The Next Election, Political News, and Other Forms of Comedy (US, UK, & Intl)

^I thought I read that Buttigieg had pulled out of the race?

Or was that another candidate?
 
Fwiffo said:
www.nbcnews.com

Pete Buttigieg tops new Iowa poll of Democratic presidential hopefuls

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden followed the Indiana mayor.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

"The moderate mayor supported by 25 percent of respondents was followed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts with 16 percent; former Vice President Joe Biden, 15 percent; Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, 15 percent; and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, 6 percent."

Blimey, Biden is tied for 3rd with Sanders now.
Click to expand...

The establishment are finally coming to terms with the fact that Biden isn’t happening and now it looks like they’ve found their new Republican-lite.
 
Fwiffo said:
www.nbcnews.com

Pete Buttigieg tops new Iowa poll of Democratic presidential hopefuls

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden followed the Indiana mayor.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

"The moderate mayor supported by 25 percent of respondents was followed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts with 16 percent; former Vice President Joe Biden, 15 percent; Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, 15 percent; and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, 6 percent."

Blimey, Biden is tied for 3rd with Sanders now.
Click to expand...

....in Iowa

Screen Shot 2019-11-17 at 1.01.15 PM.png

Screen Shot 2019-11-17 at 1.02.29 PM.png
 
There are that many early contests? I thought Iowa, New Hampshire and one or two more dictate the course of the primaries.
 
^Not really saying anything new about her campaign, as the lack of any real focus or direction has been plain for quite some time. I suppose it's different in that it's coming from a (former) staffer, rather than from political commentators.
 
Journeyman said:
^Not really saying anything new about her campaign, as the lack of any real focus or direction has been plain for quite some time. I suppose it's different in that it's coming from a (former) staffer, rather than from political commentators.
Click to expand...

She can claim she has colour.
 
Rambo said:
for our UK readers. make sure to get out and vote labour
Click to expand...

I don't think anyone can unreservedly support Labour when they are trailing in the polls with Corbyn at the helm even though the Tories made the whole Brexit mess with Cameron and has with repeated elections and leaders continued to disappoint.
 
Rambo said:
for our UK readers. make sure to get out and vote labour

Click to expand...


Fortunately, you never experienced the nationalized British Rail.

If you knew anything about Corbyn, you wouldn't be promoting him. You'd be incredulous that such a low witted buffoon could have been in the mother of all Parliaments for so long, and horrified such a feeble intellect could be leader of the opposition.
Fwiffo said:
I don't think anyone can unreservedly support Labour when they are trailing in the polls with Corbyn at the helm even though the Tories made the whole Brexit mess with Cameron and has with repeated elections and leaders continued to disappoint.
Click to expand...

Indeed, the Tories in May created the mess, but Labour is not the answer. The Conservatives got the Brits into it and it is their duty to restore honour to get us out away from the rapidly failing EU.
 
Pimpernel Smith said:
If you knew anything about Corbyn, you wouldn't be promoting him.
Click to expand...
i happen to know quite a bit about him and that is why i am promoting him. i suppose you want johnson to win and sell off the NHS to the americans then? maybe vote for your girl jo swinson? i heard she's dropping out because her campaign has been such a disaster.
 
Rambo said:
i happen to know quite a bit about him and that is why i am promoting him. i suppose you want johnson to win and sell off the NHS to the americans then? maybe vote for your girl jo swinson? i heard she's dropping out because her campaign has been such a disaster.
Click to expand...

Mr. Smith voted Leave. He would never support a party that wants to Remain. Besides he has already given up NHS. Whether it is farmed out to Romanians, Asians, or Americans he has access and will encourage his relations to use private health care.

Pimpernel Smith said:
Indeed, the Tories in May created the mess, but Labour is not the answer. The Conservatives got the Brits into it and it is their duty to restore honour to get us out away from the rapidly failing EU.
Click to expand...

Blimey - you do know you live near the nexus of this rapidly failing EU. Brussels.
 
Fwiffo said:
Mr. Smith voted Leave. He would never support a party that wants to Remain. Besides he has already given up NHS. Whether it is farmed out to Romanians, Asians, or Americans he has access and will encourage his relations to use private health care.
Click to expand...
very true. still, i have to make an effort i suppose. futile as it might be.
 
Rambo said:
i happen to know quite a bit about him and that is why i am promoting him. i suppose you want johnson to win and sell off the NHS to the americans then? maybe vote for your girl jo swinson? i heard she's dropping out because her campaign has been such a disaster.
Click to expand...

You know nothing of the NHS or the extremely snobbish elite management class, nor how the surgeons and specialists run private clinics and play the game very well to push patients to go private to beat waiting lists. It's a racket and hence the cancer survival rates and other treatments rank very poorly against Western European countries that have insurance systems e.g. France, Netherlands, Germany, et al. The sad state of affairs is that all political parties have put the NHS on a pedestal where the only reform or innovation is to throw more money at it, where it is immediately snorted up by fat cat managers and their cronies.

Many men have sold their souls for vast kingdoms and wealth, but Corbyn sold his soul to fraternise with terrorists who thought that much of him not one of them mentions him as being any kind of player in the peace process, despite Corbyn's boast and of course his gig on Iranian television. The pathetic soiled existence and reputation of an ageing communist tramp. In the words of Del Boy: What a plonker!
 
Pimpernel Smith said:
You know nothing of the NHS or the extremely snobbish elite management class, nor how the surgeons and specialists run private clinics and play the game very well to push patients to go private to beat waiting lists. It's a racket and hence the cancer survival rates and other treatments rank very poorly against Western European countries that have insurance systems e.g. France, Netherlands, Germany, et al. The sad state of affairs is that all political parties have put the NHS on a pedestal where the only reform or innovation is to throw more money at it, where it is immediately snorted up by fat cat managers and their cronies.
Click to expand...
well there's something we have in common - the quick death of all middle management and the entirety of the PMC in the medical field.

Pimpernel Smith said:
Many men have sold their souls for vast kingdoms and wealth, but Corbyn sold his soul to fraternise with terrorists who thought that much of him not one of them mentions him as being any kind of player in the peace process, despite Corbyn's boast and of course his gig on Iranian television. The pathetic soiled existence and reputation of an ageing communist tramp. In the words of Del Boy: What a plonker!
Click to expand...
this is thin, even for you. i'm surprised you didn't go in on the antisemitism bullshit.
 
Rambo said:
i happen to know quite a bit about him and that is why i am promoting him.
Click to expand...

And that's why we say to you: They shall not pass.

And we will seek them out behind the rocks and the liars they hide in.

Douglas Murray nails it once again:

blogs.spectator.co.uk

Labour's anti-Semitism shame must never be forgiven | The Spectator

Sometime around the start of this decade, before anti-Semitism was as cool as it has become, I was standing on a stage in London with a couple of rabbis and a Muslim. And if that sounds like the start of a joke then what followed wasn’t. We were there at the request of a new Jewish group to...
blogs.spectator.co.uk blogs.spectator.co.uk
 
Pimpernel Smith said:
And that's why we say to you: They shall not pass.

And we will seek them out behind the rocks and the liars they hide in.

Douglas Murray nails it once again:

blogs.spectator.co.uk

Labour's anti-Semitism shame must never be forgiven | The Spectator

Sometime around the start of this decade, before anti-Semitism was as cool as it has become, I was standing on a stage in London with a couple of rabbis and a Muslim. And if that sounds like the start of a joke then what followed wasn’t. We were there at the request of a new Jewish group to...
blogs.spectator.co.uk blogs.spectator.co.uk
Click to expand...
Once again not a single shred of evidence of him actually being antisemitic
 
Rambo said:
Once again not a single shred of evidence of him actually being antisemitic
Click to expand...

Corbyn, is at the very least an enable of it. The hard-left of his party are shot through with anti-Semitism. There are countless examples of it, too numerous to mention. His party is being investigated by the EHRC for gods sake.

I see that Buckers has already posted the clip where he (Corbyn) accuses the BBC of bias for saying Israel has the right to exist. Seriously?
 
formby001 said:
Corbyn, is at the very least an enable of it.
Click to expand...
again, i'm not the ground there, but i have seen absolutely no evidence of this or any other antisemitism from these people. i'm sure something has happened somewhere at some point. but we're exactly talking about them being rife with nazi sympathizers here.
 
I have a lot of admiration for Israel, particularly for its long-running publicity campaign to intimately intertwine the concept of Israel and Jewishness, such that any criticism of Israel is also criticism of Jews, and is thus anti-Semitism.

A lot - not all, but the vast amount - of criticism levelled at Corbyn and members of the Labour Party is because they are critical of Israel or, alternatively, supportive of Palestinians.

Some people criticise Israel because they *are* anti-Semitic and they want to criticise Jews. However, it is entirely possible to not be anti-Semitic in any way, shape of form and yet to criticise Israel's conduct concerning it's behaviour towards Palestinians, the building of settlements in the occupied territories and so on.

If you criticise the actions of most other countries, most people will understand that you are not criticising the *people* of that country, nor the beliefs and cultural identity of the people of that country, but that you are instead criticising the actions of the government (and perhaps the armed forces of that country). Criticise Israel, though, and you must fight off accusations of anti-Semitism.

It's a very good way of shutting down debate on any issue involving Israel - and yet it's very popular amongst conservatives. At the same time, though, conservatives lambast those on the other side of politics for "identity politics" and for attempting to stifle free speech...
 
Last edited:
Of course, there are exceptionally good reasons to be wary of anti-Semitism, and of a resurgence in anti-Semitism.

However, it's nonetheless interesting that you can criticise the actions of Islamic countries and virtually no-one will blink an eye, nor will you be accused of being "anti-Muslim", but criticise Israel and suddenly you've opened yourself up to accusations of anti-Semitism.

It's also interesting that one of the "anti-Semitic" actions that Corbyn is accused of is laying a wreath at some sort of Palestinian memorial for a couple of the Black September terrorists who killed Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Bad taste by Corbyn, perhaps. Offensive to Israelis, perhaps. But anti-Semitic?

Yet no-one would have protested if Corbyn visited Israel and laid a wreath at the grave of former Israeli PM Yitzhak Shamir, as he's regarded as a hero and a statesman - and yet Shamir was the leader of Lehi (also known as the Stern gang), a group of Zionist terrorists that (believe it or not!) sought an alliance with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany prior to WWII and was responsible for many attacks on the British in Palestine, including the assassination of Lord Moyne, the British Minister Resident in the Middle East.
 
Rambo said:
again, i'm not the ground there, but i have seen absolutely no evidence of this or any other antisemitism from these people. i'm sure something has happened somewhere at some point. but we're exactly talking about them being rife with nazi sympathizers here.
Click to expand...

Corbyn's party's anti-Semitism is a manifestation of the the anti-Semitism of the Left. Neo-nazism is a manifestation of the anti-Semitism of the Right.
 
Journeyman said:
Bad taste by Corbyn, perhaps. Offensive to Israelis, perhaps. But anti-Semitic?
Click to expand...

What would you describe it as, the actions of a bigot or Magic Grandpa bringing both sides together like he did in Northern Ireland?

formby001 said:
Corbyn's party's anti-Semitism is a manifestation of the the anti-Semitism of the Left. Neo-nazism is a manifestation of the anti-Semitism of the Right.
Click to expand...

The international Left: those who embrace conspiracy theories that there's a jew behind, controlling and manipulating every disaster and event.

After the election these clowns need to be pushed out of polite society, the public purse and shamed and humiliated.
 
formby001 said:
Corbyn's party's anti-Semitism is a manifestation of the the anti-Semitism of the Left. Neo-nazism is a manifestation of the anti-Semitism of the Right.
Click to expand...
What anti-semitism is there on the "left"?
Pimpernel Smith said:
What would you describe it as, the actions of a bigot or Magic Grandpa bringing both sides together like he did in Northern Ireland?



The international Left: those who embrace conspiracy theories that there's a jew behind, controlling and manipulating every disaster and event.

After the election these clowns need to be pushed out of polite society, the public purse and shamed and humiliated.
Click to expand...
Same question but for "international" left?
 
Pimpernel Smith said:
The international Left: those who embrace conspiracy theories that there's a jew behind, controlling and manipulating every disaster and event.
Click to expand...

In my experience, having spent quite a bit of time discussing and investigating conspiracy theories as I have a couple of friends who have disappeared far, far down the rabbit hole, it's people on the right, or a particular brand of libertarian, that embrace the conspiracy theories about Jews, George Soros, the Rothschilds and so on.
 
Journeyman said:
In my experience, having spent quite a bit of time discussing and investigating conspiracy theories as I have a couple of friends who have disappeared far, far down the rabbit hole, it's people on the right, or a particular brand of libertarian, that embrace the conspiracy theories about Jews, George Soros, the Rothschilds and so on.
Click to expand...
ah. well that tracks given his youtube viewing habits.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 5 (members: 0, guests: 5)
Back
Top Bottom