The lamentations amongst the liberal-left, Hillary-supporting, rich, London-based Americans of my acquaintance are completely off the scale, and their fantasies about whether Trump might be impeached are pitiful to behold.
Some of you on this site are literally obsessed with the liberal left. I see so many posts about liberal-left reactions on this site it's unbelievable, especially since most PBers are right-wing.
I'm here today to honor our democracy & its enduring values. I will never stop believing in our country & its future. #Inauguration 3:53 PM - 20 Jan 2017
No dear, you're there because you're the wife an ex-president.
Doesn't the loser always come to the inauguration? Or do they stay away?
No they always turn up.
Actually she would have been invited on multiple fronts as
@tnewtondunn: Confirmed: UKIP leader @paulnuttallukip tells me he has "put my hat in the ring" to stand in Stoke Central. He'll be at hustings tonight.
Can't be denied that the advent of Trump raises the Female Hotness quotient in DC. God bless Michelle, but she was no looker. A great speaker and arguably more inspiring than her husband. But not a looker.
Tiffany Trump's more the age you go for, isn't she?
I'm here today to honor our democracy & its enduring values. I will never stop believing in our country & its future. #Inauguration 3:53 PM - 20 Jan 2017
No dear, you're there because you're the wife an ex-president.
Doesn't the loser always come to the inauguration? Or do they stay away?
No they always turn up.
Actually she would have been invited on multiple fronts as
1) Defeated candidate
2) Spouse of a former President
3) Former Secretary of State
4) they need to know her whereabouts for the arrest in just over 50 mins time.
Mr. D, I just hope Charles doesn't bugger it up with his 'Defence of Faith' nonsense.
'Defender of the faith, and all faiths' would be a good compromise. Not sure what that is in Latin though!
Fidei et fiderum omnium defensor. Because of course we need to signal to the world our absolute conviction that blowing up infidels while shouting wossname akbar is not in any way a distinctive characteristic of any particular faith whatever, no, siree.
Mr. Thompson, I'd be very wary of unravelling the tapestry of the British constitutional set-up. Recent efforts at change have been cack-handed, short-sighted and narrow-minded.
@John_M I've seen several posters on here support the Republican side of the argument in regard to American 'culture wars.' I don't think such people can be considered 'socially liberal'. I think there's a difference between having one or two socially liberally views, to actually being socially liberal. I'd also say there's more than a 'mild' hostility to Muslims on this site.
Mr. D, I just hope Charles doesn't bugger it up with his 'Defence of Faith' nonsense.
'Defender of the faith, and all faiths' would be a good compromise. Not sure what that is in Latin though!
Fidei et fiderum omnium defensor. Because of course we need to signal to the world our absolute conviction that blowing up infidels while shouting wossname akbar is not in any way a distinctive characteristic of any particular faith whatever, no, siree.
My thought would be to have it separate, so Fidei defensor is distinct, but maybe that would be awkward in Latin
Trump's speech is going to be yuge short apparently (according to sky).
JFK was 13 minutes. Trump is apparently going to be about 20.
He wants it nice and short so he can get back to the White House and start playing with those codes as soon as possible.
I think he might start out on those trashing a McDonalds first. Just to let folks know - you can't take on the symbols of corporate America in the age of the Donald without being dropped in the Potomac from a chopper....
I'm here today to honor our democracy & its enduring values. I will never stop believing in our country & its future. #Inauguration 3:53 PM - 20 Jan 2017
No dear, you're there because you're the wife an ex-president.
Doesn't the loser always come to the inauguration? Or do they stay away?
Hillary looks reasonably relaxed about it all to me. Her husband on the other hand looks like he wants to punch someone.
Can't be denied that the advent of Trump raises the Female Hotness quotient in DC. God bless Michelle, but she was no looker. A great speaker and arguably more inspiring than her husband. But not a looker.
Tiffany Trump's more the age you go for, isn't she?
I dunno. Who is who? All i see is a lot of, quite frankly, very do-able young blonde women. Who apparently belong to the Trump Dynasty.
Even with your recent well earned mini fortune, I don't think you are rich enough to be in with a shot with them.
Can't be denied that the advent of Trump raises the Female Hotness quotient in DC. God bless Michelle, but she was no looker. A great speaker and arguably more inspiring than her husband. But not a looker.
Tiffany Trump's more the age you go for, isn't she?
I dunno. Who is who? All i see is a lot of, quite frankly, very do-able young blonde women. Who apparently belong to the Trump Dynasty.
Ten minutes until my shortest ever odds bet pays out
Kerchingchingcing BOOM
TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP
It's only January 20th but I think I'm nailed on to win Tipster of the year for my 1/25 tip on Trump to be inaugurated
A near perfect tipster.
Never has winning £2 after staking £50 felt so good.
Yep. I really wanted someone to go into a shop with a suitcase of cash for that bet. Apparently it got cut to 1/50 after you tipped it here and we all got on.
Feel a bit sorry for Hillary for the first time in my entire life. This must be excruciating for her.
Beyond that I should imagine. The English language needs a new adjective for this one.
I actually don't feel that sorry for Hillary. After this she can go back to her nice life. It'll be ordinary Americans who will have to deal with the consequences of a Trump administration.
Can't be denied that the advent of Trump raises the Female Hotness quotient in DC. God bless Michelle, but she was no looker. A great speaker and arguably more inspiring than her husband. But not a looker.
Tiffany Trump's more the age you go for, isn't she?
I dunno. Who is who? All i see is a lot of, quite frankly, very do-able young blonde women. Who apparently belong to the Trump Dynasty.
LOL. Tiffany's the youngest one of all the fit blondes in white. Left of the picture as they stand together. Born 1993, so aged 23.
Many skeletons in the attic. Apparently. Quite a man for the ladies.
Though Trump kinda shows you can now get away with this....
Given Bill Clinton, I doubt that would have mattered even if hadn't been up against Trump. I would have thought he would have managed to position himself far better than Hilary as the candidate for managed change.
@SeanT Well, Bill Clinton (along with JFK) showed that you can get away with infidelity. What Trump did/said was a lot more darker than mere infidelity....
@SeanT Well, Bill Clinton (along with JFK) showed that you can get away with infidelity. What Trump did/said was a lot more darker than mere infidelity....
WTF? The allegations against Clinton are easily as bad as anything hurled at Trump. Indeed they are probably worse and more lurid, and with better evidence.
I was thinking about Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. I don't know what you're talking about.
EDIT: I don't know how much 'better' evidence you can get than a man admitting what he's done on tape btw.
Most definitely. For a start he would have come out fighting against Trump - calling it all a loud of snake oil and mallarky and he wouldn't have listened to all the Big Data, voter profile, Ada machine stuff that Clinton focused on rather than actually getting a message together and getting out there.
@SeanT Well, Bill Clinton (along with JFK) showed that you can get away with infidelity. What Trump did/said was a lot more darker than mere infidelity....
Google what jfk made Mimi Alford do to whom, with whom as onlooker.
First job, just drop a fucking nuke on ISIS in Palmyra. They've now destroyed the last bit of the city. So who cares. Vaporize them.
Obama would never do so, in case it caused global warming. Trump just might.
Nah - Obama would not have dropped a nuke on the middle east because it would have been a catastrophically stupid thing to do. As you say, Trump just might.
Most definitely. For a start he would have come out fighting against Trump - calling it all a loud of snake oil and mallarky and he wouldn't have listened to all the Big Data, voter profile, Ada machine stuff that Clinton focused on rather than actually getting a message together and getting out there.
First job, just drop a fucking nuke on ISIS in Palmyra. They've now destroyed the last bit of the city. So who cares. Vaporize them.
Obama would never do so, in case it caused global warming. Trump just might.
Nah - Obama would not have dropped a nuke on the middle east because it would have been a catastrophically stupid thing to do. As you say, Trump just might.
All it will take is an ISIS operative to tweet that Trump's hair doesn't look right and then boom!!!!!
First job, just drop a fucking nuke on ISIS in Palmyra. They've now destroyed the last bit of the city. So who cares. Vaporize them.
Obama would never do so, in case it caused global warming. Trump just might.
Nah - Obama would not have dropped a nuke on the middle east because it would have been a catastrophically stupid thing to do. As you say, Trump just might.
With regard to the Middle East there's no shortage of catastrophically stupid things that have been done in the last century
Most definitely. For a start he would have come out fighting against Trump - calling it all a loud of snake oil and mallarky and he wouldn't have listened to all the Big Data, voter profile, Ada machine stuff that Clinton focused on rather than actually getting a message together and getting out there.
Biden is the sitting vice-president. He was elected with Obama -- based on big data and all the rest of it.
@SeanT Well, Bill Clinton (along with JFK) showed that you can get away with infidelity. What Trump did/said was a lot more darker than mere infidelity....
Google what jfk made Mimi Alford do to whom, with whom as onlooker.
As the flip side to Hillary, what must Trump be feeling now? An incredible moment for a total outsider, the Leicester City of politicians. Whatever you think of him, chapeau.
Trump was walking with a scowl and slow swagger reminiscent of a mafia boss from central casting.
I agree with @Jonathan. Obama's been the best POTUS in my lifetime (though that lifetime is only 23 years). I'll miss him when he's gone (and Michelle too).
As the flip side to Hillary, what must Trump be feeling now? An incredible moment for a total outsider, the Leicester City of politicians. Whatever you think of him, chapeau.
Trump was walking with a scowl and slow swagger reminiscent of a mafia boss from central casting.
As the flip side to Hillary, what must Trump be feeling now? An incredible moment for a total outsider, the Leicester City of politicians. Whatever you think of him, chapeau.
What a remarkable achievement for a billionaire son of a millionaire to reach high office.
As the flip side to Hillary, what must Trump be feeling now? An incredible moment for a total outsider, the Leicester City of politicians. Whatever you think of him, chapeau.
Trump was walking with a scowl and slow swagger reminiscent of a mafia boss from central casting.
Those bullet proof vests are heavy and uncomfortable.
@SeanT Well, Bill Clinton (along with JFK) showed that you can get away with infidelity. What Trump did/said was a lot more darker than mere infidelity....
WTF? The allegations against Clinton are easily as bad as anything hurled at Trump. Indeed they are probably worse and more lurid, and with better evidence.
Kennedy was no saint either. On a par and in some respects worse than Clinton.
No. The monarch must be Defender of the Faith. He's going to be supreme governor of the Church of England, not a Grand Ayatollah, Chief Rabbi or Lord High Monk.
The title is a historical anachronism brought about by the sheer chutzpah of Henry VIII.
If memory serves, Henry VIII, a good Catholic king in his younger days, was awarded the title by the Pope in recognition of a book or tract Henry wrote refuting the Martin Luther's articles and reforming zeal. When for reasons of dynasty (or lust) Henry broke with Rome and told the Pope to get stuffed he simply kept using the title the title, as have successive monarchs ever since, including two Catholic ones
The Monarch being supreme governor of the Church of England is a statement of constitutional fact. Being Defender of the Faith is rather dubious.
As the flip side to Hillary, what must Trump be feeling now? An incredible moment for a total outsider, the Leicester City of politicians. Whatever you think of him, chapeau.
What a remarkable achievement for a billionaire son of a millionaire to reach high office.
Obama's achievement is greater.
Yep. Being the first African-American man to hold office is a much greater achievement than a orange-tanned white man being born into wealth going on to be President. Barack and Michelle Obama have inspired many in the eight years with their stories. I'm not actually sure who Trump 'inspires'.
I agree with @Jonathan. Obama's been the best POTUS in my lifetime (though that lifetime is only 23 years). I'll miss him when he's gone (and Michelle too).
@SeanT Well, Bill Clinton (along with JFK) showed that you can get away with infidelity. What Trump did/said was a lot more darker than mere infidelity....
WTF? The allegations against Clinton are easily as bad as anything hurled at Trump. Indeed they are probably worse and more lurid, and with better evidence.
Kennedy was no saint either. On a par and in some respects worse than Clinton.
Kennedy put a man on the Moon. I wonder what Trump can achieve. His tech squillionaire meeting was a very positive step I thought.
Economically he might just be brilliant... Socially I expect him to be a fairly standard republican.
@SeanT Well, Bill Clinton (along with JFK) showed that you can get away with infidelity. What Trump did/said was a lot more darker than mere infidelity....
Google what jfk made Mimi Alford do to whom, with whom as onlooker.
Its been pretty obvious that Farage has been angling for some well paid sinecures in the States. If Fox News is the most trusted television source in the USA I have sympathy for Americans. Murdoch's fingerprints all over it.
Its been pretty obvious that Farage has been angling for some well paid sinecures in the States. If Fox News is the most trusted television source in the USA I have sympathy for Americans. Murdoch's fingerprints all over it.
Mr. Llama, if Charles want to drop the term, it'd be fine. If he wants to change it to Defender of Faith then he's going beyond his role (head of the Anglican church) whilst excluding atheists and agnostics. Is he going to defend scientologists? Pastafarians? Jedi?
Anyway, we'll find out. Unless he dies before HM, of course, but that seems unlikely.
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Actually she would have been invited on multiple fronts as
1) Defeated candidate
2) Spouse of a former President
3) Former Secretary of State
PaddyPower gave me 6/4
Or from The Omen....
EDIT: I don't know how much 'better' evidence you can get than a man admitting what he's done on tape btw.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38688786
http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/goodbye-to-tristram.html
http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/a-political-guide-to-stoke-on-trent.html
http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/previewing-stoke-on-trent-central-by.html
Quite fitting by the looks of him.
Black Lives Matter
They are both competent, serious, and have a vision for this Country that is needed to take the people through our divorce from the EU
Obama's achievement is greater.
https://twitter.com/msmithsonpb/status/822483104686309376
If memory serves, Henry VIII, a good Catholic king in his younger days, was awarded the title by the Pope in recognition of a book or tract Henry wrote refuting the Martin Luther's articles and reforming zeal. When for reasons of dynasty (or lust) Henry broke with Rome and told the Pope to get stuffed he simply kept using the title the title, as have successive monarchs ever since, including two Catholic ones
The Monarch being supreme governor of the Church of England is a statement of constitutional fact. Being Defender of the Faith is rather dubious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=034fNYyY9HU
Economically he might just be brilliant... Socially I expect him to be a fairly standard republican.
Ah, faith trumps reality...
Anyway, we'll find out. Unless he dies before HM, of course, but that seems unlikely.
He is a charismatic speaker, but his stock is in the toilet right now. Farage never promised or wanted the single market.