America - REALLY????

[Cozzer]

I take it that those cannons in the park missed?

 

[Dabop]

But we are an island, just resort to the siege tactic's used in the past to capture your enemy holed up in their castle. It might have taken time but during this time you are rebuilding your military.

True, but the UK was slightly different to a castle- they had the ability to grow their own food, plus the US wasn't the only one helping them- the Commonwealth countries (who all stepped up long before the US) were already sending food and other supplies there...

Not saying it would have been easy, but the US certainly didn't 'win the war' by themselves- there were a LOT of other countries helping the UK from day one...

(Australia was sending over 75% of its annual food exports to the UK during WW2 for example)

 

[Ross Buchanan]

Everyone I know in the US- mostly carpenters, tradesmen, engineers and a few hobbyists- have suffered financially during the past few years. They have seen their pre-tax earnings stagnate, partly due to immigration, their post tax earnings depleted by increased taxation. They have watched jobs disappear due to green policies and their sons who have gone through college unable to get work because they are the wrong colour or sex.
The Trump we see portrayed in the British media is very different to the Trump that they voted for

 

[Dabop]

Everyone I know in the US- mostly carpenters, tradesmen, engineers and a few hobbyists- have suffered financially during the past few years. They have seen their pre-tax earnings stagnate, partly due to immigration, their post tax earnings depleted by increased taxation. They have watched jobs disappear due to green policies and their sons who have gone through college unable to get work because they are the wrong colour or sex.
The Trump we see portrayed in the British media is very different to the Trump that they voted for

trump (I refuse to capitalise its name) is very well portrayed in most media outside the US- he is a detestable character, and has had criminal tendencies for most of his life...

His refusal to pay contractors for their work ('sue me') is well known and has been for decades...

Even in Australia- he tried to get involved with Australia's first casino back in the 1980's- and was refused a licence to operate due to his known criminal association with organised crime at the time...
(we were stunned when he got elected the FIRST time- the second time is unfathomable to most of us...)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...0-years-ago-rejected-due-to-mafia-connections

The trump portrayed in the US righwing media outlets like fauxnews and that trumptards voted for is the fiction...

 

[Cabinetman]

Everyone I know in the US- mostly carpenters, tradesmen, engineers and a few hobbyists- have suffered financially during the past few years. They have seen their pre-tax earnings stagnate, partly due to immigration, their post tax earnings depleted by increased taxation. They have watched jobs disappear due to green policies and their sons who have gone through college unable to get work because they are the wrong colour or sex.
The Trump we see portrayed in the British media is very different to the Trump that they voted for

Absolutely correct, I’m over there at the moment and watched his inauguration and speech, followed by a huge rally and speech.
Were I American I certainly would have supported him, a braggart and unpleasant with women, but a felon? No it was a rigged courtroom in a place where he couldn’t win, did you know that he was convicted on evidence that said he overvalued his assets to obtain a loan, the courts had Mar a Lago valued at 18 million, look it up, it’s worth 350 M
Put simply the Democrats were doing absolutely everything in their power to eliminate a Political opponent. And it spectacularly blew up in their faces as it deserved to do.
His Policies which will no doubt anger environmentalists will also put America on a better financial footing, the debt is eye watering, his plan to tax companies to stop importing and build it in America instead will work, his other plans are all pretty much common sense.
1 1/2 million illegal immigrants, and that’s just the ones that were seen but not caught, at a conservative estimate there are at least another 20 million, and that’s just in the last 4 years! That’s the equivalent of 1.2 million entering the UK, you can see why the Yanks are pissed.
Hamas only released hostages and agreed to a ceasefire because Trump threatened them with Hellfire if they didn’t by the time he took office. Biden had got nowhere.
A similar thing will happen in Ukraine very soon.
It’s easy to see why he has been returned to the White House, and I for one think the world will be a more peaceful place, certainly more interesting.

 

[AJB Temple]

^ Agree with Ian. Politics is a dirty game. Trump plays it very well as he knows how to appeal to people. The left leaning in the UK and elsewhere will disapprove. The US and Trump will not care. Starmer, who is weak and woke unfortunately, won't have the faintest idea how to deal with this man.