Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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My whole family think there will be an assassination attempt even though we all hope it will not happen.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Jan Higgins wrote:My whole family think there will be an assassination attempt even though we all hope it will not happen.
It would indeed be most odd if there was not some nutter somewhere who wished ill of the most powerful (and one suspects the most highly protected) person on this planet!
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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All this could have been avoided if the Liberal Washington establishment hadn't foisted a candidate that the public simply disliked and distrusted. Should Bernie Sanders have been selected then he would have had great appeal to the left behind blue collar workers who effectively gave Trump power.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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- Posts: 23,940
a ring doughnut would have been a better candidate.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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As the leader in this week's Speccie puts it so well:-
Through his bombastic language and taunting 3 a.m. tweets, the US President has perfected the art of winding up his critics to the point that they begin to sound even less reasonable than him.
Thus he ensures that, while he will never convince many Democrats that he is their president, support among his own supporters remains solid, and independent voters grow wary of his opponents.
Trump built his candidacy around the conceit that a war needs fighting against the liberal elite that has lost bearing on reality, and that elite seems only too keen to prove him right.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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While you are wondering how such a sophisticated and well educated electorate could vote for Trump have a look at this!
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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But the French, as ever, are so far ahead of the Swedes when it comes to vehicle scrappage schemes!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/02/almost-1000-cars-torched-around-france-new-years-eve-government/
(FWIW the remarkable thing to me is that if either of these events had happened in the UK all the mainstream media would be full of how it's a sign of 'the end of Western Civilisation as we know it' which it isn't.
Other countries seem to take a much more mature and sanguine approach to these matters whereas we love a good old 'moral panic' be it about Mods and Rockers, illegal drugs or a handful of mad right wingers marching on the docks!)
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
John Buckley
- Registered: 6 Oct 2013
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And this is a good example of why people would be inclined to elect a "Trump" type leader! ( and I don't blame them! )
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/21/british-man-launched-isil-suicide-attack-guantanamo-bay-detainee/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_em
How much longer is this appeasement to terrorists going to continue? This is an absolute insult to honest law abiding people of this country who simply have a job just to get by while getting clobbered left right and centre with direct and indirect taxes whilst our so called " government " redistributes what it thieves off us to pass on to low life's like this deadbeat. He didn't have to play the lottery did he?!
Does it surprise me? ...........Not in the slightest!
Will it continue? ..........of course it will!
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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This reminds of the conversation of two Muslim ladies over the garden fence and they ask each other about their sons and one opines how difficult it was to keep track of them as they blow up so fast nowadays.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,819
Banning part of the media from the official Press Briefings amounts to press censorship which is not a good thing.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The main problem with Trump is he has the backing of people like the KKK, Breitbart and Putin, our leaders are much more careful with the company they keep.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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That bloke pointing his finger sitting at Nigel's dinner table looks vaguely familiar.
