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Some frightening polling from America – politicalbetting.com
Some frightening polling from America – politicalbetting.com
Holy s**t.Over the course of three years, the number of Americans who say that they feel justified in using violence to achieve their political goals has gone up from 8 percent to over 33 percent. pic.twitter.com/JBg3Y83ASK
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Goes to show that written constitutions and laws don't defend democracy if people are prepared to abuse it.
Eternal vigilance is the only way to protect liberty.
Sadly, it's something that's likely to get worse before it gets better, the election being more likely to spark further violence than act as a brake on it.
VAR is a good thing but operated by idiots.
A mob of the MAGA persuasion
Engaged in a State House invasion
Though heavily armed
They left there unharmed
And that's how you know they're Caucasian.
Fortunately, at time of writing the military seems to be prepared to disregard unlawful orders, even if they come from the Commander in Chief, and it's to be hoped that that's a universally held position.
My chinese phone adds random apostrophes to anything ending in an s or a double l. Well becomes we'll and The Screaming Eagles becomes The Screaming Eagle's.
Misuse of the apostrophe as we all know is one of those capital offence error's. I mean errors.
https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1312232456192323585/photo/1
https://twitter.com/JamesPearceLFC/status/1312736109315665921
On one extreme Farage has sometimes used the rhetoric of violence. On the other you will find many justify violence as a response to violence from the other side.
I could see us reaching 15%
https://twitter.com/blevimyers/status/1312511774650843138
You'll be back, soon you'll see
You'll remember you belong to me
You'll be back, time will tell
You'll remember that I served you well
Oceans rise, empires fall
We have seen each other through it all
And when push comes to shove
I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!
But it does speak to how many people have decided already that there's no real sign of a sympathy move. Bluntly, the "rally to the Commander in Chief, patriots!" versus "daft, mask-dodging old bugger had it coming" tribes were utterly predictable and had effectively formed long before the news broke.
The difference though is that Johnson's illness was early on, plus the government has already changed tack before he fell ill. When he said he was shaking hands was when the science advice Whitty and Vallance were giving was just wash your hands.
Trump's illness has come better part of a year into the pandemic and after he is still mocking people for wearing masks, 200,000 have already died and he's still hosting events people have said could be superspeader events.
But it probably won't.
Ah, that feels much better. Back to my old self.
While simultaneously abolishing Obama care.
The assumption by political anoraks is that news = immediate poll movement.
If EVENT is transitory then the effect fades after 7.
The Continuity IRA, the Real IRA, the Really Real IRA, the Keeping It Real IRA, and Loyalists For Drug Dealing etc have guns, money and very few supporters.
I obviously don't share this view, but do understand where people are coming from. Firstly, there is an in principle opposition to the individual mandate - the idea people should not be forced to buy a product even if it's a good product to have. Secondly, there is a fear of it being the thin end of the wedge for Government provision of healthcare - an American NHS. Now that argument puts our backs up in the UK... but it is true that our care is rationed (albeit for quite proper reasons) and we have less choice over treatments (ditto).
It is also entirely possible to oppose the individual mandate but support assistance in obtaining health insurance for the less well off (Medicaid etc).
As I say, I don't agree with those arguments, but it really isn't as stark and obvious as you say.
*Yes, the rules on multiple jobbing were specially forgotten about in NI
The current court case is to repeal all of the ACA entirely as unconstitutional (due to the elimination of the mandate)
Arguably, though, this is such a big event for the US that there are relatively few people who are just hearing about it today, or who vaguely heard it mentioned but have been a bit busy to think about it until a lazy Sunday dawns.
https://twitter.com/siansparkles/status/1312692500985937920?s=20
My history lesson starts at 7pm.
I suggest he cuts out the caffeine though and then he wont need the sleeping pills.
https://twitter.com/alexhern/status/1312717870619557889
https://twitter.com/alexhern/status/1312718497252769792
https://twitter.com/alexhern/status/1312720735501254656
A prediction now is that the Texas case will NOT succeed in December even if Amy Coney Barrett is seated. It's just not that strong a case.
Or is it Radiohead.
I forget.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54407656
Its the current situation until next summer isn't it....
I take issue with this statement. BLM movement was always this, what changed was a wider group of people got on board protesting under that banner due to the Floyd incident without really understanding who the BLM organizers were and what they really stood for. Just like XR.
The current situation in education, for example, isn't sustainable.
The expectation that everyone is entitled to good quality medical treatment is not there in the US.
If he had just come out and said ok folks, I think 2 years looks at the right timeline, I think anti-lockdown sentiment would have been a lot stronger. Instead loads of people said, yeah I can do 3 months, lets flatten the curve etc, then summer and a vaccine in September, happy days.
Now we keep getting primed with lets get through to Christmas, vaccine coming start of next year....
This is not a good start.
“the contempt with which you treat MPs in parliament, our representatives, and by extension us. Never has one man misled so many so thoroughly and so many times“
“Johnson has morphed into May and it will end the same way”
“People are indeed furious with you, Boris, because the five principles that you have evidently chosen to follow over the last six months are (1) Overreact (2) Exaggerate (3) Be seen to be doing something for the sake of it (4) Cover your arse (5) Save your face”
“ People hate stupidity. Constantly saying 'there is no other way' shows stupidity, when everyone can see that there IS another way: the Sweden model”
“Boris and the government are destroying themselves”
“The Gov is simply failing to display competence since the lockdown ended. That’s the problem”