General News Thread

[Sampson]

Why are Trump and Hegseth crying about their allies not joining them? Isreal did join them. What other allies do they think they have left besides Isreal? Everyone else they’ve tried to publicly cut ties with. 

[leicsmac]

6 minutes ago, Sampson said:

Why are Trump and Hegseth crying about their allies not joining them? Isreal did join them. What other allies do they think they have left besides Isreal? Everyone else they’ve tried to publicly cut ties with. 

... because they view international relations as an abusive relationship where they can belittle and degrade and still get the "partner" to do what they want because they are more powerful than them. 

 

It's the job of the decent world to show that they are wrong. 

[FoxesWalk]

6 hours ago, Md9 said:

Everyone is fed up with hearing about trump but when the clown is doing something more ridiculous every day it’s hard to not post anything . 
Starmer is the only one he calls out isn’t he? No one else is getting involved but it’s the uk he always end up talking about so he must have rattled him by not getting involved in his stupid games 

He has been having ago at France and Italy after they told him to do one essentially. Just gets reported less here. France even refusing to let US pass through their airspace I think. 

[Sly]

This will turn into a good war with Europe if we are not careful. 

 

He’s just goading everyone. 

[Tommy G]

1 hour ago, worthosoriginals said:

Sounds like we have a trump fan here,  right winger as we know.

You got me man how did you guess? 
 

was it 2+2=5? 
 

So for your logic to work, if you constantly read news about someone and get a bit irked by it, it makes you a fan. 
 

Go back to flicking through the guardian 

[bovril]

1 hour ago, Sampson said:

Why are Trump and Hegseth crying about their allies not joining them? Isreal did join them. What other allies do they think they have left besides Isreal? Everyone else they’ve tried to publicly cut ties with. 

Anglos flailing about angrily when the world doesn't dance to their tune. Same has happened in the UK. 

[fox_favourite]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7056exw78xo

 

Ridiculous vanity thing to build, glad that it's been stopped. 

[worthosoriginals]

30 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

You got me man how did you guess? 
 

was it 2+2=5? 
 

So for your logic to work, if you constantly read news about someone and get a bit irked by it, it makes you a fan. 
 

Go back to flicking through the guardian 

I shall, if you continue reading the daily mail, funny how the right wingers worldwide stick together.

[fox_favourite]

It's true, this thread should be renamed. What has Trump done now?! Thread. 

[Zear0]

32 minutes ago, fox_favourite said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7056exw78xo

 

Ridiculous vanity thing to build, glad that it's been stopped. 

Have the misfortune to have to visit Washington for work relatively frequently and it's an absolute s**t tip what he's done to the White House.

[Tommy G]

25 minutes ago, fox_favourite said:

It's true, this thread should be renamed. What has Trump done now?! Thread. 

Careful you’ll be accused of supporting him 

[Tommy G]

45 minutes ago, worthosoriginals said:

I shall, if you continue reading the daily mail, funny how the right wingers worldwide stick together.

 

[CornwallFox]

2 hours ago, leicsmac said:

In Tommy's direct defence here, he's stated pretty clearly that Trump is odious to him and that the exhaustion isn't because he's a fan of his. 

 

I do also think that quite a few people in the UK who at least tolerated the man are now realising just how toxic he and his ideology are to everything it touches, and are having what might be called a moment of clarity. 

Doesn't seem to have filtered into realising that trump's little arse licker farage is the same

[CornwallFox]

37 minutes ago, fox_favourite said:

It's true, this thread should be renamed. What has Trump done now?! Thread. 

Grow up

[Trav Le Bleu]

3 hours ago, Parafox said:

A friend of mine is actively looking at buying a place in Florida Keys to use as a meth factory.

 

[Trav Le Bleu]

2 hours ago, Md9 said:

The mrs has a friend that lives over there who wants us all to go over there do a family holiday as their kids and ours used to go school together when they live over here.  Never been really keen but now more than ever I don’t want to step foot over there

Don't worry, they'll look at your posts in here and you won't be allowed.

[CornwallFox]

[worthosoriginals]

9 hours ago, Tommy G said:

I agree, you're hopefully intelligent enough to realise this wasn't a message of support for Trump, my brain is just oversaturated with seeing him, hearing him and discussing him. 

Nonsense, what you can't stand is your beloved trump and fellow right winger is being relentlessly shown up on here to be a total idiot.

Its like you've said no, enough is enough leave my hero alone. 

Tells us all we need to know.

The right defends the right. 

Manuel Franco will be back on here soon to back you up.

[Wymsey]

[ALC Fox]

(Long post alert)

 

1. Trump has been pursuing isolationist policies for some time.

 

2. He's also been mooting the US pulling out of NATO for a good while. He wants Greenland, the territory of a NATO ally and the use of military action cannot be ruled out whatever Trump says. He cannot be trusted. He says one thing one minute and the opposite thing the next.

 

Starting a war unilaterally - without seeking the support of allies until it had been started - and then accusing NATO allies of not doing enough to support them is evidence of both of these things.

 

But it isn't just US allies that he isn't consulting. It's Congress itself, which should be ratifying decisions like this that take the US to war. Congress has done no such thing.

 

He is doing what he likes. His moves have enriched himself and his friends since the beginning of his second administration. The war in Iran is no different, with anonymous gamblers winning millions betting on the price of oil. Just today, it is alleged that Pete Hegseth's broker attempted to invest millions in defence stock before the war began.

 

This US administration is primarily concerned with financial self-interest and distraction from the Epstein Files.

 

More insults about the UK have been uttered by Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump today. Before the war started, he also insulted our dead, injured and others who served alongside US troops when he alleged that our troops - along with those of other nations - stayed away from the frontline. If we had followed the US and Israel in lockstep, you'd better believe he'd find another reason to insult us.

 

He has no interest other than his own. No sense of co-operation or diplomacy. No compulsion for give and take. He just does what he wants and attacks the people who criticise and disagree.

 

If NATO is done, then we'd better divest away from the US sooner rather than later, building closer ties with the EU and either reforming NATO (or creating a new organisation) without the US, strengthening ties with our real allies who believe in collective defence of common interests rather than demanding obedience in atrocities that have not obtained legal clearance.

 

With Trump as President, regardless of whether we had followed him to the letter in this war, Europe - and by extension the UK - is being squeezed from the East and the West. We need allies and the reparation of our relations with the EU, a collective defence strategy and a divestment away from fossil fuels.

 

If we start making these moves, perhaps this may push Trump towards the exit door of the White House, too, as voters in the upcoming midterms see the rest of the world turning their backs on Trump's MAGA cult. If his power can be curtailed for the second half of his presidency, hopefully a non-MAGA candidate can win the next presidential election and begin to repair the US's relationships with the rest of the world.

Edited 31 March by ALC Fox

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, Tommy G said:

You got me man how did you guess? 
 

was it 2+2=5? 
 

So for your logic to work, if you constantly read news about someone and get a bit irked by it, it makes you a fan. 
 

Go back to flicking through the guardian 

 

1 hour ago, worthosoriginals said:

I shall, if you continue reading the daily mail, funny how the right wingers worldwide stick together.

Get a room you two!

 

One of you can wear your environmentally friendly, hemp nightie, made by the workers of a self-elective commune in an elven glade (free in the Guardian this week!) and the other can rub themselves down with baby seal blubber and petroleum extract lube from an industrial plant in Dusseldorf, tested on rabbits (as given away with the Mail yesterday)

 

You see, it takes all sorts to make... well, I don't know what you'd make... Some kind of mutant, double-headed, hideous fusion of Kristi Norm and Greta Thunberg... Gresti Normberg... sprawling on the floor leaving a venomous trail of slime, both hating and loving itself whilst muttering, "please, please... for the love of god ... kill me ... I... must ... die."

 

Look, all I'm saying is... are love and hate so very different? Think on that.

 

No, really think. Deeply meditate and come to a comprehension of union. Without ying, there cannot be yang. @worthosoriginals, you are the Ike to @Tommy G's Tina, the Mao Zedong to his Mussolini, the red Leicester to his veiny blue stilton.

 

You both contrast and yet compliment each other. You are both together and you are both loved. Reach inside and find that inner peace, that neither Donald, nor Keir, nor Nigel, nor Jeremy can take away from either of you.

 

We are the world; we are the children.

 

Get that tension out. I know you're going to thank me in the morning.

[Trav Le Bleu]

Also...

 

In before the lock!

 

(I'm gonna call it right some time.)

[st albans fox]

Sadly for the reform and Rupert lowe’s mob, the derby driver has now been charged and doesn’t seem to have an Islamic name. 

[MPH]

Gwon, Starmer. Go and buy some oil from Russia and give Trump an Aneurysm.

[fox_favourite]

5 hours ago, CornwallFox said:

Grow up

I was being light hearted, sorry I touched a nerve .

 

He dominates the news, unfortunately. Look at this thread, every day there are posts on something that Trump and/or his administration have done/commented on, and it just seems to get worse and he's the centre of it. World is messed up at the moment. This isn't a criticism of this thread, it's just the way things are in the world now, sadly. 

 

Other important news just gets pushed back, unfortunately, not just this thread but in general. 

Edited 1 April by fox_favourite