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Trump: Smart Cookie or Orange Oaf?

Smart Cookie
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25%
Orange Oaf
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75%
 
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Seems like the main politics thread is becoming a Yankee-Doodle Trump-fest, so maybe scope here to split them out.

Will see if this one gains any traction ..if it does will move over a few of the million posts from our two protagonists from the other thread.

Yee-haaa!
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Massive Attack" wrote: 13 Mar 2026, 18:14 No one was conned over Brexit and all this to do with Iran now aint Trump's fault, that is on Irans Regime for almost half a century of global terror when others allowed them to get out of hand with what they were doing. 
The big boys made Trump do it.
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No one was conned over Brexit and all this to do with Iran now aint Trump's fault, that is on Irans Regime for almost half a century of global terror when others allowed them to get out of hand with what they were doing. 
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Swiss. wrote: 13 Mar 2026, 15:53
Mike Oxsaw" wrote: 13 Mar 2026, 15:06
Swiss. wrote: 13 Mar 2026, 14:35 US tarifffs hitting the UK economy. Need to improve trade relations with the EU. Brexit really fucked our economy. Sad but the working classes that were conned into voting the leave are the one's hurting the most. The rich toffs win again. Fucking Brexit mugs. 

British exports to the US tumble as Trump tariffs kick in




 
The main thing stalling UK exports to the EU is EU red tape. The stuff we're exporting is exactly the same stuff that was accepted without question while we were in the EU, so it's fuck all to do with the quality of the exports.

They drop the protectionist shit and UK exports to the EU will rise. Of course, the inefficient protected farmers and companies in the EU will never allow that to happen,
I never say it's anything to do with quality. Yes kits ref tape between the UK and EU that wasn't there before when we were in the EU so you've qualified the stupidity of leaving. 
It's ALL EU red tape. The UK cannot remove it, only the EU can do that. They chose not to.
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Looks like Cuba is next.

Would be a big win for Trump bringing Cuba out of the Abyss.

The Cubans in Florida sure will be happy if Trump pulls it off.lhttps://x.com/politico/status/2032465271940850004?s=46&t=lLtbssQkNTv4aBFIadkCwg
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Mike Oxsaw" wrote: 13 Mar 2026, 15:06
Swiss. wrote: 13 Mar 2026, 14:35 US tarifffs hitting the UK economy. Need to improve trade relations with the EU. Brexit really fucked our economy. Sad but the working classes that were conned into voting the leave are the one's hurting the most. The rich toffs win again. Fucking Brexit mugs. 

British exports to the US tumble as Trump tariffs kick in



 
The main thing stalling UK exports to the EU is EU red tape. The stuff we're exporting is exactly the same stuff that was accepted without question while we were in the EU, so it's fuck all to do with the quality of the exports.

They drop the protectionist shit and UK exports to the EU will rise. Of course, the inefficient protected farmers and companies in the EU will never allow that to happen,
I never say it's anything to do with quality. Yes kits ref tape between the UK and EU that wasn't there before when we were in the EU so you've qualified the stupidity of leaving. 
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Swiss. wrote: 13 Mar 2026, 14:35 US tarifffs hitting the UK economy. Need to improve trade relations with the EU. Brexit really fucked our economy. Sad but the working classes that were conned into voting the leave are the one's hurting the most. The rich toffs win again. Fucking Brexit mugs. 

British exports to the US tumble as Trump tariffs kick in


 
The main thing stalling UK exports to the EU is EU red tape. The stuff we're exporting is exactly the same stuff that was accepted without question while we were in the EU, so it's fuck all to do with the quality of the exports.

They drop the protectionist shit and UK exports to the EU will rise. Of course, the inefficient protected farmers and companies in the EU will never allow that to happen,
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US tarifffs hitting the UK economy. Need to improve trade relations with the EU. Brexit really fucked our economy. Sad but the working classes that were conned into voting the leave are the one's hurting the most. The rich toffs win again. Fucking Brexit mugs. 

British exports to the US tumble as Trump tariffs kick in

 
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https://www.reuters.com/business/us-fou ... 026-03-13/

WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - U.S. economic growth slowed more sharply than initially thought in the fourth quarter ​amid downward revisions to consumer spending and ‌business investment, government data showed on Friday.

Gross domestic product increased at a 0.7% annualized rate last quarter, revised ​down from the initially reported 1.4% pace, the ​Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis said ⁠in its second GDP estimate. Economists polled by ​Reuters had forecast GDP growth would be unrevised ​at 1.4%.
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4th quarter US GDP now revised down to 0.7% from 1.4%.

"Golden Age"




 
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Trump is being played for the fool that he is by both Putin and Bibi. 

The rest of the world and the ordinary Americans will pay the price.
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zebthecat wrote: 13 Mar 2026, 08:10 The USA lifting sanctions on Russians oil.
Putin is a real winner in this war.
Yup.

with one had Putin is helping Iran with intelligence and then with the other the US take sanctions off Russian oil.
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A US refuelling plane shot crashes in Iraq
 
A C+ P from the article Iraq is still not stable. The US the UK and others funded Saddam when Iraq attacked Iran in 1980 roughly a year after the Islamic revolution in Iran. There was a ceasefire in 1988 exactly two years later Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 and the the first Gulf war followed 

Centcom described the crash as happening over friendly airspace, but this is a region of Iraq where pro-Iranian militias operate. Iran's military claimed on state TV that an allied group had targeted the plane with a missile.
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The USA lifting sanctions on Russians oil.
Putin is a real winner in this war.
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This is my favourite recent Trump quote from his speech at Doral.

"All of the people that died through the roadside bombs. Died and are, right now, walking around with no legs, no arms"
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38490510/ ... 8guZCZc2Zg


Ahh, so that's why we aint seen the cսnt anywhere yet to greet his adoring public. In other words the Regime is desperately flailing about trying to prop him up as some kind of bonefide Leader of the Country when he has no fucking idea what the fuck is going on. If that's the best they can do, then they are clearly bang in trouble. In the meantime whilst he's enjoying his catnap, keep crushing the Regime...
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goose wrote: 12 Mar 2026, 19:14 Operation Epic Fail

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Operation Epic Fail
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The mission to kill Reinhard Heydrich was called Operation Anthropoid, which I thought was very apt.
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The Americans do love a hyperbolic operation name.
These were the names for the first gulf war.

USA Desert Storm
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That must be the 4D chess he’s playing again.
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goose wrote: 12 Mar 2026, 16:57 I also enjoyed his completely tone deaf response to people's concerns about the price of oil going up:

" when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money."

nevermind the average people who don't own oil comapnies and have to pay higher prices for petrol, food, heating, clothes etc etc.
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There is no war,
 
This is a war,
 
The war ends soon,
 
The war is just beginning,
 
Iran’s nuclear program is gone,
 
Iran could have a nuke in 2 weeks,
 
Iran has no navy,
 
Iran is planting mines,
 
Iran is weak,
 
Iran could attack California,
 
Oil is down which is good,
 
Oil is up which is good.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, straight out of American politician Central casting is a complete cսnt of the worst kind.

Lets see he has called the war in Iran Operation Epic Fury, i mean what the fuck but he then decides his whole speech should also be taken straight from Thanos. He said if the Iranians defend themselves he wil " rain down fire, pain and death upon them" then when asked how long the war may last he said "our will is endless"

The operation should be called
Operation Epstein Cover Up
​​Operation Jayhsus is White and American
Operation MAGA (Murdering Arabs by Great Americans

Cunts

 
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Is Trump the one who said that women come of age at 6 (SIX) the other day in one of his bonkers rants?
You know when he isn’t talking about White House curtains when asked about the death of US servicemen 
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