Is Trump the president of peace?

comment by TheresOnlyOne7-0Reds (U1721)
posted 1 hour, 26 minutes ago
I’ve never known a person to successfully over and over again make claims that are categorically false, which can be proven in an instant, like when he claims the costs of things like eggs or fuel have went down, and then in the very next public ‘speech’ simply state I never said that at all.

How can you say something on camera and then the next time you speak on camera say you didn’t say it or more vaguely simply ask “did I say that”?
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This is why I see Trump and the similar phenomena elsewhere, as fundamentally a media/information crisis. Look at the coverage in mainstream media, not least those committed to impartiality and often accused of liberal bias (BBC, NYT) and how they frame reporting of Trump. Vanishingly rare to see words like 'lied', 'corruption or 'rambled incoherently'. The extremism, the dishonesty, the radical break from norms of legality, the utter stupidity are softened by euphemism and hidden behind 'Democrats say this, while Trump says that'.

AI videos will sort things out, don't worry. If people fall for his actual lies, they are more than capable of falling for a fake video of him saying something that someone else has made. Politics may implode quite soon.

comment by Trevor Carson (U1734)
posted 3 minutes ago
AI videos will sort things out, don't worry. If people fall for his actual lies, they are more than capable of falling for a fake video of him saying something that someone else has made. Politics may implode quite soon.
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Agreed, trump will make a great pope

comment by Keep It Greasy - Music is the BEST (U1396)
posted 3 hours, 17 minutes ago
Legendary musician Bruce Springsteen kicks off his highly-anticipated "Land of Hope & Dreams" with a fiery takedown of Donald Trump as "corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous."

This is one for the history books and MAGA fans are beyond furious...

"In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration," Springsteen told the crowd in Manchester, England during the first stop of his European tour.

"Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring!" he continued.

He said that he was summoning the "righteous power of art, of music, of rock ‘n roll in dangerous times," an invocation similar to the one delivered by Robert De Niro at the Cannes Film Festival this week.

"Art is inclusive. It brings people together, like tonight. Art looks for truth, art embraces diversity and that’s why art is a threat — that’s why we are a threat — to autocrats and fascists," De Niro stated.

Our nation's greatest artists are taking a stand against our greatest threat. Later in the show, Springsteen circled back to his earlier sentiments—

"The last check on power after the checks and balances of government have failed are the people, you and me," the singer said. "It’s in the union of people around a common set of values now that’s all that stands between a democracy and authoritarianism. At the end of the day, all we’ve got is each other."

And he wasn't done there.

"There’s some very weird, strange, and dangerous sh*t going on out there right now. In America they are persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent. This is happening now,” he said before a performance of the song "My City of Ruins."

"In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death," he continued, presumably taking a shot at Elon Musk and his destructive DOGE agenda.

"In my country, they’re taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers. They’re rolling back historic civil rights legislation that has led to a more just and plural society," Springsteen went on.

"They are abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators against those struggling for their freedom," he said. "They are defunding American universities that won’t bow down to their ideological demands. They are removing residents off American streets and without due process of law, are deporting them to foreign detention centers and prisons. This is all happening now."

"A majority of our elected representatives have failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president and a rogue government," he continued. "They have no concern or idea for what it means to be deeply American."

"The America l’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real, and, regardless of its faults, is a great country with a great people," he said. "So we’ll survive this moment. Now, I have hope, because I believe in the truth of what the great American writer James Baldwin said. He said, 'In this world there isn’t as much humanity as one would like, but there’s enough.’ Let’s pray."

Springsteen has long been a critic of Donald Trump, which makes sense given the fact that much of his music addresses the struggles of the working class people of America — struggles that Republican policies exacerbate.

Springsteen sees through the MAGA lies about caring for these people to the ugly truth beneath: Donald Trump only cares about himself and his own wealth and power. He will bleed our country dry to line his own pockets and leave untold suffering in his wake.
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Blinding enlightenment.. from The Boss

comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)

Blinding enlightenment.. from The Boss
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I'm not at all a fan of his music but he's spot on here

comment by Keep It Greasy - Music is the BEST (U1396)
posted 37 seconds ago
comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)

Blinding enlightenment.. from The Boss
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I'm not at all a fan of his music but he's spot on here
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He is. And he's all revved up like a deuce, about it.

Should probably keep quiet on Israel though given his views on the Promised Land.

comment by Darren The King Fletcher (U10026)
posted 13 hours, 45 minutes ago
He’s going on about groceries again?

The bloke is actually senile.

This was him the other month trying to describe what groceries are.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ozPqJspL0XI


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And THAT is his genius, trick most people into thinking he's a bumbling fool, to distract from his evil genius. Very similar tactic employed by Boris Johnson.

comment by RB&W - Our representative on the pitch (U21434)

"In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years...."

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I agree with most of what he says, but this American delusion kind of waters it down. For over 100 years of that they had slavery, segregation continued for about another 100 years, and even now racism is rife. SO yeah maybe hope for the whites.

comment by newWAYNEorder nWo nDubz (U23264)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Darren The King Fletcher (U10026)
posted 13 hours, 45 minutes ago
He’s going on about groceries again?

The bloke is actually senile.

This was him the other month trying to describe what groceries are.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ozPqJspL0XI


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And THAT is his genius, trick most people into thinking he's a bumbling fool, to distract from his evil genius. Very similar tactic employed by Boris Johnson.
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Nah. Johnson played up the eccentric toff shtick (though he was genuinely a man without interest in detail). Trump is way too vain to knowingly let people think he's dumber than he is.