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GrumpyRN said:

 

What is really annoying is that my taxes are being used to protect your president while he is on a little jolly and also doing personal business. Wouldn't mind if it was state business.

I am enjoying pictures of the protesters and their signs they have created, learning some new slang along the way. Both the US and UK are shelling lots of money with little to show for it. 

GrumpyRN said:

 

What is really annoying is that my taxes are being used to protect your president while he is on a little jolly and also doing personal business. Wouldn't mind if it was state business.

But he says you love him there.

He got a deal with the EU there, so there is that.

I also have to say him taking the time to work on securing and promoting a new golf course annoyed me as well.  Just know that we are paying millions for his trip to Scotland. 

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American taxpayers will shell out at least $10 million over the next several days so President Donald Trump can participate in a marketing photo opportunity at his golf resort in Aberdeen, Scotland — the profits from which will flow directly into his own pocket.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-scotland-golf-vacation_n_688278b0e4b01be72b3e620b

GrumpyRN said:

As an addendum to the above;

I came across this ? on YouTube ⬇️, if you ignore the majority of the film - yes I am aware that this youtuber may not be to everyone's taste in America - so if you just watch the first 2 minutes you will see what happened.

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=CL9dv3wQayQ

 

Some media here casually reported as if those bagpipes were part of Trump's planned pomp and circumstance.  Isn't it odd that even people in other countries suffer so significantly from Trump Derangement Syndrome? Hahaha

Trump EPA moves to repeal landmark 'endangerment finding' that allows climate regulation

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President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday proposed revoking a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

The proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule would rescind a 2009 declaration that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The "endangerment finding" is the legal underpinning of a host of climate regulations under the Clean Air Act for motor vehicles, power plants and other pollution sources that are heating the planet.

Repealing the finding "will be the largest deregulatory action in the history of America,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said Tuesday.

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Environmental groups said Zeldin's action seeks to deny reality even as weather disasters exacerbated by climate change grow worse in the U.S. and around the world.

"As Americans reel from deadly floods and heat waves, the Trump administration is trying to argue that the emissions turbocharging these disasters are not a threat,’' said Christy Goldfuss, executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council. "It boggles the mind and endangers the nation's safety and welfare.”

I would characterize the efforts of this emerging fascist regime as ignorant and cruel ideology from sociopaths who are wealthy enough to feel impervious to the consequences of their destructive ideas.  

This "fascist regime " has been "emerging" for almost 10 years now. Well either this idea of a "fascist regime " is just fear mongering propaganda or the worst "emerging fascist regime " in history. Not to mention not successful.

  I know. I know. Trump will be a "dictator " one day, for real real this time......2015............2020..........2025.....................................

P.s: The popular vote disagrees 

Wut?

Crusades said:

This "fascist regime " has been "emerging" for almost 10 years now. Well either this idea of a "fascist regime " is just fear mongering propaganda or the worst "emerging fascist regime " in history. Not to mention not successful.

  I know. I know. Trump will be a "dictator " one day, for real real this time......2015............2020..........2025.....................................

P.s: The popular vote disagrees 

And then along came Epstein. It's fascinating to watch magadonians try to hold trump accountable for his behavior. And that's not to mention those wielding him as a useful tool, Natural selection in action ...

Google Heather Cox Richardson. Better yet, search her name on The Bulwark YouTube channel. Some great interviews there.

Crusades said:

P.s: The popular vote disagrees 

I think disagreed, as in past tense is more accurate. His poll numbers are tanking. Is that success?

nursej22 said:

Wut?

I think it translates as "Move along, people. Nothing to see here".

nursej22 said:

I think disagreed, as in past tense is more accurate. His poll numbers are tanking. Is that success?

That's the "go to" with some people: he won the popular vote and won the election.  So obviously despite fear mongering about a "fascist regime" he became President.  That is continually thrown in our face.

But it was close.  Almost half of voters considered him a fascist and just because he won the popular vote and the election does't mean they didn't think so.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-fascist-concerns-poll/story?id=115083795

People can make all kinds of claims and comparisons about whether or not we are in a fascist regime or that he's leading us towards one.  I think that might be a fair discussion without the left fear mongering things that won't happen or the right saying "well he won the election and the popular vote and this is what people want".  Somewhere in the murk there might be something to see.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-trumps-rhetoric-compares-to-historic-fascist-language

https://spectrejournal.com/trump-fascism-and-the-authoritarian-turn/

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No, Trump is not a fascist. He is a hypercapitalist and just as dangerous

Trump wants to free big capital from the constraints of democracy by dismantling it.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/5/4/no-trump-is-not-a-fascist-he-is-a-hypercapitalist-and-just-as-dangerous