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jason73

jason73

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They’re quite dumb. I still enjoy how they think I’m Anglo. Such cubes
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they literally went from "the sun never sets on the british empire" to unable to leave the EU and being blown up and ran over by Saracens on their tiny island within 100 years
 
Freeloading Rusty

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'Dotage of a dotard': North Korea renews attack on Donald Trump
North Korea attacks Trump's 'dotage of a dotard'
The foreign ministry said if Mr Trump was confrontational, it "must really be diagnosed as the relapse of the dotage of a dotard".

The North first called Mr Trump a dotard, meaning old and weak, in 2017.

It is the first time in over a year that Pyongyang has been openly critical of Donald Trump, the BBC's Korea correspondent Laura Bicker said.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a dotard as "a person whose mental faculties are impaired, specifically, a person whose intellect or understanding is impaired in old age".

The two men held face-to-face talks in Singapore in June 2018, and in Vietnam in February this year, aimed at denuclearisation.

But talks have stalled since then, and despite another impromptu meeting at the demilitarised zone (DMZ) that separates North and South Korea in June, the North has restarted testing of short-range ballistic missiles.

In recent months the hostile language has also come back.

Pyongyang has set Washington an end-of-year deadline to offer it new concessions and has said it will adopt a "new way" if that does not happen.

'War of words'
At the Nato summit in the UK on Tuesday, Mr Trump referred to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as "rocket man".

He also said that the US reserved the right to use military force against Pyongyang.

In a statement carried by North Korea's state news agency, Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui warned that the "war of words" from two years ago may be resuming.

"If any language and expressions stoking the atmosphere of confrontation are used once again on purpose at a crucial moment as now, that must really be diagnosed as the relapse of the dotage of a dotard."

In 2017, the two leaders engaged in tit-for-tat arguments, with Mr Trump dubbing Mr Kim "little rocket man" and "a madman", while Mr Kim called the US president a "mentally deranged dotard".
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Freeloading Rusty

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Trump hints at possible trade action against Canada, other NATO countries
Trump hints at possible trade action against Canada, other NATO countries
Following a frosty couple days, U.S. President Donald Trump has once again hinted at a possible trade spat with Canada and other NATO countries that he believes aren’t “putting up their money” on defence spending.

Trump spoke in Washington, D.C. on Thursday in front of representatives ofthe United Nations Security Council and said he had a productive meeting with the leaders of the nine countries who already spend two per cent of their gross domestic product on defence.

“Some (countries are) really not close and we may have to do something with trade,” he said at the meeting. “It’s not fair that they get U.S. protection. They’re not putting up their money.”

In 2014, all 29 NATO countries agreed to increase defence spending to two per cent of their GDP. Canada currently spends just 1.31 per cent of its GDP on defence and does not have a timetable to reach the two per cent milestone, though the government intends to reach 1.4 per cent by the 2024-2025 fiscal year.

On Dec. 3, Trudeau and Trump met in London at the NATO summit, where Trump called Canada “slightly delinquent” on defence spending and when pressed on the matter, Trudeau first said he was committed to spending more and then told Trump that Canada was at 1.4 per cent.

This exchange began a tense few days between the two as Trudeau was later caught on camera talking about Trump to French President Emmanuel Macron, among other world leaders.

Trump went to call Trudeau “two-faced” the next day. His son Donald Trump Jr. also weighed into the matter, tweeting an image of Trudeau in blackface while agreeing with his father that Trudeau is “two-faced.”

Speaking on CTV’s Power Play on Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland sidestepped a question about whether the exposed conversation had hurt relations between Canada and the U.S.

“We did have some difficult conversations along the way, but have developed a really effective working relationship,” she said. “I think we would agree that the current U.S. administration (and) the current government of Canada disagree about a lot of things and we’re candid with each other about that.”
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Freeloading Rusty

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Trump asks Supreme Court to block subpoena for financial docs
Trump asks Supreme Court to block subpoena for financial docs
President Donald Trump is appealing to the Supreme Court in a last-ditch bid to block a subpoena from House Democrats for his financial records — his second request in the last month for the justices to block investigators seeking documents related to his personal business dealings.

In a lengthy filing Thursday, Trump’s lead personal attorneys Jay Sekulow and William Consovoy argued that the Supreme Court should take up the case because it was the first time a president’s personal records have been subpoenaed by Congress.

“At its core, this controversy is about whether — and to what degree — Congress can exercise dominion and control over the Office of the President,” Sekulow and Consovoy wrote, adding: “These are profoundly serious constitutional questions that the court should decide.”

If the Supreme Court decides to take up the appeal, it would be a monumental and precedent-setting separation of powers case likely to have implications for decades to come. The justices are already considering a separate petition from Trump filed last month aimed at blocking a grand jury in Manhattan from viewing his tax returns as part of an ongoing criminal probe.

Thursday’s newest petition comes after the high court temporarily stayed lower court rulings that upheld the House Oversight and Reform Committee’s subpoena, while the justices decide whether to take up the case during the court’s next session. If the justices agree to hear the dispute, arguments would likely come in the spring, with a decision by June.

The House panel subpoenaed accounting firm Mazars USA in April in a bid to obtain several years of Trump’s financial records as part of the panel’s investigation into allegations that Trump improperly inflated and deflated the values of his personal assets.

Sekulow and Consovoy argued that the committee “lacks express statutory authorization to subpoena the president,” adding: “An express statement should be required given the separation-of-powers issues that are raised by unleashing every committee to subpoena every president for his personal records.”

The D.C. District Court and the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals both sided with the House, determining that the subpoena is valid and ordering Mazars to turn over the documents. The courts sharply rejected Trump’s legal arguments and upheld the House’s broad authority to issue subpoenas and investigate alleged presidential misconduct.

In both cases, Trump’s legal team argued that the subpoena does not have a “legitimate legislative purpose,” while Democrats have asserted that Congress has an obligation to conduct oversight and investigate a president’s personal affairs, while also using the financial documents to evaluate whether federal laws must be updated.

Lower courts have also recently upheld House Democrats’ subpoena to Deutsche Bank for the president’s financial records and other tax documents. Trump’s lawyers are likely to appeal those rulings to the Supreme Court, too.

The Supreme Court is already scheduled to meet Dec. 13 in a closed-door conference to consider the separate plea from Trump aimed at overturning the 2 nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ order ordering the president to hand over his tax returns to a grand jury in New York overseen by District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.

Democrats are unlikely to use the documents as part of their fast-moving impeachment inquiry, which is slated to wrap up in the House before the end of the year.
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