Trump Triumphs

[Merging Cultures]

Be honest Bryn - you're hoping for a sniper.

I was shouting "fall down the stairs" at the TV.

[Nick]

In before the lock.

[Merging Cultures]

This announcer guy is rubbish!

"The choir practices two blocks from my house. So easy to find them.

Here's Schummer."

Wtf?!

[Carl the Llama]

I love how America doesn't even pretend to have separated Church and State.

[Bryn]

2 minutes ago, Carl the Llama said:

I love how America doesn't even pretend to have separated Church and State.

 

They don't, it's a Christian state.

[Guest MattP]

3 minutes ago, Carl the Llama said:

I love how America doesn't even pretend to have separated Church and State.

It's not separate is it? 

[leicsmac]

Just now, Bryn said:

 

They don't, it's a Christian state.

It's funny, the UK was founded as a Christian nation yet if you meet a proper Bible-thumper people will look at them in a funny way, whereas the US was constitutionally founded to be a secular state yet the fundies get so much power there.

[Guest MattP]

When the announced the vice-president and the camera focused on the black guy I thought we could be in for a Blazing Saddles moment.

[leicsmac]

1 minute ago, MattP said:

It's not separate is it? 

By the Constitution there is supposed to be a separation of Church and State (First Amendment) but we can all see how well that is going.

[Webbo]

 America was founded by non conformists so although they are more religious than us there isn't an official church in America like we have the CoE here.

[Guest MattP]

2 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

By the Constitution there is supposed to be a separation of Church and State (First Amendment) but we can all see how well that is going.

I didn't realise the constitution said that.

 

Just assumed they were from all the things we know about the institutions, in God we trust etc

[Merging Cultures]

And it's done

[Darkon84]

Let the salt mining of tears commence.  

[Bryn]

Cvnt.

[Merging Cultures]

Thumbs up from the podium? Ffs he has no class.

[leicsmac]

3 minutes ago, MattP said:

I didn't realise the constitution said that.

 

Just assumed they were from all the things we know about the institutions, in God we trust etc

Yeah. The God stuff tends to date from the 50's when they were all scared of the communist heathens, so they started putting it on money to say "hey, we're not like them!"

[Carl the Llama]

As if it started raining the second Trump finished signing in

[Nick]

Nothing like a billionaire who's in it for the little people and voiceless folk.

[Guest MattP]

Certainly a different speech so far, I genuinely think he means this about transferring power from the establishment to the people. 

 

How the **** you try to do that and go about achieving it I have no idea, it's going to be interesting watching it though. 

[Darkon84]

Not too keen on the speech so far. He's just been sworn in, not trying to win votes in a working class city ffs. Hope he means it though.

[Merging Cultures]

As if it started raining the second Trump finished signing in [emoji3]

God's crying apparently!

[Nick]

Drugs and Crime have stopped apparently - thats me out of work.

[Darkon84]

Just now, Swan Lesta said:

Drugs and Crime have stopped apparently - thats me out of work.

 

That's me out of hobbies. I love shooting up the devils cabbage then kicking in phoneboxes

[Merging Cultures]

This is an awful speech. He definitely wrote it himself. So much nationalist rhetoric.

[Nick]

1 minute ago, Merging Cultures said:

This is an awful speech. He definitely wrote it himself. So much nationalist rhetoric.

Its deeply uncomfortable actually isn't it.