Off Topic Politics Thread

And whilst the Tories receive donations from rich Russian oligarchs.

Just finished the last sentence for you.

 

the cycle before was NK would say they will behave and then sanctions would be lifted and they would receive a suitcase stuffed with millions or billions of dollars. this time he gets zip and the sanctions are still in place

 

Where are you getting that from? They've not even met yet.

 

sanctions are not being lifted before the meeting, Trump has called for them to remain in place. NK may get a reduction in sanctions if they play ball

 

So the same as normal.

 

pretty sure trump will not fall for NK promising to be good boys in the future , if sanctions are lifted now

 

I don't actually remember any sanctions being lifted previously although there might be some. Trump will just go there offer to give food aid, tractors , equipment etc behind the scenes as usual in promise for stopping all the nuclear rhetoric for a while for then shout on twitter about how NK has backed down due to him being a strong leader while NK will claim that US have backed down due to the threat of their nuclear program while not much has actually changed. Of course trump will know its not true but when will something not being true stop Trump from shouting about it?

 

If NK back down, and some kind of peace and stability comes to the area, stroking the egos of these 2 man boys will be a small price to pay

 

So Trump sacked Rex Tillerson by tweet. Bad enough, but Tillerson is a sensible man and is not on twitter, so it had to be printed out for him.

Trump has no class and seems to be too much of coward to sack someone face to face.

 

He's like the worst kind of Roman Emperor - beloved by the mob, hated and feared by the Senate, convinced of his own divine status. Will probably end up hacked to death in a palace corridor by the Praetorian Guard.

 

A bit like Obama and Iran then! although a lot cheaper.

Anyways I'm chilling today after the death of a real genius...

...super, great smashing, look what ya could've won. I used to love Bullseye. A very sad day.

 

Pence and Ryan?

 

The best US President ever!!

 

Don´t tell me you think Reagan was better, because he was next to useless. The better Presidents have been Democratic ones since about 1932 and the New Deal.

 

Although the best Republican president was undoubtedly the very first one, Abraham Lincoln.

 

You may laugh Bendit but look at his foreign policy regarding Iran (positive), Cuba (positive) the EU (positive), although his Middle East one was a let-down, Health reforms in the US, a positive, atempts to reform the gun laws, positive but was stymied by an obdurate Congress and Senate. An upswing in the US economy during his tenure despite the crash of 2008.

 

Sorry, thought it was a joke

 

And what did they do to him? Oh, they shot him.