I've never seen a nation torch its reputation the way Musk and Trump are torching that of the US. Every day they find a way to make a new segment of the world population detest them. Makes Brexit look like a PR triumph.
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According to the parallel universe we've apparently merged with which has Fox News as a primary news source, nothing but winning going on, with some D and RINO naysayers.
also, anything bad happening is leftover Biden stuff.
Astonishing that ratings agencies have so far ignored the Anarchy and that US rating remains AA+ despite chaotic governance and welshing on contracts. If any other country behaved like this...
Let's be honest most world always despised much of how they acted, but begrudgingly admired much of what they did & respected their unambiguous power. Trump scuttled our admiration, pushed our respect to the limit. As John Mulaney so brilliantly observed " there's a horse, loose, in the hospital"
You couldn't have convinced absolutely anyone only ten years ago that this could be a possible US in 2025. They would've thought you was completely bonkers.
Probably. Although a year ago it already looked like Trump would be the candidate for the Republicans and the rumours on ‘Project 2025’ were already rife.
Aside from everything else that happened subsequently.
How they voted this absolute criminal back into power is a crime in itself. Madness!
The 92% that did not vote for him are beyond disgusted. I am embarrassed for our country. This man wants to be a dictator so bad, people could be eating 💩 but because he says it is not they will continue to eat it. BLIND FAITH they have in him.
It was. Brexit was the starting pistol. A plan, a long time in its development. Dictatorships have the time and need only to find treacherous partners looking to enrich themselves. See Farage, Murdoch, Johnson, Rees-Mogg, Trump and on and on and on......
I think this is the direction we'd have collapsed in if uber-Brexiters like Farage, Hannan and Rees-Mogg had had their way in leaving EVERYTHING (EU, WTO, ECHR etc) with no-deal
Wouldn’t it be lovely of we could just lock all of them in in the Thunderdome and throw away the key? Musk, Putin, Trump, Tate, all the alpha billionaires and politicians. Just let them fight it out forever. We’ll just get on in peace and quiet, thank you.
Yes, though it's part of the same lineage as brexit.
Populist lies, Russia + interference, industrial scale misinformation drowning out truth, prejudice over-riding compassion and reason, far right media capture, corruption and cronyism.
Useful to recall that Musk’s empire is a business one. As such it is dependent on its customer base. As we’ve seen with Tesla, that can easily disappear. Musk does not have any monopoly power in any business sector. There are always alternatives. Huge opportunity for many businesses.
Hopefully this will be eye opening for Europe & Canada that if they rely on starlink for national security, the’ll be held hostages by Elon. Strlnk is not a company selling highly specialized services; it’s “his” company operating “his” satellites and it’ll do whatever “he”
wants
Yeah, thinking I'm going to have to say I'm from "Greater Canada" when I travel to Europe this summer. Shades of the 80s when we were ashamed of Reagan, only worse.
The UK and its European Allies need to start untangling itself from the US Defence apparatus over the next 2 years. It's about security. It's not about lunacy.
It’s why he’s taken to carrying little Secure Password around on his shoulders in public, so that the little meat shield would take the brunt of any attack.
I dunno I think the Iraq invasion and occupation did that for many in the world already. But a western country had not felt that wrath so you don't count it
What I really do not get is how can three people - THREE PEOPLE! - do so much damage in just a few weeks. Is everything in our civilisation this fragile and unstable??
What I find utterly ridiculous is that they had a chance to actually end the war but their own arrogance and need to be worshipped has screwed that up. America is getting weaker on an almost daily basis
They seem to be operating under the “if I’m doing it then it must be correct and everyone else is wrong” theory. There is only so long you can test this theory before something loudly snaps.
Interesting how Trump & Musk have made such "progress" (telegraphed well in advance) not only in dismantling much of the of the federal functions, but also rendering them almost irreparable
This was something the #Brexit 🤡 🤡 🤡 wanted & tried to do, but their incompetence failed them, thankfully...
I agree the Brexshitters were following the same script and their incompetence scuppered their plans. I also think the GFA and Covid tripped them up. The EU was a good friend to Ireland and stuck by her. Despite what the Trumpian DUP say,most of us in NI are grateful.
Trump isn't bothered. He's probably convinced himself he's loved by everyone and he'll never die but we all know he will; then the USA can start rebuilding it's moral compass.
Remember- it’s not cool to be empathetic - it’s cool to be a racist, xenophobic, alleged drug addled, economy draining imbecile who thinks he can colonise Mars.
I really think that no serious politician in the entire world should be engaging in any kind of activity on twitter. It is surely beneath them to discuss serious political matters with this moron. Let him be ignored and consigned to his own little patheticness
I still firmly believe that when Bowie died the world turned to shite! A bloody long slog since and just when you thought Labour bringing sanity and Harris in the White House keeping Tangotrump out!
Hey ho, maybe the EU will embrace both UK and Canada as Commonwealth outliers in a looser union?
Once again I'm reminded of this observation, originally written about the guy who works for Musk, but it seems a fair observation to apply to the man himself!
Is this real, its hard to believe the lunacy of declaring support for Ukraine by challenging Putin to a one on one?
Not a good strategy anyway, despite being 20yrs older (I challenged a pensioner) Putin would likely kick his arse.
No commercial organisation nor any state can now justify using Starlink for anything as it could simply be taken away at any moment and leave whatever project you were using it for utterly useless.
Surprisingly Cummings was responsible for the investment in OneWeb. Now looking to be the European system to replace Starlink in Ukraine and Poland also.
Not to mention that aside from international relations it's business insanity. Someone is obviously going to disrupt your monopoly if you are unreliable.
As distasteful as countries purchasing weapons from the US industrial complex is, wait until they start pursuing nuclear weapons programs instead because the US is an unreliable vendor.
It appears Rubio is in desperate need of a map…
(Also a spine, principles and an iota of moral courage.)
I remember when the US Secretaries of State knew basic geography.
#Rubio is dim on geography & politics:
Poland has an Eastern border with Belarus.
Which means, in effect, that it has Russians on its borders.
Lukashenko is hosting dozens of Russian nuclear weapons and will prepare facilities for the planned deployment of Moscow’s hypersonic ballistic missiles
Quite so.
Full of missiles.
The land-based missile arming of Kaliningrad was extensive and included dozens of nuclear-capable Iskander (SS-26) ballistic missiles (with a range of over 300 miles) and the antiship Bastion-P missile system
'Lithuania still refers to the Kaliningrad oblast as the “biggest threat in the region,” and Poland remains concerned about Russian artillery and missile attacks emanating from the Kaliningrad oblast against NATO nations'
And now I read America and ors are encouraging/standing by while Israel torture Gaza by turning off their electricity. How can those that care and work for peace, hurt America and ors? I no longer if I can help it buy anything from Israel, China and now USA. What more can be done?
It feels like America passed through some sort of hideous Nelson Muntz portal the moment "you don't have the cards" became a synonym for "your people are being bombed, raped and tortured." These people have nothing beyond playground taunts, no honour, no gravitas, no decency, no humanity.
They’re not in geostationary orbit, but much, much lower. So low, in fact, that the drag is dropping them out of orbit at the rate of about 200/month (if I remember right). It’s an expensive constellation to keep up. Also, low enough for jet-launched anti-satellite missiles.
for Starlink you don't need to go to the geostationary orbits, they're all LEO. Given the results of the Starfish Prime test back then you could have all 4000 of them with a couple of nukes, there would of course be collateral damage.
Musk is such a ridiculous child. It’s absolutely mind boggling that he’s got so much power and money but that’s because he has the support of so many young men with no values but money and power
For the love of god will one Pole or Ukrainian go over to America and call this fat little cunt out.
Christ I'm not even violent and 64 and only 5ft 6 but I know if challenged he would run off.
Now those people who thought Brexit was ok are now seeing exactly what the Tories were doing to us. Now they are seeing it - after 10 years of arguing! The penny is finally dropping.
It's like living in the worst episode of Allo Allo...
"This is a recorded Gestapo message. I am not taking calls at the moment, but you may leave a message on the revolving wax disc. Please speak after the gunshot".
Musk must be so high on power and ketamine. I mean at the end of this who other than North Korea and the US is going to buy Starlink? Same for US Military suppliers - no sane country is going to go near a contract that requires supplier maintenance for fear Trump will order them to stop.
And Musky has confirmed for all to see. Why him, Trump & unfortunately, because of them & their regime. The U.S.A. is unreliable & cannot be trusted. This could get very expensive, when USA lose export orders.
It's up to the US citizens 🤷🏻♀️
Option 1:
You take that administration out of the oval office ( possible in a wy like jan6 2020)
Option 2:
You leave the US for Europe, CDN or anywhere else
Option 3:
You just cry, do nothing, just to find yourself in a poor life in a dictatorship soon. Very soon.
Sikorski is the Polish Foreign Minister (“Secretary of State”), a statesman with experience in Foreign Affairs, Defence, domestic and EU politics, and a former war reporter.
Musk is a spoilt, lucky, tech-bro who buys favour and has never been elected to any kind of office.
Who is the smaller man?
(Frankly I cannot fathom what drives a man to be this rude to anyone. He shouldn’t speak to his least competent underlings in such terms, let alone a confirmed pro-US Atlantacist allied nation’s representative.)
I love visiting America and can’t help myself from really liking Americans and ‘Americana’ but is this new…really? Was THE USA’s reputation good before Trump?
With Brexit, the people pushing it knew it was shit but it was a populist power play. Trump and Musk genuinely think they're the smartest guys in the room. That's why its worse.
How dare you refer to President Trump as a gibbon.
He’s a shitgibbon.
What have ordinary gibbons ever done to you? It’s bad enough we to have to share a species with the fucker without dragging other primates into the mess.
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also, anything bad happening is leftover Biden stuff.
https://bsky.app/profile/joocifer.bsky.social/post/3lc3sz44hjc2l
Let's not be distracted by constant tantrums.
What about trying normal press releases.
Aside from everything else that happened subsequently.
How they voted this absolute criminal back into power is a crime in itself. Madness!
https://philkoopman.substack.com/p/people-are-still-being-burned-alive
#LongGame
😉
(Nah, fuck that - #RejoinEU)
Imagine trying to be a "bridge" to this fuckery. Imagine pretending you can ride two horses at once, when this is one of them
Way overdue for UK to pick a side- the right one- the one it pridefully quit
Populist lies, Russia + interference, industrial scale misinformation drowning out truth, prejudice over-riding compassion and reason, far right media capture, corruption and cronyism.
Who was it that said brexit is just a rehearsal?
wants
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/trump-and-vance-shattered-europes-illusions-about-america/681925/?gift=ZGbn69qca-tdqJ_IHgDOGfHdlIjpA1zaYMecqvWX2d0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Americans might end up becoming persona non grata in Europe.
Threatening us and supporting Russia…doesn’t exactly make Europeans roll out the welcome mat.
With every passing day I struggle to see the difference between the 2
Exactly the wrong sort of people to be given power. They are drunk on it.
But when said entertainer gifts unelected power to a thoroughly detestable individual who has nothing to offer except extreme arrogance, I’m out.
"Makes Brexit look like a PR triumph"
Trump and Musk are making US defence products unmarketable.
This was something the #Brexit 🤡 🤡 🤡 wanted & tried to do, but their incompetence failed them, thankfully...
These people are unhinged. It’s like they’re on drugs or something.
The US is compromised not just Trump.
Hey ho, maybe the EU will embrace both UK and Canada as Commonwealth outliers in a looser union?
In exactly the same way, why would anyone buy any US weaponry that could be de-activated at the whim of a narcissistic president?
The US defence industry’s sales should collapse
He questioned whether the U.S. would risk its own cities to defend Europe in a nuclear exchange
Would you trust Trump?
Starmer may have an issue convincing Germany that our deterrent is truly independent
I remember thinking it was only 50 years ago, how far we have moved on since then
More the fool me
Not a good strategy anyway, despite being 20yrs older (I challenged a pensioner) Putin would likely kick his arse.
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
No commercial organisation nor any state can now justify using Starlink for anything as it could simply be taken away at any moment and leave whatever project you were using it for utterly useless.
Is this Musk's Ratner moment?
Musk has other approaches.
Finding alternatives to Starlink looks like a European priority.
Go 🇵🇱
#SlavaUkraini 🏴🇺🇦🇵🇱
(Also a spine, principles and an iota of moral courage.)
I remember when the US Secretaries of State knew basic geography.
Poland has an Eastern border with Belarus.
Which means, in effect, that it has Russians on its borders.
Lukashenko is hosting dozens of Russian nuclear weapons and will prepare facilities for the planned deployment of Moscow’s hypersonic ballistic missiles
Full of missiles.
The land-based missile arming of Kaliningrad was extensive and included dozens of nuclear-capable Iskander (SS-26) ballistic missiles (with a range of over 300 miles) and the antiship Bastion-P missile system
https://www.cna.org/our-media/indepth/2023/05/kaliningrad-impregnable-fortress-or-russian-alamo
You call someone a small man?
What you say is what you are.
You, sirrah, are a homunculus
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dollop-with-dave-anthony-and-gareth-reynolds/id643055307?i=1000419509541
Christ I'm not even violent and 64 and only 5ft 6 but I know if challenged he would run off.
In fact I don't even think he met Musk.
And
Musk isn't brave enough to tell anyone to be quiet to their faces
To this, the better.
"This is a recorded Gestapo message. I am not taking calls at the moment, but you may leave a message on the revolving wax disc. Please speak after the gunshot".
Trump is destroying it faster than he bankrupted his casino’s.
Who will step up? Almost certainly China.
Option 1:
You take that administration out of the oval office ( possible in a wy like jan6 2020)
Option 2:
You leave the US for Europe, CDN or anywhere else
Option 3:
You just cry, do nothing, just to find yourself in a poor life in a dictatorship soon. Very soon.
These people have to be on drugs as this is a cult now.
Musk is a spoilt, lucky, tech-bro who buys favour and has never been elected to any kind of office.
Who is the smaller man?
Really fucking considering it. And I used to think of myself as a Scottish nationalist.
He’s a shitgibbon.
What have ordinary gibbons ever done to you? It’s bad enough we to have to share a species with the fucker without dragging other primates into the mess.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/shitgibbon