President Elect's 'top team'

[Chris152]

Apologies mods, just bin it if you will. But it's just mind-blowing. Covered this evening on BBC News:

Robert Kennedy jnr - vaccine sceptic, leading the Department of Health;

Pete Hegseth - Fox News tv host, absolutely no political experience, Defence Secretary

Matt Gaetz - Faced ethics investigation in House of Representatives for sex trafficking - Attorney General



Good grief, what an utter farce.

If the thread survives, this has nothing to do with UK politics, nor even right/ left politics. This is a whole other realm.

 

[Hypnotic Chimera]

I literally have no words.

It's so much worse than even I had imagined, way over and above the catastrophe nested inside the train wreck, itself nested inside the dumpster fire that I had expected and predicted.

 

[artie]

Don't worry.

The saviour is coming.

 

[Blackswanwood]

Kristi Noem (Homeland Security) who boasts about shooting her own dog as it untrainable …

 

[mcostello]

You guys don't live over here and and do not have a clue, the same reason why I do not comment on another countries politics as I only know what the Your news wants to tell us.

 

[Spectric]

Apologies mods, just bin it if you will. But it's just mind-blowing. Covered this evening on BBC News:

No worse than the bunch of clowns we have, did Starmer not put all his people into good jobs !

What happens when / if Trump does turn America around and is successful , it might make people realise that his way works and we need that here in the uk rather than all the nonsense we currently have, latest being some dog is being called racist so whats all that about. At least Trump is not trying to stop free speech.

You guys don't live over here and and do not have a clue,

Well said, yes Trump might not be good for UK trade but we do not live under a Trump administration and he did win by a bigger margin than Starmer, you don't win on that scale unless there are a lot of people backing you and winning all swing states which says it all.

 

[Chris152]

No worse than the bunch of clowns we have, did Starmer not put all his people into good jobs !

What happens when / if Trump does turn America around and is successful , it might make people realise that his way works and we need that here in the uk rather than all the nonsense we currently have, latest being some dog is being called racist so whats all that about. At least Trump is not trying to stop free speech.


Well said, yes Trump might not be good for UK trade but we do not live under a Trump administration and he did win by a bigger margin than Starmer, you don't win on that scale unless there are a lot of people backing you and winning all swing states which says it all.

Let's not turn it into another thread about UK politics, it always ends up being very tedious.

You guys don't live over here and and do not have a clue, the same reason why I do not comment on another countries politics as I only know what the Your news wants to tell us.

Most psychiatrists are not insane, most theologists don't have religious belief - they see things from the outside, they get a better perspective from there.

 

[RobinBHM]

You guys don't live over here and and do not have a clue, the same reason why I do not comment on another countries politics as I only know what the Your news wants to tell us.

I wonder what additional knowledge you and fellow Americans have that is not available via main stream media or via social media?

for example are you saying Robert Kennedy, Pete Hegseth, Matt Gaetz, Vivek Ramaswamy, MTG, Tom Homan etc etc are people that have been engaged for their ability rather than their loyalty to Project 2025?

 

[RobinBHM]

What happens when / if Trump does turn America around and is successful , it might make people realise that his way works and we need that here

We can see Trumps policies and they consist of libertarian free market ideology whose purpose is to slash taxes and deregulate.

That will not benefit the lives of ordinary working people, Trump might get away with running the economy red hot for a while, but its unsustainable.


His way cannot work -its Liz Truss trickle down on steroids

theres plenty of economists, trade experts etc who can back up what Im saying

 

[Croolis]

You guys don't live over here and and do not have a clue, the same reason why I do not comment on another countries politics as I only know what the Your news wants to tell us.

<points, laughs>

 

[Blackswanwood]

You guys don't live over here and and do not have a clue, the same reason why I do not comment on another countries politics as I only know what the Your news wants to tell us.

I can see why you may feel that but the US is the biggest economy in the world (when the US sneezes the world catches a cold) … and we’ve let the US use the UK as an aircraft carrier for a long time so I think we’re entitled to take a view.

 

[Ed Weber]

U.S. policies certainly do effect UK policies, I don't know what my fellow American is saying.
Many on this forum seem to know more about U.S. democracy than those who like here.

This ridiculous array of cabinet selections will be the swill we will have to live in for the next three months, then it will get bad. Trump will force his choices into "acting" positions to avoid senate confirmation and/or background checks. It seems like this has already begun.
Although it's early days, I fear the U.S. will be unrecognizable after four years of this administrations attempt to govern (insert joke here)

 

[Croolis]

Maybe we should move to New Zealand. Leave Europe to the yanks and the russkies to trash and then carve up between them, and go join New Zealand and offer ourselves up to the Chinese as a satellite state. I wonder if we'd get a better deal with the Chinese than with the Russo-US alliance.

 

[Sideways]

This belongs in OT2, but
I'm going to let it be for a while in the hope that some sensible conversation can emerge, and not that this is just a chance to vent. If our members from outside the UK, and especially those from the USA would like to share their views for or against, that could make for an interesting discussion. Let's avoid calling each other names please.

 

[Croolis]

U.S. policies certainly do effect UK policies, I don't know what my fellow American is saying.
Many on this forum seem to know more about U.S. democracy than those who like here.

This ridiculous array of cabinet selections will be the swill we will have to live in for the next three months, then it will get bad. Trump will force his choices into "acting" positions to avoid senate confirmation and/or background checks. It seems like this has already begun.
Although it's early days, I fear the U.S. will be unrecognizable after four years of this administrations attempt to govern (insert joke here)

I got hugs brother. Good luck.

 

[selectortone]

What happens when / if Trump does turn America around and is successful

I'm not holding my breath

 

[John Brown]

No worse than the bunch of clowns we have, did Starmer not put all his people into good jobs !

What happens when / if Trump does turn America around and is successful , it might make people realise that his way works and we need that here in the uk rather than all the nonsense we currently have, latest being some dog is being called racist so whats all that about. At least Trump is not trying to stop free speech.


Well said, yes Trump might not be good for UK trade but we do not live under a Trump administration and he did win by a bigger margin than Starmer, you don't win on that scale unless there are a lot of people backing you and winning all swing states which says it all.

Of course they're worse than "our bunch of clowns", who may be inept and naive, but there's no comparison with Trump's appointees. An anti-vaxxer, a Fox news host who thinks germs don't exist, and Matt Gaetz. OK, they're comparable, in that they're much worse, but I don't think that's how you were using the word.

 

[John Brown]

You guys don't live over here and and do not have a clue, the same reason why I do not comment on another countries politics as I only know what the Your news wants to tell us.

I have five brothers in law who live over there. They are worried.

 

[selectortone]

I have five brothers in law who live over there. They are worried.

I have a good friend in Boise, Idaho. He's not impressed.

 

[deema]

Actions speak louder than words, and love him or hate him, one thing you can’t deny is that America was a more prosperous place under his first term than either of the Democrats presidents achieved before or after him. He did what he said, and if not achieving everything he promised he at least had a good go at making it happen. How refreshing, an elected representative that actual does what he said he would. Perhaps if the Democrats had done so, they may still be have a foot hold in either house or the Presidency.