US Politics

Hasn't read the Good Friday Agreement, won't read or can't read?

Trump has suggested to the Taioseach that the brexit border problem can be solved with a wall...

Has he? Trump says ‘you don’t want that’ on the subject of a ‘wall’. What am I missing? Sounds like he says nothing coherent.

Yes - you're right, I unhelpfully sensationalised the headline. Not suggested but certainly conflated:

It will all work out for you... with your wall, your border, we have a border situation in the United States and you have one over here

He does go back on this though so incoherence is key. He's presumably also associated 'border' and 'wall' together after so many years of repetition.

Astronomical confusion
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jun/07/trump-moon-is-part-of-mars-tweet-nasa

To be fair, he might have just meant that the moon is part of the ‘bigger things’ they’re doing, like mars.

But it’s just as likely he things the moon is a suburb of mars or something. Who fucking knows with this man-baby.

Https://www.indy100.com/article/tucker-carlson-metric-system-creepy-conspiracy-theory-europe-8947121

Fuck, it’s like Jonah Ryan in Veep campaigning against Moslem maths.

I love how a metre is not that accurate, just after explaining that an acre is the area of land that can be ploughed by an ox in one day

Oh god, the real definition of an acre...

It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, ​1⁄640 of a square mile, or 43,560 square feet

If it's one by ten chains, a standard acre isn't even a square shape. Lunacy.

edit. What is a chain...

The chain is a unit of length equal to 66 feet. It is subdivided into 100 links or 4 rods. There are 10 chains in a furlong, and 80 chains in one statute mile.

How about a rod?

The rod or perch or pole is a surveyor’s tool and unit of length exactly equal to ​5 ¹⁄₂ yards, 16​¹⁄₂ feet, ​¹⁄₃₂₀ of a statute mile or one-fourth of a surveyor's chain.

It's like a horrible recursive nightmare of measurements, all related to each other only by arbitrary factors of a third unit...

I guess that is because fields are usually rectangular. Feudal land divisions were almost always rectangular strips.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medieval_land_terms

Should never have moved away from cubits and spans...

Aren't chains and furlongs traditionally expressed in yards?

I thought they were traditionally measured in cricket pitches.

wales. surely.

we all know when it comes to big measurements its done in double decker buses or football pitches.

That Kentish sulung sounds very odd.

Well a cricket pitch is clearly a chain in length.

https://road.cc/content/news/262468-made-china-era-over-says-giant-worlds-biggest-bike-maker-and-blames-donald

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/21/donald-trump-sexual-assault-allegation-e-jean-carroll-new-york-latest-accusation

Bernie on point.

https://youtu.be/3rRBI3wUSwg

In 1988 the US Navy shot down a scheduled Iranian airliner killing nearly 300 civilians. The Americans said it was just a mistake, technical error etc.
Now America wants to go to war over an unmanned drone.
Sense of perspective is lacking here.
America is desperate for an excuse to go to war with Iran.
Two possible reasons: Trump wants/needs a distraction and wants to be a "war President" or he needs a loan from the Saudis and will be their proxy against Iran.

Some warmongers in America is desperate for an excuse to go to war with Iran.

Fixed. I'm absolutely certain that the vast majority of Americans want anything but a war.

Some warmongers in America are desperate

ftftfy

So far as I can tell Republican state senators have fled their state and teamed up with right wing militias to avoid a vote on climate change restrictions

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/oregon-statehouse-shut-down-after-lawmakers-team-up-with-right-wing-militias/ar-AADh0mB?ocid=spartanntp

I meant to say the American administration is eager for war, not the average citizen.

Trump is far outclassed by the shrewd Iranians, it would be fun to see a televised debate between him and Khamenei.