Donald Trump

[Bjornebye]

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/15/politics/north-carolina-mail-in-ballots-black-voters/index.html

 

Most corrupt country on the planet. 

[Pete]

59 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/15/politics/north-carolina-mail-in-ballots-black-voters/index.html

 

Most corrupt country on the planet. 

Basically a third world country barring a few major cities on both coasts. 

[TheHowieLama]

4 minutes ago, Pete said:

Basically a third world country barring a few major cities on both coasts. 

[Jairzinho]

4 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

At least a few of them resemble the developed world, no?

[Brownie]

5 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Wow I never knew that.

[Brownie]

I’ve only been to the States once and it really surprised me. I was in Delaware for work and it was so different to what I expected.

[TheHowieLama]

3 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

At least a few of them resemble the developed world, no?

The folks on the edge or in the middle?

[TheHowieLama]

4 minutes ago, Brownie said:

Wow I never knew that.

Economically the difference is probably even bigger.

The State of California is the 5th biggest economy in the world - my guess is that 75% of that is within 100 miles of the coast.

 

Florida is the 16th largest economy in the world.

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

The folks on the edge or in the middle?

 

 

 

[Section_31]

Explains a lot though doesn't it? It's two different countries. If you live somewhere where you can drive for 10 hours and not see another living soul, your opinion on stuff like guns is gonna be very different from someone who lives in the suburbs of a big city.

[Jennings]

I recently drove across Utah into Phoenix, through Monument Valley passed the Grand Canyon. It was my first trip to the US. In the UK my Sat Nav says stuff like "In 400 yards, take the first exit at the round-about then immediately left then keep right." On my drive through the US it said "Turn left in 174 miles."

 

Was an amazing trip though. 

 

 

[Section_31]

Used to work with an American lad, one of the nicest, gentlest people I ever met even though he looked dead hard, like a white version of Odd Job. 

 

Poor bastard had come from Minesota to Speke as he'd married some bird off the internet.

 

He went home for a few weeks and brought some snaps back with him. Him and his entire family, including nan, were decked out in camouflage gear, including caps and combat pants and holding rifles for a day out hunting. You could see his eyes glazing over looking at the pics just wishing he was back there chasing elk of whatever the fuck.

[Jennings]

Haha. I know what you mean.

 

We went into a bar. The windows had that opaque glass squares thing that some places have when they don't want you to see how bad it is inside.

One of the squares had been shot through with a gun. A sign on the window warned that firearms aren't welcome inside. Another sign said "Liberalism is a mental health condition". Everyone inside was dressed just as you have described.

 

We walked in looking like like Denholm Eliiot in tThe Last Crusade. "Hullo. Does anyone in here speak English...or Ancient Greek?".

 

There was a Karaoke going on. They all sang Tammy Wynette songs...or songs about dead dawgs...a serious Country and Western theme. My mate signed us up...to sing 500 miles by the proclaimers.    

[Bjornebye]

14 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Used to work with an American lad, one of the nicest, gentlest people I ever met even though he looked dead hard, like a white version of Odd Job. 

 

Poor bastard had come from Minesota to Speke as he'd married some bird off the internet.

 

He went home for a few weeks and brought some snaps back with him. Him and his entire family, including nan, were decked out in camouflage gear, including caps and combat pants and holding rifles for a day out hunting. You could see his eyes glazing over looking at the pics just wishing he was back there chasing elk of whatever the fuck.

You’d get someone from a prison in Guatemala reminiscing with glazed eyes if you moved the fucker to Speke 

[Captain Turdseye]

Programme about Trump starting on BBC2 in a minute. First of a three part doc about his presidency so far. 

[Chip Butty]

25 minutes in and yes, we're not wrong, he's a tit. 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

He's going on about a possible extrajudicial killing of an anti-fascist protestor. 

 

He did always have a bone for Duterte though. 

[Chip Butty]

That was an hour that flew by. His precedence was/is, as chaotic as you'd imagine. Perception is, he's a willy wonka showman character in a world of politics, with a large dose of JR Ewing and Mr Bean for good measure.

 

 

[Captain Turdseye]

55 minutes ago, Chip Butty said:

That was an hour that flew by. His precedence was/is, as chaotic as you'd imagine. Perception is, he's a willy wonka showman character in a world of politics, with a large dose of JR Ewing and Mr Bean for good measure.

 

 

The second episode was up on iplayer straight away. Surely there’ll never be anything like him as POTUS again, so in some ways I’ll miss him when he’s gone. 

[Section_31]

It would just top our year if Biden got covid and died in the next two weeks and Trump responded with a thumbs up on Twitter.

[Pete]

In 1998 I spent 8 weeks in travelling cross the USA. I went from New York City to Los Angeles via the North of the country and then back to NYC via the South & then to weeks going from NYC down to Atlantic City (went in the drumpf Taj Mahal hotel & casino which was really tack, even for a casino), on to DC then up to Niagra, before heading to Boston and then back to NYC. 

I loved my trip around the East Coast (lot of my musical heroes are from round there) & the journey from NYC to LA via the north of the country was amazing. The scenery constantly changed and the people for the most very friendly and welcoming (and the ladies love a British accent old boy!).  However once we got 75% across it's noticeable how bland the terrain gets, all flat and increasingly desert like barring a few places.  Loved San Francisco & northern California but once in LA and then heading back to NYC via the south it really is a totally different place. Definitely more places to avoid and there where more folks who were 'ignorant' about the world outside their front porch. 

I do love many things about the US & when the world settles down a little I'd love to go back to Chicago, San Fran & up to Washington State. I can see why drumpf won last time given my experiences in '98. I can also see why he holds such sway with his base, what I can't fathom now is why people who voted for him last time would vote for him again.  

Hope the cunt gets crushed at the ballot box and if he does appeal, he gets laughed out of court. He's not just dangerous to the US, he's now dangerous to the entire world. 

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

Record numbers of women and black people voting already.

 

Good stuff.

[Section_31]

I'm gonna call it now, I think he's gonna get trounced, like a historical drubbing. 

 

Reading about the rise in demand for Scottish independence yesterday, and I think when the shit hits the fan like with Covid it prompts a desire for change, it's just an instinct that 'nothing could ne worse than this', same when the British public booted Churchill out after the war. 

 

Even if Trump wasn't nuts and was handling Covid as best as he reasonably could, I think tumultuous times still breed a desire to flip the script and see what happens. 

[Bruce Spanner]

9 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

I'm gonna call it now, I think he's gonna get trounced, like a historical drubbing. 

 

Reading about the rise in demand for Scottish independence yesterday, and I think when the shit hits the fan like with Covid it prompts a desire for change, it's just an instinct that 'nothing could ne worse than this', same when the British public booted Churchill out after the war. 

 

Even if Trump wasn't nuts and was handling Covid as best as he reasonably could, I think tumultuous times still breed a desire to flip the script and see what happens. 

 

Texas is close, if Biden can, insanely, take Texas it's all over because of the fucked up way the election works.

 

Ohio can go fuck it's self.

 

I'm starting to agree, but I've been burnt before...

[cloggypop]

It might be the worst song of all time but good on you, Phil

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/phil-collins-trump-in-air-tonight-cease-and-desist-b1067579.html?utm_content=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1602840125