So what do you Brits make of Trump ?

[Stavros]

"“In conversations I’d been in the room for, President Trump would explicitly say that he’d love a country that was totally an ‘eye for an eye’ — that’s a direct quote — criminal justice system, and he’d talk about how the ‘right’ way to do it is to line up criminals and drug dealers before a firing squad,” a former White House official told Rolling Stone."
Trump is planning to bring back firing squads if re-elected (yahoo.com)

Why a firing quad? Maybe he should propose public beheadings in the town square, and ask Saudi Arabia or retired ISIS fighters to show America how its done?

[Stavros]

Set aside the fact that Critical Race Theory is not part of the high school curriculum, as far as I know, and the verified fact that he can't spell three letter words correctly, and consider this from .45-

"“We have to get back to common sense, and that is reading, writing, arithmetic,” Mr Trump told the crowd in Davenport, in response to an audience question about schools becoming “indoctrination camps” that are “focused on sexualising our children”.“What they’re teaching in schools today is insane,” said the 76-year-old Republican, who is running for president again after failing to win a second term in 2020."
Donald Trump tells voters he will ban ‘critical race theory’ being taught in US schools (yahoo.com)

This is a man who lives in Florida where it was legal for a 74 year-old man to marry a 14 year-old girl, because child marriage is legal in the State. Does it mean it is wrong to 'sexualize' children in school, but not in marriage, when the girl is 12 or 14 and the man 74? Is Florida a paradise for paedophiles? One wonders when Trump told law enforcement his buddy Jeff was breaking the law, when all Epstein needed to do was marry the girls....funny old world, innit?

[Stavros]

And here's another thing....don't mention the Russians....the Russians...the Russians....he doesn't like it.

Federal investigators examined Trump Media for possible money laundering, sources say | Donald Trump | The Guardian

[Stavros]

This is not satire, I think they are genuine, but it is surely taking a Cult of Personality to a new low?

"The New York Young Republican Club has put out a statement that managed to stand out among the many other voices defending Donald Trump.
"President Trump embodies the American people – our psyche from id to super-ego – as does no other figure; his soul is totally bonded with our core values and emotions, and he is our total and indisputable champion. This tremendous connection threatens the established order."
(1) Donald Trump to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon, New York court officials say – live (theguardian.com)


Just like the old times....

THANK YOU DEAR COMRADE STALIN FOR A HAPPY CHILDHOOD!

[Stavros]

For once, Trump has outlined a policy -on the Homeless. For a Republican it makes for interesting reading. Here is a summary-

"To combat homelessness, which is driven first and foremost by high housing costs, Mr Trump is proposing opening large “tent cities,” or camps, where homeless people would be forced to live if they did not want to go to jail.“We will then open up large parcels of inexpensive land, bring in doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, and drug rehab specialists and create tent cities where the homeless can be relocated and their problems identified,” Mr Trump said in the video. “But we’ll open up our cities again, make them livable and make them beautiful.”
Trump reveals new homelessness policy: Tent cities for rehabilitation and jail for those who refuse (yahoo.com)

To most Republicans I would imagine this sounds like Socialism, or the Feds taking control, and that is before the funding is clarified. Maybe best to spend a few billion building prisons and shove the homeless in there. Or re-locate them from LA and San Francisco, to newly built prisons in Alaska and call it the 'Gulag Archipelago'?

[filghy2]

To most Republicans I would imagine this sounds like Socialism, or the Feds taking control, and that is before the funding is clarified. Maybe best to spend a few billion building prisons and shove the homeless in there. Or re-locate them from LA and San Francisco, to newly built prisons in Alaska and call it the 'Gulag Archipelago'?

Sounds a lot more like fascism. The Nazis did something similar.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guide...j6f/revision/4
"Concentration camps - Homosexuals, prostitutes, Jehovah's Witnesses, gypsies, alcoholics, pacifists, beggars, hooligans and criminals were often rounded up and sent away to camps. During World War Two 85 per cent of Germany's gypsies died in these camps."

It's unconstitional to inter people without due process, so this proposal entails making it a crime to be too poor to afford housing. I'm sure all those freedom-loving Republicans will be objecting vociferously.

[Stavros]

Yes, I prefer your definition. I guess if he does win the Presidency -and Dominic Cummings has crunched some data to show it will happen- he will ditch the Constitution and rule by Executive Order.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Civil justice:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna82778

[Fitzcarraldo]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...recording-iran

[Stavros]

I guess Trump is bored with merely insulting and abusing Americans, be they Veterans, Journalists, other Politicians, he can't seem to do much else -only he has stepped up a level, and now he wants to kill them. Or, as is common with cowards like him, get someone else to do the killing. I don't suppose he was actually thinking of Black Americans....was he?

"When former President Trump hysterically called for shoplifters to be shot in a speech last week before California Republicans, we know who he thinks he’s talking about: Black and Brown people. “We will immediately stop all of the pillaging and theft,” Trump said. “Very simply: If you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot!”"

but then

"According to a 2014 study in the American Journal of Psychiatry, 77.5 percent of shoplifters are White, significantly above their 59 percent of the national population. Only 8 percent of shoplifters are Black and only another 8 percent are Latino, well below their shares of the national population. That study said, “Shoplifting was significantly more common in individuals with at least some college education, among those with individual incomes over $35,000 and family incomes over $70,000.”"
Donald Trump Says Shoplifters Should be Shot, but Does He Know Who Most Shoplifters Are? (yahoo.com)

What the hell, kill them anyway. Shoot 'em dead. Problem solved.