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macca said:
Most countries in the world are republics, I am not real fussed about Charlie be the boss of Oz to be honest.

I think we are grown up enough to stand on our own two feet, we would still have our affiliations with the major democracies, UK, USA, Canada, Japan etc
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Well if you read this forum, you wouldnt think the U.S is anything special and it is all grown up.
I know I would rather have prime minister before most of ours, than president.:roflmao:
Im yet to see many of them act grown up.
Just my opinion.
 
macca said:
Most countries in the world are republics, I am not real fussed about Charlie be the boss of Oz to be honest.

I think we are grown up enough to stand on our own two feet, we would still have our affiliations with the major democracies, UK, USA, Canada, Japan etc
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Charlie's the deal breaker for me too

If only they didn't try to screw us over with a ratsh1t republican model....

Give us a decent model and I reckon it's a done deal.
 
Kamala Harris Humbled To Have Been Chosen Exclusively For Her Race, Gender

U.S.—In a tearful "thank-you" to Joe Biden this week, Kamala Harris expressed how deeply humbled she was to have been chosen for VP based solely on her race and her gender. According to sources in the Democrat Party, Harris has both the required number of chromosomes in her cells, and also the right amount of melanin in the epidermis that protects her internal organs.

"My woman-ness and my black-ness are by far my two best qualities," said Harris. "As it turns out, I've been qualified to run for VP since birth!"

According to experts, no one has ever exhibited such a precisely perfect combination of genetic factors before. Scientists hope this may usher in a more progressive era where every leader is chosen based on immutable physical characteristics rather than outdated concepts such as character and competence.

Kamala Harris has a reputation for indiscriminately rounding up people and throwing them in jail for some reason. America's minority population have reported looking forward to seeing what it might be like to be prosecuted and imprisoned by a woman of color.
 
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The First Two Weeks
Posted by Andrew Bacevich at 8:00am, August 13, 2020.

Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch.

Give the president, his administration, and his party credit. They’re doing their damnedest to undermine this election and elections to come: from voter suppression to selling doubt about the most basic aspects of American democracy (including voting by mail), from undermining the postal service that will deliver vast numbers of mail-in ballots during a pandemic moment to claiming ahead of time that the vote is rigged (and not by Republicans). And don’t forget the way they’re screwing up the census count (key to future elections). Admittedly it’s already quite a record, but I’ll tell you what worries me right now: a story that got only the most modest coverage when, in my opinion, it should have been front-page screaming headlines followed by much outrage.

Here’s its essence: Donald Trump recently appointed a retired brigadier general named Anthony Tata as deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, the number three position at the Pentagon. Tata had, of course, praised the president fulsomely (and attacked his enemies) on Fox News and, in recent years, had also managed to make various strikingly racist and wildly Islamophobic comments, including calling former president Barack Obama a “terrorist leader” and his wife Michelle “borderline treasonous.” The president got Tata a “temporary” appointment after even Senate Republicans refused to hold confirmation hearings for him. That means the retired brigadier general should still be in place at the Pentagon after the election.

Why should any of this matter if Joe Biden wins? Because if Donald Trump (predictably) declares that election a fraud (which he even did in the 2016 election when he won) and refuses to leave the White House, who’s going to get him out of there? Not, certainly, the U.S. military if the Pentagon is staffed by and stuffed with Trump favorites and flacks. With that grim thought in mind, it’s also worth imagining a future in which Joe Biden does find himself in the Oval Office on January 20th in a moment guaranteed to be one of pandemic (and other kinds of) chaos in the wake of the singularly worst administration in American history. That, as it happens, is the subject TomDispatch regular Andrew Bacevich, author most recently of The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory, takes up today. Tom

Biden Wins
Then What?
By Andrew Bacevich

Assume Joe Biden wins the presidency. Assume as well that he genuinely intends to repair the damage our country has sustained since we declared ourselves history’s “Indispensable Nation,” compounded by the traumatic events of 2020 that demolished whatever remnants of that claim survived. Assume, that is, that this aging career politician and creature of the Washington establishment really intends to salvage something of value from all that has been lost.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176740/tomgram:_andrew_bacevich,_the_first_two_weeks/#more
 
Biden choosing Kamala - Ha ha ha ha
Joe does not even know who he is, let alone what or who the VP is.
 
I had to laugh at the use of the term "fulsomely praised" in that article @basilio, considering the effusive fulsomeness(sic) bestowed upon Komrade Kamala by the left wing media.

I don't think even Mother Teresa ever received such extravagant praise. I'll bet even Komrade Obama, himself the recipient of lavish glorification (which proved to be undeserved), is experiencing pangs of jealousy.

LMAO
 
Only a fool would count their chickens before they hatch, but.... Hmmmmm

 
PZ99 said:
That poll is about 5 months old and worth about two dead flies.
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And it's actually quite hard to find the up-to-date model... I can't find it anywhere.

But this sort of modelling is much more interesting than the usual polls which have proven to be wildly inaccurate.
 
wayneL said:
And it's actually quite hard to find the up-to-date model... I can't find it anywhere.

But this sort of modelling is much more interesting than the usual polls which have proven to be wildly inaccurate.
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The reason it's not up to date is because their policy is no modelling after March.

Or at least it was last time I looked.

"The PRIMARY MODEL gives President Donald Trump a 91% chance of winning the 2020 presidential election, with Democrat Joe Biden having just a 9% chance. Trump would get 362 electoral votes, Biden 176. This forecast is unconditional and final; hence not subject to any updating. It was first posted March 2, 2020, on Twitter."

http://primarymodel.com/

But... too many things have happened since then.. big things :)
 
PZ99 said:
The reason it's not up to date is because their policy is no modelling after March.

Or at least it was last time I looked.

"The PRIMARY MODEL gives President Donald Trump a 91% chance of winning the 2020 presidential election, with Democrat Joe Biden having just a 9% chance. Trump would get 362 electoral votes, Biden 176. This forecast is unconditional and final; hence not subject to any updating. It was first posted March 2, 2020, on Twitter."

http://primarymodel.com/

But... too many things have happened since then.. big things :)
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That's a shame it would be really interesting to see that analysis as we get closer
 
basilio said:
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The First Two Weeks
Posted by Andrew Bacevich at 8:00am, August 13, 2020.

Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch.

Give the president, his administration, and his party credit. They’re doing their damnedest to undermine this election and elections to come: from voter suppression to selling doubt about the most basic aspects of American democracy (including voting by mail), from undermining the postal service that will deliver vast numbers of mail-in ballots during a pandemic moment to claiming ahead of time that the vote is rigged (and not by Republicans). And don’t forget the way they’re screwing up the census count (key to future elections). Admittedly it’s already quite a record, but I’ll tell you what worries me right now: a story that got only the most modest coverage when, in my opinion, it should have been front-page screaming headlines followed by much outrage.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176740/tomgram:_andrew_bacevich,_the_first_two_weeks/#more
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Really hard to understand how people can support this that believe in basic freedoms such as the right to vote.
 
IFocus said:
Really hard to understand how people can support this that believe in basic freedoms such as the right to vote.
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Mail in is subject to fraud. Fraud is not democratic.

Listen, this is a country where the Komrades in the democommies even object to voter ID.

It is intrinsic democracy that a photo be able to identify themselves an order to prevent voter fraud.
 
SirRumpole said:
I've been voting almost 50 years and I've never been asked for photo ID. I guess I must be a fraud. :cool:
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I can't remember ever not having to produce some sort of verification of ID, either your little slip that they mail you or licence or similar.

True not necessarily photo ID but you need to be able to verify that you are on the role
 
wayneL said:
I can't remember ever not having to produce some sort of verification of ID, either your little slip that they mail you or licence or similar.

True not necessarily photo ID but you need to be able to verify that you are on the role
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Yeah, I go in, tell them my name, they tell me my address and cross it off. :D
 

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