What stupid shit has Trump done today?

[spring-peeper]

This may have held some weight, but I think that world leaders could have decided that Trump's America is not a world leader worth listening to.

U.S. threatens sanctions after U.N. arms embargo against Iran expires

The threat comes after a decade-long U.N. arms embargo against Iran officially expired Sunday as part of the nuclear deal agreed with world powers in 2015.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Streathamite]

This may have held some weight, but I think that world leaders could have decided that Trump's America is not a world leader worth listening to.

U.S. threatens sanctions after U.N. arms embargo against Iran expires

The threat comes after a decade-long U.N. arms embargo against Iran officially expired Sunday as part of the nuclear deal agreed with world powers in 2015.

www.cnbc.com

Equally likely, they know he's soon gone, so will just run the clock down. I would imagine it takes substantailly longer than 3 months to conclude an arms deal!

 

[Dogsauce]

Equally likely, they know he's soon gone, so will just run the clock down. I would imagine it takes substantailly longer than 3 months to conclude an arms deal!

Enjoyed this quote from Pompeo though:

“Any nation that sells weapons to Iran is impoverishing the Iranian people by enabling the regime’s diversion of funds away from the people and toward the regime’s military aims,” he added. n

Glad we’ve established the principle that spending a shit load of money on weaponry leads to impoverishment of the population. Any chance of looking at this issue domestically?

 

[Streathamite]

Glad we’ve established the principle that spending a shit load of money on weaponry leads to impoverishment of the population. Any chance of looking at this issue domestically?

Good point!
Physician, heal thyself, Pompeo, thou loathesome fucking hypocrite.

 

[spring-peeper]

Federal judge halts Trump's proposed food stamp cutback for 700,000 Americans

In her ruling Sunday, Howell wrote that the department, which administers the food stamp program, had been "icily silent" about the number of people who would be affected.

www.nbcnews.com

In her Sunday ruling, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Beryl Howell wrote that implementing the change "radically and abruptly alters decades of regulatory practice, leaving States scrambling and exponentially increasing food insecurity for tens of thousands of Americans."

In December, the Department of Agriculture formalized a proposal for work requirements for recipients of food stamps, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, that would have disqualified an estimated 688,000 people from food benefits.

Secretary Sonny Perdue said at the time that the changes were made "in order to restore the dignity of work to a sizable segment of our population and be respectful of the taxpayers who fund the program."

 

[NoXion]

Good fucking grief, is the Trump administration trying to foment a revolution?

 

[chandlerp]

Yes

 

[NoXion]

But why though? There's a non-trivial risk of getting burned when playing with fire. Safer to keep the status quo gravy train rolling, surely?

 

[moochedit]

But why though? There's a non-trivial risk of getting burned when playing with fire. Safer to keep the status quo gravy train rolling, surely?

Trumpists are not known for being rational.

 

[Streathamite]

But why though? There's a non-trivial risk of getting burned when playing with fire. Safer to keep the status quo gravy train rolling, surely?

Trumpists only know, and do, and love disruption and turmoil. It's their fix.

 

[stavros]

Glad we’ve established the principle that spending a shit load of money on weaponry leads to impoverishment of the population. Any chance of looking at this issue domestically?

Or indeed who they sell their exports to.

 

[teqniq]

This, apparently is real, or possibly not:

 

[Yossarian]

This, apparently is real, or possibly not:

Same account also posted this.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Trump is not happy with this.

Presidential debate commission adopts rules to mute microphones

Candidates will be muted while the other has the floor, but rule changes have angered Trump camp

www.theguardian.com

Donald Trump has complained that a rule change to mute microphones for part of his final televised debate with Joe Biden is “very unfair” and objected to the topics chosen by the moderator.

When the two face off on Thursday for a final televised debate, each candidate will have their microphones cut off while the other is delivering responses to questions on American families, race in America, climate change, national security and leadership.

 

[Yossarian]

Trump is not happy with this.

Presidential debate commission adopts rules to mute microphones

Candidates will be muted while the other has the floor, but rule changes have angered Trump camp

www.theguardian.com

The Trump team actually has a point, for a change - in recent election years, the third presidential debate has focused on foreign policy, but there's very little foreign policy involved in the topics chosen for this debate.

I don't want to see Trump get re-elected, but I wouldn't object to seeing him make Joe Biden very uncomfortable over his support of the invasion of Iraq when he was chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

 

[Cloo]

He really is flailing around blindly now. He's going to have such a hissy fit after this about how 'unfair' and 'biased' it was that he couldn't talk over and interrupt Biden, ignoring the fact that it means he also couldn't be interrupted or talked over (not that Biden would do that anyway)

 

[krtek a houby]

Trump is not happy with this.

Presidential debate commission adopts rules to mute microphones

Candidates will be muted while the other has the floor, but rule changes have angered Trump camp

www.theguardian.com

Rules. So very unfair.

 

[StoneRoad]

Maybe there should be a streamer saying "mike muted to prevent interruptions", that flashes an extra button "active" interrution number XXX" when the candidate attempts to interrupts.

 

[Streathamite]

The Trump team actually has a point, for a change - in recent election years, the third presidential debate has focused on foreign policy, but there's very little foreign policy involved in the topics chosen for this debate.

Agreed, but if he hadn't turned the first debate into an utter - and totally uninformative - shambles, then we might have had time to get round to foreign policy. He really is hoist by his own petard there.
Agree with you re; biden and Iraq, though

 

[moochedit]

Agreed, but if hehadn't turned the first debate into an utter - and totally uninformative - shambles, then we might have had time to get round to foreign policy. He really is hoist by his own petard there.
Agree with you re; biden and Iraq, though

Plus it is actually the second debate anyway as he skipped the last one.

Are they doing this one in person or "virtually"? (assuming Trump doesn't find an excuse to back out this time)

 

[StoneRoad]

I wonder if the orange one will have (and declare the results of) covid & antibody tests just before the debate, if he and Biden are going to share a stage ?

 

[Sprocket.]

I wonder if Melania has the survival instinct not to join him in the bunker on his last day in office.

 

[gosub]

I wonder if Melania has the survival instinct not to join him in the bunker on his last day in office.

Play golf? In these heels?

 

[WouldBe]

Plus it is actually the second debate anyway as he skipped the last one.

Are they doing this one in person or "virtually"? (assuming Trump doesn't find an excuse to back out this time)

I saw somewhere that in the second part of the debate that interruptions would be counted as speaking time so if trump's not careful the floor will only be open for Biden to speak.

 

[Streathamite]

I saw somewhere that in the second part of the debate that interruptions would be counted as speaking time so if trump's not careful the floor will only be open for Biden to speak.

That would be brilliant!

 

[a_chap]

Now openly declaring he's up for bribery and corruption if he wants to raise funds. Idiot.

Exxon clarifies Trump phone call: 'It never happened'

The oil giant distances itself from the President's "hypothetical" funds-for-contracts phone call.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[NoXion]

Swampy!

 

[quiet guy]

I wonder if Melania has the survival instinct not to join him in the bunker on his last day in office.

She's lining up the trades to seal him in the bunker

 

[bimble]

It's a clever strategy - cornering the market in the self-loathing demographic. Trump tells the crowd that he wouldn't have come to their shithole of a town if it wasn't for the virus but now he thinks he's in trouble so please vote for me you losers.

 

[two sheds]

And they laugh I'd never really noticed but he's a shit stand-up comedian with a cult following.