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Post by **Jezza** » Tue Jun 16, 2020 9:37 pm

5 years today since the famous escalator ride.

Wokko · Post by **Wokko** » Tue Jun 16, 2020 10:18 pm

Jezza wrote:5 years today since the famous escalator ride.

pietillidie · Post by **pietillidie** » Wed Jun 17, 2020 7:38 am

Sadly for all, after the conman had wowed the Rouge Hats with his reality TV show, people were unable to escape the fatal Escalator to Nowhere...

Wokko · Post by **Wokko** » Wed Jun 17, 2020 4:19 pm

https://disrn.com/news/israel-moves-ahe ... fter-trump

pietillidie · Post by **pietillidie** » Thu Jun 18, 2020 10:04 am

His dithering and denial might have caused 60,000 additional deaths, and the first wave of the pandemic might still be raging, but at least Captain Coronavirus has given the world an AIDS vaccine.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administra ... p-covid-19

How pitiful will it have to get to move him on?

Post by **David** » Thu Jun 18, 2020 3:17 pm

Gotta love this small but growing industry of tell-all books by ex-Trump administration ghouls:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... udi-arabia

Personally, I wouldn't trust Bolton to tell me the time of day, even though I'm guessing that most of what he writes here probably happened. But what really amuses me is Trump's campaign claim that he would "drain the swamp" and only hire "the best" people (cue a rogues' gallery of crooks and extremist ideologues who mostly ended up turning on him anyway). Maybe, just maybe, he overestimated the difficulty in hiring competent government staffers (even by whatever twisted standards he measures that)?

Wokko · Post by **Wokko** » Thu Jun 18, 2020 4:48 pm

Trump on Bolton's book

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 07584?s=19

Watching people on the left say how awesome and credible John Bolton is has been worth it though. You just know the guy wanted a war and threw a hissy fit when Trump didn't give him one.

Post by **Jezza** » Thu Jun 18, 2020 4:51 pm

A neocon is the left's new hero. No one would have said that a decade ago

In saying that, Trump's appointment of Bolton was always baffling. Many of his own supporters spoke out against it at the time.

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:20 pm

I've been waiting for the explanation but obviously no-one's going to give it to me. So, I'll ask directly - what is allegedly "famous" about that elevator ride? Is it important because he didn't fall off it (or because he did) or because the ride and the hand-gestures indicated to the world that he could multi-task?

Wokko · Post by **Wokko** » Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:23 pm

Pies4shaw wrote:I've been waiting for the explanation but obviously no-one's going to give it to me. So, I'll ask directly - what is allegedly "famous" about that elevator ride? Is it important because he didn't fall off it (or because he did) or because the ride and the hand-gestures indicated to the world that he could multi-task?

It was Trump coming down from Trump Tower to announce he was running for President. Historic moment in hindsight.

The Simpsons had an eerily similar scene 15 years earlier and also predicted a Trump presidency.

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:50 pm

Oh, OK.

Doesn't everyone who announces they are running for high office have to do it somewhere at some time? I can't say that I remember where any leader of any persuasion, anywhere, was at the time they made such an announcement. I suppose what I do remember are the leadership shenanigans when someone takes someone else down (eg, Hawke and Hayden; Scomo, Turnbull and Dutton etc) or when a leader was killed but I don't recall these sort of events. Remembering where some politician or other was and what she or he was doing 5 years ago is all a touch messianic for me, I guess. Perhaps if he did it from a cross, brought the Ten Commandments with him down the escalator or stormed the Bastille, I might see the memorial aspect of it.

pietillidie · Post by **pietillidie** » Sat Jun 20, 2020 4:25 pm

Pol Pot continues his populist purge of competent officials for disloyalty, but this one is refusing to go:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/nyre ... trump.html

It's creepy watching this play out. So much for checks and balances.

watt price tully · Post by **watt price tully** » Sun Jun 21, 2020 11:55 pm

It's interesting that just about anyone whose been closely involved on a political level with Trump & who have left are scathing about him. Trump responds like a child.

Although despite being racist I did laugh at the use of the term "Kung Flu" to describe the corona virus!

It's been a bad week for Trump: his conservative appointees to the Supreme Court have voted against him twice, Social Media are standing up to his bullshit and he had a miserable turnout in Tulsa Oklahoma.

Things are looking up (except for too many people who are ill and dying because he was so slow to act in the US).

Tannin · Post by **Tannin** » Mon Jun 22, 2020 9:24 am

Wokko wrote:Trump on Bolton's book

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 07584?s=19

Watching people on the left say how awesome and credible John Bolton is has been worth it though. You just know the guy wanted a war and threw a hissy fit when Trump didn't give him one.

So he's looking good for a job around about now?

Starting a war is just about Trump's last hope of reelection, and dumb as he is, he's almost bright enough to realise that.

Come back John Bolton, all is forgiven!

pietillidie · Post by **pietillidie** » Mon Jun 22, 2020 9:52 am

Trump's corrupt, thuggish attack on the ICC:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... man-rights

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