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The Politics Thread USA Edition

angelic upstart

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I dunno, the Aussies aren't doing a bad job of having a pop at some of the big boys.

Besides, if you believe the hype, he's the darling of these companies anyway...
 

Grecian2K

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Donny Junior practising the new GOP salute prior to daddy's reported comeback speech?
 

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In RaWZ we trust....Amen.
Good grief...The Don is back.
 

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Good grief...The Don is back.
Live and...

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Donald Trump is severely, severely testing my values about not wishing ill of anyone.
Severely, severely, severely testing.
I feel sorry for Biden to have this monkey permanently on his back.
 

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Donald Trump is severely, severely testing my values about not wishing ill of anyone.
Severely, severely, severely testing.
I feel sorry for Biden to have this monkey permanently on his back.

Don't worry Indo. Ol' Sleepy won't even be noticing and he thinks Trump is called George.
 

IndoMike

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Don't worry Indo. Ol' Sleepy won't even be noticing and he thinks Trump is called George.
And Trump famously spoke about "covefefe".
Are you guilty of "ageism" here, Ali?
Our late inspirational leader Winston Churchill was pretty old when he guided the country through the trauma of WWII and is considered one of our greatest PMs, unlike the wannabe Churchill name of Johnson who is proving to be one of our worst, even though he is soooo young.
You could make a long list of leaders who have verbally blundered through their presidency, disregarding their age. George Bush is just one example : a relative youngster.
So, although I prefer younger leaders in their 30s or 40s, age alone should not be the primary factor. We all get to the stage where we forget where we put things or forget people's names,but as long as you don't forget where you left the nuclear briefcase then it's ok.
 

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The threat to democracy comes from the right:

Stacey Abrams says that new efforts by the GOP to restrict voting ‘actually take us to what looks like post-Reconstruction Jim Crow era laws.’

Stacey Abrams calls GOP efforts to restrict voting ‘new Jim Crow era laws’ MSNBC 05:31
 

IndoMike

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The threat to democracy comes from the right:

Stacey Abrams says that new efforts by the GOP to restrict voting ‘actually take us to what looks like post-Reconstruction Jim Crow era laws.’

Stacey Abrams calls GOP efforts to restrict voting ‘new Jim Crow era laws’ MSNBC 05:31
Well, of course
 

Alistair20000

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And Trump famously spoke about "covefefe".
Are you guilty of "ageism" here, Ali?
Our late inspirational leader Winston Churchill was pretty old when he guided the country through the trauma of WWII and is considered one of our greatest PMs, unlike the wannabe Churchill name of Johnson who is proving to be one of our worst, even though he is soooo young.
You could make a long list of leaders who have verbally blundered through their presidency, disregarding their age. George Bush is just one example : a relative youngster.
So, although I prefer younger leaders in their 30s or 40s, age alone should not be the primary factor. We all get to the stage where we forget where we put things or forget people's names,but as long as you don't forget where you left the nuclear briefcase then it's ok.
Realism not ageism Mike and let's be honest, at age 78 sadly a few bits of the anatomy no longer function as well as when one was younger.

Ronald Reagan was an effective modern U.S.A. president who is alleged to have spent a fair bit of his presidency asleep. He had good advisors and I hope the same is true of Ol' Sleepy.

As regards Churchill, he was only 70 when WWII ended. I believe he was more or less gaga when becoming P.M. again in 1951 mind. He had a decent Cabinet to tow him along.

Optimum age for a leader is 45-60 in my view when the woolly minded idealism has been tempered with the practicalities of the real world. Give me a Gordon Broon over the Reverend Blair any day. :)
 
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