He’s nudging 80 surely he’ll die sooner rather than later
There is also the question of senility
Re Biden- they obviously have no contingency for getting rid of a prez who has lost his marbles.
And I agree Musk is the worry
There were plenty or woodwork creepy crawlies here to troll, and the usual suspects. There’s definitely a few regular posters who either relish the fact of a right wing resembling US govt, never mind the substance, and then those who just enjoy the chaotic nature of it, owning the libs etc. you know, until it affects me I’m just eating popcorn, hur hur.
Never found PJK amusing comrade?
He may have had some witty retorts but never entertaining to me.
Your definition of plenty is different to mine. Over the journey there have been isolated troublemakers who stirred the pot, not “heaps” or “plenty “.
The US has leverage with Egypt and Saudi Arabia in arms supply. The US is also helping out in in the wars of some in Yemen, the Horn of Africa and Iran. Maybe there are beneficiaries of other forms of US aid.
So far, the talk has been about resettlement in the ME, with Egypt and Jordan identified.
Turkey has gone quiet.
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Possibly we have different powers of recollection, but in the words of the great dmaplestone, “Let’s agree to disagree and I’m a muppet”
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Don’t be so precious.
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Trump’s dead cats litter the global floor right now.
Tarrifs threatened against Mexico and Canada walked back. The U.S Postal Service delivery ban on Chinese parcels suddenly reinstated. Before it was Greenland, now its Gaza being supposedly eyed up for RE development by this shonky '80s developer come tax avoider selling his paraphernalia from inside the WH. How he got in there not once but twice is one of life’s true mysteries.
But the goal behind this behaviour is rooted in the dark right wing agenda me thinks. And the NYT spots it and the sheer danger it represents each day Musk is let loose on the private data of U.S citizens and welfare payments system.
“Musk’s team, which includes a small gaggle of young aides, reportedly ages 19 to 24 — have taken control of the Office of Personnel Management and the General Services Administration. They also have access to the Treasury Department’s payment system, which provides a direct line to sensitive information about tens of millions of Americans, including Social Security numbers and bank accounts. By his own account, Musk could use his access to the payments system — which disburses congressional appropriations to the many payees of the government — to effect a kind of personal line-item veto. If he does not believe that a program or grant is effective — if he thinks that it constitutes “waste, fraud and abuse” — then he will cancel its funding and leave it to starve on the vine.”
"Together, Trump and Musk are trying to rewrite the rules of the American system. They are trying to instantiate an anti-constitutional theory of executive power that would make the president supreme over all other branches of government. They are doing so in service of a plutocratic agenda of austerity and the upward redistribution of wealth. And the longer Congress stands by, the more this is fixed in place.
If Trump, Musk and their allies — like Russell Vought, the president’s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget and [a vocal advocate] of an autocratic “radical constitutionalism” that treats the president as an elected despot — succeed, then the question of American politics won’t be if they’ll win the next election, but whether the Constitution as we know it is still in effect."
Its dark out there … but nowhere near as dark as in Washington D.C right now.
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No one is taking Palestinians, been done before and always ended in disaster. Doesn’t really matter though, it is just another Trump diversion.
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A group of Arab Americans that supported Trump during the 2024 election rebranded itself following Trump’s comments on displacing Palestinians, from “Arab Americans for Trump” to “Arab Americans for Peace”.
In a statement, the group said that while they still believed that Trump “is committed to achieving a lasting peace in the Middle East that is satisfactory to ALL parties”, they “take issue with the president’s suggestion of taking over Gaza and removing its Palestinian inhabitants to other parts of the Arab world”.
The group added that it was “adamantly opposed to the notion of transferring Palestinians outside of historic Palestine for ANY reason”.
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What could go wrong? Unqualified kids playing on their computers. I wonder how the airlines will react when people stop flying.
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There are UN run Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and elsewhere, holding the displaced from the Nakba who have never been resettled. Then there are the more recent refugees scattered across the ME.
They are dependent on UNRWA and other UN agencies to survive. Yet the US wants to defund UNRWA and keep the UN institutions from any role in resolution.
It’s a lunatic asylum.
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While many of these brain farts are certainly designed to divert and distract - maybe not by Donny but by his minders - I wouldn’t discount anything where there’s a chance for a dollar from real estate
“Planning to “clean out” Palestinians as a real estate money-making scheme is an idea that has long united the Israeli settler movement and some of Donald Trump’s circle of US property developers.
For decades, state-backed settlers have used concrete, steel and brick to build on occupied land in Palestine in a successful effort to use town-building as a means to claim territory and permanently force Palestinians from their homeland.
This method appealed to sections of Trump’s first administration, and not just because it was filled with apocalyptic evangelical Christians, who see a Jewish presence in the Holy Land as a biblical precondition for Armageddon, which they believe will bring the return of Jesus Christ.
It also spoke to the real estate mindset of Trump’s family and associates, most prominently his son-in-law Jared Kushner, the architect of a 2020 “peace” plan for the Middle East that was never implemented but was heavily focused on investments.
Now, Trump has expanded on the idea to its most extreme position, calling for the US to effectively colonise Gaza in what would amount to an ethnic cleansing of the population of about 2 million people. The plan is then to “develop” on the levelled ground, which is still filled with the bodies of tens of thousands people killed by Israel.
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Can’t agree, who will build in Gaza, a cesspit of terrorists. You aint making money whn bombing and murder will be the order of the day.
Tell the boy robot. It’s not like they’ll be living there, or paying the builders, or holding the hose when it goes titz up. You’re talking about generational shysters here, the aim will be to exploit, grab and scurry. Presidential immunity and pardons all round.
“ Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former aide, was reportedly behind the American president’s plan to remove people from the Gaza Stripand put the territory under US control.
Kushner was involved in crafting Trump’s prepared remarks that he made alongside Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, yesterday, the Times of Israel reports, citing Puck News.
Netanyahu had not requested that Trump pursue such a plan ahead of time, according to the report.
Kushner, who was a senior foreign policy adviser under Trump’s first administration, has previously spoken about the “very valuable” potential of Gaza’s “waterfront property”.
In an interview in February 2024, he suggested Israel should remove civilians while it “cleans up” the strip. “From Israel’s perspective I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up,” he said.
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Yep amusing is about correct, never entertaining. Guess I am precious as I think Politics is serious.
“A free pair of Trump Basketball Kiks with your purchase of a garden facing condo in beautiful Gaza Graveside Gaze Resort and Steakhouse”