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Trump is my favourite comedian of the year already (18 Viewers)

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MalcSB

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  • Jan 22, 2025
  • #8,471
PVA said:
The Philosopher said:
It’s a worldwide market right?

Do Google pay a fair amount of UK tax for their UK advertising operations? Is Ireland used as a tax haven?

Once you answer those two very simple questions you will be on the path to logical thinking.

Be better.
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This is for the politics thread rather than the Trump thread, but I think describing some homophobic, racist and misogynistic people as homophobic, racist and misogynistic is a little different to describing state prosecutors as scum for locking away a criminal.
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I think that the highly political nature of the American judicial system needs to be taken in to account when trying to elevate state prosecutors in to a protected species and being outraged on their behalf.
 

MalcSB

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  • Jan 22, 2025
  • #8,472
SBT said:
The answers are ‘probably not’ and ‘yes’ respectively. Trump’s plan to address the latter is to cut corporate taxes in the United States accordingly, which would be a huge boon to Google.

Be best!
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Absolutely not and yes respectIvely. These tech based companies should be taxed on UK turnover. It would make what Labour aim to raise from non doms look like chicken feed.
 
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CCFCSteve

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  • Jan 22, 2025
  • #8,473
AOM said:
Interesting. Trump will probably give him a role in government the way it's going...
I've listened to a few podcasts about the Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht doesn't sound like someone Trump would really want released, but there have been a lot of campaigns to get his sentence reduced (as it was seen as overly harsh and mainly a message to others thinking of doing similar), so maybe he's trying to make an ally?
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Great book on it/Ulbricht

 
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shmmeee

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  • Jan 22, 2025
  • #8,474
MalcSB said:
Absolutely not and yes respectIvely. These tech based companies should be taxed on UK turnover. It would make what Labour aim to raise from non doms look like chicken feed.
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It’s my understanding that’s what the recent changes under the last government that came into force a few months ago do, but I am not a tax lawyer:

Explanatory notes — Finance Bill 2023-2024 (accessible version)

www.gov.uk
 

AOM

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  • Jan 22, 2025
  • #8,475
CCFCSteve said:
Great book on it/Ulbricht

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Yeah the podcast quotes that book quite a lot. It's an interesting case
 

shmmeee

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  • Jan 22, 2025
  • #8,476
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jan 22, 2025
  • #8,477
Awkward

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article298937855.html
 

SkyBlueCharlie9

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  • Jan 22, 2025
  • #8,478
SIR ERNIE said:
Not necessary, Starmer's already done that.
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Cost of living crisis and UK recession are solely the babies of the Conservative & Unionist Party.
 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Jan 22, 2025
  • #8,479
Captain Dart said:
The Yanks are crazy about the flag, I don't understand it either but it's a popular policy and a cheap way of getting likes without much in the way of consequences a political stunt really.
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How many do you think are aware that constitutionally the preferred method of disposing of an American flag is to burn it?
 
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David O'Day

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  • Jan 22, 2025
  • #8,480
SkyBlueCharlie9 said:
Cost of living crisis and UK recession are solely the babies of the Conservative & Unionist Party.
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The UK economy also didn't do anything it wouldn't have done under the tories, it's why they called an early election
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Jan 22, 2025
  • #8,481
shmmeee said:
Awkward

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article298937855.html
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Wow integrity that
 
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Otis

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  • Jan 22, 2025
  • #8,482
CCFCSteve said:
Great book on it/Ulbricht

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Yeah, Trump will probably make him the head of the FBI.
 
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CovValleyBoy

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  • Jan 22, 2025
  • #8,483
Stopped a few nights at the Trump Intl Washington DC in 2018.
The stunning Old Post Office building.
Recommended.
 
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SBT

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  • Jan 22, 2025
  • #8,484
CovValleyBoy said:
Stopped a few nights at the Trump Intl Washington DC in 2018.
The stunning Old Post Office building.
Recommended.
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Epic, sir!!
 

Boicey

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  • Jan 23, 2025
  • #8,485
 
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Northants Sky Blue

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  • Jan 23, 2025
  • #8,486

State of these simps
 
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CovValleyBoy

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  • Jan 23, 2025
  • #8,487
CovValleyBoy said:
Stopped a few nights at the Trump Intl Washington DC in 2018.
The stunning Old Post Office building.
Recommended.
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Now over £1200 a night : inflation eh
 
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jordan210

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  • Jan 23, 2025
  • #8,488
Watching his Davos speech was funny had a pop at so many people. You could see the audience hates him.
 
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Otis

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  • Jan 26, 2025
  • #8,489
Now we KNOW that Trump is deranged and an out and out liar!!!



 
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The Philosopher

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  • Jan 26, 2025
  • #8,490
Otis said:
Now we KNOW that Trump is deranged and an out and out liar!!!



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No, he’s being a comedian as the thread suggests.
 
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PVA

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  • Jan 26, 2025
  • #8,491
Definitely not a fascist

Describing Gaza as a "demolition site", Trump said: "You're talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing".
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Captain Dart

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  • Jan 26, 2025
  • #8,492
Otis said:
Now we KNOW that Trump is deranged and an out and out liar!!!



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Then there is Lammy, what a change from 2017 to 2025.


 
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MalcSB

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  • Jan 27, 2025
  • #8,493
shmmeee said:
Awkward

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article298937855.html
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A woman of principle.
 
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MalcSB

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  • Jan 27, 2025
  • #8,494
The Philosopher said:
No, he’s being a comedian as the thread suggests.
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He isn’t a comedian,

He is a clown of the Pennywise variety.
 
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Grendel

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  • Jan 27, 2025
  • #8,495
Captain Dart said:
Then there is Lammy, what a change from 2017 to 2025.


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He forgave him as he gave him a second helping of chicken
 

Sky Blue Pete

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  • Jan 27, 2025
  • #8,496
Can’t win again
If he continues saying how poisonous he is he is castigated for changing his words
If he stops he’s a hypocrite
I suppose the one rule here is don’t ever change your opinion to fit with what happens and how things change or do
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 27, 2025
  • #8,497
Sky Blue Pete said:
Can’t win again
If he continues saying how poisonous he is he is castigated for changing his words
If he stops he’s a hypocrite
I suppose the one rule here is don’t ever change your opinion to fit with what happens and how things change or do
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Or if you want to speak your mind don’t become Foreign Secretary
 
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SBT

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  • Jan 27, 2025
  • #8,498
Grendel said:
He forgave him as he gave him a second helping of chicken
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????
 

shmmeee

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  • Jan 27, 2025
  • #8,499
SBT said:
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David Lammy and Donald Trump: Winner winner, chicken dinner?

Britain’s foreign secretary believes the US president-elect is in a forgiving mood over past taunts
www.irishtimes.com
 

shmmeee

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  • Jan 27, 2025
  • #8,500
Trump for all his faults isn’t particularly precious. His own VP has called him Hitler, as has half of his party.
 
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SBT

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  • Jan 27, 2025
  • #8,501
Hahaha that’s actually mad
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Jan 27, 2025
  • #8,502
The red peril

Tech stocks slump as China’s DeepSeek stokes fears over AI spending

Nvidia loses almost $600bn in market value on worries US groups are facing a ‘Sputnik moment’
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shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 27, 2025
  • #8,503
fernandopartridge said:
The red peril

Tech stocks slump as China’s DeepSeek stokes fears over AI spending

Nvidia loses almost $600bn in market value on worries US groups are facing a ‘Sputnik moment’
www.ft.com
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Just reading up on this. There’s a strong suspicion that they’re just lying about their training costs. I would find it very very funny if the US announced $500bn “Stargate” project for training AI only to have China release a comparable method that does it for $6m though.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Jan 27, 2025
  • #8,504
shmmeee said:
Just reading up on this. There’s a strong suspicion that they’re just lying about their training costs. I would find it very very funny if the US announced $500bn “Stargate” project for training AI only to have China release a comparable method that does it for $6m though.
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Indeed

You can't underestimate market hubris mind
 

chiefdave

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  • Jan 29, 2025
  • #8,505
Strikes me that even if Trump whats to do nonsensical things he needs to stop shooting from the hip and blasting out executive orders for immediate action and actually go through due process and have the implications of his actions checked in advance.

Read a couple of days ago that there's a barrage of state court cases mounting up where he has decided to randomly fire people. Now the government are offering all employees 8 months full pay and benefits to quit, guessing those two things could be linked. Not hard to envisage in the near future there needing to be a mass hiring program because everything is understaffed.

He's also managed to 'accidentally' remove health coverage for a huge number of Americans.Donald Trump appears to have accidentally turned off 85 million people's healthcare.

Donald Trump appears to have accidentally turned off 85 million people's healthcare.

When it was first announced, The White House said Trump's government spending freeze would not affect Medicaid - the programme that provides health insurance to adults and children with "limited income and resources".

When the Office of Budget Management was forced to send a second memo, clarifying the first one, it also said Medicaid wouldn't be affected.

Yet yesterday reports emerged that some of the state-by-state web portals where people manage their medicaid accounts - which are co-funded by the federal government and the states - were apparently unavailable.

And listing programmes that would not be included in the freeze, in a bid to "clarify" widespread confusion about the plan, new Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt did not mention Medicaid.

Asked to clarify whether Medicaid was included, she said she didn't know and would have to get back to reporters.
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