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Post by Liiisa on Feb 10, 2024 14:00:54 GMT -5
This thing of Joe being old is absurd - I mean yes, he's ridiculously old, but so is the Menace -- and Biden's more fit than I am and he's always talked like that. The media isn't talking about how completely incoherent the Menace is these days - they just continue with this "Biden is old" thing. I do think Biden needs to go to a hairstylist, though - get a better cut, do something subtle with blonds and grays.
I love Gretchen but I really don't think a woman is going to get a majority in this political atmosphere. I agree about Kamala, though; my mom was like "ugh I don't think I can vote for Biden because Kamala," and I was incensed, like -- so you think the Menace would be a better president than someone who was an acclaimed Senator? Oh right, she's female and brown.
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Post by Q-pee on Feb 10, 2024 17:58:40 GMT -5
I severely underestimated him... or maybe over estimated the US people. (Clearly spent too much time with the smart ones) Ha! That reminds me I was shocked when Bush was re-elected because all the Americans on TTWT were against him. But they were smart well educated and well traveled and not necessarily representative. Just remembered ... from the 80s... I was working at a science research institute in NZ and we had someone from the US working on her PhD. Reagan was president, I asked her something about how elections work in the US and her response was "I don't know how he got elected, I don't know anyone who voted for him" And at the time he was kind of in favour because he was ending the cold war so I wasn't really asking about Reagan. (not exactly but I can't remember details and it's far too late at night for me to Vinny this) |
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Post by Q-pee on Feb 10, 2024 18:08:00 GMT -5
The only stuff I've seen that's against Kamala is that she doesn't do anything.
She's not supposed to... she's not the headline act.
And if she did a lot she'd get grief for being a pushy woman.
One more way in which women just cannot win.
PS: The US has been dropping on the assessment year by year of gender equality and is now behind Colombia, Belarus, Mexico, Burundi and 37 other countries.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 10, 2024 18:31:11 GMT -5
Exactly - the VP is often behind the scenes. The only reason we saw so much of Biden during the Obama administration was that Obama needed an older, experienced [white] guy around to convince people he knew what he was doing.
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Post by Q-pee on Feb 11, 2024 4:43:59 GMT -5
And you never saw Pence, apart from that one day when he did the right thing.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 11, 2024 7:33:17 GMT -5
All I remember about him is that and the pre-election VP debate against Kamala when that fly landed on his head and just stayed there.
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Post by Q-pee on Feb 11, 2024 7:37:08 GMT -5
All I remember about him is that and the pre-election VP debate against Kamala when that fly landed on his head and just stayed there. Yes, so the fly is more memorable than the whole man  |
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 11, 2024 8:03:19 GMT -5
Well, I was on Twitter a whole lot in those days....
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Post by psw on Feb 11, 2024 11:58:55 GMT -5
That fly got lots of great memes!
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 11, 2024 14:13:15 GMT -5
And comments like "If that fly laid eggs in Mike Pence's hair he better f*ing carry them to full term."
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Post by vinnyd on Feb 11, 2024 14:51:37 GMT -5
Alaska has ranked choice voting.
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Post by lisamnz on Feb 11, 2024 15:26:30 GMT -5
Of the three Ivanka seemed the smartest... but oh boy... Everything is relative. The first time I remember the orange menace coming onto my radar was when he was married to Ivana and the women's magazines here were doing articles about her enormous collection of shoes. kneazle, Christine Fletcher was one of the best mayors I ever worked with (this was before amalgamation, ACC days). I don't agree with her politics generally, but she did a fantastic job of building consensus or at least a strong majority on issues amongst her council. People don't realise that the mayor doesn't need to be (shouldn't be) this very strong leader, they need to be someone that can bring all the factions together and negotiate compromises. |
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Post by kneazle on Feb 11, 2024 15:31:20 GMT -5
People don't realise that the mayor doesn't need to be (shouldn't be) this very strong leader, they need to be someone that can bring all the factions together and negotiate compromises. I always had a lot of time for Christine Fletcher. The current mayor doesn't seem to be someone who can bring people together. He seems to just piss them off. |
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 11, 2024 19:06:22 GMT -5
I’m angry with our mayor this morning for dismissing the urgent need for social housing on local radio. He’s telling people to be patient. When they’re living in cars and tents, or on couches? We haven’t had a decent mayor since the woman teacher everyone supported.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 13, 2024 21:13:35 GMT -5
election for santos vacant seat tonight
close race
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 14, 2024 6:13:01 GMT -5
NYT called it for the Democrat, which is heartening. His opponent was an anti-immigration immigrant, which is always an interesting look.
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Post by sprite on Feb 14, 2024 6:14:28 GMT -5
I believe in incel circles, that's what they call a simp.
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Post by Q-pee on Feb 14, 2024 14:33:23 GMT -5
Very pleased for New York.
Especially as a by election usually goes against whoever has most power.
The anti-immigrant/anti-EU politician in the UK is married to a German (and their children have Brit and German passports), the anti-immigrant politician here is married to a Hungarian.
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Post by sprite on Feb 14, 2024 17:59:29 GMT -5
i thought our UK freak got divorced?
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Post by tzarine on Feb 14, 2024 19:28:47 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 14, 2024 19:40:56 GMT -5
Horrible. A friend in my other internet tribe has friends who were there, and only just now learned that they're ok. Everyone was all so joyous that KC had won, and then this bullshit happens
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Post by kneazle on Feb 14, 2024 19:43:08 GMT -5
I've said it before - if Sandyhook didn't get gun laws changed, nothing will.
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Post by Q-pee on Feb 15, 2024 2:42:41 GMT -5
I've said it before - if Sandyhook didn't get gun laws changed, nothing will. Imagine if the "pro life" extremists were actually pro life |
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Post by kneazle on Feb 15, 2024 3:03:31 GMT -5
I've said it before - if Sandyhook didn't get gun laws changed, nothing will. Imagine if the "pro life" extremists were actually pro life A clump of cells in a uterine wall for a few weeks = sacred. 5 - 7 year old children 'well if the teachers had guns...' |
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Post by Q-pee on Feb 15, 2024 3:09:16 GMT -5
Some states want to give human rights from the moment of conception. So it's not even a clump of cells in a uterine wall at that point, it's one cell, floating down a fallopian tube.
(Georgia might already have passed this and it's proposed for Florida)
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Post by jimm on Feb 15, 2024 6:02:01 GMT -5
Sometimes I think "The Handmaid's Tale" was a documentary.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 15, 2024 6:47:35 GMT -5
It's got nothing to do with actual life, or the Bible, or anything else. It's about power. The Republicans learned back in the 80s that abortion was a nice way to get a certain flavor of Christians to vote for them and give them money.
Nixon was actually pro-choice until he was convinced that maybe not being pro-choice would help him get elected. Same with Rump.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 15, 2024 7:43:20 GMT -5
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Post by sprite on Feb 15, 2024 7:52:58 GMT -5
Bonkers, isn't it?
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Post by kneazle on Feb 15, 2024 14:56:02 GMT -5
It's got nothing to do with actual life, or the Bible, or anything else. It's about power. The Republicans learned back in the 80s that abortion was a nice way to get a certain flavor of Christians to vote for them and give them money. Nixon was actually pro-choice until he was convinced that maybe not being pro-choice would help him get elected. Same with Rump. I've often wondered how many abortions the orange menace has paid for. I'd guarantee it's more than 0. |
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