herfiehandbag

The Republicans are calling foul, fraud and demanding refunds (!) because Biden withdrew before the Democrat convention. They can't really change their Vice Presidential candidate after he has been endorsed by their convention, can they? Mind you it would be interesting watching Johnson and company squirm and wriggle to justify it!

That is the great benefit of the internet. It even allows you to multitask!

Perhaps we are just cynically expecting that he would abandon the USA's allies at the behest of his master Putin?

I suspect that you are right, various acolytes are already laying the groundwork: "she has been put in by a coup", "it is a fraudulent candidacy", "we won't co-operate as they should first refund us all the money we spent attacking Joe Biden" (!)... That sanctimonious hypocrite Johnson; you know, the one who paraded himself outside the courtroom in New York, as an upright fundamentalist born again Christian, in support of the whoremonger who used campaign money to pay off his porn star ( the only honest person in the whole farrago) - he has been all over the airwaves!

Which should make the TV debate most entertaining. Imagine, a Trumpian meltdown live on TV!

According to one account I read the bullet hit the teleprompter, the ear injury was from a glass splinter from the screen. Either that, or a tribute to the amazing regenerative effect upon the human body of a diet of double cheeseburgers!

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Regulation by legislation will certainly allow for some inventive (and lucrative) local policies around the country. It is after all a B2 billion industry so inevitably there must be many who will have an interest in how it is to be managed. Those who are in the business should be philosophical, and try not to get too "browned off". Envelopes are readily available in 7/11 stores.

We all know what he really means - she is not white and not male. And that, quite simply for the likes of him, is what the remainder of this campaign will boil down to.

True, she is far more useful in the House of Representatives! Someone is needed to replace Bernie Sanders as the "enfant terrible" to make the "Christian Nationalists" ( such a less perjorative term than "Fascists") wake up in a sweat at night!

It is at this point that I get confused; in most presidential democracies, the candidate who wins the most votes wins. Simple, and rather unarguably represents the view of the majority, as I said, simple. Yet in the USA the issue can be, and has been, fudged, to hand the job to the bloke who got fewer votes. So the minority gets it's way, thus avoiding " mob rule" or a "tyranny of a majority", whatever that is in a country which relies on people voting to choose a President? All because of a method developed to count and transmit voting results in an age where the only means of communication was a bloke riding on a horse over a long distance, and which rather than being replaced with a more nationally representative system as more modern technology (starting with the early single needle telegraph) became available, has been retained, frankly, because it can be effectively manipulated.

It would certainly make for a Presidential Candidates debate that I would watch!

Umh, surely, since he stands convicted, until or unless his appeal is heard (and possibly granted) he remains a felon?

They will all be gone. Just memories.

And taking the Presidency whilst having lost the popular vote by some 3 million votes, denying defeat and accusing an opponent of cheating when he won 7 million votes more, trying to halt the entirely legal, constitutional and properly managed transfer of power having been comprehensively defeated; those all are? Thank goodness I don't live in a Democratic Republic, but in a Constitutional Monarchy governed by a Parliamentary Democracy !

A hard sentence yes, but for blocking the M25, and deliberately setting out to cause gridlock. There is a major regional hospital adjacent to that bit of the M25. Such gridlock would have caused many missed appointments, trapped ambulances in gridlocked traffic and potentially led to deaths of their (the ambulances) occupants. They can have been no "not realising" the potential results of what they did, it was deliberate and premeditated. Fair sentence, not a political message. They were the ones who planned and acted to cause chaos, entirely headless of the possible results, to send their political message. The court is sending a message that society does not tolerate that behaviour.

The names of the last two listed have got to be worth at least a couple of years!

After all, dwarves are small and easier to hide. And , I mean, who is going to notice a 95Kg woman with a beard and purple hair?

Charlottesville eh? He must have been one of those very good people...

Just a passing thought, I wonder how many of those august jurists are from countries where everyone, irrespective of political allegiance, race, wealth, status or religion is entitled to, and more importantly would get, a fair trial?

In the interests of accuracy, his teleprompter took a bullet for democracy...

By which you mean that she will win the popular vote convincingly, yet the Electoral College will install Trump? As it happens I think that they would be remarkably daft to run Mrs Clinton, but then they went with Biden having a second run!

I rather agree. In fact who bloody cares what visa arrangements others choose to make? The Thai government decide how and why they are going to run such things, they don't care two hoots what expats think. They set the rules, and from time to time, at the whim of whoever is making the decisions, change or modify them. If the rules say XYZ, and herfiehandbag meets XYZ, then he gets an entry stamp, be it 30, 60, 90 days or a year. Back when Savannakhet was handing out 1 year multiple entry type Os based on marriage or parenthood then these columns were full of whinges from "Harry Enfield types" ("Oi have considerably more money than yew!") about soap dodgers bending the rules (not spending as much as the moaner). Different rules now apply, same whinges, and it rather seems, from memory, often the same whingers!

Oh for goodness sake you silly old fool, make a decision! Time is not on your or your party's side. Burbling away and wasting it does not help. You have had a good run in politics, umpteen years in the Senate, 8 years as Vice President. A term as President; recognise reality, the USA faces a real existential threat to it's democracy, and you are not longer the man to beat it. The election is now for the Democrats to lose, and my giddy aunt, don't they seem determined to do so! I know that the UK Tory Party "way of doing things" is thoroughly discredited, but there is something to be said for "the men in grey suits" dropping in for a drink and spelling the facts out to a failing leader!

The script is one thing, but the image was definitely sub par. Instead of the (admittedly large and very obvious) dressing on his right ear, Python would have gone for the "return of the mummy" overall bandaging act! I must confess I half expected to see him appear with a "kamikaze" style headband, with a strategically placed red stain over the ear. Missed opportunity there I think!