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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by madbluboy -
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she had presented her Nobel Peace Prize to US President Donald Trump during a high-stakes encounter that could affect how Trump seeks to shape the South American country’s political future.
But the Nobel Prize people said it is 'not possible' for an award winner to pass the prize onto someone else.

She was just giving it to the rightful winner.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by DJC -
Quote from: tonyo – on
There was a story in the paper today about how Richard Nixon successfully leaned on the then Chair of the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates in the lead up to the 1972 elections to improve his re-election chances.  The upshot of this was the inflation rate (which was 3.2% in 1972) rose to over 12% by the end of the decade.

The world economy will get whacked if Donny boy gets to set his own rates by replacing Jerome Powell with a patsy when his term ends in April.

Nixon was motivated by an unsubstantiated belief that the Democrats were conspiring to seize power ... but that's where the similarity ends.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by kruddler -
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For all the things people worry about regarding the internet and AI, this stuff being done in the USA is far more worrisome, it's literally the genesis of the grey goo as they are already working on self-assembling versions.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adu8009

This stuff will make Drone, Nuclear or Chemical Warfare look like a Sunday Picnic.

For all the good it could potentially do, think about your pepper grinder, sauce on your McBurger, herbs on your focaccia, dust on your carpet, dirt on your shoes, and now think of it in the hands of a Putin, Xi or RedTrump, a failed heart valve, a stroke, pneumonia, blindness, a headache.

Winds farms, 5G, EM, Infrasound, they are a freaking walk in the park by comparison!

What would this guy think, gravy for the mind?

Is your arm itching?

Black Mirror did an episode similar to this. "Hated by the Nation"

Bees went extinct, so we made robot bees to do the job.
These were ultimately hijacked and used to kill people. Person who was killed was whoever got the most 'votes' on social media.
Torch and Pitchforks from the comfort of your own home!

Seems ludicrous when summarised, but watch the episode and tell me where the plot hole is, if you can find one.

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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by Lods -
Quote from: tonyo – on
Quote from: madbluboy – on
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she had presented her Nobel Peace Prize to US President Donald Trump during a high-stakes encounter that could affect how Trump seeks to shape the South American country’s political future.
But the Nobel Prize people said it is 'not possible' for an award winner to pass the prize onto someone else.

It was a silly, empty gesture.
It's not transferable and it can't be rescinded.
It's 'hers' and 'hers' alone.

And there's the strange thing...She's a Nobel Prize winner and that indicates she's fought very hard for the rights of her people.
She could have come at Trump from a position of strength.
Instead she chose to come meekly, offering much desired gifts and hoping for his support.

He'll say, "Thank you very much...Look what I've won"...and do diddly squat for her and her supporters as long as the current regime stays on his good side.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by tonyo -
Quote from: madbluboy – on
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she had presented her Nobel Peace Prize to US President Donald Trump during a high-stakes encounter that could affect how Trump seeks to shape the South American country’s political future.
But the Nobel Prize people said it is 'not possible' for an award winner to pass the prize onto someone else.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by madbluboy -
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she had presented her Nobel Peace Prize to US President Donald Trump during a high-stakes encounter that could affect how Trump seeks to shape the South American country’s political future.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by tonyo -
There was a story in the paper today about how Richard Nixon successfully leaned on the then Chair of the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates in the lead up to the 1972 elections to improve his re-election chances.  The upshot of this was the inflation rate (which was 3.2% in 1972) rose to over 12% by the end of the decade.

The world economy will get whacked if Donny boy gets to set his own rates by replacing Jerome Powell with a patsy when his term ends in April.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by Lods -
I think what would be best for the world is for one of his 'excursions' to go terribly wrong and then see how he tries to defend it.
No doubt he'd blame everyone but himself.
But I suspect it would put a dent in his support.
Once the cracks start to really appear watch the rats desert the ship.
Watch Rubio in particular. ;)
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by DJC -
He’s not called Taco for nothing!

The deployment of special forces troops from NATO nations to Greenland will dampen his ardour too.

I suppose that will count as another war that he’s stopped 🙄
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by Lods -
Trump to Iranian Protestors..."Help is on the way"

No it's not.
Probably a good decision...but the Iranian protestors now know, what most of the world knows.
That the "flip-flop" man cant be relied on when the chips are down.