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The Supreme Court rejects the move by Texas to overturn Biden’s victory – politicalbetting.com
The Supreme Court rejects the move by Texas to overturn Biden’s victory – politicalbetting.com
Overnight (UK time) the Supreme Court in Washington rejected the bid by the State of Texas to overturn President-elect Biden’s election win in what must be seen as a devastating blow to the long-shot legal efforts by Trump and his supporters to stave off his electoral defeat.
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The removal of both from office is only the start of ironing out the mess they have created.
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The triumph of hope over experience!
In 1992, Bush and Clinton (between them) garnered the votes of 32.7% of the US population.
In 2020, Biden and Trump managed almost 50%.
This seems a sad commentary on the turnout in American Presidential elections. Or would be if Perot hadn't picked up around half the number of votes Buch did.
A minor thought on this election; there was no third (or fourth) party candidate who took anything like a significant share of the vote.
Whole political careers have been built on selling Brexit by men and women who don’t, in their guts, buy Brexit. And now, in the days ahead, they must make the sales pitch of their lives.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/were-heading-for-a-true-believers-brexit-xgkmhvl6x
They’ve just offered me a collection of Christmas movies including Die Hard 2.
Of course, presumably this year it will be by Zoom or similar.
Does Boris really believe in Brexit? Does Donald Trump really believe the election was fixed? And does Bruce Willis believe in Christmas? Or are all three using these events purely for self-advancement, regardless of the cost to others?
BoZo tapped into English exceptionalism to win. The Little Englanders voted for him, and he is intent on keeping them onside. Pike's comments about the vaccine illustrate this sentiment is alive and well among the Brexiteers in cabinet.
It was English exceptionalism that made Johnson’s career as a Brussels-bashing newspaper columnist. He saw early what so many on my side of the argument have been slow to understand. Tens of millions of people in Britain really believe that we British are much, much better than the rest and that, since the Second World War, history has been selling us short. They have persuaded themselves that it is the European Union that has shackled us and that, unbound, we shall leap.
Put's the Betfair prices in a new light.
That translates, for some, as "not patriotic" I agree.
My anger is placed on those MPs who voted for there to be a referendum, when they did so out of fear of their particular electorates rather than because they really thought that there should be one regardless of the result.
The feelings of one middle class person (not really a chatterer, I tend to leave the small talk to my wife).
https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1337619974387593225
Mr. JohnL, quite agree. Some people like attributing fictional causes for the result to help them evade having to engage with genuine arguments or people's real concerns, whilst also allowing them paint Leavers as weird or otherwise flawed.
Not interested at those odds. Every chance he'll do it but also of getting caught up in lap 1 shenanigans.
https://twitter.com/redhistorian/status/1337529833346265090?s=19
Lots of pro-EU people see us as more European in identity terms compared to sceptics. I think the exceptionalism you see isn't there, it's just how you read people who think the UK/its people/its culture are more substantially different and separate to the EU.
Our different approaches to law are just one example of this.
Wanting to control our own policies isn't exceptionalism, it's the norm for democratic nation-states. There is an argument to give away slices of sovereignty, losing control by degrees in exchange for greater bargaining power, but that is a trade-off. And the emotional attachment to the EU is something that very few British people have.
Don't hear much talk about Canadian exceptionalism for not want to be states of the USA.
The problem is practicality. You can't slice and dice a landmass into a billion tiny pockets of difference that co-operate on some matters and not others. That'd be chaotic. Stability and cohesion requires larger scale political bodies, hence the nation-state.
The EU's problem is the tension between democratic nation-states with coherent national identities and the ever increasing pressure for greater integration and (usually) permanent ceding of national power from an electorate to a bureaucracy.
Verhofstadt's[sp] open federalism has its drawbacks but it does at least recognise the problem...
Mr. JohnL, he was projecting Americanisms. Rather akin to BLM dimwits.
I have seen better on each individually elsewhere but not the combination.
We seem to be putting that at risk to avoid BJs political embarrassment.
Jacob Rees-Mogg: No-deal Brexit will boost UK economy by £1.1 trillion over 15 years
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/10/jacob-rees-mogg-no-deal-brexit-will-boost-uk-economy-11-trillion/
Simply saying life will be shit under Brexit doesn't work for those of us who aren't afraid of Brexit.
If there's an Achilles' heel (currency, say...) hammering it makes sense. A general "everything will be terrible unless you vote for us" makes it feel extorted, and in a battle devoid of facts and reason (both campaigns were awful) complacent hope will usually trump fear and nagging.
That said, it was still pretty close.
He avoids political embarrassment for a week, but how does he avoid the political embarrassment of delays and shortages and closures in the New year?
I remember when it was Mrs T that got Honda here to help modernise moribund British Leyland. The first of the Japanese to have a car factory here.
Gordon Brown's campaign to sign us up to the European Constitution by relabelling it to avoid a referendum is in a class by itself for deceit and treachery.
The whole history of our dealing with the EEC/EU since the 60s has been a sorry mess. The only person who really managed to change things for the better, however temporarily, was, inevitably, Margaret Thatcher, when she got most of our money back.
Consulting the electorate earlier would've presented the opportunity to get a democratic mandate to try and change things without leaving.
However, Cameron didn't have a huge amount of choice, and whilst he should've insisted on a prospectus put together by the official Leave campaign if he hadn't offered a referendum it could easily have led to a Con-UKIP coalition doing the same thing more tilted to Leave.
The PCP, however, deserves excoriating for backing the likes of Boris Johnson, a man unfit to be in Cabinet and a proven incompetent, to succeed May.
The other guilty politicians. The Congress and state supporters of Trump's myriad desperate lawsuits, and the MPs who voted for a Brexit they believe will harm this country.
Whatever you think about Peter Bone or Bill Cash, at least they've given the matter some thought. They might be deluded, they probably are wrong but they do believe what they say about Brexit. Hand on heart, can you say the same about Boris?
2 Got King Boris on the throne.
3 Shown them foreigners who is boss.
4 Fish!!!
5 Sovereignty
6 Errr....
2) Have to admit I’m struggling now.
3) Err. I give up.