Heartland

Bartek wrote: ↑11 Jul 2024, 13:50 This may or may not be related, but I guess the main reason is invasion itself. States are usually slow in reacting, thus time was needed to see some changes in the spending area.

ruffers wrote: ↑20 Jul 2024, 22:46 I'm watching a Trump speech live from a rally in Michigan and it's amazing. Kind of free style word association throwing in asides from all over the place.

It's fascinating to watch

Bartek wrote: ↑21 Jul 2024, 10:32 Even not being a big fan of Orange Goblin , to put it lightly, his major opponent it also not in touch with reality mostly due aging and its natural consequences (I know, it's ageism from my side).

Bartek wrote: ↑21 Jul 2024, 20:46 Well yes, you're right with these example, yet statistically and biologically the older you are the worst your convitive ability become. Fact there are examples poving otherwise doesn't make this wrong.

Saying that Kamila Trump is another opponent as Joe has stepped down. The corpses in her wardrobe can't wait to come out and strangle her (unlike in Donald Harris, who's wardrobe have been searched numerous of times).

People of USofA and the rest of the world must learn again how to deal with Orange Goblin (yet i really want to be wrong here; but more investors from Silicon Valley are supporting the Goblin, and betting on his win, also because he is less willing to make them any troubble and maybe even some tax preferences to come).

She's regarded by a lot of people here as being the worst combination of intellectually lazy and viciously cruel. Staff turnover in her office is pretty high.

Dan wrote: ↑30 Jun 2024, 01:44

ribbons69 wrote: ↑30 Jun 2024, 00:36 So here in the UK if a leader is particularly useless, like Boris for instance, his own party have a process that can replace him. Does this not happen in the US?

Yeah, can't Trump's party say they don't want him as a candidate and throw him out?
Or wouldn't they do that because they're all as corrupt as he is??
The idea that as a President he could rule from within a prison cell is just monstrous.

Ocean Moves wrote: ↑29 Jun 2024, 06:43 I'll go :

I'd like someone to explain to me in layman's terms why in a country of over 330 million human beings, the only candidates in the electoral race are a convicted criminal (who happens to be a pathological liar)
and a frail octogenarian.

Here's the problem: the Republican Party is not popular. Since 1988, they've won the popular vote ONCE, 20 years ago when the USA was actively engaged in two wars. And Trump is the only Republican candidate who can get a lot of people out to vote, there's nobody else since the party has been a full blown cult for a long time now. As far as being as corrupt as he is, they just want to keep their jobs. That's it. The worst thing imaginable for creatures like Ted Cruz or Lindsey Graham is that one day they are "ex-Senators". So they'll get up there and agree that 2+2=5. The Republicans had multiple chances to get rid of him: two impeachments where a conviction would have barred him from office, and the 25th amendment which they could have

ruffers wrote: ↑06 Nov 2024, 10:24 There's a lot of Americans really want a new album.

longtimelurker wrote: ↑06 Nov 2024, 11:39 Unsurprisingly, "kamala IS brat" + Dick Cheney didn't turn out to be the best strategy. Wonder if Eldritch will finally stop watching so much MSNBC now? (still can't get over his "she’s clearly got something that connects to the American people" interview quote)

On a serious note, it sucks to see some really ugly anti-latino racist comments from people on the left (Democrat voters) already. I think most strangers assume I'm Eurasian instead, and my will be spouse is actually East Asian, so maybe I can sidestep being on the receiving end of most of that

Incoming! wrote: ↑06 Nov 2024, 18:37 Some thoughts :

Misogyny still alive and well (look at early stats)

We are still fighting the US Civil War

Democrats still a mess

9 of 10 states voted down abortion ban

One country lived under the rule of a narcissist fascist for 13 years. We can handle another 4

There won’t be a January 6 uprising

Glad I saw TSOM play in US maybe for last time

Kansas City Chiefs American football ball team won in over time last night. They are now 8-0

Let’s all pray for the US Joint Chiefs to once again have a back up plan if Trump moves his fingers to initiate nuclear use

sultan2075 wrote: ↑07 Nov 2024, 00:28

Incoming! wrote: ↑06 Nov 2024, 18:37 Some thoughts :

Misogyny still alive and well (look at early stats)

We are still fighting the US Civil War

Democrats still a mess

9 of 10 states voted down abortion ban

One country lived under the rule of a narcissist fascist for 13 years. We can handle another 4

There won’t be a January 6 uprising

Glad I saw TSOM play in US maybe for last time

Kansas City Chiefs American football ball team won in over time last night. They are now 8-0

Let’s all pray for the US Joint Chiefs to once again have a back up plan if Trump moves his fingers to initiate nuclear use

There are many, many reasons for someone to vote against Harris other than misogyny; that's a lazy argument. She was a vacuous candidate who ran a terrible campaign, and was complicit in hiding Biden's decline from the country. Trump's also the only American president in my lifetime not to start a new war other than Biden (some credit him with 'starting' Ukraine, but I don't). When the neocons in his administration tried to get him to retaliate against Iran for downing a drone, he rejected their advice on the grounds that nobody has been killed. As one of my students put, he's not a 'dove' on foreign policy, he's more like a pigeon - a noisey dove covered in s**t.

sharedgum wrote: ↑07 Nov 2024, 01:47

sultan2075 wrote: ↑07 Nov 2024, 00:28

Incoming! wrote: ↑06 Nov 2024, 18:37 Some thoughts :

Misogyny still alive and well (look at early stats)

We are still fighting the US Civil War

Democrats still a mess

9 of 10 states voted down abortion ban

One country lived under the rule of a narcissist fascist for 13 years. We can handle another 4

There won’t be a January 6 uprising

Glad I saw TSOM play in US maybe for last time

Kansas City Chiefs American football ball team won in over time last night. They are now 8-0

Let’s all pray for the US Joint Chiefs to once again have a back up plan if Trump moves his fingers to initiate nuclear use

There are many, many reasons for someone to vote against Harris other than misogyny; that's a lazy argument. She was a vacuous candidate who ran a terrible campaign, and was complicit in hiding Biden's decline from the country. Trump's also the only American president in my lifetime not to start a new war other than Biden (some credit him with 'starting' Ukraine, but I don't). When the neocons in his administration tried to get him to retaliate against Iran for downing a drone, he rejected their advice on the grounds that nobody has been killed. As one of my students put, he's not a 'dove' on foreign policy, he's more like a pigeon - a noisey dove covered in s**t.

I think that this reads to me like a justification for the inexcusable. Obviously, it did happen, and I don't know all the reasons why, I am sure that they differ from person to person, but misogyny was a big part of it. It is interesting to me that Kamala's electoral map looks eerily similar to Clinton's.

I don't buy the no wars started argument. In general, after the Iraq and Afghanistan wars started by Bush, US has been involved less in foreign wars and in more limited ways. I truly don't understand how people can claim that Trump is good in that regard while at the same knowing full well that he refused to acknowledge that Biden had beaten him and that Trump tried to take the power forcefully back in 2020. He should be in jail for that, not be the president. If he was willing to do that in 2020, how can people not connect the dots and realize that he would be willing to do something similar, if not worse, both here and internationally? Am I missing something? His own hand-picked chief of staff from his own party called him a fascist. And what did Harris (and H. Clinton) do after losing? She gracefully congratulated her opponent. For this reason alone, which speaks volumes, in my opinion, there is no comparison between the two candidates in terms of who should be disqualified from running the country.

And regarding Biden's decline, how about Trump's decline? He is swaying to Ave Maria and performing sexual acts on microphones. He has no business running the country.

This travesty is 100% on the American people, who definitely know who he is by now. Trying to elevate someone who should be getting 5% of the vote above someone who is clearly far more qualified for the job and nitpicking things here and there is just not right. There should be no reason for anyone but a fringe to vote for him given the threat that he presents. And yes, as I have noted, I realize that this did happen, and I don't have all the answers, and this is just my personal opinion.