OutByEaster? Posted December 21, 2017 Moderator Share Posted December 21, 2017 Quote “I must also say today: When we make generous contributions to the UN, we also have expectation that we will be respected,” she said. “What’s more, we are being asked to pay for the dubious privileges of being disrespected.” Haley added: “If our investment fails, we have an obligation to spend our investment in other ways… The United States will remember this day.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/21/united-nations-un-vote-donald-trump-jerusalem-israel It's nice that our global leader has stopped hiding its contempt for the rest of the world isn't it? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 1 hour ago, OutByEaster? said: I do hope we haven't embarrassed the UK with a cowardly abstention. Seems not. Well done to the government. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted December 21, 2017 Author Share Posted December 21, 2017 Yep, glad the UK voted for that. Cowardice from Canada and Oz though. So embarrassing that this is even an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted December 21, 2017 Moderator Share Posted December 21, 2017 1 minute ago, maqroll said: Cowardice from Canada and Oz though. There was a feeling that Canada would vote with the US, so their abstention is being seen as a dissent. I'm not sure that quite gets them off the hook personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 The similarities don't end there. The groups of paid help clustered round to watch him signing something. Forming a semicircle to watch him speak, with fawning, attentive expressions. Standing alertly by, clutching a notebook to capture the utterings of the supreme leader. Some kind of mental illness, a childish fantasy being played out in real life, with real consequences for real people. Two cheeks of the same arse. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 The figures are quite astonishing. Vietnam changed the consciousness of the nation, helped form a counterculture, and drew attention to the important medical condition known as "bone spurs". The greater numbers killed by avoidable accidents are so much greater, and yet make so much less impression. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 This is outrageous. It is a clear breach of the human rights of Mr Kushner, and more importantly it cuts across the sacred duty of institutions to maintain total client confidentiality at all times, whatever the circumstances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 US ambassador to Netherlands describes own words as 'fake news' Quote New ambassador Pete Hoekstra then denied saying he’d used the phrase in interview with Dutch TV The US ambassador to the Netherlands faced an excruciating moment on television when he denied ever saying that there were no-go zones in the Netherlands, calling the suggestion “fake news”. Trump’s new choice for ambassador, Pete Hoekstra, who was only sworn in by the vice president, Mike Pence, on 11 December, was being interviewed for current affairs programme Nieuwsuur by reporter Wouter Zwart. Zwart says: “You mentioned in a debate that there are no-go zones in the Netherlands, and that cars and politicians are being set on fire in the Netherlands.” Hoekstra replies: “I didn’t say that. This is actually an incorrect statement. We would call it fake news.” Hoekstra is then shown clips of him saying: “The Islamic movement has now gotten to a point where they have put Europe into chaos. Chaos in the Netherlands, there are cars being burnt, there are politicians that are being burnt ... and yes there are no-go zones in the Netherlands.” Challenged about having called this “fake news”, Hoekstra then went on to deny to Zwart that he had in fact used the phrase “fake news”. “I didn’t call that fake news. I didn’t use the words today. I don’t think I did.” Hoekstra, who was born in Groningen in the Netherlands, was a Republican Congressman for Michigan between 1993 and 2011, and served as chair of the House intelligence committee for two years during that time. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Oh dear. The turf war between white supremacist Bannon and the clueless spawn of the evil dictator has reached a new low. Quote Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner are under fresh scrutiny over their influence at the White House after a very public eruption of their feud with former chief strategist Steve Bannon. In a gloves-off interview with Vanity Fair magazine, Bannon laid bare the mutual enmity with the senior advisers to the president, one of the worst-kept secrets of the Trump administration. “The railhead of all bad decisions is the same railhead: Javanka,” he said, using a nickname that conflates the couple. Bannon, who returned to rightwing site Breitbart News after being forced out of the White House in August, recalled an Oval Office meeting in which he accused Ivanka of being “the queen of leaks”. The first daughter allegedly retorted: I'm afraid I can't quote what she said, because it breaches site rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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NurembergVillan Posted December 24, 2017 Moderator Share Posted December 24, 2017 22 hours ago, peterms said: Bannon, who returned to rightwing site Breitbart News after being forced out of the White House in August, recalled an Oval Office meeting in which he accused Ivanka of being “the queen of leaks”. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted December 25, 2017 Moderator Share Posted December 25, 2017 Merry Christmas from Donald, without whom we'd still be trapped in a world where we were no longer allowed to say it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikantcpell Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 Is Trump still alive? The Secret Service must be doing a really good job. The amount of hate he is getting is alittle bit shocking, Hate doesn't solve anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 That's the President tweeting about the current deputy director of the FBI. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 7 hours ago, Ikantcpell said: Is Trump still alive? The Secret Service must be doing a really good job. The amount of hate he is getting is alittle bit shocking, Hate doesn't solve anything. Really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 14 hours ago, Ikantcpell said: The amount of hate he is getting is alittle bit shocking, Hate doesn't solve anything. Tell Trump and his supporters that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikantcpell Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 9 hours ago, Keyblade said: Really? Disagree with him but dont hate him, hate is wasted energy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 16 hours ago, snowychap said: That's the President tweeting about the current deputy director of the FBI. who has been caught with his pants down... actually caught, not just alleged via anonymous sources. Whatever about Trump, the FBI is a thoroughly corrupt organization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 8 minutes ago, villakram said: who has been caught with his pants down... actually caught, not just alleged via anonymous sources. Whatever about Trump, the FBI is a thoroughly corrupt organization. That's all very well but then they should go through procedures to deal with and address that. Has McCabe been removed from his post? Has he been suspended? My point was not about who had done right or wrong but that you have the holder of the highest office in the US making public snide comments about another very senior ('non-political') official. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 1 hour ago, Ikantcpell said: Disagree with him but dont hate him, hate is wasted energy. a simple search shows you hate some things too. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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