Post inauguration Trump:

[pietillidie]

^Honestly, TP, the incompetence, mismanagement and decline - and support thereof from a clueless, selfish, fist-waving polity - is ten times worse than people imagine.

The inability to even maintain social distancing during a pandemic, or to do something as basic as wear a mask or keep distance, or to conduct basic forestry in a drought, or to stop burning toxins and cutting down trees, or to learn basic bloody maths and computing, or to roll out a decent fibre internet, or to accept basic science, or to elect competent and serious leaders, or to..., evidences a self-entitled, pathetic, incapable, dumb-as-dog-turds people.

I feel claustrophobic listening to the idiocy coming from Trump and Johnson's mouths, and that of those around them, because it is so obvious they haven't the slightest grasp of the whole or clue of where to even begin getting a handle on it. And people are deluded enough to think they're winning some culture war; instead, they're officially an international laughing stock glorying in their own decline.

[watt price tully]

^Honestly, TP, the incompetence, mismanagement and decline - and support thereof from a clueless, selfish, fist-waving polity - is ten times worse than people imagine.

The inability to even maintain social distancing during a pandemic, or to do something as basic as wear a mask or keep distance, or to conduct basic forestry in a drought, or to stop burning toxins and cutting down trees, or to learn basic bloody maths and computing, or to roll out a decent fibre internet, or to accept basic science, or to elect competent and serious leaders, or to..., evidences a self-entitled, pathetic, incapable, dumb-as-dog-turds people.

I feel claustrophobic listening to the idiocy coming from Trump and Johnson's mouths, and that of those around them, because it is so obvious they haven't the slightest grasp of the whole or clue of where to even begin getting a handle on it. And people are deluded enough to think they're winning some culture war; instead, they're officially an international laughing stock.

Don’t worry PTID, you can rest assured, you can always go to Brazil

[stui magpie]

^

Or Indonesia or the UK...........

[Pies4shaw]

^ PTID already covered off the UK and I’m not sure Indonesia can compete in the Premier League with the US, Brazil and the UK. They’re the only 3 countries that have reported over 35,000 deaths.

[stui magpie]

Oh Indonesia is seeking promotion to the premier league, and if Ptiddy covered the UK I missed it.

Most of Europe is relying on summer to kill off the virus, the problem for the UK is that their summer lasts 5 days.

[pietillidie]

^Oh, this despair is inspired by trying to avoid idiots spreading disease, navigate a collapsed economy, and endure the utter vacuous tripe coming from Johnson's mouth, believe me. He might be fractionally saner than that White House nutcase given he doesn't encourage people to carry guns and guzzle bleach even as they spread disease, but he shares the very same aversion to getting out of bed and taking responsibility.

31° C and sunny today, FWIW.

[Wokko]

https://hannity.com/media-room/breaking ... Mtf_f9x3AM

[stui magpie]

^Oh, this despair is inspired by trying to avoid idiots spreading disease, navigate a collapsed economy, and endure the utter vacuous tripe coming from Johnson's mouth, believe me. He might be fractionally saner than that White House nutcase given he doesn't encourage people to carry guns and guzzle bleach even as they spread disease, but he shares the very same aversion to getting out of bed and taking responsibility.

31° C and sunny today, FWIW.

Hope you enjoyed it, that was summer.

Forecast for the next 7 days is?

[pietillidie]

^32 followed by a sudden lapse back to spring weather

This is along the lines of the high ground argument I keep advocating. The election of lying, mouthy idiots is the propaganda state's dream:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.thegua ... arch-finds

When people lack credibility to the extent of Trump and Johnson they make it impossible to discern legitimate concerns, let alone deal with them. Our own hysteria and lies are sweet music to authoritarian ears. Trump's lack of gravitas and ill repute has even somehow managed to provide cover for Kim Jung-eun.

Step 1: replace the lying laughing stocks and eschew nonsense and hysteria
Step 2: take the moral high ground
Step 3: persist longer than two minutes
Step 4: propose internal 'let's get smarter' opportunities that give people positive, motivating career and community objectives, and reward them accordingly, brightening future prospects
Step 5: in exchange for embracing this positive direction, enhance the social safety net and isolate the elite and hysterical who undermine the new arrangement and try to drag people back into the mud
Step 6: be tough on authoritarians by celebrating their peoples and cultures all the while refusing to buy into their hysteria and public slanging matches, meanwhile wedging firmly but quietly against them on the security front
Step 7: refuse to be dragged into the mud, arguing for staying the course and maintaining the high ground
Step 8: build a coalition of like-minded serious leaders whose refusal to deviate from the high ground isolates authoritarians and exposes them for who they are
Step 9: persist longer than two minutes

Etc.

[pietillidie]

Deranged psychopath moves to further weaken healthcare during a pandemic he has failed to contain:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co ... a-53190429

Bravo Captain 120,000 Dead.

[Pies4shaw]

[David]

^ Actually seems pretty coherent, by his standards!

[watt price tully]

Trump appealing to his supporter base:

Trump tweeting a supporters call for white-power

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-amer ... 5572s.html

To think that there were people who really believed that he hasn’t or doesn’t enable racism

[Tannin]

^So you think he's not looking real good for the black vote this year?

[watt price tully]

^So you think he's not looking real good for the black vote this year?

Nor is this bloke:

"Disguised Baron Cohen trolls far-right US rally, leads racist singalong
Comedian known for satirizing hateful ideologies sings anti-Semitic lyrics about Soros, hateful tune on Obama and Fauci, with some joining in, before he is whisked offstage"

https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-disgui ... singalong/