Off Topic US General Election

In a more normal country yes .

 

It's amusing seeing some so up in arms about a well known joke about the republican vp candidate yet in the same breath spread lies or misinformation about the democratic candidate. There's a word for that..

 

On YouTube yes. How many on podcasts?

Bit more than 0.

For the record it could genuinely get 0 views and I and my Aussie mates would still happily do it because it brings us joy. What brings you joy?

 

Dickswinging on the internet then sly personal digs when he can't win a debate.

 

The worst sort of dictatorship, communism begins at home as well.

 

That brought a tear to my eye.

 

The absolute pinnacle of whataboutism.

 

That many? Surprised it is that high.

 

There's some lovely folk on this forum.

 

Don't close the thread just ban the
the usual 2/3 people from the thread that take threads downhill when they start posting no matter what the subject is

 

No. Why not worry about communism taking hold in countries? Plenty in the Labour Party admired the murderous regimes in the USSR, China, East Germany and the rest of the Soviet Bloc.

 

Criticising a podcasts viewership is cringe as ****

 

Don't knock it till you've tried it, as mad as it may seem there were some bits that we could use here.

 

Don’t worry, if Trump gets in then political posts and cartoons involving Trump will be allowed like last time. We have a mod who dislikes Trump.

 

No he isn’t, he’s familiar with Mein Kampf though.

Can we not pretend Trump is somehow a competent leader? Please? Putting aside all the QAnon make believe ****e for a second, can we just have a bit of American politics grounded in reality and not just “if I say it, it’s true”?


Both candidates have flaws. The problem is, one has lost their ****ing marbles as they’ve got older and has promised things which will hurt Americans both economically and physically.

The two are not the same. The fact that Kamala can’t focus on a topic isn’t the same as Trump’s mind numbing bullshit about windmills and Hannibal Lecter and we know it. But for some reason they have to make them appear similar in seriousness.

The sane washing of Trump across the media is a disgrace. And it’s not just him, Steve Bannon, Steven Miller, Tulsi Gabbard, Laura Loomer, Matt Gaetz, they’re all scrabbling at his feet trying to be the favourite so they come out with **** that’s just as horrendous. Apparently “the enemy within” is fine, but calling them garbage is outrageous. “Poisoning the blood of the country” is fine, pointing out that he’s quoting Hitler apparently hurts their feelings.

Enough. **** pretending he’s a viable candidate or that he has any good ideas whatsoever. He doesn’t and in a sensible world he’d have been yanked out of the race by his party after his bullshit in 2020 and the fact he isn’t sat in a prison cell on Riker’s Island shows just how **** this timeline has become.

Let him be beaten, and let that be the end of MAGA. And if his whingebag pussy supporters turn up at the capitol and try to riot or stop the election, break out the ****ing tear gas and bean bag shotguns and go postal on them. I’m done with it and most of the world probably is too by the sounds of it. We’re so close to never having to put up with him again. Come on America, you’ve got this. Shin the ****er for good.

 

What? No trade unions? No right to strike? The state deciding where and when you can work and what you got paid? Living in crap apartments with shared facilities? Not allowed to travel with walls, barbed wire, minefields and machine gun towers to stop those who don’t like the system leaving?Shooting people trying to leave?

 

His family had a six figure income, he grew up in the suburbs of Cincinnati, and he had private golf lessons. I’m not sure that’s classed as piss-poor.

He also thinks poor people are welfare queens and should never be given any kind of help but he was given a grant to attend Yale.

Now he complains about how elites look down on him when he’s a millionaire backed by billionaires like Peter Thiel. He is a member of the elite.

He uses poverty like cosplay, pretending to be underprivileged to make people think he’s normal. It’s all marketing.

 

That last paragraph, why didn't they do that last time? They knew what as coming and as good as stood back and let them in.

 

Stalin read Mein Kampf. A lot of people who detested the Nazis and had no intention of being like Hitler did. Unfortunately none of them thought a politician would take the unusual step of carrying out what they said they would do, step by step.