Detournement Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 It's strange to think that at this point in 2016 the Presidential contest was massively gearing up whereas now Biden is pretty much invisible. Surely at some point he will have to speak in public for an extended period. We are being cheated out of comedy gold. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 12 minutes ago, Detournement said: It's strange to think that at this point in 2016 the Presidential contest was massively gearing up whereas now Biden is pretty much invisible. Surely at some point he will have to speak in public for an extended period. We are being cheated out of comedy gold. He'd be daft to while Trump is on full self destruct mode, quite apart from the arse he makes of it every time he opens his mouth. His polls have been booming every day he stays in hiding. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Kelly Isley III Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 He'd be daft to while Trump is on full self destruct mode, quite apart from the arse he makes of it every time he opens his mouth. His polls have been booming every day he stays in hiding.There was an interesting review of a book about Melania in the weekend papers. Seems that apart from her cutting up his meat at dinner time they are hardly ever in the same room. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 3 hours ago, welshbairn said: He'd be daft to while Trump is on full self destruct mode, quite apart from the arse he makes of it every time he opens his mouth. His polls have been booming every day he stays in hiding. Trump wants a culture war. He needs a target and a threat. Biden wins every time Trump accuses him of treason and he doesn’t respond. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 https://t.co/aLlYUSCSQP Imagine they done this and ended up having to postpone the election so both parties could find actually conscious replacements 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Its a long way out from the election for the moment but Trump may become the first first term lame duck since Carter. Bush 42 is the only one termer since then but his election with Clinton and Perot was reasonably close fought. The more it looks like he will not get reelected the less patronage he will be able to dispense and the more Congress and Senate GOPers will want to throw him under the bus to create distance between them, their election bids and his unpopular administration. I really do not think he is anywhere close to being smart enough a political operator to get round a Washington turning on him. He is not dead in the water yet, but things can turn quickly. According to fivethirtyeight Biden has a 10 point lead in Michigan, 7 points in Wisconsin, 5.5 in Pennsylvania. Those are dead man walking numbers. There will be all 435 Congress seats up for grabs and 33 Senate seats. The Democrats hold the Congress, but need 4 seats to take the Senate, they are likely to loose Alabama but may gain Colorado and Arizona so likely little to no over all change. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 12 hours ago, NotThePars said: https://t.co/aLlYUSCSQP Imagine they done this and ended up having to postpone the election so both parties could find actually conscious replacements "Biden would pass the cognitive exam administered by his White House physician in two years ago" Who writes this shite? Having said that, if Trump could pass "a simple cognitive test", surely anybody could. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 I see our boy has announced new measures to handle widespread police brutality - if you vandalise a statue, you're going to the jail for ten years. The US might actually be bigger on idolatry than the Catholic Church, thinking about it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 5 minutes ago, BigFatTabbyDave said: I see our boy has announced new measures to handle widespread police brutality - if you vandalise a statue, you're going to the jail for ten years. The US might actually be bigger on idolatry than the Catholic Church, thinking about it. Trump is basically doing everything to appeal to his hardcore base, the circa 30% who will vote for him in any situation. He’s doing absolutely nothing to appeal to swing voters. I have no idea what his policy advisors are thinking. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 4 minutes ago, Savage Henry said: Trump is basically doing everything to appeal to his hardcore base, the circa 30% who will vote for him in any situation. He’s doing absolutely nothing to appeal to swing voters. I have no idea what his policy advisors are thinking. They're probably thinking, "why does this p***k employ us if he won't listen to what we say?" The US is such a bizarre mix of contradictions. Supposedly the home of free speech, yet the authorities are as keen to silence protest as any other government. A bastion of Christianity, but obsessed with the worship of false Gods and graven images. It's considered patriotic to form an armed militia that openly threatens to kill democratically-elected officials, but you'll lose ten years of your life for property damage. Almost as weird as our insistence that we're a democracy, when our government has to double-check everything with an unelected auld woman due to her magic blood. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 They're probably thinking, "why does this p***k employ us if he won't listen to what we say?" The US is such a bizarre mix of contradictions. Supposedly the home of free speech, yet the authorities are as keen to silence protest as any other government. A bastion of Christianity, but obsessed with the worship of false Gods and graven images. It's considered patriotic to form an armed militia that openly threatens to kill democratically-elected officials, but you'll lose ten years of your life for property damage. Almost as weird as our insistence that we're a democracy, when our government has to double-check everything with an unelected auld woman due to her magic blood.America replaced god with America and capitalism. You have to respect Mormonism at least for going whole hog and transplanting Christ on to their continent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 14 minutes ago, NotThePars said: America replaced god with America and capitalism. The political analysis of a 19 year old. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HTG Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 He'll be chuffed to bits to have had another of his tweets muted. Just incredible for a leader of a democracy. I wonder if any other elected head of state has ever had a tweet muted - far less more than one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 1 hour ago, BigFatTabbyDave said: I see our boy has announced new measures to handle widespread police brutality - if you vandalise a statue, you're going to the jail for ten years. The US might actually be bigger on idolatry than the Catholic Church, thinking about it. Having a law against vandalising public memorials is normal. Most countries have them. Walk into an art gallery and start painting slogans on paintings and see how long before you face serious legal actions for that. Does that mean we worship art as if it was a supernatural being? Walk into a Jewish or Muslim cemetery and start spray painting slogans on the grave stones, if you are arrested will you claim this is because we have idolatry of those buried there? Though in my experience when people are doing the "outraged by a Tweet" thing, they do not take kindly to showing their outrage is misplaced or has not really thought the issue through. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 (edited) If only we all had such clear and literal minds. Ten years for putting a traffic cone on a statue's head, nothing to see here. American worship of the flag, constitution and capitalism, how childish . Burn a flag...all perfectly normal. Edited June 24, 2020 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The OP Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 17 minutes ago, welshbairn said: If only we all had such clear and literal minds. Ten years for putting a traffic cone on a statue's head, nothing to see here. American worship of the flag, constitution and capitalism, how childish . Burn a flag... Trump - The left wing anarchists ripped down a statue of Columbus Trump 10 seconds later - The left wing anarchists didn’t rip down a statue of Columbus because some Italians stopped them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 6 hours ago, dorlomin said: The political analysis of a 19 year old. Bold words from the guy still quoting George Orwell's Animal Farm as some serious insight in his 30s 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampden Diehard Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 The church holding his rally the other day was crowing about how its air filtration system would wheech away any COVID19 virus, so everyone would be safe. Seemed too good to be true.....and it was. They have withdrawn their claim and admitted that they were wrong. Hopefully the halfwits who turned up are shiting themselves (although I bear them no ill will). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Obviously there are a huge number of postal votes which will account for a far higher share of the vote than usual, but on the partial results in primaries it seems that progressive Democrat candidates are performing quite well. In NY Charles Booker (endorsed by Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez) is over 20% ahead of Elliot Engel who's a 16 term congressman endorsed by Clinton and Schumer. In Kentucky Charles Booker and Amy McGrath for the Senate nomination to challenge Mitch McConnell is being described as too close to call - McGrath had been the clear favourite until a few weeks ago and is endorsed by Pelosi and Schumer. Incidentally, the Booker and McGrath campaigns had to get an emergency injunction from a judge to keep the one polling station in Jefferson County open as they had locked the doors on people who were already in the queue to vote before the polls closed. Look forward to dorlomin reiterating that this is fine because postal votes are a thing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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