[Yug]

So, in Trump's view, 80 years ago the entire USA, from the president down, was a terrorist organisation.

If American public education wasn't so dire this would cause ructions amongst the flag-shaggers and the "If it wasn't for us you'd be speaking German" idiots.

[Andy McDandy]

"We can't be Nazis; we fought the Nazis all those years ago!"

There's a certain mindset that says any comparison to the Nazis that falls short of a full recreation of 1930s Germany, set in Germany, and in the 1930s, is just fearmongering. Like they heard of Godwin's Law and rather than see it as a means of identifying when an argument is going off the rails, consider it the ultimate trump (ha!) card.

See also, my previous musings on people approaching politics, date, even life in general as a game, and the secret being finding the cheat codes.

[Boiler]

I see the cretin with a ginger cat's arsehole for a gob says London "wants to go to Sharia Law".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3qxrgl05lo

FOAD.

[Youngian]

Sadiq should fire off spoof Tweets like Newsom, 'I'm the bestest worst mayor' 'they'll be the greatest Shiraz laws, free wine for all.' As someone remarked, don't outsmart Trump but out stupid him.

[satnav]

The trouble is that Trump and Musk get most of their information about what is happening in Britain by reading the deranged tweets of Farage, Rupert Lowe and Tommy Robinson. If these three shite hawks all claim that Sharia law exists in Britain, Trump will regard this as a fact.

[Abernathy]

Exactement, mon brave. The reality is that Donald Trump knows the square root of fuck all about London. The last time he was there he was pissing off King Chaz’s mammy by strutting in front of her in breach of yer actual royal protocol.

Sharia “courts” do exist in the UK ( and in the USA too), as do the Jewish Beth Din courts, serving respectively the Islamic and Jewish communities in resolving mostly financial and family disputes, but importantly, the judgements of both courts have no binding legal status in UK jurisprudence and are subordinate to UK law. But Trump, cynical ignoramus that he is, doesn’t let those facts get in the way of his racist lies.

How much more of an absolute cunt can Trump be ?

[Boiler]

How much more of an absolute cunt can Trump be ?

Well, he still has another three years plus to go, so watch this space.

I understand he rambled on for an hour, when leaders are normally allocated twenty minutes. I'm a bit pissed off that no-one told him to STFU as this will just feed into his "me speech" narrative, as described by Timothy Snyder.

[Youngian]

Well, he still has another three years plus

Not even a year but already feels an eternity.
As sitting listening to his deranged rantings must have been.

[Bones McCoy]

Exactement, mon brave. The reality is that Donald Trump knows the square root of fuck all about London. The last time he was there he was pissing off King Chaz’s mammy by strutting in front of her in breach of yer actual royal protocol.

Sharia “courts” do exist in the UK ( and in the USA too), as do the Jewish Beth Din courts, serving respectively the Islamic and Jewish communities in resolving mostly financial and family disputes, but importantly, the judgements of both courts have no binding legal status in UK jurisprudence and are subordinate to UK law. But Trump, cynical ignoramus that he is, doesn’t let those facts get in the way of his racist lies.

How much more of an absolute cunt can Trump be ?

Like most Fash stuff, it's a convenient rabble rousing lie.

Back in my schooldays you'd hear the worst sort of parents muttering.
"The Jewish kids get their own assembly, who knows what they're planning in there".

As far as I know, my form teacher led a short prayer with about half my classmates.
If any planning was going on, they kept it well under wraps.

A bit like the Freemasons, another easy target of conspiracies.
If they're really so powerful and influential, why haven't they finished their "take over the world" mission in the last 400 years?

[Andy McDandy]

My dad was a freemason. He said that the Stonecutters episode of the Simpsons was probably the closest depiction of a lodge meeting to reality that he'd seen ("Tonight marks the thousandth anniversary of our founding, so we're having ribs!").

In my time as a librarian, a frequently repeated one I've heard is that if you stock a copy of the Koran, it has to be on the top shelf, as 'no book can be above it'. Now, aside from the existence of upper storeys, this is just so bloody easy to disprove, given the average public library's religion section is going to be so tiny (and likewise the preceding non-fiction sections in Dewey order) that it'll typically be mid-shelving bay. And that it's bollocks. As one Imam I knew said, "Why?".

Yet it gets repeated, by racist twats. Show someone that it's not on the top shelf and they'll go "Yeah but they'll spot it and demand you move it!". No they bloody won't. The only publications I've seen Muslims consistently put on the top shelf are scan mags in newsagents' stores.

[Boiler]

Back in my schooldays you'd hear the worst sort of parents muttering.
"The Jewish kids get their own assembly, who knows what they're planning in there".

As far as I know, my form teacher led a short prayer with about half my classmates.
If any planning was going on, they kept it well under wraps.

A bit like the Freemasons, another easy target of conspiracies.
If they're really so powerful and influential, why haven't they finished their "take over the world" mission in the last 400 years?

It's interesting how the attitude to Freemasons is very different in Australia, where they seem a much more open and charitable body.

Didn't have that problem with assemblies at my secondary school; they were non-religious. Primary school was strictly CofE with daily hymns and prayers (and a weekly visit from the vicar) but the Jehovah's Witnesses could sit it out back in class.

[Boiler]

Spotted BTL in the Guardian just now:

Do you know listening to trump ramble about London and Shari'a law it struck me that if it wasn't for all the school shootings you'd have to work really hard to persuade me there were actually schools in America.

[Boiler]

Also, what's this I hear about an incident at the UN building involving Trump and an escalator?

Oh, here it is - from the Daily Mail:

White House exposes dangerous plot to humiliate Trump and Melania at the UN (links to: Daily Mail)

Again, from BTL at the Guardian:

United Nations Escalator-Gate. The MAGA crowd claim it was ‘deliberate’ and ‘sabotage’ to ‘trip Trump up’ – like he needs any help. Mad-as-a-box-of-frogs Karoline Leavitt is personally going to ‘get to the bottom of it’.

If they see conspiracy theory in an escalator safety device we really are screwed.
The thin-skinnedness and entitlement of right-wingers is breathtaking.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

"Yeah but they'll spot it and demand you move it!". No they bloody won't.

They might - I had a deputation once to demand I put my copy of the Koran on the top shelf...

[mattomac]

His attitude to Khan and London is solely because of race. Because he is a racist.

[The Weeping Angel]

Bring me sunshine.

[Bones McCoy]

[Samanfur]

Fake, more's the pity. But the original post isn't impressed, either.

[Boiler]

According to the front page of the Metro, Sadiq Khan has suggested that Trump has a crush on him

[Youngian]

Pointless conducting a rational conversation with Trump so just take the piss with aplomb.