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Doing what he promised during his campaign? Like the ‘beautiful’ tax reform that was going to help the middle class and create job growth? Instead it’s burdened the middle class more as the cut from 35% to 21% for corporations created a large shortfall, this was supposed to create jobs but instead the large corporations plowed money into share buy backs. The share buy backs drives the price of stock up which means the C-suite get even bigger bonuses, essentially putting the tax windfall right into executives pockets. The ripping up of the Iran deal was a distraction from his court cases (fucking plural) since NK had cooled. He then tried his fucking best to undo the hard work of South Korea and China by simply abusing Kim Jong Un for no fucking reason. I don’t even think the Iran deal was discussed during the campaign, there was no reason other than the fact Obama happened to be the President that signed it to rip that deal up iirc it took 3 terms to get that deal done. He’s still planning on spending essentially all of the money brought in by the mandatory deemed repatriation (aka “Toll charge”) on a pointless wall. We’ll also just ignore the fact he’s a fucking embarrassment, he asked Trudeau if they had burned down the White House (that was Britain in 1812), he suggested he “might” pardon Muhammad Alli when he was already pardoned decades ago, he’s going through multiple court cases, one showing he’s Putin’s lap dog and another showing he paid off a porn star, he has started feuds with multiple American sports teams doing pathetic thinks like uninviting champions to the White House after they said they wouldn’t go, he also has said he might just give a presidential pardon to himself. I rarely feel this way but I echo Gemmils sentiment on him tbh, he’s needlessly destabilizing and causing potentially large harm to people’s lives (if you think this is hyserical just look at his stance on guns for a start). The man is poison, and regardless of if he really is some hard right racist himself (He’s definitely a racist but he’s more just greedy than being far right) there’s no doubt he is giving these people a voice and they seem to be growing in confidence by him. Even fucking knuckle draggers like Tommy Robinson are encouraged by him.

Just dropped.

It's really just because a sizable proportion of the English people have the following traits: They're completely ignorant about domestic and international politics (and anyone who doesn't share their beliefs is labelled the liberal elite). And/or they are idiotically stubborn. I don't know if this is an inherent flaw in the Anglo Saxon make up (as we see it in wasp yanks too), but suspect there all sorts of recent historical reasons for it too. Dare I say it for Rayvin's sake the advent of neoliberal capitalism and rejection of solidarity.

Nobodies saying he hasn't got his flaws but at least we'll get a cracking deal from him as he loves Nigel Farage.

CT, you struggle badly with British politics. Maybe just don’t bother getting involved at international level.

Er, aye, ok.

There is a good striker inside Mitrovic, I think it's undeniable. But it's a good striker we saw all too rarely during his time here. He was given multiple chances to impress and never really shone even in the Champ. Daryl Murphy looked a better option, if you've forgotten already, and that says it all about Rafa and his system and where a lazy, occasionally brilliant, lunatic frontman fits into it, which is to say, he doesn't. I also want to add what I've always said about Mitro: he doesn't work at all as a lone striker. He doesn't make the kind of pointless runs that open up space for the wide players and he throws a tantrum when the ball isn't played into feet. He's not suited at all mentally to ploughing a lone furrow up there. Best of luck to Mitro wherever he ends up playing, I think it's clear it's not going to be at SJP. Like a lot of you, I have a soft spot for the mad Serb, but he just isn't good enough at Prem level and he doesn't work hard enough for Rafa, and at the end of the day the manager sees the players every day in training and knows who best fits his plans. We all thought Rafa was barmy for persisting with Diame and look what happened there. "In Rafa We Trust" - so trust him then.

Ok I'll post this again... https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/wondering-rafa-loaned-mitro-read-14364221 you're obviously all entitled to your opinions & Rafa isn't infallible by any means. But Rafa had to make decisions last season and his reasoning for loaning out Mitro is sound and shows good judgement. After Mitro left we brought in three players who changed our season, no doubt those deals were helped partially by the money saved by getting Mitro's wages paid by Fulham who were also in the division below so not a direct threat to us. He went to a team playing front foot attacking football and a manager who speaks the same language. I don't know what else there is to say on the subject. I do think the constant sniping about Mitro does in some way display a lack of faith in Rafas judgement though. Which to me anyway is frankly bizarre. if you ask me, Mitro neither saved us from relegation nor got us promoted. He had numerous chances to kick on and get a run in the team but failed at every turn. His discipline issues made Rafa unable to put his full trust in the player. He was invariably a stone overweight which for a manager with Rafas high standards was never going to be acceptable. But three goals v a team that finished second bottom of the 10 team South American World Cup qualifying group means Rafa is still wrong about him? I don't fuckin think so..

Aaron Bank's, the largest financial donor to the leave campaign has been lying about his links to Russia during the campaign.. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/09/arron-banks-russia-brexit-meeting?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other which has put his pet propagandist at The Times in a very awakward position.. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-classic-russian-fishing-expedition-lands-back-channel-to-white-house-zmg80swqg WHAT A COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED SURPRISE

This is going to become one of those all time iconic images. And people want the UK to divorce ourselves from the EU in order to become the arse licking lackey of this cunt?

You showed him, didn’t ya? He’ll wish he never took on such an intellectual heavyweight who was also so well informed

Same old story with him - he either is or he’s pretending to be to wind people up. Either way....

The decline of trade unionism is a factor in this and very deliberate. Thatcher knew any kind of solidarity based political body had to be eradicated to forward her ideas and the establishment relished its destruction. That's why they fear Momentum so much even if its small scale in comparison.

Aye but if he prefaces any I’ll thought out shite with “disagreeing with me makes you hysterical” then he can’t lose can he?

Nothing I said is hysteria. He pushes through things with no regard for the implications and often on a whim. For example, the tax reform in the US was written and pushed through the houses in about 3 months, so quickly in fact it still had hand written edits and gave the opposition mere hours to read it (does that seem like something a rational and good leader would do?). The thing is so badly written we have been reeling ever since. The US gives a foreign tax credit for foreign taxes paid on foreign sourced income to avoid double taxation. You bucket your income based on the type of income it is and match the foreign tax credits generated to the bucket based on the tax law. Trump and his band of idiots came up with a new tax called GILTI ( I’m not kidding here) and in their rush to write the new code wrote that GILTI income is its own bucket but the credit that comes with the income goes in the general bucket, this completely contradicts the general rule for no reason whatsoever, creates a needless issue and gave companies massive headaches to the point the IRS has came out and essentially said bucket the credit with the GILTI income and we won’t disagree with the treatment. It’s this sort of haphazard inattention to detail that ripples through his regime. Simply calling people hysterical doesn’t score you any points, you asked for a reasoned discussion I gave you plenty of points to discuss and you gave that ridiculous retort.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-looking-continent-no-10-14764549 While I hope we are looking for a number 10 I can’t believe how bad the Chronicle is. This article is so badly written it’s pathetic, for a start his subtitle is “Rafa Benitez wants to lure a sign a No 10 for Newcastle United” just proof read your work ffs. He also completely refuses to write number 10, instead using the short cut “no 10” I could just be being a prick here but that just seems needlessly lazy. The article also says absolutely nothing of any note, just that Rafa wants to sign a “no 10” and could be looking abroad and the domestic market . If he couldn’t be arsed to write out number 10 he should have just not bothered his arse writing that nothing of an article. I thought Lee Ryder was bad ffs, that Waugh makes him look competent.

Watching this soccer aid and I’m happily cheering on the England team... right up until that prick Michael Owen comes on. Come on the rotw!

It'll be interesting if tubs responds other than with a cut and paste wum riposte from whatever knacker right wing blog/forum he reads. Trump is a seriously destabilising influence on the entire western world, as that picture brilliantly illustrates. And we still have idiots like CT applauding him like a trained seal (the marine mammal kind), even though it is the UK that is going to get fucked over more than just about anyone else.

Yeah, but if you look past all that, he’s doing a cracking job

Apparently there’s a whole album of lost tracks. I must confess, I’ve got a Jazz chub on

Moved house today- still alive, still married, didn’t murder my kids. I’m counting that as a successful move. What an absolute ballache.

Spunked a load on the front line and midfield so had to cheapen out at the back I still might swap out Dembele for Mitro so I have more reason to cheer him. No clue who the players on my bench are.

The G7 summit has really shown him up for the fool he is.

You’re wasting your time

I put it on as a joke and was just amazed they let me have it so kept it

I'd take a guess that was early 87-88 as the Milburn stand was getting built and we were playing Wimbledon. Fashanu headed a ball from distance it hit the crossbar, came back out hit the keeper who I think was Martin Thomas on the head and went back in. They beat us 2-1.