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19 hours ago, TopDeadSenter said:

History in the making. An incredible day for Trump and potentially the world at large. His determination can be measured against his predecessor, who didn't go to North Korea, but send retired basketball player and general freak, Dennis Rodman, instead. Seriously, you just can't compare the statesmanship. Cue the awards...

I sometimes wonder whether you are just willfully ignorant or just blind to facts.

Obama didn't send Dennis Rodman. Don't be ridiculous. 

Also, there is a very good reason why no sitting POTUS (Carter did visit in 1994 as did Clinton in 2009 but they were not sitting Presidents at the time) has ever visited NK as this is not the first time that NK has promised to denuclearise. On no less than 6 other occasions (1985, 1992, 1994, 2005, 2007 and 2012) NK has promised to get rid of its nukes, only to go back on it's word every single time. This usually follows a pattern where sanctions or other problems at home have forced the NK military dictatorship to 'find a distraction', with the US being it's usual target.

And the last time Trump fans were shouting for Trump to get a Nobel Peace Prize was after the Singapore Summit in 2018 where what little agreement took place was promptly ignored by NK with satellite images showing significant expansion to a key long-range missile base and South Korea's Defense Ministry stating that North Korea test-fired multiple rocket launchers, including a new model of a tactical guided weapon. 

If by some miracle Trump does get NK to denuclearize then I promise you I will come on this forum and (through gritted teeth) congratulate him on a very difficult job well done. However, I don't expect to have to do that as I genuinely believe that NK is following a well worn path in doing what they have done for over 4 decades and that's to look like they're serious, get some concessions/easing of sanctions only to pull away at the last minute with another feeble excuse.  

Ahhh the Beavis to his Butthead.

Another 'quality' hire hopefully getting her comeuppance at a Democratic inquiry near you.

I've never had much reason to complain about taxi drivers until one journey from the airport. 

After asking the driver to put the meter on about 4 times, he turns to me and says 'fixed price...800 THB'. By then we are out of the airport and on the motorway.

I just nod and say 'expensive....but ok'.

He then drives me to my condo wherein I get out of the car, get my bags throw him 200 THB (a fair penalty I thought for taking the p*ss) and simply walk into my condo.

He's standing outside shouting and screaming until the security guard escorts how away. 

What's he going to do? Call the police.  

The current President of The United States of America is admitting he would gladly collude with a foreign power who had information on a political opponent (you know, the exact thing he was getting investigated for by Mueller) yet all you Trump fans can focus on is the definition of 'value' and the whataboutism of when Obama/Hillary did something with .......... blah, blah, blah. 

Russia interfered in the 2016 elections and this guy is admitting he would welcome it again in 2020.

Just let that sink in for a minute. The current POTUS is green lighting Russia and other adversaries to meddle in American elections and this doesn't bother you one iota?

Congratulations! Your race to the bottom of the ethics barrel is almost complete. Not long now before you hit rock bottom.   

7 hours ago, TopDeadSenter said:

Trump is right, again. In light of the extreme and unending( some would argue unhinged)resistance to his legitimate rule, he needs to use every arrow in his quiver. These are not normal times.

 

 Also good to see Trump riding roughshod over the FBI. I had expected after they lost all credibility in the last few years with their partisan politics games that Trump would replace the agency lock, stock and barrel. Maybe in his 2nd term there will be time for this?

If you are still defending this abomination to the office of POTUS then the only thing that is 'unhinged' is yourself.

The President of the United States is advocating a criminal act and for some bizarre reason, you and the rapidly declining Trump fans on this site seem to think this is perfectly reasonable. From stonewalling congress to ignoring subpoenas, to advocating criminal acts, this administration is attempting to undermine the very foundations of the American legal system; a system that holds everyone accountable, even the President of The United States. 

This level of cognitive dissonance is truly breathtaking in its scope and I can only imagine how difficult and stressful it must be for you to keep coming up with these excuses on literally a daily basis.     

The vast majority of people coming out against Khan in this thread have, for some unknown reason, a different perspective when the exact same situations happened when Boris was the mayor. I wonder why that is?

Could it be his skin colour and/or religion? 

Surely not as that would make you a racist, bigoted islamophobe. And we wouldn’t want that now would we. 

43 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

LOL. The choice was between two crooks, so whichever of them won a crook would have been in the White House.

At least with Trump, no one that voted for him should have believed he was of upstanding character, yet they still voted for him.

Perhaps the resistance should be pondering why their candidate lost, and doing something about winning the next election, rather than wasting all this time wittering on about impeachment when there is virtually zero chance that impeachment would succeed.

Remembering the last impeachment, it would probably make him even more likely to win re election. Clinton certainly did all right after his, while Gingrich got the boot, something that Nancy is no doubt considering.

Ahhhhh the Trumpers default chant of a 'choice between two crooks' except one of the 'crooks' Hillary Clinton, has been investigated for Benghazi (10 investigations each one exonerating her), the email server debacle (cleared after FBI investigation), Whitewater scandal (no charges after a federal investigation), the Clinton Foundation (despite numerous FBI investigations, still no evidence of impropriety) and of course every Trumpers favourite; Uranium One (4 years of investigations - no evidence of wrongdoings). 

Yet despite all of these lengthy investigations exonerating her, the excuse she is a crook (despite not a single piece of evidence to back that up) comes up time and time again by Trumpers trying to justify why they did vote for a man who is most definitely a crook. Stop it. It's boring and completely unjustified.

'At least with Trump, no one that voted for him should have believed he was of upstanding character, yet they still voted for him' is a bad enough basis for backing this insult to the office of POTUS but please stop trying to placate your own guilty conscious with the 'choice between two evils' excuse.

There was two very clear choices on offer yet you still managed to go with evil.  

27 minutes ago, Patriot1066 said:

I know lots of people in the UK who adore Trump. These liberal ‘know bests’ do not speak for the majority of British people. 

 

The likes of Comunist Corbyn and Sadie Khan only speak for their rent a protest violent mobs NOT the majority of us.

You “know a lot of people in the Uk who adore Trump” probably because you hang out with right wing nutters.

The vast majority of Britain rightly hates Trump as evidenced with https://yougov.co.uk/topics/international/explore/public_figure/Donald_Trump

17 hours ago, yogi100 said:

How is referring to Muslims racist and what have I written that's xenophobic or Islamaphobic and why?

 

And is referring to the stabbings in London racist as well and if so why?

 

Perhaps you consider that the mere mentioning of Islam or Muslims is 'racist' even though Islam is not even a race.

 

You can't silence people from talking about social issues and the associated problems by playing the race card.

 

 

In the immortal words of Michael Corleone 'Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in'

Your 1st question - 'How is referring to Muslims racist and what have I written that's xenophobic or Islamaphobic and why?'

Referring to Muslims per se isn't particularly Islamophobic (they are not a race so can't be racist) but constantly refering to Sadiq Khan as 'the Muslim Sadiq Khan' and his 'fellow Muslim Sajid Javid' is.

Also, statements like

1. 'A level at which a US president is allowed to be mocked by a Muslim mayor' 

2. 'Truth be known the Home Secretary who is also a Muslim and the most powerful politician in the country after the Prime Minister probably supports this so called mayor lock, stock and barrel.

3. '.....will welcome Trump because we admire him because of his attitude towards Islamic immigration.

4. 'You'd think the equally idiotic PM and his chum, fellow Muslim Sajid Javid the Home Secretary'.

5. And finally this little gem ...'Bear in mind we've now under Mrs May we've now actually got a  Muslim Home Secretary'.

If you're going to be anti-Muslim then at least have the balls to stand up and own your own opinion and not try and insult our intelligence with 'How is referring to Muslims racist and what have I written that's xenophobic or Islamaphobic and why?'  It's pathetic. Anyone with a modicum of intelligence can see what you are doing and we all know what you are inferring when you ask 'Who is responsible for the crime in London, who actually does the stabbing?' It's called a leading question as you already know the answer. It is obviously predominately ethnic minorities led by black youths. And this leads nicely into your belief that ' .....internationalist liberal politicians have allowed the native population of London to be ethnically cleansed and replaced by third worlders' (one of your more extreme but not surprising racists statements).

I know you. Or at least I know your type.

Baby boomer generation. Lower/working class living in a less than desirable area of London (or maybe the outskirts) that hasn't really achieved much success in their lives and therefore feels the need to blame everyone else other than themselves with Muslims (in your case) being an easy target. You believe whatever nonsense fits your narrative (such as London having more stabbing than 'New York, Chicago and Detroit combined') and of course you are a Trump fan because 'he doesn't use them there fancy words like all those other politicians' and backs up your Islamophobic, xenophobic and racist views. 

You can have whatever archaic, backward view you want but at least own it and stop hiding behind a denial of what you really are. If you hate the idea that the mayor of London is a Muslim then just say it. If you hate that the Home Secretary is a Muslim, just say it. Just stop insulting our intelligence with your assertion that none of what you say is at all Islamophobic/xenophobic/racist (delete as appropriate).

Unlike yourself, we are not that easily led.  

6 minutes ago, yogi100 said:

Who is responsible for the crime in London, who actually does the stabbing? Is it because of Tory 'cuts'?

Are you still going on about stabbings in London?

You have been provided with ample and actual statistics to counter your assertion that London has had more stabbings than New York, Chicago and Detroit and when we understand you are not willing to counter any argument with actual facts, preferring to jump on your anti-Muslim stance with deflections like this and right wing rhetoric (I see they have removed that awful video you posted earlier), it becomes clear that any adult discussion with you is completely and utterly pointless.

You are constantly cherry picking mostly fake news to suit your Islamophobic agenda and never counter facts with facts. It is therefore useless to engage you in any meaningful conversation and I'm just sorry I wasted my time with you so far.

People like yourself get too big a platform with the likes of this forum (and other social media) to air your racists, xenophobic, Islamophobic views; before this you were just the crazy racist uncle that we all had to put up with at family birthdays and Xmas time. Your views are outdated and counter to moving humanity forward and you cannot back up anything with any sort of facts or figures.

Spew your nonsense elsewhere as no one is listening any more.       

43 minutes ago, yogi100 said:

In spite of the wishes of liberals and left wingers the UK is in the process of democratically leaving the EU and is obviously going to want to do business elsewhere especially with the USA.

 

It's downright irresponsible if not treasonous for a leading politician like Khan to float a blimp over London ridiculing the leader of the USA at this particular point in time.

 

The idiot must realise that he is the mayor of the capital city of the country which is going to rely on nations like the US for its future prosperity and economic welfare when and if we ever get out of the EU.

 

You'd think the equally idiotic PM and his chum, fellow Muslim Sajid Javid the Home Secretary would mark his card and tell him to tone things down a bit and behave himself.

 

It's his duty to act in the interests of the British people not in the interests of his own personal grievances by trying to scuttle the long standing and traditional relationship that's existed for well over a century between the US and the UK.

Oh there's a surprise, you're also a Brexiter.

In spite of the wishes of the right wing, Islamaphobic, xenophobic sector of the UK populous, Saidiq Khan is the major of the capital city of a democratic country that still believes in expressing your political views through peaceful protests (and a nice bit of humour doesn't go amiss). 

Khan realised this was the populace exercising their democratic rights and allowed the balloon much in the same way he allowed another balloon that mocked him (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-45381628)  

Treasonous? Perhaps for a drama queen like yourself but not for the vast majority of us.

P.S. You really show your true colours when you constantly reference Sadiq Khan as 'the Muslim Sadiq Khan' and his 'fellow Muslim Sajid Javid'. Do you refer to Trump as 'christian Donald Trump'? I thought not. This by the way is called Islamophobia.  

19 minutes ago, yogi100 said:

I did not get it wrong I got it right.

Well that's fine then. No need to provide any statistical data; we'll just take your word for it.

22 minutes ago, yogi100 said:

US murderers routinely use guns not knives and the statistics are there if you care to find them under headings like death by firearms etc so my statement is far from 'nonsense'.

 

It's blatantly obvious that it's much easier to kill someone with a gun than a knife. You have to come into close contact with your victim to stab him. You can use a gun to kill someone from much greater distances. Just like on a video game.

 

Using a knife makes it much more close and personal. If you're about to get stabbed you're probably going to expect it and see it coming and suffer the fear of impending death. There's not a man alive who can see a bullet coming.

 

I'm not in an echo chamber. What makes you think I am?

Way to try and distract from your original post clearly stating 'A level at which a US president is allowed to be mocked by a Muslim mayor of a city which used to be one of the greatest in the world and which is now the crime capital of Europe and one that has more fatal stabbing incidents than New York, Chicago and Detroit combined'.

Care to actually comment on that piece of nonsense you are trying desperately to distance yourself from? A straight up 'Sorry but I got it wrong and humbly apologise for spreading fake news' would suffice.