Donald Trump Appreciation Thread

[badgerx16]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/climate-of-fear-montreal-doctor-says-nyu-cancelled-her-presentation/

"A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.

Dr. Joanne Liu, the former international president of Doctors Without Borders, said the abrupt cancellation speaks to the “climate of fear” universities in the U.S. are now living under in which they preemptively “self-censor” themselves to avoid retaliation."

"Liu, a pediatric emergency physician at Sainte-Justine Hospital and professor at McGill University’s School of Population and Global Health, was due to give a presentation on challenges in humanitarian crises on March 19 at NYU, her alma mater. "

"

The night before the presentation, she said she got a call from the vice chair of the education department who had raised concerns with the contents.

A couple of the slides in her presentation touched on the casualties in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war as well as the cuts at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Liu said she was told the slides about Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic” while the USAID section might be perceived as “anti governmental.”

Liu, who was already in New York when she got the call, offered to make edits to those slides but then three hours later, after some deliberations, she said the university apologized and said they had to cancel."

[badgerx16]

J D Vance has been tasked with removing "improper ideologies" from.................

 

 

 

 

 

The Smithsonian National Zoo Park.

[Gloucester Saint]

20 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/climate-of-fear-montreal-doctor-says-nyu-cancelled-her-presentation/

"A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.

Dr. Joanne Liu, the former international president of Doctors Without Borders, said the abrupt cancellation speaks to the “climate of fear” universities in the U.S. are now living under in which they preemptively “self-censor” themselves to avoid retaliation."

"Liu, a pediatric emergency physician at Sainte-Justine Hospital and professor at McGill University’s School of Population and Global Health, was due to give a presentation on challenges in humanitarian crises on March 19 at NYU, her alma mater. "

"

The night before the presentation, she said she got a call from the vice chair of the education department who had raised concerns with the contents.

A couple of the slides in her presentation touched on the casualties in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war as well as the cuts at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Liu said she was told the slides about Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic” while the USAID section might be perceived as “anti governmental.”

Liu, who was already in New York when she got the call, offered to make edits to those slides but then three hours later, after some deliberations, she said the university apologized and said they had to cancel."

More from the fascism/communism/totalitarian playbook. 

[AlexLaw76]

39 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

More from the fascism/communism/totalitarian playbook. 

What, banning people from talking to a university audience?

Been going here for years 

[Gloucester Saint]

5 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

What, banning people from talking to a university audience?

Been going here for years 

Hence the previous government’s free speech legislation re-introduced with some tweaks, as Sussex just discovered.

[whelk]

The average American investor must be overjoyed to have a commercial genius at the helm ensuring they remain wealthy

 

[badgerx16]

2 weeks ago the US Department of Health ran an exercise to determine their response to a nuclear or radiological incident. Today, everybody involved in that exercisr, and all other members of their teams, have been laid off.

Thousands of Federal employees are only finding out they have been let go when, on turning up for work, their door passes no longer let them into their buildings.

Edited 6 hours ago by badgerx16

[buctootim]

53 minutes ago, whelk said:

I've been posting piss takes of 'Liberation Day' and criticisms of Trump's tariffs on X today. They've been getting a lot of new likes and follows - which is new for me, I don't post to be popular. So intrigued by who was liking me i looked at the profiles. Really surprised to see that around two thirds were obvious Trump supporters. He's losing the room

 

 

[whelk]

3 minutes ago, buctootim said:

 

Are you trying to steal my identity TIm?

[buctootim]

9 minutes ago, whelk said:

Are you trying to steal my identity TIm?

I want to walk like you and dress like you, Follow you home and sit in your car. 

[buctootim]

10 minutes ago, whelk said:

Are you trying to steal my identity TIm?

Alternatively i messed up a quote

[31cc]

48 minutes ago, buctootim said:

I want to walk like you and dress like you, Follow you home and sit in your car. 

[badgerx16]

1 hour ago, buctootim said:

I want to walk like you and dress like you, Follow you home and sit in your car. 

"Oo oo oo, I wanna be like you ou ou...."

Edited 3 hours ago by badgerx16

[hypochondriac]

Nice little Brexit dividend kindly bestowed upon us by Donald. @Gloucester Saintmust be well chuffed 😎

Edited 49 minutes ago by hypochondriac

[egg]

Interesting to see the world reaction to this. Seems to be based on largely made up numbers factoring in VAT and other nonsense.

I vote for simply mirroring the US tariffs - he wants reciprocation, then he gets reciprocation. 

[Gloucester Saint]

19 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Nice little Brexit dividend kindly bestowed upon us by Donald. @Gloucester Saintmust be well chuffed 😎

10% is better than 20% although I doubt it’s the same impact as losing 6% of our economy through the type of Brexit we had.
Closer links with the EU will wipe out the impact of the 10% and probably washing our face overall. I’ve seen various different reports on the impact, some economists saying it will be very little and not worth worrying about, but others pointing to specific sectors such as whisky which is more reliant on the US market.

25% on 🚙 across the piece though. Mind you, the ones we export over there are at the luxury end, eg wealthy Dems or GOP who won’t be fussed by a few $k extra. Building them over there is unlikely after the Mercedes experience in the Deep South, the cars are absolute dogs. 

It’ll be his rural base, and a lot of it is rural, that it hurts the most. Typical pick up truck they love up $10-12k new after he whacked Canada on metals. They voted for it…..not many buses around there.

[Gloucester Saint]

32 minutes ago, egg said:

Interesting to see the world reaction to this. Seems to be based on largely made up numbers factoring in VAT and other nonsense.

I vote for simply mirroring the US tariffs - he wants reciprocation, then he gets reciprocation. 

The VAT hang up is weird. It’s neither a left or right wing tax, Maggie doubled it in 1979 and Blair kept it there as both focused on lower income taxes. And all domestic suppliers over the threshold pay it as well as international. It isn’t specific to the US. A 10% UK tariff will just mean our consumers accelerate the trend of preferring not to buy American goods where they can, even if the government doesn’t reciprocate.

Edited just now by Gloucester Saint