Trump will today declare a national emergency at the southern US border, all illegal entry will be halted and millions of illegal immigrants returned to whence they came. Catch and release policy and troops will be sent to enforce that
FWIW, and its not much, the SC decision on immunity has no impact on the right of Congress to impeach a President. But since the description given in the heading is an absurdly flattering depiction of the Republican Senators and their concept of morality Trump is indeed safe.
Well this is an example of putting out a positive and confident vision rather than managed decline. Take note, Labour. However, I do not doubt that the end result will be more power and wealth for the rich.
HAHAHAHAH He's actually renamed the Gulf of Mexico
See also:
Persian Gulf / Arabian Gulf
Using the former in the UAE does not go down well.
How long until the European Commission starts insisting on calling the North Sea the "German Sea"?
As I just posted it would just be reverting to its pre WW1 English name.
"Just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Naming things is a highly political act.
But your point is dumb. The Northern Europeans including the Germans always called it the North Sea. It was the British who decided to change what they called it from the German Sea to the North Sea. In a way we were falling into line with the rest of Europe even if we were doing it for other reasons.
Musk has just tweeted that Britain should rename the North Sea "the East Sea" so expect this to be Conservative policy by the weekend
Doesn't he realise it's North from London?
Tsk.
"The Zone 6 Sea"
It shows a complete misunderstanding of why places are named as they are, and what those names signify.
For example, Britons call the sea between Britain and Ireland the Irish Sea. Is this because we've somehow ceded it to them? No. It's because Britain is a maritime nation with a lot of seas to keep track of and you can't call them all British because then you wouldn't know which was which. So we call that sea the Irish Sea because it's the one next to Ireland from the point of view of Britain.
It demonstrates that Britain has wider horizons that go beyond its territorial waters.
Trump's small-mindedness is starkly revealed by the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.
So "English channel" demonstrates the small-mindedness of England?
Yes. It shows our insecurity at having lost the Hundred Years War to France. The psychology goes something like:
"Okay, so you've taken Normandy, Aquitaine, Gascony and now even Calais, but this, this Channel, it's OURS!"
Kinda pathetic really.
Is that what happened? I assumed "English Channel" was a translation of what some people on the continent called it.
Anyway, as you say, it's fairly unusual (I think) for a country to name an adjacent body of water after itself.
Bit like finding an Oxford Street in Oxford.
I believe it's conventional in English to name a body of water after the second largest adjacent landmass.
IIRC the 'English Channel' really was deemed to be English full stop. In the old days the English kings decided they owned it and insisted that every foreign ship salute any Royal ship - hence the old ship name Sovereign of the Seas. Trouble was, they often didn't provide the bite to match their bark, so to speak (and compare UK administrations since and including Mrs Thatcher).
Caused many a skirmish right up to the occasional war.
I wonder how Harris feels watching this. Must be awful having to sit there. At least she turned up. ‘Here’s what you could have won’. Last time out a sore loser no showed.
Well this is an example of putting out a positive and confident vision rather than managed decline. Take note, Labour. However, I do not doubt that the end result will be more power and wealth for the rich.
Boris Johnson was good at bigging up the nation, unfortunately the delivery wasn't quite in keeping with the rhetoric. Liz Truss was also good at bigging up the nation, oh...
Trump confirms he will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich US citizens and have a US internal revenue service actively enforcing tariffs on imported goods
Basically, the USA is now two mafia gangs who occasionally slot each other, and who look after their own
Frankly hard to disagree with your take. This is an anbsolute abomination.
I just see it as Biden not being willing to sacrifice his family on the alter of democracy. Understandable really.
I see it as Biden shitting on what's left of his reputation, and levelling the moral balance between his administration and his successor’s.
You don't think it says more about Trump's previous threats to maliciously prosecute Biden's entire family when he becomes president, and his disregard for the rule of law, than it does about Biden's "moral balance" ?
At inauguration, he is not only older than any previously inaugurated US president but also older than all but four leaders of any G7 country since 1945 were when they *left* office.
Trump confirms he will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich US citizens and have a US internal revenue service actively enforcing tariffs on imported goods
CBS: Biden has pardoned basically his entire family, obviously because they're not at all guilty of anything.
By “whole family”, do you just, in fact, mean his son?
No, he has apparently done all of the Bidens
Really? If true, it’s just insane.
There is still perhaps, a second or so for him to be effectively sectioned, and for Kamala to step in.
'The Biden Crime Family' of which Hunter is the 'nominated defendant' (I think) ie the one that gets all the shit/prison etc. so the rest can look innocent is a very big conspiracy theory.
Which these catch-all pardons do very little to scotch.
Common mistake: The House has the power to "impeach", not the Senate. (Think of an impeachment as roughly equivalent to an indictment.)
If the House impeaches a president, then the Senate holds a trial.
(Incidentally, I agree that Mitch McConnell erred by not convicting Trump after his second impeachment. But I would have made the same mistake, because I figured Trump was history, and wouldn't bother us again.)
Trump pulling no punches. Guardian and BBC crapping their pants.
The left will be having a collective breakdown, all because they didn't take Biden out of the running years ago
I expected a change but this is far more than anything anyone could have imagined and as I said earlier, the world order has changed on today, 20th January 2025
I guess in a world where big countries take bits of smaller countries if they feel like it, every single country in the world will be scrambling to get a few nukes.
Trump promises to be a peacemaker and unifier and not get involved in foreign wars while hostages are coming home from Gaza
So Ukraine is screwed, Taiwan has problems and Panama is about to be invaded
If Merz wins in Germany next month that will help Ukraine as he has promised more military aid for them then Scholz has, Taiwan probably needs to get nuclear weapons, Panama is screwed
Trump pulling no punches. Guardian and BBC crapping their pants.
The left will be having a collective breakdown, all because they didn't take Biden out of the running years ago
I expected a change but this is far more than anything anyone could have imagined as I said earlier the world order has changed on today, 20th January 2025
Instead of acting righteous and acting like you or your children are not affected by any of this, why don't you tell us what your opinion is for a change rather than making casual swipes at "the left" who on the whole, especially normal every day people, had absolutely no say as to whether Biden ran or not.
Drill Baby Drill, finally something I can get behind, we need to exploit while we transition to renewables.
The funny bit is that the US did "drill baby drill" under Biden: there was next to no new regulation of tight oil and gas production, and US oil production reached new heights in 2024. Current US oil production is about 13.5m barrels per day, up from 12.9m at the end of the Trump era. And pretty much all of that growth is tight oil out of the Permian.
There are two things that Trump could row back on:
(1) The ban on new offshore drilling, which was only announced this month... and which will make very little difference, because lead times are long and offshore US oil is not really cost competitive with the Permian.
(2) The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Drilling will I'm sure be reinstated... but it's not clear that is cost competitive with the Permian either. I'm sure there will be some exploratory well drilled, but it's hard to see why big oil and gas companies would want to spend a lot of money on stuff that is unlikely to be particularly cost competitive, has long lead times, and which could get rolled back by the next administration.
Trump pulling no punches. Guardian and BBC crapping their pants.
The left will be having a collective breakdown, all because they didn't take Biden out of the running years ago
I expected a change but this is far more than anything anyone could have imagined and as I said earlier, the world order has changed on today, 20th January 2025
Trump pulling no punches. Guardian and BBC crapping their pants.
The left will be having a collective breakdown, all because they didn't take Biden out of the running years ago
I expected a change but this is far more than anything anyone could have imagined and as I said earlier, the world order has changed on today, 20th January 2025
Biden was the only Democrat who actually beat Trump
For a secular nation they don't have toady to God. Seems all very foreign.
Secular nation? There might be separation of church and state in theory, but they're way more religious than us in reality.
Regular church attendance in the US has declined from 42% in 2003 to 30% in 2023.
And it's about 5% here, so the point stands.
Church of England regular attendance is 1%.
Might want to change its name to something like Church of Old, Habit-Driven, Traditionalist England With Nothing Better To Do On A Sunday.
Depends where you go, evangelical Holy Trinity Brompton for instance is a C of E church with £10 million in its coffers and lots of young people and families in its congregation. In our rural churches we get Roman Catholics and evangelicals too as the C of E churches are the only churches of any denomination in our small villages and hamlets. Cathedrals also get a good number for their services and paying tourists
Trump pulling no punches. Guardian and BBC crapping their pants.
The left will be having a collective breakdown, all because they didn't take Biden out of the running years ago
I expected a change but this is far more than anything anyone could have imagined and as I said earlier, the world order has changed on today, 20th January 2025
Thoughtful right wingers really ought to be having a collective breakdown as well. This guy is your global standard bearer- are these really your standards?
As the line in the movie goes, Do you still think you can control them?
...I expected a change but this is far more than anything anyone could have imagined...
Um, everything he has said has been pretty widely trailed over the last few days or weeks, and Project 2025/Agenda47/whatever were wide-ranging and specific. There's nothing here that's surprising.
Trump pulling no punches. Guardian and BBC crapping their pants.
The left will be having a collective breakdown, all because they didn't take Biden out of the running years ago
I expected a change but this is far more than anything anyone could have imagined as I said earlier the world order has changed on today, 20th January 2025
Instead of acting righteous and acting like you or your children are not affected by any of this, why don't you tell us what your opinion is for a change rather than making casual swipes at "the left" who on the whole, especially normal every day people, had absolutely no say as to whether Biden ran or not.
It is not righteous to say the obvious and it will have consequences for everyone
Trump confirms he will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich US citizens and have a US internal revenue service actively enforcing tariffs on imported goods
Welcome to the 1930s.
How did that turn out, can we remember?
Bad day to be Ukrainian, Panamanian or a Greenlander.
RIP British Foreign Policy 1940-2024. You had a good run.
This is the point. "America first" on steroids means that America is not our friend and we should act as such. The other alternative is that we capitulate and simply join the United States.
Designating the drug cartels as "foreign terrorist organisations" - anyone have a feel for how consequential that is?
Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy.
Probably his most best book - the film rewrote the story stupidly.
In the book, the President declares the Colombian drug cartel (supposed to be Medellin, give the time, but not named) as a threat to the US. The use of the military goes slowly wrong. It’s not (largely) due to overt evil - people do X, which seems reasonable to them. Which causes Y. Then someone does Z.
Trump pulling no punches. Guardian and BBC crapping their pants.
The left will be having a collective breakdown, all because they didn't take Biden out of the running years ago
I expected a change but this is far more than anything anyone could have imagined and as I said earlier, the world order has changed on today, 20th January 2025
Biden was the only Democrat who actually beat Trump
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Trump - what a COMPLETE TOSSER
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States
Caused many a skirmish right up to the occasional war.
I found her name - Deb Fischer!
At inauguration, he is not only older than any previously inaugurated US president but also older than all but four leaders of any G7 country since 1945 were when they *left* office.
Mention Greenland! You know you want to!
Which these catch-all pardons do very little to scotch.
Wondering what else he might rename.
He says McKinley made America very rich through tariffs and investment and involvement in Panama Canal.
He says his America will take back the Panama Canal as they have been giving it to China to use in Panama
Next Greenland?
Surprised he didn't call it the Gulf of Trump. Maybe he's saving that for one or both of the oceans bordering the country.
If the House impeaches a president, then the Senate holds a trial.
(Incidentally, I agree that Mitch McConnell erred by not convicting Trump after his second impeachment. But I would have made the same mistake, because I figured Trump was history, and wouldn't bother us again.)
I expected a change but this is far more than anything anyone could have imagined and as I said earlier, the world order has changed on today, 20th January 2025
There are two things that Trump could row back on:
(1) The ban on new offshore drilling, which was only announced this month... and which will make very little difference, because lead times are long and offshore US oil is not really cost competitive with the Permian.
(2) The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Drilling will I'm sure be reinstated... but it's not clear that is cost competitive with the Permian either. I'm sure there will be some exploratory well drilled, but it's hard to see why big oil and gas companies would want to spend a lot of money on stuff that is unlikely to be particularly cost competitive, has long lead times, and which could get rolled back by the next administration.
As the line in the movie goes,
Do you still think you can control them?
Everything was working well up till now...
Bad day to be Ukrainian, Panamanian or a Greenlander.
Probably his most best book - the film rewrote the story stupidly.
In the book, the President declares the Colombian drug cartel (supposed to be Medellin, give the time, but not named) as a threat to the US. The use of the military goes slowly wrong. It’s not (largely) due to overt evil - people do X, which seems reasonable to them. Which causes Y. Then someone does Z.