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How Biden’s making Trump’s cognitive decline an issue – politicalbetting.com
How Biden’s making Trump’s cognitive decline an issue – politicalbetting.com
BREAKING: President Biden just released this devastating ad calling out Donald Trump’s cognitive decline. Retweet to make sure everyone in the country sees. pic.twitter.com/SgYfYPWfRt
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Risky
“White House Senior Living, where residents feel like presidents”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=m3ey2KXJ5kM
But Trump does seem to at least caught up Biden on the mental capacity question. Some of Trump's speeches are outright weird.
Hands up if anyone remembers Trump explaining that the intravenous administration of Domestos into the bloodstream was a cure for COVID 19.
But lately, he has ramped up weird to 11. It's possible he's not coping well with the pressure of multiple law suits, civil and criminal, whilst running for President of the US of A. That stress would fell a man thirty years his junior.
If Biden was 20 years younger, sure, but they've just opened the gates. I guess Trump would go for Biden whatever, so might as well play dirty
We need more Patches O’Houllihan quotes on PB.
We all know Trump has a rat like cunning and a weird gift for scheming politics. What if he’s been FAKING the senility for the last two years, in order to draw out this risky attack from the Dems
Now Donald can go on TV and prove he’s got all his marbles and is sharp as a razor inside the Great Pyramid of Cheops AND he can now slay Biden for being a demented old mongoose, and Biden is stuck
Ahahah. I have all my best ideas on the cross trainer
That there were no hotels or taxis organised shouldn’t need to be stated.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12991423/storm-isha-ryanair-chaos-passengers-stranded-delays-airline-diverts.html
You'll recall my recent header here - https://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2024/01/15/conflicts-of-interest-2/ (a longer version with more detail is on my website here - https://www.cyclefree.co.uk/time-to-stamp-this-out/) and what I said about the part-time Chair of the Post Office also being the Chair of HM Courts and Tribunals Service at the time when the Post Office - astonishingly - sought to get Mr Justice Fraser, the judge who had ruled against the Post Office in the Bates litigation recused.
And - even more astonishingly - sought the advice of the former Head of the Supreme Court in relation to this.
The attempt was dismissed with contempt by the Court of Appeal.
This has now been picked up by Computer Weekly and a Labour peer is asking an urgent question about what the government knew about this.
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366567032/Urgent-question-asks-which-ministers-knew-of-Post-Offices-shocking-plan-to-remove-judge
Remember that the government had its own appointed director on the Board to represent the taxpayers' interests. That independent director at the time was Tom Cooper, ex UBS and Deutsche Bank banker.
Perhaps he could also pick up the fact that the PO has appointed a director who is also on the Board of the CPS and ask what the government knows about this.
A good start. But let's be a little more precise.
The signal it sends out is of a society drawn up by men for men's benefit and in which men, however progressive or liberal they like to claim they are, find it remarkably hard to accommodate the desires or needs of women where this would involve any restrictions on or changes to their own behaviour.
Indeed - and drawing in another thread of the comments on the previous thread - the last few years have seen a very determined attempt, supported to a greater or lesser extent at various times by all the main parties - to limit or remove some of the existing rights women have, often accompanied by some pretty insulting and, at times, downright hateful language.
"Culture wars" - whatever they mean - are not a phenomenon restricted to the right.
Of more interest is Manchester to Dublin diverted to Paris. I assume they would need to be held on the plane or at least airside as may not have documents to enter France...?
Personally, I think that four years ago, some of Mr Trump's best attacks against Joe were about his age and mental acuity. I don't think he has that advantage again. This time around, they're both increasingly doolally.
Who Trump picks for his VP might be much more significant than we realise.
Pretend you’re going gaga. Fool the libs. Whack ‘em when they fall for it
Each airline will do what they see as in their own best interest, but one gets the feeling that other airlines will have treated delayed or cancelled pax better. Wouldn’t have been too difficult to have found 100 hotel rooms in Manchester.
Once they calm down, having vowed never to book with Ryanair again, they will be back for the cheap flights.
Rachel Reeves:
"Britain is outside the European Union, the Single Market, the Customs Union, and Free Movement, and those things won't change under Labour."
Well, Rachel, we may be desperate to get the Tories out, but we really don't need #BrexitLabour.
Why are you ignoring the majority? You'll pay a heavy price - and so will we. GET A GRIP!'
https://x.com/sonofr/status/1749367972550823965?s=20
No reason for that other than trying to position the aircraft and crew. A domestic flight landing 1,500 miles away, bypassing dozens of company airfields on the way. I want to see Ryanair get a meaningful fine there.
I think the effect is probably neutral. It might blunt some of the attacks on Biden's age but I doubt it will really shift things.
'An extra 2.2 million overseas voters who have lived abroad for more than 15 years regained the right to vote in UK elections last Tuesday, after a statutory instrument that was approved by parliament in late December almost unnoticed came into force.
The expansion means they will be able to register in the constituency of the last address at which they were resident if they are able to provide relevant documentation, or failing that, through local records or on the word of an eligible British resident.
They will then be able to vote by proxy, with one proxy voter able to vote on behalf of as many as four overseas voters.
The Electoral Commission raised concerns in response to an earlier consultation in 2016 that voters “might be tempted to choose a marginal seat they had once lived in rather than a safe seat even if it had not been the last address they lived at before leaving”.
Concerns were also raised about the difficulty of checking information and the potential for fraud.'
And anyway, Joe's dementia act has you fooled conpletely.
They made €1.43bn profit last year, it’s not as if they’re short of money.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/22/ryanair-profit-summer-bookings-aircraft
I’m just bored and typing any old nonsense. I’m on another fast. Still determined to keep losing the chunk
But no food, no booze? - my god it is dull
I shall go and watch Money Heist (which is quite good, so far)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/21/michaela-school-multiculturalism-trojan-horse-islamist/
“At Michaela, half its 700 pupils are Muslim. When around 30 started public prayer rituals in the shared playground, the governing body intervened. Birbalsingh explains that the decision was taken “against a backdrop of events including violence, intimidation and appalling racial harassment of our teachers”. Staff received death threats and were told the school would be bombed.
“Now, an unnamed pupil is suing Michaela, backed by over £100,000 in legal aid, and likely much more to come. The student had already been in trouble after being accused of intimidating other Muslim pupils who did not fast during Ramadan, and was suspended last year for allegedly threatening to stab another child (which the pupil denied).
“They are supported by a law firm in receipt of huge sums in public funding. They have instructed a barrister from Matrix Chambers, the legal practice specialising in human rights co-founded by Cherie Blair.
“Even though the school policy applies to all faiths, the Matrix argument is that it is a de facto Muslim prayer ban, because Islamic prayer is ritualised and not internal. Christian children, they say, are still allowed to pray personally and quietly.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/19/muslim-pupil-taking-school-to-court-prayer-ban-on-legal-aid/
'Last week’s change means British expats will now have a “vote for life”, delivering on a Tory manifesto promise, regardless of how long they have lived overseas and whether they have used any services or paid any taxes in the UK in recent years.'
But it’s still an estimate
Doesn’t not make it a stupid situation where a great charity is being sued and where it gets no come back on its expenses
That they hold their customers in utter contempt, is the reason for not flying with them.
But it looks as though the problem may have got larger - the older 737-900ER jets with plug doors are also having to be checked.
https://www.ft.com/content/6855cd24-75f8-4a3a-a8e3-b66274e6f58d
- it was inspired by the experience of Sir Frank Soskice, who, when in Opposition in the early 1960s, had organised a petition calling for a pardon for Timothy Evans, who had been wrongfully hanged, only to reject that petition when Home Secretary after an intervening election
- according to the BBC's surveys, the occupational group with which it was most popular was ... civil servants. I wonder if politicians were surveyed separately?
- Jim Hacker was originally called Gerry Hacker, but they changed the name at the last minute to avoid confusion with a previous character that Paul Eddington had played
- one writer, Anthony Jay, was a Thatcherite Tory and the other, Jonathan Lynn, was rather to the left, which helped keep the show neutral
- Margaret Thatcher's liking for the show, and her rather unfunny sketch in a mockup of the show, indirectly led to Yes, Prime Minister after Yes, Minister was exhausted
- at one time, they had a director who wanted to make it far more like a domestic comedy, with a much bigger role for Hacker's family and far more tits and bums jokes. Thankfully, he was replaced pretty quickly
- in the Indian remake, references to football were changed to cricket, badgers to monkeys, and Russia to Pakistan. In the Dutch remake, Sir Humphrey was a woman and Bernard was a Moroccan called Mohammed.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/22/tories-hire-coordinator-to-get-expat-supporters-to-vote-in-general-election
An extra 2.2 million overseas voters who have lived abroad for more than 15 years regained the right to vote in UK elections last Tuesday, after a statutory instrument that was approved by parliament in late December almost unnoticed came into force.
No sure how many will actually bother to vote, but feels a bit questionable.
Evidence from other elections is mixed. The French ex-pats seem to vote for liberal internationalist candidates (and left wing ones in the colonial departments), so you'd think that would favour Lib Dems and Labour. I assume the US ex-pat voter base is heavily Dem-leaning but haven't seen any statistics. I think the Turkish diaspora were strongly pro-Erdogan, which surprised me.
Either way it's good to see government expanding the franchise rather than trying to restrict voting as they've done with voter ID. This also opens the way as precedent for Labour to look to expand it to 16-18 year olds.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kKSNdqtG3dY
I think we should have more discussion of tailoring in cinema.
https://twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/1749193687589142566
(I agree with the thesis; Craig's Bond suits look awful.)
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/21/dean-phillips-chat-gpt-ai-bot-suspension
“OpenAI has banned the developer of a bot that mimicked Democratic White House hopeful Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.).”
This is the candidate’s “official” AI bot, not something programmed by a rival.
(Sorry, momentarily pressed the FLag button in error - certainly not intended.)
That a pair of senile, doddery old fuckers are the only choices for Leader Of The Free World tells us all we need to know about the current state of US politics and the nation in general.
Whoever gets in, we'd better hope that their VP pick is sound, as I think America will be needing them before the next term is over.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.20.576352v1.full.pdf
In our gut.
I would love Labour, if they come to power, to sadly, but clearly and unequivocally, set out the damage Brexit has done. Because despite Rees-Mogg’s best efforts to find some, there certainly haven’t been any benefits for the vast, vast majority of people.
The current government and client media certainly aren’t prepared to analyse the ever-higher pile of stories outlining damage to industries, businesses, trading, containing the euphemism de nos jours - ‘supply chain issues’.
They certainly can’t bring themselves to even consider that a good chunk of the government’s polling woes may be related to the government delivering a steaming pile of shite that pleases no-one except the elderly and the fanatics. And even they’re not particularly overjoyed.
One of them still appears capable of running a reasonably competent administration.
The other still able to hold large crowds spellbound.
Two very different phenomena.
(Craig's started off very well but were not good towards the end. Like his films
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4421421-former-trump-lawyer-tacopina-conviction-possible/
https://twitter.com/santiagomayer_/status/1749161142700646618
finding out how a suit should fit honestly ruined my life and I'm so glad i can share this knowledge with others
https://twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/1749328680944632166
Stood on a pledge to accept the result ‘as a matter of principle’ in 2017
On a pledge to campaign for Remain in a second referendum in 2019 ‘as a matter of principle’
On a pledge to campaign for FOM in 2020
and is ruling out having anything to do with an EU policy if he wins now
So it can be done. The public seem to love it
Isam is right that if the Tories went full on U turn for rejoin they would win, but how realistic is that? Besides which the EU, if they didn't tell us to do one, would shaft us like a drunken sailor.
Presidencies are very different to that, and the Trump presidency in particular.
(You can say the same of many of the other odd attitudes the party currently has adopted, of course. Which is why someone like Rishi is seen as unacceptably wet. The Boris and post-Boris parties really are a case study in the narcissism of small differences.)
Mind you, I suppose many (maybe even Biden himself if he's honest) who will be voting Democrat would take that rather than risk Trump Presidency 2.
Obviously, there's risk in that but it almost certainly forces Trump to do them, at which point Biden has to (1) not screw up himself, and (2) has to catch Trump out. Both should be achievable - one trick might be to portray each ramble and rant as an inability to stick the point because he's forgotten what the point is.
Bill Kristol
@BillKristol
Excellent, hard-headed pieces by @RonBrownstein (CNN) & @Timodc (Bulwark); discouraging NH polls.
Still. All free-thinking NH Republicans and undeclared voters: Vote tomorrow (if you're not registered, you can register & vote) for Nikki.
Birnam wood may yet come to Dunsinane!
If there is any way, Trump will avoid the debates.
And his reputation as a sparkling speaker rather depended on his audience being half-cut on the sparkling stuff already.
“And who are you? Are you my home help?”
Tell me you wouldn't put the post Mrs May iteration of the Conservative Party past endorsing any old bollocks that might find them a bonus vote.