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Thoughts on the Trump presidency
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If she makes a statement under oath that Trump never met her or Epstein (despite all the photos, video and other evidence to the contrary) then maybe she'll be okay for a bit longer. She might even get a pardon from Trump for being a good friend, sorry, total stranger.
Personally I think Epstein did likely kill himself but I obviously don't know. If she suddenly dies, it will look a bit more obvious! Perhaps she needs to come out of prison so it can be a nasty car accident instead...
Website documenting America’s plunge into authoritarianism under Trump: https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/? Depressing reading.
...or find herself a bit too close to a open window and finds herself falling out of it...
Now now, this is still the United States of America not Russia. She'll be gunned down in mugging gone wrong.
nlogax
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This situation does have potential to go in the direction of the Tommy Williams arc in Shawshank Redemption.
martin butler
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I think she will lie to get her sentence commuted, and permission to leave the country, once safely in a foreign safe house, she will sell the true story about what went on to Murdoch and her story will be serialised in the Murdoch press, it will expose trump, and the whole DOJ, some of the really powerful people, she will protect, but Trump will be exposed , and his base will turn on him.
In a similar situation (not that I'm every likely to be) I'd be tempted to have a plan that some form of Wikileaks publication of all the stuff I have available 2 months" after my death, probably hosted in a location (probably a couple) with difficult to apply pressure to from my home country.
* I don't want it as soon as I die, so whoever is out to get me thinks there's no fall out - or if I'm feeling particularly malicious, have something benign be released upon my death so (again) they think is that all.
I find it hard to imagine that The Wall Street Journal haven’t got a bit more up their sleeves.
I think we’re in for a fascinating couple of weeks and I’m starting to wonder if JD Vance might well end up as the big winner out of this because he’s been playing a canny game.
I for one wouldn’t underestimate Vance at the moment.
I think we’re in for a fascinating couple of weeks and I’m starting to wonder if JD Vance might well end up as the big winner out of this because he’s been playing a canny game.
I for one wouldn’t underestimate Vance at the moment.
GusB
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I think that there are quite a few "squeaky bums" in Washington DC at the moment!
Vance is a snake and I'm fairly certain that he wouldn't hesitate to throw the Dear Leader under the bus when the opportunity arises. Having said that, I don't relish the idea that he would become president should The Donald fall by the wayside.
They've gone 'all in' this time and there's no way on earth that Trump isn't going to respond to this, being such a giant man baby.
Quite, there's a massive difference between going after a random celebrity and the unhinged leader of your country that thinks he can do anything with impunity.
MSNBC uploaded a story about it to YT and there is a response from the white house, of course they used a still from the episode of Trump whilst reading out the statement.
Oh no, in this case they are definitely poking the bear.
The Paramount takeover has been approved by the regime and contains a particularly ridiculous stipulation of having an "ombudsman" oversee allegations of "bias" (one wonders how this differs from "political officers" in countries such as China), as well as the usual Trump hallmarks like agreeing to eliminate any DEI related activities.
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South Park's creators just signed a 1.5bn contract with Paramount - hopefully it's iron clad!
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South Park's creators just signed a 1.5bn contract with Paramount - hopefully it's iron clad!
edwin_m
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Paramount most likely has to pay for the South Park episodes to be made, but it's unlikely that it's obliged to air them.
These kind of comments are nothing short of insensitive, rude, insulting, and grossly offensive to the party involved.
Snakes are beautiful and underappreciated animals and deserve better than to be lumped with a slimy sycophant like JD Vance.
GusB
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That's a fair point. Perhaps I was being a bit too harsh. I humbly apologise to the snake kingdom!
Unfortunately for serpents, their PR started badly back in the garden of Eden.
Unfortunately this has lead to the lumping together of snakes and evil creatures since.
It's taking a bit of time to disassociate the two in the eye of the wider public, however with better PR (and valued allies) the public view is starting to shift slowly.
The Snake Kingdom accepts your wholehearted apology and will not be cancelling you today.That's a fair point. Perhaps I was being a bit too harsh. I humbly apologise to the snake kingdom!
It's truly a tragic story, but at least there remains hope for the serpents!
Unlike Trump who is actually a rather hopeless case at this point. If he makes it through his whole presidency it'll be quite a surprise even with the GOP trying to protect him.
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The funniest thing is that it was Reagan that essentially allowed the news networks to be as biased as they wanted. The US had a thing called the "fairness doctrine" that required them to show both sides of an argument, and it was dropped after the Democrats realised that it was a very powerful weapon against smaller rural broadcast stations who simply couldn't afford to broadcast their side of an argument, as advertisers would pull the cash.
It had many opponents in recent times among conservatives, so it's absolutely hilarious that Trump's regime is now bringing it back.
GusB
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I'd be interested to see the policing bill (pun not intended!) for Trump's little jolly. I've just been over to Lossiemouth to pick up a few bits and pieces from the Co-op and both the town and the surrounding roads were absolutely crawling with police cars; some were obviously local (ie Police Scotland), but I spotted one marked car with a west of England registration. There were also some sinister-looking dark coloured vans with blacked-out windows cruising around.
There are no stopping signs along all the roads surrounding RAF Lossiemouth and a complete closure was in place this afternoon, with another closure tomorrow afternoon. I assume the Orange One was flown here and then helicoptered to Aberdeen.
Presumably there was a similar situation at Turnberry.
There are no stopping signs along all the roads surrounding RAF Lossiemouth and a complete closure was in place this afternoon, with another closure tomorrow afternoon. I assume the Orange One was flown here and then helicoptered to Aberdeen.
Presumably there was a similar situation at Turnberry.
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DerekC
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I wonder what Keir Starmer's memoirs will say about today - probably after the Tangerine Man has gone to the great golf course in the sky!
I wouldn't read too much into the specific police forces.
The Forth Road Bridge was closed on Friday/Saturday due to some Greenpeace protesters, and a lot of the vans around weren't Police Scotland. At Grangemouth we've had loads of Heddlu vans and mostly people are just spotting the officers taking photos of the Kelpies.
Police Scotland is a weird one because it covers a monumentally large geographic area. I mean we have 1 police force covering the whole country compared to Wales which is less than a third of our size and has 4 police forces. The Police Scotland car you see in Edinburgh may have come from Wick or Stornoway.