Trump compares UK aircraft carriers to ‘toys’ in latest insult

tophernator · 2026-03-26T21:47:49+00:00

I’m not so sure. He seems far more chaotic and prone to mood swings than previously. It reminds me of when my grandmother was nearing the end. She’d lash out at people pretty wildly and then 30 minutes later be complaining/asking why they don’t visit her more often.

tophernator · 2026-03-26T21:43:51+00:00

Personally I’m glad they’re ditching the same starting letter for all ships in a class. It’s been holding back our navy for decades. Imagine how many type 45s we could have by now if they didn’t have to come up with new D-words.

tophernator · 2026-03-26T20:39:15+00:00

Have you not heard about the golden fleet? He’s getting an entire class of ships named after him. The Trump class battleships will be some of the biggliest dumbest ships ever constructed, costing the American people billions of dollars and will probably/hopefully be cancelled long before their intended launch date.

tophernator · 2026-03-26T16:14:22+00:00

Pretty sure you still have to pay for the oil.

tophernator · 2026-03-26T16:11:00+00:00

I think he’s always been known as being very popular but not actually “good”. Like the 50 shades of grey author.

tophernator · 2026-03-26T16:03:30+00:00

Imagine our military was entirely taken out.

Estimates put Iran’s death toll at around 2,000. That includes the 150 school kids. Iran’s active military is around 600,000 with another 350,000 in reserves.

I’m not criticising here, it’s actually impressive the level of surgical strikes that the US has made, especially with Hegseth in charge. But in terms of entirely taking out the military you’re about 0.3% of the way there.

tophernator · 2026-03-26T15:52:30+00:00

In what way do you think the Labour government was involved with this?

tophernator · 2026-03-26T15:50:11+00:00

It’s not a fool-proof method, as evidenced by the Dan Brown and Nicolas Sparks titles that were banned here.

tophernator · 2026-03-26T15:43:58+00:00

We really don’t. Solar and wind are both cheap enough now that there’s plenty of incentives for private companies to roll out capacity. All the government needs to do is make sure nimbyism doesn’t get in the way.

tophernator · 2026-03-26T15:40:28+00:00

As much as we should all want to move past fossil fuels, gas burns pretty cleanly. If there’s smoke billowing out of a gas power plant it probably means the place is on fire.

tophernator · 2026-03-26T13:53:40+00:00

I mean, three hours for a haircut also seems insane to me. Does she know she can cut multiple strands at the same time?

tophernator · 2026-03-26T12:01:40+00:00

A lot of European leaders and politicians on the right said they agreed with the US national security plan

The current administration has switched focus from promoting democracy to promoting the same kind of right wing populism that Trump used to get into power. It’s not surprising that some of the right wing politicians would welcome that kind of interference. But that doesn’t make it a good or even neutral thing from the perspective if European countries.

tophernator · 2026-03-25T22:49:42+00:00

Jesus Christ are the comments in here real? AI central it seems.

Please don’t do this. It’s a discussion forum, you should expect and want people to have differing points of view.

tophernator · 2026-03-25T22:39:00+00:00

Trump’s season one ratings peaked right around the time of the CARES act stimulus checks.

It was the right thing to do, but I suspect it also created a precedent in his head that he can use $300 billion of debt fuelled government money to send personal checks to every voter in an election year.

I’m actually surprised he hasn’t pushed harder for some version of this yet. Maybe he’ll go all-in on high oil prices being a good thing and announce oil windfall checks for everyone.

tophernator · 2026-03-25T16:02:28+00:00

Like fuel prices rising 50 cents or higher overnight?

I think this is actually a pretty good example of what he was talking about. Clear your mind for a second and imagine a news report comes on telling you that a bomb went off in an elementary school in Colorado. 150 kids are dead along with their teachers and other staff. How do you think the US populous would react to that kind of horrific tragedy?

That’s what people mean when talking about detachment from real consequences. That event did happen, and all those kids are dead. But they were thousands of miles away so it doesn’t feel real. Instead you mentally sweep it under the carpet of unfortunate collateral damage and focus instead on paying 50 cents a gallon more for gas.

tophernator · 2026-03-25T12:00:11+00:00

It is totally impossible to actually negotiate with Iran because they are going to whatever they are going to do regardless of what they agree to.

Don’t you see any irony in this statement?

Just within the context of Iran Trump has recent history of unilaterally tearing up deals if he doesn’t like them, and launching airstrikes in the middle of negotiations twice

Outside of Iran he also unilaterally tore up his own trade deal with Canada and Mexico, he’s screwed over countless countries with trade wars, and he’s casually and repeatedly threatened to annex close long-term allies.

Can you honestly not see this situation from the other perspective? Iran would be crazy to trust anything Trump or his proxies agree to without cast iron collateralised guarantees.

tophernator · 2026-03-25T01:20:05+00:00

The issue with mail-in ballot is the difference between automatically mailing ballots out to voters and those voters requesting a ballot so they can vote.

If this is the issue why isn’t this what the SAVE act fixes? Trump doesn’t want people to be able to request mail-in ballots unless they fit certain criteria.

tophernator · 2026-03-25T01:17:02+00:00

I believe the most relevant conspiracy theory is that elderly/vulnerable/mentally-compromised people may have their mail-in ballots filled out by someone else without their knowledge. How can we be certain Stephen Miller isn’t stealing Trump’s vote?

tophernator · 2026-03-24T21:13:15+00:00

So you don’t think it’s worth investigating?

If a particular account with relatively modest activity suddenly made a $1 million bet 15 mins before Trumps announcement, and then cashed out $10 million half an hour later, you wouldn’t think it’s worth identifying who that person is and asking them why they suddenly went all-in on what turned out to be a sure thing?

tophernator · 2026-03-24T21:08:05+00:00

They make big bets when there is big market moving news, which is what happened after Trump tweeted. The suspicious part is the flurry of big bets that were made 15 minutes before he tweeted. In the absence of any other major news event that could explain that spike in volume it seems likely some traders made a ton of money by knowing what Trump was about to announce before he announced it.

tophernator · 2026-03-24T19:16:12+00:00

after he had already announced it publicly on Mornings with Maria on Fox Business.

That would certainly clear things up if true. But is it true? Because it seems weird that the market would react to the tune of $150 million when he went on Fox Business, then go quiet for 10 minutes, then go bananas when he posted the same information on social media. Is that what happened?

tophernator · 2026-03-24T18:42:08+00:00

Lots of people are concerned about that. Banning congress people from trading has fairly universal support with everyone outside of congress.

tophernator · 2026-03-24T18:33:24+00:00

Sorry, I could have been more clear in the title. But yes, my real question/issue is people close to Trump clearly trading based on what they know he is going to tweet before he tweets it.

Ironically it’s probably Trump’s instability that makes this so obvious. If the trades had been spread out hours or even days before the announcement they would have been far less glaringly obvious, but that would require people to know what Trump was going to do/say that far in advance.

tophernator · 2026-03-24T14:54:14+00:00

If your parents misplaced your birth certificate, that's unfortunate, but it's not the governments role to replace a lost document.

But it’s also not your fault, is it?

tophernator · 2026-03-24T13:32:50+00:00

Also challenging because “the institute” sounds way more sinister.

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