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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Keith Maitland on September 10, 2016, 05:00:40 PM
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TRUMP: I want to blow up the moon with big rockets.
CLINTON: Blowing up the moon is bad.
PRESS: “Trump, Clinton Spar Over Moon Plans”
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They'll blow up planet Earth first before they decimate the moon into star dust.
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I see Trump is boasting about how he has got around the US tax laws and paying as little as possible!
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I see Trump is boasting about how he has got around the US tax laws and paying as little as possible!
Oh, the irony.
This will give him heroic status among his supporters, the majority of whom are so low in the food chain that they have neither the opportunity nor ability to avoid any taxes at at all.
"It's only little people who pay taxes."
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Oh, the irony.
This will give him heroic status among his supporters, the majority of whom are so low in the food chain that they have neither the opportunity nor ability to avoid any taxes at at all.
"It's only little people who pay taxes."
It makes you sick to think people with modest means are paying taxes to help run that country, yet Trump, who is worth billions, thinks it fine to pay as little in tax as he can get away with! The US needs to tighten their tax laws to prevent that happening.
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It makes you sick to think people with modest means are paying taxes to help run that country, yet Trump, who is worth billions, thinks it fine to pay as little in tax as he can get away with! The US needs to tighten their tax laws to prevent that happening.
On a discussion I'm involved in, some black people reckon they are going to have a rebellion after the election and go for apartheid again.
What with that and Donald Trump, the USA could start looking like an intolerant country, where racists ( of all colours) set the agenda.
I hate to think what's going to happen, it sounds like people are getting even more extreme over there.
If I lived there I'd be thinking its time to buy my tin hat.
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On a discussion I'm involved in, some black people reckon they are going to have a rebellion after the election and go for apartheid again.
What with that and Donald Trump, the USA could start looking like an intolerant country, where racists ( of all colours) set the agenda.
I hate to think what's going to happen, it sounds like people are getting even more extreme over there.
If I lived there I'd be thinking its time to buy my tin hat.
Trump is an intolerant racist, homophobic and misogynist, a US under his rule would be very ghastly indeed.
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On a discussion I'm involved in, some black people reckon they are going to have a rebellion after the election and go for apartheid again.
What with that and Donald Trump, the USA could start looking like an intolerant country, where racists ( of all colours) set the agenda.
I hate to think what's going to happen, it sounds like people are getting even more extreme over there.
If I lived there I'd be thinking its time to buy my tin hat.
What does ' they are going to have a rebellion and go for apartheid again' mean? It seems to imply that black people will rebel and then enforce an apartheid state - which would he odd, and makes a nonsense of the 'again'?
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What does ' they are going to have a rebellion and go for apartheid again' mean? It seems to imply that black people will rebel and then enforce an apartheid state - which would he odd, and makes a nonsense of the 'again'?
The USA used to separate blacks from whites and you had bars only some people could go in, depending on the colour of your skin.
You had separate buses too.
That's what the again means.
The rebellion bit means that black people over there are very angry ( with the stuff about police shootings) and after the election some seem to be planning to riot and fight to bring back in separation.
Is that clearer now?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States
This is just one campus, i don't think the discussion I am in is students but some seem to think they got more done with segregation.
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/25748/
I think it's a horrible idea, having your life dictated to by racists of any colour doesn't appeal.
I'm just glad I live here, where you can have interracial marriage etc.
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The issue I had is that black people did not 'go for apartheid' previously. It was enforced on them. So the 'again' makes no sense.
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The issue I had is that black people did not 'go for apartheid' previously. It was enforced on them. So the 'again' makes no sense.
Ok, whatever!
But some of them want to turn the clock back.
That's my point.
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PRESS: “Trump, Clinton Spar Over Moon Plans”
So they are going to open little handy stores on the moon?
Very enterprising, I'm impressed!
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PRESS: “Trump, Clinton Spar Over Moon Plans”
So they are going to open little handy stores on the moon?
Very enterprising, I'm impressed!
I wonder what the currency is on the moon?
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http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/mooncoin/
http://currencies.wikia.com/wiki/Lunar_Republic_25_crater_coin
They could export some rare cheese too.
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Saturday Night Live's take on the debate
https://m.youtube.com/?gl=GB&hl=en-GB#/watch?v=-nQGBZQrtT0
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I see Trump is boasting about how he has got around the US tax laws and paying as little as possible!
Not to mention UK tax laws, as well!!
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In fairness, even if he does get around the tax laws, he'll still be paying an enormous amount of money in tax. He shouldn't crow about how he manages to evade paying more, it gets peoples' backs up. Most people in his position wouldn't know how it's done anyway, the accountants are the ones who work on that.
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I wonder what the currency is on the moon?
Mooney! :D
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37594918
What a wonderful President Trump would make, NOT!!!!!!!!!!! The US has had some bad ones in their time, but he would be in a league all of his own!
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37594918
What a wonderful President Trump would make, NOT!!!!!!!!!!! The US has had some bad ones in their time, but he would be in a league all of his own!
Just when you think it couldn't possibly get any worse, Trump amazes with another gem. And the scary thing is that it doesn't seem to damage his ratings.
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Just when you think it couldn't possibly get any worse, Trump amazes with another gem. And the scary thing is that it doesn't seem to damage his ratings.
It does make you wonder how daft and gullible some of the US citizens are?
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Just when you think it couldn't possibly get any worse, Trump amazes with another gem. And the scary thing is that it doesn't seem to damage his ratings.
Actually it does.
FiveThirtyEight's forecast has Hillary on an 81% chance of winning now. Just before the debate, the same figure was 55%.
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/?ex_cid=rrpromo
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Actually it does.
FiveThirtyEight's forecast has Hillary on an 81% chance of winning now. Just before the debate, the same figure was 55%.
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/?ex_cid=rrpromo
I hope that is correct.
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I hope that is correct.
Me too, Floo. thanks to JeremyP. I also heard some idiot Republican on Today this morning justifying why he was still going to vote for trump. Yuk!
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If Trump became president maybe he would bring in a law allowing guys as a right to have concubines for their delectation and delight!
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Maybe he wouldn"t :o
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It does make you wonder how daft and gullible some of the US citizens are?
Here's one that isn't ... http://tinyurl.com/hbmklma
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Actually it does.
FiveThirtyEight's forecast has Hillary on an 81% chance of winning now. Just before the debate, the same figure was 55%.
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/?ex_cid=rrpromo
We can but hope.
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Here's one that isn't ... http://tinyurl.com/hbmklma
Good for him.
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Can I apologise on behalf of reasonable Christians for this plonker....... http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/phil-robertson-hillary-clinton-lies-bec ause-satan-controls-the-democratic-party/
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Unless there is more of this article than I could access, I read what he said about Hilary Clinton and her Satanic influences manifesting themselves in lies but there was nothing at all about Trump. I had expected him to do the same number on Mr Trump. So, apart from him appearing to be unbalanced, the guy's speech is in need of some balance. Plus, he obviously supports Trump.
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I suspect that you may have missed the point - which I perceive to be that right wing (in American terms) is the natural home of extreme "religious" views. Since Trump is clearly a right-wing candidate, the religious nut will not be attacking him.
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Yes but I couldn't help living in hope, HH. Looking at the picture of the man, there is something (to me at any rate) rather 'sixties' about him - not Charles Manson type of 'sixties' but an ageing hippy type. Add to that the bizarre name of his party, he could have been quite different.
So, when I started reading the speech I thought he was a bit bonkers but didn't expect him to be pro-Trump.
I tend to over-analyse things and miss the obvious. Well never mind.
C U later. x
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37599111
It looks as if Senior Republicans are very fed up with Trump.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37599111
It looks as if Senior Republicans are very fed up with Trump.
Ha. I like this (FTA): "Mr Trump himself stressed that there was "zero chance I'll quit", adding that he was getting "unbelievable" support."
I can't believe he has got any support either.
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Ha. I like this (FTA): "Mr Trump himself stressed that there was "zero chance I'll quit", adding that he was getting "unbelievable" support."
I can't believe he has got any support either.
He has the support of Americans who agree with his racist, sexist and homophobic views. I suspect he would like to bring back the colour bar, make it illegal to be gay and have women dancing attendance on men!
And there is more!
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uselection/donald-trump-misogyny-row-intensifies-as-more-lewd-tapes-emerge/ar-BBxbxTn?ocid=spartandhp
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It sounds as if last night's 'debate' between Clinton and Trump was as bad as an episode of the Jeremy Kyle show, if not worse!
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https://i.imgflip.com/1c0aos.jpg
NSFW
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The man is appalling, but what does all this say about the system that got him there? . . . and could still conceivably get him in the Whitehouse?
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How about this?
At the first debate on September 26 Trump said that Hillary Clinton lacked the stamina to be President.
Then on October 9, he said "She doesn’t quit, she doesn’t give up. I respect that. I tell it like it is. She’s a fighter. I disagree with much of what she’s fighting for. I do disagree with her judgement in many cases. But she does fight hard, and she doesn’t quit, and she doesn’t give up, and I consider that to be a very good trait.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/12/donald-trump-women-new-sexual-harassment-stories
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/12/donald-trump-women-new-sexual-harassment-stories
They claim it is fabricated.
However, Trump's claim that if Hillary gets to be president she'll trash America is so stupid and desperate the guy is finished. But as John Gray said this isn't about Trump but about the disaffected voters in future elections at all levels.
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In the Donald's brave new world, Hilary's bound for the nick. Now, apparently, so are her lawyers..... http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/donald-trump-says-hell-imprison-hillary-clintons-lawyers-too If I were her office cleaners, I'd get an arrow embroidered suit on hire.
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Trump was nearly OUT some time back. Now Hillary seems to be having problems with the FBI again. Trump is now just one point behind Clinton, I understand.
What do you think?
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Trump was nearly OUT some time back. Now Hillary seems to be having problems with the FBI again. Trump is now just one point behind Clinton, I understand.
What do you think?
I think the whole thing is a farce; you couldn't make it up. Even the FBI's actions here seem totally out of character as if they (Comey) have planned this to get at Hilary....?
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I think the whole thing is a farce; you couldn't make it up. Even the FBI's actions here seem totally out of character as if they (Comey) have planned this to get at Hilary....?
Could it be that the publicising of the Congressman's sexting has been timed to ensure that something ran into the juggernaut that is HC's election campaign this close to polling day?
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Could it be that the publicising of the Congressman's sexting has been timed to ensure that something ran into the juggernaut that is HC's election campaign this close to polling day?
That's what it looks like. I heard something of this on the RT programme Going Underground a few months back but when the FBI closed the email investigation I just assumed the guy got it wrong. This, however, fits in exactly to what he/she said. Still, it is very strange and puzzling.
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I am reluctant to comment on this thread in case it influences the outcome.
That would be poor electoral process on my part.
What we all need is the Icelandic Pirate Party.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37813564 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37813564)
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That's what it looks like. I heard something of this on the RT programme Going Underground a few months back but when the FBI closed the email investigation I just assumed the guy got it wrong. This, however, fits in exactly to what he/she said. Still, it is very strange and puzzling.
Could the timings of the accusations against Trump have been designed to ensure that something ran into his campaign?
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I am reluctant to comment on this thread in case it influences the outcome.
That would be poor electoral process on my part.
What we all need is the Icelandic Pirate Party.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37813564 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37813564)
I think a Pirate party was tried in a European country somewhere but fell apart because they couldn't agree on policy issues. There is always a need for leadership and some form of hierarchy.
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Could the timings of the accusations against Trump have been designed to ensure that something ran into his campaign?
These people always store up this dirt to leash it just at the right time for maximum effect. So I'm not sure what you are trying to pry out here, this is just common sense.