US Election November 5th

[Blackswanwood]

Also people here questioned why it was when starmer met biden that he could see nothing wrong with him, some said it might be just a diplomatic stance, others said maybe a case of grovelling to help the anglo american relationship but now it seems starmer has no ability with social interactions or people skills, almost a touch of autism showing so to him biden was perfectly normal and they were on the same page.

Hmmm - that's a bit of a strange conclusion to reach isn't it?

Yes, Starmer may be what would colloquially be referred to as "a bit wooden" in the way he interacts with people but to say that points to him being autistic is a bit of a leap.

If he'd come out of the meeting and said Joe Biden was clearly senile (which I don't think he is) it may have pleased some people but would have deeply harmed the relationship with the current (and possibly future) administration of one of our most important allies. He was bound to be asked the question as that's what journalists do but he was bound also to give the answer that he did even if Joe Biden had nodded off in their meeting.

I've no affiliation to Keir Starmer (and am looking forward to seeing HIGNFY give him the treatment) but I think it's a bit of a stretch to start diagnosing him as autistic from a distance on the basis he decided to not do an amateur diagnosis of the mental cognitive state of the POTUS!

 

[ey_tony]

ah, the endangered tory spotted in the wild...

Wrong again, you're not very good at this, are you!
I'm certainly not a Tory if that helps so what political label are you going to put on me now?
You only get three goes by the way and then you're out!

 

[RobinBHM]

Let's put it this way, I'd feel far safer with Trump as the American president than the oaf in charge right now.

Does Project 2025 not worry you?

it certainly would me If I was in America

 

[ey_tony]

Does Project 2025 not worry you?

it certainly would me If I was in America

That's just it! I don't live in America.
It's their foreign policy which may affect me and the rest of the West...not what happens internally in their country!
We have enough issues with the clowns in charge of the UK without sticking our noses into what is happening in the USA.

 

[John Brown]

That's just it! I don't live in America.
It's their foreign policy which may affect me and the rest of the West...not what happens internally in their country!
We have enough issues with the clowns in charge of the UK without sticking our noses into what is happening in the USA.

Have you been asleep since 4th July? The clowns have gone now!

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Different clowns, same circus.

 

[RobinBHM]

It's their foreign policy which may affect me and the rest of the West.

supporting Ukraine defend itself against Putin is a very sensible policy

hopefully we dont get Trump winning who will increase tensions in Europe and the Middle East

 

[selectortone]

Different clowns, same circus.

Yeah, but the jokes are better.

 

[ey_tony]

Have you been asleep since 4th July? The clowns have gone now!

Same circus just different clowns!

 

[ey_tony]

Different clowns, same circus.

We think alike...I didn't read your post but I posted exactly what you said!

 

[ey_tony]

supporting Ukraine defend itself against Putin is a very sensible policy

hopefully we dont get Trump winning who will increase tensions in Europe and the Middle East

I think you'll find that things are already tense in those areas and Trump isn't the American president so I can't see him making things worse than they already are. But then again I'm not a Trumpophobe.

Next comment please!

 

[selectortone]

I like Walz. He seems like a proper grown-up.

 

[RobinBHM]

Trump isn't the American president so I can't see him making things worse than they already are. But then again I'm not a Trumpophobe.

you seem to definitely approve of Trump

you seem to think things would be safe with Trump than Biden........

"I'd feel far safer with Trump as the American president than the oaf in charge right now. Trump whatever his failings isn't a war-monger unlike the clowns in charge of the USA right now who have taken the West to the brink of nuclear war! Those are the threat to the world, not Trump.
If Trump is the best they can come up with as an opposition out of a population of 330 million, it just shows how bad American politics really are. He's no more of a crook than Biden"


Im not sure how you come to the conclusion "Trump is no more a crook than Biden" Trump is literally a committed felon and he has numerous criminal counts against him, numerous civil suits against him and he is facing more criminal cases.

My guess is you are right wing, so its tribalism driving your bias

 

[paulrbarnard]

$14bn was spent on the 2020 presidential election

And that was just by Russia and China

 

[ey_tony]

you seem to definitely approve of Trump

you seem to think things would be safe with Trump than Biden........

"I'd feel far safer with Trump as the American president than the oaf in charge right now. Trump whatever his failings isn't a war-monger unlike the clowns in charge of the USA right now who have taken the West to the brink of nuclear war! Those are the threat to the world, not Trump.
If Trump is the best they can come up with as an opposition out of a population of 330 million, it just shows how bad American politics really are. He's no more of a crook than Biden"


Im not sure how you come to the conclusion "Trump is no more a crook than Biden" Trump is literally a committed felon and he has numerous criminal counts against him, numerous civil suits against him and he is facing more criminal cases.

My guess is you are right wing, so its tribalism driving your bias

I'm neither right nor left wing. None of the parties endear me to their politics.
If I can be pigeon holed as it always seems the thing for left wingers to do then I would best be described as a Capitalist. Why is it that left wingers can't exist without pigeon holes in which to put people who disagree with their nonsense?

As for bias. I simply don't subscribe to the socialist nonsense spouted on here and elsewhere. Similarly I don't subscribe to far right nonsense.
I've lived an awful long time and I've yet to meet a true socialist...most who claim to be so would faint if they actually lived in a truly socialist country.
You know when socialists are in charge as they always use the law to suppress any objections to policies.

 

[Chris152]

I'm neither right nor left wing. None of the parties endear me to their politics.
If I can be pigeon holed as it always seems the thing for left wingers to do then I would best be described as a Capitalist.

Umm...

 

[John Brown]

We think alike...I didn't read your post but I posted exactly what you said!

 

[Spectric]

supporting Ukraine defend itself against Putin is a very sensible policy

It is a really stupid thing to be doing, Ukraine will lose this war or we will all lose everything because russia is not going to lose. Whilst the west keeps adding fuel to the fire it will keep burning and lets not forget the chinese support.

I did see a picture of Russia showing of western miltary hardware that had been captured or destroyed in Ukraine and above the German tanks captured was a poignant sign saying " history is repeating itself" .

 

[Chris152]

" history is repeating itself" .

i.e. one despotic regime invading its peaceful neighbour(s)?

 

[Spectric]

I would not say russia was peaceful even before Germany invaded in ww2 but back then without Russia we might not have beaten germany.