Trump will be barred from speaking in Parliament

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  1. AtsamattaU

    AtsamattaU Well-Known Member

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    Most Americans do in fact still care about each other, despite the sentiments of some extremely biased cynics like the poster I was responding to.
     
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    Beta males committing group suicide.
     
  3. Pollycy

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    While I agree with you, of course, about the "stupid Iraq war", which drags on to this moment and shows no signs ever of ending, I take special note of one of your criticisms of Donald Trump... what has he done that makes him a "racist"? I don't know about how our cousins in Great Britain feel, but on our side of the Atlantic sewage-tank, race cards are so passé, or, as we knuckle-dragging Americans would put it, 'so over-with'....

    I must also agree with you that President Trump is definitely not (NOT) a 'charm-school' graduate! He offers great offense to those who have grown accustomed to being able to cheat us in every imaginable kind of supposedly quid pro quo negotiation, and who have since World War II expected the U. S. to bear the leviathan's share of all costs associated with defence.

    Our new president is full of bluster, outrage, and controversy. He's shaking up the placid, tranquil atmosphere in our international relationships, which through the Bush/Obama years especially, had devolved into one reminiscent of a 'gentlemen's club' where America played the role of an ignorant, uncomprehending whore and our 'friends and allies' played the role of -- what else (?) -- the 'gentlemen'....

    Thus, look for much more pissing-off of 'friends and allies' who have brought little to us but inability, inactivity, insolvency, and various sorts of socialist sloth. And, naturally, individuals like your Speaker of Parliament, John Bercow, will hate our new 'Lochinvar', Donald Trump, for any reason, real or imagined. For as a fictional Becket told King Henry II in the Jean Anouilh play, "Becket", "One hates what one wrongs...."

    [​IMG]. "There's a new sheriff over there in the Colonies, Henry.... Get over it!"
     
  4. ararmer1919

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    The only time Britain has cared about the US for a long time is what can the US do for it. Or more like, what can we take from the US.
     
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    Texas Republican Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I hope Congress bars the British PM (whether conservative or labor) from speaking in front of the senate and house.
     
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    Electron Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    My respect for the Brits just went up a notch or two.
     
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    Breaking News: Trump scheduled to meet with Parliament in individual sessions on his golf course in Scotland.
     
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    we defeated england for freedom with men like President Trump leading us, the founding fathers were also rich capitalists whom led the American peasants to freedom with them in lawful battle.

    england has always been resentful that they lost as world power to freedom fighters like President Trump from America, that is the reason.
     
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    Plus all the girls love me.
     
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    the little snowflake Trump will be storming to twitter soon I am sure
     
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    Liberal snow flakes tend to get real offended by his twitters. So I am sure he will lolol.
     
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    And your lord and master the obamunist wasn't ?
     
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    Precisely - unless, of course (and I need to mention it because you obviously haven't already thought of it), their launch has totally wiped us out, then there would be nobody around to launch the counter-attack would there? Jesus it's like talking to a child??? :mrgreen:
     
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    They may indeed have wiped us out, but our missiles are in submarines which would retaliate and still be sailing around while our mutually destroyed nations are smouldering. So, yes, there would be someone around to launch the counter-attack. You obviously hadn't thought of that. Glad I could help.
     
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    Those submarines won't be able to fire without the prime minister passing on the 'launch attack' code, and in the case of a pre-emptive attack by NK (and exactly how would the commanders of the subs know it was NK? You obviously hadn't thought of that? :roll: ), he/she would be as dead as the rest of us. So do you now know what I meant when I said 'Your superficial reasoning doesn't grasp the bigger picture'? No need to thank me for putting you right.
     
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    The PM, etc, are also by now sitting in hardened bunkers, well away from the capital, and more or less immune. For more education Duncan Campbell's War Plan UK will give you all the information you need. Oh, if North Korea launched then our satellites and early warning systems would tell the submarine commander where they were launched from. Do you know what Fylingdales is? Here: http://www.raf.mod.uk/raffylingdales/aboutus/history.cfm

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_Missile_Early_Warning_System#USAF_Space_Command

    Lastly UK sub commanders are issued with a "letter of last resort", only to be opened if all communication with the homeland is lost in the event of war. I'll leave you to figure out what that contains.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort
     
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    The unelected British PM, Theresa May is clearly an idiot of proportions only possible among the English political elite. To invite Trump at all is just another idiotic move by an incapable politician who I suppose should know better. It is amazing that given the opportunity to stop 'Brexit' the UK parliament decided to obey the will of the people! Idiots. The people were lied to by politicians who didn't expect to win (like Trump), and had no idea what to do when they did (also like Trump).

    Continue with Brexit, and invite Trump to celebrate this new-era? Very very sad.
     
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    Although I used the word pre-emptive, I used it in its looser sense meaning 'spontaneous and without prior warning'. So let's go back to our PM being unable to authorise the counter-attack because he/she is as dead as the rest of us shall we?
     
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    snakestretcher Banned

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    Yes, let's do just that:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort
     
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    Oh death where is thy sting! Why do you (and Wiki obviously) have a problem in not appreciating that the 'second person' nominee could have been frazzled as well, and that no commander would ever dare to act upon intuition? See what I mean about your confounded and well-chosen links - that not only are they unreliable, but they also raise more questions than they answer?
     
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    What do you think the 'letter of last resort' contains; where to find the last remaining Asda for the Commander's milk? It couldn't possibly contain suggested alternative courses of action to be taken in the event that all communication with the PM etc, is lost? And they might include a suggestion of acting upon one's initiative? It helps if you read the entirety of links provided.
     
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    Okay, I accept the following: 'The letters are stored inside two nested safes in the control room of each submarine', but the commander still wouldn't act upon it without knowing the source of the attack missiles - or more importantly, if the method of annihilation were to be contained in phials left in every city of the UK (which I believe would be the method, rather than ICBMs) - so my question as to how would the sub commanders known which country had carried out the attack remains extant.
     
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    Christ almighty! I already explained that satellites exist to provide precisely that information, and our submarines have the technological capability to receive satellite data regarding who launched and from where! How do you think the Russians thought they were being attacked by America back in 1983? Because their own satellite data told them!
    I'm not going to respond to your goalpost-moving strawman argument on 'phials' or your 'beliefs' in a discussion on nuclear war.
    Again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Support_Program
     

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