ChrisJones
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Don's calling for his supporters to boycott the senate run off in Georgia, due in January. Correction: Don's trying to get his supporters to not boycott the senate run off in Georgia, due in January. If the democrats win, because Trump's base don't turn out to vote it could potentially flip the senate back to the dems... Thoughts?
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When I saw this I started to wonder whether someone has been switching his desk out for a smaller desk everyday since January 2017... and he still hasn't noticed?
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With all of our election shenanigans I sincerely doubt a Biden administration will have the nuts to argue the Brexit result. I'm sure they'll wait to see how it plays out then work on a viable deal with both sides.
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That's true, mate, but yesterday afternoon a Trump appointed judge threw out yet another legal case from his campaign as 'meritless.' Quoted from this article. Yep. Rudy has said he's going to take it all the way to SCOTUS...
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With the issues that have come to light since they made the original comment I think the Brexit vote just isn't on the American radar at the moment. Covid and racial injustice are now well on the front burner for the incoming adminstration and they're feeling that heat in their respective constituencies. The attitude to Brexit might be lukewarm from the official channels it does have a lot of support over here and Britain still has allies in the American people. Should they decide to cut Britain loose I do believe a lot of Americans will push back against it. There's still a lot of love o
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It does for me! I think it's interesting reading the world view through a very specific and focused lens, even if I disagree with a lot of it. Even though a lot of Brits can't stand the Yanks that feeling isn't reciprocated. Whether there's enough on board to change any potential foreign policy remains to be seen but if Biden openly snubbed Britain I believe there's enough American voters to push back on that. Hardly. This is just a push back against his attitude towards the people. If Trump was truly like you view him we'd be discussing his second term, rather than his
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100% agree. My local caffeine slinger closed her doors a couple of weeks ago because she couldn't get enough people in to cover the overheads. It just wasn't worth it anymore. Superior product. Local business. Doesn't have the clout to demand a bailout and said she was just too far along in years to keep jumping through the regulatory hoops, and that's even considering that our restrictions are practically insignificant compared to yours. This is just a small window into the knock on effects that are coming from the arbitrary conditions that the authorities are experimenting with. It's a
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Same. There's an emoticon for eating popcorn but I can't find it, because I don't have the time or the inclination! Actually living here and dealing with voters from both sides, it's amazing that I'm not seeing all this vitriol playing out in real time. It's almost like someone is presenting a false narrative for hits on a website. The same people that I'm supposed to believe are continually at each other's throats, were all laughing chatting over beer and BBQ last weekend. I'm seeing a hectic election and divided opinion but nothing of the coming apocalypse. I've seen a hundred pe
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Fair comment but I don't understand what there is to argue. We disagree. Nearly 4 years of this thread hasn't changed that. It's a fair enough conversation but neither of us have changed our tune in all of that time, despite this thread being essentially a political novel. Fair. Has any of it changed your stance? For the record I've watched some of the links you and others have posted and I'm neither a scientist or an engineer so I've skimmed through most of it. From my English O level perspective I cannot honestly see how it changes anything in the slightest. We all do bu
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I get that team Trump aren't liking what has happened but a bloke on the internet debunking the result doesn't change anything. One of them will be in the white house in January and neither of them benefit hard working Americans. I don't understand how stating the f*ck*ng obvious changes anything. Or why it's rude. Or why it looks bad. At some point we've got to move on. Some of us already have. A lot of us.
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I haven't called you a conspiracy theorist. I don't want to look at it because I haven't got the time or inclination to go down that rabbit hole. I can't accept or dismiss it because it's for the courts and, as neither of us are constitutional lawyers, it's just time I'd rather spend doing something else. Trump's legal team are getting binned left right and centre in court. That is the standard they have to beat and that is the standard they are constantly failing to achieve. You could be 100% right. I'm not contradicting you. I'm simply stating, again, that it has to go through the
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Fair comment, and I didn't infer that from your post. Giving the fact that we've all got a few miles on the clock and we've seen a wide spectrum of behaviour from our fellow homo sapiens I just cannot accept that it would be as one sided as each side allege. Especially when it comes to politics. One side is the devil. The other is saviour. We all know that's bollocks even if we won't admit it publicly.
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Fair. This has raised the question for me, though. If the democrats are so dirty and neck deep in voter fraud. From dead people voting, to bussing in illegals to vote for them. Why aren't the Republicans? Do we honestly believe that only one side would engage in such behaviour? It would be naive for me to suggest that only one side would be capable of such actions while the other would be beyond reproach? At the risk of sounding like a stuck record, that's what the due process is for. Through all of this noise if any of this sh*t is going to stick it has to have sound legal grounds to
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I might have agreed 10-15 years ago but I wouldn't trust either of them as far as I could throw them! Mate. Watching the nonsense spouted by the duopoly, and it's rabid band of followers, I'm going with the actual evidence that's passed constitutional muster. The system isn't perfect but it's head and shoulders above the dross that are slinging as much sh*t as they can to see if any will stick. By all means pick your side. I have. I don't trust any of them and will critique them all accordingly. Even if my team fluked a win I'd still be watching them like a sh*thawk... The
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A lot of small business suffering this side too. Corporate bailouts don't seem to be hindering the chains, mind. It's sh*t.
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2020 was definitely a perfect storm for this election. I can't really argue with that. Post Covid I'd predict a much lower mail in ballot and a stronger return for in person voting. It's hard to describe, really, but voting in person is very much viewed as a civic duty and once the perceived risk has lowered it will increase. The criticism against the voting machines can be valid to a point but processing 150 million plus votes, by hand, would struggle to pass the constitutional muster that it mandates. Had they all been counted by hand it might be difficult, if not impossible, to process
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Having watched it play out in real time, over here, I believe democracy is alive and well in 2020. Prior to 2016 apathy was rife and that election kicked it in the arse. This has been no different. The noise generated has been interesting to see as a third party. THL only reflects half of this but the other side have been just as vociferous and their rhetoric has been the equal and opposite reaction, IMO. Despite the allegations of this massive conspiracy every single legal challenge so far has fallen flat. The divide between both sides has been enormous this cycle but the common ground h
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I'm sure there are and I bet a few have evolved since then as well.
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Read it again?! Once was enough, mate!
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Agreed, mate. Our 1A is a tricky one to work around. I'm surprised both sides are more concerned with winning than what actually is a stake.
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Talking about hanging on for an ace... More calamari than kraken.
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I get ya, mate, but the reality is a law penned by the likes of our glorious republic wouldn't be specific to just Facebook and Twitter. We don't have hate crimes divisions and it's something I'd like to stay that way!
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Without a smoking gun Biden starts his new job in January. That's all there is to it at this stage. GT is this forum. General Talk. Dems want to ban hate speech which is why they want to repeal 230. Reps are complaining they're being censored by authoritarian control and want to hold companies responsible by repealing 230. The practical reality of that decision on a forum like this, or FB, or Twitter, etc etc is that every single post that is submitted will have to be moderated to ensure that it doesn't contravene whatever rules these people put into place. Private companies
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Yep. They repeal it and bye bye GT in the next couple of years.
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You're right mate. I haven't watched it, or her, but waiting for this staggering evidence that they're waiting for the eleventh hour to produce. It's an 11 on the noise scale at this point, but it might still turn into something credible.
