Politics Thread!

[snaff]

Elsewhere in Europe, I've got Hungary eyes...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2d8zw2d3rkt

I guess Orban should consider himself lucky to just be losing an election, considering what happened to the last guy JD Vance visited...

Orban was letting in too many foreigners. Magyar is promising to slash immigration. If only we had a party who would do that in the UK.

[snaff]

And that's before bennies.

[Harlequin]

Sooooooo tempted... but no. That would be what the troll wants.

[F-ZeroOne]

So who had the Iranian President, the Pope and - because apparently "Assassins Creed" is a documentary - the Knights Templar teaming up to condemn the President of the USA on their 2026 bingo card?

[zip accident]

Things can stay the same more of less forever, like the coelacanths.

Things can adapt, like the source of all land vertebrates.

It no longer exists as a species, but in my view the source of land vertebrates was far more successful than the coelacanth.

Of course, both have decendants where T Rex doesn't.

I'd score T Rex 0, the Coelacanths 1.5 out of 10, and the source of land vertebrates 9.99 out of 10.

[snaff]

Sooooooo tempted... but no. That would be what the troll wants.

Quite - the establishment doesn't have to justify itself, just dehumanise anyone who questions it.

[KlaxonCow]

Wait a minute. Let me get this straight.

The complaint is that the UK doesn't have enough socio-economic disparity? That the poor just aren't poor enough for you?

What sort of a fucking argument is that, you mad bastard?

[zip accident]

Wait a minute. Let me get this straight.

The complaint is that the UK doesn't have enough socio-economic disparity? That the poor just aren't poor enough for you?

What sort of a fucking argument is that, you mad bastard?

What I think he's actually saying is that the middling rich as were are being screwed as hard as the rest of us while the rich proper get even richer.

[snaff]

Are you only earning 3x what you did at the start of your career?

Would you have done all that work and taken on that responsibility for only 3x?

Is your productivity only 3x what it was your first year?

Wage compression is unfair and kills incentive.

[Harlequin]

Wait a minute. Let me get this straight.

The complaint is that the UK doesn't have enough socio-economic disparity? That the poor just aren't poor enough for you?

What sort of a fucking argument is that, you mad bastard?

I wonder why the stated comparisons (before China leaps in out of nowhere in the penultimate paragraph) are to something that has not existed for thirty-five years. That was the first thing that struck me but trolls will be trolls.

[KlaxonCow]

Trump posts AI picture of himself as Jesus, healing the sick.

Understandably gets backlash from all his religious supporters, so he claims that it shows him as a doctor for the Red Cross. Then deletes the post.



I always thought it was bizarre that he's got all these religious supporters, who think he's been sent by God, when - if the Anti-Christ were a real thing - then he's basically the Anti-Christ.

And it's blatantly obvious - if the narcissist not realising that depicting himself as Jesus was a bad idea didn't already tell you - this guy has no mental capacity to believe that there's any "higher being" than himself. I think he's an "intrinsic atheist" - his chronic narcissism makes him mentally incapable of any kind of religious faith. He just lies that he's a Christian to gain their support. But he has absolutely no idea what that remotely means.

[tufty]

The most hilarious part of that image wasn't trump as jeebus, but the fact it looked a lot like he was healing Jon Stewart.

[F-ZeroOne]

Or, as some pointed out, Jeffery Epstein.

[tufty]

The epstein one was a different image. There's a bunch of them out there. The one Trump posted was the one with what looks like GWAR coming out of the clouds, and the person being touched inappropriately looked like this:



Some wags modified the image to have an israeli flag, netanyahu in the background next to a huge wall, and trump healing epstein. Here it is in all its glory.

[KlaxonCow]

Or, as some pointed out, Jeffery Epstein.

Trying to resurrect his best friend back to life, as the big old pervert misses all the underage fun he had with his favourite paedophile sex slave dealer.

Yet, somehow, America thought to make this man President. Potentially for life, as he'll never leave voluntarily.

As Gavin Newsom rightly observed, who starts building a ball room at the White House, if they intend to leave office in a few years and, therefore, would never get to use it?

Let's see if he even allows the mid-terms to happen, or will a "national emergency" be called for the next decade or so? And it only ends because the dude is 80 and will eventually die.