3 minutes ago, stevenl said:

I think for quite a few reasons Biden is far from the ideal candidate. I don't see him beat Trump, Trump is beating himself.

Now that is an argument I can buy into... that Trump will just self destruct (even more).

 

Anyway enough problems in the UK so I will leave you guys to it. 

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7 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

Just what does the "greatest Country" look like, population, land mass, etc...

That would be "biggest", "largest" or "most populated"!

And of course you know that!

7 hours ago, MyTHaiMyKe said:

You got Angela Merkel! Enough said!

Yup!

Not a fan of hers, but she beats Trump by a mile!

Sorry...lightyear!

7 hours ago, MyTHaiMyKe said:

When I was brought up my parents taught me that if you have nothing good to say about somebody, you are better off saying nothing! 95% of the people on this forum that are making comments here are not from the USA, so they have no knowledge what they are talking about! It is either jealousy or mr booze talking! 

You want a little insult match?

So your mom raised you to be an uncritical yet condescending bootlicker?

Great!

And just because someone is not from the USA, that does make the opinion invalid?

What a shame for all the ones who moved to the US and got degrees or doctorates in political science!

Trump does a lot of blasting. But he actually doesnt do anything.

Just now, The Barmbeker said:

You want a little insult match?

So your mom raised you to be an uncritical yet condescending bootlicker?

Great!

And just because someone is not from the USA, that does make the opinion invalid?

What a shame for all the ones who moved to the US and got degrees or doctorates in political science!

Seems strange he doesnt like posters who are in thailand commenting on US. Yet here he is on a thailand site.

This race baiting "cultural revolution" / save the confederate statues of slavery and treason tactic is not even trying to win. It's only for 45's base of his base. The hard core extremist white nationalists. What's his game? He knows he will lose but he wants to have an angry well armed core to defend him against going to prison. Fear of starting a civil war by going after him that way might work. This is sick stuff but that's what we got. 

Edited July 5, 20206 yr by Jingthing

1 minute ago, The Barmbeker said:

You want a little insult match?

So your mom raised you to be an uncritical yet condescending bootlicker?

Great!

And just because someone is not from the USA, that does make the opinion invalid?

What a shame for all the ones who moved to the US and got degrees or doctorates in political science!

What a stupid thing to say ???? sure there are non Americans who know far more about US politics than those who live there.

7 hours ago, Orton Rd said:

I'm sure that was a big comfort to Mrs Kennedy and Hillary

Sure wasn't!

But that is not the point!

If Kennedy (or Clinton...or whoever) had an extramarital affair, with an adult woman and both CONSENTED, it may not be nice or good or right...but it is between the two adults!

When TRump grabs some woman by the hoohah or walks into the lockerroom of a beauty pageant for teenagers, WITHOUT their consent, it is something very different!

Yes or no?

Self deleted my juvenile side got the best of me!

Edited July 5, 20206 yr by The Barmbeker

The left wing cultural revolution is still going strong.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/baltimore-protesters-toppled-a-christopher-columbus-statue-and-threw-it-in-a-harbor/ar-BB16lEvx

 

 

 

8 hours ago, MyTHaiMyKe said:

When I was brought up my parents taught me that if you have nothing good to say about somebody, you are better off saying nothing! 95% of the people on this forum that are making comments here are not from the USA, so they have no knowledge what they are talking about! It is either jealousy or mr booze talking! 

So by your logic any US expats opinion is also worthless , correct ?

Mind you , given Trump's foreign affairs blunders , you may have a point , he is clearly clueless about the rest of the world.

3 hours ago, RickG16 said:

What a stupid thing to say ???? sure there are non Americans who know far more about US politics than those who live there.

or even the POTUS.

14 hours ago, checkered flag said:

illiberal lefties

???? 

il·lib·er·al

adjective: opposed to liberal principles.

 

left wing

liberal...

 

You seem to use the term a great deal. Are you really trying to say liberals opposed to liberal principles? Does that mean something? Anything? Or is it just your own word salad?

Well of course.... how could any decent human being, much less president of the United States, NOT address the massive numbers of leftist savages roaming the streets rioting, looting, assaulting and pillaging?

16 hours ago, checkered flag said:

On 7/4/2020 at 6:54 AM, johnpetersen said:

Clearly you haven't listened to any Biden interviews. He's demonstrated that he's quite capable of delving into quite complicated facts of legislative history. When he Trump ever performed similarly?

Haw? Are we listening to the same guy? However since you're a far lefty you filter out all logic and only hear what is left.

 

Hey, @johnpetersen !  I didn't know you were a baseball player!

 

18 hours ago, teatime101 said:

If he is, that's not good news for Trump. Not sure how large the black Republican vote is, but Kanye has been a mate of Trump's for a while.

 

Maybe...

The "black" community in the USA, whilst certainly disproportionately represented amongst the disadvantaged young, also has members (many) amongst the professional, business, military and many other more affluent groups in the country. I doubt whether many of them would abandon their conventional political affiliations to vote for Kanye West. I also suspect that many who would vote for Kanye West would probably not have voted for the Republican or Democrat parties or candidates.

In 2016 Trump use scaremongering against immigrants as his strategy. Now he is again employing the same scaremongering tactic by splitting his own people to 2 sides. Trump is encouraging the citizens to take sides and is very incendiary. GOPs must recognize the danger and do the proper thing. 

28 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

In 2016 Trump use scaremongering against immigrants as his strategy. Now he is again employing the same scaremongering tactic by splitting his own people to 2 sides. Trump is encouraging the citizens to take sides and is very incendiary. GOPs must recognize the danger and do the proper thing. 

The GOP are among the people MOST interested in dividing the nation. There is ONE person of color in the entire GOP Senate. That hardly represents the US.

Trump just going back to his old bag of tricks like in 2016 by scaring citizens of hordes and caravans of rapists and gang members invading US. This time it is his own people that he is labeling as the enemy and it is a tire old tactic that has lost its effectiveness. No more talk of the marauding immigrants now. 
 

 78% acknowledged that he nation is moving in the wrong direction. The Dems will be delighted to see Trump sticking to an old recipe that will further see his appeal and re-election fading. 

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2 hours ago, herfiehandbag said:

The "black" community in the USA, whilst certainly disproportionately represented amongst the disadvantaged young, also has members (many) amongst the professional, business, military and many other more affluent groups in the country. I doubt whether many of them would abandon their conventional political affiliations to vote for Kanye West. I also suspect that many who would vote for Kanye West would probably not have voted for the Republican or Democrat parties or candidates.

West's sales are way way down. Not nearly so popular as he used to be. Probably something to do with cozying up to Trump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanye_West_albums_discography#:~:text=West has sold 21 million,albums in the United States.

11 hours ago, Crazy Alex said:

Well of course.... how could any decent human being, much less president of the United States, NOT address the massive numbers of leftist savages roaming the streets rioting, looting, assaulting and pillaging?

 

Trump.

Decent human being.

13 hours ago, Crazy Alex said:

Well of course.... how could any decent human being, much less president of the United States, NOT address the massive numbers of leftist savages roaming the streets rioting, looting, assaulting and pillaging?

Which president of which country would that be?

14 hours ago, Crazy Alex said:

Well of course.... how could any decent human being, much less president of the United States, NOT address the massive numbers of leftist savages roaming the streets rioting, looting, assaulting and pillaging?

Well let's get one thing right, and that is that trump has proven time and time again that he is far less then a "decent human being".....pu$$y grabbing, stealing from a charity and thousands of lies makes sure that he doesn't qualify for a "decent" tag.

 

But one thing that puzzles me about some people on here who refer to the people who do not support trump, is that they constantly refer to the Democrats or non-trump supporters, as fascists, savages, thugs etc.

 

Whereas I had always thought that trump with his right wing leanings would be the one who qualifies as a fascist, and also therefore his followers who also engage in much the same sort of shenanigans as quoted in your post, not to mention pointing rifles and guns at people, but that's a different matter for another time.

 

Fascism is described thus: Opposed to liberalism, Marxism, and anarchism, fascism is placed on the far right within the traditional left–right spectrum. 

 

The left leans towards socialism, whereas the right leans towards ultra nationalism, dictatorial power (as in that which trump is trying to implement) and other unsavoury aspects.

 

Quite why, especially on this thread/forum, centrists, liberals and those who do not like trump, are labelled fascists and savages is a mystery, but then again perhaps it all leads back to the trump right wing leanings!

Edited July 6, 20206 yr by xylophone

1 hour ago, xylophone said:

Well let's get one thing right, and that is that trump has proven time and time again that he is far less then a "decent human being".....pu$$y grabbing, stealing from a charity and thousands of lies makes sure that he doesn't qualify for a "decent" tag.

 

But one thing that puzzles me about some people on here who refer to the people who do not support trump, is that they constantly refer to the Democrats or non-trump supporters, as fascists, savages, thugs etc.

 

Whereas I had always thought that trump with his right wing leanings would be the one who qualifies as a fascist, and also therefore his followers who also engage in much the same sort of shenanigans as quoted in your post, not to mention pointing rifles and guns at people, but that's a different matter for another time.

 

Fascism is described thus: Opposed to liberalism, Marxism, and anarchism, fascism is placed on the far right within the traditional left–right spectrum. 

 

The left leans towards socialism, whereas the right leans towards ultra nationalism, dictatorial power (as in that which trump is trying to implement) and other unsavoury aspects.

 

Quite why, especially on this thread/forum, centrists, liberals and those who do not like trump, are labelled fascists and savages is a mystery, but then again perhaps it all leads back to the trump right wing leanings!

The real shame of ALL of this is people have lost the ability to debate issues without emotional rhetoric. EVERY political ad I've seen from EITHER side has only flung poo at the opposition. EVERY news stream I've seen from either side has mostly avoided issues and instead pointed accusatory fingers at how bad the other guys are. I even posted earlier on TV how I miss politicians who argued honorable platforms and received nasty blow back at the sheer idea, instead accusing former politicians of their wrongdoings. Only ads from Biden have broached the imagery of trying to bring the country together (and I'm NO fan of Biden!). For pity's sake, why should wearing a mask (as all countries who have successfully pushed back at the virus numbers) become political? I have a friend who lives in Arizona. This guy used to be an advisor to a US Vice President. He tells me it's now a political statement. Dems wear masks, Reps don't. Until we stop the petty arguments that are costing money, time, and lives; until we stop listening to lies, believing them as gospel truth; until we admit that science based on facts are the messages we should use to battle this pandemic, we are doomed to rising numbers of virus cases and resulting deaths.

Only just heard highlights (sic) of Trump's speeches over the weekend.

 

Apparently, pre 1492 there was nothing there.  Who knew?

 

But all of the ramble I heard was, most definitely, not a specch by the Presidnet of the United States to all his Countrymen.  It was a naked election speech to his base.  And some it was breathtaking in its content. 

 

Makes me sick that he might even have a sniff of being re-elected.  But I truly worry if the result is not an absolute landslide for Biden then there is a growing possiblility that Trump will call anything else (and maybe even that) as false, fake, illegal and refuse to step down.  Loathsome man.

 

PH

20 hours ago, xylophone said:

Well let's get one thing right, and that is that trump has proven time and time again that he is far less then a "decent human being".....pu$$y grabbing, stealing from a charity and thousands of lies makes sure that he doesn't qualify for a "decent" tag.

 

But one thing that puzzles me about some people on here who refer to the people who do not support trump, is that they constantly refer to the Democrats or non-trump supporters, as fascists, savages, thugs etc.

 

Whereas I had always thought that trump with his right wing leanings would be the one who qualifies as a fascist, and also therefore his followers who also engage in much the same sort of shenanigans as quoted in your post, not to mention pointing rifles and guns at people, but that's a different matter for another time.

 

Fascism is described thus: Opposed to liberalism, Marxism, and anarchism, fascism is placed on the far right within the traditional left–right spectrum. 

 

The left leans towards socialism, whereas the right leans towards ultra nationalism, dictatorial power (as in that which trump is trying to implement) and other unsavoury aspects.

 

Quite why, especially on this thread/forum, centrists, liberals and those who do not like trump, are labelled fascists and savages is a mystery, but then again perhaps it all leads back to the trump right wing leanings!

Left to themselves the lefties  will self destruct like in Seattle. The trouble is they want to take ordinary people along with them. 

Your lecture on political systems is rubbish or worse. Maybe we need a go fund me page for you to buy a ticket to Seattle or Portland. 

43 minutes ago, checkered flag said:

Left to themselves the lefties (sickos) will self destruct like in Seattle. The trouble is they want to take ordinary people along with them. 

Your lecture on political systems is rubbish or worse. Maybe we need a go fund me page for you to buy a ticket to Seattle or Portland. 

I recently posted this: "The real shame of ALL of this is people have lost the ability to debate issues without emotional rhetoric."