A general thread to discuss Trump

[JoeLeg]

malumbu Wrote:

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> Sue, I am sure that can find conspiracy sites

> where the UK is bending over backwards to

> accommodate Russian interests too. Which we are.

Go on then. Not sure what it has to do with Trump though?

[JohnL]

JoeLeg Wrote:

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> malumbu Wrote:

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> > Sue, I am sure that can find conspiracy sites

> > where the UK is bending over backwards to

> > accommodate Russian interests too. Which we

> are.

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> Go on then. Not sure what it has to do with Trump

> though?

I give you Owen Jones :)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/12/tory-links-russia-saudi-links-corbyn-spy-extremism

But it's nothing to do with Trump except the perhaps same Russian people trying to control Western interests.

[JoeLeg]

Yeah, fair enough!

[JohnL]

I like Owen Jones but if you want a good conspiracy theory he's your man

[Sue]

malumbu Wrote:

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> Sue, I am sure that can find conspiracy sites

> where the UK is bending over backwards to

> accommodate Russian interests too. Which we are.

That isn't the point, is it?

And to the best of my knowledge the site I linked to is not a "conspiracy site."

[diable rouge]

He's not even pretending anymore. Outright Fascist/Authoritarian...

[JohnL]

Claims the microphone was being switched over ... that's what I'd do too.

[JohnL]

It's a sort of tittering rather than full blooded laughing

[ExtremeEntertainment]

you wont get much of an opinion oh here there mostly libraels or feminists. and we all know there trump haters.

[JohnL]

I don't think there's moderation of views :)

[diable rouge]

libraels...haven't seen that one before, a play on liberal and Israel? :)

[JoeLeg]

ExtremeEntertainment Wrote:

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> you wont get much of an opinion oh here there

> mostly libraels or feminists. and we all know

> there trump haters.

If you?re going to be annoyed at people who disagree with you at least be original about it...yawn...

By the way, huge tranches of the American right-wing (hardly bastions of liberalism - awhaywver you think that is - or feminism) really hate Trump. But then that doesn?t chime with your world-view so you just dismiss anything you don?t like as lies.

[rendelharris]

ExtremeEntertainment Wrote:

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> you wont get much of an opinion oh here there

> mostly libraels or feminists. and we all know

> there trump haters.

Nine grammatical and spelling errors in eighteen words, hats off to you!

[JoeLeg]

I only count eight, but your point stands.

[JohnL]

Trump was used in a sentence without the requisite emoji.

[JohnL]

Meanwhile most important news of the day ..

"US President Donald Trump has faced ridicule online after he was filmed boarding Air Force One with what appears to be a length of toilet tissue attached to his shoe."

[Sue]

JohnL Wrote:

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> Meanwhile most important news of the day ..

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> "US President Donald Trump has faced ridicule

> online after he was filmed boarding Air Force One

> with what appears to be a length of toilet tissue

> attached to his shoe."

Well, appropriate, as he is a shit.

[rendelharris]

JoeLeg Wrote:

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> I only count eight, but your point stands.

Did you count beginning a sentence with a conjunction?

[JohnL]

rendelharris Wrote:

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> > I only count eight, but your point stands.

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> Did you count beginning a sentence with a

> conjunction?

I thought of that one - but Jerusalem :)

[JoeLeg]

rendelharris Wrote:

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> > I only count eight, but your point stands.

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> Did you count beginning a sentence with a

> conjunction?

Ah. Indeed. My old GCSE English teacher would be howling at me now.

(The A Level teachers wouldn?t have cared at all!)

[keano77]

rendelharris Wrote:

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> JoeLeg Wrote:

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> > I only count eight, but your point stands.

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> Did you count beginning a sentence with a

> conjunction?

It can be perfectly acceptable to start a sentence with the conjunction ?and? these days despite what I was taught at school. My bugbear is the current trend for many people being interviewed to start their answer to a question with the stabiliser ?so?.

[rendelharris]

keano77 Wrote:

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> rendelharris Wrote:

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> > > I only count eight, but your point stands.

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> > Did you count beginning a sentence with a

> > conjunction?

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> It can be perfectly acceptable to start a sentence

> with the conjunction ?and? these days despite what

> I was taught at school. My bugbear is the current

> trend for many people being interviewed to start

> their answer to a question with the stabiliser

> ?so?.

Correction, some people think it's acceptable to start a sentence with a conjunction. It has become accepted through frequent (mis)use - just as starting an answer with "so" will doubtless become, will you then regard it as acceptable once it has become normalised?

[JohnL]

General Kelly will not be fired :)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-john-kelly-fire-white-house-olivia-nuzzi-pence-pompeo-oval-office-a8578486.html

[JohnL]

Would you buy a chlorinated chicken off this man ?

"Donald Trump has said he believes Russian leader Vladimir Putin is ?probably? behind a recent spate of poisonings and assassinations ? but appeared to suggest they were not relevant because they did not happen in the US."

[Sue]

keano77 Wrote:

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> >

> > Did you count beginning a sentence with a

> > conjunction?

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>

> It can be perfectly acceptable to start a sentence

> with the conjunction ?and? these days despite what

> I was taught at school. My bugbear is the current

> trend for many people being interviewed to start

> their answer to a question with the stabiliser

> ?so?.

Language changes, otherwise we'd all still be speaking and writing like Chaucer (assuming he spoke like he wrote :)) ) or in fact, going back to the mists of time, just sort of burbling :))