Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
My thoughts are with David Lammy at this difficult time.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,052
Sending hundreds of Labour suppporters to campaign for Kamala AND the BBC reporting that Musk was 'not invited due to his social media posts' to the recent investment summit in Jocksville takes a special kind of stupid - as does today's comment by the Mayor of London.
** And what the Hell does 'pro-climate' mean ???????????????????
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,868
As Trump comes across being completely the wrong personality to be in charge of the USA i am not surprised at the above reaction from someone like the Mayor.
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Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 438
I’m honestly bewildered by the fact that people were surprised by the result in the US. The east and west coast always vote very differently from middle America. I’d have been astonished if they had elected a woman. Generally speaking Americans are very conservative and the majority don’t hold passports or travel outside the USA. The Democrats may have had more chance if they had selected a male candidate to stand against Trump. Perhaps Michelle Obama may have been in with a shout but Kamala Harris has been part of the very unpopular Biden administration- she was a weak choice.
Europeans may not like Trump and call him all sorts of things but Americans see that he’s pro American and they have a very different attitude and approach towards the electoral process.
I guess time will tell. I’ve been fascinated by the coverage despite the outcome.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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“History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” – Mark Twain
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"And She Would Have Gotten Away With It Too, If It Weren't For Those Meddling Voters"
With apologies to Scooby Doo.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,255
Captain Haddock wrote:Here's some graphs - hopefully outside the Economist's pay-wall
unfortunately not.
Arte et Marte
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,052
Yes. Yes. Yes. Excellent stuff! AND he's got a fox-hunting print in the background
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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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
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,052
The last time I got like this I woke up with a dreadful hanngover and found out I'd ordered shed loads of random stuff from Amazon!
https://news.sky.com/video/kamala-harris-shares-a-message-to-supporters-on-x-13261737"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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MY SON HUNTER
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15481952/
Naomi Fry of The New Yorker called the film "an amateurish, often batshit, if very occasionally vulgarly amusing satire-cum-thriller-cum-melodrama-cum-propaganda-organ, which switches between modes with the head-spinning unexpectedness of a Surrealist cutup."
just put in password MSH
My Son Hunter Screened on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/745208862"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
Really, aren't the many publicly available photos of the depraved dealings of the decrepit Biden family enough?
Besides, I refuse to have my memories of the dishy DI Hathaway sullied.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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- Posts: 8,052
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,868
I cannot help but wonder if Elon Musk will be a runner next election time.
Will Trump have another go after wanting or even claiming to go down in history as ending the Zelenskyy Ukrainian war with Putin.
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,255
Jan Higgins wrote:
Will Trump have another go after wanting or even claiming to go down in history as ending the Zelenskyy Ukrainian war with Putin.
Two strikes and you are out, in the White House play park. So no from Trump. Musk is possible but I don't think he would be interested. He knows it's all charades and Charlatans.
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Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,705
Muak cannot (currently) stand for POTUS as he was not born in the USA
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"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,868
Thanks for the information Reginald and Ross, I have trouble fully remembering and understanding the ins and outs of US politics.
Musk will have to be content with having power in the background while keeping his face towards the cameras.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
