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And to add to his confused mental state....... Trump in the last 24 hours... Forgot who accompanied him to the event at which he fell asleep, said Obama wrote the Epstein files, made up a story about his uncle teaching the Unabomber, forgot he hired Jerome Powell.

But very close friends, nontheless.......

But here they are.......... Jack Posobiec, a far-right political activist, carries a binder labelled 'The Epstein Files: Phase 1' as he exits the White House in Washington, on February 27.

I downloaded and watched a movie called "The Order" starring Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult and although I'd seen it before I can't remember too much about it, so I'm pleased that I watched it again. Watching it again made me realise it's significance with regards to what's going on in the US at the moment, and also the mention of the "Turner Diaries" was intriguing in the same way. If you haven't watched it, then I can recommend it.

That will never happen and already his mental faculties are on a downward spiral, so not long before he becomes a complete idiot!

OOPS, nearly forgot this regarding the above post:- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/he-didnt-fool-me-how-trump-changed-his-tone-on-putin-and-the-war-in-ukraine/TSNQZLRCQFBGTPWGJYCRFFZLWY/

But in stark contrast to this and since his 2016 election Trump has been praising Putin on and off over the years and here is a sound bite or two regarding the lovely things that Trump has said about Putin: – – When Russia was preparing to invade Ukraine in 2022, Trump called Putin a “genius” for moving to seize large swathes of territory — applauding what he viewed as hard-line negotiation tactics. AND....“How smart is that? And he’s going to go in and be a peacekeeper,” Trump said, adding: “Here’s a guy who’s very savvy. I know him very well". As Putin's army slaughtered civilians in the Ukraine suburb and abducted Ukrainian children to Russia, Trump called such actions terrible, but stressed that he got along with him really well – – yeah right! – Trump also said that although he got along well with Putin, "I'm not happy with Pres Putin at all", Trump said on July 7. And now the absolutely stupendous piece of nonsense and rubbish that beats even what Trump has said previously (apart from stopping the war in 24 hours) when he said, "the Russian president has been duplicitous and he has fooled a lot of people. He fooled Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden, but Trump said "he didn't fool me". LOL..... And Trump said he would be an exception to what he sees as the list of American presidents whom the Russian leader had outmanoeuvred. Laugh, I couldn't stop. You poor demented soul Donnie, he's been playing with you and fooling you since way back in 2016 and despite all of the Trump threats and words, Putin has done exactly what he wanted to do and poor old Donnie has been helplessly watching from the sidelines. The art of the deal my derrière! Trump is not the sharpest knife in the drawer by any means, but he has a lot of supporters and others with lack of similar mental sharpness........

I haven't been following this thread, however my thoughts turned to the possibility that one of the pilots deliberately disengaged the fuel switches, because of depression or mental problems (suicidal) and so I thought I would post this here: – "When NDTV asked if one of the pilots intentionally switched off the fuel, fully aware that doing so could cause a crash, Captain Ranganathan said, "Absolutely." "It has to be manually done," Captain Ranganathan told NDTV when asked if there is any way fuel can be shut off to the engines of the Dreamliner. "It cannot be done automatically or due to a power failure because the fuel selectors are not the sliding type. They are designed to stay in a slot, and you have to pull them out to move them up or down. So, the possibility of inadvertently moving them to the "off" position doesn't arise. It's definitely a case of deliberate manual selection to move it to 'off'." https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/air-india-plane-crash-report-aviation-expert-flags-pilot-suicide-angle-amid-air-india-crash-probe-8864239

Yes!

Hi Pinot, I recently started a thread regarding health insurance as mine is due for renewal this month and the premium was very high! So I negotiated a 50 K deductible (which I would pay) and they dropped the premium to 160,000 baht, which I think is still quite high, however of course if I changed to another health insurance company, any ailments that had occurred in recent times would have to be disclosed, whereas at the moment they are somewhat "covered" by my current insurance. I investigated the self-insure method and will be doing that next year when it comes up for renewal again. I am with Alliance (formerly BUPA) and have never had a claim although they did pay for a colonoscopy a few years back, which was unexpected. Just to add that my total amount of health insurance is topped at 1 million baht, so all in all it's not a brilliant arrangement at the moment, however as I said, I'm pretty sure I will self-insure next year. PS.Have you thought about this......https://www.allianz.co.th/en_TH/health/critical-illness.html

I agree, and it would seem like he is lying, upon lying because he's forgotten the lies he previously told, but then again it would seem par for course for this bunch of lying MAGAs!

So before Trump was elected, both Patel and Bongino spent years stoking conspiracy-minded theories about Epstein, now they are part of Trump's clown circus, they have completely changed their tune!! I wonder why?? Read on for more info on this........ Before their appointments to their current roles, Patel and Bongino spent years stoking conspiracy-minded questions about Epstein. Patel, a former federal prosecutor and assistant public defender, made his name in conservative media as a bombastic and frequent podcast guest and repeatedly called for the FBI to release its full file on Epstein. During a 2023 interview with right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson, Patel suggested Congress was blocking the release of Epstein’s purported client list “because of who’s on that list”. “Put on your big-boy pants and let us know who the pedophiles are,” he said. Bongino, on his own podcast, had repeatedly questioned the handling of the Epstein investigation. “What the hell are they hiding with Jeffrey Epstein?” he asked in 2023. Conservative influencers seized on a February interview on Fox News in which Bondi said she had Epstein’s client list “sitting on my desk right now to review” – a list that the Justice Department now says did not exist!!!!!!! https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/jeffrey-epstein-case-memo-divides-donald-trump-appointees-fuels-conspiracy-theories/WT4ZPSIF6FGDDBZV2KLNP5ER5Y/ Someone is telling "porkies" and it would most likely be from the clowns of the "Liar in Chief".

Nice try, but he specifically said, They say they will not be blowing up ships any more, can't be much clearer than that!

Read trump's statement again:- They say they will not be blowing up ships any more". He did NOT specify which nationality, but then again he often talks gibberish. By the way, nice try at deflection with your response.

That's a good decision @transam and I feel exactly the same about that poster which is why I've put him on ignore, although I did wonder why you persevered for so long in trying to combat his madness. Particularly his assertion that there is no such thing as a virus or a bacteria and that the body is able to deal with such things on its own, without help, despite following statistics that would prove him wrong: – – The 1918 flu pandemic killed around 50 million people worldwide. – The bubonic plague killed an estimated 200 million people. – Smallpox killed around 1 billion people, so it's lucky it was just about wiped out by vaccinations. – Tuberculosis has been responsible for over 1 billion deaths, but again due to vaccinations it's only prevalent in a few poor countries worldwide. – Malaria has killed an estimated 5 billion people. –Before widespread vaccination, polio killed hundreds of thousands annually. Today, polio is largely eradicated, with only two countries remaining endemic for the wild poliovirus. So this really puts his "theory" to bed because the body was unable to fight off the diseases listed above, on its own, and vaccinations and antibiotics in some cases reduced the mortality rate markedly, in some cases down to almost zero. As you can see he is not worth bothering with and I doubt if he will see this post because he won't want to.

"They say they will not be blowing up ships any more"...........but they did!! Trump stated "they say they will not be blowing up ships any more". Ah "The Art of the Deal", with a few holes in it!!

But, but, but.....trump stated:- "A little over two months ago, Donald Trump was emphatic in claiming to have halted Houthi militants’ attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. “[The Houthis] just don’t want to fight, and we will honour that and we will stop the bombings, and they have capitulated,” he said on May 6. “They say they will not be blowing up ships any more.” Despite Trump’s confidence, this week the Houthis have sunk two vessels in quick succession on the critical shipping route and shattered months of relative calm off Yemen’s coast". https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/presidents-confidence-appears-unfounded-after-militants-sink-two-vessels-on-critical-red-sea-shipping-route/QF755YWGMZA5TDGY6TOIHSUQGA/ Poor old Donny really doesn't know what planet he is on!

Not the success trump claimed it to be......can't say that he intentionally lied, just that he talks without engaging his tiny brain. "Israel has concluded that some of Iran’s underground stockpile of near-bomb-grade enriched uranium survived American and Israeli attacks last month and may be accessible to Iranian nuclear engineers, according to a senior Israeli official".

One could always follow your advice and read the bible which only deals in the truth???........ "A talking snake convinces a naked woman to eat some fruit, resulting in an invisible man in the sky getting so upset about it that he makes her feel pain in childbirth, curses the ground to grow weeds and makes everybody worship him on pain of being tortured for all eternity in a fire. Later, a man hears voices in his head and tries to kill his own son. Then stops at the last minute only to be told by the voice in his head to mutilate his genitals and that of his children. Later still a man is talking to a Bush which tells him to go to Egypt and free the slaves and take them to Canaan - a land that, historically, was under Egyptian jurisdiction at the time anyway. They have a party then the invisible man in the sky slaughters a few thousand of them because they made a gold statue and didn’t invite him. Later still a talking donkey begs a man to stop hitting him. Later a man who is his own father comes along, walks on water, cures people and even raises the dead, but nobody mentions it until 70 years after he dies and even then only by 4 people who want you to believe the story. Then a senile old man who is exiled on an island surrounded with psychoactive flora writes a very trippy book about a seven-headed monster. Not hard to understand why many people don't believe these "fairy stories" and as for those that do, "up to them"!!

More on the trump decision to impose 50% tariffs on Brazil because he doesn't like their treatment of Bolsonaro........what next? "Do as I say and run your country the way I want, or else". The man has delusions of grandeur and these beliefs are not based in reality and are often a symptom of mental health conditions. "Since returning to the White House, United States President Donald Trump has used trade as a cudgel to exert concessions from smaller nations. Brazil, his newest tariff target, is a much more formidable adversary, analysts said, and is less likely to bend to pressure from Washington. “Brazil is less dependent on the United States,” said Pedro Abramovay, vice-president of programmes at the Open Society Foundations. “It’s not irrelevant, but Brazil can withstand it; this won’t break the country.” In recent years, Brazil has strengthened market ties with peer countries in the BRICS bloc - historically made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - at the expense of trade with Western nations. “What’s new here is that Trump is using commercial tactics for political ends, weaponising trade,” said a senior Lula adviser, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “But the deal he wants is not acceptable.” https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/us-president-faces-a-country-and-leader-ready-for-a-fight-as-he-mixes-trade-with-political-goals/JL2ZJAILKZE6POWXMUJOJRCABY/

Also trump stated that he didn't know Epstein very well..........but that is a lie (yes one of many from this compulsive liar) because he stated this regarding his friendship with Epstein:-

Thank you for a really great and insightful post which I really enjoyed reading, and it mirrors my beliefs entirely and I truly believe that the main objective of Trump and his cohorts is retribution for those who spoke out and/or acted against Trump and his team of clowns. And as for the term "deep state", it is no more than a conspiracy theory, lapped up and believed in by those who revel in spreading such nonsense......... "belief in the concept of a deep state has been present in the United States since at least the 1950s. A 1955 article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, quotes Americans sharing their belief in the existence of a "dual state": a hidden national security hierarchy and shadow government that monitors and controls elected politicians"

The only problem being that the dumb SOB had no idea how tariffs work and how they would affect (and cost) the average American consumer. Then he announced a tariff on an island inhabited by penguins, and stalled on some tariffs and not on others, and he rightly deserves the TACO label, although I think more fitting would be the dumbo knows not what he is doing! "The overwhelming view is that while the tariffs might reduce the goods deficit between the US and individual countries, they will not reduce the overall deficit between the US and rest of the world". AND..... Thomas Sampson of the London School of Economics said: "The formula is reverse engineered to rationalise charging tariffs on countries with which the US has a trade deficit. There is no economic rationale for doing this and it will cost the global economy dearly."

Winning with 3 deals out of 90 promised........what a laugh, and trump is the joke! "After United States President Donald Trump paused his “Liberation Day” tariffs in April, his trade adviser Peter Navarro promised that the Administration would deliver “90 deals in 90 days”. But that deadline came and went today with the White House 88 trade deals short. Trump has now given his Administration 113 days to implement a worldwide tariff plan that he says will reverse decades of globalisation and usher in a new era of domestic manufacturing. But company chief executives, investors and foreign leaders appear sceptical that Trump will stick to that August 1 deadline after watching him punt the issue again and again. The episode has reanimated the ‘Taco’ debate - the Wall Street accusation that “Trump Always Chickens Out”. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/analysis-trump-combats-taco-reputation-as-white-house-extends-tariff-deadline/HHMRAHWCANC3VGGP3X45N24P6I/

Agree....."Benjamin Netanyahu has been indicted as a war criminal. His government is systematically killing and starving the people of Gaza. He will be remembered as one of the monsters of modern history. And Trump welcomed him to the White House".