Speech at Lincoln Center Honors: ‘You Will Go Down in History as a Catastrophe’

[zqwerty]

Speech at Lincoln Center Honors: ‘You Will Go Down in History as a Catastrophe’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/pedro...236380848/

[Oh_hunnihunni]

I couldn't help thinking about the lesson the world was ignoring over the Spanish blackout. How fast and how easily we can be brought to our knees by a simple power cut. No doubt those with agendas have not missed the point...

As for Trump, he isn't listening. He cannot hear criticism.

[zqwerty]

The Canadian journalist who first called Donald Trump a 'short-fingered vulgarian'

https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/the-can...-vulgarian

This was first said in 1988

[Lilith7]

Speech at Lincoln Center Honors: ‘You Will Go Down in History as a Catastrophe’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/pedro...236380848/

He's not wrong. And yet, there are still Americans who think Trump's wonderful. I wonder what they'll think of him when they're due for their next election.

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I couldn't help thinking about the lesson the world was ignoring over the Spanish blackout. How fast and how easily we can be brought to our knees by a simple power cut. No doubt those with agendas have not missed the point...

As for Trump, he isn't listening. He cannot hear criticism.

It must have been dire for those trapped on trains; the doors wouldn't open so they were stuck & would have had no way of knowing what was happening.

[zqwerty]

The crunch is coming soon, apparently the goods imported from China are well down and soon shortages will start to appear much worse than happened in America in Covid time.

As to the blackouts, apparently there's a theory that it's due to too little real inertia in the generating system due to reducing the amount of turbines and increasing modern green generation causing much faster reactions to system changes causing large oscillations and overshoots in voltages causing compensatory switch offs in the system which then cause drops in voltage which means there are power shortages which lead to blackouts.

This is speculative.

[king1]

The crunch is coming soon, apparently the goods imported from China are well down and soon shortages will start to appear much worse than happened in America in Covid time.

As to the blackouts, apparently there's a theory that it's due to too little real inertia in the generating system due to reducing the amount of turbines and increasing modern green generation causing much faster reactions to system changes causing large oscillations and overshoots in voltages causing compensatory switch offs in the system which then cause drops in voltage which means there are power shortages which lead to blackouts.

This is speculative.

albeit very specific speculation...

[zqwerty]

China sends stern video message to Trump on trade war: We won’t ‘kneel down’

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/559472/...kneel-down

[heisenberg]

He's not wrong. And yet, there are still Americans who think Trump's wonderful. I wonder what they'll think of him when they're due for their next election.

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Oh_hunnihunn

same as ardern, some people think she’s wonderfull while most peoples see her for the evil narcissist she is

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Most? Well, not internationally, if her growing collection of international awards are anything to go by. And those aren't handed out in cereal packets.

But, you are right, some opinions are absolutely set in stone, like mine around that American criminal despot and his puppeteers, lol...

[Praktica]

He's not wrong. And yet, there are still Americans who think Trump's wonderful. I wonder what they'll think of him when they're due for their next election.

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Oh_hunnihunn

same as ardern, some people think she’s wonderfull while most peoples see her for the evil narcissist she is

A bit of projection there?

[king1]

He's not wrong. And yet, there are still Americans who think Trump's wonderful. I wonder what they'll think of him when they're due for their next election.

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Oh_hunnihunn

same as ardern, some people think she’s wonderfull while most peoples see her for the evil narcissist she is

i know a touch of narcissism is pretty much a prerequisite for political aspirations, but of all the recent politicians in New Zealand I think I would consider Jacinda Ardern one of the least afflicted...

Some folks still seem obsessed with 'wasted' money during the covid years while conveniently ignoring the lives saved by her policies. She didn't get everything right but under the circumstances she wasn't going to keep everyone happy - stuck between a rock and a hard place so to speak...

[Lilith7]

He's not wrong. And yet, there are still Americans who think Trump's wonderful. I wonder what they'll think of him when they're due for their next election.

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Oh_hunnihunn

same as ardern, some people think she’s wonderfull while most peoples see her for the evil narcissist she is

Thanks to the sheer nastiness of some sections of humanity, I suspect it may be several decades before her actual worth is recognised.

Empathy & impulsiveness in a leader was after all, a relatively new experience for most.

[heisenberg]

same as ardern, some people think she’s wonderfull while most peoples see her for the evil narcissist she is

Thanks to the sheer nastiness of some sections of humanity, I suspect it may be several decades before her actual worth is recognised.

Empathy & impulsiveness in a leader was after all, a relatively new experience for most.

lol she cared so much about children in poverty she created thousands more of them

[zqwerty]

Lilith7 this is someone on the left hand side of the normal distribution curve, maybe as low down as the genetic defect bulge, Trolls are not known for their high IQ, lol.

[king1]

Thanks to the sheer nastiness of some sections of humanity, I suspect it may be several decades before her actual worth is recognised.

Empathy & impulsiveness in a leader was after all, a relatively new experience for most.

lol she cared so much about children in poverty she created thousands more of them

are there stats to back this up?  or is it just a made up, fit the narrative kind of fact? 
Last I read everything was kinda stagnant during/after covid, and reducing prior to...

[Praktica]

Thanks to the sheer nastiness of some sections of humanity, I suspect it may be several decades before her actual worth is recognised.

Empathy & impulsiveness in a leader was after all, a relatively new experience for most.

lol she cared so much about children in poverty she created thousands more of them

Proof? And tell us what the current bunch are doing about child poverty...

[Lilith7]

Thanks to the sheer nastiness of some sections of humanity, I suspect it may be several decades before her actual worth is recognised.

Empathy & impulsiveness in a leader was after all, a relatively new experience for most.

lol she cared so much about children in poverty she created thousands more of them

And...of course, you have actual proof of this....??

And since you appear so interested you might want to have a look at the present govt & what they've done to help that situation...hint not a damned thing - they have though, managed to make it worse.

[king1]

and apparently people living on the streets is on the rise again

[Praktica]

and apparently people living on the streets is on the rise again

But they've reduced the number in emergency accomodation! They see that as a win...

Here in Dunedin, we have a Hooverville growing at the back of the Oval, on the motorway embankment.

[zqwerty]

They're called Luxtowns here.