Donald Trump

[Renton 21250]

18 minutes ago, Ayatollah Hermione said:

I think we’d all worry if we got terminal cancer but we don’t spend all day worrying that we MIGHT get it one day. I think that’s the distinction.

 

I think the saving grace in that fucking insane country is that, often, whoever gets in is just one cheek of the same arse but it’s more the implications on the rest of the planet I’m worried about. But things glided along on a knives edge last time and probably will again while the world burns 

 

Don't most people worry about their cancer risk occasionally? I'm getting a PSA test and I'm a bit worried tbh. Maybe 8m the only one who worries about things I can't affect, but I doubt it. At least I admit it. 

[Holden McGroin 6500]

While I do think that plays a part the orange cult has a big following. I was hoping the days of celebrity politicians died with this election and BoJo fucking off but it looks we've got another 4 years

[Kevin Carr's Gloves 3809]

1 hour ago, Renton said:

 

This is akin to victim blaming. Blame the woman for being weak and not the rapist. It's not the Democrats who are to blame here and their educated urban voters. It's the fascist, mysognystic, racist Republican Party led by Trump and voted for by gullible rural Hill Billies. 

This is the worst thing anyone has posted on here in years, likening an act of democracy to rape is a fucking disgrace and you should fuck off for a while and maybe ask a woman.

[Toonpack 9193]

3 minutes ago, Holden McGroin said:

While I do think that plays a part the orange cult has a big following. I was hoping the days of celebrity politicians died with this election and BoJo fucking off but it looks we've got another 4 years

 

It's received a turbocharger sadly

[Ayatollah Hermione 13788]

3 minutes ago, Renton said:

 

Don't most people worry about their cancer risk occasionally? I'm getting a PSA test and I'm a bit worried tbh. Maybe 8m the only one who worries about things I can't affect, but I doubt it. At least I admit it. 

Not in my case. I do what I can to keep healthy how I can but that’s more for general upkeep. I’m not sitting there going “This food will limit my chance of cancer. This vitamin will help stop chances of a stroke. This walk will help my heart” You do it because it improves the general quality of your life and body, not because you’re desperately trying to build a flood wall against specific disease. If your body is going to succumb to something, it will. Luckily for you, I imagine you get regular check ups and things would be caught early doors anyway

[ewerk 30235]

6 minutes ago, Holden McGroin said:

While I do think that plays a part the orange cult has a big following. I was hoping the days of celebrity politicians died with this election and BoJo fucking off but it looks we've got another 4 years

 

Spot the spelling mistake.

[Holden McGroin 6500]

Just now, ewerk said:

 

Spot the spelling mistake.

[Craig 6682]

6 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

Well done, America.

 

We can debate how stupid they are from our ivory towers. Ultimately it was won on the economy. Inflation has brought down a ruling party and it did for the Democrats.

 

Could they have won with a different candidate?  I thought Kamala was impressive but again it appears the yanks aren’t ready for a woman president. Would a strong male candidate have made a difference? I doubt it. The truth is most US voters don’t really care if Ukraine falls or what an emboldened Russia means for Europe. They care about food prices. 

I think her being part of Biden's administration likely didn't help with the electorate. As soon as it was clear Biden was stepping aside it needed someone completed disconnected from what they had. 

I don't think it comes down to her gender, I think a lot of it comes down to the fact Biden has been pretty much an uninspiring President who has little to show for his tenure. 

[RobElliott 1471]

41 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

Yep a much more sensible approach would he to spend the day worrying about a nuke landing on my forehead or a flood washing away my house. That's the way to live. 

Or Everton getting relegated

[Gemmill 44325]

1 minute ago, RobElliott said:

Or Everton getting relegated

 

I was talking about things I CAN'T control. 

[Renton 21250]

5 minutes ago, Kevin Carr's Gloves said:

This is the worst thing anyone has posted on here in years, likening an act of democracy to rape is a fucking disgrace and you should fuck off for a while and maybe ask a woman.

 

Its a simile not a literal comparison mate. As in blaming Harris, and not Trump, for what is about to happen. To suggest I have in some way insulted the victims of rape is utterly ridiculous. 

[Renton 21250]

5 minutes ago, Ayatollah Hermione said:

Not in my case. I do what I can to keep healthy how I can but that’s more for general upkeep. I’m not sitting there going “This food will limit my chance of cancer. This vitamin will help stop chances of a stroke. This walk will help my heart” You do it because it improves the general quality of your life and body, not because you’re desperately trying to build a flood wall against specific disease. If your body is going to succumb to something, it will. Luckily for you, I imagine you get regular check ups and things would be caught early doors anyway

 

Why is everyone being so literal today? 

 

 

[Toonpack 9193]

[Kevin Carr's Gloves 3809]

3 minutes ago, Renton said:

 

Its a simile not a literal comparison mate. As in blaming Harris, and not Trump, for what is about to happen. To suggest I have in some way insulted the victims of rape is utterly ridiculous. 

Fuck off

[ewerk 30235]

1 minute ago, Toonpack said:

 

 

@Christmas Tree , get this on a mug immediately. This time next week you'll be a millionaire from Toontastic sales alone.

Edited 3 hours ago by ewerk

[Renton 21250]

6 minutes ago, Craig said:

I think her being part of Biden's administration likely didn't help with the electorate. As soon as it was clear Biden was stepping aside it needed someone completed disconnected from what they had. 

I don't think it comes down to her gender, I think a lot of it comes down to the fact Biden has been pretty much an uninspiring President who has little to show for his tenure. 

 

I think gender is a big issue for Americans, it does appear to be mysogynistic country. CLinton, now Harris. They appear to want "strong" leaders which the majority associate with being male. I don't think we will see another female candidate in our life times unfortunately (I am assuming for now there will be another election which I am not sure of). 

[Dr Gloom 21804]

1 minute ago, Craig said:

I think her being part of Biden's administration likely didn't help with the electorate. As soon as it was clear Biden was stepping aside it needed someone completed disconnected from what they had. 

I don't think it comes down to her gender, I think a lot of it comes down to the fact Biden has been pretty much an uninspiring President who has little to show for his tenure. 

Biden’s inflation reduction act was a transformative piece of legislation, creating billions of investment into clean energy industries of the future and reshoring thousands of high-skilled manufacturing jobs - that’s his legacy.
 

The problem was a failure to communicate with voters. A perfect example is Georgia, one of the states which benefited most from IRA jobs and investment turning blue. This is legislation even climate-change denying Trump won’t overturn. States won’t want to say goodbye to those subsidies and the inward investment created by the IRA. 

 

It’s the economy, stupid. The price of everything has gone up and that usually means the incumbent falls. Inflation did for the Dems

[Renton 21250]

3 minutes ago, Toonpack said:

 

 

This looks like fucking religious shit which is the cause of the current problem, as usual. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Renton

[Kid Dynamite 6986]

2 hours ago, PaddockLad said:

 

Number 4 is a key point. A big chunk of the electorate don't want a sensible leader. They want someone outlandish who says stupid stuff that makes for good quotes on social media. That's why Boris was popular. And that's why Farage is growing in popularity. 
 

Labour need to get on board and start promoting some of the younger members of the party with a bit of personality. I've got no doubt that Starmer will steady the ship, but whoever shouts loudest at the next election is more likely to win 

[ewerk 30235]

1 minute ago, Renton said:

 

 

This looks like fucking religious shit which is the cause of the current problem, as usual. 

 

I thought if anyone would have been familiar with the AA mantra it would have been you.  

[Dr Gloom 21804]

1 minute ago, Renton said:

 

I think gender is a big issue for Americans, it does appear to be mysogynistic country. CLinton, now Harris. They appear to want "strong" leaders which the majority associate with being male. I don't think we will see another female candidate in our life times unfortunately (I am assuming for now there will be another election which I am not sure of). 

It is of course a sexist country but you have to wonder what so many American women were thinking, given what’s at stake. I thought the abortion issue could have swung it Kamala’s way. 

[Renton 21250]

2 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

Biden’s inflation reduction act was a transformative piece of legislation, creating billions of investment into clean energy industries of the future and reshoring thousands of high-skilled manufacturing jobs - that’s his legacy.
 

The problem was a failure to communicate with voters. A perfect example is Georgia, one of the states which benefited most from IRA jobs and investment turning blue. This is legislation even climate-change denying Trump won’t overturn. States won’t want to say goodbye to those subsidies and the inward investment created by the IRA. 

 

It’s the economy, stupid. The price of everything has gone up and that usually means the incumbent falls. Inflation did for the Dems

 

Agreed it was the economy and bad communication, but regarding the latter, I don't know how a modern progressive political party can adapt to the new communication landscape dominated by bad actors. 

I mean let's not rewrite history here. Until this morning, it felt like Harris had run a good campaign. What should she have done differently? 

[The Fish 10695]

28 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

My lass washes everything before it goes in the recycle bin.

 

I need to take her to the tip one day so she can see how fucking spick and span they keep it. 

I'll rinse stuff off, but that's so the recycling bin doesn't start to smell.

[Renton 21250]

1 minute ago, Dr Gloom said:

It is of course a sexist country but you have to wonder what so many American women were thinking, given what’s at stake. I thought the abortion issue could have swung it Kamala’s way. 

 

Me too, I convinced myself of it. Not just abortion, there are states now where they are finding it hard to recruit obs and gynae consultants meaning woman's helathcare and child birth is compromised. 

[The Fish 10695]

2 minutes ago, Renton said:

 

Agreed it was the economy and bad communication, but regarding the latter, I don't know how a modern progressive political party can adapt to the new communication landscape dominated by bad actors. 

I mean let's not rewrite history here. Until this morning, it felt like Harris had run a good campaign. What should she have done differently? 

Been born a straight white, cis, old, man?