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JonH comes home · Tennis legend

RE: Trump

indiana · Tennis legend

Very sorry re SC's mother, and respect for what she was saying re using other words ( though some have not dissimilar connotations ) but she did ask the question, and there have been various apparent experts in the field that have written regarding their concerns about Trump showing increasing signs of genuine dementia.

Indeed no real excuse for the underlying problems re Trump stem from these other words that CD lists that hold true from all we have seen over the years. But to my mind it adds a very possible worrying element to the Trump c0cktail.

While very probably what Jon says re Greenland is true re posturing etc, what he does generally over time could become more unpredictable, not helped by the nodding lackeys in his administration.

Maybe already something Denmark could / should be raising with the UN? Could put Starmer in a corner.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Very sorry re SC's mother, and respect for what she was saying re using other words ( though some have not dissimilar connotations ) but she did ask the question, and there have been various apparent experts in the field that have written regarding their concerns about Trump showing increasing signs of genuine dementia.

I'll hold up my hand. I realised that I was opening the door by using the word myself, but had been racking my brains for a single term which encapsulated the man's mental state (even referring to him as a clown is an insult to genuine clowns!) & eventually decided to risk it, perhaps with the concept of the dementors in Harry Potter at the back of my mind... Of my suggestions, "unhinged" & "certifiable" arguably come closest to satisfying my aim, but don't really pack quite the same punch.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
So what, precisely, has the orange clown contributed to the performing arts in the US that warrants the change of name? OK, JFK contributed nothing, either, but the circumstances surrounding the original naming were slightly different...

The latest episode in this saga. All power to Joyce Beatty's elbow. I can't believe that Trump's name had already been added! furious

Merry Christmas everyone!

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
So what, precisely, has the orange clown contributed to the performing arts in the US that warrants the change of name? OK, JFK contributed nothing, either, but the circumstances surrounding the original naming were slightly different...
The latest episode in this saga. All power to Joyce Beatty's elbow. I can't believe that Trump's name had already been added!
Merry Christmas everyone

Oooh! Handbags! Never heard of Chuck Redd, though I now gather that he's an American jazz drummer &, according to Wiki, "vibraphonist". Who in his or her right mind would shell out good money to watch him perform? confuse

indiana · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
So what, precisely, has the orange clown contributed to the performing arts in the US that warrants the change of name? OK, JFK contributed nothing, either, but the circumstances surrounding the original naming were slightly different...
The latest episode in this saga. All power to Joyce Beatty's elbow. I can't believe that Trump's name had already been added!
Merry Christmas everyone
Oooh! Handbags! Never heard of Chuck Redd, though I now gather that he's an American jazz drummer &, according to Wiki, "vibraphonist". Who in his or her right mind would shell out good money to watch him perform?

I notice the Center Predident, Richard Grenell, adopts typical Trump lackey inappropriate language for someone in such a position, with such as "Your dismal ticket sales ...." in his communication.with Redd.

No need for the put down of Redd ( soneone you say you had bever heard of ) or his fans, SC, nor do I understand your confusion. We all have preferred artists or sports people who matter to us but may not be to others' tastes or indeed not even known to them. FWIW I hadn't heard of him either.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Oooh! Handbags! Never heard of Chuck Redd, though I now gather that he's an American jazz drummer &, according to Wiki, "vibraphonist". Who in his or her right mind would shell out good money to watch him perform?
No need for the put down of Redd ( soneone you say you had bever heard of ) or his fans, SC, nor do I understand your confusion. We all have preferred artists or sports people who matter to us but may not be to others' tastes or indeed not even known to them. FWIW I hadn't heard of him either.

Dear old Indy. Ever the voice of reason. Grenell's intemperate language was why I described the episode as "handbags". However, the confuse was meant to convey not confusion, but complete bafflement as to why on earth anyone would want to pay to listen to some geezer beating the hell out of a set of drums for a couple of hours! I doubt whether many, if any, on here would share my love of late eighteenth, nineteenth & early twentieth century classical music (my one & only visit to the Kennedy Center some years ago - pre-Trump - was for a classical orchestral concert), especially opera, so chacun à son goût, I guess.

christ · Challenger qualifying

You leave my gout out of this.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

christ wrote:
You leave my gout out of this.

Nice try, Chris. wink

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

christ wrote:
You leave my gout out of this.

biggrin

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
So what, precisely, has the orange clown contributed to the performing arts in the US that warrants the change of name? OK, JFK contributed nothing, either, but the circumstances surrounding the original naming were slightly different...
The latest episode in this saga. All power to Joyce Beatty's elbow. I can't believe that Trump's name had already been added!
Oooh! Handbags!

Opposition is mounting! biggrin

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

That certifiable megalomaniac in the White House is slowly, but surely, dragging us to the brink of World War III. furious Now it seems that the UK assisted in the tanker seizure.

indiana · Tennis legend

I doubt the repulsive Trump regime actually bring us any closer to World War Iii but they signal a green light to Russia and China to also act as unlawfully as they see fit with such as elements of the former Soviet Union and Chinese Taipei.

Suits them all and not a lot anyone else can do about if. Or that each of the horrible 3 will do about each other.

FWIW ( very little really in the grand scheme of the awful effect on so many people's lives ), if Trump was to follow through by force on Greenland in the next 4 months or so, I would expect Denmark ( which already has separate issues with FIFA ) to boycott the Trump Vanity FIFA World Cup and I would hope that all the other UEFA countries at least would follow suit. But ultimately he would no doubt get away with it politically and militarily.

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 8th of January 2026 02:48:22 PM

Var · Futures level

indiana wrote:
I doubt rhe repulsive Trump regime actually bring us any closer to World War Iii but they signal a green light to Russia and China to also act as unlawfully as they see fit in with such as elements of the former Soviet Union and Chinese Taipei.

Suits them all and not a lot anyone else can do about if. Or that each of the horrible 3 will do about each other.

FWIW ( very little really in the grand scheme of the awful effect on so many people's lives ), if Trump was to follow through by force on Greenland in the next 4 months or so, I would expect Denmark ( which aleady has separate issues with FIFA ) to boycott the FIFA World Cup and I would hope that all the other UEFA countries at least would follow suit. But ultimately he would no doubt get away with it politically and militarily.

I think invading Greenland would tear NATO and Europe apart, which ultimately seems to be his aim. US of A is returning to the Wild West culture. Hopeful it wont bring on WW3, only because there is too much money at stake. With Trump a that is all that matters. Not environmental impact, morals and values just dirty dollars. Rant over!

indiana · Tennis legend

Repulslon upon repulsion at home and abroad.

Whatever the facts ( and they seem at least very debatable ), for the administration to so instantly side with the agent, and his bosses' account and thrashing of the woman's character, is absolutely out of order in any reasonable democracy.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jvnl4j1n4o

Var's Wild West reference appears apt here too.