WigstonWanderer

Dump and Pump by Trump

Thankfully only watched the 25 min “highlights”. We are so crap. Edit: Monga looks a real prospect

If say the Chinese market was to fall 20% and the S&P only 15%, Trump would think he’s won. Real beggar thy neighbour stuff.

Another loss I suppose. Would be nice to score a goal at least.

Incredible feat. I’d have needed the toilet at least 10 times, probably more.

He can probably wreck it though

As you say, a race to the bottom in the USA now, and we in Australia, and the UK will be lucky to avoid a similar fate. Trump seems to be intent on giving corporations free licence to trash the environment generally (quite aside from CO2) in pursuit of profit. Will they see more companies releasing toxic waste into rivers, etc? Trump seems to be destroying all oversight. Why would anyone vote for this? Baffling.

And Mavididi

The horse is well and truly dead so I shouldn’t be flogging it, but the same dreary, steaming pile is served up match after match, from a team devoid of quality and confidence, just going through the motions.

Yes, Americans are learning (I hope) as the UK did before them, that if you elect a clown, you get a circus.

I seem to remember a run of matches in the Great Escape season when it seemed like we would never score again, and this feels the same. Unfortunately these players don’t have the character or ability of that great squad.

Can’t believe we didn’t get the ball forward while they were a man light. Almost like we were waiting for him to come back on.

Here we go. Seen this movie before

Made it to HT without conceding so that’s something I suppose. Frustrating that every promising break either ends with a crap pass or a pass backwards. Edit: thank goodness for Mads.

Great speech. We need leaders like this.

I have an Amazon subscription myself and I know what you mean, but I always felt guilty swapping support for local business with the convenience of free home delivery from a company owned by an American oligarch. Bezos’ recent behaviour with the Washington Post and sucking up to Trump will tip me over the edge. We all have to make small sacrifices.

It was done in WW2, obviously much more technological now so harder. Europe as a whole is very rich with a GDP close to that of the States I believe so anything is possible with sufficient will. The remaining democracies have to face the possibility that the US simply won’t be one in the near future, and plan/act accordingly. At least what’s happening in the US appears to be strengthening and unifying democratic forces in the rest of the world.

So what exactly is he getting in return? Is it a genuine business deal where American companies get access to Ukraine assets in exchange for royalties paid to Ukraine? Or is it a straightforward extortion where the US is threatening a full on switch to supporting Putin?

Put a massive property tax on them. A worldwide boycott of anything Trump, Musk or the rest of the billionaire oligarchs including Amazon would be good.

Perhaps Enzo will throw us a bone.

Even if we beat Wolves, Southampton & Ipswich (very unlikely), that would still yield only 26 points. Can’t see any way we’d get more than another 4 points anywhere else, and that’s being optimistic. 30 points is unlikely to keep us up. The only other possibility would be a “great escape” type revival and I can’t see any way that’s going to happen with this squad. The 2014/15 squad was vastly superior even if we didn’t appreciate quite how much talent was present at the time. Edit: I guess this us all pretty obvious to everyone already.

I think Trump would be quite happy with this map of the world from Orwell’s 1984. Probably more likely China would have a bigger slice of Asia including Australia and Indonesia. Also Trump would want Greenland.

There doesn’t seem to be any genuine peace deal on the table. The only deal being offered is surrender.

Ok Neville

I actually wonder whether Putin will use nuclear weapons in Ukraine now. US deterrent simply isn’t credible.