What has Trump done now?

[red750]

Guess who's in the Middle East with Trump. It isn't Melania.

 

[Marty_d]

Well, there's money in the middle east. 

Despite having more than enough wealth to buy 300,000 families a $1m house each, he wants more.

 

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 12:39 PM by Marty_d

[Jerry_Atrick]

Money (or more accurately, monetary valuation) is the medium humanity has accepted as the measure of economic resources that are controlled and the more one has of it, the more economic resource one can control. In normal times, this provides security of being able to meet the needs of life without being dependent on anyone else. The more control of economic resources one has compared to the rest of the population, the more power one has. And of course, it satisfies human's insatiable desires of wealth and all the trappings that comes with it.

 

Most people would want economic independence; others want control of economic resources for other reasons.. nominally security and/or power. And to preserve the tribe.. as well as, and let's face it, attracting, or in many cases, more accurately, acquiring the services of  the fairer sex. Just look at Chump, Bernie Ecclestone, and many others.. I think even Dr. Eddlestone managed to "attract" those of the fairer sex/gender..  Ecclestone, Eddlestone, let's call the whole thing off.

 

The other thing, is when you have money (or more accurately, when people think you have money), they suck up to you, and they seek advice from you regardless. Would anyone here go to Chump for business advice? Maybe some would, but to earn a small fortune, you would have to start with a big one taking his advice. Although, for con-artistry, he is the consummate. Yet, when he acquired power through the presidency, a sort of default control of economic resources, look at those who previously despised him fawned over him. That adulation, too, is a great motivator. But generally, these people want the control of economic resources and the resultant power because you can drive the agenda  - and also provide for your future generations.

 

I think I have mentioned this before. .In my extended family, there are some fabulously wealthy people.. in the BRW top 200 on the odd occasion.. No sadly, that Midas touch didn't rub off on my family.. All their relationships are driven by whats in it for them.. When the patriarch of the branch of the family died, the surviving limb/branch of that family tree imploded.. all driven by money.

 

I haven't spoken to any of them for, well, 20 years.. But when I last bumped into two  of them - I think second cousins - in a park in Melbourne, I asked if they had been in contact with their cousin.. when we were kids,. they were extremely close.  These two looked right through me as if I wasn't there.. point taken.

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 09:30 PM by Jerry_Atrick

[nomadpete]

10 hours ago, Marty_d said:

Well, there's money in the middle east. 

There sure is.

But now 90 billion of it is going to USA via Boeing sales.

And another 140 billion is going to USA weapons sales.

 

And these deals were 'negotiated' by Trumpy totally reliant on the Saudi's own interpreter. Personally I wouldn't buy a used car from a foreigner without having my own interpreter present.

 

Money talks!

 

[pmccarthy]

A few times in my life I came into some money, through a grannie dying or a lucky investment. I was stupid enough to tell friends, and there was always a friend who had a great investment idea for me and I always got sucked in, not once did I see my money again.

[red750]

This ad has been doing the rounds on FB. The comment is mine.

 

This is spam AI deepfake bullshit. More warning bells than an air raid warning. This is the sort of crap that cost a woman her life savings. Any comments hidden so you can't see what people are saying.

[red750]

Guess who:

 

"When you look at what's happening with Russia and Ukraine the drone is killing tremendous numbers of people," Trump said during a press conference in Doha, Qatar. "You hide behind a tree and the drone comes down and it circles you with fire. You don't have a chance and the tree comes down also by the way."

"It's so intense the— I mean you see these trees being knocked down like..." he continued. "Like they're being sawed down by a top of the line, uhh, timberman like... Like... You know who? Sean... Duffy."

"Do you know that Sean Duffy, the head of the Transportation Department, who's working right now on the airports and getting a system because Biden didn't do a thing for four years and Pete Buttigieg was the head and he goes bicycling to work," said Trump.

"He takes a bicycle to work, can you believe it? He's head— He's running the biggest air system in the world and he takes a bicycle to work. What a— And they say he's going to run for president, I don't see it." Trump went on. "Who knows right? But I don't see it."

"But, uh, when I look at what they've done uh, it's so horrible what they've done and the work they did do they wasted billions of dollars," Trump went on. "They tried to hook up air systems to... To copper. They tried to hook up copper to glass and the glass doesn't work with the copper and..."

"Uh they had 30,000 different contractors doing 30,000 jobs and when they put it all together they spent billions of dollars. It didn't even come close to working and we're going to be giving out a brand new system," said Trump. 

"It's very important. We'll have the best system. And we think we know who that system is but we have a lot of bidding," he went on. 

"But we want one check," he continued. "We want a unified system. We don't have, uh, 5,000 contractors and all different places, some digging ditches and some not doing ditches because they want to go by satellite. Satellite seems to be the way to go. We're going to be giving that out pretty soon."

"But what people don't know about Sean cause I mentioned lumberjacks that Sean — you probably didn't know this that uh — I'm not talking about this Sean, this Sean no, not, this is not... This is a different Sean," Trump said.

"Sean Duffy, the head of Transportation. He's a great Sean though, I have to tell you but Sean Duffy was the world champion for five years climbing trees and down, up and down, world champion!" Trump said, struggling to string together his thoughts. "So that's what you call a serious a lumberjack."

"And he's doing a fantastic job too, a really respected guy and terrific guy and I mentioned the champion because when somebody's the champion — he's the world champion for a long time — he came down, when you come down those trees, coming down at a rapid... He said that started getting your back. You will often break your back! You... You miss... You miss a shot and you're coming down a lot faster than the human body was meant to come down. But he's doing a fantastic job at Transportation. But this has been a very, uh, historic trip."

 

And HE has no cognative problems???

[old man emu]

Huh???????

What was that all about?

[facthunter]

Sean, the sheep is my favourite name. Nev

[rgmwa]

Only the best sheep are named Sean.

[old man emu]

No. They are Shaun.