The UK is no longer in the top 10 for deaths per capita. It's been overtaken by countries like Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Liechtenstein and North Macedonia.
Those figures need to be taken with a very LARGE pinch of salt. Only a week ago the Russian statistical agency attributed another 130,000 excess deaths to COVID-19. Similar issues apply to the figures from a lot of other countries, so things are a lot worse in a lot of other countries than they may seem from offical COVID-19 tallies.
Trump can at least take consolation from a larger crowd protesting his removal than welcomed his inauguration.
Doubt if that is actually the case. Yes, Trumpsky began by lying about the crowd size at his inauguration. HOWEVER, from what I can see, the "crowd" he's assembled for his latest circus act is NOT massive, certainly NOT by Washington DC protest standards.
That is one confused poster. Is Braveheart to make sure we get the reference, or does he think that is the character?
If he is angry at Marx, he can rest assured, we know exactly where he is.
It’s slightly more accurate than the original film though.
Now, Dr, we the PB going public will accept a lot, but if you're about to try to undermine the peerless documentary of Braveheart by suggesting it contains a few inaccuracies, you may be about to cross a line.
This is a massive, massive national security breach for the US. How on earth were they not prepared for this? A cursory read of thedonald would have made it pretty clear what these protestors were planning
Are these Republican politicians mad enough to actually believe that the election was stolen and they can overturn it? Or are they conniving and mad enough to know it is rubbish but think they can actually overturn it anyway?
Either way they seem to have utterly lost the plot. And all for a man who would stab them in the back at a second's notice if he thought it would serve his ends.
Yes agree totally. Been watching it live on CNN. Really brings it home to you how fragile democracy can be, without the correct checks and balances in place, against a dictator. History shows as in Germany after ww1 how democracy can change so quickly. Hope we do not ever have to learn those lessons again. Relying on good people to do the correct thing is not enough. I believe the UK should strengthen an official constitution to help prevent it ever happening here.
The US is demonstrating that a Constitution does not safeguard democracy.
The voters and politicians do.
It's not just the US. More than a hundred countries around the world have Constitutions but aren't remotely describable as democracies.
For McConnell's career, all the wrong people are praising his speech.
He’s 78 years old and has four years left on his tenure. The Republicans are about to lose the Senate and he won’t necessarily want to continue as minority leader.
So why would his future career be an issue?
Fearless prediction - McConnell will continue as Minority Leader.
That is one confused poster. Is Braveheart to make sure we get the reference, or does he think that is the character?
If he is angry at Marx, he can rest assured, we know exactly where he is.
It’s slightly more accurate than the original film though.
Now, Dr, we the PB going public will accept a lot, but if you're about to try to undermine the peerless documentary of Braveheart by suggesting it contains a few inaccuracies, you may be about to cross a line.
I would never suggest it contained *a few inaccuracies.*
The increasing conflict between people with different political views in the US at the moment isn't a cause for amusement IMO.
Well said.
It really isn't
America is degenerating into a dreadful political polarisation that's been about three decades in the making. That's only possible with the absurd, buffoonish spectacle of figures like Cruz, though.
No equivalence. The Trump manifestation of the GOP are a uniquely terrible creature.
An analysis published by the U.K. Treasury on Monday predicts up to 820,000 job losses and a year-long recession if Britain quits the world's biggest single market.
For McConnell's career, all the wrong people are praising his speech.
He’s 78 years old and has four years left on his tenure. The Republicans are about to lose the Senate and he won’t necessarily want to continue as minority leader.
So why would his future career be an issue?
Fearless prediction - McConnell will continue as Minority Leader.
Yes, I thought myself after posting that he’s unlikely to give it up. However, my main point was that he’s not going to have any other post in politics now and his seat can’t be taken away from him. So he can ignore any ‘career threats’ made by the orange haired sex pest and his equally crazed supporters.
This doesn’t mean he’s a nice man or will do the sensible thing, just that the wilder threats of the fascist right led by Trump are pure hysteria.
The state of these idiots taking selfies of themselves doing a coup. Humanity is doomed.
Probably won't even get convicted of anything. Wait for Cruz to say how because they are angry, it shows how the politicians and system has failed, and they should not be punished for that.
If they don't complete counting the votes today, what happens?
Well if the count is completed by the 20th of January then Trump's Presidency and Pence's Vice Presidency expires on Midday that day and Nancy Pelosi becomes the President.
The Senators or those storming the building? The latter have gone well beyond mere sedition. Assaulting (not protesting) the Congress has to be treason, surely?
SO do PBers believe that Trumpsky's inciting a mob to attack the US Capitol will HELP his political future or HARM it?
My own guess - and hope - is Door #2.
We've already seen that Fearless Leader's wild accusations against the reality that he is indeed the Biggest Loser in American History helped to defeat not one but TWO sitting Republican senators in state that until recently was safe GOP turf.
Are these Republican politicians mad enough to actually believe that the election was stolen and they can overturn it? Or are they conniving and mad enough to know it is rubbish but think they can actually overturn it anyway?
Either way they seem to have utterly lost the plot. And all for a man who would stab them in the back at a second's notice if he thought it would serve his ends.
Yes agree totally. Been watching it live on CNN. Really brings it home to you how fragile democracy can be, without the correct checks and balances in place, against a dictator. History shows as in Germany after ww1 how democracy can change so quickly. Hope we do not ever have to learn those lessons again. Relying on good people to do the correct thing is not enough. I believe the UK should strengthen an official constitution to help prevent it ever happening here.
The US is demonstrating that a Constitution does not safeguard democracy.
The voters and politicians do.
It's not just the US. More than a hundred countries around the world have Constitutions but aren't remotely describable as democracies.
While we don't, and are.
I grew up hearing the Useful Idiots parroting the line that the Constitution of the Soviet Union proved they had better human rights than the West.
Well, it might have done, if the government hadn’t ignored it.
So apart from the fact that the constitution of the Soviet Union was ignored by
- the leaders - the entire government - the police - the courts - the people
....it was jolly useful.
And if my aunt had more wheels she would be an HGV.
SO do PBers believe that Trumpsky's inciting a mob to attack the US Capitol will HELP his political future or HARM it?
My own guess - and hope - is Door #2.
We've already seen that Fearless Leader's wild accusations against the reality that he is indeed the Biggest Loser in American History helped to defeat not one but TWO sitting Republican senators in state that until recently was safe GOP turf.
Absolutely. The authorities in DC (all of them Democrats by the way) have Lost Control. Time to send in the patriotic black suited no name tag storm troopers who did so much in Portland to defend the American way
The UK is no longer in the top 10 for deaths per capita. It's been overtaken by countries like Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Liechtenstein and North Macedonia.
Those figures need to be taken with a very LARGE pinch of salt. Only a week ago the Russian statistical agency attributed another 130,000 excess deaths to COVID-19. Similar issues apply to the figures from a lot of other countries, so things are a lot worse in a lot of other countries than they may seem from offical COVID-19 tallies.
Some very strange numbers in there.
UK - 1.4m active cases - 2,645 critical
Germany - 340k active cases - 5,569 critical
UK - 1.4m active cases - 2,645 critical
France - 2.4m active cases - 2,616 critical
Germany has 3x the per capita ICU capacity of the UK, so less rationing needed.
He won't, but Donald Trump deserves to end up in a prison cell for all he has done and caused through the most ridiculous narcissism and selfishness. Poor USA.
And yet, even now, tens and tens of millions will be cheering him and those storming the building on, with at best fake remonstration for the extremity of it.
You really could not have predicted that the US would collapse into anarchy
This is truly shocking
This IS shocking, but NOT the entire US. Unless you think the entire UK was collapsing into anarchy at the time of the Gordon Riots?
The 1863 Draft Riots in New York City were a US equivalent - not the sad spectacle being sponsored today in DC by Trumspky, Cruz and their fellow Proud Boys.
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If he is angry at Marx, he can rest assured, we know exactly where he is.
https://theweek.com/articles/469675/mitch-mcconnells-amazing-filibuster-bill
UK - 1.4m active cases - 2,645 critical
Germany - 340k active cases - 5,569 critical
UK - 1.4m active cases - 2,645 critical
France - 2.4m active cases - 2,616 critical
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1346895996551356420?s=20
Do we know for sure that Boris Johnson is not in command of security at the Capitol?
But it is NOT a conflict of political views. It is democracy or not. Democracy or something else entirely.
Putting it the way you did was hopefully a case of fat fingers.
https://twitter.com/bresreports/status/1346899450611044354?s=20
I blame the internet. Seriously.
That would be a complete distortion of the truth.
https://twitter.com/gordonguthrie/status/1346900521744019458?s=20
https://money.cnn.com/2016/05/23/news/economy/brexit-uk-recession-eu-referendum/index.html
This doesn’t mean he’s a nice man or will do the sensible thing, just that the wilder threats of the fascist right led by Trump are pure hysteria.
Wayne Rooney and Derby County first team to miss FA Cup tie against Chorley - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55560401
And in the West, democracy needs some form of radical participatory renewal.
Remember the Abu Ghraib scandal?
This is truly shocking
Meanwhile the building is surrounded by various suspicious packages
When you look at the majesty of the Republic under Kennedy, Reagan, Obama.
its incredibly sad.
Although Twitter doesn't seem as bad as Facebook somehow. Possibly because less is hidden.
I hope the police don't start shooting these idiots, because I'd hate to think what that might trigger.
My own guess - and hope - is Door #2.
We've already seen that Fearless Leader's wild accusations against the reality that he is indeed the Biggest Loser in American History helped to defeat not one but TWO sitting Republican senators in state that until recently was safe GOP turf.
- the leaders
- the entire government
- the police
- the courts
- the people
....it was jolly useful.
And if my aunt had more wheels she would be an HGV.
If Michael Fallon's bodyguards weren't in the area then we could have seen dozens of MPs murdered.
Turn out to have known what they were talking about. Bit of a worry that half the military votes Trump.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55558060
Though he’s definitely picked up tips from Trump this last year or so...
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1346824480694415364
And yet, even now, tens and tens of millions will be cheering him and those storming the building on, with at best fake remonstration for the extremity of it.
Pence taken to a secure location
The 1863 Draft Riots in New York City were a US equivalent - not the sad spectacle being sponsored today in DC by Trumspky, Cruz and their fellow Proud Boys.