Regardless of what you think about Donald Trump he does exactly what it says on his tin.
That’s not to say what is in the tin is especially nourishing. Personally I would not like to be sitting down for a steaming bowl of Trump every day for the next four years. The Americans voted him in and it’s their lot now.
But what is surprising is how surprised the US media is whenever Trump makes a policy announcement.
First we had the immigration bans. The US media went into a profound almost anaphylactic shock over that one. Trump had promised it and he made good on his pledge.
Since Trump concluded his European tour WaPo, The NY Times, Politico, the New Yorker and The Atlantic among many others have reported almost breathlessly in musings of the “will he, won’t he?” type regarding the Paris Accord.
Full column here.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/02/leo-varadkar-becomes-irelands-prime-minister-elect
Well I’m thinking to meself that Mrs Court will not be attending Bloomsday celebrations on the 16th after all. And could yers not mention Aer Lingus to her at all? The poor woman could die from the horrors.
umm …… zombie already?
I read he wants to be the “champion of those who get up early in the morning”.
Haw, haw.
Worse; she could spend years licking aeroplanes.
Hi Jack,
What do you think about the Kathy Griffin and the severed head bit?
Is satire dead in the US.
It’s a funny old world when comedians are held to higher standards than politicians.
good lord, is she a comedian?
I didn’t say she was a good one. I’ve always found her over the top, screeching, way too loud but yes, she is a comedian.
Bitter biter bit?
whatt I see is hhaaiirpiece
I say, Mr Insider, I blushed when this article passed my desk as Ms Theresa May the current British PM tells us “I had the Balls to call an election”. Ms May just “may” have revealed too much info! Meanwhile would be PM, Socialist Jeremy Corbyn has failed to say, when vigorously questioned, whether he would use Nuclear Weapons to defend the UK in event of an all out attack. Clearly a “meaty” matter which has indeed found Corbyn lacking the said “balls” that May says she has! I ask could this election be decided this coming final week of the Campaign on who has the biggest Balls, or indeed who actually has Balls?
http://tinyurl.com/yb2k9ylv
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As for the nuclear deterrent check out “The Grand Design” episode of Yes Minister where the chief scientist walks newly minted PM James Hacker through a number of scenarios where he would not use the nuclear deterrent (because it would mean committing suicide) even if the Russians were knocking down the door of the Reform club!.
So let’s not get to hysterical about Jeremy Corbyn, most nuclear powers have renounced the first strike option.
Good points there Uncle Quentin and how we all love “Yes Minister”, “Grand Design” linked. However any government or leader who is not prepared to defend his or her Country should stand down and hold their heads in shame imho. POTUS Trump most certainly would defend the USA with a counter Nuclear Strike. Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHP_LOtx6Ik
And under the heading of Career Suicide, the last gig “comedian” Kathy Griffin still had booked has canceled on her. This was _after_ her weird press conference with Gloria Allred’s daughter Lisa Bloom.
The very first sentence of this piece makes every dollar I ever spent on my Oz subscription worth it!:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/western-climate-change-alarmists-wont-admit-they-are-wrong/news-story/892c0088ec01f9186e068f55f2ca6794
Yes, a good read. And a nice play on hide and seek.
3…2…1 coming, ready or not!
And Freeman Dyson seems to take a less hysterical approach to the subject (I wish a few others would follow his lead):
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/letters-to-a-heretic-an-email-conversation-with-climate-change-sceptic-professor-freeman-dyson-2224912.html
What would the smartest man on the planet know?
Enough to know what we don’t know?
Brilliant!!!!!
Clive might be pretty sick right now Bowie, but this is one of his masterpieces.
He lined em up and knocked them over like ten pins. JB has the right of reply, but won’t come near the linguistic, logical James.
Seems a waste to pay for pretty lies, when you can get the facts for nothing by opening up a recent edition of any reputable science journal.
a little more deference to said journals earlier …..well Mr James wouldn’t have had cause to scribble this article
You do know Green Left Weekly is only peer-reviewed by a wino who sells The Big Issue?
Yeh well, one man’s reputable is another man’s fish and chip wrapper.
Saw a job ad once at a “reputable government department” That sounded suss so I didn’t apply.
Good instincts.
Oxymoron city
The only conclusion I come to is that Clive is taking the piss out of climate change deniers. Bit too subtle for you?
I think Deipnosophs reply to Jason (heh heh) (Thank you ball boys) and his giant lizards covers it don’t you?
Hint. That heat isn’t hiding, it’s very active
https://wickedweatherwatch.org.uk/greenland-ice-melting-faster-than-hoped/
It’s amazing how many conclusions you reach about other people’s opinions that are the exact opposite of what those people are saying. You have to stop listening to the strange voices in your head.
I was being generous Swantoon. He appears to be repeating every standard idiotic prevarication, obfuscation and gainsay of AGW denialists as if lampooning them. There is of course the possibility he has become a facile twat inveigling himself with vested interests.
And downright dishonest.
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/
“The only conclusion I come to is that Clive is taking the piss out of climate change deniers.”
Really? If Clive was any more subtle he’d have to hit you over the head with a blunt instrument and suggest you have a Bex and a lie down, Jean. Hysteria doesn’t befit a gentleman of your advanced years.
And the “debate”, such as it is, has moved from global warming to climate change to acknowledging there is climate change (it has been ever thus) to what could or can or should or not be done about it. Running around, scaring the horses, Jean is only good for drawing attention to yourself, as Clive mentions.
Thus far, “events” like Kyoto, Copenhagen, Paris have been the worlds best knees and legs up to get a ticket to. Beyond that, taxing people or penalising and punishing people to cure the climate shows as much imagination as smokes up, drinks up at Budget time.
As per my reply to Swantoon.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-renewed-importance-of-pope-franciss-encyclical-on-climate-change
James makes no attempt to engage the science, he just rubbishes people infinitely better informed than himself and is either a sucker or a wilful suck-up.
Jean Baptiste says:
June 2, 2017 at 10:09 pm
“You mean the nations that have “exported” their polluting industries to China …”
And its a noble cause indeed. Those nations are simply altruistically assisting the 95+% mob you referred to in the previous topic to get a leg up in life JB. Remember, they’re the ones you got yourself into a confused tangle over while boasting that you were “full of the joys of life” and you’re “the glass is bloody full to overflowing type.”
You really need to come to grips with what side of the fence you’re on me old mate.
We’re on the same page at last Carl. I have no idea what you are talking about and nor do you.
What on earth are you trying to say?
Are you seriously so staid and lacking in passion and enthusiasm that you cannot see that shoving it up the vile selfish filthy rich with gusto can be a joyful thing? That pointing out to the whining hard done by “never enough for me” middle classes how well off they are is energising and fun?
Even replying to a lugubrious old curmudgeon like you warms the cockles of my heart.
Rejoice man! This is not a test run, it’s your bloody life!
“…. shoving it up the vile selfish filthy rich with gusto can be a joyful thing?”
I do declare and despair JB, your cup runneth over with unintelligible obfuscation and confusion.
Even Dickens didn’t believe that if everyone was equal they’d all be totally co-operative. Also Karl and Friedrich certainly didn’t. They knew the security of the beehive was bullshit, especially while there were millionaires in Moscow.
If you can’t work out which side of the fence you’re on, at least leave the gate open me old mate.
Where did I say everyone was equal? Your extrapolations are becoming even more bizarre than ever.
Aha! So, ….. not all the “filthy rich” are included in your proposed “gusto shoving” JB.
You’re obviously now attempting to haggle over the gradation of the “filth” me old mate.
How on earth did you come to the conclusion that “vile selfish filthy rich ” meant that I believe all the filthy rich are vile and selfish? There are many “filthy rich” that I admire greatly for their humanitarian works, and I would never shove it up ’em. Quite the contrary.
If you could just control yourself and think things through we wouldn’t have to be forever pissfarting about wasting time trying to get you back on the tracks.
You seem to be caught up in an infantile meme insisting I decide which “side” I am on. I don’t do “sides”.
And that is only way, let go of the extension of mummy’s apron strings and think things through for yourself. Otherwise you will never even get close to individuation.
Best wishes. Your old mate JB.
Could the unthinkable be about to happen next week in the UK, Mr Insider, as it seems UK PM May’s early election gamble may have spectacularly backfired and Socialist Jeremy Corbyn a distinct possibility of becoming PM! I may have to ring that Ballet instructor after all and begin a new “career” as an “Ajax” situation is looking closer day by day!
http://tinyurl.com/y8r4kcj5
I doubt it but a close result where May sneaks a victory and a small parliamentary majority is possible. That would be the end of her.
Keep an eye out for the wild man of UK Politics, Boris Johnson, to “emerge” from this carnage, Mr Insider, unless of course the Polls are horribly wrong and May sweeps home!
He had his chance to emerge last yar and squibbed it, Henry. Damaged goods.
He’s descended from George II, albeit on the wrong side of the blanket but the Hanoverian “personality”runs strong.
I will no doubt be spending Friday morning watching the election results in Brussels they will be praying for a Corbyn miracle, he’ll make Jim Callaghan look totally competent.
It promises to be hilarious.
I figured Boris was not the “big-game” player he, and others, would like to think he is. Disappointing eh what?
May was installed as the punching bag for when Brexit goes all pear shaped and stinky Enery.
Who’d want it ! She should get through this one but the plotters will make mincemeat of her when the fan bogs in the n’ooer.
As for that other sacrificial anode Trumpkin the Bumpkin surely you don’t think it is unthinkable that he will get the royal order of the flying boot up the jacksie?
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/06/03/us-states-cities-and-companies-unite-behind-paris-accord
Did you notice JTI’s choice of photo for Trump in the header. What you see is what you get. An idiot.
The astute Mr Insider posted that photo to appeal to the simple minded types Mr Baptiste who might notice it. Thanks for pointing it out fellow I hadn’t noticed it myself! Cheers
I think it is far more likely it was intended to convey a view.
I’m not surprised you didn’t notice it Henry, you don’t notice much at all.
Barnaby Joyce, Mr Insider, now there is a man who speaks his mind. Currently our A/G PM while the big disappointment Turnbull waffles on OS. Barnaby is as close as we get here in Australia to POTUS Trump and given we Aussies are also sick to death of Career Politicians I think Joyce would make a top PM! I well remember when he first came to Canberra and for speaking his mind he came under withering fire but held out. Barnaby Joyce for PM, the call goes up!
Ah well- chasing 291. I thought at one stage it would be 350 or more.
No idea what Starc was trying to do in his last over – the high full tosses got exactly what they deserved