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For years Trump’s favourite term of abuse was “loser” – now he’s in danger of owning the brand – pol
For years Trump’s favourite term of abuse was “loser” – now he’s in danger of owning the brand – politicalbetting.com
Those who are older enough will remember GE1997 and one of the highlights of the coverage – a live broadcast from the Enfield Southgate constituency where prominent Tory cabinet minister Michael Portillo was defending an 18,000 majority. He lost and the manner and gracious way he responded to this disastrous outcome brought accolades from all sides.
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Wow, that's 2 in a row. I am going out to buy some lottery tickets.
Both of the major parties really need to start thinking of US democracy as something to be nurtured rather than manipulated and abused. If they don't the system is going to become ever more unstable.
It's a constitutionally mandated process that was eminently justified.
How could someone soulless lose their soul ... or did you mean to type 'sore' ?
Leon was a profound thinker, Michel not so much
But what were the Democrats supposed to do?
You've got Trump and his officials *admitting* they withheld military aid to damage a political rival.
Ignoring that would have been more damaging to democracy.
The process may be constitutionally mandated but it has been completed degraded and discredited by politicisation.
https://twitter.com/jimmfelton/status/1339864277767872512?s=21
It's a far from ideal remedy to a corrupt executive, bu it's the only one there is, outside of the ballot box. You can see what you want to in the evidence presented, but I find it very difficult to believe that it all should simply have been ignored.
Nixon technically was not.
Trump is also the only losing Presidential candidate since Nixon in 1960 to also win both Florida and Ohio.
That means if he decides to run again in 2024 he will have a sizeable base of support to do so still and he is already by far the preferred choice of Republican voters for the 2024 GOP nomination
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1338678411586228225?s=20
Much sympathy to all those struggling out there, and those trying to help.
Yes there was a wolf in the end, but Dem voters were banging on about impeachment since November 2016 before Trump was even inaugurated.
Trump was such a polarising figure that it didn't matter if he committed high crimes and misdemeanors or not - Dems wanted him impeached regardless of the facts, Republicans wanted him acquitted regardless of them.
I think perhaps the difference is that Watergate taught the crooks to keep their mouths shut when caught.
Then lo and behold weeks before the General Election all Trumpists wanted to talk about was Hunter Biden. Funny that!
But the Hunter Biden nonsense gained no traction in the election. Why? I think because of the impeachment. It was old news, pre pandemic and seemed a stupid thing to be bringing back up and all played out already.
If this hadn't all gotten aired out during the impeachment then could the Hunter Biden nonsense have gained more traction during the election?
F1: reports, but no confirmation yet, it seems, that Perez will get Albon's seat.
For example:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/12/mitch-mcconnell-lame-duck-judges.html
eg A trad 3 bed semi in say the Surbiton area may attract 20k+ of Stamp Duty on a price of 600k-650k; the equivalent in my neck of the woods will attract about £1000 or less on a price of 160k to 200k.
They need to get beyond the Southern Squint which undermines some of their policies.
Thinking of watching it over the Christmas holidays with my children if it is. Watched the original trilogy with them in the summer, it didn't hold the four year olds attention but the six year old really liked Yoda and has seen pictures of 'baby Yoda' and says 'baby Yoda' is "so cute".
He's fucking stoked on Liz Surgical-Support's new Mexican trade deal.
The massive queues are as traffic ramps up to avoid tariffs. This week is demonstrating to the country what the industry already knew and has been highlighting - that customs checks and the current UK / EU traffic are simply incompatible.
As soon as we tip into 2021 the number of vehicles will drop significantly with the processing time per truck increasing significantly. The awkward problem being that we need the stuff that comes on trucks, but as soon as we try and ship it the border comes to a stop. If we don't trade the border delays may only be in single digit hours as opposed to the days it will be otherwise.
Coal for burning absolutely is antiquated.
Coal for steel is different and still needed though isn't it?
No idea which this one is but there's a future usage I believe for the right types of coal even in a net zero future.
He wasn’t convicted.
The current rule in England is that 6 months notice is required.
Is this different in Scotland and/or Wales and/or NI?
The speakers seem to be a bloke from the Tribune, a USA lawyer, and a Welsh individual.
The Eviction Resistance blog was last updated in 2016.
In 2015 Cameron won graduates as did Romney in 2012, there has been a sizeable shift in both the Tory and GOP coalitions from the upper middle class to the white working class
The fireclay will be used for making bricks.
Its almost as if Maoist 20-year plans have horrendous unforeseen downsides.
You can lay Brian Rose to win the 2021 London Mayoral Election at 7, or even lower if you are lucky (I just got a bunch matched at 6.4). It's an insane price, akin to the YangGang fervour last year but perhaps even weirder. Who are his enthusiastic backers? Unlike Yang he isn't even getting an impressive amount of media coverage for an outsider or anything like that.
The market is thin, but if you leave money up it is getting matched at around 7, many thousands have been matched so far.
Or you could just take the 1.25 or so available on Khan to win. Almost as safe and another 10% profit or so. I've got a bit on that too, but it's definitely another step away from 'Banker' compared to laying Rose.
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But people (mistakenly) use the term to mean removed from office. That didn't happen. It has never happened via the impeachment process.
I didn't feel the originally trilogy was too violent for them but felt it best to check on this.
But I think there’s a conversation to be had about the normalisation of the direct application of violence as a solution to problems & the consequences that usually come along with that in the real world, but are completely missing from programs like the Mandalorian.
As the old joke goes, he's within the margin of error in the latest poll. Of Khan? Of Bailey? No, of having any support at all.
Producing steel for long term energy production is a far superior usage of coal than merely burning it for electricity.
Revenge for all those towels on the sunbeds....??
The environmental consequences of refusing planning will just be to shift the mining (and possibly the consumption) to places with lower environmental standards.
As a side note, the heritage railway movement is very keen for this one to go ahead - we use a tiny annual tonnage of coal, but finding high quality lump coal suitable for railway engines is getting increasingly difficult, and these sort of UK operations are often sympathetic to running a small batch at an appropriate lump size for us to use.
In 2020 Trump could only tie Biden with voters earning over $200 000 at 44% each.
In 2012 Romney won 51% of graduates but only 48% of high school only graduates and just 35% of non high school graduates.
In 2020 Trump won just 47% of graduates but won 54% of those with only a high school or less education and Trump won only 48% of white college graduates but Trump won 67% of whites with no college degree.
So my point was absolutely right, the GOP coalition has shifted to white voters without a college degree.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election
Life finds a way to adapt.
I wonder if regional inequality might be addressed if trade no longer occurs narrowly through a South East tunnel and is diversified across ports like Liverpool, Portsmouth etc too.
I thought you guys opposed such things. Socialism and all that.
Frank Dikotter's 'Mao's Great Famine' and Jung Chang's 'Mao, the Unknown Story' are instructive in this respect. Conservative politicians should know these books by rote.