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I'm sure anyone who cares about Hunter Biden having his taxes investigated for Chinese business links is just as interested in the $200000 Trump paid in taxes to China from an undisclosed bank account...

Yeah, fair, I only saw your reply to vliiakram after I posted. Although I would say that whilst there's a lot of anti-Semitism in the US right, I don't think it's a big enough issue for them that it would be a reason not to vote for someone anymore than them simply being a Democrat.

The 12 days of Christmas. I swear I never see stuff about them during the actual 12 days of Christmas (25th Dec - 5th Jan). For instance there's a twitter account I follow that is currently on Day 8 of their 12 Days, but what are they going to do from the 13th-24th? Just stop two weeks before Christmas, or go for another 12 days? Just get it right!

It's a bit more complicated than that. American Protestantism, in particular South Evangelicalism, has a wierd death cult element to it (more so than other religions before anyone says anything), in that they believe for the second coming of Jesus to happen (and therefore the apocalypse/rapture in which they get taken to heaven) requires the Jewish people to have a homeland in Israel, which results in a strange type of Zionism in which they are simultaneously anti-Semitic and pro-Israel. So voting for a Jewish person only really becomes an issue when they don't align with the rest of the platform i.e. Bernie Sanders. This is also partly why the US government is so pro-Israel, as those hard right Christian communities have such a massive influence on the way the US is run, particularly the Republican party.

Retiring their entire academy in his honour.

He does it all the time, I hate it. Not sure if he gets away with it because he's England captain or because football doesn't take dangerous play seriously enough.

I would say they don't want VAR scrutinising their decisions, so are making a farce of it on purpose.

As someone who wanted VAR, I still want it in the sport, but PGMOL need to be binned off, get rid of all of them and start again. Give some rugby refs a crash course in the rules of football. Anything but get rid of PGMOL.

Absolutely this is on the FA/PGMOL, two organisations that for some reason have just stubbornly refused to learn from any other sport or try to improve themselves.

He's offside because Ogbonna has pushed him, so why the **** didn't we get a penalty?

I'm a bit fed up of Klopp's moaning, but this reporter on BT is being a right nob about it, happy to see Klopp not put up with it.

Genuinely think that the reason VAR is so shit in England is because the refs are dragging their feet on it so much and almost trying to make it as shit as possible. There doesn't seem to be as much controversy over it in European competitions or at the World Cup. It's an absolute joke that penalty was given after ours was overturned last week. Also, how come Brighton got to so much added time when we didn't even get our full 4 minutes?

This could've gone in the Virus thread or Things that cheer you up as the story that made me think of this is actually pretty funny, but the Magna Carta pisses me off, or more how people just don't actually know what it is piss me off. How can so many people think that what is essentially a peace treaty (that was ignored by both sides) between a King and some Barons from 800 years ago when most people were peasants is any way applicable to the modern day or can override modern laws? And then how stupid do you have to be that when you're told that's not what the Magna Carta means and it doesn't apply to you, that you still bang on about it?

"In short, 2020’s map continues to reflect a striking split between the large, dense, metropolitan counties that voted Democratic and the mostly exurban, small-town, or rural counties that voted Republican." From the think tank's website about that image. Also relevant:

And a censored version of Fairytale of New Yrok will still be played. Edit: not censored, a radio friendly version with different lyrics for those lines.

I wonder if anyone complaining about that would have an issue with, for example, WAP by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion being played on Radio 1 completely uncensored?

Winks for Henderson, that will solve everything

Feels harsh to say this after 10 minutes as he's only 17, but Bellingham has been shit so far.

Grealish off?

You unselfish prick Jack

Half expecting him to pass to Grealish and then just stand still watching him soon.

My biggest worry is more that another team would be willing to pay more than the release clause, so City trigger it then sell him immediately to make a bit of profit, rather than them buying him back to go in to their squad.

One of the biggest attractions of Trump was always "he's different", something that also applied to Bernie from the other end of the political spectrum. The Democrats wouldn't have picked up as many Republicans with Bernie, but I think a lot of what Bernie spoke about would have taken some of the disillusioned crowd that Trump attracted. Didn't Bernie get an ovation from a Fox Town Hall crowd during the primaries? When he put his ideas out there, people clearly liked them. The problem with Biden wanting to go back to "normal" is that "normal" is exactly what led so many voters to Trump, if the Democrats offered an actual alternative, they could have easily chipped away at his support, although 2020 may have been too late, I think 2016 would've been the prime time for Bernie to run.

Wasn't that the game we played a back four made up entirely of RBs? That's if you include Chester as he played RB at West Brom.

It wouldn't last, without a Villa thread they'd have nothing to talk about.