Donald Trump Appreciation Thread

[egg]

6 hours ago, Mixedkebab said:

Seems like we’re all fucked then? The idyllic, rewarding, steadily improving and financially secure lives we’ve all been living these  last 17 years or so have come to an abrupt end 😞 

Pretty much. There's a decent ISH article from Faisal Islam on the BBC site on it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp34nkj1kv2o

 

[Gloucester Saint]

Here are some of the useful idiots enabling them https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4nr3230e7o

They make our Red Wall seats look like Oxford and Cambridge by comparison.

[revolution saint]

On 04/04/2025 at 11:08, trousers said:

I usually check my pension fund's performance on a daily basis.... too scared to check at the moment 😲

Pensions are an interesting part of all this. I’m not an expert in them but assume most Americans have defined contributions style ones and stock market fluctuations are going to negatively affect them. I’m guessing that would disproportionately impact Trump supporters too given they tend to be older, poorer and in less well paid jobs.

[Gloucester Saint]

8 minutes ago, revolution saint said:

Pensions are an interesting part of all this. I’m not an expert in them but assume most Americans have defined contributions style ones and stock market fluctuations are going to negatively affect them. I’m guessing that would disproportionately impact Trump supporters too given they tend to be older, poorer and in less well paid jobs.

It certainly will impact them in so many ways but they are so addled they don’t care - until the transmission on their 20 year old Dodge pick-up gives up beyond repair - or their phone breaks in a bar room brawl which needs replacing. 

[badgerx16]

27 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Here are some of the useful idiots enabling them https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4nr3230e7o

They make our Red Wall seats look like Oxford and Cambridge by comparison.

The steel works is all in favour of tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, but nor on the stuff it brings in for it's own needs.

[east-stand-nic]

23 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

I have been thoroughly enjoying the contributions on this thread from the forum’s self proclaimed greatest intellect. He does seem to be struggling with issues that are not necessarily mutually exclusive however. For example, it is entirely possible for Donald Trump and his actions to be motivated by the fact that he is both “thick” and “sinister”. 

 

So, he created a situation that will benefit him and others like him, but that is thick? You really are one dopey old racist.

20 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

So no truth in the rumour that Trump is going to apply a 50% tariff on football forums in the UK because they are saying nasty things about him then?

You really do love a conspiracy theory don’t you nic? Tell me, what can we do on TSW to stop Trump in his tracks. If we have the power, tell us how to harness it please.

Where is the conspiracy in anything I said that you replied to? Once again you misread and misunderstand.

[badgerx16]

55 minutes ago, east-stand-nic said:

So, he created a situation that will benefit him and others like him, but that is thick?

Trump is far from being "the full shilling", but he provides an excellent front man for the powers behind the throne, who are the ones manipulating events for their own gain.

If you want to herd thick people in a particular direction use a figurehead they can easily identify with.

[badgerx16]

Allegedly, ( according to Vanity Fair and the New York Times );

During his first Presidential campaign, Donald Trump realised he needed somebody to help him with trade policy. He outlined a few vague ideas / priciples to Jared Kushner and asked him to find somebody to advise Trump. Kushner went on AMAZON.com and browsed the titles, ( and images of the front covers ), of books on economics, and saw a book called "Death by China", a book co-authored by Peter Navarro, a well known trade policy 'hawk'. Kushner cold called Navarro, and he agreed to join Trump's team.

Navarro cited an economics 'expert' called Ron Vara as the source for his favouring of tariffs as an economic tool, and once Trump was elected for his first term memos from Vara would circulate the White House supporting the use of tariffs, particulaly against China...........

Ron Vara is a creation of Navarro's mind - he does not exist. He was created to give Navarro an informed source to quote in his books.

Edited 9 hours ago by badgerx16

[Whitey Grandad]

22 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Allegedly, ( according to Vanity Fair and the New York Times );

During his first Presidential campaign, Donald Trump realised he needed somebody to halp him with trade policy. He outlined a few vague ideas / priciples to Jared Kushner and asked him to find somebody to advise Trump. Kushner went on AMAZON.com and browsed the titles, ( and images of the front covers ), of books on economics, and saw a book called "Death by China", a book co-authored by Peter Navarro, a well known trade policy 'hawk'. Kushner cold called Navarro, and he agreed to join Trump's team.

Navarro cited an economics 'expert' called Ron Vara as the source for his favouring of tariffs as an economic tool, and once Trump was elected for his first term memos from Vara would circulate the White House supporting the use of tariffs, particulaly against China...........

Ron Vara is a creation of Navarro's mind - he does not exist. He was created to give Navarro an informed source to quote in his books.

And Ron Vara is of course an anagram of Navarro. Just as Alucard is of Dracula. At least he didn’t invent anybody called Orravan. That might have been too obvious.