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Excellent post BB....tx
All idiocy and you fell for it.
Love the way these TDS cultists are frantically congratulating each other as their posts get blown out of the water. Arm in arm with the Ayatollah they march.
Post blown out the water?
Not sure if you actually read the OP or didn't understand it, but it's a humorous piece making fun of King Charles as he tries to find an excuse not to go visit Bozo.
No-one (other than ou Maaik) really believed it. Not sure what needs to be blown out the water . . . unless of course, like ou Maaik, you didn't get that it was joke?
Read a few lines and moved on. I was thinking more of this post:
Stavanger1Rugby Legend
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Apr 04, 2026, 21:24
Great just another $279 trillion to go.
Where Anger concluded that the French gift to the US in 1776 was $300 trillion. When the total US Net Wealth today is only $180 trillion.
And more to the point France, which probably gave the US no more in aid than 2% of their net wealth…..is now worth $21 trillion based on the growth of 98% of that wealth.
But the 2% which was given to the US is worth $300 trillion.
A testament to Irish education. People who aren’t good with numbers should avoid them
I see . . . so can we safely say it was your post that was blown out of the water?
You can safely say that no country with a net worth of $180 trillion dollars received a gift worth $300 trillion,
This thread has nothing to do with who owes who how many trillions.
That discussion is happening on a different thread . . . the one where Stav blew your argument out of the water when he reminded you of France's contribution to the US victory in the War of Independence, without which there would be no USA and there wouldn't be a currency called the dollar . . . making you run off to AI to try and find some way of phrasing a question to make it appear that you didn't have egg all over your face.
This thread started with a humorous piece that both you and ou Maaik didn't get. Your post about our posts being blown out of the water has been . . . ummm . . . blown out of the water. Why can't you just admit that?
Oh and Mozart, if you read a few lines and skipped the rest, how did you miss that it was humorous?
The first few lines read:
"My dear Mr President, Donald, old bean, how the devil are you? Congratulations on the moon rocket thingy. Ingenious contreption. Wish I could be up there m’self, weightless as a peacock feather, peering down, lord of all one surveys."
Did you think it was a real piece after reading that? That King Charles would call Bozo "Donald, old bean"?
My argument that the $50 billion of US funding build up to a total of $30 odd trillion over 75 years….is accurate. Even if you assume the money is reinvested in buying back US Treasuries you get a similar number.
The argument that the French gift created something of huge value is correct. But $300 trillion is an embarrassing mistake. And the cost to France, which is actually what is being measured is small. Because France today has only a $21 trillion Net worth.
If you can’t understand that, I cannot dumb it down anymore.
As for the article…..did I think it was an attempt at humor….yes. But it was also a political zinger, so I lost interest.
Okay, well back to the point I tried to make before you deflected, can we safely say that your initial post on this thread has been blown out of the water?
So you accept that a country with a $180 trillion Net Wealth, can’t have received a gift worth $300 trillion today. A simple affirmation will do.
Why don't you ask that question on the thread where it belongs? Why does that silly argument about who owes who however many trillions have to prevade every other thread?
Okay
Mozart, I've answered your question on the relevant thread, you still haven't answered my question on this thread.
No you can’t safely say that…but go ahead make your case
Having TDD is serious ... definitely no room for humour.
". . . but go ahead make your case"
Okay, you came onto this thread, didn't read the OP, didn't realise it was a joke and ignorantly claimed our posts had been blown out of the water when the only people who didn't realise the OP was humour were you and your Bozo ally ou Maaik.
Yes?
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I'll actually watch the Dave Chapelle clip... he's funny and not deranged... there's ways of voicing your disapproval...the extreme hysteria is really annoying.
My dear Mr President, Donald, old bean, how the devil are you? Congratulations on the moon rocket thingy. Ingenious contreption. Wish I could be up there m’self, weightless as a peacock feather, peering down, lord of all one surveys.
You said it yourself it’s satirical. But of course it’s also taking a shot at Trump. As I said I glanced at it and decided it wasn’t for me.
My first comment was a generalization. There was no claim that this particular post was blown out of the water. And I clearly made that point when I said when talking about posts that suffered that fate I was thinking of the Mick.
And if you want to further dispute that kindly point out which post, other than Mike’s, took issue with the Charles post in any way.
Hiding behind humor to take cheap shots is an old trick...and it spoils the humor till there's nothing left.
The Trump Train
The Trump Train’s gone quite loco, it’s heading off the rails,
the stoker fires the boiler, but anarchy prevails,
for passengers are nervous, as they can clearly see
Iran is just a nightmare, a huge catastrophe
careering down a mountain towards a deep, dark hole
aboard a locomotive that no-one can control.
For Donnie’s jammed the throttle and screams “Full speed ahead!
There’s no way we’ll get beaten, I’d just as soon be dead!”
And so they hurtle onward, afraid their epitaph
will be the engine driver’s deranged, demented laugh,
a hellish caterwauling that multiplies their fear
as Donnie’s never bothered to learn just how to steer.
“It’s my way or the highway,” he shouts at anyone
who dares to ask a question, “I am the moon and sun,
the stars and all the planets, I am the universe,
so bow down and pay homage, this train has no reverse!”
His hand is on the button, I fear, with all his threats,
for this is just as vicious as idiocy gets.
It’s time to sit in judgement of what this madman’s done,
to see the legal process quite patently begun,
so, finally, this con-man, this bogus billionaire
with overflowing ego and phoney golden hair
can meet some form of justice to save the human race
from being just an echo upon a rock in space.
BB
You are terribly upset because Tthe Guardian shit has taken over and destroyed your brain to think,
... still POTUS...
You are terribly upset because Tthe Guardian shit has taken over and destroyed your brain to think,
Gazza's from Grong Grong, NSW, Australia ... grong-grong is an Aboriginal term meaning "bad camping ground" or "very bad camping ground".
Shame on you.
Mozart, if you wanted to say that posts were blown out of the water on a different thread, why didn't you post the comment on that thread?
Why did you post that particular comment on this thread . . . where you're now backtracking and saying posts weren't actually blown out of the water (other than your own of course)?
I guess because I was on this thread….I sense a great victory for you here Rooinek, keep going
So in an incredibly long-winded and round-about way with all sorts of deflections and denials, we finally arrive at you admitting you posted your comment on the wrong thread?
Wouldn't it have been much easier to just say that in the beginning?
Ah but then we wouldn’t have had all this fun debating the hair on a gnat,
Don't confuse your inability to admit you made a mistake or are ever wrong about anything with my desire to "debate" something as ridiculous as this.
A normal person would have just said something like "sorry, wrong thread, my bad" and we could have all moved on . . . but you had to pretend you were still right and that our posts were being "blown out of the water" . . . by ou Maaik of all people.
Oh well, after all that you can now consider your silly comment blown out of the water.
No I actually see your obsession to pursue a trivial point to a silly conclusion more as your psychological problem manifesting again. Take your meds
LMAO!
Now that is rich . . .
Maybe, but I gave you an off ramp a few times on this string, you couldn’t relent. You want me to to admit “I’m wrong”.
But actually I’m not ….the chain of logic is, I see another TDS post disguised as humor. I read a few lines and move on. Then I see one poster making a comment about what a great item it is….effectively providing moral support.
I comment that the Board is full of discredited TDS junk that get ‘likes’.
You try to link that specifically to the lead post. I say I wasn’t thinking about that, but what I was thinking about when you interjected, was your clueless support of Mick’s $300 trillion.
But you obsess about the lead article, which hardly registered with me……on and on trying to get me to say I was wrong when I was on a different page.
Could I have posted elsewhere….sure and I have. The idea was presented not by the lead article but the atta boy.
Then we had the two day Inspector Javert pursuit by you. To me it seems abnormal….you aren’t dealing with some interesting debate….but you are obsesssed. You may think it’s rich, but I think you’re regressing
TDS... Trump is threatening to destroy a country - potentially using nuclear weapons, and this is TDS.
Trump's cult has TDS. No matter what he does, they will support him to the end. My Fuhrer...
Ja Moz, it's back to the usual...pity.
You might start by asking yourself why it’s so important for me to be wrong…to me it’s a game, a sort of Scarlet Pimpernel exercise. Not important, but I enjoy the game…..to you it seems more weighty.
That’s all I’m saying. There’s no payoff going back to the Cold War.
Sure Shark and the adults believe that….Trump is presenting Iran with a number of ‘insurance’ proposals……pay this small price or you will have to pay a bigger one. They can’t be sure which one is real….he is jerking their strings and his jerking your’s.
The art of the deal? Bluffing about wiping out a civilisation.
Even if Trump does not follow through, how can anyone justify or support this.
This will just create problems for future generations. Iranians are going to hate Americans now more than ever. And they will now certainly get nukes.
A poor choice of words….he should have said ‘a regime will end tonight’. Persia will certainly not be destroyed.
My guess is Iran says no and we take out a few bridges and a power plant. Whatever happens will happen in stages, with the pressure ratcheting up on Iran at each step.
No matter what he does, they will support him to the end. My Fuhrer...
It’s true to Trump’s words when he said, “I could stand on Main Street in New York, shoot someone, and my followers would still support me.”
As we’ve experienced, he has never spoken a truer statement.
Hogbek
Doing a better job than the fool who was in charge of the withdrawal from Afghanistan a few years ago...you lot have short memory...
SB
TDS... Trump is threatening to destroy a country - potentially using nuclear weapons, and this is TDS.
Trump's cult has TDS. No matter what he does, they will support him to the end. My Fuhrer...
B S again. The Ayatollah lover in you took over, Iran has for years threaten to udevelop and use nucler wdapons to wipe out Israel and you supported them in your postings now. Trump will never use nuclear arms - even low radiation bombs declared by the Geneva Convention used by Bush in Iran and byy Boiden threatening to prov same to Ukraine, Th rsult was the death of millions of children in Iraq/ Biden chickened out and did not provide it to Ukraine.
Well - we do not support craziness we leave it to you to invent things on this site never even under consideration.
It's very clear that some people here would fully support not bombing a confirmed underground nuclear missile site in Iran, if women and children were waving peaceful flags of protest at the gates of the complex.....
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I actually feel like I'm trapped in some 1970s science fiction movie.
Did you ever imagine the president of the USA publicly and explicitly threatening genocide and war crimes, AND THEN gets to remain in office?!
Rod Serling I believe worked on the screen play for the original 1968 version of Planet of the Apes. Even he would have struggled to imagine what has come to pass.
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Great cartoon. So often, visuals and images capture what words fail to. This incarnation of' Liberty 'looks much more likely to trample the poor, oppressed and huddled masses, yearning to be free than to shelter tgem.
I'm all out of words to describe my feelings about Trump. But here's a quote from Hilaire Belloc that could be argued fits the bill pretty neatly, if not briefly. He might not have had a Trumpian figure in mind when he wrote it,but anyway....
'The barbarian hopes, and the is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too. He will consume what civilisation has slowly produced after generations of effort, but he will not be at pains to replace such goods, not has he the comprehension of the virtues that brought them into being.....He cannot make, he can only befog and destroy. He cannot sustain.
We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace; we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and fixed creeds refreshes us. We laugh..
But as we laugh , we are watched by strange and awful faces, and on those faces there are no smiles'.
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Dear Donald, sadly one can’t make this trip
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My dear Mr President, Donald, old bean, how the devil are you? Congratulations on the moon rocket thingy. Ingenious contreption. Wish I could be up there m’self, weightless as a peacock feather, peering down, lord of all one surveys.
No doubt you were champing at the bit for a spot in the cockpit yourself. You told me last time we met how you planned to join the moon trip (like you did in 1974, on the top secret mission that no one knows about) and then be the first man on Mars, which is actually much warmer than most scientists think, and probably has plenty of oxygen, according to what you’ve been told by a lot of people, actually, a lot of very respected people.
What was it that stopped you in the end? Those demmed bone-spurs, was it? I’ve always felt your disappointment at not having been able to serve your country in uniform on account of that wretched podiatrist your father got to say that you weren’t fit enough to go to Vietnam.
What a great soldiering career was thwarted there. Why, only this week you were employing your famous military expertise to explain how Britain, the country of which I am fortunate enough to be King, doesn’t have a navy. Which shows what I know. I had always thought we did have one. My late mother even told me it was a “Royal Navy”. But I suppose one’s mother tells one what one wants to hear.
You remember my mother? She was the little old lady in a blue hat you trod on at Windsor Castle in 2018. Easily done. You probably thought she was Paddington Bear. But that’s all by the by. I’m writing to say how sorry I am, because my wife and I had been very much looking forward to seeing you and the first lady later this month on our long-mooted state visit but, alas…
How is Melania, by the way? Marvellous gell. The way she manages always to keep a straight face, a very smooth face, one might even say a rigid face, in the trickiest of circumstances. The definition of unfleppable. Never so much as a flicker of a smile or a frown, not a movement of the eyebrow, almost as if she had been replaced with a wexwork and gorn orf for a cup of tea. Often wish I could do the same.
But to the metter in hend. I see from your post on that dashed clever Truth Social oojamaflip of yours that you are expecting us in Washington from the 27th to the 30th with, as you put it, “a beautiful Banquet Dinner at the White House on the evening of April 28th”.
And I cannot tell you how much my wife and I would have loved to come. You know how we enjoy a quarter-pounder with cheese, large fries, Coke and a rectangular apple pie in a cardboard envelope. Especially served on a gold platter by a dwarf of colour dressed as Uncle Sam.
But the thing is there’s been the most almighty diary cock-up at my end. I’ve made a terrible boob and, well, this is most egregiously awks, but I’m actually committed to a game of croquet with the King of Narnia that evening. My valet has already put out my tweed knickerbockers and croquet shoes.
It is an especial wrench for me because I had been so looking forward to meeting victims of my brother’s friend Jeffrey Epstein, as has been called for in the American press, and possibly, with a bit of luck, bumping into my son in the weed aisle of the Montecito Whole Foods.
I had also been looking forward to potentially being mistaken for a left-wing agitator while innocently driving through suburban America on my way from the airport, getting dragged out of my car by an ICE agent and shot to death on the pavement. Or “sidewalk”, as you chaps call it. One doesn’t want to overreact to these rare incidents but the images do lurk in the mind, adding a frisson to what was already a very exciting proposition, state visit-wise.
I also happen to know how much Camilla was looking forward to talking to Melania about child literacy. She’s ever so keen for young people to read books. Which are those big lumpy square things you’ll have heard about, that people in Europe read.
Camilla says it’s important for young people to read books so that they don’t get lured into a doom spiral of ignorance and lies online, and end up voting for giant orange lunatics who would rather destroy the universe than learn their alphabet.
But the thing is, I have a rotten cold and my granny died and the dog ate my invitation, so I didn’t see it until just the other minute, which is why I’m only letting you know now that I can’t make it. It’s got nothing to do with you telling us to “go get your own oil” or repeatedly insulting my country and its war record and its history and its prime minister.
Indeed, the prime minister, in whom you have declared yourself to be so disappointed, and have so accurately pointed out is not Winston Churchill, is the one most keen for me to come.
And I really wanted to. I did. It’s not often one gets to have dinner with someone simultaneously fighting three wars with eight countries on 14 fronts who can’t point to any of them on a map. I had this hilarious plan to pull out an atlas and give you three goes at finding Greenland on it. How we’d have laughed, Donald, old stick.
But, tragically, I’ve just got a mountain of work, and the children aren’t well, and I was up all night with a suspected tummy bug, and we’ve been terribly let down by the babysitter, and I’m actually doing dry April, and the bloody car is in the garage and I’m not getting on Connacht vs Sharks EPCR Challenge Cup Livethat well with the wife and I’ve got this dicky hip and…
Oh God, I hate this pen! I can’t bear this bloody thing! It does it every stinking time! Ugh, ink everywhere. Take it away, for God’s sake. Why am I using a bloody fountain pen to write to this illiterate monkey of a man anyway? I should be TYPING IT ALL OUT IN CAPITAL LETTERS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT ON SOCIAL MEDIA LIKE HE DOES, the f***ing mentalist, instead of giving it all the regal squiggle and curlicue in royal blue Quink.
… where was I? Oh yes, I was saying how I sadly can’t make your common little banquet in your vulgar gold dining room for totally unforeseen reasons but am absolutely determined to reschedule for some future date. I’m looking at my diary as we speak, Mr President, and I’m wondering if we could do… let me see… never? How about that, Mr President? How about never? Is never good for you?
Yours most sincerely,
massive angry splodge
Charles R