having legitimate diagnostic power as it is a private entity. They do however have masses of meta data (that customers have paid to provide) and a little bit of IT jiggery-pokery would provide "unpresidented" levels of information that private insurers would pay a mint for and could in theory abuse for access to health care. There are a lot of regulations regarding clinical data confidentiality and one casual executive order thrust under the Orange Nose could sign away many levels of protection. They are playing him big time under the all encompassing dogma of small government and deregulation. Extrapolate this to shit like access to legal aid based on ethnicity or geography, and pretty soon Timaru will look like an enlightened beacon of progressive social policy.

Allegedly, the way to influence Trump is to get in the headlines of Fox News. It seems to be the only news input he is content to believe.

Not satisfied with single-handedly saving the world from IS in 30 days*, Trump has declared that he will solve the NK nuclear issues himself too.

What a guy.

* - give or take a few years.

Cue an unhappy China and a nervous South Korea and Japan.

I have no love for the NK regime which is despotic, whilst their frequent actions against SK only serve to heighten the tension in the region. But military action would probably have a major knock on effect. I'd suggest that careful appreciation of the facts and likely outcomes is required - but Trump likes to showoff so that probably wont happen.

He is currently going off on twatter claiming again that he was spied on by that black guy before him, and his source is Fox News. I shit you not.

Why not simply not follow him on Twitter? Or more simply not follow Twitter?

And is what's happened here that a number of people have been under surveillance and a number of those have at times spoken to people in the Trump circle? Which means in effect there's been at times recordings of people linked to Trump and possibly Trump himself?

And if Trump has an issue with that is he going to confirm the US will cease all surveillance? It's not clear from the reportings on his ramblings what the issue is, what about that Trump thinks is wrong, and what he wants done about it.

He seems to be implying that he was placed under surveillance during the election campaign to throw him off. I don't buy into the absurd counter conspiracy of Trump working with scary Russians either, but if some of his people were being looked at then some dirty money could have been cleaned through one of those nice Russian oligarchs that like luxury yachts and football teams.

He is meeting the Chinese Premier this week, so it's good he is preparing by watching cable TV. What a crass, vulgar, thoroughly unsophisticated blob of orange jelly he is.

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I saw that this morning - brilliant cartoon and seems to sum up the situation pretty well.

Still my favourite:

Just seen that President Bannon has been removed from the National Security Council.

The aide said Mr Bannon was only given a seat on the NSC to keep an eye on National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who was fired in February.

Fine job sir.

He is such a buffoon. He is courting the Sunni Arab world with his own brand of orange flavoured comprehension. It's just painful.

morepork wrote:He is such a buffoon. He is courting the Sunni Arab world with his own brand of orange flavoured comprehension. It's just painful.

This is also good:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39506003

Just start with this little gem to set the tone:

Earlier this month, President Trump signed a presidential proclamation declaring April to be National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month.

As if any tone was required given Trump's previous when it comes to women and assault...

Some more gems:

"I think he's a person I know well - he is a good person," Mr Trump told the New York Times on Wednesday from the White House, surrounded by his aides.

"I think he shouldn't have settled; personally I think he shouldn't have settled," the president added.

Dozens of advertisers have pulled commercials from The O'Reilly Factor.

"I don't think Bill did anything wrong," Mr Trump told the New York Times, adding that "he should have taken it all the way" to court.

He thinks he's a person he knows well?

Love the advice about not settling out of court. Hasn't Trump done that a number of times?

Trump has really left himself wide open there. He really doesn't know how to shut up

That said, it's rather amusing that the Beeb are using Trump's comments on Syria as headline material and have even used a photo where the orange one appears slightly presidential.

This is after months of running unfavourable stories on the cockwomble...in the Beeb's defence on that, it would've been hard to write favourable stories on the twat given the crap he has said and done.

It just goes to show that if Trump toes the western line, he'll get some flattering reporting.

Hmmm, I wonder if any of his advisors will cotton on to that idea?

If a loony like Trump did Nuke NK at least the rest of the world, and the US once it's got rid of him, could plausibly deny they had anything to do with it. Trump could be sold down the river as a War Crim without it tarnishing anyone else too much (the chain of command might have to be sacrificed as well). This is arguably a small price to pay for getting rid of one more nuclear-armed lunatic.

China will not start a general war over DPRK. It would be bad for business and China will be as relieved as the rest of is that the problem is gone.

This all assumes that the smoking remnants of DPRK are quickly annexed to either SK or China and the power vacuum is not seized by someone else in the current regime.

Trump has no say in anything that isn't social media. His Klan brother from another (white) mother got shuffled out of the national security set up and now the experienced hawks will be pushing for action. This is not great. He and his reality TV family will gradually move to the background while the real playas act out their inexorable advancement of a profit machine built on the lives of poor people.

Drain the swamp. What a pointless appendage this orange fuckstick is.

WaspInWales wrote:That said, it's rather amusing that the Beeb are using Trump's comments on Syria as headline material and have even used a photo where the orange one appears slightly presidential.

This is after months of running unfavourable stories on the cockwomble...in the Beeb's defence on that, it would've been hard to write favourable stories on the twat given the crap he has said and done.

It just goes to show that if Trump toes the western line, he'll get some flattering reporting.

Hmmm, I wonder if any of his advisors will cotton on to that idea?

No it shows that they report what he says. If it's nonsense he looks like a cock. If it's not he looks less of a cock.

WaspInWales wrote:That said, it's rather amusing that the Beeb are using Trump's comments on Syria as headline material and have even used a photo where the orange one appears slightly presidential.

This is after months of running unfavourable stories on the cockwomble...in the Beeb's defence on that, it would've been hard to write favourable stories on the twat given the crap he has said and done.

It just goes to show that if Trump toes the western line, he'll get some flattering reporting.

Hmmm, I wonder if any of his advisors will cotton on to that idea?

To be fair, wanting to stop the use of chemical weapons in Syria isn't such a bad idea. What his solution will be is another matter.

Lizard wrote:If a loony like Trump did Nuke NK at least the rest of the world, and the US once it's got rid of him, could plausibly deny they had anything to do with it. Trump could be sold down the river as a War Crim without it tarnishing anyone else too much (the chain of command might have to be sacrificed as well). This is arguably a small price to pay for getting rid of two more nuclear-armed lunatic.

FTFY

Eugene Wrayburn wrote:

WaspInWales wrote:That said, it's rather amusing that the Beeb are using Trump's comments on Syria as headline material and have even used a photo where the orange one appears slightly presidential.

This is after months of running unfavourable stories on the cockwomble...in the Beeb's defence on that, it would've been hard to write favourable stories on the twat given the crap he has said and done.

It just goes to show that if Trump toes the western line, he'll get some flattering reporting.

Hmmm, I wonder if any of his advisors will cotton on to that idea?

No it shows that they report what he says. If it's nonsense he looks like a cock. If it's not he looks less of a cock.

Yep, it's not as if news agencies have agendas or political bias. The BBC being the bastion of truth and impartiality are a perfect example of this.

Sandydragon wrote:

WaspInWales wrote:That said, it's rather amusing that the Beeb are using Trump's comments on Syria as headline material and have even used a photo where the orange one appears slightly presidential.

This is after months of running unfavourable stories on the cockwomble...in the Beeb's defence on that, it would've been hard to write favourable stories on the twat given the crap he has said and done.

It just goes to show that if Trump toes the western line, he'll get some flattering reporting.

Hmmm, I wonder if any of his advisors will cotton on to that idea?

To be fair, wanting to stop the use of chemical weapons in Syria isn't such a bad idea. What his solution will be is another matter.

I'm sure Trump's advisors are working hard (with crayons and very basic diagrams), to convince him that the only way to defeat chemical weapons is by using better, more bigly, terrific chemical weapons.

A master orator at work. He clearly has his finger on the pulse. Listen, if your stomach can take it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/us/p ... .html?_r=0

Lizard wrote:If a loony like Trump did Nuke NK at least the rest of the world, and the US once it's got rid of him, could plausibly deny they had anything to do with it. Trump could be sold down the river as a War Crim without it tarnishing anyone else too much (the chain of command might have to be sacrificed as well). This is arguably a small price to pay for getting rid of one more nuclear-armed lunatic.

China will not start a general war over DPRK. It would be bad for business and China will be as relieved as the rest of is that the problem is gone.

This all assumes that the smoking remnants of DPRK are quickly annexed to either SK or China and the power vacuum is not seized by someone else in the current regime.

Sounds like you've been playing Risk with drinking penalties.
Is this to be the West's standard response to problems in the East. Lob a couple of nukes and run away.