Active Topics | Member List | Search | Help | Register | Login
The John Byrne Forum
Byrne Robotics > The John Byrne Forum << Prev Page of 81
Topic: Trump Guilty Post ReplyPost New Topic
Author
Message
David Miller
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 16 April 2004
Posts: 3157
Posted: 06 April 2025 at 4:39am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

I totally forgot there was a protest. I spent the day working on my taxes. Does that make me part of the problem?
Back to Top profile | search | www e-mail
 
Oliver Denker
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 18 August 2018
Location: Germany
Posts: 228
Posted: 06 April 2025 at 11:42am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Trump is seriously overestimating his political capital. Even if Trump's foolhardy experiment were to work, the USA were to emerge victorious from the trade war and American industry were to experience a renaissance, it would be a long-term process. The mills of politics grind faster than industry can be reawakened, as Joe Biden recently learnt.


From my experience many Americans have no reserve cushion to wait for the Elysium that Trump promises them. They are heavily in debt and live from pay cheque to pay cheque. The great seducer of the people will not pay the costs of his megalomaniac experiment, the others will.


Back to Top profile | search
 
Matt Hawes
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 16 April 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 16587
Posted: 06 April 2025 at 4:58pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply





Sigh... morons...
Back to Top profile | search | www
 
Phil Frances
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 08 August 2009
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 353
Posted: 06 April 2025 at 8:05pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Really not sure where to start - 'unprecedented' has been a media buzzword on and off since COVID, but ...

- As someone outside of the US, what's the actual scale of the anti-Trump protests ? I see loads of pics of what seem to be thousands of people, but across such a huge nation, will that carry sufficient weight to force any rethink ?
- Is there any mechanism that the people (as in - 'We The People' ) can overturn an elected US President and his attendant government due to gross malpractice in office ?

Apols, as these may seem poorly worded or naive - but as Trumpf now seems to have gone fully wacko and doesn't seem to care about the markets or any 'optics', I have to wonder where the once-sane US goes next - or whether there is any hope of turn around.

Trumpf would argue (and already has ) that he's delivering his 'promises' to the American people ... but - surely - no-one imagined THIS?


Edited by Phil Frances on 06 April 2025 at 8:09pm
Back to Top profile | search e-mail
 
Mark Haslett
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 19 April 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 6742
Posted: 06 April 2025 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

Drove by the White House today about 3p. Saw more cops than protestors.

Could’ve missed the main crowd, but clearly much more pain will come
before the people get unruly.
Back to Top profile | search
 
Mark Haslett
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 19 April 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 6742
Posted: 06 April 2025 at 11:53pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

Phil: I have to wonder where the once-sane US goes next - or whether there
is any hope of turn around.

**

Your reaction is perfectly in line with what you’re seeing. All our allies are
afraid to share intel with the U.S. now— it is almost certain to be shared or
leaked to Russia and China. We no longer stand by any promises. We attack
our allies for no reason with no concern over consequences. The only
possible sense this makes is we are now allied with Russia and China.


China is already started showing up to aid the nations we’ve abandoned.
Our government workers are running for the exits before they get “Doged”
so there are only stressed and overworked men and women left running on
the hamster wheels of government.

Our protests are woeful, but they are a start.

A pitiful hope is that Justice Roberts is narcissistic enough to face off
against Trump when the day comes that they are at odds. But no one is
coming to save us and nothing will work except voters rising up.

We need to show that we will sacrifice to get these bastards out.
Back to Top profile | search
 
Phil Frances
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 08 August 2009
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 353
Posted: 07 April 2025 at 4:13am | IP Logged | 7 post reply

Unfit for office. Unfit to govern. Unfit as any sort of rational human being. The leader of the the country that once held the beacon for the free world has thrown away Lady Liberty's torch, summarily and without dignity.

How did anyone seem to think this carny barker for a fascist shitshow parade should be in charge of anything beyond a grifting concession stand peddling his own image ?

In other countries, this would be laughable - it is so for the US ; but - to see such an ally brought so low, so quickly by a supposedly elected government - we are in the realms of fan fiction.

America - you are now truly run by idiots, who seem to have grievance with the rest of the world. Well, the rest of the world is already showing anti-US sentiment ... and - guess what ? - the rest of the world together is Bigger.Than.You.

So, enforce your tariffs. Means we'll trade less with you. Break your alliances - fine, we'll stop trusting you. Retreat to some sort of imagined 'golden age' when the US was supreme and pretend you've a plan to mean many of the social problems facing all Western governments are then magically cancelled.

Will any of that Make America Great Again ? No. It just makes you all look collectively like a bunch of TV-fed morons governed by painted puffed-up beyond-their-ability donkeys. That's now the result of the 2024 election as far as the rest of the world sees.

A shithead President who looks on every interaction as a 'deal' is not serving anyone's better interests, and the entourage he's dragged up with him is equally unequipped for any sort of public office. And he's now talking about a third or even fourth term. What an absolute loon.




Edited by Phil Frances on 07 April 2025 at 4:15am
Back to Top profile | search e-mail
 
James Woodcock
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 21 September 2007
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 8044
Posted: 07 April 2025 at 5:20am | IP Logged | 8 post reply

We had a PM who lasted 45 days because they did something as stupid as
this - not the same thing, but stupid nonetheless.
She actually lasted less because for the first couple of weeks she wasn’t
doing anything as the nation was mourning the death of the queen.

It was very clear she wouldn’t last.

There just isn’t that possibility with the orange one. He’s going no where
and he will only reverse his decision if it benefits him and his handlers.

The irony is that his power has emboldened the lettuce to return and bang
on about the orange one’s messages and that she has been proven right.
She’s gaining little traction in the UK, but I’m unsure how other countries
view her.
Back to Top profile | search e-mail
 

If you wish to post a reply to this topic you must first login
If you are not already registered you must first register

<< Prev Page of 81
  Post ReplyPost New Topic
Printable version Printable version

Forum Jump
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot create polls in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum

 Active Topics | Member List | Search | Help | Register | Login