red750 Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 RFK has endorsed Trump. But how many Republican supporters were supporting RFK as a Republican alternative to DJT, but will now vote for Harris to keep Trump out. Better Democrat than Trump in the White House. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 Fran Kelly was discussing this on Radio National today. Apparently a lot of the people who were going to vote for RFK were in the "Can't stand Biden OR Trump" camp, and were going to vote for him because of the Kennedy name. However when Biden dropped out and they realise how batshit crazy he is, chances are they'll vote Kamala. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 Dolly Parton had a song, A coat of many colours, JFK Jr' coat has two - red and blue. He simply turns out the side that best suits his agenda. He's a turncoat. "Turncoat" could have a more literal origin. According to the Rotuli Chartarum 1199–1216 two barons changed fealty from William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, to King John. In other words, they turned their coats (of arms) from one lord to another, hence turncoat. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 It was RFK Jr. JFK Jr was killed in a light plane crash a few years ago. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 Donald Trump boasted of building the “Rolls Royce” of walls during a visit to a segment of border barrier in Montezuma Pass, Ariz. last week. Just one problem: That segment of wall was actually built by the administration of President Barack Obama, according to the Washington Post. The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the portion where Trump spoke was built under the Obama Administration, the Post added. The newspaper said a nearby extension was started under the Trump administration ― at a cost of $35 million a mile ― but didn’t get very far, with much of the construction material left in piles at the site. Trump in 2016 repeatedly vowed to build a “big beautiful wall” across the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border if elected. He has claimed that he completed the task. “I did finish the wall,” he said on CNN earlier this year. “I built a wall.” He didn’t. His administration replaced about 400 miles of existing wall and about 52 miles of new wall. Some of the wall built under Trump fell in storm. A 2022 report found the wall built under Trump was breached thousand of times using “inexpensive power tools.” Others reported the wall could be breached with a primitive ladder made from about $5 in material. A report last year also found it did significant environmental and cultural damage to the region. Trump also promised Mexico would pay for his wall. It didn’t. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClintonB Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 at that price per mile, it would be cheaper to build them new houses and keep them looked after so they can be productive citizens. They seem to do all the hard yakka for the lazy americans anyway 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 I remember reading an article about the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Border Wall materials that were piled up in Texas and Arizona deserts, rusting away unused, since Biden was elected. The Wall has to be the biggest waste of money the Americans have ever poured mega-dollars into. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/12/steel-trump-border-wall-rusting-desert/621005/ 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 8 hours ago, onetrack said: The Wall has to be the biggest waste of money the Americans have ever poured mega-dollars into. But some corporation made a lot of money from supplying the materials. I learned a saying while I was in the USA. It's the equivalent of our "she'll be right". The saying is, "close enough for government work". 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post red750 Posted August 27 Popular Post Share Posted August 27 Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said there’s a simple reason Donald Trump is trying to avoid a debate with Vice President Kamala Harris. “I think Trump is really afraid of Kamala Harris,” she told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki on Monday. “Or as I like to think of it: The felon is really afraid of the prosecutor.” Warren said there’s a “damn good reason” for Trump to fear Harris. “She’s smart. She’s disciplined. And she’s not afraid of a bully,” Warren said. She added that Trump isn’t the only one living in fear right now. “I think his whole team is scared,” she said. “And that’s why they’re trying to find ways to muzzle him, to make this debate not happen if possible.” Warren also made a bold prediction on what would happen if Trump does show up to debate Harris. “She’s gonna wipe the floor with Donald Trump,” Warren said. 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 There's quite a few youtube videos of her questioning people in senate comittees, including supreme court nominees. She's sharp and knows her stuff. She interrogates like a top notch QC (or KC as they are now). The only time she'd have any problems debating Trump is if it was in Fox studios, and poorly moderated with a public audience of MAGA nuts cheering the buffoon on. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 There's an interesting COVID-19 study that has been carried out on the U.S. population, by Lancet, the British medical journal. Lancet found that death rates from COVID-19 were measurably higher in States that voted for Donald Trump - due to resistance to vaccination, and obviously, beliefs that COVID-19 was "only a kind of 'flu", or didn't exist, or it was just a left-wing plot. Kind of like a self-centering device, COVID-19 has eliminated higher numbers of the MAGA adherents, and reduced their numbers in the general population. There's still a lot left to go, though. https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(23)00461-0/fulltext 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 10 hours ago, onetrack said: There's an interesting COVID-19 study that has been carried out on the U.S. population, by Lancet, the British medical journal. Lancet found that death rates from COVID-19 were measurably higher in States that voted for Donald Trump - due to resistance to vaccination, and obviously, beliefs that COVID-19 was "only a kind of 'flu", or didn't exist, or it was just a left-wing plot. Kind of like a self-centering device, COVID-19 has eliminated higher numbers of the MAGA adherents, and reduced their numbers in the general population. There's still a lot left to go, though. https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(23)00461-0/fulltext The Darwin effect. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 To be effective, they must die before they procreate. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 The Federal Prosecutor has just announced that Trump will be re-indicted on the four charges that gave rise to the Supreme Court making its ruling about Presidential immunity. Apparently, the Prosecutor went through the evidence that was proposed to be given and removed any and all that could be argued to give immunity. Having done that, the matter was put to a completely new Grand Jury which accepted the indictments. That manoeuvre ensured that Trump's lawyers could not argue that the Grand Jury was tainted because it had previously heard unacceptable evidence. One thing good you can say about Trump is that he is ensuring that the economy of the legal profession is flourishing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 There's nothing left to argue when all the hollow Trump BS is removed from his depositions. A fair while ago, he'd had something like 60 of his appeals and lawsuits thrown out or lost - and you can count his legal wins on the fingers of one hand. He must be getting up around 100 legal losses by now - a fair number of which, didn't even get to first base, such was the level of absurdities involved. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 You'd think they'd just take action to ban him from bringing any lawsuits. What a waste of court time. Most people never come in contact with the judicial system, or at most a handful of times. If some idiot is doing lawsuits by the hundred (and losing the majority) surely they could either ban him outright or at least put him at the back of the queue every time. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 Because America is the Land of Lawyers, and the Land of Lawsuits, it comprises a major portion of their economy. I've seen articles comparing Japan and America, as regards the number of lawyers and the number of lawsuits in each country. The conclusion was that the vastly increased size of the American legal profession was a burden on America. Japanese have a cultural attitude that it's not right to sue other Japanese, as it weakens the nations cohesiveness, and the countrys economy. The Americans are diametrically opposite in their view, they'll sue the pants off anyone they think has a capacity to pay. There must be a huge inbuilt cost in all things American, to cover their legal burdens. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 3 hours ago, onetrack said: There must be a huge inbuilt cost in all things American, to cover their legal burdens Remember when Piper, Cessna and Beech nearly closed down because families were suing them for the stupidity of their deceased member. This sort of thinking has taken root here. Ask any business person, especially in the trades, if they carry public liability insurance and I bet the answer would be, "Wouldn't be without it". And Public Liability insurance premiums are pretty high. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 4 hours ago, facthunter said: To be effective, they must die before they procreate. Nev Or at least before they vote..... or get a social media account 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 One nutcase cancels a thinking person's vote. Nev 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Trump Erupts Over Reindictment On Coup Attempt Charges Donald Trump erupted in a tirade on Truth Social over special counsel Jack Smith’s announcement on Tuesday that Trump had been reindicted on four charges related to his Jan. 6, 2021, attempt to subvert the 2020 election results. “In an effort to resurrect a ‘dead’ Witch Hunt in Washington, D.C., in an act of desperation, and in order to save face, the illegally appointed “Special Counsel” Deranged Jack Smith, has brought a ridiculous new Indictment against me, which has all the problems of the old Indictment, and should be dismissed IMMEDIATELY,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday. Read more here. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Trump insists he’s ‘not a threat to democracy’ in Dr Phil interview, suggests God wants him to save the world Donald Trump insisted that he is “not a threat to democracy” in an interview with TV personality Dr Phil on Tuesday night, during which he also suggested that he survived an assassination attempt last month because God wanted him to save the US - and possibly the world. During the hour-long, sit-down in Las Vegas, the former president attempted to clarify previous remarks about wanting to be a “dictator for one day” and ensuring people would “not have to vote again” if he wins the White House in November. Read full report here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 He's pushing his Trump Digital Trading Cards again. If you but 15 or more (at $99 USD each) you receive a small piece of the suit Trump wore in the debate with Biden. 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Hmmm. Impressive physique in those cards. He must have worked out quite a bit for those "photos"! 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 His insanity knows no bounds. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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