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Re: 'Enemies of the people': Trump remark echoes history's worst tyrants
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 8:57 am
by Lynsab
Can you not read my posts properly Geoff? Or link into the added links? Why ask a question I've already answered about Trump alongside many others...I never said Blair was bonkers, I said like or loathe him his speech had substance...rather than troll my posts as you did on the other other forum try doing some reading...again. How many leaders make such mad mistakes about imagined terrorist attacks in Sweden when making speeches televised around the world.....He's a laughing stock...you keep on defending him if that's your choice...some of us see it all very differently..
I just read his twitter everyday I don't need to even read the media...bonkers is a kind word for him.
Re: 'Enemies of the people': Trump remark echoes history's worst tyrants
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 9:21 am
by geoffreys
Lynsab wrote: βMon Feb 20, 2017 8:57 am
Can you not read my posts properly Geoff? Or link into the added links? Why ask a question I've already answered about Trump alongside many others...I never said Blair was bonkers, I said like or loathe him his speech had substance...rather than troll my posts as you did on the other other forum try doing some reading...again. How many leaders make such mad mistakes about imagined terrorist attacks in Sweden when making speeches televised around the world.....He's a laughing stock...you keep on defending him if that's your choice...some of us see it all very differently..
I just read his twitter everyday I don't need to even read the media...bonkers is a kind word for him.
Listen, bonkers is no word to call anybody unless they are clinically insane.
Just say what you mean Lyn:
1. You don't like him.
2. You don't agree with him.
Fine, that is how I feel about Tony Blair who I am on record as calling a pratt.
Call Trump a pratt too if it makes you feel better (although it won't change anything!) but not bonkers, anymore than
someone should call UK's Tony Blair bonkers.
Thank you,
Geoff.
Re: 'Enemies of the people': Trump remark echoes history's worst tyrants
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 9:29 am
by Lynsab
I think I'll decide myself what names I call politicians Geoff ...thanks anyway

Re: 'Enemies of the people': Trump remark echoes history's worst tyrants
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 9:48 am
by keving
geoffreys wrote: βMon Feb 20, 2017 9:21 am
Lynsab wrote: βMon Feb 20, 2017 8:57 am
Can you not read my posts properly Geoff? Or link into the added links? Why ask a question I've already answered about Trump alongside many others...I never said Blair was bonkers, I said like or loathe him his speech had substance...rather than troll my posts as you did on the other other forum try doing some reading...again. How many leaders make such mad mistakes about imagined terrorist attacks in Sweden when making speeches televised around the world.....He's a laughing stock...you keep on defending him if that's your choice...some of us see it all very differently..
I just read his twitter everyday I don't need to even read the media...bonkers is a kind word for him.
Listen, bonkers is no word to call anybody unless they are clinically insane.
Just say what you mean Lyn:
1. You don't like him.
2. You don't agree with him.
Fine, that is how I feel about Tony Blair who I am on record as calling a pratt.
Call Trump a pratt too if it makes you feel better (although it won't change anything!) but not bonkers, anymore than
someone should call UK's Tony Blair bonkers.
Thank you,
Geoff.
Geoff, what have you been smoking?
You are telling us that anyone who is diagnosed as "clinically insane" is (in medical terminology) "bonkers".
You, sir, are fuddled. Most definately fuddled.
Re: 'Enemies of the people': Trump remark echoes history's worst tyrants
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 12:10 pm
by geoffreys
Lynsab wrote: βMon Feb 20, 2017 9:29 am
I think I'll decide myself what names I call politicians Geoff ...thanks anyway
Just don't tell us on here then.
Geoff.
Re: 'Enemies of the people': Trump remark echoes history's worst tyrants
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 12:12 pm
by keving
geoffreys wrote: βMon Feb 20, 2017 12:10 pm
Lynsab wrote: βMon Feb 20, 2017 9:29 am
I think I'll decide myself what names I call politicians Geoff ...thanks anyway
Just don't tell us on here then.
Geoff.
Do you remember the 60s Geoff?
Re: 'Enemies of the people': Trump remark echoes history's worst tyrants
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 12:54 pm
by geoffreys
keving wrote: βMon Feb 20, 2017 12:12 pm
geoffreys wrote: βMon Feb 20, 2017 12:10 pm
Lynsab wrote: βMon Feb 20, 2017 9:29 am
I think I'll decide myself what names I call politicians Geoff ...thanks anyway
Just don't tell us on here then.
Geoff.
Do you remember the 60s Geoff?
Why? Do YOU?
Geoff.
Re: 'Enemies of the people': Trump remark echoes history's worst tyrants
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 8:56 am
by Lynsab
Politicians who have used a divisive and dehumanised rhetoric are creating a more divided and dangerous world, says rights group Amnesty International.
Its annual report singles out President Donald Trump as an example of an "angrier and more divisive politics".
But it criticises other leaders, including those of Turkey, Hungary and the Philippines, who it says have used narratives of fear, blame and division.
The group also says governments are exploiting refugees for political ends.
The report, which covers 159 countries, cited a rise in hate speech across the US and Europe targeting refugees and said the reverberations would see more attacks on people on the basis of race, gender, nationality and religion.
It criticised countries that, it said, once claimed to champion rights abroad and that were now rolling back human rights at home.
"Instead of fighting for people's rights, too many leaders have adopted a dehumanizing agenda for political expediency," Salil Shetty, secretary general of Amnesty International, said in a statement.
"The limits of what is acceptable have shifted. Politicians are shamelessly and actively legitimizing all sorts of hateful rhetoric and policies based on people's identity: misogyny, racism and homophobia."
More here.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-39048293
Re: 'Enemies of the people': Trump remark echoes history's worst tyrants
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 9:16 pm
by OhSusana
Lynsab wrote: βWed Feb 22, 2017 8:56 am
Politicians who have used a divisive and dehumanised rhetoric are creating a more divided and dangerous world, says rights group Amnesty International.
Its annual report singles out President Donald Trump as an example of an "angrier and more divisive politics".
..
A Deafening Silence
Two Indian nationals were shot by a man yelling racial epithets. The president said nothing. Thatβs all we need to know about who matters in Trumpβs America....
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... lumes.html
With regard to the original post, from the bbc -
now they are barred. So much for freedom of the press. Putin's Russia beckons!
Donald Trump bars BBC, CNN and New York Times from media briefing as White House press war escalates
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02 ... use-press/
Re: 'Enemies of the people': Trump remark echoes history's worst tyrants
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 10:37 pm
by Jersey
geoffreys wrote: βSun Feb 19, 2017 4:07 pm
Lynsab wrote: βSun Feb 19, 2017 3:58 pm
Termites Dream wrote: βSun Feb 19, 2017 1:57 pm
Short of assassination, sedition or resignation I cannot see Trump not serving his term of 4 years
I think it's more likely Trump will be impeached ( Offences do not have to violate criminal law to be impeachable) or there is another rule in the constitution that may be used to be rid of him.....the 25th Amendment...
I have to agree with Steve, I can't see why anyone can defend Trump, he's completely bonkers...
1. Where is your evidence he is bonkers, or is that just your perception of him because you don't like him?
2. Would you say Tony Blair was bonkers?
Geoff.
Well said
Re: 'Enemies of the people': Trump remark echoes history's worst tyrants
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 9:22 am
by geoffreys
Happy in Cyprus wrote: βSun Feb 26, 2017 1:21 am
OhSusana wrote: βSat Feb 25, 2017 9:16 pmWith regard to the original post, from the bbc - now they are barred. So much for freedom of the press. Putin's Russia beckons!
Quite shocking OhSusana. Funny thing is that Trump doesn't appear to realise how bizarre he come across. Suppressing the media is what dictators and tyrants have done throughout history.
And tonight we learn that Muhammad Ali's son endured 2 hours of quite oppressive questioning on his return to Florida from a business engagement abroad. His father represented the USA and mixed with presidents of the USA, yet Trump has no comment as to the adverse effects of his new screening process.
Still, Trump has at least two overseas admirers: Farage and geoffreys
I think you meant to say:
"Still, Trump has at least two million overseas admirers: Farage and geoffreys included"
The BBC impartial? Nah..
Geoff.
Re: 'Enemies of the people': Trump remark echoes history's worst tyrants
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 5:13 pm
by OhSusana
Happy in Cyprus wrote: βSun Feb 26, 2017 1:21 am
Still, Trump has at least two overseas admirers: Farage and geoffreys
You might actually be right.
Apparently even before he took office -
Pew poll: Trump at 9% with Europeans
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/29/polit ... p-clinton/
So most already knew the guy was a goofball (one of Letterman's favorite terms))
And during the past month the reality of the situation has probably dawned on
almost all that 9% - probably 1.999998 million people.
Yes - leaving just two...
