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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by ChilcoSaint, Feb 23, 2016.

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  1. Shandy_top_89

    Shandy_top_89 Well-Known Member

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    Yes, but rest assured it will all be the fault of the evil EU, punishing us for daring to leave their unelected fourth reich dictatorship, rather than anything to do with the corrupt mob in charge deliberately crashing the country to make a quick buck.
     
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  3. saintrichie123

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    Do as I say, not do as I do.

     
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  4. Farked19

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    Project Fear appears to be somewhere on a scale between accurate and optimistic.
     
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  5. saintrichie123

    saintrichie123 Well-Known Member

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  6. davecg69

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    Too bloody right! There’s WAY too much of “these rules don’t apply to us”
     
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  7. saintrichie123

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    FairPlay
     
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    saintrichie123, Sep 29, 2020
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  8. StJabbo1

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    How dare they stand by a legally binding signed document!
     
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    StJabbo1, Sep 29, 2020
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  9. The Ides of March

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    Just wonderful! Because Johnson is so pig-headed in not signing a Trade Agreement with the EU, those of us residing in the EU will have our UK bank accounts closed. This UK Government have not got a fcuking clue how to organise a p+++ up in a brewery let alone run a country.
     
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  10. saintrichie123

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    When you see it <laugh>
     
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    saintrichie123, Sep 30, 2020
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  11. StJabbo1

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    Analectomy - the operation Johnson had to connect his mouth to his arsehole. It was a complete success he's now talking nonstop ****.
     
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    StJabbo1, Sep 30, 2020
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  13. thereisonlyoneno7

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    From that article:
    Labour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said: "This ludicrous idea is inhumane, completely impractical and wildly expensive - so it seems entirely plausible this Tory government came up with it." <laugh>
     
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    thereisonlyoneno7, Sep 30, 2020
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  14. shoot_spiderman

    shoot_spiderman Power to the People

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    A recent survey of government ministers and advisors showed that the vast majority could not differentiate between their elbows and arsholes. The rest were confused by the question.
     
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  16. Schad

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    Donald Trump has tested positive for COVID, as has his wife. I wish her well.
     
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    Tough time for God. All those prayers coming in for opposite outcomes.
     
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    Will Trump use it to delay the election? I am sure he will recover but if he had to be replaced would that give the Republicans a massive swing...
     
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  19. St. Luigi Scrosoppi

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    He'll now get the sympathy vote.

    Why do people vote for absolute arseholes like Johnson and Trump?

    I thought today that we really need a woman PM and then I realised who is the most senior woman is in the cabinet. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

    Frying pan and fire came immediately to mind.
     
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    St. Luigi Scrosoppi, Oct 2, 2020
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  20. Schad

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    Election date in fixed in the Constitution; it cannot be changed.

    On replacing him, that's really uncharted waters as far as the presidential race goes. We're not only close to the election: voting has already begun. Tens of millions of absentee ballots have been delivered to voters, and I believe something around 1m have already been officially received. We're already past the deadline for candidates to be listed on the ballot in most/all states.

    Per Rick Hasen (who knows this stuff), the most likely scenario if Trump dies is that the election goes ahead with Zombie Donald Trump on the ballot. It's too late to do anything else. This has happened in other races: former US Attorney General John Ashcroft infamously lost his Senate seat to a guy who'd been dead for three weeks. What happens after that point could theoretically get really weird, though:

    https://electionlawblog.org/?p=116098

    In short, it could potentially give the GOP an in to do something that Trump has mused about: using state legislatures to do an end-around on the way states award their Electoral College votes (which is usually by, y'know, giving them to the candidate who gets the most votes). They could argue that the presence of Zombie Trump means that the actual vote does not reflect the will of the people, and attempt to choose a slate of electors that would back Mike Pence. That's not incredibly likely, but it is a possibility if the election is close enough; it'd be the functional end of American democracy though, so I'd rather that not come to pass.

    Everything is going to be messy now though. Biden was winning fairly comfortably, and the race has been the most stable (by polling) since polling became a regular feature of American political life. Now if Biden wins, there will be cries that he has done so only because Trump got the virus. I'd have much preferred that Trump fell ill the day after the election.
     
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    Schad, Oct 2, 2020
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