Or lack of them. Most major banks wanted nothing to do with him following those corporate bankruptcies. Yet this was the individual whose signature book is all about the Art Of The Deal. And this is what he no doubt wanted the world to think about when he waded into the conflict between Russia, the aggressor, and Ukraine, the country that repelled them for three years.
He, the great Donald J Trump, would show his detractors that he alone could secure a deal to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Maybe his peacemaking efforts could even secure him the Nobel Peace Prize. Joe Biden never won that! Those Fake News Media channels and papers never won it either!
And so it came to pass that the Trump Gang let the world know that continuing the conflict in Ukraine was pointless, which is true, but also that the bad guys were, at least by implication, those headed by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which was a pack of propagandist lies, except in pro-Russian talking points, something that only fuelled the suspicion that Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and his gang in the Kremlin had Kompromat on Trump.
But not to worry, The Donald then showed the world his superior diplomatic ability by inviting Zelenskyy to the White House, and with his monumentally stupid Vice President J D Vance, ambushed the Ukrainian President, following that by having the visitors’ delegation thrown out. He stopped aid and intelligence sharing for Ukraine. As if Russia was pulling his strings.
Nor was there much art in Trump’s next move, reported by Kyiv Post: “Trump reportedly won’t restore military aid or intelligence sharing with Ukraine - even if Kyiv and Washington strike a deal on mineral resources - NBC News … He wants Zelensky to cede territory to Russia, take steps toward holding elections, and possibly step down”. Some deal he’s offering, or maybe not.
As for his understanding, or lack of it, of actions having consequences, as he rambles, threats, and blusters, orders for F-35 fighter aircraft are being cancelled in favour of alternatives built not in the USA. More jobs lost, more momentum for the economic downturn. His Ukraine ceasefire proposal was effectively ignored by Putin. But then came the fruits of that diplomacy!
“THOUSANDS OF UKRAINIAN TROOPS ARE COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY THE RUSSIAN MILITARY, AND IN A VERY BAD AND VULNERABLE POSITION” he told. But not to worry, “I have strongly requested to President Putin that their lives be spared”. Except this was very obvious Kremin propaganda. And that Peace Prize was not getting nearer.
Maybe he could get the press to be a little nicer to him. Not after ranting “These newspapers are really no different than a highly paid political operative. And it has to stop. It has to be illegal ... it just cannot be legal”. The one who brought back free speech, eh? Trump’s deal making wizardry is just a sham. The Russians are laughing at him. He’s crashing the economy.
But he is good at rambling incoherently. So that’s all right, then.
https://www.patreon.com/Timfenton
Beginning to look like Dien Bien Phu all over again.....
ReplyDeleteEx CIA agent Ray McGovern has suggested the Tangerine Divvy ensures his food taster is reliable.
ReplyDeleteFun times in the American Nightmare.
A casino can, of course, be intentionally run into the ground when it’s outlived its usefulness as a cash laundromat for the proceeds of organised crime.
ReplyDeleteThat also explains why the orange goblin closed down one of the best anti corruption units in the World. I bet his mafia pals just loved that one...
DeleteJust recently I read that a bill proposed in the state of Minnesota called for anyone distressed by Trump's election and actions to be classified as mentally ill: https://fastdemocracy.com/bill-search/mn/2025-2026/bills/MNB00060555/
ReplyDeleteOn the eve of the "deal" Jeffrey Sachs once again states some much needed home truths.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/BljAmYrjn08?feature=shared
Useful Idiot Trump is the exemplar for Useful Idiots all over the world: infinitely useful and profoundly idiotic. The Useful Idiot's Useful Idiot.
ReplyDeleteNow he's dismantling WW2 and Cold War propaganda/CIA mouthpiece/soft power radio station, Voice of America.
For allegedly broadcasting 'radical propaganda'!:
https://www.ft.com/content/1504b3f2-1161-495e-9044-f21f363f159a
Putin's been blocking VofA broadcasts, Musk called for it to be shut down, the useful idiot Trump has obliged. What a sordid little troilist consummation those three names conjure up. Scarcely believable that they have vocal defenders among us.
Incidentally, Gu**di*n music and sports writer Richard Williams has a piece on his Blue Moment blog today on Voice of America's contribution to his early musical education (and that of young East Europeans in the Soviet era): https://thebluemoment.com/2025/03/17/silencing-the-voice-of-america/
We'll see what comes out of the Trump-Putin phone call tomorrow. All decent people will hope it ends a terrible war that should never have happened.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile the Merz-Macron-Stürmer-Meloni gang want the killing to continue in Ukraine as they do in Palestine. All with the propaganda backing of corporate media and its hate pedlars like Murdoch/Rothermere and their gutless employees and "readers".
The remnants of nazism and fascism still threaten world peace. Just as it almost destroyed civilisation in the last century. Some people just never learn.
Bot?
DeleteIndeed it shouldn't. But that's what happens when a megalomaniac sends tanks in to 'secure peace for fellow Russians'. Doubtless the people that swallow this cobblers, would have agreed with Chamberlain.
DeletePeace in our time, safety for the Sudenten Germans, and the appeasers satisfied. The only teensy problem being, as putin is now, Hitler was then. Merely buying time for his next aggressive move.
You don't have to be a 'war monger' to recognize, then as now, people that have their opponents thrown out of 5th floor windows, that imprison others, en masse, that persecute minorities, all things the 'left' surely should oppose, are not likely to have any interest in 'peace'.
As for Trump, any deal robs Ukraine of security, mineral rights and helps enrich Trumps rotten pals. Amazing how none of that matters when temporary peace, once more pleases the appeasers...
I think I’m with Anonymous 07.36 on this one. Here's why:
Delete‘We’ll see….’ is pure Trump, one of his stock of evasive, intentionally vague and folksy constructions. The naïve credulousness of the rest of the first sentence? Standard unthinking 'positivity'.
‘All decent people’ is clicheed cant.
‘A terrible war that should never happened’ lacks only ‘and it wouldn’t have started at all if I 'd been President’ to make it the usual unevidenced and dimwittedly- boastful authenticTrump quote.
Trump is notorious for regurgitating Putin lines and this post (Anonymous 19.53) seems happy to regurgitate Trump regurgitating Putin.
A pro-Putin bot? Probably. Anonymous Tankie adopting a new ‘moderate’ style? Possibly. What’s the difference?
Anyway, just by the by, here are the names of a few other historical figures who would also claim to have the avoidance of conflict as their motivation and who, in their time, had to face down similar ‘warmongering mass murderers’ to the ones the peace-loving Trump, Putin and their noble apologists are currently standing up against:
Marshall Petain
Oswald Mosley
William Joyce
Ramsay MacDonald,
Stanley Baldwin
Neville Chamberlain,
Duke of Windsor,
Baron Redesdale
Unity Mitford
Diana Mitford
Lord Rothermere
Viscount Lymington
Prince Philip
Archibald Ramsay
Pierre Laval
Sir Samuel Hoare
and, last but not least,
VIDKUN (unquiffed) QUISLING!
(And I'm sure that, like their present-day equivalents, they all meant well)
17:30.
DeleteTsk tsk....A bit Murdoch Scum hysterical that.
You "forgot" to add all the British political cabinets since 1979.
But then you would. It's what warmongering apologist Micawbers do.
Still, some cheery news for you from Palestine and Yemen, where the body count of innocents is increasing again. That too is what apologists do.
Nah, it's our old pal. He just forgot to put quiff quisling in there somewhere. The 'all decent people' is a swipe at those of us who don't buy into the pro Putin bullshit.
DeleteExcellent Red Nose Day clown logic, Tankie @ 12.13!
Delete1. Someone recognises the need to stand up to or face down brutal and unprovoked aggression from a ruthless dictator with designs on all the countries which used to be part of the USSR empire and who certainly don't want to be part of it again.
2. That someone, QED, therefore, obviously, must also support Israeli genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, the US bombing of Yemen, Blair's collusion in Bush's brain-dead invasion of Iraq and the consequent and entirely predictable mayhem that ensued, the Gulf of Tonkin deception, the Bay of Pigs, Churchill's gas-bombing of Bolshevik soldiers in 1919, the Irish Famine and, probably, the rape of the Sabine women.
Could you possibly attempt to join the dots for me, please, as I can't really see that 2 should necessarily follow on from 1?
But (as before on his Israeli genocide activism), from shy, retiring, reticent and unopinionated Tankie, answer came there none.
Delete11:59.
DeleteAs before, me ol' Micawber, your support is palpable for the mass murdering genocidal Zionist-without-qualification/Reeves plus war criminals Bliar/Brown.
You'll just have to suck up the guilt with all the other red tories. And that's before we even get onto their economic attacks on children, the elderly and the sick and vulnerable.
Have a "nice" conscience free day. It's what your type does.
You do realise Tim has final say on comments published? Rightly.
DeleteHe may well have replied and it not been accepted. I know a couple of times my comments to you weren't accepted, and a couple of times I felt you had a reply in you that never came. I suspect it wasn't my convincing argument that hushed you there, but I will claim it.
Of course Tim can block posts, but I have never experienced it myself and, given the excitable, repetitive, predictable and often rabid nature of the Tankie posts which *are* published (particularly lately when he submits endless talking-to-himself stuff), it seems hard to imagine what kind of ultra-nonsense would qualify for 'cancelling'.
DeleteI think Tim has a kind of Zelo St 'statute of limitations' which stops people posting on old material but I can cee no explanation for your posts not appearing and his publishing of the Tankie's output over the years seems to argue for Tim's infinite patience and tolerance rather than any tendency to suppress.
But back to the matter in hand: the real reason for Tankie's reticence to answer my question is best illustrated by his 'answer' at 12.40 above; ie he doesn't actually *have* an answer as his recourse to generalised abuse and name-calling makes clear. And which response, in fact, provides another example of exactly the deformed logical processes I was asking him to explain in the first place.
I believe he gave you an answer Bertie, but to quote Penelope Wilton in my play, "I rather think you didn't quite get it"
DeleteAlways got a reaction that. Wonderful actress
I'm afraid I'm not familiar with your play 'I rather think you didn't quite get it', me old Luvvie, but if you think Tankie's bilious scribbling answered in any way the clearly expressed question I asked, then , either because of your well-established obtuseness or your long-standing personal resentment, you must have failed to understand the question.
DeleteGo back and look at the question again, it's quite clearly put, and then enlighten us as to how 2 should necessarily follow on from 1.
Bertie, you will not get an answer beyond the usual, 'quiff quislin', blah, blah, 'warmongering red Tory', blah, blah, bleedin' blah. I've never known someone post so many posts that all say exactly the same thing, over and over, and over again.
DeleteAs you say, Tim must have the patience of a saint to keep reading his endless socialist worker, ex student, gibberish. Sadly, there are some solid truth in many of them, but so wrapped up in the usual nonsense I can't be arsed to read them any more.
The best part of Zelo Street, other than Tim's stellar work, is Bertie having a meltdown.
DeleteIf you think this is a meltdown, Ed, then you must've led a very sheltered life.
DeleteAnd rather than making snide and contentless little remarks in the style of your friend The Playwright, why don't you help him, Tankie and the rest of us out by answering my question at @ 23 March 13.16 above.
It’s quite straightforward but you, like them, seem to want to evade it.
It's not my job to answer a question you've already had the answer to Bertie.
DeleteReally, these histrionics do the blog no good. Please "touch grass" as the kids say.
Thanks, Ed. But confirmation was really not necessary.
DeleteEnjoy your picnic!
The late much-missed John Pilger issued the warning below two years ago. Long before that he also warned about a threatened war against China.
ReplyDeletehttps://johnpilger.com/2023/05/01/there-is-a-war-coming-shrouded-in-propaganda-it-will-involve-us-speak-up/
He was an honourable and good writer in the best traditions of honest journalism - which automatically meant of course that his work was smeared by fascist employee Andrew Neil in the Murdoch Sunday Slimes. The same smear tactics were used against Robert Fisk after he exposed British lying propaganda and war criminality during the mass murder attack on Iraq.
Even if the Ukraine war stops the killing will go on elsewhere. That is the lesson thus far of the 21st century. Thanks to fascist homicidal maniacs it's shaping to be even worse than the last murderous era, and from the same kind of insane mentalities.
So brace yourself for the next war target by oligarchs in their bunker. There are still some mugs all too ready to fall for their propaganda. Tough shit if you and yours get vaporised in The Big One - as Jack Kennedy said, "There'll be nobody around to tell the brass hats they were wrong."
ReplyDeletehttps://open.substack.com/pub/kenklippenstein/p/trump-is-now-at-war-with-iran?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2j9682
Meanwhile, don't expect any decency from the corrupt Zionist-without-qualification in Downing Street.
ReplyDeleteHere's an exposé by EveryDoctor of further British political corruption in collusion with private "health"care corporations. Specifically, bribes taken to betray the NHS into the hands of thieving gangsters.
https://privatisation.everydoctor.org.uk/revealed-labour-ministers-took-donations-from-big-pharma-and-us-healthcare-lobbyists/
If crooked politicians will do this to their own constituents, it doesn't take much to imagine what horrors they will inflict without conscience on others.
Tremendous news!
ReplyDeleteThe Quiff Quisling wants to be part of A Coalition Of The Killing. You know, like the same gangsters who mass murdered their way across Iraq after lying about "Weapons of Mass Destruction". Doubtless "advice" has been sought from war criminals Bliar/Brown, the original Quislings.
What could POSSIBLY go wrong......?
This is merely one way Quisling "Labour" is bribed to join the Coalition Of The Killing. There are many others, exposed in due course.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/keir-starmer-labour-party-quadrature-donation-arms-companies-israel-war-gaza/
Jeffrey Sachs, former advisor to the Ukraine government, shows how the Ukraine war started, who lied, and why it should never have happened.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/RiK6DijNLGE?feature=shared
Well if that fails there's always this mass murdering lunatic option.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-iran-war-plan?r=2j9682&triedRedirect=true
For all war fans. There's always this one to look forward to.
ReplyDeletehttps://johnpilger.com/the-coming-war-on-china/
Worry not. The CIA will get on the case helped by MI6. Here's how and why. But they've both "changed" since then..... haven't they?
ReplyDeletehttps://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/2025-03-19/cia-covert-ops-kennedy-assassination-records-lift-veil-secrecy
Never mind that, Tim.
ReplyDeleteFar right Weasel Streeting, Essex barrow boy, just got some well-deserved non-diplomatic in-his-face treatment from his targeted disabled victims.
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/25/wes-streeting-guardian-protest/
Lest we forget, US General Wesley Clark knew about brutal aggressors and what was coming.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/jWxKn-1S8ts?feature=shared
Apparently it's all Much Ado About Fuck All, the war dead families will be "pleased" to hear, as they were and are in Libya, Palestine, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yugoslavia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Russia and Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteNext up, China, assuming the usual psychopathic warmongering sociopath maniacs get their way. As they usually do in Washington, London, Paris and Berlin. Old killing habits are hard to break.
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenklippenstein/p/a-trump-doctrine-emerges?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2j9682
Oh.
ReplyDeleteMy.
Aching.
Sides.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-suggests-us-could-join-british-commonwealth-2048679
The more I see of Trump and his cabinet, the more I think that we do need to amp up spending on military, not only defend ourselves but free ourselves from MAGA. We can hope ordinary Americans learn but we must have a new relationship.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, but how about those most likely to benefit from increased spending on defence sumping up for it? Just as the poorest off get hit hardest when govt makes cuts, when govt cuts aid - the poor in other countries get kicked.
DeleteIts beyond parody now, a supposed 'Labour' govt giving the disabled, the sick, the poor, the unemployed, a good Tory voter thrilling kick in the balls, meanwhile the rich add another '0' to the end of their bank accounts.
Of course, if we upset the poor, hard done by, rich, they'll leave and take their money with them. Say working class Torys, middle class rich wannabes, and the Tory press.
They'll have a job though, investment in UK plc has nosedived since the turn of the century - because the greedy bastards have moved their wealth offshore.
But then the same numbnuts that come out with shit like 'politics of envy' and 'hitting wealth creators' think Trump is a genius, and tariff is indeed 'the biggliest word in the dictionary'.
I'm beginning to wonder if stupidity is infectious, and spread by money itself...
Quislings, killers at home and abroad.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/03/30/dwp-cuts-scotland/
Tremendous news for all war fans!
ReplyDeleteDeutschland is on the march again!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjyjlkewr2o
Why Britain's mass murdering Establishment is hated around the world: the facts.
ReplyDeletehttps://caat.org.uk/publications/trends-in-uk-arms-exports-in-2023/
Robbie Burns had the Quislings bang to rights:
ReplyDeleteYe hypocrites, are these your
pranks
To murder men and gie good
thanks
Desist for shame, proceed no
further
God won't accept your thanks
for murder.
There's nothing new about the Starmer/Reeves Quislings and their lying cowardice. There'll be another Zionist-without-qualification along in a minute.
Here's yet another example of how genocidal hypocritical Quisling "Labour" lies and twists words to suit Israeli nazi government massacres.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/04/01/labour-friends-israel-jon-pearce/
Plainly "No Emotional Space" Starmer needs to issue another invite letter from Charlie Von Windsor Von Battenburg Von Saxe-Coburg Und Gotha to the Orange Meff. He isn't getting the message that War-War is better than Jaw-Jaw.
ReplyDeleteSomething like that.
Looks like the Quislings are doomed. And good riddance too.
ReplyDeletehttps://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/government-approval
Here you are, Tankie. Click on the link for your nearest action.
ReplyDeleteStop typing, pause bloviation, shut down your screen, turn off the bile, get off your arse and DO something this Saturday:
https://palestinecampaign.org/events/dont-buy-apartheid-day-of-action/
20:26.
DeleteBad news for all you Quislings, me ol' Micawber. But be careful, this might just finally drive you over the edge.
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/04/03/labour-approval-membership-survation-poll/
Fat chance. Blowing very hard is all he ever does. Actually doing something positive beyond 'quiff quisling' everyone into submission, is not on the agenda.
DeleteAs someone who despises New Labour, loathes Starmer and co, and voted against his party in the general election, it cracks me up that he still persists with the 'Starmer fanboys' generalisation.
As for quoting the Canary, why not quote the Sun? The Canary is just as crap at fact checking. I'm sure in this instance they're right, but hey, even some as useless as me at darts can hit the bullseye occasionally.
21:44.
DeleteWell spotted. The Canary is right. Which means the red tory Quiff Quisling gang is goosed.
Which negates the rest of your diatribe.
Have a nice disappear-up-your-own-arse day.
21:44.
DeleteAre you McSweeney in disguise. You know, as in his (McTernan-type) "advice" to the Zionist-without-qualification to "Destroy The Canary before it destroys you." A straight paraphrase lift from the Earl of Strafford to Charlie II, as depicted in the film Cromwell. Charlie III will hope he doesn't follow the prior example and lose his head.
Shows again, if it was needed, how easily Quislings shit the bed when opposed.
You really should cease reading and copying the Rothermere Daily Heil. You'll be shouting "Hurrah for the Blackshirts!" next.
1/10. Must pay attention in class.
The Canary has been found to have published inaccuracies countless times, and been censured for it. Monitors have found it to be on a par with the Daily Mail, Sun, and Express in terms of putting partizan views ahead of accurate information. So, in good company there.
DeleteIn fairness, Mendoza put it down to 'human error' rather than your conspiracy theory nonsense.
The fact that for once the Canary was right proves absolutely sod all. I'm sure the Tory press get it right occasionally, that doesn't mean they aren't lying, partisan rags though.
Or does it? I'm beginning to wonder where your sympathies actually lie? First you back team Trump/Vance/Putin, now you're glad that Starmer is going to be replaced by Reform. According to the polls you gleefully linked to that is.
So, is it that the quiff quisling is not too right wing, but in fact not right wing enough for you? Too quote your fellow conspiracy loving pals, 'I think we should be told'...
20:13.
DeleteUtter nonsense.
Typical tory McSweeney/McTernan bullshit.
The Canary has all you Quislings shitting yourselves because, unlike corporate media and the "Labour" PLP, it tells the truth about your warmongering and domestic treachery. It has you running scared.
The only thing that can save Quisling "Labour" now is a manufactured event requiring "patriotism". Something the Quiff can wave a flag at.
Get used to it and swallow it. It's all you have left.
Ah ha. Touched a nerve there eh?
DeleteAs ever, bluster, hogwash, slogans and insults - but no facts, or reasoned defence.
Time to take your own advice - must try harder.
11:17.
DeleteNah. Even more daft, that. Ale house Foghorn Leghorn stuff.
The Canary merely exposes the lies and hypocrisy of far right politicians, corporate media and their apologists. Which is why your smear type is running scared from it.
Get used to it because there is plenty more truth where that comes from. And there's only your far right attempted cancel methods to stop it.
Truth is catching up on your kind of malevolent propaganda. Which is why the days of your far right corporate media allies are numbered.
Inflicted domestic poverty, mass murder bombing, Zionism-without-qualification or not.
Sorry, couldn't put together a deserved riposte to that- too busy laughing...
DeleteMeanwhile, capitalist "free trade" is going great guns. Literally.
ReplyDeleteMass murder business as usual for Quisling "Labour".
'Ere, wot's orl Vis abaht Keef Strimmer. Lye orf.
ReplyDeleteEvrywan noze by nah eez wanavus, jus lyin low fer de rite time, which is nah. Doze rich penshinners, phoney sick notes and ferril kids av gorrawye wiv it f'YEERS.
Moreowver, eez gonna defend the Essex tattoo parlers an body peersin cliniks agynst dem Trump tariffs. Syme wiv track suits and tryners shops.
I ad day Trotter in the backer me cab once. Sold me a crackn setter ub caps, no inkum tax, no vat, no warrameen, haha. Propah geezer innit.
Gawd bless gud owld Enoch an Nigel Far ridge, bezzy mytes wiv Keef an Boris dey are. Orl muckers t'gevver.
In case you're feeling guilty, Tankie, it's not too late to turn out on Saturday and actually DO something instead of just shouting at the clouds on here. Click link to find local action:
ReplyDeletehttps://palestinecampaign.org/events/dont-buy-apartheid-day-of-action/
If not, at least do without your usual MacDonalds and coke tomorrow or give up the houmous, dates and avocados* for a week
* green or black things with knobbly or smooth skin and green flesh, very popular down here in Babylon. Peruvian or Mexican alternatives are available
19:30.
DeleteIt's your own fault events have overwhelmed you, me ol' Micawber, and pulled your trousers down around your ankles.
That's what you get for all those weasel apologist words for the Zionist-without-qualification. Get used to it.
You people never learn.
So your sole contribution to the major anti-Israeli- genocide movement's latest campaign on Saturday was to write the tedious lines above, was it, Tankie? What's the problem, the PSC not Putin-aligned enough for you?
DeleteStill, you must feel really proud. Well done.
17:48.
DeleteTut tut, me ol' Micawber. You get more incoherent with each post.
Understandable, though, because your standard module tory propaganda fails whenever it encounters reality. Plus your "heroes" all have feet of clay.
It's the inevitable fate of all warmongering Quislings.
I asked ChatGPT to write an 80 word criticism of Labour in the style of an overexcited Marxist schoolkid. This is what it produced:
ReplyDelete'Oh, the Labour Party! What a joke! They pretend to be socialist but sell out to the capitalist establishment at every turn. They talk about equality but support austerity, privatization, and endless exploitation! The whole lot of them are just bourgeois puppets, pretending to fight for the working class while lining their pockets. They’ve forgotten Marx, Engels, and the struggle of the proletariat. It’s a betrayal of everything the working class stands for, and it’s infuriating! Revolution, not compromise!'
Oddly genteel and not half as good as the real thing, eh readers?
Considering it's been produced by AI, it's less boring, more coherent, and lacking in repetition.
DeleteVery disturbing.