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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 3, 2024 15:17:30 GMT
This opinion piece would have been more forceful had the writer pruned it down in order to focus more on his main point. Nevertheless, it presents some compelling points and numbers: Kamala Harris may be our only hope.
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Post by lugg on Jul 3, 2024 18:51:26 GMT
I read that article today and tbh ( as a non US citizen who really has no right to comment) I agree with the writer.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 3, 2024 19:39:30 GMT
One thing that K. Harris has going for her is that she is perceived of having done so little as vice president that she has no strikes against her personally for any future job.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 3, 2024 20:01:44 GMT
Lugg, you do have a right to comment for the same reasons European leaders felt free to comment on France's election. All of us will be affected in some manner by the actions of our allies. Kamala Harris is popular with some voters, but many remember her poor showing when she presented herself as a presidential candidate. She has botched, or at least appears to have botched some of her tasks as VP. I think the main things she has going for her are that she has some fans among Democrats, that she can use Biden's campaign funds, and that there are people who would vote for anything or anybody to keep Trump out of the White House. theweek.com/in-depth/1023057/kamala-harris-vice-presidential-track-record
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Post by htmb on Jul 11, 2024 17:43:27 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 11, 2024 18:00:10 GMT
They should probably set up checkpoints to keep out the riff raff.
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Post by htmb on Jul 11, 2024 18:47:49 GMT
That will be next.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 12, 2024 0:20:07 GMT
That's okay about the photo, Htmb. I saw it elsewhere & initially thought it was a spoof. Ha! All this unbelievable dictatorial stuff is way beyond something we can laugh about any more.
I have a Canadian facebook friend who is relentlessly posting about Project 2025, including links to the text of the whole thing. Good for her. Hope that seeing it over & over will prompt some people to read it.
Just saw that someone quipped, "Project 2025 is a lot easier to understand in its original German."
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Post by whatagain on Jul 13, 2024 12:25:44 GMT
Biden reminds me I of Fillion.
Everyone was asking him to resign as it would have given his party a better chance to win.
Maybe. But it would not have been Him. So he stayed.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 13, 2024 15:26:52 GMT
Biden reminds me I of Fillion. Everyone was asking him to resign as it would have given his party a better chance to win. Maybe. But it would not have been Him. So he stayed. Who’s Fillion? The only one I can find is a Canadian American actor.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 13, 2024 19:31:08 GMT
Can we hope that Biden is holding on till after the GOP convention when the republicans will throw everything they’ve got at him, only to have him step aside for Kamala Harris to take over, instantly making old age Trump’s issue instead of Biden’s, and Trump’s gaffes and word salad rambles fair game for campaign ads against him? This could be fun!
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Post by htmb on Jul 13, 2024 19:40:59 GMT
That is certainly my hope. All of the above.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 13, 2024 19:50:35 GMT
Clutching and straws comes to mind.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 13, 2024 23:59:57 GMT
Shots fired at Trump rally in Pennsylvania about an hour ago. The shooter who missed his mark by millimeters, grazing Trump’s right ear, has been shot dead. One or two rally attendees are also dead. It was a sniper on a roof outside the security perimeter. Reminiscent of the JFK assassination. Except JFK was well-loved.
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Post by bjd on Jul 14, 2024 5:52:24 GMT
It's on the French news this morning. My first thought was, "Too bad, he missed." I figure Trump will turn up with a huge bandage around his head and go on about how brave he is. Of course, there will be no mention of gun control.
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Post by bjd on Jul 14, 2024 5:55:52 GMT
Who’s Fillion? The only one I can find is a Canadian American actor. François Fillon was Sarkozy's prime minister and got in trouble for hiring his wife and kids as parliamentary assistants. It was called Penelope-gate. It didn't make the political party look good but he refused to step down as its candidate for the 2012 presidential election. The right lost and Hollande was elected.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 14, 2024 6:13:21 GMT
Oh. Fillon not Fillion.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 14, 2024 9:23:14 GMT
It's on the French news this morning. My first thought was, "Too bad, he missed." I figure Trump will turn up with a huge bandage around his head and go on about how brave he is. Of course, there will be no mention of gun control. It certainly ruined his hair. But does he have your thoughts and prayers...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 14, 2024 17:41:40 GMT
Of course, there will be no mention of gun control. Precisely what I came here to say. I wonder how many of those morons diving for cover at the rally are still embracing their false reading of the 2nd amendment. “It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country,” Trump wrote.
“The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of ...” Biden said.Incredible??! Unheard of??! These two clowns want to run the country, but their grasp of history only appears to go back about twenty minutes or so! Good grief! source for quotes above
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Post by lugg on Jul 14, 2024 19:48:02 GMT
There is so much condemnation about the assassination attempt that I feel a bad person because I my first thoughts echoed bjd in that
"Too bad, he missed."
But actually on reflection I dont think that .....it is a growing problem that our elected / campaigning representatives are targets. Several MPs both in and out have posted about how unsafe they feel in public and of course I then began to think about the awful killing of Jo Cox.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 14, 2024 20:54:20 GMT
I guess I've finally joined the tinfoil hat brigade, because my instant thought was that it was staged.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 15, 2024 11:56:33 GMT
The picture with Trump his face bloodied his fist in the air and the flag behind him will enter history right next to the US Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima.
Just perfect.
Fuck.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 15, 2024 16:37:09 GMT
You said it, Whatagain!
And of course, the latest sledgehammer to democracy in the US -- that miserable incompetent, unqualified tool of a federal judge -- appointed by Trump -- has thrown out the classified case against him. Trump's lawyers, backed up by the utterly venal Clarence Thomas, claim that appointing a federal investigator was illegal.
I'm so angry & depressed I could scream.
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Post by bjd on Jul 16, 2024 6:33:02 GMT
I see I was correct about Trump's bandage (see post 254) -- perhaps not all around his head, but a huge white wad all over his ear even though it was the top of his ear that was skimmed. The hero's welcome at the convention.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 16, 2024 6:58:51 GMT
I saw pictures of his hero's welcome to the convention and wanted to barf.Gawd -- that stupid, barely attached square pad of gauze where only a bandaid was needed.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 16, 2024 16:10:13 GMT
Vincent van Trump
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 16, 2024 20:56:51 GMT
In a conversation about Bluto and his ridiculous bandage at the convention, an fb friend wrote this: "nothing on his ear when he exited the plane or his car at airport, I've read.",
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Post by Kimby on Jul 16, 2024 23:00:35 GMT
Trump’s VP pick is the worst since Sarah Palin being a heartbeat away from the presidency if John McCain - an honorable but old man - had won.
PS. Someone please tell JD to shave!
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 21, 2024 10:42:17 GMT
So Trump took a bullet for democracy and was saved by the hand of God.
Unfortunately the malicious god decided to kill a far more deserving firefighter instead which Trump and the Evangelicals seem to have conveniently forgotten/ignored.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 21, 2024 18:00:09 GMT
I just saw the newest news. Interesting. Kamala or someone else?
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