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Could this mean shy (young) Trumpers? – politicalbetting.com
Could this mean shy (young) Trumpers? – politicalbetting.com
Young men should know that if you vote for Trump you’re basically never going to get laid. pic.twitter.com/M2jcVT5yDx
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Meanwhile the enshittification of business travel exhibit B: Eurostar this morning to Paris in standard class. Long queues, virtually no free seats in the waiting area and a Pret coffee that was more like a hot milkshake than a cappuccino.
Here's the moment Lidia Thorpe shouted after King Charles III delivered his speech in Parliament House just after 2pm. She can be heard saying, "This is not your land. You are not my king. You are not our king". #auspol
https://x.com/sbasfordcanales/status/1848203679125676308
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/business/local/6608441/former-oil-and-gas-uk-chiefs-fears-of-north-sea-wholly-premature-death/
"Mr Webb said he had been “amazed” by politicians who demonstrated a worrying lack of knowledge of the industry they were steering.
" “In my roles I’ve come across various MPs who for example believe oil was found in big lakes underneath the North Sea,” he added.
" “How did people get in charge of this industry, or exercise authority on this industry, with such little knowledge of it?”"
There's an editorial by him, also, in the P&J but unfortunately that's not online. He says the only chancellors who actually "got" oil and gas were Lawson, Darling and Osborne. They probably are the three smartest people to have held the post in the last 40 years so that sounds about right.
Generally, this is just a proxy for political support; you can ask the same question about anything (e.g. a restaurant owner) and get a similar response.
If she likes you then differences in political opinions can be and often are accommodated. If you go straight in all JD Vance on the first date, then you're a bit of a dick - which is a bigger issue than the politics.
Can I find my old home? I can barely recall what it looked like
I do remember being very happy here, having nearly died to get here via the Trans Siberian coming off a massive heroin habit - and at one point ending up on a troop train, from which I was ejected in the middle of the Siberian taiga, 400km east of Irkutsk
And then I got the first ever civilian boat out of Vladivostok. To Yokohama. And came here…
But, despite what we might wish, large numbers of Trump voters are utterly normal. The idea that they are all nutty MAGA idiots is comforting, but wrong.
Sky Marshal Tehat Meru: To fight the bug, we must understand the bug.
Wonders of no longer living in a high trust society.
https://x.com/gavinantonyrice/status/1847976667316203639
The lounge at St Pancras, and Waterloo before it. Very pleasant. Nice coffee and breakfasts. I’ll probably never see it again, at least not on the man’s dollar.
You can see that when Harris came in the race, she consolidated Democrats and Dem-leaning independents really quickly. Trump managed to pull a few GOP-leaning stragglers to his side as the election nears, and I'd guess that this is a lot of what's driving this.
https://x.com/lxeagle17/status/1848253567934640308
The theory is that given reputation and expectations, they try harder. Starfucks & Prat can put any old swill in a cup and sell it.
God, some political hacks are such drama queens. We were removing litter bins from London stations in the early 90s because the IRA were putting bombs in them, and holding football fans behind huge wire cages until Hillsborough. That wasn’t exactly high trust.
The same hacks will be all for expanding stop and search, so long as it doesn’t affect them personally.
But as noted last week, Costa - long the awfulest of all - actually served me a very decent cup of coffee at KX station.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/21/wes-streeting-unveils-plans-for-patient-passports-to-hold-all-medical-records
Meet the new boss, same as...
Labour wants to digitise our health data and sell it off to drugs companies, which is already happening.
Lord Darzi's report revisits his obsession with polyclinics despite their not proving a panacea when first introduced following his recommendations to New Labour.
Exasperated voters, voting for Trump because they feel the status quo isn't working... That's understandable.
But it means hitching their wagon to someone whose application of the rules of democracy is pretty tenuous, at best. And to a coalition whose signature policy is pretty unattractive to most young women. Neither of those is strictly necessary, both of them have consequences.
History is littered with instances of people on the civilised right (and left) deciding that the right (or left) part of their identity is more important to them than the civilised bit. It tends to end badly.
The views in the channel tunnel are so exciting, so why not make the whole journey like that.
FWIW, I read it as irritation rather than drama. And hyperbolic or not, he has a point.
My friends and I used to sit under the cherry trees by the canal and drink asahi beer as we watched the dancing fireflies
And when we walked off downhill to town we’d see beautiful beautiful hookers cycling to work and they’d wave and laugh and call our names but we couldn’t afford them
And down in Gion we’d watch the geishas padding to business under the parasols, clacking in their clogs as the sake barrels were unloaded from the river barges
SOB
I’m on the tube. The chap sitting next to me is blithely writing a Government policy document on the budget.
What should I do?
Was thinking of trying to sell him on replacing Council Tax with a per person tax. Any others?
What have the democrats got to say? They seem to be pumping out culture war tiktok videos.
I can see my old bedroom window. And the apartment block is exactly as crummy as I remember it
Superb
In mail in ballots in Nevada the latest batch shows the propensity of the voter .
So for example 0 didn’t vote in any of the last 4 state wide elections and so on upto a max 4 .
Of 15,395 votes in the non- affiliated 0 made up 33.8% of the vote , combined with the very occasional voter 1 that totaled over 53% .
The 0 category will be the one most likely to be removed at the LV stage of a poll.
There could be several reasons for this large turnout in that category , recent changes so you’re auto registered just one of them.
By nature the 0 category will lean to younger people . We’ll have to see whether this trend continues over future mail in ballots but certainly it adds a further level of uncertainty into the polling.
Museums used to be wander in, wander out.
How long before its libraries etc? How long before it is something you really care about?
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/opinion/6607411/david-knight-a96/
The comment piece has a plan to get the A9 and A96 dualling done:
"The first would involve a massive appeal for cash from the public.
The second would involve paying it into an SNP bank account.
To “fast-track” the roads upgrade project to VIP top-priority “we’ll deliver tomorrow by 1pm” status.
Why not?
Something vaguely similar has happened with an energy company’s plans for a floating windfarm off the north-east coast.
Its operating licence went through after SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn intervened; he helpfully opened doors and oiled a few wheels with the Scottish Government.
And – hey presto – this was followed by a £30,000 donation paid by the firm’s boss – who has close SNP connections – into a party bank account in Mr Flynn’s Aberdeen South constituency.
A tasty little thank you, it would seem."
Brutally funny...
I bet after Hiroshima was flattened there was still one faithful vending machine at ground zero, still standing, still happily doling out bottles of Pocari Sweat
Coherent I'm not sure, but emotionally resonant certainly. Trump has a whole mythology of goodness, alongside the more transgressive and contrary parts, that his supporters love. The Democrats have no such grand narrative that is as powerful as this. A fight against racism is easily ignored by those who think it doesn't address their own lives, and compared to a mythological struggle for goodness, invoking democracy is also both more abstract, and dismissable, as a matter of intellectual opinion rather than emotion.
They do pretty much all agree through, that Lando Norris’s penalty in Austin was totally outrageous.
Russian businessman close to Putin mysteriously dies 'after falling from window in Moscow'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13981611/Russian-businessman-close-Putin-mysteriously-dies-falling-window.html
https://x.com/mortenmorland/status/1848261512059666651
Where Trump does seem to be doing better is attracting some more young black and Latino males too. Offset by Harris doing better with white women than Biden did
I found that a little cringe too.
Even when you have the information in front of your eyes, you are too stupid to understand it
But it is another tooth on the ratchet.
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1847720298335948932
100% unopenable and unbreakable windows.
We will make a killing….
Most Australians are not woke leftists like her
And a further supply in the US if needed.
"Russian pilot Dmitry Golenkov, who participated in Moscow's full-scale war against Ukraine, was found dead in the town of Suponevo in Bryansk Oblast on Oct. 20, Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) reported.
According to the agency, Golenkov suffered multiple head injuries, probably caused by a hammer.
HUR published photos purporting to show Golenkov's body in an apple orchard, without claiming responsibility for the incident."
He's not held to account in any significant way for these contradictions, partly because many Democrats think there could be nothing good about a Trump voter, si he's able to benefut from both strands of support, quite easily.
Thankyou
It’s more and more expensive to run quality polls now .
As you say, one of the great joys of london is - was - just nipping into the national gallery to look at maybe one single painting for five minutes - the Rokeby Venus or Whisteljacket
If that is taken away from us by Tarquins with paint
Fuck em
Betting PostF1: backed Ferrari at 9 (boosted t 9.5) for the title. Used half the stake for the McLaren 4.1 bet.
They were very fast in the US just now and had the pace, but rotten luck, in Singapore. They only need to average about 9-10 points per race over McLaren to get it. This is far easier than the 11 points per race Norris needs to pass Verstappen.
I just don't understand what you objected to about Leon's post.