45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. (Vol 5)
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ReaperCushions said:
Byker28i said:
Oh dear
In CA45, Katie Porter (D) has just taken a small lead over Rep. Mimi Walters (R), 116,732 to 116,471. could be shaping up as another loss for the GOP.
This is my district, and I love it! Go Porter!!In CA45, Katie Porter (D) has just taken a small lead over Rep. Mimi Walters (R), 116,732 to 116,471. could be shaping up as another loss for the GOP.
Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux is trailing Republican Rep. Rob Woodall by about 500 votes. That margin could narrow as hundreds of votes from Gwinnett County are still pending
https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--pol...
A judge has ruled that more rejected votes be counted...
Byker28i said:
Halb said:
Byker28i said:
Oh dear
In CA45, Katie Porter (D) has just taken a small lead over Rep. Mimi Walters (R), 116,732 to 116,471. could be shaping up as another loss for the GOP.
didn't even know counting was still goingIn CA45, Katie Porter (D) has just taken a small lead over Rep. Mimi Walters (R), 116,732 to 116,471. could be shaping up as another loss for the GOP.
t up.Top work by Pence, for pressing Aung San Suu Kyi on the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya and persecution of journalists
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna936041
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna936041
kowalski655 said:
DT having a pop at the French-if it weren't for the US they would be speaking German!
Forgetting that US of A arrived late TWICE!
And that his grandad spoke German before fleeing military service(sensing a theme there!)
And the French were vital in securing independence in the AWI
And the Americans very nearly voted to speak German after the Revolution!
Jesus H fForgetting that US of A arrived late TWICE!
And that his grandad spoke German before fleeing military service(sensing a theme there!)
And the French were vital in securing independence in the AWI
And the Americans very nearly voted to speak German after the Revolution!
king candlesticks. He's managed to hit 2 birds with one tweet, so to speak: - his utter ignorance of history, and its impact on current world affairs; and
- his utter insensitivity, at a time when the more sentient are remembering the utter slaughter endured by all combatants in one what remains one of the most horrific conflicts of all time.
He also seems to have forgotten where one of the greatest symbols of the USA, and all it (is supposed to) stand for, came from (Mr Trump, in the unlikely event you're broadening your narrow, mealy mouthed mind by reading this, that's the Statue of Liberty).
The man is a completely stupid, ignorant prig.
Byker28i said:
Top work by Pence, for pressing Aung San Suu Kyi on the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya and persecution of journalists
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna936041
From that articlehttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna936041
Pence said:
In America, we believe in democratic institutions and ideals, including a free and independent press
Maybe he should put that in a memo to the President
p1stonhead said:
Tide turning?
Sadly not, as he's the only one in Fox publicly supporting CNN. All the TV presenters have been saying the exact opposite 
But the hearing has started, so lets see how it turns out. Although the Judge is a Trumphant, there's no way he could agree with what's happened.
Halb said:
Anyone catch Last Week Tonight last night? It had a fun lil bit on Whitaker...he's a unit. 
Trump supporters and islamists are the same to me. I don't agree with their direction of travel but will always accept a conversation.Tartan Pixie said:
Turkey
what do you think on Edrogan's move towards a more hardline Islamic nation?Lets play a game called Trump or Erdogan?
- Wants to subvert the judiciary to his own ends.
- Calls the press 'enemy of the people'.
- Wants to lock up political opponents.
- Wants to build a wall along the southern border to keep out migrants.
- Thin skinned in any situation which doesn't fit their cult of personality.
The answer is Trump, you can tell because Erdogan's at least competent enough to build a wall instead of just wanting to
The current state of Turkey is exactly what you get if you follow Trumpism for too long which makes the anti islamic sentiment among Trump supporters as ironic as the left's support of it. Wouldn't want people coming over here with their conservative family values, distrust of liberal ideology and tendency towards authoritarianism would we now?
Too much islamism you end up with jihadis. Too much trumpism and you get people shooting up synagogues. Same sh!t different arse.
In both Erdogan's AKP and Trump's Reupblicans the supporter base contains a lot of people Marx called the lumpen proletariat and Clinton called deplorables so insert your own sneering intellectual cliché here. The sense of cultural and sometimes racial superiority that harks back to a golden era looks pretty similar too.
America and Turkey are different in language, culture, religion, geography, etc so the fact that the same shift to the right is happening at the same time and involving the same demographic gives an interesting control to try and study the situation. This means there's something happening globally.
My pet theory is that politics has failed to evolve at anything like the pace of the private sector, particularly with regard to legislation. If I go in to a supermarket I expect my soup to contain exactly what it says on the tin, my 95% fat free chips to have 5% more fat in them than an actual potato and my frozen lasagne to taste of something other than horse. Why then would I accept politicians who lie to me constantly?
If politics fails, which it clearly has done compared to the levels of choice and information accuracy we have become accustomed to in every other area of our lives, then what option do people have but to fall back on earlier forms of politics that proved reliable in the past? How far back in the past you go depends how unreliable your politics is.
If we take religion as being an evolutionary proto politics, a way of having shared culture, judiciary and economics then if your political choices end up with you being occupied and dominated then you revert back to theocracy because it works to prevent foreign occupation (see Arabia for details). If your religion is politically reenacting the mason-dixion line then that's what you revert to when politics fails.
From Ankara to Washington via Shanghai, Abuja, Blackpool and Muscat we as humans rely on a basic principal of 'if you buy a drink and it stinks then you don't buy the local moonshine again and instead fall back on the drink you had before which you enjoyed'. Unregulated politics stinks so the politics you're going to fall back on is... pick your choice from xxx years ago.
++This rant was inspired by Alan Sugar, he's not normally someone who I pay attention to but his rant in the lords about the steps corporates have to go through in order to report to the stock market and how that should be applied to politics really got my brain working.++
Michael Avenatti has reportedly been arrested on alleged domestic violence charges https://www.foxnews.com/us/michael-avenatti-report...
Ructions said:
Michael Avenatti has reportedly been arrested on alleged domestic violence charges https://www.foxnews.com/us/michael-avenatti-report...
Crikey! There will be some very excited trumpettes over this.
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