22 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

This sums him up perfectly:

Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:

 

"A few things spring to mind. 

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact.

 

He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. 

That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. 

 

There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of bull<deleted>. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

 

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W. look smart and articulate. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: 'My God… what… have… I… created?

 

 

Non-stop bollaxe as usual.

15 hours ago, Airalee said:

Oh be quiet.

 

you copy your profile picture from a men’s hairstyle website and you copy the majority of your diatribes from other people’s Facebook posts.

 

You’re so L.A……such a poseur.

 

And bald as a coot, too.

21 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

The only plot that matters right now is Project 2025. 47 has abdicated his responsibilities to Stephen Miller and only makes TV appearances when the mood suits him. The US is basically phooked. This will pass. It may be like a kidney stone, but it will pass. Then hopefully future generations will be able to fix the damage.  Thankfully I won't be around all that much longer to witness their suffering.

You must be the only person left that still mentions project 25. Time to give it up, save embarrassing yourself further

5 minutes ago, frank83628 said:

You must be the only person left that still mentions project 25. Time to give it up, save embarrassing yourself further

Guessing again, it is you that is embarrassing yourself telling others what to do, when we all know who you 'support'.......

16 hours ago, Airalee said:

Oh be quiet.

 

you copy your profile picture from a men’s hairstyle website and you copy the majority of your diatribes from other people’s Facebook posts.

 

You’re so L.A……such a poseur.

Oh it seems like I've hit a rather sensitive spot didn't I? You hate to hear criticism of your master don't you? 

15 hours ago, SLOWHAND225 said:

Theres a special place in hell for people like you, the sooner you get there the better

Oh yes for sure, God will punish those who criticize his savior and prophet Saint Donald. 

 

Actually there's a special place in hell for people who strip millions of grandparents of their health care and Medicaid, and deny some of the poorest people in the world medicine, to pay for another missile or two, and give massive tax cuts to their billionaire buddies. 

 

Keep on drinking the Kool-Aid, it's good stuff, delusion can be a very powerful thing. 

The title is strange, it should be "Trump lost the plot a long time ago".  Reasons could be many - possibly given his age the early stages of vascular dementia.

On 7/8/2025 at 3:32 AM, spidermike007 said:

His whipsaw approach to the tariffs has been driving the economy crazy for quite some time, there's so much uncertainty in the world, he whips up a frenzy with more tariff talk just as things are starting to settle down and he threatens to impose an additional 10% tax on any nation that has anything to do with BRICS. That organization cannot be stopped, it already represents more than half the world's population, it's only going to grow bigger and stronger, if nothing else just as a counterpoint to Trump's stunning level of arrogance and stupidity. 

 

He's in so far over his head with China, and he has no idea how to deal with them. His policies have allowed them to promote themselves as the new moral authority, something I never thought I would see in this life. 

 

It is indisputable at this point that the United States is disengaging from global leadership. While America’s retreat has so far been largely a choice – spearheaded by President Donald Trump’s “America First” administration – it may well become irreversible.

 

And if the Communist Party of China (CPC) has its way, the People’s Republic will emerge as the new global hegemon. 

China’s recently published white paper on national security, its first ever, offers a glimpse into the CPC’s plans. Reflecting President Xi Jinping’s “holistic national security concept,” the document articulates an expansive, integrated approach, encompassing political, economic, military, technological, cultural, and societal domains.

And unlike previous defense-focused white papers, it establishes political security – specifically, the CPC’s leadership – as the foundation of national stability, essential to enable China to act as a stabilizing force in a turbulent world.

 

Trump’s willingness to leverage American power to shape global affairs according to his whims is another incitement to instability, with his unilateral decision to bomb Iranian nuclear sites being the most obvious example. In fact, the Trump administration has scaled back cultural diplomacy and slashed development aid – hallmarks of America’s post-Cold War influence.

 

This has provided a critical opening for China to position itself as a stable and certain actor in regional and global affairs, a champion of multilateralism, an investor in and defender of the Global South, and a just peacemaker.

That chaos begins with the Trump administration’s embrace of economic nationalism and continues through Trump’s rejection of decades of US foreign-policy principles. 

 

This appears to matter little to the Trump administration, which seems convinced that national security depends not on global outreach, but on military deterrence, advances in cybersecurity, and economic protectionism, exemplified by high tariffs, efforts to secure critical-mineral supply chains, and limits on the export of advanced technology to China.

Within Asia, this vision has materialized in “treaties of good-neighborliness and friendly cooperation” between China and nine countries, and in China’s promotion of greater regional security cooperation, including with the ASEAN countries. 

 

More broadly, China is touting Xi’s Global Security Initiative (GSI), which was launched in 2022 as an alternative to Western-led security frameworks that can support broad-based, “win-win” cooperation on “complex and intertwined security challenges.”

 

For instance, Taiwan poses no threat whatsoever to China or its neighbors. But for many countries in the Global South, America’s history of double standards, including its inconsistent human-rights advocacy, has so decimated its moral authority that its interventions stand out as uniquely problematic, especially as it turns its back on soft power.

 

But as Trump’s America abandons that approach and alienates more of the world, China’s vision, focused on fortifying CPC control and building alternative frameworks for global engagement, has gained greater appeal.

 

Some excerpts are from this article:

 

https://tomorrowsaffairs.com/new-chinese-security-vision-and-american-retreat-from-global-leadership

Delusional still....Trump lives rent free in your head

22 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

He does not care one iota for the average American. 

Only libtards believe this

22 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

This sums him up perfectly:

Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:

 

"A few things spring to mind. 

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact.

 

He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. 

That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. 

 

There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of bull<deleted>. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

 

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W. look smart and articulate. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: 'My God… what… have… I… created?

 

another delusional post....Trump DS....try posting something else beside your hatred for President Trump.

17 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Oh yes for sure, God will punish those who criticize his savior and prophet Saint Donald. 

 

Actually there's a special place in hell for people who strip millions of grandparents of their health care and Medicaid, and deny some of the poorest people in the world medicine, to pay for another missile or two, and give massive tax cuts to their billionaire buddies. 

 

Keep on drinking the Kool-Aid, it's good stuff, delusion can be a very powerful thing. 

I think I get you MO....you want to post controversial post about Trump so you can "win" the most post for the day.  Get a life loser.  OBTW, Trump is still the US President....MAGA

The Trump derangement on this site is top level.

Its never ending. 

I havent seen a single thread posted this year with anything the Democrats have come up with to counter the Trump admin, no policies or plans,  only spitting hate and anger.

 

52 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Oh yes for sure, God will punish those who criticize his savior and prophet Saint Donald. 

 

Actually there's a special place in hell for people who strip millions of grandparents of their health care and Medicaid, and deny some of the poorest people in the world medicine, to pay for another missile or two, and give massive tax cuts to their billionaire buddies. 

 

Keep on drinking the Kool-Aid, it's good stuff, delusion can be a very powerful thing. 

Nobody but you is talking about some god or Trump.

You're lying about "millions of grandparents"

As for the poor people, you take care of them if its so important to you.  Its not Americas responsibility.

Thats why you don't feed strays, they'll soon come to expect the scraps.

4 hours ago, frank83628 said:

The Trump derangement on this site is top level.

Its never ending. 

I havent seen a single thread posted this year with anything the Democrats have come up with to counter the Trump admin, no policies or plans,  only spitting hate and anger.

 

What are you talking about, here's the democrat latest flop-fest anti MAGA Trump strategy. 

 

 

Hows this for losing the plot, a governor who thinks boys need tampons.

 

 

Don't forget the Trump Russia probe was a lost plot orchestrated by democrat lost plot experts.