OT: Current Affairs and Politics

[Gary Gutful]

but what the f**k is that last one?!?

I believe it is the signature of Donaldo Durumpf.

 

[the phantom menace]

And a sufficient number of the House have signed the petition to force a vote calling on Trump to release the Epstein files - which he and his party members in the Senate will look shifty as if they don't agree to....

The Democrats timed this bombshell perfectly – now there are signs the White House is panicking

Republicans have flooded the zone with new Epstein material in a bid to dilute the impact of the Trump-related emails hand-picked by the Dems.

www.smh.com.au

 

[the phantom menace]

Signature analysis of Donald

My concern isn’t whether the first 2 are same, but what the f**k is that last one?!?
That’s the worst signature I’ve ever seen.
It looks like he’s down a normal signature, not liked it, so down a squiggly line through the whole thing.
Needs his pen licence revoked

The first two just say Donald. The final one says Donald Gazumped.

 

[hindy111]

There's half the problem.

Whilst the above is no doubt true to a large degree, I'd bet you $5 that the other half of the problem is the U.S. having little if any "interest" there beyond what they are currently having no difficulty in managing . U.N. WHO?

Why is it only up to the USA to help? Aren't other nations allowed to step in?

 

[85 Baby]

Why is it only up to the USA to help? Aren't other nations allowed to step in?

Oh dear…

https://www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/penny-wong/media-release/further-humanitarian-assistance-response-sudan-crisis#:~:text=It will provide food, clean,urgent humanitarian needs in Sudan.

Although I do agree with you the media is away from it and thus a lot of the protesting saviours probably have zero idea about it. Although if they did, you can bet they’ll be abusing the fascist Australian police about them not doing enough about it

 

[Bandwagon]

What's going on in Sudan right now is horrific.
Yet Nobody is helping them . No protesting, marching or even making others aware. Barely makes the news.
So it had me wondering. Are these recent warm hearted,empathetic, deeply caring protestors actually just hypocrites. Mere sheep who don't care about africans or just following the popular stuff to post on their social media accounts?

Bad shit happens across the world, but we hear what we hear. It doesn't make people hypocrites to care about the things they are aware of and to ignore the things they are aren't. It just is what it is.

For example shit in Sudan has been bad for a very long time.......

Sudanese Civil War - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

........are you a hypocrite because you just found out about shit and now care? Seems a harsh call for mine.

So here's the thing, I understand you are referring to the Palestinian situation here, but you have to understand causes require awareness, and awareness requires reach, and reach into the west is dictated by effect on the west.

Three years ago Palestine wasn't on the radar, they were f**ked, the Abraham accords had them sidelined and accept it or not they were slowly being f**ked, Then Hamas pulled that attack, which put both Israel and Palestine front and centre on the world stage.

And for what it is worth my opinion is that was why, they ( Hamas ) knew it'd gain international attention, they knew Israel would retaliate in such a means as to keep it newsworthy. and Israel just went and jumped the shark, that shit is in every merkins social media feed and all of a sudden a whole heap of folk are woken up to the fact that there's some shit going on there that really not right.

Whilst there is no doubt the Israeli's will win the war, they have lost the propaganda war, and along with it the hearts and minds of a good deal of the world. They have tried the argument you present here, and just failed, because the whole idea that that shit is worse elsewhere and you merkins are big poo poo heads for all picking on our bad shit is f**king dumb argument. Because it doesn't make the bad shit ok

Israel is in our backyard, and Africa is a place we export misery to so as we can have shiny things and no merkin in the west wants to be bringing that front and centre.

 

[the phantom menace]

 

[JohnStoppafarty]

Why is it only up to the USA to help? Aren't other nations allowed to step in?

The Yanks are the self appointed world police.
The question isn't why is only up to the U.S.A.
The question is why are they doing nothing. You can bet there is a very good answer to that. And by very good I mean quite shit.

 

[Twizzle]

 

[T-Boon]

The Yanks are the self appointed world police.
The question isn't why is only up to the U.S.A.
The question is why are they doing nothing. You can bet there is a very good answer to that. And by very good I mean quite shit.

There is probably more than one question, Johnny.

 

[Avenger]

I used to have a friend in the 90s who was a high class eastern suburbs escort and her clients were several prominent politicians including an ex PM...

she named names but withheld fetishes....a bit weird! lol

No such things as high class brothels. They are either cheap or expensive.

 

[Suitman]

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/sydney-bus-manufacturer-arcc-faces-collapse-over-nsw-government-red-tape/news-story/4bc4ae7697db3065e28921f3f114d56a?amp&nk=1a264fe6546886332f2cf1436e2979e6-1763104981

Went to the last election with a build in NSW promise.
It wasn't as easy as he said, obviously.
Another broken promise from Minns.

 

[Delboy]

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/sydney-bus-manufacturer-arcc-faces-collapse-over-nsw-government-red-tape/news-story/4bc4ae7697db3065e28921f3f114d56a?amp&nk=1a264fe6546886332f2cf1436e2979e6-1763104981

Went to the last election with a build in NSW promise.
It wasn't as easy as he said, obviously.
Another broken promise from Minns.

Unfortunately, they selected Minns as leader for his appearance and impact in front of the camera. Though he presents better than the idiot Speakman, he’s basically the political equivalent of a used car salesman. Says what you want to hear, and does nothing when you need it completed.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

I’ve been on the big news sites all around the world today.

The general consensus is that Trumpy is well and truly f**ked.

All he can probably do is start a war or something as a distraction.

Perhaps Venezuela.

 

[the phantom menace]

Not sure Trump will even last to the mid-terms in a year's time now... I'd thought after the Republicans get thumped in those would be when he steps aside for Vance.

Democrats need to unite behind a person most likely during the next year, to give themselves the best run at knocking off the clown show come 2028.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Not sure Trump will even last to the mid-terms in a year's time now... I'd thought after the Republicans get thumped in those would be when he steps aside for Vance.

Democrats need to unite behind a person most likely during the next year, to give themselves the best run at knocking off the clown show come 2028.

Yep, he’s being abandoned.

Epstein claimed Trumpy had thanksgiving dinner with him in 2017 and that’s being checked out by journos.

If it’s true, it will make any claim of Trumpy disassociating himself with the pedo creep hard to swallow.

Anyway we get a war first:


I think the objective is to wipe out the leadership.

They are going to need an interim government to install after that.

Population is 28m but as I understand it, it’s a very poor country and its people are miserable.

I heard some of the other regional countries aren’t exactly perturbed. They’ve been pretty quiet. I guess that’s a mix of not liking Venezuela or fear. Maybe a mix.

Anyway, I suspect the strikes will try to be surgical, but civilian casualties will occur.

And a lot of enlisted Venezuelan soldiers who don’t want a bar of it.

An American battlegroup v Venezuela.

The leadership should probably resign now and try to avoid the chaos.

Strange we haven’t been invited to participate. Not like the old days.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

I think if we are pushing to reduce the US tariffs on Australian goods, we could at least send a sub up there or something. Some kind of token effort to keep us sweet with Washington, tide us over until Trumpy gets impeached.

So long as no one gets hurt.

 

[T-Boon]

the phantom brothers are the best. Haha. Thanks fellas.

 

[JohnStoppafarty]

There is probably more than one question, Johnny.

True but that's not a problem. The problem is that most the questions have more than 1 answer.

 

[Twizzle]

Democrats need to unite behind a person most likely during the next year, to give themselves the best run at knocking off the clown show come 2028.

Therein lies the problem, they are just as big a mess as Trump's crew.

I can't believe they don't stand up to Trump, they have so much ammunition, but you never hear boo out of them, except for Newsome and the Detroit dude, but they are just state Dems.

I'm only going off what I get force fed on social media, maybe it's different in the states.