Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: gillymor Date: 12 Aug 20 - 07:21 AM Sadly, the electoral college will decide. I think Biden made the right call in Harris but I wonder how soon before an increasingly desperate twitler calls into question her country of origin. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Nigel Parsons Date: 12 Aug 20 - 06:17 AM Joe Biden (age 77) selects Kamala Harris (the second African American woman and the first Indian American to serve in the United States Senate) as his running mate. If Biden wins the presidency his age makes possible the second non-white President, and the first female President. Is the USA moving into the twenty-first century? (only the voters can decide) |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: robomatic Date: 11 Aug 20 - 07:04 PM It's a gutsy choice on Biden's part. I think of it as a reverse of Obama selecting an older, known, white male to stabilize his campaign. In this case it's the old, too well known, too white, too male picking a younger female of color who can get out there and provide some energy to balance the perceptions of the main runner. I think it shows some guts in the old boy. Now I've got to hear from my California contacts to see what they think and feel about it. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Stilly River Sage Date: 11 Aug 20 - 05:26 PM No surprise Kamala Harris was selected. She is an experienced campaigner. I was hoping for Warren, but she's also older, and Susan Rice has a lot of experience but has never run a campaign. The Trumpites would revive their Bengazi claims (four people died, all hell broke loose as far as they are concerned, those who are silent about 160,000 dead from COVID-19). |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Mrrzy Date: 11 Aug 20 - 04:57 PM So what do we think? An insult to white men? |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Mrrzy Date: 11 Aug 20 - 09:31 AM I was just trying to remember Geraldine Ferraro's name. I knew I would recognize it, but could not recall it at all. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Donuel Date: 10 Aug 20 - 02:34 PM BIDEN PICKS HILLARY FOR VP !!!!!! He figures she was robbed the first time. This misinformation although fake is typical for DEMOCRATIC PARTY WISDOM Remember Geraldine Ferraro? -send all hate mail to Joe- |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Donuel Date: 10 Aug 20 - 08:13 AM GOERING AND POMPEO Family heritage Pompeo |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Donuel Date: 10 Aug 20 - 08:01 AM White Nationalist Miller + Himmler |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Mrrzy Date: 09 Aug 20 - 11:27 AM 89 days |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Bonzo3legs Date: 09 Aug 20 - 11:25 AM Went to see our dentist today in South London today for some torture and the usual lecture!! The receptionist was from USA and told us that her sister in Denver will be sending voting papers by Fedex so that she can vote against Trumpety Trump. I think the words she used to describe Trump was mental arsehole!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: keberoxu Date: 08 Aug 20 - 02:49 PM At latest report, the Republican primary election in Arizona's Maricopa County, for county sheriff (Greater Metropolitan Phoenix et al.), seems decided. In the previous election, Democrat candidate Paul Penzone defeated longtime incumbent Joe Arpaio. This Democrat incumbent will face challengers in November. This past Tuesday, two candidates fought for the Republican candidacy: Joe Arpaio, now in his '80s, and his former deputy, Jerry Sheridan. Although the race was close, Sheridan now has a 6,000+ lead, in votes, over Arpaio. (Whew) |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Donuel Date: 07 Aug 20 - 05:43 PM And of course Biden will take your guns away. The NRA is now a paper tiger and has no money for Republicans in the short run as LaPierre and cronies are looking at jail time. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Donuel Date: 07 Aug 20 - 10:01 AM Its been week of Yo Semites, Thighland and claims that Biden is a radical left winger who is banning religion Hurting God. It turns out I have the same ancestory as Trump, English-German and Scottish. The only differences are polar opposite fathers, 8 Billion dollars and a few IQ points. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: keberoxu Date: 05 Aug 20 - 09:44 AM Well, primary elections are distinct from national elections, especially when the races are for official state posts. Still. Yesterday was the Arizona primary. Old Joe Arpaio ran for his old office of sheriff, and was defeated by only 500 votes for the incumbent. Every vote really DOES count ... |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Donuel Date: 10 Jul 20 - 05:40 PM Constitutional scholor prez- been there done that KRazY sTupid- been there done that How about survival oriented? |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Mr Red Date: 10 Jul 20 - 02:28 AM while this country has had a Black president, we've never had a crazy Black president. LOL |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Neil D Date: 10 Jul 20 - 12:54 AM Blackish star Anthony Anderson had this to say about Kanye's announcement: "Wow, President Kanye. That's right—Yeezy wants to be Preezy and you know, laugh all you want, but this would be historic because, while this country has had a Black president, we've never had a crazy Black president." The actor continued, "It should be pointed out that Kanye still has to register with the Federal Election Commission, collect enough signatures to get on the ballot, create a campaign platform and he's already missed the deadline to file as an independent candidate in a bunch of states. But other than that," Anderson concluded, "he good." |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Donuel Date: 09 Jul 20 - 09:23 PM The Supreme Court decided that the prez is subject to supeonas afterall Also decided is a case by the Cree Indians who learned that a treaty in 1907 shows clearly they own half of Tulsa Oklahoma. THEY WON The native Americans will end up with better healthcare and much more. More will come out about this. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Donuel Date: 09 Jul 20 - 03:24 PM The Republican Govenors who stuck to Trump like a wet tongue to dry ice are now beggining to peel off as the results of the Trump folly of reopening ASAP has turned into the greatest out break of Covid on Earth. Texas, Florida and others are reversing course but stopping and reversing are quick for trains and cruise ships when compared to entire states in an exponential pandemic. I think Trump has exceeded Picketts charge at Gettysburg as far as folly and tradgedy goes. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Mr Red Date: 09 Jul 20 - 08:12 AM Kanye West for president? less than 6mins into this. And you thought you cannot make up this kinda crap! |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Mrrzy Date: 09 Jul 20 - 08:12 AM I have been wondering if it's worth all the death and destruction to a) not reelect him and b) get rid of the confederacy crap / have all lives actually ally matter... |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Donuel Date: 08 Jul 20 - 11:26 AM Robo knows how to spell but typos happen. I like misspelling delibertely like "scarred strait" |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Stilly River Sage Date: 08 Jul 20 - 11:05 AM It's Hillary. Two l's. And yes, I think there would be many more Americans alive if a decent human being were president and not the sociopath in the office right now. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Donuel Date: 08 Jul 20 - 06:04 AM The Republican Convention will be attended by Mike Lindell the my pillow guy and Rand Paul but everyone else from the Senate and Tik Tok are doubtful. There may even be more Michigan militiamen than delegates. Steve Scalise is promoting an 'IN PERSON' Disney World PAC convention to collect money for Trump since he doesn't trust the mail for donations. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Donuel Date: 07 Jul 20 - 06:16 PM spelnig sounds racist |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: robomatic Date: 06 Jul 20 - 10:49 PM First let's get some spelnig strait: It's Condoleezza. Next I think that it will turn out that the country has accelerated its liberating trends in the Tr*mp administration. Because of the current occupant we've seen much more desecration of Confederate erstwhile idols and their battleflag. There's something about having an oaf in office that makes you just want to pour water on a burning cross... I don't think this would be the case if Hilary had won. I think Nascar would still have the flag and Washington R-skins would not be considering a name change. On the other hand, would there be thousands more Americans alive? Very likely... |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Mrrzy Date: 05 Jul 20 - 08:26 AM Good poetry, there. Dubya and his pack/PAC-mates are working against idiot, wow. And the WH is keeping, or trying to keep, him from talking to Americans at all, especially about the [whispering] pandemic. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Donuel Date: 05 Jul 20 - 07:50 AM From: oldhippie - PM Date: 02 Jul 20 - 09:30 PM HOW FAR WE HAVE COME Bill Frederick When our fathers came to this golden land There was nothing but forests and rivers and sand And a few million Indians running around Now look what we've made of the little they found Theyre's cities of silver that shine in the night Churches of splendor and halls of delight And only an echo of Indian drums Who can deny how far we have come The slave ships they came with the whip and the rack And a million black people with scars on their back Picked cotton, drew water, and slept in the cold With a bible for comfort they were happy and cold The laws they were passed, slavery went Our lives integrated at least six percent In the sharecroppers shack and the big city slum Who can deny how far we have come The immigrants came from the green Irish shore From Poland and Russia, ten million and more Germany, Italy, all the world round To settle our ghettos and immigrant towns Their brains and their bodies they put to the wheel To build our great factories and towers of steel To march to our battles and carry our guns Who can deny how far we have come Now all through the Andes, they've heard of our name On the factory wall, in the palace of shame They drink Coca Cola and the times that they spend Goes straight to the pockets of our businessmen To pay for our Fords, and our split level homes Our Hi-Fis and records and six percent loans Our profits protected with dictators guns Who can deny how far we have come In Asia and Africa, they're learning too How free enterprise can do wonders for you South Africas prisons are bursting with men Barbed wire keeps the Vietnamese in Where elections are daydreams that never get far American weapons are there standing guard We're ready to fight for the lands that we run Who can deny how far we have come Our fears they are many though they're seldom saved They're black and they're yellow and they're brown and they're red They see through the legend, they smell the decay They're learning to fight the American way And we in our armchairs are quick to condemn Our bankbooks are falling, our profits might end The breaking of change is our funeral hum Who can deny how far we have come When our fathers came to this golden land There was nothing but forests and rivers and sand And a few million Indians running around Now look what we've made of the little they found Theyre's cities of silver that shine in the night Churches of splendor and halls of delight And only an echo of Indian drums Who can deny how far we have come |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Mrrzy Date: 04 Jul 20 - 09:24 AM Ok I knew this was coming: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-2020-us-election-third-term-tim-wirth-white-house-a9600486.html Blicky |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Mr Red Date: 03 Jul 20 - 04:12 AM I watched a couple of videos and there are notable Americans out there openly calling Trump a liar. And always referring to him as Mr Trump, never president! The Russian angle looks to be a pivotal issue for him. Anyone with an angle to get rid of the UK's very own buffo? |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Mrrzy Date: 02 Jul 20 - 05:38 PM I've never heard that Biden had a speech impediment. Gaffes, yes, but nothing else. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Ebbie Date: 01 Jul 20 - 04:53 PM It might help if people educated themselves on people who stutter. Good article on stuttering by a stutterer interviewing Joe Biden The Atlantic January/February 2020 (Emma) Alpern told me that she’s on a group text with other stutterers who regularly discuss Biden, and that it’s been “frustrating” to watch the media portray Biden’s speech impediment as a sign of mental decline or dishonesty. “Biden allows that to happen by not naming it for what it is,” she said, though she’s not sure that his presidential candidacy would benefit if he were more forthcoming. “I think he’s dug himself into a hole of not saying that he still stutters for so long that it would strike people as a little weird.” https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/joe-biden-stutter-profile/602401/ |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Donuel Date: 01 Jul 20 - 03:37 PM All the world’s a hoax, And all the men and women merely minions; They have their firing and their hiring; And the best man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms; And then the winning school-boy, with his ball And shining morning face, the greatest of the great school is purchased. And then Cassenova, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his prostitites’ ear. Then a cadet soldier, Full of strange oaths, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,Seeking the Epstien reputation Even in the liars mouth. And then the injustice, In fair round belly filled with fast food, With eyes severe and hair of surgical cut, Full of wise guys and modern instances; And so he plays his TV part. The sixth age shifts Into the statue of President. With no mask on nose and a pouch a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his mocking voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, His second childishness and mere oblivion; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: keberoxu Date: 30 Jun 20 - 09:25 PM Another big Tuesday of primary elections. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Donuel Date: 29 Jun 20 - 02:00 PM First Joe Offer is sleepy only bfore bed. As for the national election, We are already in the extreme silly season of an election. I don't know which lies are more effective anymore but there are more extreme prevarications arriving more often. To even respond to them is a participation in the stagecraft of the absurd. 'Minds will be boggled but not changed at this point'. The power of real raw self interest of Democrats and Republicans will be the driving force from now on, and that outcome is partially up to you despite the dumpster fires and suppressions. So I'm goin cat fishin with some yarn on a stick until Halloween and try to ignore politics till then. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Donuel Date: 29 Jun 20 - 06:28 AM So who ya gonna vote for, sleepy Joe Offer or tantrum Trump? Republicans want a moniker more villiainous than 'sleepy' Joe. But what? |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Donuel Date: 28 Jun 20 - 12:02 PM BIDEN SAYS HE IS comfortable with letting Trump hang himself. Trump said that is lynching hate speech and a criminal murder threat, until an aid reminded him that he would have to hang himself first for those charges to stick. :^? |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Jun 20 - 04:15 PM He is so stubbornly selfish, it's clear that no one could ever change his mind. What's good for him must be good for America, eh? |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Donuel Date: 27 Jun 20 - 01:35 PM TRUMP THINKS Removing millions from the Affordable Health Care Act by an order by the Supreme Trump Court couldn't happen at a better time than in the middle of a pandemic. It will save time and beds for people with Cadillac Insurance plans. Let the poor heal themselves. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Donuel Date: 27 Jun 20 - 07:57 AM The Pense Pandemic Task Force: By doing nothing, a few people will get sick and die. This is our amazing and successful official policy in the US which is now passing its earlier all time high infection rate. We're #1. Remember " we must not make the cure worse than the disease". So we open early, force certain workers into infection chambers at work, roll back testing and contact tracing, have unmasked political gatherings inside and by not supporting people who are unemployed. Go to crowded events and party. People are saying that those who die are already old or black... wink wink nudge nudge know what I mean? We must even decide if we should try to save those who weakly decide to succumb to the virus at all if there are not enough beds, PPE or medical treatments. We must not make treatment worse than the effect on the economy! So go ahead and take no personal responsibility. DO NOT WEAR A MASK. Be a fancy free Steve. You don't have to chant 'Lets do nothing' but just be sure to take no social respondsibility. Not caring for the sick and dieing is easier than it sounds. It is the last viral intrusion on our lives. All that wasted money is saved. WE DON'T NEED TO BURY THE DEAD. Body removal has been shown to work best with ovens. Gas is cheap now, so take a flight and smirk. That reciculated air in a hypo baric pressure tube is less dangerous than an infected TSA agent. You can even take a cruise at half price. Make life cheap again! {^/ PRAY PRAY PREY HIEL TRUMP 2020 |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Donuel Date: 26 Jun 20 - 09:43 AM 'Trump Think' is a new problem solving strategy which is a spin off of Denial. If you want numbers to look more favorable-stop measuring. If you don't test for cancer or Covid the numbers will drop. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Mr Red Date: 26 Jun 20 - 05:44 AM I watched a documentary on the "National Enquirer" and in the closing stages - even ex-staff were agog at the overt political bias in the 2016 election. And the closing text said: "In 2018, federal prosecutors granted immunity to David Pecker and AMI for admitting the company made illegal payments to influence the 2016 presidential election" And the programme had already delineated the connection between Pecker and Trump. If I remember rightly, Trump was a director of one of the AMI companies. Yes, it is a shit publication, but influential, particularly to its demographic. Be afraid America, be very afraid. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Mrrzy Date: 25 Jun 20 - 05:04 PM AhA! I knew I'd made a blicky. Anyway, if it's behind a paywall, I've pasted the text into that other thread, thinking I was pasting it here. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Mrrzy Date: 24 Jun 20 - 04:24 PM This was in the Juneteenth/independence thread... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/06/could-joe-biden-pick-barack-obama-as-his-running-mate-yes-but/ Blicky. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: EBarnacle Date: 24 Jun 20 - 12:58 PM NY held its primary yesterday. AOC has won the primary for her seat in a Blue district. Other results are notyet reported due to slow counting of absentee ballots. Lady Hillary and I have mailed in our NJ absentee ballots, checked off for Sanders. We know that Biden has won the nomination. Having said that, Sanders' delegate representation at the [virtual] convention will give him input on the platform. Trump is doing a wonderful job of shooting himself in the tongue. I sent a not to Biden HQ suggesting that, if Agent Orange does his usual incoherent job in the first debate, they should move to eliminate the other two out of pity for both Trump and the public. Trump wants more debates but that would be a total waste of the public airwaves. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Mrrzy Date: 24 Jun 20 - 11:32 AM I saw a reported poll with B > T by 14 pts |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: keberoxu Date: 24 Jun 20 - 11:28 AM A possible harbinger of the big election in November: so many absentee/mail-in ballots that in some of yesterday's races, it may be upwards of a week before counting is definite. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: Mrrzy Date: 23 Jun 20 - 04:40 PM Yup. I voted absentee a while back, but I walked my absentee ballot in myself. |
Subject: RE: BS: 2020 national election, USA From: keberoxu Date: 23 Jun 20 - 03:22 PM It's another Super Tuesday of primary elections. |