For sure, it’s that time of the week again when a round-up of those “serious issues” those not getting enough attention berate me with so that Google can punish me for not sticking all my content in an easily tagged SEO category box that perhaps makes all that no need to read, I knew it anyway “fake news” all the more ad-revenue appealing.
The week started with The Orange Don banning suspicious lookin’ Muslim types from entry to his own private continental “island”:
Experts warn President Trump’s refugee ban could backfire: ISIS “rubbing their hands with glee” (thisisnocave.blogspot.co.uk).
“President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that temporarily bans new U.S. visas for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, in an act the administration says is designed to prevent ‘terrorist attacks by foreign nationals.’ Yet counterterrorism experts say that the policy could backfire by providing more fodder for propaganda and recruiting by jihadist groups that aim to demonize the United States. In interviews, analysts and former counterterrorism officials said the proposed immigration restrictions would reinforce the jihadists’ binary worldview in which a monolithic West conspires to oppress Muslims across the planet.”
Which Trump couldn’t give a sugary ginger syrup fig about, and nor could his Trumpeteers “Moose” and “Buck” in ManOChat bondage chatroom HQ, indeed the polarisation still helping them and their words giving each other reach-around and making them feel powerful. Perhaps—or perhaps not—surprisingly his most rational critic was part of American Reality Royalty from the West Coast of his own country, recently held at gunpoint in robbery at Paris.
And to give orange demagogue protectionist example of how it is to any that disagree:
The Orange Don: agree to my boasts or I’ll put the phone down (thisisnocave.blogspot.co.uk).
“It should have been one of the most congenial calls for the new commander in chief—a conversation with the leader of Australia, one of America’s staunchest allies, at the end of a triumphant week. Instead, President Trump blasted Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over a refugee agreement and boasted about the magnitude of his electoral college win, according to senior U.S. officials briefed on the Saturday exchange. Then, 25 minutes into what was expected to be an hour-long call, Trump abruptly ended it. At one point, Trump informed Turnbull that he had spoken with four other world leaders that day—including Russian President Vladimir Putin—and that ‘this was the worst call by far.’”
Ohh! Take that you rotter! And that’s to a country that has come under flack itself for tight border control and indefinite offshore detention of migrants/possibly “refugees” that “helped” convince the Australian public to accept a higher refugee intake. Manwhile, The Orange Don moved things along reminding all where his real deal reality experience is in is by asking people to “pray” for Arnold Schwarzenegger over poor TV ratings now he has took over gigantic rump Trump’s chair on The Apprentice.
And meanwhile on to something as as vague, woolly, hollow and grasping at orange straws as expected on junior partner side of the Atlantic pond:
Is the Brexit plan anything more than to make opposition argue the toss to keep Tories on top? (thisisnocave.blogspot.co.uk).
“Brexit Secretary David Davis has set out the Government’s negotiating strategy for the UK’s withdrawal from the EU in a keenly-awaited white paper. Launching the 77-page document in a statement to the House of Commons, Mr Davis said the paper confirmed Prime Minister Theresa May’s vision of ‘an independent and truly global United Kingdom’”
An “independent and truly global United Kingdom” run as a Scottish golf course entrepreneurial Disneyland by a certain Orange Don to whom we are now soOoo desperate to trade with. And having detailed much more about that plan held so closely to what must now be thought St. Theresa’s orange buns chest it was down to the oppositon to show why we will likely elect the bloody Tories again because for them the “opposition” is invariably a split faction of themself.
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