Trump

[F-ZeroOne]

EU and US kiss and make up a bit:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44961560

merman: "Does he ever think through his actions?" - you have to ask?!

[Cloudane]

Starting to see the point about how he's using "art of the deal" tactics. Not read it myself, but allegedly all this thing of throwing massive threats around and generally bullying then making a u-turn when he gets his way are all part of it.

Gets the job done I suppose. It'll be interesting to see if the EU rewards May's softer, more diplomatic approach or not. I'd be like "I'm giving you a better deal as a thank you for not being (as much of) a shit talking bully" but that might just be me...

[merman]

Starting to see the point about how he's using "art of the deal" tactics. Not read it myself, but allegedly all this thing of throwing massive threats around and generally bullying then making a u-turn when he gets his way are all part of it.

Gets the job done I suppose. It'll be interesting to see if the EU rewards May's softer, more diplomatic approach or not. I'd be like "I'm giving you a better deal as a thank you for not being (as much of) a shit talking bully" but that might just be me...

You haven't read it. He didn't write it.

[snaff]

Trump offered to drop all tariffs and the EU refused. Shows who the bad guys are.

Now the EU has agreed to buy expensive LNG from the US instead of cheap LNG from Russia, how will they get the member states to go along with it? Likely that will be much harder than getting an agreement from Trump.

[F-ZeroOne]

"And hey, those electric cars are dangerous too! Gee, have you ever licked a battery?!":

https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/1024409588869877760

Trump administration continues to generate news that surprises no-one but the Trump administration:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/t ... icial-says

(its also being reported that a child has died in one of the detention centres, allegedly from a respiratory illness caught from another detainee: https://hillreporter.com/first-child-di ... gence-4907).

[PFVA]

What's he talking about now?

The US president has criticised Governor Jerry Brown and California's environmental laws on social media in recent days.

He tweeted on Monday that the wildfires were being "magnified & made so much worse" because of a Californian policy to divert water into the Pacific Ocean.

Governor Jerry Brown must allow the Free Flow of the vast amounts of water coming from the North and foolishly being diverted into the Pacific Ocean. Can be used for fires, farming and everything else. Think of California with plenty of Water - Nice! Fast Federal govt. approvals.

And i thought California water problems had started with the large amounts being diverted to keep LA and the irrigation of the central valley for the agriculture and the cattle raising industries. That was aggravated too because even though they have quite a few reservoirs building more has impact on earthquakes.

[F-ZeroOne]

The short version is, hes wrong. Try to look surprised.

http://time.com/5358661/donald-trump-ca ... res-water/

As has also been pointed out by others hes been very quick to politicize a natural disaster, but mention "gun control" after the next mass shooting and what would he accuse you of?

[Cloudane]

"And hey, those electric cars are dangerous too! Gee, have you ever licked a battery?!"

I have a 400V traction battery he's more than welcome to lick the terminals of

[F-ZeroOne]

You how one of his running themes is somethingsomethingcontributionsomethingNATOsomething? Hmm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT7j6xU ... e=youtu.be

<edit: hmm, can't get link to embed usual way... >

[PFVA]

That link took me to a video about an hypothetical war between Russia and EU over Ukraine, and not to something having to do with NASA unless it is much later in the video, i didn't watch all of it.

[F-ZeroOne]

The link wasn't intended to be about NASA or the Space Force at all. The short version is, the European NATO forces are more evenly matched than I thought; it puts Trumps comments about NATO funding into a slightly different light.

[F-ZeroOne]

Next Thanksgiving family dinner could be awkward for one Trump advisor:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... cle-219351

[PFVA]

And Devin Nunes, rep for the California region of the San Joaquim Valley, who has been doing so much for protecting and helping Trump is a Portuguese descendent, is father having been born Portuguese, and his mother a descendant

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/09/opin ... index.html

The same San Joaquim Valley who benefits so much from the work of the illegal immigrants of Mexico and Central America

And the same San Joaquim Valley that wants so badly and already get the water from elsewhere in California and didn't like the preservation of some rivers to prevent that all of them end up dry.

[Mayhem]

Next Thanksgiving family dinner could be awkward for one Trump advisor:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... cle-219351

It's not as surprising as it reads, and doesn't just apply to the US... some of the biggest anti-immigration voices that you could hear in the UK are immigrants themselves, or descendants of immigrants.

[zip accident]

Next Thanksgiving family dinner could be awkward for one Trump advisor:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... cle-219351

It's not as surprising as it reads, and doesn't just apply to the US... some of the biggest anti-immigration voices that you could hear in the UK are immigrants themselves, or descendants of immigrants.

If you go back, everybody is an immigrant, except for maybe one unknown place in Africa, and probably not even there. Britain is particularly immigrant central, and always has been.