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American Election

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Frank Castle, Nov 4, 2020.

  1. Storck

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    If that is true then people would have been sacked before he left office for defying an order from the President
     
  2. BradfordBanter

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    What are you actually telling me to get real for? Get off your high horse. It was trending on twitter and is in major news outlets so I thought I'd share it.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-he-requested-10k-national-guard-troops-at-capitol-on-day-of-riot
     
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  3. Faithful Bantam

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  4. BradfordBanter

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    I agree, it's pretty wild stuff.
     
  5. Faithful Bantam

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    Imagine being 'the worlds leading superpower' and having the best political representatives you can muster being Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
     
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  6. BradfordBanter

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    Sorry state of affairs really, sounds like Trump is leaning towards running for the next election too. The world is a bit of a scary place at the moment, it's almost like social media has polarized the electorate and they'd rather have a celebrity/personality running the country than a good person with solid policies...
     
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    I’m not sure America has ever been more polarised, other than perhaps for the period of the Civil War. The left moves further left, the right, further right and any attempt at compromise, civil discourse or the willingness to ‘agree to disagree’ has been almost completely eroded.
     
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  8. JonButterfield

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  9. ConnecticutBantam

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    Not really even sure there is much of a left here. Genuinely. Both parties would be classed as right of center in the UK. Scary really. If people wanted real change/or there was a left-of-center party they would've voted Bernie. Mental Biden is in power bloke can hardly string a coherent sentence together. I'm not talking about his politics but about his physical nature. He's 78 years old - genuinely feel somewhat sorry for him.
     
  10. Faithful Bantam

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    I can't believe he was allowed to run tbh. You're obviously closer to the political landscape than I am - though the colleges and Universities look to have a clear left leaning to me. I have family who emigrated to near Boston around 25 years ago. They now have teenage children who attend University and as someone who's right of centre in my own outlook, some of their ideas and language I find terrifying. Maybe I'm just getting old.
     
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  11. Tony Wilkinson

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    Same here. I have a nephew now an american citizen over there, he was shouting for Biden up to the election, if his dad (my brother) was still alive he wouldn't half be having a word with him...
     
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    America would be better off with the Rock or Captain America in the White House.
     
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    Give it time! :joy:
     
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    I quite like the idea that America would be run by a super hero with a shield. Would make more sense than watching an election battle with two old fruitcakes in their 70s. And most yanks would actually believe a super hero could save them all.
     
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    Don't disagree with anything you've said in all honesty. The issue out here is as soon as anything even remotely left-wing is mentioned it's 'communist' and that seems to scare the life out of everyone. Mental really as the covid relief checks are a pretty liberal idea. But again - people don't seem to really understand policies - only buzz words. It's one of the reasons Trump's first campaign was so successful.
     
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    Americans think anyone to the left of Ghengis Khan is a communist.
    Well, they would if they'd ever heard of Ghengis Khan.
    It's pathetic really. There's nothing even vaguely approaching communism in the USA, but even wet liberals like Biden get them foaming at the mouth.
     
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    I think Biden is a bit of a tit to be honest. But thats another discussion in itself.
     
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    Possibly so, but he's certainly not a communist.
     
  19. Idlebantam

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    Sleepy Joe continues to bumble on I see.

    He stumbled 3 times as he boarded Air Force One yesterday, falling to his knees at one point. This after referring to Kamala Harris as President Harris earlier in the day.

    Earlier in the week he labelled Putin as a killer, which must have nearly started a new Cold War with Russia as Putin recalled their Washington ambassador.

    Sleepy Joe might be a nice man, but surely, he is unfit to be the President of the USA?
     
  20. Faithful Bantam

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    He won't see a year in office. Harris was always primed for the gig
     
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