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I doubt anyone will know who has won until the lawyers have had their expensive say.

Russia and China don't have problems like that.....they have other ways of sorting it out.

 

Watched BBC's Newsnight program last night....I'll never again complain about UK politics after watching this program showing the divisions in the States between right and left.

Republicans complaining that they are having the result stolen from them by mountains of postal votes being "discovered" for the Democrats....the bleating of Donald Trump...wanting the vote counting stopped....and saying that he will get the Supreme Court....the highest in the land to reverse the result.

The Supreme Court of course that he has just rushed another Republican judge on to for life....to make it now republican heavy and of course in his favour.....surprise surprise.....the man is a disgrace in every sense of the word.

Russia and China must be falling about in laughter watching the so called "leaders of the free world" making ...."Monty Python"... look like just an ordinary sane comedy show.

China will compare USA poilitics as a vote to prove democracy doesn't work...and that their system does everything in an orderly and sensible way....and will use it as a weapon against Hong Kong's cry for more freedom and democracy.....thanks Trump for destroying peoples belief in that the free world has got it right.

 

Sad news in plenty these days....just read that our ex-player Joe Riley (Mansfield now) and his fiancee Kayleigh have had a stillborn baby boy who they named Leo Joseph.....Kayleigh has previously had other miscarriages as well.....difficult times for them.

 

First day of shut-down....popped down the Pharmacist to pick up a prescription.....people and cars everywhere.....haven't they been told...or is it only our house that is in shut-down.

 

I didn't realize how many candidates were running for President of the USA.....we only hear of the Republican and Democratic candidates....but in fact there was 1,216 candidates who had filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for President.

Among them was a Ms Jorgensen of the Libertarian Party (something to do with small government) who collected more than 1.5 million votes......Howie Hawkins of the Green Party who received 339,000 votes....and Kanye West who got only 60,000 votes from a total of somewhere around 160 million voters.

They didn't seem to have anyone officially from the Looney Party this time.....that person ran for the Republican Party this time around.

 

They say that fact can be more absurd than fiction at times.....we have a President that will not accept the vote of the people.....who is whipped away by his staff to play golf away from the White House....because of thousands outside celebrating and partying his defeat.

We have a White House half empty.....not just because of the election result....but because of some staff having Covid and many more having to self-isolate.

We have also had Republican rallies leading up to the election that have been named as "super spreaders" of the virus because of their macho response to not wearing masks and to not respecting social distancing.

We have White House staff phoning up their supporters and literally bullying them to put money in the fund that will make their solicitors mega rich to try and reverse the results....and getting quite heavy on those that are dragging their feet in responding to the call (demand) to put into the kitty.

In the meanwhile the Covid deaths are now heading towards 240,000.....and how many have been effected probably millions.....but soon to be ex-President Donald Trump claims that the pandemic is beaten and he has done it.

PS.....I hear that Putin and the Chinese leader have been told to rest and stop reading reports of the USA election comic book.....there ribs are so sore because of uncontrollable laughter.....on a par with Tommy Cooper so I'm told.

 

I get rather weary of the BBC morning news spending 15 minutes on Strictly Come Dancing and the rest on Covid vox pops when there's Brexit, war in Ethiopia and goodness knows what's happening in Iraq, when a few weeks ago NATO member Turkey seemed to be on the brink of hostilities with Russian backed forces. So I've been watching some CNN news during this election period.

What did astound me is the language CNN use about Trump and the grilling they give his advocates. Strong stuff indeed and nothing like how the BBC try to portray both sides of every argument within the same sentence. It's refreshing in a way but of course that's all very well when you agree with what they are saying. It wouldn't be so good if they were having a go at something you believed in.

 

Was mentioned by my neighbour last week how poor the mainstream news channels are and recommended Al Jazeera 'English' news channel for informative, unbiased world news articles.....

 

They shouldn't wind Trump up. He still has a couple of months to cause a nuclear holocaust. Would you bet against it?

 

Al Jazeera and RT could scarcely be more partisan, but they differ from the BBC, ITV, Fox, CNN, etc in that their partisanship manifests itself through careful pruning of information that contradicts or counters their viewpoint, rather than outright lying or airing clips, comments, etc that are demonstrably untrue. In other words, they omit rather than falsify.

 

Apparently Pfizer held back the announcement of the vaccine until after the election just so they could prevent Trump for getting credit for it. I didn't know Trump had been working in the lab himself did you? It's all down to him you see.

 

That's what Trumps No1 son was saying today....Pfizer denied that they were part of any vaccine testing that was set up by the President.

Did you see BBC's Newsnight program last night...(1045pm)....they were talking to Trump supporters...who were on the verge of hysteria....effing away in front of the camera not just men, women as well....there where quite a few brandishing rifles etc.....talking about the vote being stolen and we're not going to let this happen.....talking of civil war and not being afraid of using their weapons etc.....the worrying thing is there was hundreds possibly thousands of them....it looked very scary and worrying....remember 70 million people voted for him.

Trump of course is the worlds No1 spreader of mis-information.....this man has divided the USA 70 million for him and 74 million voters against him....that's going to need an hell of a sticky plaster to put right.

 

It's very worrying. The man is even more of a danger to the world now he's not President than he was when he was President and that's saying something. If only he could see he comes across as a spoilt child throwing a tantrum. This is proving to be a far more accurate portrayal then we thought at the time.

 

The problem is that he is still President until January 20th till noon......he could start WW3 and more if he isn't shackled and his extreme supporters controlled.

Biden seems to be too quiet and subdued to get the problem by the scruff of the neck and sort it out......I hope I'm wrong.

 

Sad news today of the passing of Tony Waiters...83....who managed Argyle between 1972/77.

 

Impressed with McFadzean. He's started the last two games as they've been against weaker opposition in the cups, he's looked good, so far. Hoping he can step up and do it for the first team in the league when he gets his chance. We think his hamstring might have popped during the game, last night. Is he normally fit and well, or does he have any history with picking up injuries?

Cheers

 

Appeared in most games for which he was available last season either as a starter or substitute. It's important to know he was in competition with George Cooper for the LWB position, which is a tough place to be in. Cooper can't defend to save his life but has a magic wand of a left foot, so especially at home he's a devastating weapon. We were in League 2 last season but the manager here doesn't sign typical lower league players. We play out from the back, keep it on the deck, high energy, and everyone, including the CB's at times, are encouraged to bomb forward. I've got no doubts at all that he can play in League 1 and maybe the Championship.

I think Fadzean did have an injury but can't remember what. He was offered a new contract here but left us for family reasons: long way away from home down here. Fans were to a man disappointed he didn't stay. He had a tremendous partnership with Danny Mayor and they were frequently unplayable down the left flank. In fact, when he didn't find a club right away, Argyle fans were badgering him on Twitter to come back. Can't say more than that can you?

He's a very decent player, bear with him.

 

When Trump isn't killing golf balls on his own personal golf course.....he is trolling through death certificates to find dead voters.....and he claims he has found four in Georgia......quite possible when you consider that millions in the States posted their ballot weeks before election day....a good chance that some of them might have passed on before the actual voting day.

He also seems to be sacking top Pentagon staff that he doesn't get on with at the moment.... and replacing them with his own politcally biased personnel.

This man could start WW3 before January 20th midday......where is a Lee Harvey Oswald when you need one.

Ps......We're assuming of course that those four dead Georgian voters voted Democrat ?

 

If you've got a moment have a look at Jon Rham's shot onto the 16th green at Augusta during practice for the USA Masters....If I was him I'd be straight out of there and buying a few lottery tickets with that sort of luck.