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This was always the worry. How much vindictive damage Trump would do before actually leaving office if he lost the election? Personalities like his advocate for total war. He cares not a jot if other people are destroyed by his personal ambition. But even more tragic is seeing ordinary people buy into that. Trump got more votes than any president in History. Biden had to get millions more to win that office. America is broken in more ways than the world realises I think.

Corbyn's problem is that he is so bad at showing contrition that no-one would ever believe him anyway, apart from the cultists that hang onto his every breath of course.

Trump is deranged. His twitter feed is a succession of false claims. The was on the golf course when he should have been attending a G20 Pandemic Summit online. January can not come quick enough. America needs a President, not a lazy, entitled narcissistic ohild.

diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's because of this that the jump from far left to far right isn't as difficult as most people assume. The Alt-Right crowd of > Brendan O'Neil, Claire Fox et al were once revolutionary Trots/Marxists. Even our resident racist has followed a similar > path... Exactly this. They share the same authoritarian intolerance of the center to moderate ground, but seek the credibility of that. So that is how you end up with nuanced characters like Farage and Corbyn, creeping into the mainstream. In reality, they are prizing the door half open for the voices and ideas of the fringes, claiming an attack on freedom of speech, if anyone dares call them out on it.

You are right about the hypocrisy when it comes to singling out comments or views held by the other side. The issue of antisemitism on the harder left is more nuanced than the antisemitism of the harder right, but both tap into the same tropes around wealth, power and influence. Corbyn essentially emboldened the voices of this harder left because he shares the same platforms as them. That is the voice of the idealistic revolutionary socialist left. For those people, America is the worst imperialist superpower, backer of Israel and influenced heavily by a wealthy Jewish cabal. THAT is where the antisemitism of the left is found. It is that anti-capitalist/ anti-imperialist stance that makes Israel a target specifically. This is why they do not show the same obsession for human rights abuses in countries like Russia, China, or any acknowledgement of the human rights abuses committed by Hamas. For these ideologues, Zionists have too much power in the global capitalist hierarchy and that is all that concerns them. So right there, is the same antisemitic trope found on the far right.

Actually no he isn't. Lansman is pro Israel, a Zionist and was targeted at some point by the harder left faction of Momentum who tried to remove him. The result was a splinter group called Grassroots Momentum, headed by people who are now expelled from the Labour Party. As for Corbyn himself, in light of the ECHR report and his response to it, he is finished. Without the whip, he can not stand as a Labour candidate at the next election. So it will be a question of whether Starmer blinks and restores the whip, or stands his ground hoping for electoral gain as a result. Either way, this is going to rumble on and it is that factional internal battle that will hurt Labour if he can't do something about it.

Because you were not clear if the bike was actually stolen. You didn't see them cut or pick a lock, so the guy loading it could have had a key and been collecting it for someone. I think until you hear from Police as to whether a theft actually did take place (an expensive bike would be reported as stolen if it indeed was), it is premature to post as though a theft had taken place and identify the vehicle you believe was engaged in a theft. Given that you can not confirm the bike was indeed stolen, I suggest you amend the title of this thread to reflect that, because right now you are potentially libeling the driver and his passenger. Your impression does not constitute fact, until someone definitely reports that bicycle as stolen. To illustrate that, you believe you saw one bicycle being stolen, and yet you use plural in your title. See the problem?

Meetup.com seconded. There are London based groups on there running zoom events for small groups, nattering about everything from what's on the telly to the latest novel by so and so. So not only a way to find a local group of people who share your interests, but also to find longer lasting new friendships too.

The vehicle is not stolen and the plates match the make and colour of the van. They could just be junk and scrap metal dealers as opposed to thieves, so clarification is needed.

I wouldn't be so sure about Boris. He won an election with an 80 seat majority and that makes him very difficult to oust. And while I agree that Cummings has not gone for long, I doubt Gove would win any leadership election against Sunak. I think Farage will be more of a problem to be honest, but there are no elections in sight, so who cares?

Ha Ha Seabag. Someone should animate that, like South Park. That weird press conference reminds me of how Trump sycophants also credit Trump with defeating ISIS, when in fact, it was intervention by Putin that helped Assad drive ISIS out. This is the deal with Trump - alternate realities. But I also think that Trump has now accepted the election is lost, and while he remains angry about it, won't concede etc, the direction has clearly shifted to the image he wants to leave the Whitehouse with. The man who saved the world from Covid in this episode. This is typical narcissist hero/victim playbook material from him. Who knows where he goes next.

Jury service uses the electoral register to select people. The electoral register does not hold phone numbers. There seem to be a wave of scam emails and texts at the moment, but fundamentally, anything you are not expecting that asks you to click a link, is usually a scam.

Narcissists have no compulsion around taking what they want from others, money included. They only surround themselves with people who are useful to them, and drop them as soon as they are no longer of use.

UG has been called out on his racism more than enough times that if he was interested in addressing his own prejudices, he would have done it by now.

Recruitment is decided by area UC. Some local forces are indeed not recruiting, while others are. I suggest you ditch your race baiting accusations and do some actual research for a change. There are 43 Police forces in England and Wales, of which 30 are currently recruiting. It really wasn't that hard to find that out. https://www.joiningthepolice.co.uk/which-forces-are-recruiting

This article pretty much nails it. Trump is heading for nothing but embarrassment in the courts. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/10/donald-trump-longshot-election-lawsuits So what then? And that is the really scary question. Trump is ramping up the rhetoric on twitter. There is an emerging insanity which is then echoed and amplified by an army of gullible supporters. Where are the adults in the room? Who in the GOP has the balls to tell him it is over? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/president-trump-lost-too-many-republicans-keep-pretending-he-didnt/2020/11/09/01ff8684-22c6-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html Is Trump really going to incite civil war, or his armed supporters to lay siege to the White House? Or will he eventually leave, but vow to be back, and spend the next four years taking America further into a divisive abyss? Undermining Biden in every way he can. This is a dangerous family, judging by comments also made by his sons.

Trump's tweets are becoming multi tweet rants. Now he is even blaming the machines! The descent into madness deepens. But at some point, someone is going to have to stop it. Someone is going to have make him hand over the office. He has no say or power over that.

The messaging coming from the inner circle is that Trump would agree to a non disruptive handover if certain conditions were met. That could literally be anything of course but I would hazard a guess that immunity from prosecution over his tax and loan affairs might be in there. Moe than that, it sounds as though he is going to try and blackmail his way out of the White House door and that is absolutely something that can not be allowed to happen.Time for the law to show him who is boss.

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They can be sure that a disposable mask is clean. It is exactly this. It is the only way hospitals can be sure that the masks people are wearing are clean. In reality, you have to change a mask several times a days for it to remain an effective barrier. Putting the same mask on and off all day adds to the contamination risks. Doing that for several days without washing the face covering speaks for itself.

Close margins are nothing new in the USA and the swing states are always the same. Every now and then, they get a swing that breaks that mould. The media and social media are in an era of making mountains out of molehills. Take the rust belt for example. Those states are normally Democrat. Trump broke the mould to take them last time round. He made promises to those states he has not delivered on. Is anyone really that surprised they are swinging back to Democrat? Similarly, the swings in Wisconsin, Nevada,etc. These are big farming states. What did Trump do to farmers? He started a trade war with China that wiped out their exports overnight. Then, realising this was going to hurt him in the election, he scrambled together an aid package about 18 months ago. But the damage was already done. So no surprise to people in those states that a swing away from Trump is emerging.

At the end of the day, this is the same process that every US election has been decided upon all the way back to the civil war. Trump didn't mind postal ballots when he won did he? Five times Republicans have lost the popular vote and still won the college. This has never been the case for the Democrats. Trump is in no place to complain about the system. Nor is anyone else. Essentially he is a man who can not deal with losing, that is all there is to it. And both parties seem to have increased their vote this time round. Claiming ballot fraud, when every single postal ballot is checked and verified is the rant of an imposter who doesn't even understand the electoral process that put him in the White House. There is nothing illegal about postal ballots, and although the Supreme Court decided that ballots posted before election day that arrive up to three days later can be counted, they are not likely to be in the kinds of numbers that decides the outcome. Sometimes elections are close, especially in the USA. Trump needs to learn some grace, let the count finish, and if following any reasonable recounts, he loses, take it on the chin and respect democracy.

I am inclined to agree TheCat. There are different factions opposing lockdown but they are rudderless, with cranks trying to fill the void. Farage is probably gambling on the notion that he can be the sane voice on that side of the fence, pulling people together behind him into some kind of meaningful political consensus. The other thing to factor in is that this is the first time a global pandemic is being addressed in this way. There is much discussion to be had around the role our stripped back services have played in the decisions made. Fear of overwhelming inadequate health resources etc. There are real opportunities here for genuine change for the better if a sensible debate can be had. But at the moment we are locked into a mindset that has never been the case in past pandemics. We need to understand why that is as much as anything else.

The only way a lock could be opened with out a key is by picking it, but most thieves doing that, would not bother to lock it up again afterwards. Someone must have had a key somehow.

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Blah Blah, I'm curious > How are you going to explain how Santa is able to > visit every house despite a covid ban on visiting > other people's houses potentially in place at > Christmas ? HA HA.......I hadn't thought about that lol. I think DR has given me the perfect way out though, plus I will add that Santa is a key worker ;)

Agree with all of that DR and think you are spot on. He has made a living out of being the political outrider. Without that, who is he? This is Farage being opportunistic again imo. If Trump loses the election tm, that will have a major impact on all sorts of things, not least the EU negotiations and a NI border issues. But Farage is miscalculating if he thinks that all those Tory voters who voted Brexit want the chaos of a no deal. A lot of them are deeply unhappy with the way the Boris and his government try to bypass Parliamentary scrutiny.