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I see the man-child narcissist in the USA wants to have his own parade like his good mates in other parts of the world. I reckon his will be huger than theirs though.
https://time.com/5619191/donald-trump-july-4-speech-controversy/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMLtkp4AFkchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMLtkp4AFkc
tRump sized.
https://twitter.com/biner54/status/1146436537074298880
Hey, those were among the best APCs money could buy back in 1990.
Sabine also posted a wonderful picture at 6 on Open Mike today – well worth a look and a laugh.
https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-04-07-2019/#comment-1634002
all those tanks will do wonders for the US crumbling infrastructure
Those seventy tonne behemoths should grind the National Mall into hard fill.
So there's that.
I think it's great that he got over the trauma of not being able to serve in the forces and now loves to be seen with the military. That shows the enormous courage and quality of the man.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/donald-trump-avoided-the-military-draft-which-was-common-at-the-time-vietnam-war-2018-12?r=US&IR=T
Anyone with connections avoided the draft
https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/its-not-just-donald-trump-these-famous-americans-also-received-draft-deferments.html
tRump is the chickenhawk personified – a bullying, strutting, obnoxious and dangerous thug who liked to play soldier boi dress-up.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110604160503/http://www.nhgazette.com/chickenhawks/
First US Pres to step inside North Korea though, and gets along pretty well with Vlad too. Hopeful signs for the world.
he's not cool – 120 years
this is why he doesn't
lol didn't need one politically – what a crooked stick he is
First POTUS to legitimise a murderous thug and his regime's system of collective punishment that results in the intergenerational and often lifetime incarceration, forced hard labour, calculated starvation and torture of families percieved or otherwise to be enemies of the ruling clique.
Too many CNN talking points possibly there Joe…
You could have mentioned their green tech and decent public transport that functions under heavy sanctions, but that would be a whole lot less warmongering.
Apparently things were as peachy as fuck in Theresienstadt, too.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZt92quVOsg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresienstadt_(1944_film)
Legitimising the NK regime is a shit idea.
And so is joe90's Godwinism.
Likening Bartlett's vile propaganda to an historical example ain't Godwinism.
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It's just Trumpian farce. No-one who has been watching him objectively could think it was anything but. It may be to show Iran that if they would just abandon their plans for nuclear use they too could be sweet flavour of the month.
The North Koreans being shown the pics on their side of the border don't necessarily know the orange one is a petulant manbaby.
All many of them know is that the regime rattled sabres with the US and the US now recognises their regime. Helps keep the slave camps going for a bit longer.
That's a pretty good list of arseholes. Didn't know about Clinton (the least arseholey of the lot). There was a pretty good scene in Trumbo where John Wayne gets bollocked for having avoided doing anything in WW2.
Given that list was heavy with right wing fuckwits, I'm not sure you demonstrated any point of note. Got a similar list of lefties who refused service using paperwork shenanigans? Not conchies, who stood up and said "no" and took the consequences, but the dudes who sadly just missed out because of some convenient condition that hasn't stopped them leading full lives, or because their bosses just really needed them and only them as a law clerk?
Wasn't really taking into consideration their political affiliations, as I just was pointing out it was a common thing for people with connections.
But if you insist on going there
Both Trump and Rudy would have been democrats at the time.
Comments?
I'm sure that the millionaire fraudster living in a golden mansion (that would make Louis IV make snide comments to Liberace about the tacky decor) and the hardline prosecutor would both have been regarded as "lefties", but I was thinking someone more conventionally "left", even for the US.
Sanders was a conchy, and faced billyclubs anyway. Biden seems to be the closest bet, as far as I can see.
People of all colours have been getting out of ugly work and risk since time immemorial.
It is one of those things where "who is the worst" is a tad silly.
The whole democrat/republican thing in the US is a tad silly anyway given everything kind of switched.
Don't know why people bother so much talking about the idiot orange sexist twat or even US politics in general
Maybe a case that your list had a funny sample bias?
No idea
I just googled famous people who avoided the draft and that came up
Feel free to do a "right", "left", "politicians", if it gives you a buzz
John Wayne was a racist piece of scum by all accounts btw
You mean hollywood…… 14.20
Not just John wayne … who fitted in just fine 15 mins 55 secs
To be fair, he was dealing with his own personal Vietnam at the time. It was so unfair to him that he didn't get a Congressional Medal of Honor for it.
https://money.cnn.com/2016/10/14/media/trump-stern-vietnam-stds/index.html
Very excited.
'scuse the male pale stale that follows.
The Chills, Straitjacket Fits and The Blams (as well as a bunch of other artists), are playing The Others Way gig.
K Road, August 30th from 10 am.
Flying out.co.nz for tickets.
I am stoked to see The Blams.
Did you see this review/story? https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/04-07-2019/shayne-carters-rock-n-roll-memoir-and-stories-from-someone-who-was-there/
No, thanks Sacha.
IMO Kim Hill's hour long in depth interview with Shane Carter last Saturday was well worth a listen if you did not hear it.
Here is the RNZ article about the interview with links to the actual interview.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018693579/shayne-carter-on-his-memoir-dead-people-i-have-known
Thanks VV for pointing that out. Always enjoy hearing Shane Carter speak.
The problem the world has with trump is not trump himself but the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have been disenfranchised by previous administrations and think he is the second messiah because his go to phrase is “ put America first.” Don’t blame the clown preacher blame the dumb congregation.
You could also blame tradition. America First has been percolating through US society for a century, so all Trump did was revive it. Complex memes that have been doing contagion for a century are very powerful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First
Preceded by this mob.
The Native American Party, renamed the American Party in 1855 and commonly known as the Know Nothing movement, was an American nativist political party that operated nationally in the mid-1850s. It was primarily anti-Catholic, xenophobic, and hostile to immigration, starting originally as a secret society. The movement briefly emerged as a major political party in the form of the American Party. Adherents to the movement were to reply "I know nothing" when asked about its specifics by outsiders, thus providing the group with its common name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing
Ah, so that's where Sergeant Schultz got his favourite saying from!
"The Prime Minister sounded increasingly like Sergeant Schultz, his repeated “I know NOTHING” denials less and less credible or convincing as the interviews proceeded. He looked irritated and out of sorts, frustrated by the inability of these idiots to see his point of view that, though he was Minister for the SIS, he could not be held responsible for the actions of people in his department that impinged on the impartiality of the Service. It had nothing to do with him."
https://www.nbr.co.nz/opinion/uncanny-resemblance-between-john-key-and-sergeant-schultz
Blame them both New view. Cheap, crass, dim-witted, a thug and devoid of class. That's Trump for you and his supporters are no better.
I listened to some of Trump's 4th July speech extolling the military – courageous and the mightiest soldiers in the world he said – or something like that. How would he know? He was a draft dodger.
In the meantime the concentration camps are thriving in the South but not the inmates, they are dying. It's only a matter of time before the camps start appearing elsewhere.
This is interesting. Aussie billionaire selling his property to himself for increased value.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/113994687/aussie-billionaire-tim-roberts-sells-queenstown-property-for-top-price#comments
The comments touch on a few interesting scenarios:
This is worth investigating.
My theory: Poor misunderstood billionaire suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder flips house to an alternate personality state.
Shades of 'I wasn't speaking as a Prime Minister at that moment.' Rich people can afford lots of hats.
A big thank you to whoever is choosing the Daily Review pictures – am loving the "Where is
WallyIvanka?" series!A wonderful follow-on to her performance as ‘Ambassador-at-Large’ at the G20 meeting last week – LOL Shame she was not accredited to the role …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambassador-at-large
Ya wanna know where to go to overdose on them or you prefer to enjoy them one by one as micky trickles them out?
Here’s a few of them:
https://news.sky.com/story/unwantedivanka-awkward-g20-meeting-inspires-flurry-of-parodies-11752649
My fave is "Yalta". Three old men are sitting on a park bench and Ivanka is serenading them. 😉
I wasn't going to spoil it by linking a bunch, but this one brought tears to my eyes so I had to share …
https://c.nau.ch/i/54WBw/1024/512/unwantedivanka.jpg
There's some brilliant ones out there. I nearly had a wee accident the other night. Micky must show the 'allied landing' one. It's a classic.
"The Shining" might be a bit too scary for use here, tho.
Oh my goooooddddd…..!!!!!!! Not just tears to my eyes, but what Anne said below!
Thanks Anne and Andre (that's got a good ring about it …) will check them out.
I tried to see some on an Indy100 link but that froze my computer so did not pursue that link or others.
You two will also appreciate the link that Sabine put up at 6 on Open Mike – check it out if you haven't already. LOL.
I suspect it is going to be another little sleep night tonight as I check out July 4 'celebrations' in my adopted US home town (Washington DC). I lived there for almost 7 years, aged 14 – 21, so it disgusts me what Trump is doing to some very important American traditions etc.
Just google unwanted ivanka and check out the images. Here's a starter pack.
https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=CUZob_1562030953
Won’t somebody please think of the racist, sexist turnkeys.
https://twitter.com/hectorgarza2455/status/1146484821654478848
https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-border-patrol-facebook-group-agents-joke-about-migrant-deaths-post-sexist-memes
lol put those arseholes in the cages I say – dirty racists
There's an exciting fashion trend evident in leftist political thought: using code in brand names for political parties. This quote gives two examples: "The European Realistic Disobedience Front, or MeRA25, is a left-wing Greek political party founded in 2018. Its founder and secretary is former Syriza MP and Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. MeRa25 is part of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), the European Spring and the Progressive International". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeRA25
Decoding things, looks like democracy is intended to be introduced to Europe in 2025, and it will happen as the result of realistic disobedience. The code format seems to be derived from standard internet password format (upper & lower case letters mixed with numbers), to get younger generations aboard I guess.
Top work those Westland Milk farmers who took the dividends for years, underinvested, hollowed the company with low product development, made the only choice to go for a for sale, cut its executives bonuses if they completed the sale, the sold it off the the Chinese.
Pack of pricks.
Really, really hard to see us getting ahead as a country when this is the long term attitude of milk farmers.
They bring to mind some of the cockies of my youth.
Dumb AF on their 60 acre rehab blocks with 40 cows, separators and pigs, yet they considered themselves landed gentry because could afford a new car every other year.
I heard the chair of the board say he bears full responsibility, so that's ok.
I wonder what full responsibility looks like?
It looks like dressing up in traditional costume and sitting cross-legged on the floor, then taking your short sword and stabbing it deep into your abdomen before twisting it and slicing left, then right. Somehow I doubt that the board chair will genuinely take full responsibility.
I doubt that was in the prospectus.
it's a shower of gold
Do you mean in $NZ dollars?
Somebody got annoyed with the West Coast intransigence about new ideas, new business and called them 'feral'.
It's a miracle!
https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/status/1145888528439508992
Nazis lie?
Say it ain't so.
https://twitter.com/IGD_News/status/1146238223485743104
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/07/02/news/allegations-against-portland-antifa-latest-effort-far-right-activists-vilify
Priorities.
https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1146173126373498884
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1146172211251822593
yep, one saving them, one killing them and we know which one is punished
I’ve seen a dementia sufferer get as teary AF.
https://twitter.com/ShotgunZen/status/1135453852617052161