On topic: Trump supporters are rigging rules in some states to give him a better chance to win the nomination. For example: "Donald Trump’s presidential campaign notched a major victory Saturday when members of the California Republican executive committee voted to parcel out convention delegates based on the statewide vote next year — doing away with the state’s longtime system of awarding them by congressional district, which had been perceived as a more level playing field for lower-tiered candidates.
There have been other rule changes that appear intended to help Trump in other states, including Louisiana, Michigan, North Dakota, and Idaho.
(As almost all of you grasped immediately, these rule changes make estimating the nomination odds, even more difficult, without a state-by-state analysis.)
North Dakota is interesting. AND confirms my strong suspicion, that alleged 2024 candidate for GOP POTUS nomination, ND Gov. Doug Burgum, is just (another) shill pimping for Trump by helping further fractionate the Republican vote.
Which is also the effective role being played by Tim Scott and Vivek Ramaswamy.
And also, ironically (or maybe not) by Mike Pence and Chris Christie.
Which does NOT preclude these "hopefuls" from having other agendas, notably for Scott and Ramaswamy anyway, the traditional prospect of VP pick OR cabinet OR other federal appointment under Trump's Second Cumming.
As for Pence and Christie, methinks that ego is bigger drive than any anti-Trumpism.
> Mike Pence thought (like some PBers) that being Trump's VP would make him the GOP's next-in-line for POTUS nomination; a 3rd-millennium version of Bush the Elder 1988 and Bob Dole 1996, albeit without a hint of the quality or ability of either.
> Chris Christie just likes basking his blimp-sized body AND ego in as much news coverage as he can generate.
Both of these being busted flushes whose achievements can only be discerned using a microscope.
They are - but they’re not the worst of the field.
I see Ramaswamy is already planning to hand over half of Ukraine.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4174713-ramaswamy-unveils-foreign-policy-platform-we-will-be-uncle-sucker-no-more/ .. Ramaswamy said he similarly would plan to visit Moscow as president in 2025 to negotiate terms to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. He said he would “accept” Russian control of the territories that its forces have taken and promise to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO in exchange for Russia ending its military alliance with China. He said he would also end sanctions that have been placed on Russia and return it to the global market….
To call him naive would be overly generous.
Bloody Hell!
He’s gone from being a sensible candidate to a total idiot, in the last fortnight.
He still is what he's always been - another pimp for Trump/Putin.
The Telegraph reports record demand for private tutors, as private schools are very expensive and grammar schools hard to get into (and only exist in a couple of places).
Good news for @ydoethur and @Dura_Ace but bad news for educational equality?
Round here, private education is mainly seen as a number of shops offering after school tuition in various subjects (and separately, in Koranic studies) but this low-level provision has so far largely escaped political controversy over independent teaching.
There is no such thing as educational equality except in the eyes of socialist ideologues. Some are more academic than others, just as some are better at sport or music than others.
Plus even if you abolished all private, grammar and free schools middle class parents would just buy property in the most expensive catchment areas of the best schools or go to church more often for the Vicar's reference for a top church school
Excellent suggestion to abolish the church schools, part of the problem sorted. Thank you.
Absolutely not, we need more church schools, more grammar schools, more private schools, more academies, more free schools and more choice.
The more choice parents have beyond the one size fits all socialist idea of a comprehensive school the better
You refer to Comprehensives as a socialist idea and it is certainly true that does result in less choice (although it is arguable whether there really is choice for most people to go to a church school or a grammar school or a private school as all have significant restrictions that prevent most from attending them).
You also have in the past accepted I am much more of a free market person than yourself and I think you are right in that conclusion, so I'm definitely not socialist.
How do you then rationalise that I am very pro comprehensives and anti grammar schools?
One possible answer is that I am an idiot, but I'm hoping that isn't your conclusion.
PS That wasn't an invitation to get into a discussion about Grammar schools which I won't do, but the rationalisation this is a socialist idea (I do accept those in favour of Grammars are from the right, but not the mainstream Conservatives who have implemented and supported Comprehensives)
I assume you are not also anti academies, anti free schools and anti church schools too as most socialists are?
MONARCHY = SOCIALISM!
MONARCHY = TORYISM.
State control of the economy= Socialism
Unelected, hereditary rulers = SOCIALISM!
No it doesn't, Stalin wasn't a hereditary ruler not was Mao they were both socialist communists.
Corbyn was a socialist but wasn't a hereditary leader of the Labour Party either.
None had royal or aristocratic blood either
North Korea = hereditary SOCIALIST monarchy!
What royal or aristocratic blood do the Jong Uns have?
Kim Jong-un is the son of Kim Jong-il who was the son of Kim Sun-il.
And not one of them have or had royal or even aristocratic blood
A rather sad reminder of the days when Government did things for people because they thought they mattered, rather than to people because they thought they didn't.
A rather sad reminder of the days when Government did things for people because they thought they mattered, rather than to people because they thought they didn't.
Gods, don't bring up towns and cities, I burst a blood vessel trying to dispel some of the myths around city status to a certain charmingly stubborn person months ago.
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Repeat after me:
MONARCHY = SOCIALISM!
Marion County Chief of Police refuses to discuss raid on newspaper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYNTMaqBR0I
Marion police downloaded, kept copy of raided Kansas newspaper's computers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzP11nMLOUg
Judge who signed Marion Co. Record search warrant has criminal history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29cOKQrKRzc
- Why British cities make no sense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whqs8v1svyo
- English counties explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCc0OsyMbQk
- Why does London have 32 boroughs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daeB46Z4fjs
See also:- LCC municipal https://nitter.net/lccmunicipal
- https://lccmunicipal.com/about/
- https://lccmunicipal.com/2018/06/29/the-naming-of-the-london-boroughs-part-one/
- https://lccmunicipal.com/2018/07/05/the-naming-of-the-london-boroughs-part-two/
A rather sad reminder of the days when Government did things for people because they thought they mattered, rather than to people because they thought they didn't.