Interesting 'elision' there 'If you hate America/Israel'.
This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
- Count Steer
- Posts: 11743
- Joined: Mon Jul 19, 2021 4:59 pm
- Has thanked: 6345 times
- Been thanked: 4729 times
Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
- Count Steer
- Posts: 11743
- Joined: Mon Jul 19, 2021 4:59 pm
- Has thanked: 6345 times
- Been thanked: 4729 times
Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
PS. Estimates are that 1/5th of Americans are illiterate/functionally illiterate. Yet, they can vote. (Don't laugh, similar estimates in Europe put the figures there at 1/3rd - they have a vote too).
So. Get used to the people in charge having been put there by the illiterate/functionally illiterate as they swing the vote. Get used to politicians trawling for the votes of the people that can't tie their own shoelaces. Murdoch twigged it years ago. Welcome to the wonders of democracy. In the end the stupids will run the world (boom!) and Trump is a glorious advert for that.
Fact.
So. Get used to the people in charge having been put there by the illiterate/functionally illiterate as they swing the vote. Get used to politicians trawling for the votes of the people that can't tie their own shoelaces. Murdoch twigged it years ago. Welcome to the wonders of democracy. In the end the stupids will run the world (boom!) and Trump is a glorious advert for that.
Fact.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
- Dodgy69
- Posts: 5424
- Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2020 6:36 pm
- Location: Shrewsbury
- Has thanked: 1741 times
- Been thanked: 2065 times
Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
You never know, they might get more done.
Yamaha rocket 3
- Count Steer
- Posts: 11743
- Joined: Mon Jul 19, 2021 4:59 pm
- Has thanked: 6345 times
- Been thanked: 4729 times
Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
Well it's an idea. It's not working out too well at the moment though.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
- Horse
- Posts: 11471
- Joined: Sun Mar 15, 2020 11:30 am
- Location: Always sunny southern England
- Has thanked: 6123 times
- Been thanked: 5036 times
Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
That one'll never get old
Even bland can be a type of character
-
- Posts: 13860
- Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2020 7:57 pm
- Location: Milton Keynes
- Has thanked: 2545 times
- Been thanked: 6199 times
Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
Back in the really good old days it'd have been more like only 1/5 could read at all and they did OK.
I suppose back then you also couldn't vote if you were a woman, black, Jewish, poor, had your eyes to close together...
I suppose back then you also couldn't vote if you were a woman, black, Jewish, poor, had your eyes to close together...
- Count Steer
- Posts: 11743
- Joined: Mon Jul 19, 2021 4:59 pm
- Has thanked: 6345 times
- Been thanked: 4729 times
Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
Not much excuse for being illiterate in the UK now though.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 7:07 pm Back in the really good old days it'd have been more like only 1/5 could read at all and they did OK.
I suppose back then you also couldn't vote if you were a woman, black, Jewish, poor, had your eyes to close together...
Before 1832 you couldn't vote if you didn't own property or pay certain taxes. There were also things like 'rotten boroughs'...not sure they were really good old days but giving votes to people that don't have a clue what they're voting for or whose votes are simply bought is a bit
I'd also be a bit tempted to eliminate people who can't be arsed to vote too. Couldn't be bothered to use your vote the last two times you could have - local, national, referendum? Bzzzzzt! If it means nowt to you, you don't have one.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
- gremlin
- Posts: 5875
- Joined: Wed Jul 08, 2020 3:12 pm
- Location: Kent (AKA God's own country)
- Has thanked: 802 times
- Been thanked: 4727 times
Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
I think there is much to be said for benevolent dictators...
All aboard the Peckham Pigeon! All aboard!
- Pirahna
- Posts: 1934
- Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2020 7:31 pm
- Has thanked: 1804 times
- Been thanked: 1157 times
Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
Wifey has no interest in politics she just asks me who we're voting for. Which reminds me, I need to register to vote.Count Steer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 7:32 pm giving votes to people that don't have a clue what they're voting for
Last edited by Pirahna on Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:02 pm, edited 1 time in total.
-
- Posts: 13860
- Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2020 7:57 pm
- Location: Milton Keynes
- Has thanked: 2545 times
- Been thanked: 6199 times
Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
Especially when they tell you to say it.
- Count Steer
- Posts: 11743
- Joined: Mon Jul 19, 2021 4:59 pm
- Has thanked: 6345 times
- Been thanked: 4729 times
Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
Well that seems fair enough. Another triumph for Emmeline Pankhurst and the battle for women's suffrage.Pirahna wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:01 pmWifey has no interest in politics she just asks me who we're voting for. Which reminds me, I need to register to vote.Count Steer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 7:32 pm giving votes to people that don't have a clue what they're voting for
(I did know someone who said she'd vote for Ted Heath because 'he's cuddly'. I don't think she'd have thrown herself under the King's horse for the right to do that though).
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
- ZRX61
- Posts: 5100
- Joined: Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:05 pm
- Location: Solar Blight Valley
- Has thanked: 1481 times
- Been thanked: 1392 times
Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
I would imagine the morons who elected Biden & promptly saw 30% wiped off their pension funds are having second thoughts about their choices... especially given the rise in their pension funds under Trump (+40%).
- ZRX61
- Posts: 5100
- Joined: Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:05 pm
- Location: Solar Blight Valley
- Has thanked: 1481 times
- Been thanked: 1392 times
Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
There is nothing benevolent about Biden.
- mangocrazy
- Posts: 6801
- Joined: Tue Dec 22, 2020 9:58 pm
- Has thanked: 2383 times
- Been thanked: 3571 times
Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
He's also not a dictator. And there's nothing benevolent about Trump, either.
There is no cloud, just somebody else's computer.
- wheelnut
- Posts: 2199
- Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2020 4:36 pm
- Has thanked: 901 times
- Been thanked: 988 times
Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
Correlation is not causation.
-
- Posts: 3710
- Joined: Sun May 03, 2020 10:11 pm
- Has thanked: 260 times
- Been thanked: 1254 times
Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
Isn’t that still a 10% gain?
- ZRX61
- Posts: 5100
- Joined: Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:05 pm
- Location: Solar Blight Valley
- Has thanked: 1481 times
- Been thanked: 1392 times
- ZRX61
- Posts: 5100
- Joined: Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:05 pm
- Location: Solar Blight Valley
- Has thanked: 1481 times
- Been thanked: 1392 times
Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
Name another US President who used the Justice Dept to silence his opposition & attempt to remove him from ballots?mangocrazy wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:49 pm He's also not a dictator. And there's nothing benevolent about Trump, either.
- ZRX61
- Posts: 5100
- Joined: Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:05 pm
- Location: Solar Blight Valley
- Has thanked: 1481 times
- Been thanked: 1392 times
Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
Raging inflation*
War on the energy/oil industry
Multiple interest rate increases.. which directly impact the stock market & therefore pension funds
Increase in mortgage rates has crippled the ability of people to buy homes etc (2% under Trump, now 8%)
*Biden quotes "Core inflation"... which doesn't include energy or food costs.. so is absolutely meaningless bullshit. True inflation in the US is running at least 20%.. & over 100% on many food items.
- wheelnut
- Posts: 2199
- Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2020 4:36 pm
- Has thanked: 901 times
- Been thanked: 988 times
Re: This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...
All of that applies to the Uk along with most of the developed world. Is that Biden’s fault as well. The economy will do what it does. The governments can tinker with it but they can’t control it.ZRX61 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 11:06 pmRaging inflation*
War on the energy/oil industry
Multiple interest rate increases.. which directly impact the stock market & therefore pension funds
Increase in mortgage rates has crippled the ability of people to buy homes etc (2% under Trump, now 8%)
*Biden quotes "Core inflation"... which doesn't include energy or food costs.. so is absolutely meaningless bullshit. True inflation in the US is running at least 20%.. & over 100% on many food items.