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In all this mayhem and Trump idosey what is the path to normality [if it exists] and how long ?

Is it true Trump has announced the US resignation from NATO ?

Lot of talk about the European coalition of the willing but not a leader in sight, just endless meetings chasing cul de sacs, but never in the history of man has there been such hugging and self satisfaction looks from those who have nothing to really say how to get us out of this war with Ukraine

No. What makes you think that?

@Nigelb post at 4.42 on last thread

That was a US Senator.
MAGA, but as yet without the Trump sharpie tick.

OTOH

The United States is now included in the threat assessment issued by Denmark’s Defence Intelligence Service regarding risks to Denmark.

“The United States no longer excludes the possibility of using military force, even against its allies,” according to the latest assessment published by the Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste (FE), Denmark’s military intelligence agency responsible for foreign and security-related threats.

Several Danish media outlets, including Berlingske and Politiken, report on the findings.

“The United States is now using its economic and technological strength as an instrument of power, including against allies and partners,” the report states.

This marks the first time the United States has been identified in the assessment as a country that may pose a security threat to Denmark.
https://x.com/OJoelsen/status/1998512034904945093

About those Epstein files.

President Trump, "In my opinion many European countries will not be viable countries any longer"

"If you take a look at Paris, it's a much different place to what it was"

"If you take a look at London, you have a Mayor named Khan, he's a horrible mayor. An incompetent mayor. But he's a horrible vicious disgusting mayor"
https://x.com/implausibleblog/status/1998493091230257357

Arguably true....

No. It’s not. I despise Khan. I think he’s useless and incompetent and a horrible mayor.

But he’s not vicious or disgusting, words which speak to him as a person rather than his performance as an elected official

He is incredibly bland.

Central casting for the role of “London Mayor” with one line in the movie.

Hating him is like hating a stack of printer paper.

Of course he is bland. He is a Muslim and a person of colour and the only way he can get elected is to be as inoffensive as possible. Some people are allowed to be colourful characters (eg posh white men)and some people aren't. Even in inoffensive form he still faces daily death threats and has extensive police protection, which presumably further hinders any efforts at sponteneity.

About those Epstein files.

President Trump, "In my opinion many European countries will not be viable countries any longer"

"If you take a look at Paris, it's a much different place to what it was"

"If you take a look at London, you have a Mayor named Khan, he's a horrible mayor. An incompetent mayor. But he's a horrible vicious disgusting mayor"
https://x.com/implausibleblog/status/1998493091230257357

Arguably true....

In which case can you give three examples where Sadiq has been vicious? As opposed to from a different political party.....

Anyone attacking Khan in such terms is simply outing themselves as a racist.

I live and work in London, and the main negative adjective I would use for him is being invisible. Not really doing anything of note. Which is obviously much better than a Mayor doing lots of harm, and not as good as a Mayor who delivers lots of positive initiatives.

People like Trump using overly strong adjectives about Khan are saying more about themselves than him.

Oh maaaaaaaate

Criticising Sadiq Khan - racism 😂

About those Epstein files.

President Trump, "In my opinion many European countries will not be viable countries any longer"

"If you take a look at Paris, it's a much different place to what it was"

"If you take a look at London, you have a Mayor named Khan, he's a horrible mayor. An incompetent mayor. But he's a horrible vicious disgusting mayor"
https://x.com/implausibleblog/status/1998493091230257357

Arguably true....

In which case can you give three examples where Sadiq has been vicious? As opposed to from a different political party.....

Anyone attacking Khan in such terms is simply outing themselves as a racist.

I live and work in London, and the main negative adjective I would use for him is being invisible. Not really doing anything of note. Which is obviously much better than a Mayor doing lots of harm, and not as good as a Mayor who delivers lots of positive initiatives.

People like Trump using overly strong adjectives about Khan are saying more about themselves than him.

Oh maaaaaaaate

Criticising Sadiq Khan - racism 😂

Come on, Taz, that's not what he said. It's calling Khan "vicious" and other "overly strong adjectives" that's racist.

Pretty sure his predecessor was called comparable names though.

Is it racism, or just petty and stupid political name-calling?

If it were only him being called names, then yes it would be, but his predecessor was called stuff life that too and so have many other politicians. Most famous politicians get called all sorts, and much of it not very polite.

Is it political name-calling or racism? Well, it was Trump, someone who has been obviously racist for decades, and has said multiple clearly explicitly racist comments in the last few weeks, so I'm guessing the latter.

Trump is racist, I agree, but he also is pathetically petty and calls anyone and everyone by stupid names.

Name-calling by Trump is hardly unique to minorities.

What point are you trying to make here? "Trump is a racist, but let's give him the benefit of the doubt: maybe this particular case of name-calling directed at a brown Muslim is just pettiness." Really?

No, I have absolutely no benefit of the doubt for Trump.

But equally he is pathetic enough that name-calling is par for the course for him. If he were only name-calling against minorities then yes that would be [another] example of racism, but when he goes for stupid and OTT names for everyone he dislikes regardless of race, then no it isn't.

I guess Crooked Hillary and Sleepy Joe were actually black lesbian transgenders in the lanyard wearing world.

What is a lanyard wearer?

It's the latest bizarre insult among the extremely online right. I guess it includes my kids who wear them at school, as well as their teachers and dinner ladies.

Your kids have to wear lanyards?

I hate the damn things* - I wore one in my first 'proper' job in civil service, then didn't need one as a student, then in subsequent jobs I've been issued with an access/ID card and lanyard, but have simply kept the card in my wallet (they're all RFID or similar) and opted not to wear it. No one has objected.

*lanyards, not the people - it's aimed at civil service and academia, I guess, but they must be common in all kinds of office

Yeah, they have different coloured ribbons so the teachers know what year they're in. I don't think the kids mind wearing them, they don't realise they might be mistaken for third sector busybody productivity wreckers by angry rightwingers. The innocence of youth!

About those Epstein files.

President Trump, "In my opinion many European countries will not be viable countries any longer"

"If you take a look at Paris, it's a much different place to what it was"

"If you take a look at London, you have a Mayor named Khan, he's a horrible mayor. An incompetent mayor. But he's a horrible vicious disgusting mayor"
https://x.com/implausibleblog/status/1998493091230257357

Arguably true....

In which case can you give three examples where Sadiq has been vicious? As opposed to from a different political party.....

Anyone attacking Khan in such terms is simply outing themselves as a racist.

I live and work in London, and the main negative adjective I would use for him is being invisible. Not really doing anything of note. Which is obviously much better than a Mayor doing lots of harm, and not as good as a Mayor who delivers lots of positive initiatives.

People like Trump using overly strong adjectives about Khan are saying more about themselves than him.

Oh maaaaaaaate

Criticising Sadiq Khan - racism 😂

About those Epstein files.

President Trump, "In my opinion many European countries will not be viable countries any longer"

"If you take a look at Paris, it's a much different place to what it was"

"If you take a look at London, you have a Mayor named Khan, he's a horrible mayor. An incompetent mayor. But he's a horrible vicious disgusting mayor"
https://x.com/implausibleblog/status/1998493091230257357

Arguably true....

In which case can you give three examples where Sadiq has been vicious? As opposed to from a different political party.....

Anyone attacking Khan in such terms is simply outing themselves as a racist.

I live and work in London, and the main negative adjective I would use for him is being invisible. Not really doing anything of note. Which is obviously much better than a Mayor doing lots of harm, and not as good as a Mayor who delivers lots of positive initiatives.

People like Trump using overly strong adjectives about Khan are saying more about themselves than him.

Oh maaaaaaaate

Criticising Sadiq Khan - racism 😂

Come on, Taz, that's not what he said. It's calling Khan "vicious" and other "overly strong adjectives" that's racist.

Pretty sure his predecessor was called comparable names though.

Is it racism, or just petty and stupid political name-calling?

If it were only him being called names, then yes it would be, but his predecessor was called stuff life that too and so have many other politicians. Most famous politicians get called all sorts, and much of it not very polite.

Is it political name-calling or racism? Well, it was Trump, someone who has been obviously racist for decades, and has said multiple clearly explicitly racist comments in the last few weeks, so I'm guessing the latter.

Trump is racist, I agree, but he also is pathetically petty and calls anyone and everyone by stupid names.

Name-calling by Trump is hardly unique to minorities.

What point are you trying to make here? "Trump is a racist, but let's give him the benefit of the doubt: maybe this particular case of name-calling directed at a brown Muslim is just pettiness." Really?

No, I have absolutely no benefit of the doubt for Trump.

But equally he is pathetic enough that name-calling is par for the course for him. If he were only name-calling against minorities then yes that would be [another] example of racism, but when he goes for stupid and OTT names for everyone he dislikes regardless of race, then no it isn't.

I guess Crooked Hillary and Sleepy Joe were actually black lesbian transgenders in the lanyard wearing world.

What is a lanyard wearer?

People in decent jobs paying high taxes on their earnings. They inhabit that part of society which is not minted enough to generate income from property, but also not desperate enough to consider voting Reform. For reasons that escape me, some people on the right think they are worthy of ridicule rather than their core voting demographic. Weird.

About those Epstein files.

President Trump, "In my opinion many European countries will not be viable countries any longer"

"If you take a look at Paris, it's a much different place to what it was"

"If you take a look at London, you have a Mayor named Khan, he's a horrible mayor. An incompetent mayor. But he's a horrible vicious disgusting mayor"
https://x.com/implausibleblog/status/1998493091230257357

Arguably true....

In which case can you give three examples where Sadiq has been vicious? As opposed to from a different political party.....

Anyone attacking Khan in such terms is simply outing themselves as a racist.

I live and work in London, and the main negative adjective I would use for him is being invisible. Not really doing anything of note. Which is obviously much better than a Mayor doing lots of harm, and not as good as a Mayor who delivers lots of positive initiatives.

People like Trump using overly strong adjectives about Khan are saying more about themselves than him.

Oh maaaaaaaate

Criticising Sadiq Khan - racism 😂

it's the absurdly ott criticism you lemon

About those Epstein files.

President Trump, "In my opinion many European countries will not be viable countries any longer"

"If you take a look at Paris, it's a much different place to what it was"

"If you take a look at London, you have a Mayor named Khan, he's a horrible mayor. An incompetent mayor. But he's a horrible vicious disgusting mayor"
https://x.com/implausibleblog/status/1998493091230257357

Arguably true....

No. It’s not. I despise Khan. I think he’s useless and incompetent and a horrible mayor.

But he’s not vicious or disgusting, words which speak to him as a person rather than his performance as an elected official

If you "despise" Sadiq Khan what word would you reach for to sum up your feelings about Donald Trump?

I’m flying to the US next week so I might plead the 5th.

(“Despise” may be a little strong but he’s redolent of a political class that is self interested, careerist and ineffective. We deserve better leaders. Unfortunately the voters don’t like people who tell them the truth.)

Khan took a brave stance on clean air - the ULEZ extension was unpopular and he faced concerted opposition but he did it because he thought it was the right thing and it has worked - the air in London now meets international health standards. I can't think of another recent UK politician who has taken that kind of brave, non-populist stance. Call him what you want, but he is neither ineffective nor some kind of shallow careerist.