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Trump down in the WH2024 betting after the Mar-a Lago raid – politicalbetting.com
Trump down in the WH2024 betting after the Mar-a Lago raid – politicalbetting.com
The huge news in American politics this week has of course been the raid by FBI agents on Donald Trump’s home in Florida. It is being suggested that they were looking for nuclear codes in the residence and other linked data that Trump acquired when he was President. If this is case it would be in breach of strong legal rules about these being removed from the White House.
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1.11 Liz Truss 90%
10 Rishi Sunak 10%
Next Conservative leader
1.1 Liz Truss 91%
10 Rishi Sunak 10%
Looks like the GOP are abandoning him as well.
A radical right government is the only way America can save itself. Which is a damn shame, because the radical right in the USA is fucking nuts. But at least they are patriotic, and not social justice commies. The American Left will actually destroy America
Didn’t know what that meant until I saw one of those American prison documentaries on YouTube when I was working away.
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"Social justice commies" is something that frothing loons have been raving about for about 75 years. Have you got any reds under your bed?
1960s Leon would have been ranting about the music of the youth, counterculture, civil rights and so on.
FPT
The Eurovision cities shortlist being released today has led to a second media appearance for the Ukraine flag that's currently hanging in my window. It's on the ITV News website after appearing on the BBC News website back in June as a Press Association photo.
https://twitter.com/FordJohnathan5/status/1558060633492520967
All we can do is judge each occasion as it occurs.
Once Trump - or Trumpite - politicians retake power, they will never relinquish it. We saw the failed farcical coup in January. They will be better organised next time.
And what a country they will build. Remove rights for women. Remove rights for us gayers and for non-Christians and for other unwanted minorities.
It won't be woke. Which you will support. But it will be fascist. Which you won't. All hail Gilead.
I don't think I could cope.
What an appalling choice Americans face. Cultural Marxists on the Left, bent on destroying the Enlightenment (and healthcare, education, etc) and religious freaks on the Right, who want to set back the rights of women by 50 years, and much else
And yet it is not a choice from which American voters can turn away. It's the future of the country. It is one or the other, however hideous the alternatives
I'd go with the religious freaks, as there is a chance a recognisably free and strong America may still emerge from that shitshow
All those drugs have addled your mind.
Not only do the GOP want to set the rights of women back fifty years, they want to bring back anti-miscegenation laws, disenfranchise blacks, but your messed up minds prefers that over people who focus on pronouns.
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To take one very obvious example by the same logic the fact that in almost every culture women have a better life expectancy than men must conclusively prove that society is inherently biased against men and fails to recognise inherent female privilege, that any suggestion that women are disadvantaged or ever have been disadvantaged is a failure to recognise the structual biases that cause men to die at an earlier age.
It is, quite frankly, both mad and depressing.
@IshmaelZ said:
So you really think that black people are *biologically* less well able than whites and Asians to be educated so as to become competent doctors, and that there is inherent white privilege here which qwe should just put up with cos there is nothing to be done about it?
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No, of course I don't. What I do say is that the answer to that problem is to look at the societal issues that result in that under performance and seek to address them. Which is not easy. But the answer is not to appoint doctors who come from a minority who are, bluntly, not up to the rather difficult job.
30 odd years ago someone noticed that sheriffs were male, pale and stale. This, of course, reflected the profession that they had gained the requisite experience in. The answer was to appoint many female sheriffs. In my experience female solicitors, such as my wife, hated this because along with many excellent appointments they also appointed various incompetent female sheriffs who gave female sheriffs a bad name. Of course, they also appointed a lot of seriously incompetent male sheriffs too but they did not stand out so much amongst the profession. Those I spoke to wanted female Sheriffs to be appointed on merit, given a fair and even crack of the whip and an equal chance.
Now, 30 odd years on, the profession is becoming increasingly female dominated as is the bench, albeit 20 years or so behind. The focus now is on whether there are sufficient minorities and we are in danger of making the same mistakes again.
As a society we aspire to true equality of opportunity and rightly so. That means that those who face structural problems, whether of poverty, social breakdown, poor schooling or whatever should indeed be helped but the ideal that all are selected on merit is a really important principle and should not be abandoned, whether for gender or racial reasons.
Which is better? It's like choosing a hammer to the bollocks or a knife in the eyes
I'd go for the hammering of my testicles - the Republicans - as I could survive a hammer to the cullions and life would be bearable albeit diminished. If I voted Democrat - took a knife in both eyes - I'd be permanently blind. That's worse
Neither is ideal
At worse the stuff Leon raises is a longer term issue to be concerned by. The Trump party are a genuine danger right now to fundamental issues of law and governance.
That's just about them having the rug pulled out from under their planned rants about the FBI's inexplicable raid.
Garland called their bluff by saying it was in the public interest for the full details of the warrant to be published, and that he's give Trump a day to respond. Trump took the bait and said publish.
Roll on 3pm.
Which way the GOP jump now is yet to be determined.
The road to riches.
Wrong. There aren't. This is the whole point. Wokeness is so dangerous because it not only tramples over values like Free Speech, but it does not tolerate any dissent at all. You are not ALLOWED to express a different opinion. It gets you sacked. Cancelled. Finished. Everyone Must Agree
From that essay:
"On February 24, 2021, Ed Livingston, deputy editor for clinical reviews and education at the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), recorded a podcast with Mitch Katz, president of New York City Health and Hospitals, called “Structural Racism for Doctors—What Is It?” Livingston, a UCLA surgeon, asked Katz to define structural racism. Katz gave as examples the routing of diesel trucks through poor neighborhoods and disparities in access to top-level medical care.
"Livingston responded that Katz had described a “very real” problem: impoverished neighborhoods with poor quality of life and little opportunity, where most residents are black and Hispanic. Livingston agreed with the urgency of making sure that all people “have equal opportunities to become successful.” His only quibble was with the current emphasis on “racism,” which “might be hurting” the cause of racial equality, he said. Livingston had been taught to revile discrimination and yet was being told that he was racist. The focus, as Livingston saw it, should be on socioeconomic disparities, not alleged racial animus.
After the podcast became an instant totem of white supremacy, JAMA disappeared it from the web. Livingston himself was disappeared from JAMA shortly thereafter. (Back at his home base at the UCLA medical school, he faced a show trial from fellow faculty members.) JAMA’s editor-in-chief Howard Bauchner, a professor of pediatrics and public health at Boston University, apparently sensed that he might be next on the chopping block and started issuing serial apologies. The disappeared podcast, Bauchner declared, was “inaccurate, offensive, hurtful, and inconsistent with the standards of JAMA.” JAMA would be “instituting changes that will address and prevent such failures from happening again”—a “failure” being defined as deviation from racial justice orthodoxy.....
JAMA was once a leading forum for physicians and other scientists to present research to their peers. Now JAMA’s overseers regard a fundamental component of the scientific method—debate—as out of bounds, at least regarding the diversity agenda.,,. No disagreement is tolerated.
Meanwhile, Bauchner’s efforts to distance himself from the “offensive” dialogue were not bearing fruit.... By June 2021, Bauchner, too, was out, even though, as he ruefully observed, he “did not write or even see the tweet, or create the podcast."
This is Maoism. Onethink
There is also a big wildfire out at West Calder at the mo. It's not just England.
Religious Freaks or Cultural Marxists? Not exactly a fun choice. But we will have to choose
At least it will be exciting
In the South it might be possible, there is still a Trump majority overall there not the US overall
The significant of nuclear secrets (alongside the fact that they're rather consequential) is that the President does not have the ability to declassify them on his own.
So the excuse that he just declassified on his way out of office (offered by a gazillion GOP stooges) cannot stand.
https://twitter.com/cbouzy/status/1558063112347066368
It's called the Atomic Energy Act. Nuclear secrets are restricted data and have an entirely different classification system. The President of the United States can't just declassify these documents; he would've had to wait for the Department of Energy.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football
https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1558062958382665729?s=20&t=hb7HQyfUn-6bApYuYoP1sQ
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62524922
(Is that how I'm supposed to do it?)
If you are a white American kid it is harder to get into med school, or law school, or a top university, and many other fields of American life, and this discrimination is getting worse. Meanwhile, American schools are teaching white kids that they are racists and always will be
Blacks and Hispanics were even favoured for vaccines
"Starting Thursday, Vermont explicitly gave Black adults and people from other minority communities priority status for vaccinations. It follows Montana, which in January announced that Native Americans and other people of color, because they are at higher risk of complications from covid-19, would be allowed to receive the vaccine."
https://khn.org/news/article/vermont-gives-blacks-and-other-minority-residents-vaccine-priority/
So. You're an American voter. You are white. You have three white kids. Which party do you vote for, the Democrats who are crazy about social justice and want to hinder the chances of your children because of their skin colour (and tell them they are racist), or the Republicans who might actually stop the state discriminating against your kids?
For many people, I submit, that will be a no-brainer
America is set on a disastrous course, and I am not sure how it can turn back
Edit:A lot of commentary from US republicans thesedays seems to imply that presidents are or should be beyond the law, at least when they hold the White House, or that a single person should hold the power to decide the election etc. That surely cannot be what the Founding Fathers intended. The New Founding Fathers perhaps.
The process that’s in place, is designed to make sure that the authority to launch actually comes from the President, rather than than everyone else thinking he’s bonkers or senile.
And the idea that he has been 'co-operating' with the authorities, given that he's still holding stuff eighteen months on, is absurd.
But the (potential) presence of government nuclear secrets at Trump's residence gives the FBI rock solid justification for a warrant to recover them.
The problem in medicine is that UK plc invests very serious money into training a doctor. If that doctor goes part time for family reasons in his or her 30s we have got a very poor return on that investment. Ditto if they retire in their late 50s because they have maxed out their pensions.
* Such a crying shame to have to use the past tense here.
Stabbed "multiple times" - apparently. Who knows
Thousands of Brazilians have taken to the streets amid concern President Jair Bolsonaro will try to stay in power even if he loses October's election.
Protesters marched in several cities on Thursday in defence of democracy over fears the far-right leader would not respect the outcome of the vote.
Mr Bolsonaro has repeatedly sought to discredit Brazil's voting system.
He has claimed that electronic voting machines enable cheating, because of the absence of a paper trail.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-62516251
To summarize reports:
Author Salman Rushdie was stabbed after taking stage at a Chautauqua Institute event. He received aid on-site and was able to eventually walk off stage with assistance.
This man has been detained by police:
(Unless the wokers have removed that term).
Was it a clever meta-joke? If so, bravo
Both options are better than what is about to happen...
I actually capitalised it as when looking at the wikipedia page when I was looking at alternative names it seemed like the black in black humour was a label, and capitalisation therefore seemed appropriate.
Saying, "he always knew he was taking a huge risk," does not help us get to the same place with Islam. I'm angry about this. Everyone should be angry about this. We shouldn't just accept that a person runs a huge risk to write about Islam.
Hope, not handouts, will help us pay the fuel bill.
The constant fear and enveloping security must have been a huge burden over the years.