NurembergVillan Posted October 22, 2020 Moderator Share Posted October 22, 2020 Probs worth keeping an eye on this - 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrusr Posted October 22, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted October 22, 2020 1 minute ago, NurembergVillan said: Probs worth keeping an eye on this - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted October 22, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted October 22, 2020 5 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said: Probs worth keeping an eye on this - Over under on how many people are watching this versus how many people are watching Maxwell herself and her propensity to come herself to death by proxy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 22, 2020 Moderator Share Posted October 22, 2020 Quote President Trump’s Twitter accessed by security expert who guessed password “maga2020!” Tech Crunch Headline is all you need really but the article's official responses to the "hack" leave more questions than answers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 Mitch McConnell looks like he’s been in the ring with Mike Tyson. Quote Questions raised about pictures showing severe bruising on his hands and some around his mouth https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/23/mitch-mcconnell-health-hands-bruising Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXD Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 16 hours ago, LondonLax said: Mitch McConnell looks like he’s been in the ring with Mike Tyson. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/23/mitch-mcconnell-health-hands-bruising He’s old, old people bruise like that when they trip and fall. I don’t think this is something important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 Expensive bit of trolling going on in Times Square 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted October 25, 2020 Author Share Posted October 25, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted October 25, 2020 Author Share Posted October 25, 2020 There's a madman in the White House Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 12 hours ago, sne said: Expensive bit of trolling going on in Times Square They’re not too happy about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 To avoid too many Twitter quotes: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted October 25, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted October 25, 2020 I'm sure the analogy has been made somewhere before, but living in Trump's America is like the ending of the Matrix trilogy. Agent Smith has taken over every person, is everywhere and his persona keeps increasing exponentially. You just can't escape Trump, his noise, his chaos, his administration's inept attempts to govern, which is really an attempt to cover up their lust for power, enriching themselves at the trough whilst remaining in the good graces of a narcissist by being sycophants. It's exhausting, and honestly feels like some sort of psychological warfare being unleashed on us. I imagine the two years leading up to Brexit in the UK felt the same. Inescapable, endless discussion, endless news items, endless opinions and "hot takes." Fear, uncertainty, anger. It's relentless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 I can't imagine living in it. Im so tired of it and don't want to engage or follow because the it's so stupid. Just hope he lose big and some normality comes back. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted October 25, 2020 Author Share Posted October 25, 2020 Royal MAGA 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted October 25, 2020 Author Share Posted October 25, 2020 Actually, she might be an Aussie, I can't tell. Either way, she's a racist lunatic from Hell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 2 hours ago, NoelVilla said: Just hope he lose big and some normality comes back. I can't see normality whoever wins. Unfortunately the US is a shit show at the minute. Shame as I have absolutely loved my 4 visits there. Things change in 20 years though, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted October 25, 2020 Author Share Posted October 25, 2020 10 minutes ago, maqroll said: Actually, she might be an Aussie, I can't tell. Either way, she's a racist lunatic from Hell She has an iMDB page- She's from Surrey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted October 25, 2020 Author Share Posted October 25, 2020 (edited) Some poignant articles from the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/opinion/sunday/trump-country-2020-election.html?searchResultPosition=1 this weekend Quote LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. — For 20 years, off and on, I’ve lived in this small, blue-collar town about 30 minutes west of Cincinnati. My grandparents, immigrants from Germany, bought my old farmhouse, on 15 acres, during World War II. I’ve always felt that this town embodies much of what I love about the Midwest: friendliness, a lack of pretension and a prevailing sense of decency among neighbors. A few weeks ago, I met up with a good friend, an 84-year-old retiree named Frank, who lives nearby. He told me that he’d put up a “Biden-Harris” lawn sign, and within 36 hours it had been stolen. In response, his girlfriend taped another sign to the inside of their ranch home’s front window. Frank immediately took it down. “The chair I like to sit in is right there,” he explained. “The next time they come, I’m afraid it might be a brick, or a bullet.” Just a few years ago, I would have said that Frank was overreacting. Now I’m not so sure. Over the past four years, my hometown has become radicalized. This is a loaded word, but it’s the only way to describe it. As recently as 2008, I saw Bill Clinton speak at our community center, where the crowd was so large that people had to listen to him from loudspeakers in a nearby firehouse. The mood was electric. “People are broke at the end of every month,” he said. “This has to change.” He promised that with Democratic leadership, it would. An aggressive new energy policy would bring jobs, with higher incomes. And this promise was very welcome. At the time, the best job I could find was at a call center, selling home security systems. But I felt hopeful. I stuck an Obama sign in my yard and a campaign bumper sticker on my old Corolla. Like a lot of my neighbors, I believed that Democrats would, in fact, improve the town’s fortunes, and on election night, Barack Obama carried the state. But things didn’t improve. Not really. The latest census reports median household income in Lawrenceburg as $30,735, with a little over 32 percent of us in poverty. And in 2014, according to The New York Times, our small county (which is over 97 percent white) sent more people to prison than San Francisco. In January, our hospital cited a “higher number of uninsured patients” as a reason it needed to “right-size” its work force by laying off 31 employees and eliminating behavioral health services. And there are darker omens. Last fall, my teenage nephew came running into the house, wide-eyed, saying he’d found a human skull in the woods. I followed him until, panting at the bottom of a ravine, I saw the skull trapped in a thicket of sticks and leaves, missing several of its front teeth. The police arrived, and for the rest of the night, I watched from my bedroom window as flashlights swept over the long grass, through the woods, until they were finally swallowed by darkness. It was an overdose, an officer told me later, the victim most likely another casualty of the nation’s opioid epidemic. (In 2017, in this county, there were 80 opioid prescriptions for every 100 residents.) The young man seemed to have died higher up on the hill, where they found more of his remains. The rain must have washed his skull down the slope. The skull felt like a portent, but also a turning point. Months later, I noticed a vendor at a roadside stand selling Trump flags. “Trump 2020: Keep America Great,” one read. Another read “Trump 2020: No More [Expletive].” It was more than half a year away from the election, and I remember thinking: Why flags? A flag was something people fought under, and for; something people carried to war. By the summer, another vendor popped up selling flags with even bolder slogans like “Trump 2020: [Expletive] Your Feelings,” “Liberty or Die,” “Make Liberals Cry Again.” The economy was in the dumps but the flag business was booming. And not just Trump flags. In the past few months, I have seen three Confederate flags hoisted in neighbors’ yards, where previously I’d seen none. Just a few weeks ago, two masked men appeared outside our high school, holding a large KKK flag and fliers, apparently scouting for young recruits. At times, all of this has felt like a horror movie, where it starts off happily enough — in a sun-drenched, idyllic farmhouse — and then the darkness slowly takes over. The change has occurred so slowly that at times, I hardly noticed it, until one day I barely recognized my hometown. Last week, I drove down for a closer look at the nearest Trump stand, where alongside the flags hung Trump T-shirts. One read, “I’m a Deplorable.” And it reminded me of my grandparents, of how they felt while still in Germany: willing to work as hard as anyone but seeing no way to improve their circumstances. In my more charitable moments, I can see my neighbors’ xenophobia and racism and their Trump-loving thuggishness as symptoms of alienation from people who feel forsaken and disdained. This is, perhaps, the part of me that still feels deeply connected to where I live. But I’ve been appalled by the ugliness I’ve seen here this past year. And more often, in the dwindling autumn light, I find myself staring at my grandparents’ old farmhouse and wondering if it’s finally time to pack my bags. 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bickster Posted October 25, 2020 Moderator Share Posted October 25, 2020 3 minutes ago, maqroll said: She has an iMDB page- She's from Surrey. Definitely sounds like an Aussie, not a hit of British in there. She writes books on serial killers and claims to be an investigative journalist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 42 minutes ago, maqroll said: Some poignant articles from the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/opinion/sunday/trump-country-2020-election.html?searchResultPosition=1 this weekend Good read, thanks. IMO really shows how much the Obama admin **** it by not rolling out a much bigger stimulus in 2009 when they had the chance. There's a clear connection there between the enthusiasm for a new dawn after the crash, and then the disillusionment of continued decline (combined with the opioid crisis). There's a lesson here for a hypothetical Biden administration - don't mess around with the stimulus and underpower it. Learn the lesson that people like having money spent on them and go big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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