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A Trump branded TV channel being by the end of next month? – politicalbetting.com
A Trump branded TV channel being by the end of next month? – politicalbetting.com
I expect on the day of Biden’s inauguration Trump will do something spectacular, whilst I wouldn’t rule out Trump nuking Iran just before power transfers to Biden, I do expect something political. One of these things might be Trump announcing his intention to run for the GOP nomination in 2024 but if he might (also) announce plans for a Trump television channel.
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NH rather than Delaware.
The idealism of JFK and FDR, the personal integrity of Truman and Carter, the hardheaded pragmatism of Clinton, and the folksy charm of Reagan.
"Parents fight war of words over Eton headmaster's culture change as critics are labelled 'old, white men'
English teacher Will Knowland sacked over controversial lecture, sparking a row
Head Master Simon Henderson has denied that he wanted to ‘shut down debate’
Students are 'almost unanimously supportive of Simon' says a student's mother"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9022207/Parents-fight-war-words-Eton-headmasters-culture-change.html
(Incidentally, Gioia is a very good writer.)
https://twitter.com/tedgioia/status/1334956385226862597
However, I then have absolutely no problem with anti-vaxxers being denied access to services.
If an airline company wants to make it a precondition of flying that passengers have a certificate of vaccination, that is fine by me. Similarly, schools or shops or health services. I have no problem with vaccine passports. In fact, I believe that is where we will inevitably end up.
It will be interesting to see which way politicians will jump on vaccine passports, as it cuts across party politics.
As far as I can see, LibDem, SNP and the more Libertarian wing of the Tory Party have declared against them.
Labour in Wales seem to be edging towards them (Gething has already said "Those receiving a COVID-19 vaccination will be given a credit card-sized NHS Wales immunisation card which will have the vaccine name, date of immunisation and batch number of each of the doses given handwritten on them.")
Nadhim Zahawi & some of the English Tories also seem to be edging towards them. If SKS has said anything on the subject, I can't find it.
As China has shown us, to get a stranglehold on the virus, you need to get a stranglehold on civil liberties.😁
Another twattish snowflake melted by a tv programme.
https://twitter.com/GerardBattenUK/status/1335561161991970817?s=20
His twitter account appears to be a mess of abusive anti lockdown, anti vaxxing, anti Soros, anti BLM, anti EU, pro Trump ranting. What are the chances of these disparate views being held by one person?!!!
On topic, he'll be gagging to get on Trump TV.
The party is now totally divided between the Trump wing and the McCain/Romney rump. The former now loathe the latter more than the democrats for not fighting with Trump against what they see as widespread vote rigging.
Meanwhile Joe Biden is intent on giving up to 20 million illegal immigrants citizenship as one of his first acts. Plus the immigration gates will be re-opened to many millions more.
Wonder who they are going to vote for.
Its over for the republicans. And right wing politics in America.
Oh, you mean...
America today. South Africa one day. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing. But it would change the balance of the world enormously.
About the only way I’ll ever get one given I go through the VF website...
Are you talking mass murder or just bollocks?
Will of the people.
They are the one thing he could do to bring the disparate wings of the Republican Party together to fight in common cause.
But as I said in the comment you are answering I don't believe we should be no platforming such people. That is a step too far.
Gove and Cummings, however, are *MODERATED*
Funnily enough I have the opposite fear: That gerrymandering and voter suppression means the Dems are running out of time to avoid being permanently disadvantaged to an almost insurmountable degree. The popular vote tipping point was 3.5% or so, if it rises any more the Dems will really struggle to ever win.
Republicans do have a split party problem, and it is likely to hurt them in 2024. But they are far from finished.
The 7-day average now is 300 per 100,000, and hence has almost reached the pre circuit breaker high of 302. Still a week to go until the measures that kicked in on Friday can be expected to affect the numbers.
Biden is, I suspect, entirely relaxed at the prospect of the GOP controlling the Senate. It will allow him to reach out to the anti-Trump elements and look bi-partisan and conciliatory and that don't do him or the Democrats any harm in either 2022 or 2024.
There's a not insubstantial constituency of anti-Trump Republicans who could well vote for a Biden-style Democratic Party which is obviously centrist and has muted AOC and the more "progressive" elements. That will mean keeping some parts of the Trump legislative agenda (just as Blair retained certain aspects of Conservative legislation post 1997).
They will be crucial IF the GOP remains a pro-Trump party. The other possibility is some form of schism with Trump and his acolytes leaving the GOP and setting up their own Party and running their own candidates in 2022 and 2024. That would be Christmas come early for the Democrats of course.
As others have said, parties which get tired of losing eventually find a way to start winning again and I can certainly envisage a moderate centrist Republican regaining the White House in 2028 and hopefully by then Trump and all he stood for will either be forgotten, marginalised or an accepted part of the political mainstream (and the three aren't mutually exclusive).
I recall travelling to an African country (I can`t remember which) and a condition of entry was providing a certificate to evidence vaccination against yellow fever, That is right and proper.
Note that it is the country of destination that decides this not the country of departure.
Likewise, if Australia decides to insist on evidence of Covid vaccination as a condition of entry that is fine too.
What is NOT acceptable is for the UK government to ban UK subjects from travelling - and it is absolutely not acceptable for a corporate entity, such as Quantas, to do so.
Actually so should the rest of this England side.
If they lose this match I wouldn't object if they were injected with Covid-19.
Good afternoon, everyone.
Are you suggesting that not getting a vaccination is a protected belief/cause?
That’s a very odd opinion.
Anyone opposed to that isn't a libertarian as much as they may use the word.
Nottingham's controversial Christmas market has "temporarily" closed - just one day after it opened.
Mellors Group, who organised the event, said it made the decision following "unprecedented high footfall".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-55206779
Even if you disdain the principles of corporate responsibility it still just makes good commercial sense.
Excluding nom-vaccinated pax maximises the safety of the cabin crew.
Fortunately they’ve now sidelined him.
The pragmatic ones are rather more clear cut.
https://twitter.com/ChampChong/status/1335218340919328769
Why are they giving out a credit card?
I expect pubs, restaurants, nightclubs could easily ask you to produce it.
Anyhow, I think Welsh Labour have got this right. I expect the English Toris to follow suit.
The sooner we get 80-90% of people vaccinated the better off we'll all be and personal choice can take a running jump right now.
Trump also increased the GOP share of the minority vote even if he fell back with white voters and no reason that trend cannot continue if needed, Jeb Bush's son for instance is half Hispanic.
In any case, even if the US did face a permanent Democrat majority against a Trumpism dominated GOP for a decade or two I suspect the South would eventually secede completing the division started by the civil war and joined by some of the border and plains states which stuck with Trump and Trumpism would become the majority in that new state leaving the McCain and Romney faction to compete with the Democrats in the remaining US
Even in South Africa the Democratic Alliance, the main opposition to the ANC, got 21% of the vote at the last election
Sanjay Bhandari, the chair of the football anti-discrimination body Kick It Out, accused Eustice of a “lazy conflation of taking a knee with a specific political movement” in his criticism of BLM.
Looks like someone needs to educate Mr Bhandari about this.
It wouldn’t need to be for ever - only maybe for 2 years, and then a vote in Parliament to abolish it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/us/politics/biden-blue-collar-voters.html
The point: education more than ethnicity is likely to be the key determinant factor moving forwards. The news there is quite positive from a GOP standpoint: while student enrolment went up well over 40% from 1999 to 2011, it has actually been declining for the past few years and the projections are for a flatlining i.e. down as a % of the population. So, while the Democrats may have been boosted by the 1999-2011 growth, that engine of growth is slowing down.
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d19/tables/dt19_303.10.asp
Also, the values thing is the key. Black and Hispanic voters generally have more conservative values. The shift has already started to the GOP on the Republican side and, for young Black males, it is starting (remember many older Black voters have a very strong affinity to the Democrat party).
FWIW, I don't think that Biden will get 20m illegal immigrants made citizens - part because of the courts, part the Senate (Manchin wouldn't vote for it for a start and the AZ senators may have some qualms) and also because the political benefits may not be so great if illegal immigrants are concentrated in Democrat cities / states and such a measures means the loss of white votes.
One other point. It can be easy to overlook the shifts. Ohio, Iowa and, crucially, Florida are looking like safer Republican bets. Yes, Georgia and Arizona have gone the other way but the Democrats in 2024 are far more stretched in terms of defence - those two states, PA, WI and MI will all require considerable defending. For the Republicans, probably NC is the only one that looks vulnerable (I doubt the Democrats will go big on Texas next time).
I think it’s partly because we don’t trust the government, and it’s certainly easy to see how an ID card system can be abused. Nor do I imagine they would have the same safeguards as e.g. Estonia (where you can see whoever has accessed your data and flag up any misuse).
But it’s still the right thing to do at this moment, in some form. Apart from anything else, all the anti-vaxxers would probably suddenly change their minds when they realise everyone is having fun except them,
I think that is what I would do. Show solidarity, but on your own terms.
https://twitter.com/SirSocks/status/1335618363909877762?s=20
https://twitter.com/SirSocks/status/737709196024614912