Rayvin

If that's the case, surely Sanders can best him then? I'm not trying to challenge here per se, what you're saying sounds encouraging and we really do need Trump gone no matter what.

Yeah I think he's undefeatable indeed. Reality doesn't matter anymore, only that your side wins. And that poll a few days ago demonstrates that Americans are better off now than they ever have been or whatever it was. The democrats will ruin it for themselves because Bernie will take off, the centrists will panic and try to destroy him thus pissing off all the left wingers who would vote for him to the point where they just chuck it in and don't bother - so your centrist has to beat trump with the centrist vote alone as the left concludes they're two sides of the same coin and that it has to win the war in the democrat party before it takes on the war for the nation. Trump wins by being more right wing than the centrist, who desperately has to backpedal to try and win those disillusioned left wingers over, probably by talking about how horrifying trump is. It won't matter though because they'll have had to demonstrate unremitting cuntery to take out Sanders, the left wont budge, and ultimately it'll all end in tears.

That got an actual belly laugh from me, thanks for that

Might just take them some time. There are a considerable number of members. Also possible that they've assumed that since you're in NI, you'll go for Keir no matter what due to his FOM stance.

Me too - replied and was then asked if I wanted to man phone lines. Yeah, not that committed to this thanks.

It'll be interesting to see how the centrists try to destroy him over the next few months. I do kinda feel like they will have watched how our lot did it to Corbyn and then roll out the same kinds of approaches. I still believe it doesn't matter whatever happens. In fact they may as well let him have this one. No one they've got is going to unseat Trump.

I mean, frankly, yes.

She sounds hugely unstable. She attacked her boyfriend with a lamp to the head while he was sleeping and it sounds like she may have tried to glass him as well. And then the subsequent court nonsense and media scrutiny has apparently been too much for her. He seems to have kind of stuck by her, weirdly. I don't really understand people but it sounds like she needed help and didn't get it. RIP.

I am not as sure as you are...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/15/bernie-sanders-democratic-centrists-alarm “You’re going to absolutely see significant money behind centrists, moderates, whatever, to defeat Sanders,” said Democratic strategist Andrew Feldman. “Bernie is absolutely going to see intensified scrutiny. He was never in this position of the frontrunner in the 2016 race, and you’re going to see things from a long career come out that people are gonna go after.” They're going to Corbyn him. So long Bernie... you'll be a terrorist sympathising antisemite before the year is out.

https://observer.com/2012/04/mayor-bloomberg-says-living-wage-bill-reminds-him-of-communist-russia/ Tbf to him though (and I concede I missed this first time around), this appears to have been said in 2012. So it's been dredged up now by the progressive wing to throw at him from a voting perspective. It's all over their channels. So it's not really super relevant unless he still holds those views.

On a separate point, everyone's favourite moderate Michael Bloomberg has equated the payment of a $10/hr minimum wage, applicable only in NYC, and only to companies who receive certain levels of government support - with communism. God help America, seriously. Some of these democrats really are to the right of the Tories. Not just through pragmatism, but in principle.

It's possible they might just let PSG get away with it because they're about as likely to win the CL as we are. And they're about the only serious team France has. I don't think this will stick anyway, when it goes to independent arbitration, City will come out swinging.

Apparently his relationship with Johnson has soured rapidly. Reports of him slamming the phone down on us over Huawei, along with our concerns over Iran (did we say anything remotely interesting about Iran??). Doesn't bode to well for the amazing trade deal.

The UK will probably be one option.

@Andrew Happy birthday mate

Agree. But ultimately this is the fault of the airline for trying to cram an extra row of seats in at the back.

Still voting Starmer.

You fucking agreed with me anyway

God I can almost believe that I would have said that

it helped in some ways. It did I think, 2 hours is a decent sign for an interview.

And the democratic party will be fearfully doing everything in their power to stop him I think he would have won last time but that it was his Corbyn moment. This time I'm concerned it will be his Corbyn wipeout. At some point AOC will run, and then we'll really see the whites of the Democratic party's eyes..

I've just spent several days being grumpy because of an existential crisis, a presentation I had to give for a job interview at 7.30 in the morning yesterday, and the subsequent lack of sleep that I had in the days before. I fixated on the nurses thing as a distraction. I'm just weird, basically.

Why has it changed already? I thought nothing changed until the end of the year. Also, I agree on some analysis he's being serious, but what the hell did he expect? How can any Brexiter possibly not have seen this shit coming.

I suspect this is actually, unironically, the full truth^