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U.S Presidential Election
- Thread starter Chiang Mai Tiger
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he is upset that they are trying to limit free speech, so he is trying to limit free speech.
He keeps carping on about “ fake news” when the media disagree With what he says and now when he peddles fake news and gets called out for it he wants to bring in laws to stop it. Doesn’t this stem from Twitter adding a link to one of his tweets to check facts with what he has lied about?
How Trump gets away with what he says I have no idea. Heard that he put on Twitter around all the violence going on in Minneapolis that they were looking to send the army in because "when the looting starts, the shooting starts". How many western leaders around the world are allowed to threaten their citizens like that.
So, yesterday they only fact checked Trump (little blue ! telling people they shouldn't believe what was tweeted).
Trump gets nasty
Twitter today blocked a Trump tweet, showing the world the company has a decent pair of testicles.
The blocked tweet is the one where he says "when the looting starts, the shooting starts"
Trump gets nasty
Twitter today blocked a Trump tweet, showing the world the company has a decent pair of testicles.
The blocked tweet is the one where he says "when the looting starts, the shooting starts"
But apparently a mob going into a state parliament with guns is fine.
He's a hypocrite, but that ain't a surprise.
DS
I used to think Trumps buffoonery was humourous but i feel guilty that i used to think that. Might go down as the most divisive western leader ever and contributed more than anyone to the downfall of a country. Expect him to support the arrest of the CNN reporter.
Yes America is burning & given they're our number one Allies (or were), it should scare us all.
In actual fact the West is burning.
In actual fact the West is burning.
Trump has now formally taken all US funding away from the WHO.
No matter what the view of the performance of the WHO in this pandemic unless there is a replacement of the funding this decision will lead to deaths.
In places like sub Saharan Africa and other places of extreme poverty the reduction of WHO operations will be catastrophic. It also hurts programs relating to things like malaria, diarrhoea, access to clean water and many other things.
It is a decision made to protect himself and to deflect blame without any thought for the people it effects.
What a disgusting human being he is.
No matter what the view of the performance of the WHO in this pandemic unless there is a replacement of the funding this decision will lead to deaths.
In places like sub Saharan Africa and other places of extreme poverty the reduction of WHO operations will be catastrophic. It also hurts programs relating to things like malaria, diarrhoea, access to clean water and many other things.
It is a decision made to protect himself and to deflect blame without any thought for the people it effects.
What a disgusting human being he is.
It just seems odd that Biden is the best the opposition could come up with. He'll barely survive a first term
Might be decent, but he'll be 78 come election time.
The US is imploding. It's been happening for a while and plain to see. China has been preparing for this. Russia will be another to jump in and fill the void.
There are already moves to move away from the USD as the defacto international currency.
For our own sake Australia better have a long term strategy to survive and prosper on the world stage when the US is no longer relevant. But unfortunately our politicians only think a maximum 3 years in advance.
Scrolling through Fox Movies today and saw American History X (its a very good movie if you haven't seen it). Its very evident that nothing has changed in the US since this movie came out, which isn't much different to the racial tensions that they had in the 60's.
No doubt Trump‘s initial response was inadequate & he’s looking for a scapegoat but there’s no doubt that the WHO were treading on eggshells early in their response to this pandemic. They do deserve plenty of criticism & much of what Trump says rings true on this. We’re lucky that our Governments started to act with travel bans in the weeks before WHO finally declared this disaster a global pandemic. Thank heavens they did.
The role of the WHO in the blame game on this pandemic is way overblown imo. Whilst they made mistakes they are a convenient scapegoat for those who provide it with insufficient funds. Only a percentage of the WHOs budget is for this sort of stuff, there are hospitals around the world with bigger budgets than the whole of WHO.
Ironically the WHO was criticised in the last swine flu outbreak of acting too quickly and being too influenced by the US and large pharmaceutical companies.
