Further signs that the GOP will steal the 2024 election – politicalbetting.com

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Further signs that the GOP will steal the 2024 election – politicalbetting.com

"Of the 15 Republican candidates for secretary of state in 5 battleground states — AZ, GQ, WI, MI, NV–10 have declared the 2020 election stolen or called for results to be invalidated or further investigated. Only 2 of the 9 interviewed said Biden won."https://t.co/BF0Kj0xENT

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TheScreamingEagles

The strategists at Mercedes = Luca Badoer.

noneoftheabove

"it is incontrovertible to me that betting on the main 2024 Presidential market should be avoided because winning bets will become losers due to the shenanigans of the GOP infrastructure."

No, no, no, back Trump! It is also a life, pension, asset hedge as the end of US democracy is unlikely to be much use for any of those.

IanB2

Naughtiness knows no bounds

RochdalePioneers

America is a sham democracy shock.

rpjs

It’s not the restrictions on voting access that are a concern, that’s par for the course and the GQP has already done as much as it can in this area; the latest changes probably won’t make much difference.

The real concern is the states legislating to allow their legislatures to ignore the popular vote and impose their own slate of electors. Perfectly constitutional, as previously discussed at length here on PB.

Philip_Thompson

kinabalu said:

isam said:

kinabalu said:

isam said:

ThomasNashe said:

isam said:

ThomasNashe said:

isam said:

ThomasNashe said:

bigjohnowls said:

On Topic Man who has never voted Labour in his life thinks Labour leader that in 2017 produced the biggest increase in vote share since WW2 left a toxic legacy

His toxic divisive useless nonentity of a replacement is blame free

As I say man who knows nothing about what inspires people to vote Labour

You keep repeating this bollox, but bollox it is. Corbyn fought two general elections, and Labour recorded two of its lowest ever seat totals.*

* Explanatory Note: In the UK, parties can form governments if they win a majority of the seats. Corbyn’s Labour won 262 seats in 2017, and a lot fewer in 2019. At both elections the winning post was 326 seats.

It is amazing though, that even in the 2019 GE, Corbyn’s Labour got a better vote share than Miliband in 2015 and Brown in 2010.

If you ignore 2017, & look at the vote share changes from 2015 to 2019, all that seems to have happened is UKIP went Tory, and some Tory Remainers went Lib Dem, despite all the loud noise in between

Amazing, but irrelevant.

Why is it irrelevant? Vote shares mean something, and it’s worth knowing, or at least trying to figure out, where 12.6% of voters, whose party has more or less given up, from 2015 went.

If Tory 2019 is (Tory 2015 + UKIP 2015) - 4-5% to the LDs, where does that leave Labour?

Flat from 2010 to 2019. One can hardly blame Corbyn for UKIPs voters going Tory, when his Brexit plan was a second referendum and the Tories was getting it done

Corbynites continually cite their vote share and increase in its %, while completely ignoring what is actually required to win an election - and by which measure they fell lamentably short in 2017.

Never mind that, I am talking about the fact that 2010, 2015,and 2019 were very similar scores for Labour, with three different leaders. 2017 was a peculiar GE that can pretty much be written off, analytically. But the fact remains Corbyn (32.1%) bettered EdM (30.4%),and Gordo's (29%) efforts in his bad GE, and the reason the seat tally was so low was UKIP/BXP standing aside and the Tories gobbling up their vote

You go wrong when you start claiming Starmer's Remainerdom is a reason why he's struggling - it's the Covid blot out effect plus a lack of charisma cf Perfidious Posh - but I broadly agree with your take on this.

Both 17 and 19 were Brexit elections but were impacted in opposite fashion. In 17, Labour were a receptacle for Remainers to vote against the hard Brexit Mrs May seemed intent upon. They didn't want to give her the majority she said she needed to drive it through. Upshot - the result flattered Corbyn. By 19, a significant proportion of these voters were sick & tired of the Brexit wars and rather than prolonging the agony with another Referendum wanted it to be over. Thus the power of the Oven Ready Deal and Get Brexit Done. Upshot - the result flattered Johnson.

So what I'm saying is Jeremy Corbyn had less to do with Labour's good result at GE17 than his supporters like to make out, and he had less to do with their terrible result at GE19 than his detractors like to make out. Bias drives the analysis of both camps. The bigger and deeper reason for the overperformance in 17 and the underperformance in 19 is Brexit.

The interesting question now - indeed the million dollar question when it comes to punditing UK politics - is what impact will Brexit have on the next election?

But the reason Boris won such a majority in 2019, the reason the Tories floor seems to be 39/40 rather than 30/31 as it was in 2015, is UKIP voters have pretty much all gone Tory - and the reason for that is Labour demanded a second referendum in 2019... and their shadow Brexit Sec, who said Labour would be campaigning for Remain if they managed to swindle another go, was Sir Keir. So why would the deciding factor, the 2015 Kippers, go Labour now he is their leader?

Ukip voters were all nationalistic hard leavers. They aren't in play for a progressive party of the left.

All of them? Every single one of them? Did you survey them all?

Interesting theory except many 2015 UKIP voters were 2010 Lib Dem voters.

isam

Philip_Thompson said:

kinabalu said:

isam said:

kinabalu said:

isam said:

ThomasNashe said:

isam said:

ThomasNashe said:

isam said:

ThomasNashe said:

bigjohnowls said:

On Topic Man who has never voted Labour in his life thinks Labour leader that in 2017 produced the biggest increase in vote share since WW2 left a toxic legacy

His toxic divisive useless nonentity of a replacement is blame free

As I say man who knows nothing about what inspires people to vote Labour

You keep repeating this bollox, but bollox it is. Corbyn fought two general elections, and Labour recorded two of its lowest ever seat totals.*

* Explanatory Note: In the UK, parties can form governments if they win a majority of the seats. Corbyn’s Labour won 262 seats in 2017, and a lot fewer in 2019. At both elections the winning post was 326 seats.

It is amazing though, that even in the 2019 GE, Corbyn’s Labour got a better vote share than Miliband in 2015 and Brown in 2010.

If you ignore 2017, & look at the vote share changes from 2015 to 2019, all that seems to have happened is UKIP went Tory, and some Tory Remainers went Lib Dem, despite all the loud noise in between

Amazing, but irrelevant.

Why is it irrelevant? Vote shares mean something, and it’s worth knowing, or at least trying to figure out, where 12.6% of voters, whose party has more or less given up, from 2015 went.

If Tory 2019 is (Tory 2015 + UKIP 2015) - 4-5% to the LDs, where does that leave Labour?

Flat from 2010 to 2019. One can hardly blame Corbyn for UKIPs voters going Tory, when his Brexit plan was a second referendum and the Tories was getting it done

Corbynites continually cite their vote share and increase in its %, while completely ignoring what is actually required to win an election - and by which measure they fell lamentably short in 2017.

Never mind that, I am talking about the fact that 2010, 2015,and 2019 were very similar scores for Labour, with three different leaders. 2017 was a peculiar GE that can pretty much be written off, analytically. But the fact remains Corbyn (32.1%) bettered EdM (30.4%),and Gordo's (29%) efforts in his bad GE, and the reason the seat tally was so low was UKIP/BXP standing aside and the Tories gobbling up their vote

You go wrong when you start claiming Starmer's Remainerdom is a reason why he's struggling - it's the Covid blot out effect plus a lack of charisma cf Perfidious Posh - but I broadly agree with your take on this.

Both 17 and 19 were Brexit elections but were impacted in opposite fashion. In 17, Labour were a receptacle for Remainers to vote against the hard Brexit Mrs May seemed intent upon. They didn't want to give her the majority she said she needed to drive it through. Upshot - the result flattered Corbyn. By 19, a significant proportion of these voters were sick & tired of the Brexit wars and rather than prolonging the agony with another Referendum wanted it to be over. Thus the power of the Oven Ready Deal and Get Brexit Done. Upshot - the result flattered Johnson.

So what I'm saying is Jeremy Corbyn had less to do with Labour's good result at GE17 than his supporters like to make out, and he had less to do with their terrible result at GE19 than his detractors like to make out. Bias drives the analysis of both camps. The bigger and deeper reason for the overperformance in 17 and the underperformance in 19 is Brexit.

The interesting question now - indeed the million dollar question when it comes to punditing UK politics - is what impact will Brexit have on the next election?

But the reason Boris won such a majority in 2019, the reason the Tories floor seems to be 39/40 rather than 30/31 as it was in 2015, is UKIP voters have pretty much all gone Tory - and the reason for that is Labour demanded a second referendum in 2019... and their shadow Brexit Sec, who said Labour would be campaigning for Remain if they managed to swindle another go, was Sir Keir. So why would the deciding factor, the 2015 Kippers, go Labour now he is their leader?

Ukip voters were all nationalistic hard leavers. They aren't in play for a progressive party of the left.

All of them? Every single one of them? Did you survey them all?

Interesting theory except many if not most 2015 UKIP voters were 2010 Lib Dem voters.

Most of them were the kind of low paid, low educational achievement types that Labour was set up to give a voice to

rottenborough

Important header.

The Dems need to wake up NOW! They have the power to try and stop all this while they have the votes in Congress. Reform the election process. Voter rights. Massively important to give statehood to DC. And so on.

This will be the last election in America in our lifetimes if they don't stop Trump "winning" in 2024.

HYUFD

Legislatures and Governors are all elected too (Secretaries of State appointed by the Governor).

All have to agree to measures restricting ballot access and at the moment only 23 states out of 50 have both a GOP governor and GOP controlled legislature, nowhere near enough to win the EC by themselves in 2024 and even fewer than the 25 states Trump won in 2020 when he lost to Biden.

If the GOP win enough states to control ballot access then the mood is likely heading for a GOP president again anyway

HYUFD

Philip_Thompson said:

kinabalu said:

isam said:

kinabalu said:

isam said:

ThomasNashe said:

isam said:

ThomasNashe said:

isam said:

ThomasNashe said:

bigjohnowls said:

On Topic Man who has never voted Labour in his life thinks Labour leader that in 2017 produced the biggest increase in vote share since WW2 left a toxic legacy

His toxic divisive useless nonentity of a replacement is blame free

As I say man who knows nothing about what inspires people to vote Labour

You keep repeating this bollox, but bollox it is. Corbyn fought two general elections, and Labour recorded two of its lowest ever seat totals.*

* Explanatory Note: In the UK, parties can form governments if they win a majority of the seats. Corbyn’s Labour won 262 seats in 2017, and a lot fewer in 2019. At both elections the winning post was 326 seats.

It is amazing though, that even in the 2019 GE, Corbyn’s Labour got a better vote share than Miliband in 2015 and Brown in 2010.

If you ignore 2017, & look at the vote share changes from 2015 to 2019, all that seems to have happened is UKIP went Tory, and some Tory Remainers went Lib Dem, despite all the loud noise in between

Amazing, but irrelevant.

Why is it irrelevant? Vote shares mean something, and it’s worth knowing, or at least trying to figure out, where 12.6% of voters, whose party has more or less given up, from 2015 went.

If Tory 2019 is (Tory 2015 + UKIP 2015) - 4-5% to the LDs, where does that leave Labour?

Flat from 2010 to 2019. One can hardly blame Corbyn for UKIPs voters going Tory, when his Brexit plan was a second referendum and the Tories was getting it done

Corbynites continually cite their vote share and increase in its %, while completely ignoring what is actually required to win an election - and by which measure they fell lamentably short in 2017.

Never mind that, I am talking about the fact that 2010, 2015,and 2019 were very similar scores for Labour, with three different leaders. 2017 was a peculiar GE that can pretty much be written off, analytically. But the fact remains Corbyn (32.1%) bettered EdM (30.4%),and Gordo's (29%) efforts in his bad GE, and the reason the seat tally was so low was UKIP/BXP standing aside and the Tories gobbling up their vote

You go wrong when you start claiming Starmer's Remainerdom is a reason why he's struggling - it's the Covid blot out effect plus a lack of charisma cf Perfidious Posh - but I broadly agree with your take on this.

Both 17 and 19 were Brexit elections but were impacted in opposite fashion. In 17, Labour were a receptacle for Remainers to vote against the hard Brexit Mrs May seemed intent upon. They didn't want to give her the majority she said she needed to drive it through. Upshot - the result flattered Corbyn. By 19, a significant proportion of these voters were sick & tired of the Brexit wars and rather than prolonging the agony with another Referendum wanted it to be over. Thus the power of the Oven Ready Deal and Get Brexit Done. Upshot - the result flattered Johnson.

So what I'm saying is Jeremy Corbyn had less to do with Labour's good result at GE17 than his supporters like to make out, and he had less to do with their terrible result at GE19 than his detractors like to make out. Bias drives the analysis of both camps. The bigger and deeper reason for the overperformance in 17 and the underperformance in 19 is Brexit.

The interesting question now - indeed the million dollar question when it comes to punditing UK politics - is what impact will Brexit have on the next election?

But the reason Boris won such a majority in 2019, the reason the Tories floor seems to be 39/40 rather than 30/31 as it was in 2015, is UKIP voters have pretty much all gone Tory - and the reason for that is Labour demanded a second referendum in 2019... and their shadow Brexit Sec, who said Labour would be campaigning for Remain if they managed to swindle another go, was Sir Keir. So why would the deciding factor, the 2015 Kippers, go Labour now he is their leader?

Ukip voters were all nationalistic hard leavers. They aren't in play for a progressive party of the left.

All of them? Every single one of them? Did you survey them all?

Interesting theory except many 2015 UKIP voters were 2010 Lib Dem voters.

Most of them were 2010 Tory or Brown Labour voters, 2020 LD voters tended to go to Cameron in 2015 or Ed Miliband if they did not vote LD again

noneoftheabove

rottenborough said:

Important header.

The Dems need to wake up NOW! They have the power to try and stop all this while they have the votes in Congress. Reform the election process. Voter rights. Massively important to give statehood to DC. And so on.

This will be the last election in America in our lifetimes if they don't stop Trump "winning" in 2024.

Putin et al have regular elections. It won't be the last election ever, just opponents will be locked up, intimidated or worse.

kinabalu

Philip_Thompson said:

kinabalu said:

isam said:

kinabalu said:

isam said:

ThomasNashe said:

isam said:

ThomasNashe said:

isam said:

ThomasNashe said:

bigjohnowls said:

On Topic Man who has never voted Labour in his life thinks Labour leader that in 2017 produced the biggest increase in vote share since WW2 left a toxic legacy

His toxic divisive useless nonentity of a replacement is blame free

As I say man who knows nothing about what inspires people to vote Labour

You keep repeating this bollox, but bollox it is. Corbyn fought two general elections, and Labour recorded two of its lowest ever seat totals.*

* Explanatory Note: In the UK, parties can form governments if they win a majority of the seats. Corbyn’s Labour won 262 seats in 2017, and a lot fewer in 2019. At both elections the winning post was 326 seats.

It is amazing though, that even in the 2019 GE, Corbyn’s Labour got a better vote share than Miliband in 2015 and Brown in 2010.

If you ignore 2017, & look at the vote share changes from 2015 to 2019, all that seems to have happened is UKIP went Tory, and some Tory Remainers went Lib Dem, despite all the loud noise in between

Amazing, but irrelevant.

Why is it irrelevant? Vote shares mean something, and it’s worth knowing, or at least trying to figure out, where 12.6% of voters, whose party has more or less given up, from 2015 went.

If Tory 2019 is (Tory 2015 + UKIP 2015) - 4-5% to the LDs, where does that leave Labour?

Flat from 2010 to 2019. One can hardly blame Corbyn for UKIPs voters going Tory, when his Brexit plan was a second referendum and the Tories was getting it done

Corbynites continually cite their vote share and increase in its %, while completely ignoring what is actually required to win an election - and by which measure they fell lamentably short in 2017.

Never mind that, I am talking about the fact that 2010, 2015,and 2019 were very similar scores for Labour, with three different leaders. 2017 was a peculiar GE that can pretty much be written off, analytically. But the fact remains Corbyn (32.1%) bettered EdM (30.4%),and Gordo's (29%) efforts in his bad GE, and the reason the seat tally was so low was UKIP/BXP standing aside and the Tories gobbling up their vote

You go wrong when you start claiming Starmer's Remainerdom is a reason why he's struggling - it's the Covid blot out effect plus a lack of charisma cf Perfidious Posh - but I broadly agree with your take on this.

Both 17 and 19 were Brexit elections but were impacted in opposite fashion. In 17, Labour were a receptacle for Remainers to vote against the hard Brexit Mrs May seemed intent upon. They didn't want to give her the majority she said she needed to drive it through. Upshot - the result flattered Corbyn. By 19, a significant proportion of these voters were sick & tired of the Brexit wars and rather than prolonging the agony with another Referendum wanted it to be over. Thus the power of the Oven Ready Deal and Get Brexit Done. Upshot - the result flattered Johnson.

So what I'm saying is Jeremy Corbyn had less to do with Labour's good result at GE17 than his supporters like to make out, and he had less to do with their terrible result at GE19 than his detractors like to make out. Bias drives the analysis of both camps. The bigger and deeper reason for the overperformance in 17 and the underperformance in 19 is Brexit.

The interesting question now - indeed the million dollar question when it comes to punditing UK politics - is what impact will Brexit have on the next election?

But the reason Boris won such a majority in 2019, the reason the Tories floor seems to be 39/40 rather than 30/31 as it was in 2015, is UKIP voters have pretty much all gone Tory - and the reason for that is Labour demanded a second referendum in 2019... and their shadow Brexit Sec, who said Labour would be campaigning for Remain if they managed to swindle another go, was Sir Keir. So why would the deciding factor, the 2015 Kippers, go Labour now he is their leader?

Ukip voters were all nationalistic hard leavers. They aren't in play for a progressive party of the left.

All of them? Every single one of them? Did you survey them all?

Interesting theory except many 2015 UKIP voters were 2010 Lib Dem voters.

I'm using "all" in its looser "the vast majority of" sense there. Bit of shorthand. Much better for fingertips and keyboard - not to mention thread quality - to keep my posts as compact as possible. "All" will applaud me for this, I think.

RochdalePioneers

rottenborough said:

Important header.

The Dems need to wake up NOW! They have the power to try and stop all this while they have the votes in Congress. Reform the election process. Voter rights. Massively important to give statehood to DC. And so on.

This will be the last election in America in our lifetimes if they don't stop Trump "winning" in 2024.

The rest of the world can build a wall and sanction Gilead if that happens.

Andy_JS

"Priti Patel 'believes the Met is rotten from top to bottom' and 'is absolutely the worst' of Britain's police forces 'after she clashed with commissioner Cressida Dick over Sarah Everard case'"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10077373/Priti-Patel-believes-Met-rotten-bottom-clashing-Cressida-Dick.html

rottenborough

HYUFD said:

Legislatures and Governors are all elected too (Secretaries of State appointed by the Governor).

All have to agree to measures restricting ballot access and at the moment only 23 states out of 50 have both a GOP governor and GOP controlled legislature, nowhere near enough to win the EC by themselves in 2024 and even fewer than the 25 states Trump won in 2020 when he lost to Biden.

If the GOP win enough states to control ballot access then the mood is likely heading for a GOP president again anyway

But the GOP president wont be a GOP president in any meaningful sense. It will be Trump and the party will have become a demagogue cult worshipping outfit of near and actual criminals who don't believe a word of the founding principles of the US.

I expect CA at the very least to exit.

MrEd

Oh God, here we go ahead with the usual "Republicans are going to steal the 2024 election". No surprise it's come out when everyone is waking up to what a disaster Biden is as President.

Meanwhile, you turn a blind eye to Merrick Garland considering using the Patriot Act to prosecute parents who complain about Critical Race Theory in US schools.

Why don't you just starting publishing headers talking about how we need a permanent Democratic Presidency and Congress?

If you really had the balls - and I doubt you have - why don't you just call for the GOP to be banned as a threat to Democracy much as West Germany did post-WW2 with the Nazi party?

MrEd

rottenborough said:

HYUFD said:

Legislatures and Governors are all elected too (Secretaries of State appointed by the Governor).

All have to agree to measures restricting ballot access and at the moment only 23 states out of 50 have both a GOP governor and GOP controlled legislature, nowhere near enough to win the EC by themselves in 2024 and even fewer than the 25 states Trump won in 2020 when he lost to Biden.

If the GOP win enough states to control ballot access then the mood is likely heading for a GOP president again anyway

But the GOP president wont be a GOP president in any meaningful sense. It will be Trump and the party will have become a demagogue cult worshipping outfit of near and actual criminals who don't believe a word of the founding principles of the US.

I expect CA at the very least to exit.

In which case, the Inland Counties of CA will stay and it will be a coastal enclave stretching from LA County to the Bay area (San Diego would probably remain in the US in this scenario).

Be interesting to see how the wokesters and Tech billionaires protect themselves from their poorer citizens if that came to pass. Can't imagine there will be many Police and / or Army units willing to protect them (or stay).

another_richard

Well if I'm reading this correctly we get in 2022 Senate elections in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_Senate_elections

Which should give an idea as to what might happen in 2024.

RochdalePioneers

Andy_JS said:

"Priti Patel 'believes the Met is rotten from top to bottom' and 'is absolutely the worst' of Britain's police forces 'after she clashed with commissioner Cressida Dick over Sarah Everard case'"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10077373/Priti-Patel-believes-Met-rotten-bottom-clashing-Cressida-Dick.html

Priti not completely shit then. Surprising.

RochdalePioneers

MrEd said:

Oh God, here we go ahead with the usual "Republicans are going to steal the 2024 election". No surprise it's come out when everyone is waking up to what a disaster Biden is as President.

Meanwhile, you turn a blind eye to Merrick Garland considering using the Patriot Act to prosecute parents who complain about Critical Race Theory in US schools.

Why don't you just starting publishing headers talking about how we need a permanent Democratic Presidency and Congress?

If you really had the balls - and I doubt you have - why don't you just call for the GOP to be banned as a threat to Democracy much as West Germany did post-WW2 with the Nazi party?

The Grand Old Party are fine. It's the Trumper Insurrectionists that are the concern. Surely even you have to condemn their efforts to overthrow democracy.

Big_G_NorthWales

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

Mexicanpete

RochdalePioneers said:

Andy_JS said:

"Priti Patel 'believes the Met is rotten from top to bottom' and 'is absolutely the worst' of Britain's police forces 'after she clashed with commissioner Cressida Dick over Sarah Everard case'"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10077373/Priti-Patel-believes-Met-rotten-bottom-clashing-Cressida-Dick.html

Priti not completely shit then. Surprising.

She was so very, very, angry. So much so, she only went and sanctioned an extension to Cressida's contract.

MaxPB

The Dave Chappelle special is absolutely brilliant.

Dura_Ace

It'll be funny if the UK has to tough it out in AUKUS and NATO after the US goes fascist and/or falls apart.

Big_G_NorthWales

Mexicanpete said:

RochdalePioneers said:

Andy_JS said:

"Priti Patel 'believes the Met is rotten from top to bottom' and 'is absolutely the worst' of Britain's police forces 'after she clashed with commissioner Cressida Dick over Sarah Everard case'"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10077373/Priti-Patel-believes-Met-rotten-bottom-clashing-Cressida-Dick.html

Priti not completely shit then. Surprising.

She was so very, very, angry, she only went and sanctioned an extension to Cressida's contract.

That was before Couzens trial

I doubt she would today

MrEd

RochdalePioneers said:

MrEd said:

Oh God, here we go ahead with the usual "Republicans are going to steal the 2024 election". No surprise it's come out when everyone is waking up to what a disaster Biden is as President.

Meanwhile, you turn a blind eye to Merrick Garland considering using the Patriot Act to prosecute parents who complain about Critical Race Theory in US schools.

Why don't you just starting publishing headers talking about how we need a permanent Democratic Presidency and Congress?

If you really had the balls - and I doubt you have - why don't you just call for the GOP to be banned as a threat to Democracy much as West Germany did post-WW2 with the Nazi party?

The Grand Old Party are fine. It's the Trumper Insurrectionists that are the concern. Surely even you have to condemn their efforts to overthrow democracy.

Even me, as I did at the time.

But it plays both ways. Surely you will be happy to accept that the story we all heard that Trump won in 2016 because Russia rigged the election and therefore his election was illegitimate was a crock of horseshit?

Or maybe not.

MrEd

Mexicanpete said:

RochdalePioneers said:

Andy_JS said:

"Priti Patel 'believes the Met is rotten from top to bottom' and 'is absolutely the worst' of Britain's police forces 'after she clashed with commissioner Cressida Dick over Sarah Everard case'"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10077373/Priti-Patel-believes-Met-rotten-bottom-clashing-Cressida-Dick.html

Priti not completely shit then. Surprising.

She was so very, very, angry. So much so, she only went and sanctioned an extension to Cressida's contract.

Yes, something not right there in that story...

JosiasJessop

Big_G_NorthWales said:

Mexicanpete said:

RochdalePioneers said:

Andy_JS said:

"Priti Patel 'believes the Met is rotten from top to bottom' and 'is absolutely the worst' of Britain's police forces 'after she clashed with commissioner Cressida Dick over Sarah Everard case'"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10077373/Priti-Patel-believes-Met-rotten-bottom-clashing-Cressida-Dick.html

Priti not completely shit then. Surprising.

She was so very, very, angry, she only went and sanctioned an extension to Cressida's contract.

That was before Couzens trial

I doubt she would today

That's a poor excuse. Most of the facts about Couzens would have been well known to the authorities before Cressida Dick's contract was extended.

Mexicanpete

Dura_Ace said:

It'll be funny if the UK has to tough it out in AUKUS and NATO after the US goes fascist and/or falls apart.

Funny wouldn't be my first word of choice. Maybe apocalyptic?

noneoftheabove

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

How did it get here? Too much money in politics, too partisan, social media, gap between rich and poor.

It can happen in the UK too, it probably won't but it can.

Alistair

Whataboutery when one side supported a coup attempt is weak sauce.

noneoftheabove

MrEd said:

RochdalePioneers said:

MrEd said:

Oh God, here we go ahead with the usual "Republicans are going to steal the 2024 election". No surprise it's come out when everyone is waking up to what a disaster Biden is as President.

Meanwhile, you turn a blind eye to Merrick Garland considering using the Patriot Act to prosecute parents who complain about Critical Race Theory in US schools.

Why don't you just starting publishing headers talking about how we need a permanent Democratic Presidency and Congress?

If you really had the balls - and I doubt you have - why don't you just call for the GOP to be banned as a threat to Democracy much as West Germany did post-WW2 with the Nazi party?

The Grand Old Party are fine. It's the Trumper Insurrectionists that are the concern. Surely even you have to condemn their efforts to overthrow democracy.

Even me, as I did at the time.

But it plays both ways. Surely you will be happy to accept that the story we all heard that Trump won in 2016 because Russia rigged the election and therefore his election was illegitimate was a crock of horseshit?

Or maybe not.

The Democrats conceded that election within hours.

The reality is Russia did influence the election, as they do most Western elections, and that makes them all less legitimate. Acknowledging that is completely different from trying to stop Trump taking power by not conceding. Which is then completely different from staging an armed coup and encouraging your fans to behead Mike Pence.

Searching for false equivalences seems to be your special subject!

Mexicanpete

Alistair said:

Whataboutery when one side supported a coup attempt is weak sauce.

Trump wanted Hillary locked up for insecure email use. No one seems anything like as concerned that Trump incited insurrection. An insurrection attempt that resulted in five fatalities.

Unreal!

TimT

rpjs said:

It’s not the restrictions on voting access that are a concern, that’s par for the course and the GQP has already done as much as it can in this area; the latest changes probably won’t make much difference.

The real concern is the states legislating to allow their legislatures to ignore the popular vote and impose their own slate of electors. Perfectly constitutional, as previously discussed at length here on PB.

I have never seriously thought about the possibility of the USA breaking up. But I could see a situation where the national popular vote is massively in favour of the Dem Presidential candidate, the Dem candidate would have won the electoral college vote under normal conditions, but lose it because of those types of shenanigans, and then the East and West Coast basically saying, we're out, we are not going to stand for this any more.

Carnyx

O/T but this may interest some of us especially @Theuniondivvie - Messrs Gillespie and Welsh on life, the universe, music and the Weegie Tenement.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/10/bobby-gillespie-irvine-welsh-memoirs-tenement-kid

kinabalu

If Piers Corbyn formed a political party here and its foundational principle was that the GE19 Conservative win was fraudulent, the true winner being Labour under his kid brother, would that party be allowed to stand at the next general election?

MrEd

noneoftheabove said:

MrEd said:

RochdalePioneers said:

MrEd said:

Oh God, here we go ahead with the usual "Republicans are going to steal the 2024 election". No surprise it's come out when everyone is waking up to what a disaster Biden is as President.

Meanwhile, you turn a blind eye to Merrick Garland considering using the Patriot Act to prosecute parents who complain about Critical Race Theory in US schools.

Why don't you just starting publishing headers talking about how we need a permanent Democratic Presidency and Congress?

If you really had the balls - and I doubt you have - why don't you just call for the GOP to be banned as a threat to Democracy much as West Germany did post-WW2 with the Nazi party?

The Grand Old Party are fine. It's the Trumper Insurrectionists that are the concern. Surely even you have to condemn their efforts to overthrow democracy.

Even me, as I did at the time.

But it plays both ways. Surely you will be happy to accept that the story we all heard that Trump won in 2016 because Russia rigged the election and therefore his election was illegitimate was a crock of horseshit?

Or maybe not.

The Democrats conceded that election within hours.

The reality is Russia did influence the election, as they do most Western elections, and that makes them all less legitimate. Acknowledging that is completely different from trying to stop Trump taking power by not conceding. Which is then completely different from staging an armed coup and encouraging your fans to behead Mike Pence.

Searching for false equivalences seems to be your special subject!

Turning a blind eye is obviously yours

Here is one example. Hilary in 2019 stating that "Trump knows he's an illegitimate President"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hillary-clinton-trump-impeachment-illegitimate-president-2016-election-cbs-a9122986.html

But, of course, that is not undermining democracy or trending on dangerous grounds. Oh no!!! It's ok 'cos it's Trump.

The rank hypocrisy is truly staggering to see. I commend you on your mental gymnastics.

squareroot2

TimT said:

rpjs said:

It’s not the restrictions on voting access that are a concern, that’s par for the course and the GQP has already done as much as it can in this area; the latest changes probably won’t make much difference.

The real concern is the states legislating to allow their legislatures to ignore the popular vote and impose their own slate of electors. Perfectly constitutional, as previously discussed at length here on PB.

I have never seriously thought about the possibility of the USA breaking up. But I could see a situation where the national popular vote is massively in favour of the Dem Presidential candidate, the Dem candidate would have won the electoral college vote under normal conditions, but lose it because of those types of shenanigans, and then the East and West Coast basically saying, we're out, we are not going to stand for this any more.

Second republic?

JosiasJessop

noneoftheabove said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

How did it get here? Too much money in politics, too partisan, social media, gap between rich and poor.

It can happen in the UK too, it probably won't but it can.

IMO it's the money. Everyone makes too much money from the election: even the media, with the massive advertising spends. This pollutes the entire process.

Although potentially stretched at times, the electoral spending limits here in the UK are a brilliant aspect of our system. The money in the US system totally corrupts it, and is at the heart of all the other electoral problems they have.

Dura_Ace

Mexicanpete said:

Dura_Ace said:

It'll be funny if the UK has to tough it out in AUKUS and NATO after the US goes fascist and/or falls apart.

Funny wouldn't be my first word of choice. Maybe apocalyptic?

Most of the world, especially the UK, EU and Australia, are in wilful denial about what's happening and going to happen in the US because the reality is too awful to contemplate.

MrEd

TimT said:

rpjs said:

It’s not the restrictions on voting access that are a concern, that’s par for the course and the GQP has already done as much as it can in this area; the latest changes probably won’t make much difference.

The real concern is the states legislating to allow their legislatures to ignore the popular vote and impose their own slate of electors. Perfectly constitutional, as previously discussed at length here on PB.

I have never seriously thought about the possibility of the USA breaking up. But I could see a situation where the national popular vote is massively in favour of the Dem Presidential candidate, the Dem candidate would have won the electoral college vote under normal conditions, but lose it because of those types of shenanigans, and then the East and West Coast basically saying, we're out, we are not going to stand for this any more.

I can't and, for the reason that mentioned below. At the end of the day, wealthy liberals - who are going to be the ones who will have to get behind this idea to make it a reality - know that breaking away would essentially mean they couldn't rely on the force of the state to protect them from the crowds. California is already seeing an exodus of police officers going to places like Idaho. It isn't going to happen.

MrEd

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

IshmaelZ

MrEd said:

noneoftheabove said:

MrEd said:

RochdalePioneers said:

MrEd said:

Oh God, here we go ahead with the usual "Republicans are going to steal the 2024 election". No surprise it's come out when everyone is waking up to what a disaster Biden is as President.

Meanwhile, you turn a blind eye to Merrick Garland considering using the Patriot Act to prosecute parents who complain about Critical Race Theory in US schools.

Why don't you just starting publishing headers talking about how we need a permanent Democratic Presidency and Congress?

If you really had the balls - and I doubt you have - why don't you just call for the GOP to be banned as a threat to Democracy much as West Germany did post-WW2 with the Nazi party?

The Grand Old Party are fine. It's the Trumper Insurrectionists that are the concern. Surely even you have to condemn their efforts to overthrow democracy.

Even me, as I did at the time.

But it plays both ways. Surely you will be happy to accept that the story we all heard that Trump won in 2016 because Russia rigged the election and therefore his election was illegitimate was a crock of horseshit?

Or maybe not.

The Democrats conceded that election within hours.

The reality is Russia did influence the election, as they do most Western elections, and that makes them all less legitimate. Acknowledging that is completely different from trying to stop Trump taking power by not conceding. Which is then completely different from staging an armed coup and encouraging your fans to behead Mike Pence.

Searching for false equivalences seems to be your special subject!

Turning a blind eye is obviously yours

Here is one example. Hilary in 2019 stating that "Trump knows he's an illegitimate President"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hillary-clinton-trump-impeachment-illegitimate-president-2016-election-cbs-a9122986.html

But, of course, that is not undermining democracy or trending on dangerous grounds. Oh no!!! It's ok 'cos it's Trump.

The rank hypocrisy is truly staggering to see. I commend you on your mental gymnastics.

What is your point here, that we think Trump is a uniquely loathesome human being whose actions are to be judged without the benefit of the doubt which one might reasonably extend to pretty much anyone else, including his political opponents, but we aren't prepared to admit it? I am. I just did.

Alistair

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

Missed the coup attempt by the Democrats.

isam

MaxPB said:

The Dave Chappelle special is absolutely brilliant.

Never heard of him - read two scathing reviews of his routine in The Guardian and The Independent, then looked him up on wiki and found out he was a Muslim convert. Suppose the G and i thought it was immaterial to his material

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/oct/09/dave-chappelle-letter-trans-comedian-netflix


https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/features/dave-chappelle-netflix-closer-trans-b1934860.html

noneoftheabove

MrEd said:

noneoftheabove said:

MrEd said:

RochdalePioneers said:

MrEd said:

Oh God, here we go ahead with the usual "Republicans are going to steal the 2024 election". No surprise it's come out when everyone is waking up to what a disaster Biden is as President.

Meanwhile, you turn a blind eye to Merrick Garland considering using the Patriot Act to prosecute parents who complain about Critical Race Theory in US schools.

Why don't you just starting publishing headers talking about how we need a permanent Democratic Presidency and Congress?

If you really had the balls - and I doubt you have - why don't you just call for the GOP to be banned as a threat to Democracy much as West Germany did post-WW2 with the Nazi party?

The Grand Old Party are fine. It's the Trumper Insurrectionists that are the concern. Surely even you have to condemn their efforts to overthrow democracy.

Even me, as I did at the time.

But it plays both ways. Surely you will be happy to accept that the story we all heard that Trump won in 2016 because Russia rigged the election and therefore his election was illegitimate was a crock of horseshit?

Or maybe not.

The Democrats conceded that election within hours.

The reality is Russia did influence the election, as they do most Western elections, and that makes them all less legitimate. Acknowledging that is completely different from trying to stop Trump taking power by not conceding. Which is then completely different from staging an armed coup and encouraging your fans to behead Mike Pence.

Searching for false equivalences seems to be your special subject!

Turning a blind eye is obviously yours

Here is one example. Hilary in 2019 stating that "Trump knows he's an illegitimate President"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hillary-clinton-trump-impeachment-illegitimate-president-2016-election-cbs-a9122986.html

But, of course, that is not undermining democracy or trending on dangerous grounds. Oh no!!! It's ok 'cos it's Trump.

The rank hypocrisy is truly staggering to see. I commend you on your mental gymnastics.

Was Trump 2016 less legitimate than most winners? Yes undoubtedly. Whether it makes his win illegitimate or not just depends on your understanding of the word.

The Democrats pointing that out is simply completely different to trying to stop his confirmation or not recognising the election.

Had the Democrats in 2016 tried to place Clinton as President, especially if with criminal force, that would be the equivalent and equally wrong. But they conceded within hours of polls closing, so there is no equivalence or even fair minded comparison between the two scenarios.

MrEd

Farooq said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

Read my post again. You'll find it applies much more generally that your defensive response implies.

I did and read the original. I was pointing out - and not saying you were doing it - that to incessantly blame one side and ignore one's own transgressions is undermining the US, whether it is Republicans or Democrats.

The book "Why Nations Fail" is particularly instructive on this point.

IshmaelZ

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

No it isn't. It's mainly the fact that Trump is so off the scale poisonous. And what is this stuff about how we aren't allowed to say 2016 was rigged, when it plainly was?

TimT

MrEd said:

TimT said:

rpjs said:

It’s not the restrictions on voting access that are a concern, that’s par for the course and the GQP has already done as much as it can in this area; the latest changes probably won’t make much difference.

The real concern is the states legislating to allow their legislatures to ignore the popular vote and impose their own slate of electors. Perfectly constitutional, as previously discussed at length here on PB.

I have never seriously thought about the possibility of the USA breaking up. But I could see a situation where the national popular vote is massively in favour of the Dem Presidential candidate, the Dem candidate would have won the electoral college vote under normal conditions, but lose it because of those types of shenanigans, and then the East and West Coast basically saying, we're out, we are not going to stand for this any more.

I can't and, for the reason that mentioned below. At the end of the day, wealthy liberals - who are going to be the ones who will have to get behind this idea to make it a reality - know that breaking away would essentially mean they couldn't rely on the force of the state to protect them from the crowds. California is already seeing an exodus of police officers going to places like Idaho. It isn't going to happen.

I think that is an incredibly complacent view. At very least, I would foresee violent civil unrest, devolving into constitutional crises, as Trump tries to use the military to step in in Dem controlled states where governors refuse to enforce the suppression of demonstrations demanded by Trump.

The bulk of the US' economic wealth is produced in heavily Democratic states.

Mexicanpete

squareroot2 said:

TimT said:

rpjs said:

It’s not the restrictions on voting access that are a concern, that’s par for the course and the GQP has already done as much as it can in this area; the latest changes probably won’t make much difference.

The real concern is the states legislating to allow their legislatures to ignore the popular vote and impose their own slate of electors. Perfectly constitutional, as previously discussed at length here on PB.

I have never seriously thought about the possibility of the USA breaking up. But I could see a situation where the national popular vote is massively in favour of the Dem Presidential candidate, the Dem candidate would have won the electoral college vote under normal conditions, but lose it because of those types of shenanigans, and then the East and West Coast basically saying, we're out, we are not going to stand for this any more.

Second republic?

Not much Liberte, egalite, or fraternite going on. Banana Republic more like.

P.S. Ah Root, you're back! I was gutted for you. TSE teed up the "Starmer/Labour is crap" thread header you have been demanding this morning...and unless I'm mistaken you missed it. Gutted!

MrEd

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

noneoftheabove said:

MrEd said:

RochdalePioneers said:

MrEd said:

Oh God, here we go ahead with the usual "Republicans are going to steal the 2024 election". No surprise it's come out when everyone is waking up to what a disaster Biden is as President.

Meanwhile, you turn a blind eye to Merrick Garland considering using the Patriot Act to prosecute parents who complain about Critical Race Theory in US schools.

Why don't you just starting publishing headers talking about how we need a permanent Democratic Presidency and Congress?

If you really had the balls - and I doubt you have - why don't you just call for the GOP to be banned as a threat to Democracy much as West Germany did post-WW2 with the Nazi party?

The Grand Old Party are fine. It's the Trumper Insurrectionists that are the concern. Surely even you have to condemn their efforts to overthrow democracy.

Even me, as I did at the time.

But it plays both ways. Surely you will be happy to accept that the story we all heard that Trump won in 2016 because Russia rigged the election and therefore his election was illegitimate was a crock of horseshit?

Or maybe not.

The Democrats conceded that election within hours.

The reality is Russia did influence the election, as they do most Western elections, and that makes them all less legitimate. Acknowledging that is completely different from trying to stop Trump taking power by not conceding. Which is then completely different from staging an armed coup and encouraging your fans to behead Mike Pence.

Searching for false equivalences seems to be your special subject!

Turning a blind eye is obviously yours

Here is one example. Hilary in 2019 stating that "Trump knows he's an illegitimate President"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hillary-clinton-trump-impeachment-illegitimate-president-2016-election-cbs-a9122986.html

But, of course, that is not undermining democracy or trending on dangerous grounds. Oh no!!! It's ok 'cos it's Trump.

The rank hypocrisy is truly staggering to see. I commend you on your mental gymnastics.

What is your point here, that we think Trump is a uniquely loathesome human being whose actions are to be judged without the benefit of the doubt which one might reasonably extend to pretty much anyone else, including his political opponents, but we aren't prepared to admit it? I am. I just did.

Err no, that the losing candidate in 2016 said that Trump was an illegitimate President and that "he knows" he stole the election and yet we did not see any condemnation of her behaviour (particularly on here) about her behaviour.

I don't often agree with @Farooq but he is right - if you want to get the US out of where it is at the moment, the number one thing to do is to start condemning behaviour based on the actual action itself rather than seeing which side is doing it

HYUFD

rottenborough said:

HYUFD said:

Legislatures and Governors are all elected too (Secretaries of State appointed by the Governor).

All have to agree to measures restricting ballot access and at the moment only 23 states out of 50 have both a GOP governor and GOP controlled legislature, nowhere near enough to win the EC by themselves in 2024 and even fewer than the 25 states Trump won in 2020 when he lost to Biden.

If the GOP win enough states to control ballot access then the mood is likely heading for a GOP president again anyway

But the GOP president wont be a GOP president in any meaningful sense. It will be Trump and the party will have become a demagogue cult worshipping outfit of near and actual criminals who don't believe a word of the founding principles of the US.

I expect CA at the very least to exit.

As I have already pointed out the GOP are nowhere near controlling enough elected state governorships and state legislatures to be able to influence the EC college outcome and the presidential election in 2024. They do not even have GOP governors and GOP state legislatures in every state which voted for Trump in 2020 let alone the nation as a whole.

So more likely is the Democratic candidate gets narrowly re elected in 2024 and then states like Texas start to look to secede rather than California.

Already 66% of Republicans in the South want to secede from the Union compared to only 47% of Democrats on the Pacific West Coast who want to secede
https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/whiteplains/politics/new-poll-reveals-percentages-of-americans-who-want-to-secede-by-region/812724/

IshmaelZ

MrEd said:

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

noneoftheabove said:

MrEd said:

RochdalePioneers said:

MrEd said:

Oh God, here we go ahead with the usual "Republicans are going to steal the 2024 election". No surprise it's come out when everyone is waking up to what a disaster Biden is as President.

Meanwhile, you turn a blind eye to Merrick Garland considering using the Patriot Act to prosecute parents who complain about Critical Race Theory in US schools.

Why don't you just starting publishing headers talking about how we need a permanent Democratic Presidency and Congress?

If you really had the balls - and I doubt you have - why don't you just call for the GOP to be banned as a threat to Democracy much as West Germany did post-WW2 with the Nazi party?

The Grand Old Party are fine. It's the Trumper Insurrectionists that are the concern. Surely even you have to condemn their efforts to overthrow democracy.

Even me, as I did at the time.

But it plays both ways. Surely you will be happy to accept that the story we all heard that Trump won in 2016 because Russia rigged the election and therefore his election was illegitimate was a crock of horseshit?

Or maybe not.

The Democrats conceded that election within hours.

The reality is Russia did influence the election, as they do most Western elections, and that makes them all less legitimate. Acknowledging that is completely different from trying to stop Trump taking power by not conceding. Which is then completely different from staging an armed coup and encouraging your fans to behead Mike Pence.

Searching for false equivalences seems to be your special subject!

Turning a blind eye is obviously yours

Here is one example. Hilary in 2019 stating that "Trump knows he's an illegitimate President"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hillary-clinton-trump-impeachment-illegitimate-president-2016-election-cbs-a9122986.html

But, of course, that is not undermining democracy or trending on dangerous grounds. Oh no!!! It's ok 'cos it's Trump.

The rank hypocrisy is truly staggering to see. I commend you on your mental gymnastics.

What is your point here, that we think Trump is a uniquely loathesome human being whose actions are to be judged without the benefit of the doubt which one might reasonably extend to pretty much anyone else, including his political opponents, but we aren't prepared to admit it? I am. I just did.

Err no, that the losing candidate in 2016 said that Trump was an illegitimate President and that "he knows" he stole the election and yet we did not see any condemnation of her behaviour (particularly on here) about her behaviour.

I don't often agree with @Farooq but he is right - if you want to get the US out of where it is at the moment, the number one thing to do is to start condemning behaviour based on the actual action itself rather than seeing which side is doing it

Did the White House get stormed as a result? Y/N

MrEd

TimT said:

MrEd said:

TimT said:

rpjs said:

It’s not the restrictions on voting access that are a concern, that’s par for the course and the GQP has already done as much as it can in this area; the latest changes probably won’t make much difference.

The real concern is the states legislating to allow their legislatures to ignore the popular vote and impose their own slate of electors. Perfectly constitutional, as previously discussed at length here on PB.

I have never seriously thought about the possibility of the USA breaking up. But I could see a situation where the national popular vote is massively in favour of the Dem Presidential candidate, the Dem candidate would have won the electoral college vote under normal conditions, but lose it because of those types of shenanigans, and then the East and West Coast basically saying, we're out, we are not going to stand for this any more.

I can't and, for the reason that mentioned below. At the end of the day, wealthy liberals - who are going to be the ones who will have to get behind this idea to make it a reality - know that breaking away would essentially mean they couldn't rely on the force of the state to protect them from the crowds. California is already seeing an exodus of police officers going to places like Idaho. It isn't going to happen.

I think that is an incredibly complacent view. At very least, I would foresee violent civil unrest, devolving into constitutional crises, as Trump tries to use the military to step in in Dem controlled states where governors refuse to enforce the suppression of demonstrations demanded by Trump.

The bulk of the US' economic wealth is produced in heavily Democratic states.

Where does this idea coming from that Trump is going to send in the tanks to crush demonstrations? Is there seriously one bit of evidence - outside the fantasy wanking offs of the New Yorker and The Atlantic - that he ever envisaged using mass force to crush his opponents.

MrEd

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

No it isn't. It's mainly the fact that Trump is so off the scale poisonous. And what is this stuff about how we aren't allowed to say 2016 was rigged, when it plainly was?

Ah ok, so:

"2016 was rigged, illegitimate President elected" = ok to say, not a problem

"2020 was stolen, stop the steal" = existential threat to Democracy and undermining the Republic

Jesus, that in a nutshell highlights the issue.

CarlottaVance

Thread on NI Protocol:

I think it's important that those of us who think the UK has no reasonable case to make re Article 16 or a renegotiation (raises hand) do acknowledge that Brexiteers have a point when they say that regardless, the EU is in a very difficult position re the Protocol. 1/

https://twitter.com/sylviademars/status/1447126574122377217?s=20

alednam

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

No it isn't. It's mainly the fact that Trump is so off the scale poisonous. And what is this stuff about how we aren't allowed to say 2016 was rigged, when it plainly was?

I think you’ll find that only one Party has done a whole lot of legislation to restrict voter access, and that's in the 28 states with a Republican Governor, and that only one Party has made repeated proven false allegations of voter rigging—allegations that the rigging has been in the favour of Democrats. (I don’t deny that Democrats have been known to go in for a bit of gerrymandering, this being their only possible route to restoration of fair elections.)

MrEd

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

noneoftheabove said:

MrEd said:

RochdalePioneers said:

MrEd said:

Oh God, here we go ahead with the usual "Republicans are going to steal the 2024 election". No surprise it's come out when everyone is waking up to what a disaster Biden is as President.

Meanwhile, you turn a blind eye to Merrick Garland considering using the Patriot Act to prosecute parents who complain about Critical Race Theory in US schools.

Why don't you just starting publishing headers talking about how we need a permanent Democratic Presidency and Congress?

If you really had the balls - and I doubt you have - why don't you just call for the GOP to be banned as a threat to Democracy much as West Germany did post-WW2 with the Nazi party?

The Grand Old Party are fine. It's the Trumper Insurrectionists that are the concern. Surely even you have to condemn their efforts to overthrow democracy.

Even me, as I did at the time.

But it plays both ways. Surely you will be happy to accept that the story we all heard that Trump won in 2016 because Russia rigged the election and therefore his election was illegitimate was a crock of horseshit?

Or maybe not.

The Democrats conceded that election within hours.

The reality is Russia did influence the election, as they do most Western elections, and that makes them all less legitimate. Acknowledging that is completely different from trying to stop Trump taking power by not conceding. Which is then completely different from staging an armed coup and encouraging your fans to behead Mike Pence.

Searching for false equivalences seems to be your special subject!

Turning a blind eye is obviously yours

Here is one example. Hilary in 2019 stating that "Trump knows he's an illegitimate President"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hillary-clinton-trump-impeachment-illegitimate-president-2016-election-cbs-a9122986.html

But, of course, that is not undermining democracy or trending on dangerous grounds. Oh no!!! It's ok 'cos it's Trump.

The rank hypocrisy is truly staggering to see. I commend you on your mental gymnastics.

What is your point here, that we think Trump is a uniquely loathesome human being whose actions are to be judged without the benefit of the doubt which one might reasonably extend to pretty much anyone else, including his political opponents, but we aren't prepared to admit it? I am. I just did.

Err no, that the losing candidate in 2016 said that Trump was an illegitimate President and that "he knows" he stole the election and yet we did not see any condemnation of her behaviour (particularly on here) about her behaviour.

I don't often agree with @Farooq but he is right - if you want to get the US out of where it is at the moment, the number one thing to do is to start condemning behaviour based on the actual action itself rather than seeing which side is doing it

Did the White House get stormed as a result? Y/N

Same outcome aimed for, with different tactics used.

Democrats sort to chuck Trump out via impeachment and with a continual stream of stories in the press about how Russia rigged the election. All of which, by the way, are now being revealed to be absolute bullsh1t.

That is excluding that one of the 2016 candidates (Hilary) paid for dirt to be dug up on the other (Trump) and that a US court was mislead into issuing a warrant to spy on the other campaign without being told that the information came from one of the candidates' side. Oh, and that the agency who asked for the warrant was under the jurisdiction of an AG who just happened to bump into Hilary's husband at an airfield and then spent 40 minutes discussing "baseball, the kids etc"

Right.

noneoftheabove

MrEd said:

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

No it isn't. It's mainly the fact that Trump is so off the scale poisonous. And what is this stuff about how we aren't allowed to say 2016 was rigged, when it plainly was?

Ah ok, so:

"2016 was rigged, illegitimate President elected" = ok to say, not a problem

"2020 was stolen, stop the steal" = existential threat to Democracy and undermining the Republic

Jesus, that in a nutshell highlights the issue.

Issue with 2020 in order

Conspiring to commit violence against elected officials including the VP
Arcane undemocratic methods to overturn result
Creating propaganda by deliberately counting mail in ballots lasts
Not conceding

The issue is not simply some saying the election was stolen as you continually pretend.

MrEd

alednam said:

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

No it isn't. It's mainly the fact that Trump is so off the scale poisonous. And what is this stuff about how we aren't allowed to say 2016 was rigged, when it plainly was?

I think you’ll find that only one Party has done a whole lot of legislation to restrict voter access, and that's in the 28 states with a Republican Governor, and that only one Party has made repeated proven false allegations of voter rigging—allegations that the rigging has been in the favour of Democrats. (I don’t deny that Democrats have been known to go in for a bit of gerrymandering, this being their only possible route to restoration of fair elections.)

I guess under your logic, other questionable tactics would be ok for the Democrats to use, all in the name of levelling up?

MaxPB

CarlottaVance said:

Thread on NI Protocol:

I think it's important that those of us who think the UK has no reasonable case to make re Article 16 or a renegotiation (raises hand) do acknowledge that Brexiteers have a point when they say that regardless, the EU is in a very difficult position re the Protocol. 1/

https://twitter.com/sylviademars/status/1447126574122377217?s=20

The end of that thread is laughable hopecasting similar to what we see on PB. The EU has got one lever it can pull, it can unilaterally leave the TCA after 12 months of notice. That's simply not going to happen. It would need unanimous consent and there's no way that all of them will agree to it. Most EU countries give no fucks about the Irish border, loads of them would be happy to kick the Irish out after all of the tax shenanigans for the last 20 years. Some may use this to crowbar Ireland out of the EU and into the TCA and let the UK/Ireland fix their own border issues.

MrEd

noneoftheabove said:

MrEd said:

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

No it isn't. It's mainly the fact that Trump is so off the scale poisonous. And what is this stuff about how we aren't allowed to say 2016 was rigged, when it plainly was?

Ah ok, so:

"2016 was rigged, illegitimate President elected" = ok to say, not a problem

"2020 was stolen, stop the steal" = existential threat to Democracy and undermining the Republic

Jesus, that in a nutshell highlights the issue.

Issue with 2020 in order

Conspiring to commit violence against elected officials including the VP
Arcane undemocratic methods to overturn result
Creating propaganda by deliberately counting mail in ballots lasts
Not conceding

The issue is not simply some saying the election was stolen as you continually pretend.

2016:

Misled US court into issuing a warrant to spy on the other candidate's campaign without disclosing that the information came from a candidate's side;
Continual claims for multiple years that the election was rigged and stolen with Russian interference
Using impeachment hearings not once but twice to fuel the claims of illegitimacy
Losing candidate claims that the 2016 winning candidate knew he didn't win the election

As I said, the tactics were different but the ultimate aim of both campaigns was the same - was to de-legitimise the elected winner.

Philip_Thompson

kinabalu said:

Philip_Thompson said:

kinabalu said:

isam said:

kinabalu said:

isam said:

ThomasNashe said:

isam said:

ThomasNashe said:

isam said:

ThomasNashe said:

bigjohnowls said:

On Topic Man who has never voted Labour in his life thinks Labour leader that in 2017 produced the biggest increase in vote share since WW2 left a toxic legacy

His toxic divisive useless nonentity of a replacement is blame free

As I say man who knows nothing about what inspires people to vote Labour

You keep repeating this bollox, but bollox it is. Corbyn fought two general elections, and Labour recorded two of its lowest ever seat totals.*

* Explanatory Note: In the UK, parties can form governments if they win a majority of the seats. Corbyn’s Labour won 262 seats in 2017, and a lot fewer in 2019. At both elections the winning post was 326 seats.

It is amazing though, that even in the 2019 GE, Corbyn’s Labour got a better vote share than Miliband in 2015 and Brown in 2010.

If you ignore 2017, & look at the vote share changes from 2015 to 2019, all that seems to have happened is UKIP went Tory, and some Tory Remainers went Lib Dem, despite all the loud noise in between

Amazing, but irrelevant.

Why is it irrelevant? Vote shares mean something, and it’s worth knowing, or at least trying to figure out, where 12.6% of voters, whose party has more or less given up, from 2015 went.

If Tory 2019 is (Tory 2015 + UKIP 2015) - 4-5% to the LDs, where does that leave Labour?

Flat from 2010 to 2019. One can hardly blame Corbyn for UKIPs voters going Tory, when his Brexit plan was a second referendum and the Tories was getting it done

Corbynites continually cite their vote share and increase in its %, while completely ignoring what is actually required to win an election - and by which measure they fell lamentably short in 2017.

Never mind that, I am talking about the fact that 2010, 2015,and 2019 were very similar scores for Labour, with three different leaders. 2017 was a peculiar GE that can pretty much be written off, analytically. But the fact remains Corbyn (32.1%) bettered EdM (30.4%),and Gordo's (29%) efforts in his bad GE, and the reason the seat tally was so low was UKIP/BXP standing aside and the Tories gobbling up their vote

You go wrong when you start claiming Starmer's Remainerdom is a reason why he's struggling - it's the Covid blot out effect plus a lack of charisma cf Perfidious Posh - but I broadly agree with your take on this.

Both 17 and 19 were Brexit elections but were impacted in opposite fashion. In 17, Labour were a receptacle for Remainers to vote against the hard Brexit Mrs May seemed intent upon. They didn't want to give her the majority she said she needed to drive it through. Upshot - the result flattered Corbyn. By 19, a significant proportion of these voters were sick & tired of the Brexit wars and rather than prolonging the agony with another Referendum wanted it to be over. Thus the power of the Oven Ready Deal and Get Brexit Done. Upshot - the result flattered Johnson.

So what I'm saying is Jeremy Corbyn had less to do with Labour's good result at GE17 than his supporters like to make out, and he had less to do with their terrible result at GE19 than his detractors like to make out. Bias drives the analysis of both camps. The bigger and deeper reason for the overperformance in 17 and the underperformance in 19 is Brexit.

The interesting question now - indeed the million dollar question when it comes to punditing UK politics - is what impact will Brexit have on the next election?

But the reason Boris won such a majority in 2019, the reason the Tories floor seems to be 39/40 rather than 30/31 as it was in 2015, is UKIP voters have pretty much all gone Tory - and the reason for that is Labour demanded a second referendum in 2019... and their shadow Brexit Sec, who said Labour would be campaigning for Remain if they managed to swindle another go, was Sir Keir. So why would the deciding factor, the 2015 Kippers, go Labour now he is their leader?

Ukip voters were all nationalistic hard leavers. They aren't in play for a progressive party of the left.

All of them? Every single one of them? Did you survey them all?

Interesting theory except many 2015 UKIP voters were 2010 Lib Dem voters.

I'm using "all" in its looser "the vast majority of" sense there. Bit of shorthand. Much better for fingertips and keyboard - not to mention thread quality - to keep my posts as compact as possible. "All" will applaud me for this, I think.

Funny, I thought you were using "all" in its looser "I'm pulling this from my derriere" sense there.

Considering that UKIP surged from 3.1% to 12.5% then collapsed straight back down agian, those swing voters who didn't vote UKIP in 2010 but did in 2015 really ought to be considered possible voters for any party that wants to win government.

Where did the 2015 voters come from? My theory is a lot of them were 2010 voters who went from LD as a protest party to UKIP as such after UKIP went into government. Don't forget in 2015 the Tories gained, not lost, vote share.

MrEd

Farooq said:

MrEd said:

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

No it isn't. It's mainly the fact that Trump is so off the scale poisonous. And what is this stuff about how we aren't allowed to say 2016 was rigged, when it plainly was?

Ah ok, so:

"2016 was rigged, illegitimate President elected" = ok to say, not a problem

"2020 was stolen, stop the steal" = existential threat to Democracy and undermining the Republic

Jesus, that in a nutshell highlights the issue.

Saying the Trump presidency was "illegitimate" was proof that they shouldn't have elected Clinton.
Trump's Big Lie was proof that they should have.

Tie-breaker: count the attempted coups instigated by each. I'll let others work the abacus on that one.

Are we counting the impeachment hearings as attempted coups? Not all coups involve tanks and guns.

noneoftheabove

MrEd said:

noneoftheabove said:

MrEd said:

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

No it isn't. It's mainly the fact that Trump is so off the scale poisonous. And what is this stuff about how we aren't allowed to say 2016 was rigged, when it plainly was?

Ah ok, so:

"2016 was rigged, illegitimate President elected" = ok to say, not a problem

"2020 was stolen, stop the steal" = existential threat to Democracy and undermining the Republic

Jesus, that in a nutshell highlights the issue.

Issue with 2020 in order

Conspiring to commit violence against elected officials including the VP
Arcane undemocratic methods to overturn result
Creating propaganda by deliberately counting mail in ballots lasts
Not conceding

The issue is not simply some saying the election was stolen as you continually pretend.

2016:

Misled US court into issuing a warrant to spy on the other candidate's campaign without disclosing that the information came from a candidate's side;
Continual claims for multiple years that the election was rigged and stolen with Russian interference
Using impeachment hearings not once but twice to fuel the claims of illegitimacy
Losing candidate claims that the 2016 winning candidate knew he didn't win the election

As I said, the tactics were different but the ultimate aim of both campaigns was the same - was to de-legitimise the elected winner.

A coup by a defeated President is clearly not to de-legitimise the elected winner, but an attempt to stay in power when he lost.

CarlottaVance

Wonder who they got the idea from?

New Canadian data suggests the bold strategy to delay and mix second doses of COVID-19 vaccines led to strong protection from infection, hospitalization and death — even against the highly contagious delta variant — that could provide lessons for the world.

Preliminary data from researchers at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and the Quebec National Institute of Public Health (INSPQ) shows the decision to vaccinate more Canadians sooner by delaying second shots by up to four months saved lives.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/canada-vaccine-effectiveness-data-delayed-doses-mixing-matching-covid-19-vaccines-1.6205993

noneoftheabove

Farooq said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

MrEd said:

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

No it isn't. It's mainly the fact that Trump is so off the scale poisonous. And what is this stuff about how we aren't allowed to say 2016 was rigged, when it plainly was?

Ah ok, so:

"2016 was rigged, illegitimate President elected" = ok to say, not a problem

"2020 was stolen, stop the steal" = existential threat to Democracy and undermining the Republic

Jesus, that in a nutshell highlights the issue.

Saying the Trump presidency was "illegitimate" was proof that they shouldn't have elected Clinton.
Trump's Big Lie was proof that they should have.

Tie-breaker: count the attempted coups instigated by each. I'll let others work the abacus on that one.

Are we counting the impeachment hearings as attempted coups? Not all coups involve tanks and guns.

No, we are not. That is entirely within the existing constitutional framework.
Sending a mob to hang the VP is not.

Also even in the implausible outcome of a conviction, the replacement President would still have been a Republican.

rpjs

MrEd said:

Oh God, here we go ahead with the usual "Republicans are going to steal the 2024 election". No surprise it's come out when everyone is waking up to what a disaster Biden is as President.

Meanwhile, you turn a blind eye to Merrick Garland considering using the Patriot Act to prosecute parents who complain about Critical Race Theory in US schools.

ITYM “threaten school board members with violence”.

algarkirk

CarlottaVance said:

Thread on NI Protocol:

I think it's important that those of us who think the UK has no reasonable case to make re Article 16 or a renegotiation (raises hand) do acknowledge that Brexiteers have a point when they say that regardless, the EU is in a very difficult position re the Protocol. 1/

https://twitter.com/sylviademars/status/1447126574122377217?s=20

Interesting, with no easy answers. However one matter to realise is this. Because of the GFA there can't be a border in the opinion of most within the island of Ireland.

So the border has to be policed somewhere else. It will either be within the UK (as in the agreement) or within the EU.

The UK, like the RoI is a sovereign state. The EU isn't, and does not claim to be. The present agreement splits a state (UK) in two. It is more rational to split the EU since we are not then splitting a state.

The checks should be between The British Isles and the EU (except Ireland). Then no state is divided from itself.

MrEd

Farooq said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

MrEd said:

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

No it isn't. It's mainly the fact that Trump is so off the scale poisonous. And what is this stuff about how we aren't allowed to say 2016 was rigged, when it plainly was?

Ah ok, so:

"2016 was rigged, illegitimate President elected" = ok to say, not a problem

"2020 was stolen, stop the steal" = existential threat to Democracy and undermining the Republic

Jesus, that in a nutshell highlights the issue.

Saying the Trump presidency was "illegitimate" was proof that they shouldn't have elected Clinton.
Trump's Big Lie was proof that they should have.

Tie-breaker: count the attempted coups instigated by each. I'll let others work the abacus on that one.

Are we counting the impeachment hearings as attempted coups? Not all coups involve tanks and guns.

No, we are not. That is entirely within the existing constitutional framework.
Sending a mob to hang the VP is not.

I don't think Trump sent out a mob to hang the VP. If he did, then you should pass this info on because it would be enough to get him sent to prison.

Re the impeachment point, on your logic, Trump's tactics to get the state legislatures to overturn the results in their states would also not have been a queue because they also would have operated in the existing constitutional framework. Which - in my mind - is wrong. That would have been a coup as well. But it would have been part of the constitutional framework.

Big_G_NorthWales

CarlottaVance said:

Thread on NI Protocol:

I think it's important that those of us who think the UK has no reasonable case to make re Article 16 or a renegotiation (raises hand) do acknowledge that Brexiteers have a point when they say that regardless, the EU is in a very difficult position re the Protocol. 1/

https://twitter.com/sylviademars/status/1447126574122377217?s=20

I think the EU is in a very difficult position

They cannot manage customs without complete consent in NI

MrEd

rpjs said:

MrEd said:

Oh God, here we go ahead with the usual "Republicans are going to steal the 2024 election". No surprise it's come out when everyone is waking up to what a disaster Biden is as President.

Meanwhile, you turn a blind eye to Merrick Garland considering using the Patriot Act to prosecute parents who complain about Critical Race Theory in US schools.

ITYM “threaten school board members with violence”.

Then use normal laws on committing violence, the Patriot Act was about terrorism.

JosiasJessop

isam said:

MaxPB said:

The Dave Chappelle special is absolutely brilliant.

Never heard of him - read two scathing reviews of his routine in The Guardian and The Independent, then looked him up on wiki and found out he was a Muslim convert. Suppose the G and i thought it was immaterial to his material

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/oct/09/dave-chappelle-letter-trans-comedian-netflix


https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/features/dave-chappelle-netflix-closer-trans-b1934860.html

The final paragraph of that first link is quite powerful IMO:

"In a community with an abnormally high rate of depression and suicide, that’s the part that hurt. Every transgender person I know has lost someone by suicide, and rarely has the reason ever been what other trans people have said to them on Twitter. Hell. You said it yourself, Dave: “Twitter isn’t real.” The marginalization, mockery, dehumanization, and violence many of us face everyday of most of our lives is what fuels our despair. For you to use Daphne’s tragedy as your closing tag is the only thing you’ve done that’s made me angry enough to write a letter."

rpjs

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

MrEd said:

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

No it isn't. It's mainly the fact that Trump is so off the scale poisonous. And what is this stuff about how we aren't allowed to say 2016 was rigged, when it plainly was?

Ah ok, so:

"2016 was rigged, illegitimate President elected" = ok to say, not a problem

"2020 was stolen, stop the steal" = existential threat to Democracy and undermining the Republic

Jesus, that in a nutshell highlights the issue.

Saying the Trump presidency was "illegitimate" was proof that they shouldn't have elected Clinton.
Trump's Big Lie was proof that they should have.

Tie-breaker: count the attempted coups instigated by each. I'll let others work the abacus on that one.

Are we counting the impeachment hearings as attempted coups? Not all coups involve tanks and guns.

No, we are not. That is entirely within the existing constitutional framework.
Sending a mob to hang the VP is not.

I don't think Trump sent out a mob to hang the VP. If he did, then you should pass this info on because it would be enough to get him sent to prison.

Re the impeachment point, on your logic, Trump's tactics to get the state legislatures to overturn the results in their states would also not have been a queue because they also would have operated in the existing constitutional framework. Which - in my mind - is wrong. That would have been a coup as well. But it would have been part of the constitutional framework.

We’ve been over this before: the states have all, by law, delegated their power to appoint electors to the popular vote, so they could not reclaim that power retrospectively (ex post facto laws being constitutionally banned) after the 2020 election was held. They most certainly can reclaim the final right of the legislature to decide on what electors to point for future elections, and AIUI some already are doing that.

rottenborough

Oliver Johnson
@BristOliver
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35m
31,096 cases. Big number for the day of the week. 23% rise since last Sunday, which is definitely into the unpleasant zone.

IshmaelZ

MrEd said:

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

No it isn't. It's mainly the fact that Trump is so off the scale poisonous. And what is this stuff about how we aren't allowed to say 2016 was rigged, when it plainly was?

Ah ok, so:

"2016 was rigged, illegitimate President elected" = ok to say, not a problem

"2020 was stolen, stop the steal" = existential threat to Democracy and undermining the Republic

Jesus, that in a nutshell highlights the issue.

I didn't say that, did I? I said was the White House stormed by the Democrats?

DavidL

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

MrEd said:

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

No it isn't. It's mainly the fact that Trump is so off the scale poisonous. And what is this stuff about how we aren't allowed to say 2016 was rigged, when it plainly was?

Ah ok, so:

"2016 was rigged, illegitimate President elected" = ok to say, not a problem

"2020 was stolen, stop the steal" = existential threat to Democracy and undermining the Republic

Jesus, that in a nutshell highlights the issue.

Saying the Trump presidency was "illegitimate" was proof that they shouldn't have elected Clinton.
Trump's Big Lie was proof that they should have.

Tie-breaker: count the attempted coups instigated by each. I'll let others work the abacus on that one.

Are we counting the impeachment hearings as attempted coups? Not all coups involve tanks and guns.

No, we are not. That is entirely within the existing constitutional framework.
Sending a mob to hang the VP is not.

I don't think Trump sent out a mob to hang the VP. If he did, then you should pass this info on because it would be enough to get him sent to prison.

Re the impeachment point, on your logic, Trump's tactics to get the state legislatures to overturn the results in their states would also not have been a queue because they also would have operated in the existing constitutional framework. Which - in my mind - is wrong. That would have been a coup as well. But it would have been part of the constitutional framework.

Christ Ed we watched it live on TV. It is an absolute disgrace that Trump is not currently in prison. The fact that republicans in Congress voted to save his ass shows that US democracy is dangerously fragile.

MrEd

noneoftheabove said:

MrEd said:

noneoftheabove said:

MrEd said:

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

No it isn't. It's mainly the fact that Trump is so off the scale poisonous. And what is this stuff about how we aren't allowed to say 2016 was rigged, when it plainly was?

Ah ok, so:

"2016 was rigged, illegitimate President elected" = ok to say, not a problem

"2020 was stolen, stop the steal" = existential threat to Democracy and undermining the Republic

Jesus, that in a nutshell highlights the issue.

Issue with 2020 in order

Conspiring to commit violence against elected officials including the VP
Arcane undemocratic methods to overturn result
Creating propaganda by deliberately counting mail in ballots lasts
Not conceding

The issue is not simply some saying the election was stolen as you continually pretend.

2016:

Misled US court into issuing a warrant to spy on the other candidate's campaign without disclosing that the information came from a candidate's side;
Continual claims for multiple years that the election was rigged and stolen with Russian interference
Using impeachment hearings not once but twice to fuel the claims of illegitimacy
Losing candidate claims that the 2016 winning candidate knew he didn't win the election

As I said, the tactics were different but the ultimate aim of both campaigns was the same - was to de-legitimise the elected winner.

A coup by a defeated President is clearly not to de-legitimise the elected winner, but an attempt to stay in power when he lost.

Absolutely, and I said at the time that he was wrong. I also said he was wrong to try to persuade the states to overturn the results.

Here is the thing though. I condemned what he did. But you and others have not condemned Hilary for what she said in 2019 even though, if the same words were used by Trump, you would be up in arms.

And it goes back to what @IshmaelZ said - and what many on here believe - namely that s/he views truly Trump's election in 2016 was illegitimate. And it is not a problem to say that even as you condemn Trump for trying to claim the same thing.

MaxPB

rottenborough said:

Oliver Johnson
@BristOliver
·
35m
31,096 cases. Big number for the day of the week. 23% rise since last Sunday, which is definitely into the unpleasant zone.

Fresher's week filtering into the numbers.

rpjs

MrEd said:

rpjs said:

MrEd said:

Oh God, here we go ahead with the usual "Republicans are going to steal the 2024 election". No surprise it's come out when everyone is waking up to what a disaster Biden is as President.

Meanwhile, you turn a blind eye to Merrick Garland considering using the Patriot Act to prosecute parents who complain about Critical Race Theory in US schools.

ITYM “threaten school board members with violence”.

Then use normal laws on committing violence, the Patriot Act was about terrorism.

Where have you been the last twenty years? The Patriot Act has been misused by administrations of both parties since it was passed. See also RIPA in the UK.

Gallowgate

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

MrEd said:

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

No it isn't. It's mainly the fact that Trump is so off the scale poisonous. And what is this stuff about how we aren't allowed to say 2016 was rigged, when it plainly was?

Ah ok, so:

"2016 was rigged, illegitimate President elected" = ok to say, not a problem

"2020 was stolen, stop the steal" = existential threat to Democracy and undermining the Republic

Jesus, that in a nutshell highlights the issue.

Saying the Trump presidency was "illegitimate" was proof that they shouldn't have elected Clinton.
Trump's Big Lie was proof that they should have.

Tie-breaker: count the attempted coups instigated by each. I'll let others work the abacus on that one.

Are we counting the impeachment hearings as attempted coups? Not all coups involve tanks and guns.

No, we are not. That is entirely within the existing constitutional framework.
Sending a mob to hang the VP is not.

I don't think Trump sent out a mob to hang the VP. If he did, then you should pass this info on because it would be enough to get him sent to prison.

Re the impeachment point, on your logic, Trump's tactics to get the state legislatures to overturn the results in their states would also not have been a queue because they also would have operated in the existing constitutional framework. Which - in my mind - is wrong. That would have been a coup as well. But it would have been part of the constitutional framework.

Eh?

kle4

Farooq said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

MrEd said:

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

No it isn't. It's mainly the fact that Trump is so off the scale poisonous. And what is this stuff about how we aren't allowed to say 2016 was rigged, when it plainly was?

Ah ok, so:

"2016 was rigged, illegitimate President elected" = ok to say, not a problem

"2020 was stolen, stop the steal" = existential threat to Democracy and undermining the Republic

Jesus, that in a nutshell highlights the issue.

Saying the Trump presidency was "illegitimate" was proof that they shouldn't have elected Clinton.
Trump's Big Lie was proof that they should have.

Tie-breaker: count the attempted coups instigated by each. I'll let others work the abacus on that one.

Are we counting the impeachment hearings as attempted coups? Not all coups involve tanks and guns.

No, we are not. That is entirely within the existing constitutional framework.
Sending a mob to hang the VP is not.

The false equivalence on this subject is just bloody astounding.

That's why the potentially legal options to ignore the vote are so concerning, as that doesn't require a coup.

MrEd

rpjs said:

MrEd said:

rpjs said:

MrEd said:

Oh God, here we go ahead with the usual "Republicans are going to steal the 2024 election". No surprise it's come out when everyone is waking up to what a disaster Biden is as President.

Meanwhile, you turn a blind eye to Merrick Garland considering using the Patriot Act to prosecute parents who complain about Critical Race Theory in US schools.

ITYM “threaten school board members with violence”.

Then use normal laws on committing violence, the Patriot Act was about terrorism.

Where have you been the last twenty years? The Patriot Act has been misused by administrations of both parties since it was passed. See also RIPA in the UK.

Of course. They are bad pieces of legislation.

My whole point about this is that this whole debate with Trump is just portrayed as a Black and White thing. Republicans devils, Democrats angels. Trump evil, Biden good. It's a crock of shit, both sides rig the system when they can according to the strengths they have. This whole claiming only one side is trying to rig the election is just utter hypocrisy.

JosiasJessop

MaxPB said:

rottenborough said:

Oliver Johnson
@BristOliver
·
35m
31,096 cases. Big number for the day of the week. 23% rise since last Sunday, which is definitely into the unpleasant zone.

Fresher's week filtering into the numbers.

I'll agree with what appears to be a common view on here: cases are pretty much irrelevant at the moment. What matters are hospitalisations and deaths.

Having said that, the high numbers of cases in my area are leading to squeaky-bum syndrome...

Foxy

TimT said:

rpjs said:

It’s not the restrictions on voting access that are a concern, that’s par for the course and the GQP has already done as much as it can in this area; the latest changes probably won’t make much difference.

The real concern is the states legislating to allow their legislatures to ignore the popular vote and impose their own slate of electors. Perfectly constitutional, as previously discussed at length here on PB.

I have never seriously thought about the possibility of the USA breaking up. But I could see a situation where the national popular vote is massively in favour of the Dem Presidential candidate, the Dem candidate would have won the electoral college vote under normal conditions, but lose it because of those types of shenanigans, and then the East and West Coast basically saying, we're out, we are not going to stand for this any more.

I don't think that it is possible for the US to break up that way. There isn't so much red states and blue states as red counties and blue counties. Look at NY without NYC for example, or Pennsylvania without Philidelphia, or at Louisville vs the rest of Kentucky.

America is a scattered bunch of blue cities scattered over a backdrop of red rural and small towns. Neither can survive without the other in the way that it was possible for the USA and CSA to do so.

Gallowgate

MrEd said:

rpjs said:

MrEd said:

rpjs said:

MrEd said:

Oh God, here we go ahead with the usual "Republicans are going to steal the 2024 election". No surprise it's come out when everyone is waking up to what a disaster Biden is as President.

Meanwhile, you turn a blind eye to Merrick Garland considering using the Patriot Act to prosecute parents who complain about Critical Race Theory in US schools.

ITYM “threaten school board members with violence”.

Then use normal laws on committing violence, the Patriot Act was about terrorism.

Where have you been the last twenty years? The Patriot Act has been misused by administrations of both parties since it was passed. See also RIPA in the UK.

Of course. They are bad pieces of legislation.

My whole point about this is that this whole debate with Trump is just portrayed as a Black and White thing. Republicans devils, Democrats angels. Trump evil, Biden good. It's a crock of shit, both sides rig the system when they can according to the strengths they have. This whole claiming only one side is trying to rig the election is just utter hypocrisy.

You seem to think that complaining that Trump was elected due to Russian interference but doing nothing about it is just as bad as actively overruling the vote. Please explain.

Gallowgate

MaxPB said:

rottenborough said:

Oliver Johnson
@BristOliver
·
35m
31,096 cases. Big number for the day of the week. 23% rise since last Sunday, which is definitely into the unpleasant zone.

Fresher's week filtering into the numbers.

I've been at the NEC for the past few days and if I haven't caught COVID I will be very surprised.

Benpointer

A good, if scary, thread header.

How is the UK's alignment to an Anglosphere and cutting our European connections going to look when Trump has stolen the 2024 election and America is no longer a democracy?

CarlottaVance

Are you YES DEAD Yet?

Time is on my side.....

rottenborough

John Roberts
@john_actuary
·
5h
Exactly a quarter of a million booster jabs reported in Flag of England, the best yet, and 29% up on last week. We've now jabbed 2.33m, out of 6.2m eligible, so we still have 3.8m beyond 6 months who we could immediately jab.

Gallowgate

Benpointer said:

A good, if scary, thread header.

How is the UK's alignment to an Anglosphere and cutting our European connections going to look when Trump has stolen the 2024 election and America is no longer a democracy?

Yeah but Hillary's emails

Mexicanpete

kinabalu said:

If Piers Corbyn formed a political party here and its foundational principle was that the GE19 Conservative win was fraudulent, the true winner being Labour under his kid brother, would that party be allowed to stand at the next general election?

Well it sort of happened in 2017. Corbyn claimed victory but did not blame the Conservatives for what was ultimately a brave defeat/stolen win (Delete as you wish).

"I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you pesky Blairites".

geoffw

Foxy said:

TimT said:

rpjs said:

It’s not the restrictions on voting access that are a concern, that’s par for the course and the GQP has already done as much as it can in this area; the latest changes probably won’t make much difference.

The real concern is the states legislating to allow their legislatures to ignore the popular vote and impose their own slate of electors. Perfectly constitutional, as previously discussed at length here on PB.

I have never seriously thought about the possibility of the USA breaking up. But I could see a situation where the national popular vote is massively in favour of the Dem Presidential candidate, the Dem candidate would have won the electoral college vote under normal conditions, but lose it because of those types of shenanigans, and then the East and West Coast basically saying, we're out, we are not going to stand for this any more.

I don't think that it is possible for the US to break up that way. There isn't so much red states and blue states as red counties and blue counties. Look at NY without NYC for example, or Pennsylvania without Philidelphia, or at Louisville vs the rest of Kentucky.

America is a scattered bunch of blue cities scattered over a backdrop of red rural and small towns. Neither can survive without the other in the way that it was possible for the USA and CSA to do so.

A latter day explanation for for the stars and stripes. Nice.

MrEd

kle4 said:

Farooq said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

MrEd said:

IshmaelZ said:

MrEd said:

Farooq said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

How has the US come to this

Trump being POTUS again is incomprehensible

I do not want to be unkind but by 2024 Trump will be my age and my old bones rattle and roll and just about keep me up

Maybe tempus fugit will also arrive for him by then

I'll tell you how. Tribalists turning a blind eye to misbehaviour on their own side, and sanctimonious gits knowing their side is gone rotten and still voting for them.

People who know there's something wrong, wring their hands about it, and then endorse it at the ballot box.

Works both ways. Democrats are as guilty as Republicans. The cries that it is only one side doing it is what is causing this level of distrust.

No it isn't. It's mainly the fact that Trump is so off the scale poisonous. And what is this stuff about how we aren't allowed to say 2016 was rigged, when it plainly was?

Ah ok, so:

"2016 was rigged, illegitimate President elected" = ok to say, not a problem

"2020 was stolen, stop the steal" = existential threat to Democracy and undermining the Republic

Jesus, that in a nutshell highlights the issue.

Saying the Trump presidency was "illegitimate" was proof that they shouldn't have elected Clinton.
Trump's Big Lie was proof that they should have.

Tie-breaker: count the attempted coups instigated by each. I'll let others work the abacus on that one.

Are we counting the impeachment hearings as attempted coups? Not all coups involve tanks and guns.

No, we are not. That is entirely within the existing constitutional framework.
Sending a mob to hang the VP is not.

The false equivalence on this subject is just bloody astounding.

That's why the potentially legal options to ignore the vote are so concerning, as that doesn't require a coup.

Would you like to explain why it is false equivalence. It gets bandied around as a fact but, in both 2016 and 2020, as I showed, and there is plenty of evidence for you to see, both sides claimed the winner's election was illegitimate and open to question.

You will then claim it is about the January riots and that is the difference which is an argument I would have a lot more sympathy for if it wasn't for the fact I was debating on here post-election about how Trump's tactics were to go down the state legislatures route and everyone agreed this would be a coup. So people on here already accepted you could have a coup without force. You just seemed to have forgotten about it now a more useful argument comes along.

isam

JosiasJessop said:

isam said:

MaxPB said:

The Dave Chappelle special is absolutely brilliant.

Never heard of him - read two scathing reviews of his routine in The Guardian and The Independent, then looked him up on wiki and found out he was a Muslim convert. Suppose the G and i thought it was immaterial to his material

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/oct/09/dave-chappelle-letter-trans-comedian-netflix


https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/features/dave-chappelle-netflix-closer-trans-b1934860.html

The final paragraph of that first link is quite powerful IMO:

"In a community with an abnormally high rate of depression and suicide, that’s the part that hurt. Every transgender person I know has lost someone by suicide, and rarely has the reason ever been what other trans people have said to them on Twitter. Hell. You said it yourself, Dave: “Twitter isn’t real.” The marginalization, mockery, dehumanization, and violence many of us face everyday of most of our lives is what fuels our despair. For you to use Daphne’s tragedy as your closing tag is the only thing you’ve done that’s made me angry enough to write a letter."

Yes...the depression angle is a bit chicken and egg to me - to be convinced you are really a woman who happened to have been born in a mans body, or vice versa, sounds like mental illness if I am being perfectly honest, and depression is a mental illness from which suicide too often follows. But if you say you think transgender people, or people who want to transition, are mentally ill and should be treated with the same kind of sympathy as those suffering from schizophrenia or autism, rather than mocked in the way Dave Chappelle apparently does,( I haven't seen or heard any of his material) that would be considered offensive.

Philip_Thompson

MaxPB said:

CarlottaVance said:

Thread on NI Protocol:

I think it's important that those of us who think the UK has no reasonable case to make re Article 16 or a renegotiation (raises hand) do acknowledge that Brexiteers have a point when they say that regardless, the EU is in a very difficult position re the Protocol. 1/

https://twitter.com/sylviademars/status/1447126574122377217?s=20

The end of that thread is laughable hopecasting similar to what we see on PB. The EU has got one lever it can pull, it can unilaterally leave the TCA after 12 months of notice. That's simply not going to happen. It would need unanimous consent and there's no way that all of them will agree to it. Most EU countries give no fucks about the Irish border, loads of them would be happy to kick the Irish out after all of the tax shenanigans for the last 20 years. Some may use this to crowbar Ireland out of the EU and into the TCA and let the UK/Ireland fix their own border issues.

Drop the final 2 Tweets which were ludicorous hopecasting and it was actually a fairly interesting thread.

TL;DR it pretty much exactly mirrored the arguments you, I and a few others have said here for the past four years. The simple fact is if the UK sticks to its guns then the UK holds all the cards. They're bluffing and have nothing they can do.

MrEd

Gallowgate said:

MrEd said:

rpjs said:

MrEd said:

rpjs said:

MrEd said:

Oh God, here we go ahead with the usual "Republicans are going to steal the 2024 election". No surprise it's come out when everyone is waking up to what a disaster Biden is as President.

Meanwhile, you turn a blind eye to Merrick Garland considering using the Patriot Act to prosecute parents who complain about Critical Race Theory in US schools.

ITYM “threaten school board members with violence”.

Then use normal laws on committing violence, the Patriot Act was about terrorism.

Where have you been the last twenty years? The Patriot Act has been misused by administrations of both parties since it was passed. See also RIPA in the UK.

Of course. They are bad pieces of legislation.

My whole point about this is that this whole debate with Trump is just portrayed as a Black and White thing. Republicans devils, Democrats angels. Trump evil, Biden good. It's a crock of shit, both sides rig the system when they can according to the strengths they have. This whole claiming only one side is trying to rig the election is just utter hypocrisy.

You seem to think that complaining that Trump was elected due to Russian interference but doing nothing about it is just as bad as actively overruling the vote. Please explain.

It was more than complaining. For four years, the Democrats did everything they could to de-legitimise his election. The impeachment hearings were essentially payback for his 2016 win. We had numerous articles and Pulitzer prices awarded for claims the election was stolen. Hilary herself said his election was illegitimate and he knew it.

The Democrats actively tried to overrule the vote, they just used different methods to go about it.

IshmaelZ

MrEd said:

rpjs said:

MrEd said:

rpjs said:

MrEd said:

Oh God, here we go ahead with the usual "Republicans are going to steal the 2024 election". No surprise it's come out when everyone is waking up to what a disaster Biden is as President.

Meanwhile, you turn a blind eye to Merrick Garland considering using the Patriot Act to prosecute parents who complain about Critical Race Theory in US schools.

ITYM “threaten school board members with violence”.

Then use normal laws on committing violence, the Patriot Act was about terrorism.

Where have you been the last twenty years? The Patriot Act has been misused by administrations of both parties since it was passed. See also RIPA in the UK.

Of course. They are bad pieces of legislation.

My whole point about this is that this whole debate with Trump is just portrayed as a Black and White thing. Republicans devils, Democrats angels. Trump evil, Biden good. It's a crock of shit, both sides rig the system when they can according to the strengths they have. This whole claiming only one side is trying to rig the election is just utter hypocrisy.

Take the rest of the day off, mate, if this is all you've got. Hillary and Biden are both pretty dire, but Trump is about the one human being about whom it is morally permissible to hope for the sake of humanity that he dies or is disabled by illness in the next couple of years.

Gallowgate

Philip_Thompson said:

MaxPB said:

CarlottaVance said:

Thread on NI Protocol:

I think it's important that those of us who think the UK has no reasonable case to make re Article 16 or a renegotiation (raises hand) do acknowledge that Brexiteers have a point when they say that regardless, the EU is in a very difficult position re the Protocol. 1/

https://twitter.com/sylviademars/status/1447126574122377217?s=20

The end of that thread is laughable hopecasting similar to what we see on PB. The EU has got one lever it can pull, it can unilaterally leave the TCA after 12 months of notice. That's simply not going to happen. It would need unanimous consent and there's no way that all of them will agree to it. Most EU countries give no fucks about the Irish border, loads of them would be happy to kick the Irish out after all of the tax shenanigans for the last 20 years. Some may use this to crowbar Ireland out of the EU and into the TCA and let the UK/Ireland fix their own border issues.

Drop the final 2 Tweets which were ludicorous hopecasting and it was actually a fairly interesting thread.

TL;DR it pretty much exactly mirrored the arguments you, I and a few others have said here for the past four years. The simple fact is if the UK sticks to its guns then the UK holds all the cards. They're bluffing and have nothing they can do.

Not this again

Big_G_NorthWales

rottenborough said:

John Roberts
@john_actuary
·
5h
Exactly a quarter of a million booster jabs reported in Flag of England, the best yet, and 29% up on last week. We've now jabbed 2.33m, out of 6.2m eligible, so we still have 3.8m beyond 6 months who we could immediately jab.

My wife has her booster tomorrow and I have mine on the 22nd