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AcrossthePond55 · 2023-10-04T12:20:13+00:00

Roll up, roll up for the GOP Mystery Tour!! Trump thread lost-the-count!!!

AgingDisgracefullyHere · 22/01/2024 08:58

Well, we're waiting for it. It may be this week.

BruceAndNosh · 22/01/2024 08:03

What's happening with the Immunity issue with the DC appeal court? The media consensus expected a fairly quick decision, it's been nearly 2 weeks.

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AcrossthePond55 · 22/01/2024 00:24

I think De Santis has actually been 'prepping' for 2028. And that Trump has just cinched the nom. GOP isn't going to nominate a woman.

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AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 21/01/2024 21:05

DuncinToffee · 21/01/2024 20:28

DeSantis is ending his presidential campaign, which leaves Nikki Hayley as the only major challenger to Trump in the Republican New Hampshire primary.

What a lot of money has been wasted on his campaign! But he wouldn't have spent it on anything worth having if he hadn't frittered it like that, I suppose.

greenacrylicpaint · 21/01/2024 20:35

I've started to appreciate nikki hayley.

but she will come up against 'anyone but a woman' which sadly is still a thing.

DuncinToffee · 21/01/2024 20:28

DeSantis is ending his presidential campaign, which leaves Nikki Hayley as the only major challenger to Trump in the Republican New Hampshire primary.

DuncinToffee · 19/01/2024 21:20

Zelensky to Trump on C4 news today

Donald Trump, I invite you to Ukraine, to Kyiv. If you can stop the war in 24 hours it will be enough to come.. I mean, who knows. Maybe Donald Trump really has an idea to stop the war"

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 19/01/2024 19:24

Trump (in a recent post) wrote "I defeated ISIS, Rebuilt our Military, and brought our soldiers back home."

Where did he bring our soldiers home from? The troops from Syria were re-deployed to Iraq immediately; where else? Because it does look a bit as if he is admitting that he was the one who was responsible for the disastrous pull-out from Afghanistan.

Other than that he seems not to have reduced US commitments abroad: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/trump-didnt-shrink-us-military-commitments-abroad-he-expanded-them And that one example, he left lying around for someone else to have to do.

Roussette · 19/01/2024 05:40

A very scary read ...if Trump got in...

www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/trump-2024-democracy-fascism/

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AcrossthePond55 · 18/01/2024 17:11

@Lizzieregina

but there’s no primary in place for the Democrats. I don’t know if they can just randomly nominate someone without the public having a choice.

There are primaries for the Democratic party, the dates vary state to state. They start 28 Jan and the last one is 8 Jun. My state's is in March.

The nomination is done at the Convention in August where each individual State's delegates, the number of which is based on population, vote for the candidate chosen via the primary election. They're supposed to vote for that candidate, but it has been known to happen that a delegate votes for a different candidate (highly frowned upon).

Some primaries are 'winner take all', some are proportional for each candidate.

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AcrossthePond55 · 18/01/2024 16:59

Spandauer · 18/01/2024 11:05

My partner (US citizen living in U.K.) does think Biden could pull out when the time is right. They think the Dem candidate could end up being someone like Gretchen Whitmer (Gov of Michigan) but also thinks that there is zero chance that Michelle Obama would run.

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I agree that Michelle has no interest in being POTUS.

But I doubt very much that Joe will pull out for someone else. It would take a candidate whose popularity and political 'chops' give poll numbers that soar into the stratosphere and we just don't have anyone like that right now. There are plenty of possibilities; Newsom, Buttigieg, Whitmer, Harris to name a few. But none of them can swoop in with the 'numbers' to push Joe off the catbird seat. Maybe if they'd gotten in the race early on Joe could have gracefully said he didn't want to run for a 2nd term and backed one of them but I think it's too late for that now.

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Lizzieregina · 18/01/2024 13:20

DuncinToffee · 18/01/2024 10:01

Is there any truth in the stories/rumours that Michelle Obama could be replacing Biden as presidential candidate this summer?

I would be very shocked if Michelle Obama ran for President. She’s always been very vocal that she would not be interested in doing so.

If Trump were somehow not the nominee, I don’t think Biden would care to run, but there’s no primary in place for the Democrats. I don’t know if they can just randomly nominate someone without the public having a choice.

Spandauer · 18/01/2024 11:05

DuncinToffee · 18/01/2024 10:01

Is there any truth in the stories/rumours that Michelle Obama could be replacing Biden as presidential candidate this summer?

My partner (US citizen living in U.K.) does think Biden could pull out when the time is right. They think the Dem candidate could end up being someone like Gretchen Whitmer (Gov of Michigan) but also thinks that there is zero chance that Michelle Obama would run.

DuncinToffee · 18/01/2024 10:01

Is there any truth in the stories/rumours that Michelle Obama could be replacing Biden as presidential candidate this summer?

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 17/01/2024 17:59

We could all start spreading the rumour that it's the pre-Christian sign for the Hammer of Thor, and spread a little alarm and despondency among his followers!

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AcrossthePond55 · 17/01/2024 17:55

SequentialAnalyst · 17/01/2024 16:29

@AcrossthePond55

Like the sign of the cross, with only the across and down bit. The impression I got the first time, when I wasn't sure of what I was seeing, was of a bishop surreptitiously blessing his congregation. The gesture was made quite low, at his side, most people would have been focussed on his face.

As I say, the other day when I thought I saw similar, I rewound and rewatched, and was convinced enough to wonder whether there is a kind of Trump handsign going around, for those in the know, started by the Orange One himself.

I know I sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I dismissed the first case as me seeing things, until I noticed the (seemingly) second recent instance.

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I checked the Southern Poverty Law Center's webpage on 'hate signs' and didn't see it there as far as a 'hate group' sign, but who knows? Maybe it is 'T for Trump'. I wouldn't put it past either him or the cult to start some 'secret handshake' or whatever.

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SequentialAnalyst · 17/01/2024 16:40

I'm really only suggesting he makes a hand sign of T (for Trump) to his supporters. A perfectly innocuous thing to do.

Usually I was listening to what he was saying,; only occasionally did I sometimes look at his incredibly small hands.

SequentialAnalyst · 17/01/2024 16:29

@AcrossthePond55

Like the sign of the cross, with only the across and down bit. The impression I got the first time, when I wasn't sure of what I was seeing, was of a bishop surreptitiously blessing his congregation. The gesture was made quite low, at his side, most people would have been focussed on his face.

As I say, the other day when I thought I saw similar, I rewound and rewatched, and was convinced enough to wonder whether there is a kind of Trump handsign going around, for those in the know, started by the Orange One himself.

I know I sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I dismissed the first case as me seeing things, until I noticed the (seemingly) second recent instance.

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AcrossthePond55 · 17/01/2024 16:03

@SequentialAnalyst

You mean like the old anti-evil eye/anti-hex sign? That's weird, unless it's now starting to mean something to white supremacists.

If I thought it would work, I'd go to one of his rallies, make eye contact, and mutter like Snape during the Quidditch game just to scare the shit out of him.

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BruceAndNosh · 17/01/2024 16:01

And the bleeding obvious has only just occurred to me.
Trump and Habba are still whining about "having to choose between attending court or funeral". Um, Trump and Melania KNEW that he was scheduled in court this week, why didnt they arrange his MIL's funeral for NEXT week?

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AcrossthePond55 · 17/01/2024 15:58

BruceAndNosh · 17/01/2024 14:06

It's slightly chilling that Trump turned up in court for jury selection but left before opening statements. It's almost like he just wanted to psych potential jurors...

I think it's to show the cult that he is 'having' to show up to court when he should be on the campaign trail.

That's part of the '2024 election fixing witch hunt' plot you know, to keep him from campaigning and away from the cameras in order to 'silence his message'.

And the scary part is....they're buying it!!!

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BruceAndNosh · 17/01/2024 14:06

It's slightly chilling that Trump turned up in court for jury selection but left before opening statements. It's almost like he just wanted to psych potential jurors...

SequentialAnalyst · 16/01/2024 23:01

I have just seen the New Teeth. They are Terrifyingly White (my lettings agent before my recent move turned up one day with new, blinding white, teeth and I found them Terrifying as well).

Way back, when Trump was running for President the first time round, I thought I saw him sort of surreptitiously giving the sign of the cross. Forgot about this till I saw a clip of him last night, and saw him doing something similar again. Rewound, rewatched, and I think he is giving the Sign of the T(?)

I'd happily give him the Sign of the V.

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AcrossthePond55 · 16/01/2024 22:59

Roussette · 16/01/2024 19:05

How bloody depressing.

Slurred speech could be new teeth or a stroke or a mini stroke as you say. He's so unfit, I do just wonder how he still manages to string a sentence together

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Cocaine? Worked for him in the '80s

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AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 16/01/2024 22:03

Too many.