12 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

Trump owns it now.

Well the man who actually made the quote, failed horrible finely to, but as an strategic mind, I doubt Donald ever will be recognized as one of the brightest ones in the history books. I quite sure his legacy will be horrible and a study in how the wrong leaders can lead to a fall of an empire in less than a century

6 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

Latest rumor is Trump may go after Kim in North Korea.

Not sure if its believable though.

Kim is another one who called Trump a psychopath

5 hours ago, Crossy said:

Since I've found several .pdf downloads for this I thought I'd give it a look to see what the fuss is about.

It should be noted that not a single poster has attacked you for this comment. Whereas they came after frogman for basically the same thought.

Strange.

6 hours ago, Crossy said:

Since I've found several .pdf downloads for this I thought I'd give it a look to see what the fuss is about.

Don't waste your time reading a book that wasn't written by trump and who had next to no input in it, and as others have said, trump has bankrupted Casinos (very hard to do) and just about every one of his "ventures" has failed........not a good role model Crossy!!

11 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Trump 2.0.

2nd best was Trump 1.0

No others came close, but Reagan was OK until he started having Biden-esque senility issues.

4 hours ago, Purdey said:

Joe Biden is not deserving of a ranking of 14th; his policies are contributing to massive inflation.

Franklin D. Roosevelt should drop a few spots due to his racially charged Executive Order 9096.

Harry Truman initiated the trend of engaging in wars without a formal declaration of war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower made mistakes in Vietnam, which Lyndon B. Johnson exacerbated.

Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era screwed up the role the U.S. Senate.

Barack Obama was involved in extrajudicial killings.

11 minutes ago, Wingate said:

Before I try to use a bit of what you call "logic", I'm trying to recall how many world leaders said Obama was out of his mind? I don't think any.

Because Trump is going against "the global order".

He's dissolving WEF, NATO, imposing tariffs.

Replacing UN with his own Peace Board. Wasn't UN useless though for maintaining peace? The Peace Board can't be much worse?

So obviously most EU countries don't like him.

Actually, I really don't like to see him making enemies with Canada or EU countries. I hope it's just temporary.

17 hours ago, CallumWK said:

Why not post facts, instead of estimates?

Why not respond to the OP's post using the same metrics? The OP presented numbers based on GDP growth, but you tried to dunk on him by using GDP per capita, which is not equivalent to GDP growth.

1 hour ago, Fact said:

Joe Biden is not deserving of a ranking of 14th; his policies are contributing to massive inflation.

Franklin D. Roosevelt should drop a few spots due to his racially charged Executive Order 9096.

Harry Truman initiated the trend of engaging in wars without a formal declaration of war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower made mistakes in Vietnam, which Lyndon B. Johnson exacerbated.

Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era screwed up the role the U.S. Senate.

Barack Obama was involved in extrajudicial killings.

Who are you?

19 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

Who are you?

Who am I? I’m the one who will teach you how to use metics properly.

30 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

I can't help it that you are too dumb to understand why.

Of course. It's not that your claim makes no sense, or that you do not understand your position well enough to explain it clearly, it is that everyone that disagrees with you is too dumb to understand.

1 hour ago, Fact said:

Joe Biden is not deserving of a ranking of 14th; his policies are contributing to massive inflation.

Franklin D. Roosevelt should drop a few spots due to his racially charged Executive Order 9096.

Harry Truman initiated the trend of engaging in wars without a formal declaration of war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower made mistakes in Vietnam, which Lyndon B. Johnson exacerbated.

Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era screwed up the role the U.S. Senate.

Barack Obama was involved in extrajudicial killings.

Thankfully people more intelligent than you are doing the voting.

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

Because Trump is going against "the global order".

He's dissolving WEF, NATO, imposing tariffs.

Replacing UN with his own Peace Board. Wasn't UN useless though for maintaining peace? The Peace Board can't be much worse?

So obviously most EU countries don't like him.

Actually, I really don't like to see him making enemies with Canada or EU countries. I hope it's just temporary.

I think you proved the OP's point.

Rational people have an appreciation of the value NATO added to the US and most of the world since its founding. Trump, who seems to know absolutely nothing about history, defense, nor economics doesn't understand the value NATO has added. Heck, when heading with Gen Kelly on a launch to the USS Arizona to mark the Pearl Harbor anniversary, Trump asked Gen Kelly, "So what's this boat all about?"

Re tariffs, I'm going to bet Trump would think David Ricardo is someone ICE picked up and sent to CECOT.

The damage Trump has done to relationships with now former allies may not be reparable. Those former allies do not only distrust Trump, but now likely distrust the American voter who gave Trump a plurality in 2024.

My favorite "Trump is insane" anecdote, even better than his claims of stopping the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, stopping the war between Cambodia and Armenia, relating a discussion he never had with his uncle about the Unabomber, is the one where he praised the Revolutionary soldiers of 1776 for "controlling the ramparts and the airports". Yea, those Red Coats were likely about to launch a wave of Lancaster bombers protected by Spitfires. Or maybe Sopwith Camels (which Trump probably thinks live in the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas) LOL!

Heck, David Koresh and Jim Jones were more sane and rational cult leaders than Trump.

3 minutes ago, gargamon said:

Thankfully people more intelligent than you are doing the voting.

Leftist academics are voting

1 minute ago, Wingate said:

I think you proved the OP's point.

Rational people have an appreciation of the value NATO added to the US and most of the world since its founding. Trump, who seems to know absolutely nothing about history, defense, nor economics doesn't understand the value NATO has added. Heck, when heading with Gen Kelly on a launch to the USS Arizona to mark the Pearl Harbor anniversary, Trump asked Gen Kelly, "So what's this boat all about?"

Re tariffs, I'm going to bet Trump would think David Ricardo is someone ICE picked up and sent to CECOT.

The damage Trump has done to relationships with now former allies may not be reparable. Those former allies do not only distrust Trump, but now likely distrust the American voter who gave Trump a plurality in 2024.

My favorite "Trump is insane" anecdote, even better than his claims of stopping the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, stopping the war between Cambodia and Armenia, relating a discussion he never had with his uncle about the Unabomber, is the one where he praised the Revolutionary soldiers of 1776 for "controlling the ramparts and the airports". Yea, those Red Coats were likely about to launch a wave of Lancaster bombers protected by Spitfires. Or maybe Sopwith Camels (which Trump probably thinks live in the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas) LOL!

Heck, David Koresh and Jim Jones were more sane and rational cult leaders than Trump.

Don't forget, he blamed Canada for burning down the White House in 1812. There was no Canada before 1867.

Just now, Yellowtail said:

Leftist academics are voting

Thanks for confirming my point.

5 minutes ago, gargamon said:

Thankfully people more intelligent than you are doing the voting.

What do you disagree with?

Just now, gargamon said:

Thanks for confirming my point.

Thanks for making mine.

22 hours ago, save the frogs said:

Did he also mention anything about Trump's body odor ?

Another lame attempt to dethrone the boss if you ask me.

Dethrone... interesting choice of words.

5 hours ago, Wingate said:

Rational people have an appreciation of the value NATO added to the US and most of the world since its founding.

Once upon a time, NATO did not exist.

Who says it needs to exist forever?

Many people don't like Trump because they are afraid of change.

2 hours ago, save the frogs said:

Once upon a time, NATO did not exist.

Who says it needs to exist forever?

Many people don't like Trump because they are afraid of change.

Actually, many people don't like Trump because he's a corrupt, mendacious, self-serving, vindictive, willfully ignorant, woefully insecure, crybaby, anti-US clown.

As for NATO, it was created because European countries had fought each other periodically for a thousand years, and the hope was an entity that brought nations together, and promoted trade, might help keep the peace. It also was meant to stand up to what was a growing threat from the Soviet Union.

In case you haven't noticed, Europe is under threat even now because of Russia. To rational people, it would seem now is not the time to do away with something that has worked very well and is still needed.

8 hours ago, Fact said:

Who am I? I’m the one who will teach you how to use metics properly.

And can you teach us what "metics" are?? LoL

2 hours ago, save the frogs said:

Many people don't like Trump because they are afraid of change.

More like afraid of what an idiot can do........although stopping a war that never was and stating: "During a July 4, 2019, "Salute to America" speech, Donald Trump inaccurately stated that the Continental Army "took over the airports" from the British during the 1770s Revolutionary War. He claimed, "Our Army manned the [air], it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do". 

Really was a stretch of his one remaing brain cell!!!

Well, looks like our Crybaby-in-Chief has soiled his Depends again. He tore into the "almost unwatchable" Grammys, which he apparently watched start to finish, and has now decided to sue Trevor Noah, the host, because he made a joke about Trump. Trump also tossed out his usual epithets like "total loser" and added a new nickname for George Stephanopolous ("Little George Slopadopolous").

This guy is President of the United States of America? Someone so unhinged, immature, thin-skinned and childlike has the nuclear codes? Odds are he'll attack Iran tomorrow in a fit of pique.

AN has more class, demanding that posters spell names properly. Slopadopolous probably would not be allowed here, except as a quote, yet the 79 year old supposed leader of the world's primary superpower cannot sleep until he sends out rage Tweets attacking celebrities, whose function is to entertain, not lead or start wars.

Never could anyone have imagined that the US could sink so low and embarrass itself in front of 8.5 billion souls.

History starts out as farce and ends in tragedy, or starts out as tragedy and ends as farce? Trump is both farce and tragedy.

19 minutes ago, Wingate said:

In case you haven't noticed, Europe is under threat even now because of Russia. To rational people, it would seem now is not the time to do away with something that has worked very well and is still needed.

Russian threat? You mean the Euros are scared of them? The Russians cant even beat Ukraine LOL.

2 minutes ago, Wingate said:

Never could anyone have imagined that the US could sink so low and embarrass itself in front of 8.5 billion souls.

The whole world is watching the grammys LOL. They are glued to their TVs in Pago Pago.

Hysterical much LOL

1 hour ago, Wingate said:

Actually, many people don't like Trump because he's a corrupt, mendacious, self-serving, vindictive, willfully ignorant, woefully insecure, crybaby, anti-US clown.

A lot of people did not like Obama and Biden for the same reasons.

1 hour ago, Wingate said:

As for NATO, it was created because European countries had fought each other periodically for a thousand years, and the hope was an entity that brought nations together, and promoted trade, might help keep the peace. It also was meant to stand up to what was a growing threat from the Soviet Union.

In case you haven't noticed, Europe is under threat even now because of Russia. To rational people, it would seem now is not the time to do away with something that has worked very well and is still needed.

It that why Europe buy all the energy from Russia they can?

What percentage of young people in the EU are ready to fight and die for their "country"?

Europe: "Talk loudly and carry a twig."

53 minutes ago, Wingate said:

History starts out as farce and ends in tragedy, or starts out as tragedy and ends as farce? Trump is both farce and tragedy.

Brilliantly said and I totally agree!

59 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Russian threat? You mean the Euros are scared of them? The Russians cant even beat Ukraine LOL.

Is the country "Euros" a member of NATO?

1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

The whole world is watching the grammys LOL

Trump seems to have watched it all and he appears to think that he is the whole world or maybe just that we all revolve around him!