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  1. SRD
    Moderator

    Unusual activity near President Donald Trump's golf resort in Scotland has set off rumors that he might be fleeing there before Joe Biden's inauguration.

    Prestwick airport, which is near Trump's Turnberry resort, was told to expect the arrival on Jan. 19 of a U.S. military Boeing 757 plane the president has reportedly used before, reported the Sunday PostSunday Post.

    "There is a booking for an American military version of the Boeing 757 on Jan. 19, the day before the inauguration," a source with Prestwick airport told the Post. "That's one that's normally used by the vice president but often used by the first lady. Presidential flights tend to get booked far in advance, because of the work that has to be done around it."

    Several U.S. Army aircraft have been seen performing surveillance above Trump's flagship golf resort starting Nov. 12, several days after Biden was projected as the winner of the presidential election.

    "The survey aircraft was based at Prestwick for about a week," an airport source said. "It is usually a sign Trump is going to be somewhere for an extended period."

    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-turnberry-scotland/

    Posted 3 years ago #
  2. steveo
    Member

    I do hope this isn't something we have to pay for, its bad enough this idiot exists and is allowed to be here but salt in the wound if its at any cost to the British tax payer.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  3. Rosie
    Member

    @SRD - and we're under lockdown. Poor chap will be forced to stay inside, watch the telly and tweet.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  4. crowriver
    Member

    In possibly related news...

    John Pilger @johnpilger
    Julian #Assange has been discharged by the judge at the Old Bailey on grounds that he was too great a suicide risk if extradited to the US. This is wonderful! It's a face-saving cover for the British to justify their disgraceful political trial of #Assange on America's behalf.

    https://twitter.com/johnpilger/status/1346054129773371392

    Posted 3 years ago #
  5. wee folding bike
    Member

    If he’s no longer head of state I don’t see why we should be expected to treat him differently from any other Joe.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  6. chdot
    Admin

    Is he ‘safer’ under the Scottish legal system than the English one?

    Posted 3 years ago #
  7. chdot
    Admin

    Nicola says Donald can’t come to play golf.

    Because ‘we’re not letting people in unless they have “essential” reasons’.

    If only

    Posted 3 years ago #
  8. SRD
    Moderator

    He’ll just claim to be a businessman and they’ll bow and scrape.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  9. minus six
    Member

    he'll emerge from that plane at prestwick holding aloft a cigar box guitar

    gonna busk it all the way from troon to balmedie

    Posted 3 years ago #
  10. gembo
    Member

    He’ll take a hot air balloon fueled by his havers and emerge wearing a big nappy and a bunnet made of the strange nylon he uses as hair. He’ll smash a mashie nib lick and the ball will bounce off Alex Salmond’s belly into a bunker from which he will struggle to emerge.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  11. paulmilne
    Member

    So he's coming over to miss the inauguration, after which he will no longer be President. If he's flying over on a military aircraft, how will he be getting home, I wonder?

    Posted 3 years ago #
  12. Murun Buchstansangur
    Member

    How times change

    Posted 3 years ago #
  13. chdot
    Admin

    “how will he be getting home, I wonder?“

    I was thinking that too.

    (Some) possibilities -

    Story fake news

    He’s made (provisional) arrangements to flee to lots of countries

    He’s not planning to go back!

    He likes the idea of being the king across the water

    He’s establishing residency so he can stand for Holyrood...

    Posted 3 years ago #
  14. Murun Buchstansangur
    Member

  15. steveo
    Member

    He’s establishing residency so he can stand for Holyrood...

    /shudder!!

    Posted 3 years ago #
  16. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Only 2,000-odd votes required to get a list seat. He'd need a bigger desk/seat in the chamber.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  17. SRD
    Moderator

    Just spotted that Gabriel Sterling - the republican Voting System Implementation Manager for GA (according to his twitter bio) is also (still according to his twitter bio) a cyclist.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  18. SRD
    Moderator

    Pence has said that he doesn't have authority to act unilaterally.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  19. chdot
    Admin

    The pro-Trump protesters have now breached the Capitol and are standing outside the Senate chamber as lawmakers debate a Republican objection to Arizona’s electoral votes.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jan/06/georgia-election-latest-news-senate-ossoff-warnock-democrats-republicans-trump-biden?page=with:block-5ff60d018f081f3586ba5f61#block-5ff60d018f081f3586ba5f61

    Posted 3 years ago #
  20. LaidBack
    Member

    @chdot @srd
    Gas masks under seats according to @ch4

    Curfew from 6pm

    Posted 3 years ago #
  21. Morningsider
    Member

    CNN headline "Insurrection in Washington following Trump encouragement".

    Posted 3 years ago #
  22. chdot
    Admin

    Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol as former DC police chief denounces 'coup attempt'

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jan/06/georgia-election-latest-news-senate-ossoff-warnock-democrats-republicans-trump-biden

    Posted 3 years ago #
  23. dessert rat
    Member

    been watching CNN on and off all day, now been straight for 4 hours. Final season of USA is amazing,

    Posted 3 years ago #
  24. chdot
    Admin

    This means that the account of @realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours following the removal of these Tweets. If the Tweets are not removed, the account will remain locked.

    https://twitter.com/twittersafety/status/1346970431039934464

    Posted 3 years ago #
  25. chdot
    Admin

  26. LaidBack
    Member

    Media here having fun trying to get Tory politicians make any statements on last nights Trump incited violence. Almost all have selfies with the orange one. Michael Gove was a real fanboy. Alex Salmond was too of course once but fell out big time when he allowed wind farm in view of golf course.
    FM though has never been a fan.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  27. chdot
    Admin

    “FM though has never been a fan.“

    Gender will have some bearing on that!

    Posted 3 years ago #
  28. Rosie
    Member

    Amazingly, Priti Patel was robust in blaming Trump.

    Maybe it is gender - his Big Unscrupulous Man persona doesn't appeal to women.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  29. chdot
    Admin

  30. chdot
    Admin


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