Fondest memories of the Trumpster.

[magentaflame]

For me it was the feeling up of women's vaginas. And his personal right to do so.
In a close second it would have to be calling military persons "losers".

what's your favourite memory?

[Snooz]

Wow, there are so many.

How about:

Four women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant also said the Republican used to walk in. Some of the girls were as young as 15.

Former Miss Vermont Teen USA, Mariah Billado, told Buzzfeed: "I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, 'Oh my god, there's a man in here."

Three other girls chose to remain anonymous, but told the publication it was "creepy" and "shocking".

Mr Trump said on the Howard Stern radio show in 2005 that he was “allowed”, as the owner of the pageant, to go backstage while the contestants were getting dressed.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 57866.html

[LarsMac]

[FourPart]

There's so, so much, but in recent terms, the one about beating Covid by injecting Bleach has to rate pretty high.
Then that it was a Chinese hoax that would miraculously disappear by Easter.

[magentaflame]

There's so, so much, but in recent terms, the one about beating Covid by injecting Bleach has to rate pretty high.

ahh yes. Good times, good times.

[Hope6]

https://frankreport.com/2020/04/18/one- ... d-j-trump/

[spot]

https://frankreport.com/2020/04/18/one- ... d-j-trump/

Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch.

What a disgraceful short-sighted policy! The entire world, if you ignore the fictions of Hollywood and Richard Dean Anderson, just spent sixty years adamantly refusing to militarize space.

[spot]

I'll ask, I suppose.

That's a cartoon about tarring and feathering someone?

I thought it had gone out of fashion these last couple of decades.

[LarsMac]

I'll ask, I suppose.

That's a cartoon about tarring and feathering someone?

I thought it had gone out of fashion these last couple of decades.

True, but these days, all sorts of old customs are being revisited.

[Snooz]

https://frankreport.com/2020/04/18/one- ... d-j-trump/

Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch.

What a disgraceful short-sighted policy! The entire world, if you ignore the fictions of Hollywood and Richard Dean Anderson, just spent sixty years adamantly refusing to militarize space.

I could be wrong but I suspect it was a way to inject more money into our already bloated Department of Defense so he could drain even more money out toward his utterly useless border wall. It's not like he hasn't already done that. Military schools and housing were left unfunded for that very purpose.

[spot]

https://frankreport.com/2020/04/18/one- ... d-j-trump/

Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch.

What a disgraceful short-sighted policy! The entire world, if you ignore the fictions of Hollywood and Richard Dean Anderson, just spent sixty years adamantly refusing to militarize space.

I could be wrong but I suspect it was a way to inject more money into our already bloated Department of Defense so he could drain even more money out toward his utterly useless border wall. It's not like he hasn't already done that. Military schools and housing were left unfunded for that very purpose.

You don't think he might have started a federal coordinated electric power grid upgrade instead? A slightly more strategic necessity?

[Snooz]

There's a reason why "Infrastructure Week" is a punchline over here.

[tude dog]

What I loved was watching the utter paralysis of the Democratic Party unable to come to terms with their irrelevance and unable to pursue any notable agenda except the failed impeachment of the President.

[magentaflame]

Since we're going back in time here I read this and found it quite interesting.

https://thesocialist.org.au/us-remember ... 11Ko1ZJG7c

A new party ...again?

[spot]

We should applaud the President's protective family values.

The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Mr Giuliani wants a pre-emptive pardon from Mr Trump, citing two unnamed people with knowledge of the discussion.

The anonymous sources said it was not clear who broached the topic first, and it was not immediately clear if Mr Trump would follow through on the request. Mr Giuliani has rejected the reports as “fake news."

Mr Trump has also reportedly discussed pardons for his children Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump - as well as Ms Trump’s husband Jared Kushner.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 64922.html

I doubt very much whether it's true, but it's pretty neat sniping from the sidelines when it captures international headlines.

[Saint_]

I love the sarcastic title of this thread. Actually, both my wife and I experienced improved mental health after the election. so my fondest memory of trump is still to come...the day the judge says,"I hereby sentence you..."

[cars]

I love the sarcastic title of this thread. Actually, both my wife and I experienced improved mental health after the election. so my fondest memory of trump is still to come...the day the judge says,"I hereby sentence you..."

[magentaflame]

I love the sarcastic title of this thread. Actually, both my wife and I experienced improved mental health after the election. so my fondest memory of trump is still to come...the day the judge says,"I hereby sentence you..."

Now that's funny right there.

[AnneBoleyn]

I have no fondest memories. They've all been horrible and I could go back to 1966 and say it then too. That was the first year he came to my attention. I've been living with this for a Long Time!

Hey Anne, welcome back, we've missed you!

[spot]

Hey Anne, welcome back, we've missed you!

And so we have. 2020 has not been an ideal year so far, perhaps it will improve.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... pt/617309/ is well worth your attention, the article convincingly sums up the last few years' elections in America.

[tude dog]

I love the sarcastic title of this thread. Actually, both my wife and I experienced improved mental health after the election. so my fondest memory of trump is still to come...the day the judge says,"I hereby sentence you..."

Donald is a gift that does not stop giving.

First driving the 'Democrats apoplectic was great entertainment.

Now we can watch sleepy undo our successful economy.

[spot]

I love the sarcastic title of this thread. Actually, both my wife and I experienced improved mental health after the election. so my fondest memory of trump is still to come...the day the judge says,"I hereby sentence you..."

Now we can watch sleepy undo our successful economy.

You-all still have at least a year more Covid to get through before that comes into focus. There's too many Americans who think just because they have a right to spread the disease, they should exercise it.

[LarsMac]

I love the sarcastic title of this thread. Actually, both my wife and I experienced improved mental health after the election. so my fondest memory of trump is still to come...the day the judge says,"I hereby sentence you..."

Donald is a gift that does not stop giving.

First driving the 'Democrats apoplectic was great entertainment.

Now we can watch sleepy undo our successful economy.

Unless you are heavily vested in the international markets, you will soon realize that ship sailed, already.
And it was Dopey, not Sleepy, that cast the lines.

[Snooz]

Since Biden won, my 401K has done amazingly well.

Trump claiming the stock market as his own personal victory still pisses me off. Obama inherited a pile of sh*t from Dubya and he managed to turn the economy around and the stock market followed suit. It was still climbing when Trump got it. I guess I can give him credit for not screwing that up like he did so many other things since becoming president.

[tude dog]

Since Biden won, my 401K has done amazingly well.

Trump claiming the stock market as his own personal victory still pisses me off. Obama inherited a pile of sh*t from Dubya and he managed to turn the economy around and the stock market followed suit. It was still climbing when Trump got it. I guess I can give him credit for not screwing that up like he did so many other things since becoming president.

Hmm.

Thanks to President Trump.

[tude dog]

I love the sarcastic title of this thread. Actually, both my wife and I experienced improved mental health after the election. so my fondest memory of trump is still to come...the day the judge says,"I hereby sentence you..."

Donald is a gift that does not stop giving.

First driving the 'Democrats apoplectic was great entertainment.

Now we can watch sleepy undo our successful economy.

Unless you are heavily vested in the international markets, you will soon realize that ship sailed, already.
And it was Dopey, not Sleepy, that cast the lines.

Dopey has done well by me.

Joe and Hunter seem well into making friends all around the world.

[Snooz]

Since Biden won, my 401K has done amazingly well.

Trump claiming the stock market as his own personal victory still pisses me off. Obama inherited a pile of sh*t from Dubya and he managed to turn the economy around and the stock market followed suit. It was still climbing when Trump got it. I guess I can give him credit for not screwing that up like he did so many other things since becoming president.

Hmm.

Thanks to President Trump.

Nope.

From Forbes:

The Dow Jones Industrial Average broke through 30,000 today and closed at 30,046. Just after noon President Trump made a short announcement about the Index hitting this milestone and promptly walked out of the White House briefing room without taking questions.

It is not surprising that Trump would tout the landmark since he has continuously done so during his Presidency. However, the recent rise in stocks has been driven by multiple positive vaccine announcements and it becoming apparent that Joe Biden will be the President on January 20.

Since Trump likes to talk about how the stock market has performed since he was elected on November 8, 2016, it is interesting that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has actually been stronger in the three weeks since this year’s election with Biden becoming the President-elect vs. when Trump was elected in 2016.

Starting with the day after Trump’s and Biden’s respective election day, November 8 and 3, respectively, Trump saw a 4.3% increase in the Dow while Biden has seen a 9.3% increase over the next three weeks.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones ... e6a9aa2cc3

[tude dog]

Since Biden won, my 401K has done amazingly well.

Trump claiming the stock market as his own personal victory still pisses me off. Obama inherited a pile of sh*t from Dubya and he managed to turn the economy around and the stock market followed suit. It was still climbing when Trump got it. I guess I can give him credit for not screwing that up like he did so many other things since becoming president.

Hmm.

Thanks to President Trump.

Nope.

From Forbes:

The Dow Jones Industrial Average broke through 30,000 today and closed at 30,046. Just after noon President Trump made a short announcement about the Index hitting this milestone and promptly walked out of the White House briefing room without taking questions.

It is not surprising that Trump would tout the landmark since he has continuously done so during his Presidency. However, the recent rise in stocks has been driven by multiple positive vaccine announcements and it becoming apparent that Joe Biden will be the President on January 20.

Since Trump likes to talk about how the stock market has performed since he was elected on November 8, 2016, it is interesting that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has actually been stronger in the three weeks since this year’s election with Biden becoming the President-elect vs. when Trump was elected in 2016.

Starting with the day after Trump’s and Biden’s respective election day, November 8 and 3, respectively, Trump saw a 4.3% increase in the Dow while Biden has seen a 9.3% increase over the next three weeks.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones ... e6a9aa2cc3

Talking about today under Trump's Presidency. Give Biden credit for nothing.

https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALe ... ent=psy-ab

[cars]

https://images.theweek.com/sites/defaul ... ze=807x807

[Snooz]

Didn't know where else to post this but it's too ridiculous not to share.

[spot]

Didn't know where else to post this but it's too ridiculous not to share.

I wonder whether it can stay in a headstand if the arms articulate.

It's a fitting tribute.

[LarsMac]

THAT is too creepy.

[spot]

THAT is too creepy.

I can't find it on eBay else I would.

I did find "Donald Trump 45th President USA Autograph print signed photo" but the small print says the signature is pre-printed, not hand. Are there no standards left in the Capitalist West?

In passing, seen on the Internet: "Voteflake" - Anyone who protests the results of the 2020 US Presidential Election without any proof or evidence and refuses to recognize Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States of America.

China is revelling in derisive insults: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274504257532

There's a card game "NO TRUMPS" where you get dealt a quote and have to decide whether it's authentic or not, and a Donald Trump Solar Dancer. The chap is going out with a raspberry. Nobody has yet printed a Most-wanted card deck of the White House Administration yet, but it would sell like hot cakes if there's an open season in the law courts.

[Snooz]

I would have included the link if I had thought anyone was interested. I didn't want to appear to be spamming the forum.

https://thearmedrepublic.com/collection ... PYPgiwWnl0

[spot]

I would have included the link if I had thought anyone was interested. I didn't want to appear to be spamming the forum.

Nobody, I promise, will ever accuse you of spamming the forum or anything else. Not unless you start a where's Nomad thread.

[magentaflame]

I would have included the link if I had thought anyone was interested. I didn't want to appear to be spamming the forum.

Nobody, I promise, will ever accuse you of spamming the forum or anything else. Not unless you start a where's Nomad thread.

Pretty sure Brian is okay

[magentaflame]

[quoteTrump’s Video Removed by YouTube and Facebook, Restricted By Twitter [Updated]
Gizmodo Australia·2 days ago

Facebook, YouTube pull Trump video message
7NEWS.com.au·2 days ago][/quote]

So youtube as well? Interesting....................... and memorable

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/01/trum ... y-twitter/

[cars]

2024, may become Trumps year (if he's still alive) if he has anything to say about it, as even Mitch McConnell said he will support Trump if he decides to become a POTUS candidate again! Unbelievable! There will be "millions" that will vote for him again!

[magentaflame]

He frightens me now, like Hitler must have frightened people when he persisted.

[spot]

He frightens me now, like Hitler must have frightened people when he persisted.

By the time Hitler was Donald Trump's age he'd been dead for eighteen years.

[magentaflame]

He frightens me now, like Hitler must have frightened people when he persisted.

By the time Hitler was Donald Trump's age he'd been dead for eighteen years.

Your point is?

[spot]

He frightens me now, like Hitler must have frightened people when he persisted.

By the time Hitler was Donald Trump's age he'd been dead for eighteen years.

Your point is?

The persisted bit, I think. Hitler didn't have time to persist. He was a flash in the pan. The war in Afghanistan has been going on for longer than Hitler was politically relevant. Hitler was a symptom of his time, not a cause. The cause was the piss-poor 1919 Treaty which imposed generational poverty on Germany. The interesting question is what has been the equivalent cause which led to Donald Trump's term of office. I reckon it's an equivalent generational poverty imposed on a generation which remembered being white, thinking itself superior, and living though I Love Lucy and blue-collar wages which could buy a new Chevrolet.

As for thinking Hitler "frightened people when he persisted", he frightened sufficiently few that his party was voted into power by a free electorate. Much like Donald Trump, if you think about it. Their success relied on a sufficient lack of fear. Germany as a whole cheered him on until he invaded Russia and it all went sour. His approval ratings, had there been such a concept, only tanked in his final three years.

[magentaflame]

He frightens me now, like Hitler must have frightened people when he persisted.

By the time Hitler was Donald Trump's age he'd been dead for eighteen years.

Your point is?

The persisted bit, I think. Hitler didn't have time to persist. He was a flash in the pan. The war in Afghanistan has been going on for longer than Hitler was politically relevant. Hitler was a symptom of his time, not a cause. The cause was the piss-poor 1919 Treaty which imposed generational poverty on Germany. The interesting question is what has been the equivalent cause which led to Donald Trump's term of office. I reckon it's an equivalent generational poverty imposed on a generation which remembered being white, thinking itself superior, and living though I Love Lucy and blue-collar wages which could buy a new Chevrolet.

As for thinking Hitler "frightened people when he persisted", he frightened sufficiently few that his party was voted into power by a free electorate. Much like Donald Trump, if you think about it. Their success relied on a sufficient lack of fear. Germany as a whole cheered him on until he invaded Russia and it all went sour. His approval ratings, had there been such a concept, only tanked in his final three years.

And you see no correlation between the two? That bemuses me

[spot]

He frightens me now, like Hitler must have frightened people when he persisted.

By the time Hitler was Donald Trump's age he'd been dead for eighteen years.

Your point is?

The persisted bit, I think. Hitler didn't have time to persist. He was a flash in the pan. The war in Afghanistan has been going on for longer than Hitler was politically relevant. Hitler was a symptom of his time, not a cause. The cause was the piss-poor 1919 Treaty which imposed generational poverty on Germany. The interesting question is what has been the equivalent cause which led to Donald Trump's term of office. I reckon it's an equivalent generational poverty imposed on a generation which remembered being white, thinking itself superior, and living though I Love Lucy and blue-collar wages which could buy a new Chevrolet.

As for thinking Hitler "frightened people when he persisted", he frightened sufficiently few that his party was voted into power by a free electorate. Much like Donald Trump, if you think about it. Their success relied on a sufficient lack of fear. Germany as a whole cheered him on until he invaded Russia and it all went sour. His approval ratings, had there been such a concept, only tanked in his final three years.

And you see no correlation between the two? That bemuses me

No correlation at all. Donald Trump was totally inward-looking and isolationist, as opposed to the gentleman running Germany in the 30s. They are complete opposites of each other. The only topic of interest to Donald Trump was America, the rest of the world was an irrelevance. Mr Hitler and several recent US presidents - Reagan's and those Bush administrations spring to mind - sought world domination. Donald Trump has been a breath of fresh air by comparison. The others all destabilized the planet and killed foreigners, Donald Trump refused to play that game, chained his Rotweilers to their Pentagon desks and mocked them at every opportunity. You may well disagree, I'm sure you do, but I'd be interested to know what specific comment you disagree with here.

As for his handling of Covid, do you really think any alternative President could have talked the Great American Public into staying home, washing their hands occasionally, wearing masks and avoiding crowds? Because I don't. The appalling death toll in America is down to the insanely selfish nature of a large minority of Americans, just as the even worse death rate in Britain is down to the insanely selfish nature of English yobbery (blame the secondary education system) and an incompetent civil service (blame a total lack of accountability).

You mentioned Michael Cannon last week, if I recall. Did you ever reed his brief biography of John Norton? If you're looking for a kindred spirit to Donald Trump you could do worse than checking that out from the library, he may be the most repellent Australian that wasn't named Murdoch.

Most charismatic leaders are like that. The difference with Norton was that he never feared to bare his pulsating heart to the public, once a week if necessary, so that readers could see and agree with him about the noble, even Godlike, motives which he sincerely believed prompted his actions. In Norton's own words, and those of his long-suffering family, we are given a unique portrait of a gifted megalomaniac constantly teetering on the brink of sanity. He was, in my opinion, saved from madness only by his regular public confessions, his frequent descents into alcoholic oblivion, and a fortuitous death whilst at the peak of his powers.

That Damned Democrat: John Norton, an Australian populist, 1858-1916, p.3

[magentaflame]

Ummm? nope . I believe I mentioned an American squack boxer. I have no idea who Michael Cannon is.

[spot]

Ummm? nope . I believe I mentioned an American squack boxer. I have no idea who Michael Cannon is.

As in "Read 'black land white land'". It's very difficult to find a copy, there's one on eBay from an Australian second hand shop at $70 but I'm hoping to find one with a quicker delivery time. On the other hand, I've successfully red "That Damned Democrat", his biography of John Norton, and it's hard to feel much sympathy for John Norton at all.

I'm attracted by Michael Cannon's seven volumes of primary source material for Victoria from 1830-1850 but that's not easy to come by either.

[magentaflame]

Ummm? nope . I believe I mentioned an American squack boxer. I have no idea who Michael Cannon is.

As in "Read 'black land white land'". It's very difficult to find a copy, there's one on eBay from an Australian second hand shop at $70 but I'm hoping to find one with a quicker delivery time. On the other hand, I've successfully red "That Damned Democrat", his biography of John Norton, and it's hard to feel much sympathy for him.

ah! yep I know who you mean now. Brain fade (getting them often lately) Bloody hell! You're right. That's ludicrous for a paperback. $59 on ebay. That's just silly. I've bought books that have cost me a few hundred dollars but they are also over a hundred years old. I have a signed copy of Gough whitlams auto bio and I know that worth a bit ...but a paperback written in 94'?

Hmmmm covid!

[spot]

Ummm? nope . I believe I mentioned an American squack boxer. I have no idea who Michael Cannon is.

As in "Read 'black land white land'". It's very difficult to find a copy, there's one on eBay from an Australian second hand shop at $70 but I'm hoping to find one with a quicker delivery time. On the other hand, I've successfully red "That Damned Democrat", his biography of John Norton, and it's hard to feel much sympathy for him.

ah! yep I know who you mean now. Brain fade (getting them often lately) Bloody hell! You're right. That's ludicrous for a paperback. $59 on ebay. That's just silly. I've bought books that have cost me a few hundred dollars but they are also over a hundred years old. I have a signed copy of Gough whitlams auto bio and I know that worth a bit ...but a paperback written in 94'?

Hmmmm covid!

Here you are - https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Book ... 0047901760

That would grace anyone's bookshelf.

[magentaflame]

I'm still trying to find William Astley books. Funnily enough I'm more likely to find them in Britain.

When I was working at sale court there was a back room they were remodelling......I would have died to have half the volumes lining the walls....but they were off to Melbourne to be archived. That gives me an idea. I wonder if Vic library has a sell off of books?

[magentaflame]

Ummm? nope . I believe I mentioned an American squack boxer. I have no idea who Michael Cannon is.

As in "Read 'black land white land'". It's very difficult to find a copy, there's one on eBay from an Australian second hand shop at $70 but I'm hoping to find one with a quicker delivery time. On the other hand, I've successfully red "That Damned Democrat", his biography of John Norton, and it's hard to feel much sympathy for him.

ah! yep I know who you mean now. Brain fade (getting them often lately) Bloody hell! You're right. That's ludicrous for a paperback. $59 on ebay. That's just silly. I've bought books that have cost me a few hundred dollars but they are also over a hundred years old. I have a signed copy of Gough whitlams auto bio and I know that worth a bit ...but a paperback written in 94'?

Hmmmm covid!

Here you are - https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Book ... 0047901760

That would grace anyone's bookshelf.

I'm with you on that one.