I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
If Her Majesties Daily Telegraph is correct I will be taking early retirement before too long and moving from net contributor to net recipient, without a pdrticularly large diference in "Take Home" income (seeing as you dont pay NI or pension contributions on pension income).
Wot? If you pay higher rate tax and retire early what do you become a recipient of?
Largesse frpm the treasury in the form of healthcare etc.
Amount of income tax I pay will crater.
BTW don't pay higher rate tax as I stuff it in AVCs and pay 0% on it and limit myself to £50k taxable income. All goes in a deposit fund earning 5% virtually risk free that gets paid back as part of my lump sum in tax free cash.
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
I don't see why a meeting with disabled people automatically needs you to give your pronouns out and say you are a woman as if there was some doubt about it?
It's not impossible the Trump/Vance campaign will implode completely, because they really weren't expecting Biden to pull out. They don't know how to cope with the situation.
Beat Harris the same way they beat Hillary in 2016, portray her as an elitist coastal liberal out of touch with Middle America and the swing states Biden beat Trump in in 2020
Beat Trump by portraying him as an elitist coastal liberal who donated to Harris’ campaigns in the past, New York Billionaire who was a big party boy at Studio54, he’s a Hollywood man loving his role in Home Alone 2, he’s living in a $250m dollar compound in Florida (its worth that isn’t it?).
Someone needs to point out his cynicism that he was part of society, the 1%.
Trump rather defused that one before when Clinton tried that line. Chapelle has a very funny bit on it. He has crafted this image of having seen that world he is fighting to drain the swamp. Its bollocks, but now the state are taking to court, he can double down on it, he is now the outsider fighting the powerful.
The rich man who pitches himself as Populari to the core is an ancient, ancient thing.
Caesar wasn’t the first - though perhaps the most famous ancient exponent.
NYT - Robert Menendez Will Resign From Senate After Corruption Conviction
The New Jersey senator said he would step down in late August, bowing to intense pressure from Democratic colleagues.
Are you still seeing much chatter and coverage about the Trump ear bashing or has it all been overtaken by the Biden/Harris switcheroo in the US media?
Well, the resignation of Secret Service chief following US House sub-committee hearing where she was belabored by unique tag-team of Jim Jordan and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez DID have something to do with it.
But other than that, you're pretty much right re: switcheroo. However, am sure attempted assassination continues to interest and motivate many - read that millions - of Trump supporters.
And is NOT a dead issue (sorry for bad pun) for Independents OR Democrats - just NOT methinks a reason to vote for Trump instead of Harris.
It's not impossible the Trump/Vance campaign will implode completely, because they really weren't expecting Biden to pull out. They don't know how to cope with the situation.
Vote Republican and Vance will be just a heartbeat away from being President, and that heart will be 82 by the time the term is up.
And with Vance in charge a national abortion ban could be coming . The Dems should hammer this point.
Even the SC has left abortion to the states, as has Trump.
Albeit IPSOS is one of the most favourable pollsters for Harris with Trump much lower than other polls and who had her on 44% in their last poll too (plus a 2% lead for her is no more than Hillary had over Trump in 2016 when he won the EC)
IPSOS is the only pollster who has had Trump under 45% in a 2 way with Harris rather than a 5 way. So while encouraging for Harris supporters she has taken the lead over Trump in one poll it is with the worst pollster for Trump
OK. Are only allowed to consider those polls favourable to Trump?
On average
Most of which is *before* Pres. Biden pulled out.
That's understating it. All but 1 of those 10 polls in the average he is choosing to quote used fieldwork from before Biden pulled out. Fieldwork back to 5th July in fact.
It's not impossible the Trump/Vance campaign will implode completely, because they really weren't expecting Biden to pull out. They don't know how to cope with the situation.
Beat Harris the same way they beat Hillary in 2016, portray her as an elitist coastal liberal out of touch with Middle America and the swing states Biden beat Trump in in 2020
Beat Trump by portraying him as an elitist coastal liberal who donated to Harris’ campaigns in the past, New York Billionaire who was a big party boy at Studio54, he’s a Hollywood man loving his role in Home Alone 2, he’s living in a $250m dollar compound in Florida (its worth that isn’t it?).
Someone needs to point out his cynicism that he was part of society, the 1%.
Trump rather defused that one before when Clinton tried that line. Chapelle has a very funny bit on it. He has crafted this image of having seen that world he is fighting to drain the swamp. Its bollocks, but now the state are taking to court, he can double down on it, he is now the outsider fighting the powerful.
The rich man who pitches himself as Populares to the core is an ancient, ancient thing.
Caesar wasn’t the first - though perhaps the most famous ancient exponent.
And Caesar was from posh, old money, as well
Bernie Sanders has how many houses... obviously Boris went all populous, that well known many of humble beginnings.
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
I don't see why a meeting with disabled people automatically needs you to give your pronouns out and say you are a woman as if there was some doubt about it?
On 22 July 2024, the FEI received a video depicting Ms. Dujardin engaging in conduct contrary to the principles of horse welfare,” it said. “This video was submitted to the FEI by a lawyer representing an undisclosed complainant. According to the information received, the footage was allegedly taken several years ago during a training session conducted by Ms. Dujardin at a private stable.
Somebody has been holding a grudge waiting for the worst time to deploy it.
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
St Paul - NOT a softie on sexual morality - might call it Christian.
It's not impossible the Trump/Vance campaign will implode completely, because they really weren't expecting Biden to pull out. They don't know how to cope with the situation.
Vote Republican and Vance will be just a heartbeat away from being President, and that heart will be 82 by the time the term is up.
And with Vance in charge a national abortion ban could be coming . The Dems should hammer this point.
Even the SC has left abortion to the states, as has Trump.
I think he probably paid for them himself actually, although he likely did some fancy footwork to hide it in the accounts.
Oh sorry, you didn't mean abortions where he was the father?
It's not impossible the Trump/Vance campaign will implode completely, because they really weren't expecting Biden to pull out. They don't know how to cope with the situation.
Vote Republican and Vance will be just a heartbeat away from being President, and that heart will be 82 by the time the term is up.
And with Vance in charge a national abortion ban could be coming . The Dems should hammer this point.
Even the SC has left abortion to the states, as has Trump.
We in the UK have expended years fighting for the state to be able to have their elected representatives decide such issues rather than some corrupt so-called federal entity and its even more corrupt so called courts.
Had people like me not voted Tory in 2019 (well actually Dorries with a clothespeg on my nose) Starmer would now be running a jumped up County Council with one arm tied behind his back.
It's not impossible the Trump/Vance campaign will implode completely, because they really weren't expecting Biden to pull out. They don't know how to cope with the situation.
Beat Harris the same way they beat Hillary in 2016, portray her as an elitist coastal liberal out of touch with Middle America and the swing states Biden beat Trump in in 2020
Beat Trump by portraying him as an elitist coastal liberal who donated to Harris’ campaigns in the past, New York Billionaire who was a big party boy at Studio54, he’s a Hollywood man loving his role in Home Alone 2, he’s living in a $250m dollar compound in Florida (its worth that isn’t it?).
Someone needs to point out his cynicism that he was part of society, the 1%.
Trump rather defused that one before when Clinton tried that line. Chapelle has a very funny bit on it. He has crafted this image of having seen that world he is fighting to drain the swamp. Its bollocks, but now the state are taking to court, he can double down on it, he is now the outsider fighting the powerful.
The rich man who pitches himself as Populares to the core is an ancient, ancient thing.
Caesar wasn’t the first - though perhaps the most famous ancient exponent.
And Caesar was from posh, old money, as well
Bernie Sanders has how many houses... obviously Boris went all populous, that well known many of humble beginnings.
Well, he certainly worked hard to increase the populous.
JD Vance is a real strange one, his politics seems all over the place from traditional right wing stuff to protectionist / government intervention stuff Bernie would proud of.
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
I don't see why a meeting with disabled people automatically needs you to give your pronouns out and say you are a woman as if there was some doubt about it?
Tetchy. This is the USA, so how are you an authority on the etiquette?
Also which is the more Christian and more electable statement of I have a pussy and I grab women by the pussy? Choose one.
JD Vance is a real strange one, his politics seems all over the place from traditional right wing stuff to protectionist / government intervention stuff Bernie would proud of.
It's not impossible the Trump/Vance campaign will implode completely, because they really weren't expecting Biden to pull out. They don't know how to cope with the situation.
The bilge pumped out over THREE posts by yesterday's Putin-Bot, before it was summarily terminated, was ridiculously self defeating. Seeing as how even flat-earthers who believe the Moon landings were faked, are gonna cotton on that the allegedly late Joe Biden is still tripping (sometimes literally) around.
Body double, next?
Well, there's a story, maybe apocryphal, that after assuming full power, Stalin was annoyed by hear that Krupskaya the widow of Lenin, was criticizing the Man of Steel, for reasons you would likely understand and sympathize with her.
Anyway, Stalin asked the Widow Lenin a rather pointed question:
"You do realize, comrade, that if need be, we can always find ANOTHER Krupskaya?"
JD Vance is a real strange one, his politics seems all over the place from traditional right wing stuff to protectionist / government intervention stuff Bernie would proud of.
Tariffs are often a rightwing thing, see Lord Derby, Joseph Chamberlain and Baldwin to Le Pen and Pat Buchanan and now Trump and Vance
JD Vance is a real strange one, his politics seems all over the place.
To be fair, George H Bush said several really quite horrible things about Reagan in the 1980 Republican primaries, going so far as to say he couldn't work with him, as did Kemp about Dole in 1996. Both went on to accept the vice-presidential slot.
So a politician changing his mind when power is dangled in front of him is hardly new.
I wouldn’t trust any of these polls - the ones good for Harris OR the polls good for Trump - because this is such an unprecedented moment in US politics
In the last month a President has revealed his crippling dementia in an epochal debate, his rival has very very nearly been killed, the President (after much gruelling denial) has “resigned” and now his unpopular VP is abruptly mega famous and the new nominee for an election only months away
How can you possibly poll that?? I imagine many - most? - Americans have no idea what to think
My hunch is that Harris should be slight favourite (whereas Trump was a massive fave over Biden). But this crazy election year produces nothing but intense surprises and I’m not sure why that should stop
There is bound to be a Harris "honeymoon" period for a while before normal service resumes in the US (it won't stop three months of breathless puffing of her here as the only thing between the world and Hitler 2.0 though).
Whoever persuaded Biden to debate Trump on live TV *before* the final nominations were in was a genius though.
Absolutely. I am sure this was an inside job - someone on Biden’s team has known for ages he’s demented and incapable and this person was in despair - then had the brilliant idea of putting him up for an early debate
They sabotaged and terminated their own king
If you want to go full tin foil hat and it was an inside job, swap his meds out....we have never seen Biden be that bad publicly.
Excellent plot twist
Also I don’t think you need a tin foil hat to perceive this election as being as sinister and dangerous as all fuckettybollocks. Trump is only alive because he turned his head for a moment in an unexpected way, and the security around him was so bad it’s forced the retirement of the seekyserv director
Yes, but for a fluke he would be dead.
That would have had catastrophic effects on American politics and civil order.
JD Vance is a real strange one, his politics seems all over the place from traditional right wing stuff to protectionist / government intervention stuff Bernie would proud of.
His weakness might be that he doesn't know how to straddle two camps at once and tends to become a parody of whichever whichever faction he's courting at the time.
JD Vance is a real strange one, his politics seems all over the place from traditional right wing stuff to protectionist / government intervention stuff Bernie would proud of.
Tariffs are often a rightwing thing, see Lord Derby, Joseph Chamberlain and Baldwin to Le Pen and Pat Buchanan and now Trump and Vance
Joseph Chamberlain would not have thanked you for calling him right wing.
JD Vance is a real strange one, his politics seems all over the place from traditional right wing stuff to protectionist / government intervention stuff Bernie would proud of.
Tariffs are often a rightwing thing, see Lord Derby, Joseph Chamberlain and Baldwin to Le Pen and Pat Buchanan and now Trump and Vance
True, but he is all over the map on loads of things and not in a way that says he has used thay Yale education very well. It seems incoherent/ inconsistent.
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
I don't see why a meeting with disabled people automatically needs you to give your pronouns out and say you are a woman as if there was some doubt about it?
Tetchy. This is the USA, so how are you an authority on the etiquette?
Also which is the more Christian and more electable statement of I have a pussy and I grab women by the pussy? Choose one.
It may be illegal but there is nothing in the Ten Commandments against it as long as you don' actually sleep with a woman not your wife and commit adultery.
There is plenty in the Bible saying God created man and woman, Adam and Eve, life is sacred and marriage is only between a man and woman for life though
It's not impossible the Trump/Vance campaign will implode completely, because they really weren't expecting Biden to pull out. They don't know how to cope with the situation.
Vote Republican and Vance will be just a heartbeat away from being President, and that heart will be 82 by the time the term is up.
And with Vance in charge a national abortion ban could be coming . The Dems should hammer this point.
Even the SC has left abortion to the states, as has Trump.
We in the UK have expended years fighting for the state to be able to have their elected representatives decide such issues rather than some corrupt so-called federal entity and its even more corrupt so called courts.
Had people like me not voted Tory in 2019 (well actually Dorries with a clothespeg on my nose) Starmer would now be running a jumped up County Council with one arm tied behind his back.
Back in 1975 the likes of Mr B were voting to Remain in the EEC and damning those who opposed them as reactionary Socialists.
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
I'm not someone who thinks there is nothing that is 'woke' (though it is very over used), but that first one is just a pathetic line, anyone who falls for it should be embarrassed.
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
St Paul - NOT a softie on sexual morality - might call it Christian.
Faith, hope and love - but the greatest is love.
Paul was fundamentally a bully. Pre Damascus he bullied Christians, post Damascus poofters and trollops. He wrote some of the greatest prose ever, but unfortunately he spoke with the voices of men and of angels but had not charity.
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
I don't see why a meeting with disabled people automatically needs you to give your pronouns out and say you are a woman as if there was some doubt about it?
Go on then try and describe yourself to someone who can't see you without using your gender. If she'd said "I'm a person wearing a blue suit" you'd have said she was even more woke.
JD Vance is a real strange one, his politics seems all over the place.
To be fair, George H Bush said several really quite horrible things about Reagan in the 1980 Republican primaries, going so far as to say he couldn't work with him, as did Kemp about Dole in 1996. Both went on to accept the vice-presidential slot.
So a politician changing his mind when power is dangled in front of him is hardly new.
I was talking more about how he sees the world and his ideas to fix those issues.
One thing in Kamala Harris's favour is that her aesthetic is very 1990s when America was at its peak. She's pre-woke.
If the election was just in California, Washington State, New York, DC and Massachusetts ie the parts of America still doing very well thanks Harris would no doubt beat Trump in a landslide but it isn't
Taking a month-long polling average for the US election right now on Trump Vs Harris is about as useful as assessing how fast you are driving using your average speed over the last hour - when you crashed into a brick wall 5 minutes ago...
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
I don't see why a meeting with disabled people automatically needs you to give your pronouns out and say you are a woman as if there was some doubt about it?
You're blinder than the bind people at the meeting.
It's not impossible the Trump/Vance campaign will implode completely, because they really weren't expecting Biden to pull out. They don't know how to cope with the situation.
Vote Republican and Vance will be just a heartbeat away from being President, and that heart will be 82 by the time the term is up.
And with Vance in charge a national abortion ban could be coming . The Dems should hammer this point.
Even the SC has left abortion to the states, as has Trump.
This Supreme Court would declare nationwide abortion access unconstitutional but a nationwide abortion ban constitutional, if they had the chance.
They've said Presidents can commit crimes without fear, what wouldn't they do?
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
I don't see why a meeting with disabled people automatically needs you to give your pronouns out and say you are a woman as if there was some doubt about it?
Tetchy. This is the USA, so how are you an authority on the etiquette?
Also which is the more Christian and more electable statement of I have a pussy and I grab women by the pussy? Choose one.
It may be illegal but there is nothing in the Ten Commandments against it as long as you don' actually sleep with a woman not your wife and commit adultery.
There is plenty in the Bible saying God created man and woman, Adam and Eve, life is sacred and marriage is only between a man and woman for life though
You are the greatest comedic construct since Augustus Carp.
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
I don't see why a meeting with disabled people automatically needs you to give your pronouns out and say you are a woman as if there was some doubt about it?
Tetchy. This is the USA, so how are you an authority on the etiquette?
Also which is the more Christian and more electable statement of I have a pussy and I grab women by the pussy? Choose one.
It may be illegal but there is nothing in the Ten Commandments against it as long as you don' actually sleep with a woman not your wife and commit adultery.
There is plenty in the Bible saying God created man and woman, Adam and Eve, life is sacred and marriage is only between a man and woman for life though
When I had a pussy I had to grab it on occasion (usually by the scruff of the neck) to stop it attacking other pussies.
Grabbing pussies is sometimes the only language they understand.
It's not impossible the Trump/Vance campaign will implode completely, because they really weren't expecting Biden to pull out. They don't know how to cope with the situation.
Vote Republican and Vance will be just a heartbeat away from being President, and that heart will be 82 by the time the term is up.
And with Vance in charge a national abortion ban could be coming . The Dems should hammer this point.
Even the SC has left abortion to the states, as has Trump.
This Supreme Court would declare nationwide abortion access unconstitutional but a nationwide abortion ban constitutional, if they had the chance.
They've said Presidents can commit crimes without fear, what wouldn't they do?
Hypothetical, its judgement reversing Roe v Wade was there was no constitutional right to an abortion but also they made clear there was nothing constitutional forbidding abortion either.
If Americans elect a pro life President and pro life Congress who campaigned to ban abortion then yes in that case a federal abortion ban would be legitimate
I wouldn’t trust any of these polls - the ones good for Harris OR the polls good for Trump - because this is such an unprecedented moment in US politics
In the last month a President has revealed his crippling dementia in an epochal debate, his rival has very very nearly been killed, the President (after much gruelling denial) has “resigned” and now his unpopular VP is abruptly mega famous and the new nominee for an election only months away
How can you possibly poll that?? I imagine many - most? - Americans have no idea what to think
My hunch is that Harris should be slight favourite (whereas Trump was a massive fave over Biden). But this crazy election year produces nothing but intense surprises and I’m not sure why that should stop
There is bound to be a Harris "honeymoon" period for a while before normal service resumes in the US (it won't stop three months of breathless puffing of her here as the only thing between the world and Hitler 2.0 though).
Whoever persuaded Biden to debate Trump on live TV *before* the final nominations were in was a genius though.
Absolutely. I am sure this was an inside job - someone on Biden’s team has known for ages he’s demented and incapable and this person was in despair - then had the brilliant idea of putting him up for an early debate
They sabotaged and terminated their own king
If you want to go full tin foil hat and it was an inside job, swap his meds out....we have never seen Biden be that bad publicly.
Excellent plot twist
Also I don’t think you need a tin foil hat to perceive this election as being as sinister and dangerous as all fuckettybollocks. Trump is only alive because he turned his head for a moment in an unexpected way, and the security around him was so bad it’s forced the retirement of the seekyserv director
Yes, but for a fluke he would be dead.
That would have had catastrophic effects on American politics and civil order.
Phew.
Yep this is a much better timeline.
Trump physically safe but other changes meaning there's a much better chance of him being defeated than there has been for quite some time.
It's not impossible the Trump/Vance campaign will implode completely, because they really weren't expecting Biden to pull out. They don't know how to cope with the situation.
Vote Republican and Vance will be just a heartbeat away from being President, and that heart will be 82 by the time the term is up.
And with Vance in charge a national abortion ban could be coming . The Dems should hammer this point.
Even the SC has left abortion to the states, as has Trump.
This Supreme Court would declare nationwide abortion access unconstitutional but a nationwide abortion ban constitutional, if they had the chance.
They've said Presidents can commit crimes without fear, what wouldn't they do?
Hypothetical, its judgement reversing Roe v Wade was there was no constitutional right to an abortion but also they made clear there was nothing constitutional forbidding abortion either.
If Americans elect a pro life President and pro life Congress who campaigned to ban abortion then yes in that case a federal abortion ban would be legitimate
Surely that would be ultra vires under Dobbs, which made it a state matter?
Not that the law or any form of logic seems to bother this iteration of the Supremely Bent Court.
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
I wouldn’t trust any of these polls - the ones good for Harris OR the polls good for Trump - because this is such an unprecedented moment in US politics
In the last month a President has revealed his crippling dementia in an epochal debate, his rival has very very nearly been killed, the President (after much gruelling denial) has “resigned” and now his unpopular VP is abruptly mega famous and the new nominee for an election only months away
How can you possibly poll that?? I imagine many - most? - Americans have no idea what to think
My hunch is that Harris should be slight favourite (whereas Trump was a massive fave over Biden). But this crazy election year produces nothing but intense surprises and I’m not sure why that should stop
There is bound to be a Harris "honeymoon" period for a while before normal service resumes in the US (it won't stop three months of breathless puffing of her here as the only thing between the world and Hitler 2.0 though).
Whoever persuaded Biden to debate Trump on live TV *before* the final nominations were in was a genius though.
Absolutely. I am sure this was an inside job - someone on Biden’s team has known for ages he’s demented and incapable and this person was in despair - then had the brilliant idea of putting him up for an early debate
They sabotaged and terminated their own king
If you want to go full tin foil hat and it was an inside job, swap his meds out....we have never seen Biden be that bad publicly.
Excellent plot twist
Also I don’t think you need a tin foil hat to perceive this election as being as sinister and dangerous as all fuckettybollocks. Trump is only alive because he turned his head for a moment in an unexpected way, and the security around him was so bad it’s forced the retirement of the seekyserv director
Yes, but for a fluke he would be dead.
That would have had catastrophic effects on American politics and civil order.
Phew.
We don't know, do we? We might have had a landslide election of Vance on a John Brown's Body ticket. As it is, not only can people not remember what they were doing when president trump was shot, they can't even remember that president trump was shot. Non event. Phew indeed.
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
I'm not someone who thinks there is nothing that is 'woke' (though it is very over used), but that first one is just a pathetic line, anyone who falls for it should be embarrassed.
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
St Paul - NOT a softie on sexual morality - might call it Christian.
Faith, hope and love - but the greatest is love.
Paul was fundamentally a bully. Pre Damascus he bullied Christians, post Damascus poofters and trollops. He wrote some of the greatest prose ever, but unfortunately he spoke with the voices of men and of angels but had not charity.
Might not have had it, or much of it, but he sure did talk it up!
JD Vance is a real strange one, his politics seems all over the place from traditional right wing stuff to protectionist / government intervention stuff Bernie would proud of.
Tariffs are often a rightwing thing, see Lord Derby, Joseph Chamberlain and Baldwin to Le Pen and Pat Buchanan and now Trump and Vance
Joseph Chamberlain would not have thanked you for calling him right wing.
Do you think that the opposition to tariffs could be described as Conservative, (maybe with a small c) or even Liberal? (Just seeking some free history wisdom)
With IPSOS we've gone from Trump 2% ahead v Biden (July 15th-16th) to Harris 2% ahead v Trump (July 22nd).
So much for a Republican convention bounce.
Biden very effectively squelched it. Brilliant timing of endgame IMHO; not too bad for a "demented vegetable".
It wasn't planned. Reality denied until the last moment, then a panicky change. That's no way to run an endgame. When my time comes I hope I will do better than that.
Seven Labour MPs have been suspended from the parliamentary party for voting against the government on an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap, the BBC understands.
JD Vance is a real strange one, his politics seems all over the place from traditional right wing stuff to protectionist / government intervention stuff Bernie would proud of.
Tariffs are often a rightwing thing, see Lord Derby, Joseph Chamberlain and Baldwin to Le Pen and Pat Buchanan and now Trump and Vance
Joseph Chamberlain would not have thanked you for calling him right wing.
Do you think that the opposition to tariffs could be described as Conservative, (maybe with a small c) or even Liberal? (Just seeking some free history wisdom)
Opposition to tariffs was generally a Liberal position, for various reasons.
Chamberlain was an unusual politician in many ways, but most of his instincts were of the political left. For example, in this case his reasons for campaigning for tariffs were both to unite the Empire in one trading bloc and pay for old age pensions.
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
I don't see why a meeting with disabled people automatically needs you to give your pronouns out and say you are a woman as if there was some doubt about it?
Tetchy. This is the USA, so how are you an authority on the etiquette?
Also which is the more Christian and more electable statement of I have a pussy and I grab women by the pussy? Choose one.
It may be illegal but there is nothing in the Ten Commandments against it as long as you don' actually sleep with a woman not your wife and commit adultery.
There is plenty in the Bible saying God created man and woman, Adam and Eve, life is sacred and marriage is only between a man and woman for life though
Where in the Bible does it say marriage is for life?
For the avoidance of doubt, 62 years ago I promised Mrs C that, until death did us part, I would cleave only unto her, and I have.
..the late, great octogenarian Betty Boothroyd once being advised to take sexual harassment training or reportedly face the risk of expulsion from the Lords....
JD Vance is a real strange one, his politics seems all over the place.
To be fair, George H Bush said several really quite horrible things about Reagan in the 1980 Republican primaries, going so far as to say he couldn't work with him, as did Kemp about Dole in 1996. Both went on to accept the vice-presidential slot.
So a politician changing his mind when power is dangled in front of him is hardly new.
When asked on national TV during 1980 campaign for GOP nomination, what he'd like to say to George Bush the Elder, Bob Dole memorably replied, "Stop lying about my record."
On 22 July 2024, the FEI received a video depicting Ms. Dujardin engaging in conduct contrary to the principles of horse welfare,” it said. “This video was submitted to the FEI by a lawyer representing an undisclosed complainant. According to the information received, the footage was allegedly taken several years ago during a training session conducted by Ms. Dujardin at a private stable.
Somebody has been holding a grudge waiting for the worst time to deploy it.
This makes me so angry and is a really shitty way of life that shows humanity to be full of absolute C’s.
As I wrote before - if someone had an issue with horse welfare they should have presented this at the time to prevent the risk of any other horse being subjected to the same.
To leave it until just before the Olympics is shittery of the worst order. I desperately desperately hope that whoever did this, because they did this for bad reasons not because they gave a flying fuck about horses, finds themselves in a sand school with a renegade horse that could only be stopped from trampling them to death by Ms Dujardin whipping it and she obviously has to refuse and the fucker has their pelvis crushed.
It’s a symptom of a nasty sneaky nearly society - like the videos of the racist twat who was funding the Tories - if you have video, and don’t like what you saw, report it then but don’t leave it until a moment of maximum effect for whatever gain you want.
I've just been watching the live stream of Harris's first campaign rally on ABC. A pretty impressive performance by Harris all around. Spoke well. Defined her own positions v those of Trump very clearly. Defined herself now she has the spotlight. The enthusiasm in the crowd was something else.
JD Vance is a real strange one, his politics seems all over the place from traditional right wing stuff to protectionist / government intervention stuff Bernie would proud of.
Tariffs are often a rightwing thing, see Lord Derby, Joseph Chamberlain and Baldwin to Le Pen and Pat Buchanan and now Trump and Vance
Joseph Chamberlain would not have thanked you for calling him right wing.
The thing that always amused me about Joseph Chamberlain was that Austen Chamberlain was the spitting image of his father whereas Neville Chamberlain wasn't.
On 22 July 2024, the FEI received a video depicting Ms. Dujardin engaging in conduct contrary to the principles of horse welfare,” it said. “This video was submitted to the FEI by a lawyer representing an undisclosed complainant. According to the information received, the footage was allegedly taken several years ago during a training session conducted by Ms. Dujardin at a private stable.
Somebody has been holding a grudge waiting for the worst time to deploy it.
This makes me so angry and is a really shitty way of life that shows humanity to be full of absolute C’s.
As I wrote before - if someone had an issue with horse welfare they should have presented this at the time to prevent the risk of any other horse being subjected to the same.
To leave it until just before the Olympics is shittery of the worst order. I desperately desperately hope that whoever did this, because they did this for bad reasons not because they gave a flying fuck about horses, finds themselves in a sand school with a renegade horse that could only be stopped from trampling them to death by Ms Dujardin whipping it and she obviously has to refuse and the fucker has their pelvis crushed.
It’s a symptom of a nasty sneaky nearly society - like the videos of the racist twat who was funding the Tories - if you have video, and don’t like what you saw, report it then but don’t leave it until a moment of maximum effect for whatever gain you want.
It feels like a middle ground would have been a suspension / punishment post Olympics under the guise of because of the delay in this evidence being presented we are assured that now no current risk to horses.
Regarding the "pronouns and women in a blue suit", it has been pointed out that she was hosting a meeting of disabled people and some of them were blind.
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
I don't see why a meeting with disabled people automatically needs you to give your pronouns out and say you are a woman as if there was some doubt about it?
Tetchy. This is the USA, so how are you an authority on the etiquette?
Also which is the more Christian and more electable statement of I have a pussy and I grab women by the pussy? Choose one.
It may be illegal but there is nothing in the Ten Commandments against it as long as you don' actually sleep with a woman not your wife and commit adultery.
There is plenty in the Bible saying God created man and woman, Adam and Eve, life is sacred and marriage is only between a man and woman for life though
Where in the Bible does it say marriage is for life?
For the avoidance of doubt, 62 years ago I promised Mrs C that, until death did us part, I would cleave only unto her, and I have.
BUT hopefully NOT with a cleaver? (Just joking - congratulations to you & her!)
Seven Labour MPs have been suspended from the parliamentary party for voting against the government on an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap, the BBC understands.
Including Rebecca Long-Bailey and John Mcdonell. SKS taking out the rubbish. And Burgon, of course.
On 22 July 2024, the FEI received a video depicting Ms. Dujardin engaging in conduct contrary to the principles of horse welfare,” it said. “This video was submitted to the FEI by a lawyer representing an undisclosed complainant. According to the information received, the footage was allegedly taken several years ago during a training session conducted by Ms. Dujardin at a private stable.
Somebody has been holding a grudge waiting for the worst time to deploy it.
This makes me so angry and is a really shitty way of life that shows humanity to be full of absolute C’s.
As I wrote before - if someone had an issue with horse welfare they should have presented this at the time to prevent the risk of any other horse being subjected to the same.
To leave it until just before the Olympics is shittery of the worst order. I desperately desperately hope that whoever did this, because they did this for bad reasons not because they gave a flying fuck about horses, finds themselves in a sand school with a renegade horse that could only be stopped from trampling them to death by Ms Dujardin whipping it and she obviously has to refuse and the fucker has their pelvis crushed.
It’s a symptom of a nasty sneaky nearly society - like the videos of the racist twat who was funding the Tories - if you have video, and don’t like what you saw, report it then but don’t leave it until a moment of maximum effect for whatever gain you want.
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
I don't see why a meeting with disabled people automatically needs you to give your pronouns out and say you are a woman as if there was some doubt about it?
Seven Labour MPs have been suspended from the parliamentary party for voting against the government on an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap, the BBC understands.
- Apsana Begum - Imran Hussain - Rebecca Long Bailey - Ian Byrne - Richard Burgon - Zarah Sultana - John McDonnell
Seven Labour MPs have been suspended from the parliamentary party for voting against the government on an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap, the BBC understands.
Including Rebecca Long-Bailey and John Macdonald. SKS taking out the rubbish.
Seven Labour MPs have been suspended from the parliamentary party for voting against the government on an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap, the BBC understands.
This must be one of the earliest cases of MPs being suspended by a winning party after a GE?
It'll be interesting to see the names - are they old hands, or newly elected?
JD Vance is a real strange one, his politics seems all over the place from traditional right wing stuff to protectionist / government intervention stuff Bernie would proud of.
Tariffs are often a rightwing thing, see Lord Derby, Joseph Chamberlain and Baldwin to Le Pen and Pat Buchanan and now Trump and Vance
Joseph Chamberlain would not have thanked you for calling him right wing.
Do you think that the opposition to tariffs could be described as Conservative, (maybe with a small c) or even Liberal? (Just seeking some free history wisdom)
Opposition to tariffs was generally a Liberal position, for various reasons.
Chamberlain was an unusual politician in many ways, but most of his instincts were of the political left. For example, in this case his reasons for campaigning for tariffs were both to unite the Empire in one trading bloc and pay for old age pensions.
Thanks.
I've been reading a little about US history and such things are clearly of interest in that context. More generally though it's interesting to see what was concluded when there weren't so many taxes and costs as there are today.
Seven Labour MPs have been suspended from the parliamentary party for voting against the government on an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap, the BBC understands.
- Apsana Begum - Imran Hussain - Rebecca Long Bailey - Ian Byrne - Richard Burgon - Zarah Sultana - John McDonnell
JD Vance is a real strange one, his politics seems all over the place from traditional right wing stuff to protectionist / government intervention stuff Bernie would proud of.
Tariffs are often a rightwing thing, see Lord Derby, Joseph Chamberlain and Baldwin to Le Pen and Pat Buchanan and now Trump and Vance
Joseph Chamberlain would not have thanked you for calling him right wing.
The thing that always amused me about Joseph Chamberlain was that Austen Chamberlain was the spitting image of his father whereas Neville Chamberlain wasn't.
Stand up comedy being different in the 1930s? "You see that Joseph Chamberlain? You know his dad? You'll never guess..." (leans on microphone stand, pint in hand)
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
I don't see why a meeting with disabled people automatically needs you to give your pronouns out and say you are a woman as if there was some doubt about it?
(narrator: some of them were blind)
The hardest thing about changing genders? The voice.
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
I don't see why a meeting with disabled people automatically needs you to give your pronouns out and say you are a woman as if there was some doubt about it?
Tetchy. This is the USA, so how are you an authority on the etiquette?
Also which is the more Christian and more electable statement of I have a pussy and I grab women by the pussy? Choose one.
It may be illegal but there is nothing in the Ten Commandments against it as long as you don' actually sleep with a woman not your wife and commit adultery.
There is plenty in the Bible saying God created man and woman, Adam and Eve, life is sacred and marriage is only between a man and woman for life though
Where in the Bible does it say marriage is for life?
For the avoidance of doubt, 62 years ago I promised Mrs C that, until death did us part, I would cleave only unto her, and I have.
Impressive. I missed it at the time, too busy learning how to crawl.
With IPSOS we've gone from Trump 2% ahead v Biden (July 15th-16th) to Harris 2% ahead v Trump (July 22nd).
So much for a Republican convention bounce.
Biden very effectively squelched it. Brilliant timing of endgame IMHO; not too bad for a "demented vegetable".
It wasn't planned. Reality denied until the last moment, then a panicky change. That's no way to run an endgame. When my time comes I hope I will do better than that.
By endgame, I mean the last week. A panicky change would have been done mid-GOP convention, and without the planning clearly AND competently done with the VERY involved mechanics & logistics of the transfer from Biden/Harris > Harris/???.
Mega (as opposed to MAGA) millions $$$ transferred. More mega millions raised in 24 hours. From 0 delegates for Harris to super-majority of the Democratic National Convention in 24 hours.
Not planned? You - and me - would be damn lucky to do half as well!
Seven Labour MPs have been suspended from the parliamentary party for voting against the government on an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap, the BBC understands.
- Apsana Begum - Imran Hussain - Rebecca Long Bailey - Ian Byrne - Richard Burgon - Zarah Sultana - John McDonnell
A motley crew if ever I saw one.
How long before he lets them back in though? Surely that's the crucial question.
Unless they fuck off and join the Greens, which would seriously upset the SNP.
Seven Labour MPs have been suspended from the parliamentary party for voting against the government on an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap, the BBC understands.
That was quick, as far as government rebellions go. Don't remember one happening within 18 days of an election.
Seven Labour MPs have been suspended from the parliamentary party for voting against the government on an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap, the BBC understands.
That was quick, as far as government rebellions go. Don't remember one happening within 18 days of an election.
JD Vance is a real strange one, his politics seems all over the place from traditional right wing stuff to protectionist / government intervention stuff Bernie would proud of.
Tariffs are often a rightwing thing, see Lord Derby, Joseph Chamberlain and Baldwin to Le Pen and Pat Buchanan and now Trump and Vance
Joseph Chamberlain would not have thanked you for calling him right wing.
Do you think that the opposition to tariffs could be described as Conservative, (maybe with a small c) or even Liberal? (Just seeking some free history wisdom)
Not historically, no. Tories/Conservatives were in general the party of landowners, who were not notorious for their desire to make bread cheap through dropping tariffs.
Joseph Chamberlain started as a radical Liberal but part of his move to split the Liberals and move towards the Conservatives (as well, of course, as his opposition to Irish Home Rule) was an increasing view that free trade left Britain vulnerable to the Yanks and Germans. He badged it Empire Free Trade but it was protectionism and brought him into alliance with the Tories.
Seven Labour MPs have been suspended from the parliamentary party for voting against the government on an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap, the BBC understands.
- Apsana Begum - Imran Hussain - Rebecca Long Bailey - Ian Byrne - Richard Burgon - Zarah Sultana - John McDonnell
Seven Labour MPs have been suspended from the parliamentary party for voting against the government on an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap, the BBC understands.
That was quick, as far as government rebellions go. Don't remember one happening within 18 days of an election.
There was one very early on in 1997 when Blair pushed through a Tory policy on Welfare and it was passed by 457 votes to 107 with 50-odd Labour rebels.
Can't remember the exact date though. I want to say June?
I commented on that first story yesterday, and those propogating it are beneath contempt. She was in a meeting with disabled people, including the blind.
You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
I don't see why a meeting with disabled people automatically needs you to give your pronouns out and say you are a woman as if there was some doubt about it?
Tetchy. This is the USA, so how are you an authority on the etiquette?
Also which is the more Christian and more electable statement of I have a pussy and I grab women by the pussy? Choose one.
It may be illegal but there is nothing in the Ten Commandments against it as long as you don' actually sleep with a woman not your wife and commit adultery.
There is plenty in the Bible saying God created man and woman, Adam and Eve, life is sacred and marriage is only between a man and woman for life though
Where in the Bible does it say marriage is for life?
For the avoidance of doubt, 62 years ago I promised Mrs C that, until death did us part, I would cleave only unto her, and I have.
Impressive. I missed it at the time, too busy learning how to crawl.
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You - a so-called Christian = may call that 'woke'. I call it polite.
Amount of income tax I pay will crater.
BTW don't pay higher rate tax as I stuff it in AVCs and pay 0% on it and limit myself to £50k taxable income. All goes in a deposit fund earning 5% virtually risk free that gets paid back as part of my lump sum in tax free cash.
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Caesar wasn’t the first - though perhaps the most famous ancient exponent.
And Caesar was from posh, old money, as well
But other than that, you're pretty much right re: switcheroo. However, am sure attempted assassination continues to interest and motivate many - read that millions - of Trump supporters.
And is NOT a dead issue (sorry for bad pun) for Independents OR Democrats - just NOT methinks a reason to vote for Trump instead of Harris.
Somebody has been holding a grudge waiting for the worst time to deploy it.
Faith, hope and love - but the greatest is love.
Oh sorry, you didn't mean abortions where he was the father?
Had people like me not voted Tory in 2019 (well actually Dorries with a clothespeg on my nose) Starmer would now be running a jumped up County Council with one arm tied behind his back.
Also which is the more Christian and more electable statement of I have a pussy and I grab women by the pussy? Choose one.
I am sure Starmer will be losing loads of sleep...
Anyway, Stalin asked the Widow Lenin a rather pointed question:
"You do realize, comrade, that if need be, we can always find ANOTHER Krupskaya?"
Not there yet though. Not by a long stretch.
So a politician changing his mind when power is dangled in front of him is hardly new.
That would have had catastrophic effects on American politics and civil order.
Phew.
There is plenty in the Bible saying God created man and woman, Adam and Eve, life is sacred and marriage is only between a man and woman for life though
They've said Presidents can commit crimes without fear, what wouldn't they do?
Grabbing pussies is sometimes the only language they understand.
If Americans elect a pro life President and pro life Congress who campaigned to ban abortion then yes in that case a federal abortion ban would be legitimate
Trump physically safe but other changes meaning there's a much better chance of him being defeated than there has been for quite some time.
Not that the law or any form of logic seems to bother this iteration of the Supremely Bent Court.
Yep. I can definitely see it. Dakar was cleverer though.
(Just seeking some free history wisdom)
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/farage-in-diversity-stand-off-with-commons-bosses/
Chamberlain was an unusual politician in many ways, but most of his instincts were of the political left. For example, in this case his reasons for campaigning for tariffs were both to unite the Empire in one trading bloc and pay for old age pensions.
For the avoidance of doubt, 62 years ago I promised Mrs C that, until death did us part, I would cleave only unto her, and I have.
As I wrote before - if someone had an issue with horse welfare they should have presented this at the time to prevent the risk of any other horse being subjected to the same.
To leave it until just before the Olympics is shittery of the worst order. I desperately desperately hope that whoever did this, because they did this for bad reasons not because they gave a flying fuck about horses, finds themselves in a sand school with a renegade horse that could only be stopped from trampling them to death by Ms Dujardin whipping it and she obviously has to refuse and the fucker has their pelvis crushed.
It’s a symptom of a nasty sneaky nearly society - like the videos of the racist twat who was funding the Tories - if you have video, and don’t like what you saw, report it then but don’t leave it until a moment of maximum effect for whatever gain you want.
Trump 1.7
Harris 2.66
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/politics/market/1.176878927
An important detail, i feel.
https://x.com/JamesCleverly/status/1815823926364082451
- Imran Hussain
- Rebecca Long Bailey
- Ian Byrne
- Richard Burgon
- Zarah Sultana
- John McDonnell
A motley crew if ever I saw one.
It'll be interesting to see the names - are they old hands, or newly elected?
I've been reading a little about US history and such things are clearly of interest in that context. More generally though it's interesting to see what was concluded when there weren't so many taxes and costs as there are today.
https://x.com/johnrentoul/status/1815821940101091607?s=61
Mega (as opposed to MAGA) millions $$$ transferred. More mega millions raised in 24 hours. From 0 delegates for Harris to super-majority of the Democratic National Convention in 24 hours.
Not planned? You - and me - would be damn lucky to do half as well!
Unless they fuck off and join the Greens, which would seriously upset the SNP.
https://x.com/shelleygldschmt/status/1815757040658313475?s=61
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
NEW Reuters/Ipsos poll:
TWO-WAY
Kamala Harris 44%
Donald Trump 42%
THREE-WAY
Kamala Harris 42%
Donald Trump 38%
RFK Jr. 8%
MoE +/-3%
Although to be fair, I can't imagine anyone wanting to be in the same room as Netanyahu.
EDIT: Okay, not that close to the election.
Joseph Chamberlain started as a radical Liberal but part of his move to split the Liberals and move towards the Conservatives (as well, of course, as his opposition to Irish Home Rule) was an increasing view that free trade left Britain vulnerable to the Yanks and Germans. He badged it Empire Free Trade but it was protectionism and brought him into alliance with the Tories.
Can't remember the exact date though. I want to say June?
I hope!