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Blimey where’s the Trump thread? 09:07 - Mar 9 with 5286 viewsDarran

It’s equally shocking and incredible that none of the snowflakes on here could be arsed to start one.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/09/shocking-incredible-what-the-exper

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Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 21:17 - Mar 9 with 2405 viewsLohengrin

Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 20:16 - Mar 9 by Kilkennyjack

Trump will be in jail soon.

Mueller will have him on toast.


I’ll take that bet, Killy.

This isn’t Watergate. Trump isn’t Nixon, there’s no remorse or contrition here, nor likely to be. He’ll break Mueller and do it smiling.

An idea isn't responsible for those who believe in it.

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Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 22:27 - Mar 9 with 2369 viewsBDavies67

Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 11:09 - Mar 9 by oh_tommy_tommy

Well done mr trump , good to see .

Hopefully you’ll stop tweeting that you are going to kill millions of people now .

Believe it or not , twitter was not designed for threats of mass murder


His tweets are equal parts strange, scary, and highly entertaining
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Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 22:37 - Mar 9 with 2363 viewsBDavies67

Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 11:14 - Mar 9 by westwalesed

But it's clearly worked.

It's basic game theory - unless someone actually believes that someone will follow through with their threats, then the threats are meaningless and no progress is made.

I only listen to my other half because she actually does what she says!


You must be newlyweds then! I did the same thing with my Mrs for the first year, gave in to her stubbornness more often than not, thought it was good for me at the time
It gets old very quickly after that first year, but don't tell her I said that
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Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 14:26 - Mar 12 with 2247 viewsA_Fans_Dad

Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 12:41 - Mar 9 by longlostjack

Basic game theory didn't work out for the US in Vietnam because the Vietcong didn't understand the rules. Just saying.


Rubbish, when the US finally did enact the policy and use B52s to bomb North Vietnam instead of the Jungle they came to the diplomatic table very quickly.
The decision to run the War from Washington was the reason the Yanks had so much trouble.
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Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 14:43 - Mar 12 with 2231 viewsA_Fans_Dad

Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 20:16 - Mar 9 by Kilkennyjack

Trump will be in jail soon.

Mueller will have him on toast.


ROFL.
Mueller has been looking for over a year and the only wrong doing he has found is with Trump fringe employees when working for the Clinton organisation 2 years before joining Trump.
He is also running a totally illegal investigation based on the Steele Document.
Mueller himself will probably soon be under Investigation over Comey's Clinton cover ups.
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Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 15:13 - Mar 12 with 2221 viewslondonlisa2001

Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 14:43 - Mar 12 by A_Fans_Dad

ROFL.
Mueller has been looking for over a year and the only wrong doing he has found is with Trump fringe employees when working for the Clinton organisation 2 years before joining Trump.
He is also running a totally illegal investigation based on the Steele Document.
Mueller himself will probably soon be under Investigation over Comey's Clinton cover ups.


It's almost incredible that Trump has just this week hired Emmet Flood, given your belief there's no wrong doing.

You'd better let Trump know he's fine.
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Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 17:05 - Mar 12 with 2186 viewslonglostjack

Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 14:26 - Mar 12 by A_Fans_Dad

Rubbish, when the US finally did enact the policy and use B52s to bomb North Vietnam instead of the Jungle they came to the diplomatic table very quickly.
The decision to run the War from Washington was the reason the Yanks had so much trouble.


Great re-writing of history there. They had already been at the table in October 1972 before the B52 campaign. They returned to the table in January to agree to the same terms that they had already agreed to in October 1972 !! Terms that led to the fall of Saigon and the biggest helicopter evacuation of US personnel in history.

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Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 17:10 - May 24 with 2030 viewsHumpty

Lol.

This snowflake has learnt not to take Donald Trump too seriously when he says he's going to do something.
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Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 17:16 - May 24 with 2022 viewsShaky

Timely from Edward Luce in the FT:
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The exorbitant cost of Trump’s America going it alone
Europe, China and other nations are learning to sustain deals without the US
by Edward Luce

FT, May 23, 2018 1:33 pm

Here is Donald Trump’s art of the self-harming deal. First, demand China eliminate its surplus with America, otherwise you will start a trade war. Second, ensure your negotiating team is divided and confused. Third, capitulate after China offers a few meaningless pledges – as the Trump administration did last weekend.

Next, discover in a rage that you have been hoodwinked. Finally, resume incendiary threats of a trade war.

Mr Trump has yet to take those last steps. But as night follows day, he will. It is Mr Trump’s basic dialectic – threats followed by conciliation followed by rage followed by threats. Wash, rinse and repeat.

He is following the same pattern with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Last year Mr Trump threatened to wipe the country off the map. Then he discovered that “little rocket man” was honourable.

The White House even struck commemorative coins for next month’s planned summit in Singapore. Now Mr Trump is starting to suspect he may have been taken for a fool. Mr Kim may not want to denuclearise after all. Mr Trump is evenly poised between conciliation and rage. There is rarely any in-between.

What is the price of these wild mood swings? The instant cost is to weaken America’s leverage. With each fresh cycle, the administration’s threats are taken less seriously. It is all very well saying ZTE, one of China’s telecoms champions, is a serial violator of US law and will be banned. But if you follow up by tweeting that you now want to put ZTE back in business, your previous stance is devalued. By the time you revert to your brimstone rhetoric, as Mr Trump surely will, China will no longer be quite so worried. They know a paper tiger when they see one. The same applies to North Korea. Add in Iran’s response to America’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal. And Europe’s reaction to trade threats.

But there is a steeper cost to America, and to the world, that far outweighs Mr Trump’s immediate self-harm. It comes in two forms. The first is cumulative. The more the US thumbs its nose at the global system that it built, the harder it will be to repair. America’s allies still cling to the hope that Mr Trump is a one-off. Not only will he be replaced by a more conventional president but we need only wait for two and a half years before that happens.

Should Mr Trump win again in 2020, the global shock will far exceed his first victory. It would confirm what everyone fears – that America has made a lasting decision to walk away from the global order it created. We can already measure the difference after 18 months.

There was a time when a US president could pull the plug on the initiatives of others and they would wither. Think of the 1999 Kyoto protocol on global warming. Or the 1956 Anglo-French-Israeli invasion of Suez. The world had already evolved before Mr Trump came to office. His presidency is proof of concept. When Mr Trump withdrew America from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, as he did in his first week, the trade deal did not die. It is alive and well. The same applies to the Paris accord on climate change. My bet is that Europe and China will keep the Iran nuclear deal alive too. It is becoming a habit. Allies and adversaries alike are learning how to sustain deals without the US.

But the world must still reckon with Mr Trump’s wild mood swings. His tactics with China are a case in point. Next week Wilbur Ross, US commerce secretary, will try to hammer out a 21st century version of the barter deal. He will ask China to agree long-term contracts to buy American soyabeans, gas, steel and other commodities.

Were Mr Ross working for a different president, he would approach China alongside Europe and Japan, America’s main trading partners. They would collectively pressure China to carry out structural reforms. Instead, Mr Trump is threatening punitive sanctions against America’s allies. Meanwhile, China must commit to buying low value-added US goods at the expense of America’s trading partners. Economists call this “managed trade”. Non-economists call it a cry for help. It makes a mockery of the rules America created.

The second cost to Mr Trump’s dealmaking is the danger of conflict. There is always the fear he will become a hostage to his own words. In recent weeks he has been basking in coverage of his impending Nobel Prize for disarming North Korea. Now he is learning it was a terrible misunderstanding.

Mr Trump only has two modes. Will he pretend not to hear and meet Mr Kim anyway? Or will he revert to a game of nuclear chicken? The difference is not trivial.

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Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 17:26 - May 24 with 2004 viewsDarran

Im not sure what Humptys point is the OP is valid today whether the meeting takes place or not.

It was positive news in the Guardian and no snowflake was ever going to post that on here because they don’t want anything positive to happen because it’s totally against their agenda.

Today’s Guardian reports that North Korea are claiming they have exploded their nuclear testing site in front of journalists including Sky News Asia correspondent.
You won’t see any snowflake posting that on here either.

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Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 19:31 - May 24 with 1943 viewsHumpty

Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 17:26 - May 24 by Darran

Im not sure what Humptys point is the OP is valid today whether the meeting takes place or not.

It was positive news in the Guardian and no snowflake was ever going to post that on here because they don’t want anything positive to happen because it’s totally against their agenda.

Today’s Guardian reports that North Korea are claiming they have exploded their nuclear testing site in front of journalists including Sky News Asia correspondent.
You won’t see any snowflake posting that on here either.


My point is it's silly to get excited when Trump says he's going to do something.

As for the nuclear testing site, it collapsed weeks ago, so it's meaningless. This has already been covered on here.
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Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 22:27 - May 24 with 1899 viewsmoonie

Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 21:13 - Mar 9 by Humpty

Job growth under Trump down on what it was under Obama.

The economy has continued to grow, as it has been doing since 2009.

Isis in Syria all but defeated due to Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and the Kurds.

Noth Korea agreeing to talks. We have no idea how they will go.


Glad I missed this one
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Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 14:14 - May 25 with 1834 viewsLeonWasGod

Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 17:26 - May 24 by Darran

Im not sure what Humptys point is the OP is valid today whether the meeting takes place or not.

It was positive news in the Guardian and no snowflake was ever going to post that on here because they don’t want anything positive to happen because it’s totally against their agenda.

Today’s Guardian reports that North Korea are claiming they have exploded their nuclear testing site in front of journalists including Sky News Asia correspondent.
You won’t see any snowflake posting that on here either.


Apparently there's strong satellite evidence their testing site collapsed a few weeks back. Blowing up the entrance was a meaningless publicity stunt as everyone knows they can't use it anymore.
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Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 14:23 - May 25 with 1827 viewsDarran

Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 14:14 - May 25 by LeonWasGod

Apparently there's strong satellite evidence their testing site collapsed a few weeks back. Blowing up the entrance was a meaningless publicity stunt as everyone knows they can't use it anymore.


Tidy.

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Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 20:42 - Jun 1 with 1709 viewsDarran

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/01/kim-jong-uns-top-aide-delivers-let

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Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 20:44 - Jun 1 with 1700 viewsLeonWasGod

Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 20:42 - Jun 1 by Darran

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/01/kim-jong-uns-top-aide-delivers-let


The bloke needs psychiatric help. It’s always about him seeming to be in control.
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Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 22:56 - Jun 1 with 1669 viewspeenemunde

Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 20:44 - Jun 1 by LeonWasGod

The bloke needs psychiatric help. It’s always about him seeming to be in control.


Well he is the president of the most powerful country on the face of the earth.
I’m glad he seems to be in control.
Great man.
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Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 15:05 - Jun 10 with 1564 viewsDarran

Blimey where’s the Trump thread? on 17:10 - May 24 by Humpty

Lol.

This snowflake has learnt not to take Donald Trump too seriously when he says he's going to do something.


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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/10/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-singapore

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