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No. My support is conditional. One of my conditions is that you must not commit genocide or ethnic cleansing. Doesn't seem like a particularly controversial line in the sand to draw either.

I had a conversation with 2 chaps who were convinced that disabled veterans were going homeless because of illegal immigrants. They had read it in the daily mail and there was no convincing them otherwise. They were also convinced that they had to keep Starmer out or this terrible situation would be made worse. The current lot were considered bad, but the alternative in their eyes was to be avoided at all costs. It was so frustrating talking to them. Then again they were self employed tradesmen who have had most of their competition ejected from the country so for them everything is peachy.

Yet to suggest reversing this decision despite it being proven beyond doubt to be based on lies, is still heresy in mainstream politics.

I was staying at my uncles house a while back, and his solution was to drop a nuke or 10 and turn the whole area into glass. Then anyone who wants to live there can move in if they still want to. It's not a position I agree with. It does seem difficult to see how mankind survives though. We seem determined to keep turning to slaughter each other, to keep a rictus grip on our little bit of a world that dies faster the tighter we grip. It's really quite mad. We are all knife fighting on an inflatable dinghy.

They deserve to be in the mud. They have consistently given reds for far less, happily contradicting the on field ref (DCL as one example from many) and they let a really blatant red go. No excuses on this one. Incompetence again.

One man no vote.

Watched episode 1. Found it pretty boring tbh. Not as dumb as some of the writing has been elsewhere, but it really struggles to get me to care therefore little to no engagement. I turned on American Gangster again rather than watch episode 2. I'll probably come back to it when really struggling to find anything good.

Sadly this barely covers just how batshut crazy this woman is. She literally took part in Jan 6th riots, she was the one dementedly talking through the door of AOC's office telling them to come out and the same woman who said if she had been organising it they would have been armed and successful. A proper horror story human.

Is Bruno Guimaraes really as lumbering and slow as he looks today? He tracks back like he is dragging a plough behind him.

It's already well established that there are some restrictions on who can run and who cannot. You already sited the born in the USA rule, you would also have to be over 35. The both sides argument on this on is really either you are in favour of the rule of law or you are not.

This does my head in. Unless specifically instructed to delete the messages they will all be sat in a data center somewhere. With end to end encryption Meta should genuinely not be able to read the messages themselves so technically cannot hand over the conversations even if they should wish to do so. In this case as the access to the messages was apparently inadvertently lost, then retrieval should in theory be done with the permission of the owner of the data and the process will not be contentious at all. Just activate the account on any device and any undeleted messages will be there. Of course we know the loss was not really inadvertent, but at least we could move the conversation on to the destruction or deliberate concealment of the evidence rather than pretending this obvious BS has any credibility. I'm confused why they have not asked Meta to retrieve the account and cannot understand at all why any journalists have not asked about this.

That was full of stunning facts. Just rams home just how nuts they have been financially

He's a selfish clearing in the woods and a 100% grifter. Even with 12 of the same suit I don't think he would let anyone cut one up when he could just get them to use a roll of cheap ass material and post it out. His charity was fake, his university was fake, his suit will be fake too.

I'd bet good money that the bit of suit that actually turns up is not from the actual suit he wore.

Also Biden is funding and supplying the huge majority of the military aid to allow Ukraine to fight against Russia. Hardly the act of a person scared of Putin. It is the Trump MAGA clearings in the woods that are blocking the latest aid package. If Trump has had his way he would let Putin march across Europe

Trump has bravado, but it is all show. When push comes to shove he is a coward. Watch any of the meetings between the two from Trump's time in office and you can see the dynamic. His own sister describes him as a scared little boy in a man's body who uses aggression and bullying to hide is own inadequacies. Like most bullies he is a weak man inside. I don't want nuclear war, but to see Putin as anything other than he is, is a folly. So far negotiating with him is just giving him time to prepare his next act of aggression before tossing all the negotiated agreements in the bin.

Trump was Putin's little bitch. Trump was terrified of him and did what he was told. I'm not sure that counts as a good relationship. Biden treats Putin like the enemy of the USA and NATO that he is, which unsurprisingly means a more hostile relationship.

Yep, it is a fascinating story, and you have it right, that technically they should not be cutting a deal like this, but they did it anyway effectively to save the USA. It is a story really well told here: Bagman There is a bit of Watergate precedence being used by Jack Smith at the moment, with the Supreme Court being asked to look urgently at Trumps claim of "Presidential Immunity". There are so many echoes of Watergate at the moment, it is well worth having a listen. Although Agnew wasn't a part of Watergate, he was just doing other criminal things at the same time.

It's the exact deal they offered Spiro Agnew during Watergate to prevent him from becoming President after Nixon.

It already is Fascist IMO, it is becoming Orwellian. They are literally legislating that reality isn't what we can see with our eyes reality is what they tell us it is. Proper 1984 stuff.

Why YouTube is better than the BBC. The guy is a QPR fan and he actually did some research.....!

I don't watch any right wing media, I do however recall what he promised and what he has actually achieved. I've never said he has done nothing, but in comparison to the size of the promise he has managed very little and what he has achieved has been so compromised that it has very little actual impact. The main promises that seemed to impact the lives of normal people were to my mind: 1. Raise the minimum wage to $15 2. Forgive student debt 3. Codify Roe v Wade All 3 he has failed completely on. According to the the linked promise tracker (below) he is tracking at about 27% promises kept. That is a failure any way you cut it. Biden promise tracker And why has he failed so much or had to compromise so heavily? Just take a look at Joe Manchin and how he has ripped the heart out Biden's agenda. Has Manchin faced any sanction, or any pressure? Nope, he just keeps voting with the GOP and Biden holds up his hand and says there is nothing he can do. I want Biden to win more than most, but his failure is not a right wing talking point, it is a matter of fact.

The Republican debates are basically a Trump buttkissing exercise in a race to come second to the orange Jesus. Chris Christie is the only one not using the debates as an audition to be VP, so the talking points there are totally untethered from reality as Trump would demand. The reason Biden is failing is partly his age and obvious decline, but it is mostly because he has failed to deliver against almost all of the agenda he promised in the last election. All he has competently delivered is for his donors, not for the electorate. He has maintained a status quo that the majority are not happy with. He is a hard man to vote for because, despite not being awful, he has failed and who wants to vote for more of that? He is still light years better than Trump though

You believe he would go?

What's even crazier is that the polling suggests Trump has a decent chance of winning the election when it happens. The guy is literally standing to be the last democratically elected president of the USA. For the race to be close with everything we know about Trump demonstrates just how broken America is right now.