35 minutes ago, Jara said:

He's sucked you in.

 

Dunno if that requires much brilliance.

Yes, it's almost ghoulish how the world is fascinated by this complete psychopath who is also certifiably insane. The trouble is how dangerous he is. The US was dangerous enough - witness Iraq just for a start - before this amoral,  lunatic, loose canon came along.

Once again, it just shows how insane the Us is: how can they have elected this lecherous, fraudulent imbecile???

2 hours ago, nutbean said:

I know he holds a fairly important job but I am absolutely addicted to Trump.I have to read every day what new fluff and nonsense he has uttered.  He is the comedy act that just keeps giving. 

I hardly see the comedy any more. The world is in a very dangerous place at the moment. The Goebbels paradigm that the sheep are the most inclined to believe the big lies has never been more apparent.

15 hours ago, dieter said:

I hardly see the comedy any more. The world is in a very dangerous place at the moment. The Goebbels paradigm that the sheep are the most inclined to believe the big lies has never been more apparent.

I have to see the comedy as there is little I can do,  not only about who they elect, but also about their whole decaying system of government and the poor choices they have as leaders to select from ( not that ours are any better)

17 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

I love how he just sucks people in. He’s brilliant. 

One nation received 4.3% of the vote in the 2016 election and won 4 seats. Next you will be telling us Pauline Hanson's brilliant as well.

I think that the likes of Trump and Hanson get elected says more about the "people" getting sucked in than it does about Trump/Hanson's "brilliance".

Edited February 28, 20187 yr by nutbean

15 hours ago, dieter said:

Yes, it's almost ghoulish how the world is fascinated by this complete psychopath who is also certifiably insane.

I feel ghoulish. I am not sure what diagnosis fits Trump but he certainly has a few sheep loose in the top paddock and yet he was elected president. I am fascinated for this very reason.

I have stated before and will repeat that in Australian politics there have been Prime Ministers and their platforms that I have vehemently disagreed with and could never have voted for but I would say that we haven't had a Prime Minister who I believe was unfit to hold the office no matter what i thought of their policies.

Trump is looney tunes and is unfit to hold the office he was elected to.

3 hours ago, nutbean said:

I have to see the comedy as there is little I can do,  not only about who they elect, but also about their whole decaying system of government and the poor choices they have as leaders to select from ( not that ours are any better)

Here ya go nut, some genuine comedy for ya:

The White House chief calligrapher has a higher clearance than Jared Kushner

I lol'd.

4 minutes ago, Choke said:

Here ya go nut, some genuine comedy for ya:

The White House chief calligrapher has a higher clearance than Jared Kushner

I lol'd.

he can read and write so that probably puts him leaps and bounds ahead in the intelligence stakes as well.

12 hours ago, nutbean said:

I feel ghoulish. I am not sure what diagnosis fits Trump but he certainly has a few sheep loose in the top paddock and yet he was elected president. I am fascinated for this very reason.

I have stated before and will repeat that in Australian politics there have been Prime Ministers and their platforms that I have vehemently disagreed with and could never have voted for but I would say that we haven't had a Prime Minister who I believe was unfit to hold the office no matter what i thought of their policies.

Trump is looney tunes and is unfit to hold the office he was elected to.

I don't doubt your ability to be impartial enough to see the arguments of polticians and politics you don't agree with and note you often try and understand from the opposite viewpoint. A quality I admire and try my best to do as well.

I think you under estimate Trump. I can't emphasise enough that I despise him as a person and hated him even more as a celebrity.

He has smarts about him though that put him at a genius level. You don't end up president of the USA by fluke Bush didn't, Obama didn't and Trump didn't.

Australian politics follow the USA and at the moment we have the most insestual, unfit, corrupt mob we have ever seen. Don't for a second think the USA wasn't  worse and Trump had the forsight to campaign on "draining the swamp"

Trump has had a much better impact on the economy, employment and social cohesion than could have been imagined. Watch the left get more and more shrill in the lead up to the next presidential election as Trump's economic numbers get better and better.

 

1 hour ago, Wrecker45 said:

He has smarts about him though that put him at a genius level.

Well, there's at least one person who agrees with you: Trump himself.

11 hours ago, Wrecker45 said:

 

He has smarts about him though that put him at a genius level. You don't end up president of the USA by fluke Bush didn't, Obama didn't and Trump didn't.

 

 

 

Truly I can't see it.

Again I point to Pauline Hanson - her party received 4.3% of the vote  - is she a genius ?

I would point more to the fact that you don't get to be President without smart people around you. Whilst I don't like Steve Bannon's politics he smelled and felt what the electorate wanted and made sure that Trump espoused those views. He knew what the electorate were sick of.

I  believe that Trump's election victory was in equal measure about what the voters didn't want and they were sick of establishment, playing politics type politicians. Every time Trump takes to a career congressman/senator with a baseball bate, be it Republican or Democrat, his fans cheer.

I am not sure that Trump is a genius - I don' t think he knows any other way.

11 hours ago, Wrecker45 said:

Trump has had a much better impact on the economy, employment and social cohesion than could have been imagined. Watch the left get more and more shrill in the lead up to the next presidential election as Trump's economic numbers get better and better.

Well, I hope the economy goes well, but look what happened the last time we had a Republican idiot in the White House. Eight years of letting the Wolves of Wall Street run the show and we had a bloody GFC - dunno bout you, but my super took a solid whack. 

1 hour ago, nutbean said:

Truly I can't see it.

Again I point to Pauline Hanson - her party received 4.3% of the vote  - is she a genius ?

I would point more to the fact that you don't get to be President without smart people around you. Whilst I don't like Steve Bannon's politics he smelled and felt what the electorate wanted and made sure that Trump espoused those views. He knew what the electorate were sick of.

I  believe that Trump's election victory was in equal measure about what the voters didn't want and they were sick of establishment, playing politics type politicians. Every time Trump takes to a career congressman/senator with a baseball bate, be it Republican or Democrat, his fans cheer.

I am not sure that Trump is a genius - I don' t think he knows any other way.

this doesn't compute. no true genius would ever become a politician. it would be oxymoronic

ewww

5 hours ago, nutbean said:

Truly I can't see it.

Again I point to Pauline Hanson - her party received 4.3% of the vote  - is she a genius ?

I would point more to the fact that you don't get to be President without smart people around you. Whilst I don't like Steve Bannon's politics he smelled and felt what the electorate wanted and made sure that Trump espoused those views. He knew what the electorate were sick of.

I  believe that Trump's election victory was in equal measure about what the voters didn't want and they were sick of establishment, playing politics type politicians. Every time Trump takes to a career congressman/senator with a baseball bate, be it Republican or Democrat, his fans cheer.

I am not sure that Trump is a genius - I don' t think he knows any other way.

I'm not sure how comparing Pauline Hanson's 4.3% vote to Trump's presidential election win helps your argument.

4 hours ago, daisycutter said:

this doesn't compute. no true genius would ever become a politician. it would be oxymoronic

Barry Jones says hello.

17 minutes ago, hardtack said:

Barry Jones says hello.

photographic memory does not a genius make

incidentally ht, i used to know barry reasonably well in his early quiz days. not a bad bloke, smart but no genius

2 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

photographic memory does not a genius make

incidentally ht, i used to know barry reasonably well in his early quiz days. not a bad bloke, smart but no genius

He lived out Ferntree Gully/Belgrave (or was it Kilsyth?) way didn't he?  I really only remember him from Pick-a-Box... I know he was Science Minister but I didn't follow him too closely.

3 minutes ago, hardtack said:

He lived out Ferntree Gully/Belgrave (or was it Kilsyth?) way didn't he?  I really only remember him from Pick-a-Box... I know he was Science Minister but I didn't follow him too closely.

i can't remember. i was quite younger than him and he was a regular visitor to a house in st. kilda road. yes, there were (stand-alone) houses in st. kilda road then. 

1 minute ago, daisycutter said:

i can't remember. i was quite younger than him and he was a regular visitor to a house in st. kilda road. yes, there were (stand-alone) houses in st. kilda road then. 

Haha... I worked at the Dept of Veterans' Affairs when it was located at 444 St Kilda Rd back in the late 70's... one of the few remaining houses was next door... it was a bright green massage parlour called The Gentle Touch.  I recall one time 2 young guys trying to get their mate to go in early one afternoon... they looked up at our building in horror, and suddenly ran off in the other direction as quickly as possible; all 10 floors (or whatever it was) must have had crowds of people lined up at the windows watching.

12 minutes ago, hardtack said:

Haha... I worked at the Dept of Veterans' Affairs when it was located at 444 St Kilda Rd back in the late 70's... one of the few remaining houses was next door... it was a bright green massage parlour called The Gentle Touch.  I recall one time 2 young guys trying to get their mate to go in early one afternoon... they looked up at our building in horror, and suddenly ran off in the other direction as quickly as possible; all 10 floors (or whatever it was) must have had crowds of people lined up at the windows watching.

Do you still work for DVA HT? I’ll be putting in a claim shortly. 

Edited March 2, 20187 yr by Ethan Tremblay

1 hour ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Do you still work for DVA HT? I’ll be putting in a claim shortly. 

No ET, I finished up there in the early 90’s... 15 years was more than any one person should have to endure. ?

3 hours ago, hardtack said:

He lived out Ferntree Gully/Belgrave (or was it Kilsyth?) way didn't he?  I really only remember him from Pick-a-Box... I know he was Science Minister but I didn't follow him too closely.

Barry lives in Carlton these days I think, I see him occasionally going to a seafood restaurant in Lyon Street near Brunetti’s. He is always dressed in a suit a throw back to a by gone era. God knows what he makes of the current anti rationalist/science mob running the country now!

Trump a genius? Bwahahahha!!

The Wall Street Journal - hardly a lefty newspaper - described his tweets on trade yesterday as ‘one of the greatest displays of economic nonsense in presidential history.’ 

Edited March 3, 20187 yr by Grapeviney