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The army will pay for any road damage incurred during the parade: https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/05/22/the-army-says-it-will-pay-for-any-road-damage-from-dcs-military-parade/ Should take tips from the Iranians on their annual parade of goose stepping Ruritarian warriors. Stick it on a lorry, saves the roads.

The Waldorf Astoria was sold off by the Trump Organisation in 2022. So you got to think, he not only retrieved the old crockery (thousands and thousands of items), stored them, and dusted them off 3 years later to reuse for major benefactors from the US and Chyna.

Allegedly, no evidence, will never know one way or the other.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8z174gk3jo

Literal gibberish. You must be Indian.

No. I really have no feelings for you, no matter how you want it to be.

Not really

Do I have to take seriously a geezer who reckons George Bush was chosen from "billions of people" to lead "billions of people"? Strange how a 11 month old video falls into your Youtube algorithm while you were searching for Thai Nancy Boy can can dances. Trump, is a raving shirt lifter because Poppy says so. I don't who Poppy is but she's on Youtube, and so must be important. Or as important as someone who thinks there are billions of American voters. Of course, there are an enormous number of videos alleging Trump is a shape shifting reptillian. On Youtube, 100% true. More truth on Youtube. Baron Trump is a time traveling Russian https://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-President-1900-Ingersoll-Lockwood/dp/1945934255

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/terrified-excop-jailed-and-deported-during-holiday-to-us/news-story/f48a5e5f7337df29dcd3679336bf6031 A case that many on the forum can likely relate to, Australians can visit the US on a ESTA (visa waiver) but that ceases once they marry a US citizen. There is a logic to that, and this former police officer tourist seems to have made a genuine error. Before some hardnut steps in and says she was just trying to sneak in, from the article: I think what's shocking is her treatment. Rather than being turned around at Passport control, and told to book a flight home, she is stripped, held in communicado with hardened criminals, presumably to teach her some sort of "lesson" about small print (Americans won't actually know what its like to fill in the online ESTA. The ESTA form doesn't actually ask if you are married to an American. The applicant is somehow supposed to know that foreign nationals who could apply for an immigrant visa are not allowed to apply for a non-immigrant waiver). We hear this repeatedly, the heavy handed nature of US officials. A colleague from Australia arrived in the UK to start a new job at a University, only the University messed up with the paperwork due to a bank holiday. Border Force was going to return the semi-comatose Aussie to Australia, but a few phonecalls generated a pragmatic approach; he was released into the car of an Oxford academic, and spent the next couple of weeks sunning himself in the garden, while the paperwork was worked out. In the UK, we'd say the officials "used their Loaf", to judge a situation. There seems to be lack of common sense, or common sense is not permitted because everything is target driven (compliant and frightened tourists making mistakes are easier to round up than hardcore gang bangers who might shoot back). Not always like that; a friend who is a consultant surgeon in the UK and Malaysian national, was going through the Indefinite Leave to Remain (he's married an English lady, has two great kids). He had been invited to KL as Best Man at a wedding. If you need to leave the UK during the ILR process, you are supposed to ask for permission, whicn is normally only given in exceptional circumstances (death of a parent etc). He thought, logically, no harm in asking. There was harm in asking, because he got a Deportation Order back, 10 days to settle his affairs. It got sorted out at great expense to him. Seemed to have been at least one good person in the system, according to the Australian woman.

NYT got hold of the names of some https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/politics/trump-crypto-dinner-attendees.html Justin Sun: Crypto Billionaire. Chinese national. Previously investigated by the FBI and SEC. Charges dropped in 2025. Elliot Berke: Washington attorney. US national. Has represented Republican figures in court cases. Evgeny Gaevoy: the founder and chief executive of a digital-asset firm, Wintermute. Companies House has him listed as a Dutch national. He was born in Russia and relocated first to the Netherlands and then the UK. Other reports indicate he is Russian, so likely retains dual nationality. Anil Lulla: co-founder of Delphi Digital, a Miami Beach firm that offers market intelligence for crypto investors. US national. Yan Liberman: co-founders of Delphi Digital, a Miami Beach firm that offers market intelligence for crypto investors. US national. Cheng Lu: crypto investor, Chinese national. Stephen Dworkin, founder of CTS International, a recruitment agency in the UK specializing in defence contractors. Israeli national. Sangrok Oh, CEO of Hyperithm. Digital Asset Management. Korean national, previously educated in China. Matthew Liu: Founder of cryptocurrency Origin Protocol. Taiwanese-American. In 2018, Origin Protocol expanded operations to "Greater China" (this is a very specific phrase used by the company) Caitlin Sinclair: reporter for One America News and member of Turning Point Action. Lamar Odom: Former NBA player. Former reality show bit part. US citizen. Daniel Boubes: Convicted drug offender, crypto investor. Former party animal. Colorful FB profile. SuKyung Na; COO Hyperithm. Korean national. Charles Ayres, a Britain-based crypto marketer. Deleted LinkedIn profile. Wesley Pryor is the founder of Acheron Trading, a firm focused on digital assets. US citizen, based in Singapore Jack Tan Lu is the chief executive and co-founder of a popular marketplace for non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, called Magic Eden. Tony Yacoub: Building contactor in California Clay Helms: Metaplex Foundation, a nonprofit focused on digital assets. US national. Stephen Hess: Metaplex Foundation, a nonprofit focused on digital assets. US national. Asher Ang: Hedge fund Hyper-Alpha Capital. US national. Lean Sheng Tan: Founder, Hyper-Alpha Capital. Malaysian national. Aleksander Michal Kloda: founder of Nickel Digital Asset Management. British national. Paul Jacobi, a partner at the investment firm Wexford Capital. US national. Christoph Heuermann: Tax consultant based in Argentina. German national. Verjender Choudhary, a software engineer and consultant from St. Louis. Indian national. Vincent DeriuL EY consultant. US Citizen.

Anti-vaxxer freak

So after that copy pasting from Reddit etc, you believe that Trump is as Fit as a Fiddle. So nothing more needed from you on this subject, but you will shortly be opening a seperate discussion on the health of former President Biden? Correct? Only America is curiously obsessed about publication of official Health Reports; in the rest of the world, when it comes to heads of government, its generally mind your own business and eff off. Even King Charlie; its no one's business but his own what cancer he has. I didn't even nee to know he had cancer. I certainly am not expecting a day by day blow of the PM's health (Johnson's attempt to generate public sympathy by staggering to the lecturn backfired in the end). Its seems very Soviet like that anyone believes these official reports. For whatever President is in office, these reports are only produced for the benefit of America's enemies, and for that reason, the President must always be presented in the Best of Health, lest enemies exploit what they see as a weakness. They say Ronnie Reagan never had Alzheimers when in office. Do you believe that? If the reports were actually true, it shows how insensitive Montreal or MiniMental tests are to the illness. My father was diagnosed with Alzheimers. To the outside world, he seemed normal. He still drove a car, didn't get lost. Flew through a MiniMental test, but brain scans showed the damage. Reagan didn't benefit from scans; these didn't really exist then, and the cognitive tests back then were even cruder. We now know Alzheimer's starts in your 50s or even 40s. He had it, and there were enough signs at the time for commentators to note about his condition. But it was important for the White House to maintain a straight face. Did the Whitehouse cover up for Reagan? Yes. Should they have covered up? Yes. Should people have stopped speculating about his health? No. Ultimately the voter can make their own mind up. Did the Whitehouse cover up for Biden? Yes. Should they have covered up? Yes. Should people have stopped speculating about his health? No Is the Whitehouse covering up for Trump? Should they cover up? Here I hesitate. With previous presidencies, you had adults in the room. The world kept turning while a AD addled Reagan or cognititively impaired (though I still think an element of that was due to a combination of undiagnosed UTIs and Prosate Cancer, but that's academic now) Biden. But the cabinet now is full of literal idiots, and this government is very personality, twitter driven, with the court Jester changing almost daily. There are no adults in the room to keep the world turning. Decisions are not being taken away from Trump and managed, they are coming from Trump himself. Should people have stop speculating about his health? No, no more than your suggestion that people should have stopped speculating about Biden. Official medical reports, irrespective of Party, are pure propaganda. They are not produced to divulge the intimate secrets of a man, but to make you feel good, and to make your enemies feel fearful. Trump's recent behaviour is unhinged, but maybe that's just him, according to his niece, who knows him better than most, that he is basically an unhinged man. Biden as elected as an old man. Its not his fault age caught up with him. Trump is also someone who has similarly outlasted his biblical age and is on borrow time, according to Our Lord. Biden shouldn't have ran as President in 2020. Old Man Trump shouldn't either. Both leave office with dementia. This difference is Trump's dementia has more of an impact on your life. Has no direct impact on my life. I'm not the one who needs US social security, veteran benefits or whatever. You lot should have selected a younger candidate when they had the chance, but your party went both racist and mysogenistic and rejected someone because she was of Indian origin and a woman. Would have been better than this faeces show. If you felt that Biden was a weak candidate, she would have easily won.

You obviously are completely oblivious about the Lincoln Project and why it exists. And in the video, if you bothered to watch it, he did talk about Biden (forum rules; you are not supposed to use slur nicknames to describe people, otherwise we can say Donnie Mumble<deleted>). https://lincolnproject.us/ Yeah, you are right. The Lincoln Project exists to attack Trumpism, but from the perspective of dissatisfied GOPers (I suppose in British terms, the Wets). Why do you expect it to criticise anyone but Trump. Otherwise, why aren't you here yelling about Vance not complaining about Trump, or why does Alex Jones never bitch about MAGA, or when is Bannon going to come out with nice things to say about Marx (not Groucho). I'm sure you will find lots of examples, for a thread about Donald Trump, to attack Joe Biden and his mental acuity. This is a forum. You can start a topic on the subject, and surely fill you boots. Or you can continue to hijack and deflect, and avoid confronting a position. Do you believe Trump is a well man? Yes or no. Another Conservative worried about current Presidential health One loudmouth and colourful New Yorker hates another loudmouth and colourful New Yorker. Only one of them was the self made man.

When Vance was an up and coming Nobody, he gave a speech at the Nat-Con/Nat-C Convention, to applause, called "Universities are the Enemy". Some here I know will lap it up, love it. https://nationalconservatism.org/natcon-2-2021/presenters/jd-vance/ He makes a cogent argument of course. But its based on utter <deleted>, utter pish (his vague recollection of a paper using AI to predict research outcomes is a complete misunderstanding of the paper, and the so-called apology. Plus he's forming his view of life based on an effing movie, spending all day on Twitter and having a grandmother who told him to go suck a dick). He considers Universities to be the Enemy. Not some University Professors. Not some Universities. But All Universities are the Enemy. The irony is Hong Kong Universities are now recruiting for these Harvard students. National Socialism wasn't socialism; the word was literally used as a recruiting sergeant, to peel voters from another movement. National Conservatism isn't conservatism either (the same sort of movement exist in the UK, as a group within my own Party). Socialists brought into the Nazi arguments. Natural conservatives today are doing the same. Vance went on to say "When you realize that culture war is class warfare, everything becomes easy". All these blokes in history, all cut from the same cloth, whether they label themselves Left, Right or whatever. Maggie, in 1979, powerfully referred to the Labour Party setting one group against another with the "Politics of Envy". Her argument would extend to Nat-C ideology as well.

Sounds like the same advice Halifax gave Churchill. Halifax might have, to adopt your street patois, told Churchill to "get real". What kept De Gaulle going? He lost half his country, the other half became a vassal state. Cease Fires benefit both sides, unless you are saying a ceasefire is particularly problematic for Putin as his army might not want to start up again. Both sides have desertion problems, as in previous wars. Only one side has actually mutinied. Putin is still stuck on his lunatic, imperialist demands. Why are you not mentioning no shift in the Russian position, instead malignly suggesting its all the fault of Ukraine for Russia rapinf women, kidnapping kids, bombing civilians. Tankies always downplay the culpability of the Russians. They were full of excuses during the Cold War.

The ban isn't targetted. It treats all non-US passport holders the same, including Israeli citizens. Harvard is barred from enrolling any new internatonal students, including those from Israel. In addition, students currently in attendance, will have to find another place at another university. Those on a F1 visa are attending taught undergraduate or graduate courses. They have 60 days to settle their affairs. J1 students have 30 days. CNN's interpretation for J1 is wrong. It's particularly tough for that latter group, because most would be postdoctoral research associates and fellows; essentially they lose their jobs These include Fulbright scholars. Some will be lecturers at the university, so this will also impact the training of the future American leadership (about one third of the current cabinet are Harvard graduates). Its important to understand that a J1 visa is a nonimmigrant exchange visa. It cannot normally be converted to a H-visa without extraordinary petitioning of government. Its a visa category specifically created to spread US influence around the world. I was one, once, in Alabama. But I am debating with someone who holds a cartoon drug dealer as a role model.

I feel sorry for the American students impacted by this, since it will lead to reduced opportunities for them to learn and broaden their horizons. As an Undergraduate, I benefited from the International Student Exchange Program (ISEP), which exchange students for a year on a national basis. British students go to the US, American students go to the UK, all to mutual benefit. In a sense, its immaterial which country you exchange with; the benefit is being in a new and challenging educational system, which can inspire you and change your perspective on things. Some Americans won't get that opportunity, and I hear a sweeping ban on international students is likely to broaden. At Harvard, the heir apparent to the Belgium throne, Princess Elizabeth, a 3rd Cousin I believe to the British King, is to be expelled halfway through her Masters, which of course is generously self-funded. She has nothing to do with any protests, all the more so due to her constitutional role. She of course won't suffer as such. But one day, she will be the Belgian Head of State, receiving a future new US Ambassador, greeting a solemn President at an annual reverential Bastogne memorial. As a country, little Belgium might not matter to the USA. Its a country that has been enormously grateful to the US, and has repeatedly demonstrated that for over 100 years. Now the next Monarch will think about the US with possibly mixed feelings. That seems a shame.

New strain of bacteria is the key turn of phrase. Not at all unusual. 99.9% of terran bacteria are unknown. My PhD not only resulted in new strains, but I found new genera of bacteria. In higher organisms, thats like discovering lizard people. Its not a big deal. First I found one brand new genera, and named it. Then I found another brand new one. Named that as well. Seriously whacky looking bacteria at x1000. Super sensitive to metals, I had to grow them using a plant-derived gelling agent from Dupont, normally used in paints, because ultra high purity agar (which is made from seaweed) had too much metals in it. The gel was a thermo-responsive gel, which meant it liquified when I stuck it in the fridge, leading to unique ways to harvest colonies. Bacteria are ubiquitous; in soil, in water. A mate at Purdue was working in a mine in South Africa, 4kms down, drilling native rock, and found novel bacteria down there. I've worked with bacteria that have required special glassware, as they are so acidophillic, and other bacteria where you have to grow them in a pressure cooker. Up in the clouds, there is a complete ecosystem that directly impacts our climate. Amazing things.

I suspect in 2029, the plane will be handed over the the Trump Presidential Library as a gutted hulk. There was a reason why stinkin' rich bedo were wanting to get shot of this plane. Ironically, he might be on his deathbed by then, so the plane will be left as some sort of symbolic memorial. Wonder if we will ever find out about the camera's fitted into the Emir's bedroom for his enjoyment.... Or wonder if the Emir's brother, Sheikh Khalid Bin Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, partied on the plane? Maybe played snooker but without a snooker table, just the cues to hit the spot....

Courts will not receive federal funding to enforce contempt actions. Simply, the President can ignore the Courts. He can ignore Congress. Its the end of Constitutional Law. Of course, he might not ignore the Courts. He might not ignore Congress. He might not arbitrarily arrest opponants and journalists. He might not suspend elections. But he can do all those things. 800 years of Magna Carta undone in 4 months.

Was Bono there?

Reports of Masked ICE in piss soaked scruffy clothes making arrests at immigration hearings. The department really does need more budget to ensure these men turn out in proper clean and smart uniforms. https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/ice-agents-arrest-immigrants-at-federal-courthouse-in-dallas-across-country/ They deliberately get the case dismissed, without being heard, claiming they don't have any credible fear. "It's basically removing due process because if the person is allowed to enter the U.S. to fight an immigration case, at least they should be allowed to present their case and make a final determination. It is an erosion of the judicial process and system in this country." Dallas immigration attorney Haim Vasquez said Trump officials are using a loophole in the system, dismissing a person's immigration case, thereby removing their temporary protected status and making them immediately eligible for arrest and deportation. This is happening during what's called a master calendar docket, which is a check-in early on in the immigration case process. Vasquez said this is an effort that the board of immigration appeals recently greenlit under a provision that refers to the arrest and deportation of who they call "arriving aliens." If this is a popular move, why the use of snot rags as masks? Afraid of COVID?