The Donald vs Big Tech

[Ollkiller]

Was it just his personal account that was banned? Could he still use the POTUS one?

They stopped the POTUS one on January the 8th I believe.

[Ollkiller]

In good news the relief bill will include child benefits up to 300 dollars a month and will have a funeral fund that is backdated to help families with funeral costs. Why Trump didn't enact a relief bill is beyond me. Then again he just ignored Covid for months anyway.

[astfgyl]

I thought he did but it was stalled or he couldn't get it through congress or such like. Anyway I could be wrong and fair play to the current crowd for getting it done.

[Ollkiller]

I thought he did but it was stalled or he couldn't get it through congress or such like. Anyway I could be wrong and fair play to the current crowd for getting it done.

Aye their was a bit of back and forth I think. Republicans only wanted 600 dollar checks. Democrats wanted 2000. Usual politics bullshit while families suffer. Why it's actually good now that Democrats won the Senate. At least they can get stuff done quickly.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Trump wanted ¢2000 cheques so the next administration wouldn't have to set up the relief fund.

https://www.vox.com/2020/12/23/22197037/trump-2000-stimulus-checks

[Ollkiller]

Trump wanted ¢2000 cheques so the next administration wouldn't have to set up the relief fund.

https://www.vox.com/2020/12/23/22197037/trump-2000-stimulus-checks

Well he had control of the Senate so why didn't he get it pushed through then.

Edit. Republicans didn't want 2k cheques. The mind boggles.

[astfgyl]

It actually paints this country in a good light. 7 weeks on the pup and that's 2 grand with fuck all political wrangling.

Fuck I nearly choked just typing that but credit where it's due

[Ollkiller]

Fuck I nearly choked just typing that but credit where it's due

[Mower Liberation Front]

Part of the delay was, because as what normally happens with these sort of bills coming to the end of a term, other politicians had added their own little pet projects to it, like $10 million to Pakistan for gender studies.

[Caomhaoin]

G'wan Ollkiller, give the big lad a 'fairplaycha', g'wan

[Ollkiller]

G'wan Ollkiller, give the big lad a 'fairplaycha', g'wan

Whatever gets ya thru the day buddy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPfzi1I7V9A First episode of BBC's Trump takes on the World is up on YouTube. Good insight from the people who served under Trump.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Too soon for me to willingly listen to any more of him talking 

[Ollkiller]

Too soon for me to willingly listen to any more of him talking 

True. But it's got access to a lot of his staff and world leaders and ambassadors etc. Bolton, McMathus, Jeremy Hunt and so on.

[astfgyl]

Yknow, I never actually liked Trump in the first place, but when every news outlet and the corporate virtue signalling went so hard against him I wanted him to do well as an oul fuck you to the horrible way that I see everything going. So even when what these lads say is true, and Trump is actually a shit person, I get no kick out of them putting the boot in no matter how credible. Hopefully Biden will be gone so senile as to actually do good for people. I don't think he will but I have to give him the benefit of the doubt but then at the same time he is the corporate darling and only painted in a good light by the news all the time despite being so lacking in charisma and without actually doing fuck all that I find it hard not to dislike him. Obama was shite in the end as well and Trump but at least they had some bit of something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE

[Ollkiller]

Yknow, I never actually liked Trump in the first place, but when every news outlet and the corporate virtue signalling went so hard against him I wanted him to do well as an oul fuck you to the horrible way that I see everything going. So even when what these lads say is true, and Trump is actually a shit person, I get no kick out of them putting the boot in no matter how credible.

I can see your point, especially the mass hysteria of the media. I watched it to just get a bit more insight. He comes from the property business full of sharks into the political realm, still full of sharks, but a different type of shark, like in Jaws 2.

The one piece in the episode that summed it up for me was when the Defence Secretary Jim Mattis organised a meeting at the pentagon where they outlined the economic and security benefits of staying in Nato. At the end of all the presentations, which outlined how they get back way more than they put in, both economically and security wise, Trump says were paying too much, and then asks why the don't have military parades like the one he had just being at in France. Everyone in the room at that point realised they were dealing with someone just not fit for the job.