He is getting worse, maybe he knows his nice little war is coming unstuck!
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Ah shit, there I was thinking he was the inventor of those bloody awful Vespa motor scooters. 
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Most predictable event of this week
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You know how we all know that guy, or lady I suppose, who shows their true colours and mean spirited nature when drunk? That’s America under Trump.
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More Ku Klux Klan stuff
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That pathetic load of tripe shows the world just what kind of arsehole the US elected,and a political system on life support.
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… a Shakespeare of shit... :0)
“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?’ If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.
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“a Shakespeare of shit” indeed
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One of the key themes of this conflict so far has been intelligence failures. Just off the top of my head there has been…
- the school
- miscalculating Iran’s willingness and capacity to close hormuz
- miscalculating the breadth of Iran’s response
- miscalculating the robustness of the regime and its ability to continue with the leader
- the fundamental issue of miscalculating Iran’s intentions
To a degree stuff like this happens, but when it happens with Trump there surely has to be an increased focus in the “Maverick” way he organizes his administration. He has an unqualified DNI and has largely sidelined her anyway. His daily intelligence briefing has long been reported to be very abbreviated and politicized. His national security council is very politicized and run by a part timer whose primary official role is also one of the most important in the administration, especially during a time of war. It has been commented in across several sources that the result of this is there no real interagency policy process going on.
The point here is we’re not just seeing bad decisions and bad outcomes because of differences in ideologies and priorities. Its not even just that the people are stupid and inept. Its that in too many key roles you have people with utter disregard for why certain administration structures and processes even existed in the first place.
One of my favourite types of social media content are people who have made substitutions to a recipe, hated the outcome and then slated the content creator for sharing a bad recipe.
That is how this administration runs itself and everything about this fucking insane conflict needs to be viewed through that context
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More here in that vein re: the fuck-up with the girls’ school , that insufferable little prick Hegseth and just general incompetence.
" Officials familiar with the preliminary findings of the official investigation said the strike relied on outdated intelligence and questions remained about why it had not been double checked.
The Pentagon press office declined to comment, saying only that “the incident is under investigation.” It also declined to say who is conducting the investigation.
Usually, the Navy would perform an after-action review of strikes involving Tomahawks fired from a naval vessel, which would ultimately go to Mr. Hegseth for review and approval.
In theory, the Pentagon’s inspector general could conduct a more independent inquiry. But Mr. Trump last year fired the experienced watchdog there, and recently installed as a replacement a former political appointee from his first administration with no prior experience doing inspector general work, Platte B. Moring III. (That name ! 
) Last month, Mr. Moring froze a staff proposal to evaluate targeting practices and procedures in the military attacks on boats the administration says are suspected of smuggling drugs, saying he wanted to consult department leadership. He also told staff that it sounded like such a project could be highly political."
Gifted article : https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/us/politics/hegseth-iran-war-rules.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S1A.-wYr.a6qr1pORlw4V&smid=url-share
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Sort of sorry to post this after your nice post, but this is making the rounds on the internet today. Not sure about the news value since it is Temu-Crusader Bob, but
Maybe its borderline now that such things should not be posted anymore, since it is so low-brow, but it is the Defence Secretary of the United States (yes, I know they like War Secretary these days, but it’s not an official name).
Too much.
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There is a lot more actually, but I won’t post more than this one:
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