Current Affairs 2024 POTUS race

[Martin Alvito]

I see he's come out and said he'd vote for trump because Bidens cabinet is so diverse he woldnt trust them to run a ben and jerrys.
I mean, thats seriously racist!

Ironic that he would say this two decades after Mark Cuban caught heat for saying he wouldn't hire the NBA's head of officiating to manage a Dairy Queen (this lacked the racial undertones). This led the company to invite him to manage one for a day, which he did, and conceded it was harder than he expected.

Frightening that today, no one much cares. It shows how desensitized we've all become to this nonsense.

 

[Ruairi77]

Ironic that he would say this two decades after Mark Cuban caught heat for saying he wouldn't hire the NBA's head of officiating to manage a Dairy Queen (this lacked the racial undertones). This led the company to invite him to manage one for a day, which he did, and conceded it was harder than he expected.

Frightening that today, no one much cares. It shows how desensitized we've all become to this nonsense.

what really annoys me about it is he's seen and knows how calamitous Trumps cabinet was, changes every 5 mins, people railing against him, absolute inadequacy the likes of which I've never seen. He's also seen how relatively calm and well run Bidens cabinet is. But he's opting for the Trump one because of 'Diversity',
And James bloody Tarkowsky listens to this chump.

We have a manager who likes Thatcher and a captain who likes Rogan.
How un Everton is that?

 

[verreauxi]

 

[verreauxi]

what really annoys me about it is he's seen and knows how calamitous Trumps cabinet was, changes every 5 mins, people railing against him, absolute inadequacy the likes of which I've never seen. He's also seen how relatively calm and well run Bidens cabinet is. But he's opting for the Trump one because of 'Diversity',
And James bloody Tarkowsky listens to this chump.

We have a manager who likes Thatcher and a captain who likes Rogan.
How un Everton is that?

Didn't know this and it is honestly depressing.

 

[Ruairi77]

Didn't know this and it is honestly depressing.

Yeah. Sorry about that. (Cap being Tark, not Coleman)

 

[Rook]

 

[dylsexicbleu]

Stop lying.

 

[gonetomorrow]

There doesn't seem to be any forum in the States where politicians are encouraged to explain policy and answer questions.

I mean BBC Question Time and its radio equivalent ain't much but at least you get the impression there's some debate going on here and members of the public are engaged.

At the moment, Trump is just allowed to rant and rave at will before his own whooping supporters. It would be great to see him regularly having to explain himself in a proper debate. No doubt he'd dodge it, like Boris used to do.

I've been following the US news networks lately and it seems to me the journos are more concerned with looking slick on screen ("Always great having ya on, Dan") rather than collaring politicians and demanding answers.

 

[LostLegend]

He's like the human equivalent of "Here's what you could have won"

Instead, you have a choice between a Marvel villain and the reanimated corpse of Joe Biden

 

[carolinablue232]

He's like the human equivalent of "Here's what you could have won"

Instead, you have a choice between a Marvel villain and the reanimated corpse of Joe Biden

Smart move to have Bernie do this. His followers would likely be a good portion of the stay at home group. Turnout is going to be everything in november

 

[Rita_Poon]

"Moscone bail bonds... HALF A WHAT!!!?!"

 

[verreauxi]

There doesn't seem to be any forum in the States where politicians are encouraged to explain policy and answer questions.

I mean BBC Question Time and its radio equivalent ain't much but at least you get the impression there's some debate going on here and members of the public are engaged.

At the moment, Trump is just allowed to rant and rave at will before his own whooping supporters. It would be great to see him regularly having to explain himself in a proper debate. No doubt he'd dodge it, like Boris used to do.

I've been following the US news networks lately and it seems to me the journos are more concerned with looking slick on screen ("Always great having ya on, Dan") rather than collaring politicians and demanding answers.

Yeah, journalism here is largely a joke/ratings game (there is good independent journalism but they don't have much of national platform). There is very little accountability, and when there are attempts to hold politicians accountable, the politicians either refuse to answer, walk away, or just ignore. One long-term consequence of the sycophancy of Fox News was that it produced a whole new generation of politicians who expect soft-ball questions from journalists coupled with the expectation that most journalists are the enemy (except for Fox News).

 

[Rook]

There doesn't seem to be any forum in the States where politicians are encouraged to explain policy and answer questions.

I mean BBC Question Time and its radio equivalent ain't much but at least you get the impression there's some debate going on here and members of the public are engaged.

At the moment, Trump is just allowed to rant and rave at will before his own whooping supporters. It would be great to see him regularly having to explain himself in a proper debate. No doubt he'd dodge it, like Boris used to do.

I've been following the US news networks lately and it seems to me the journos are more concerned with looking slick on screen ("Always great having ya on, Dan") rather than collaring politicians and demanding answers.

There was Meet the Press w/ Tim Russert. Tim was beloved in the journalism sphere because he was "non-partisan" even tho he willing kept info off the record when it on the record so he didn't lose a source or something. The only thing that matters in Washington journalism is getting invited to parties and having sources.

Tim's big thing was: HAHA HERE'S A QUOTE YOU MADE IN 1972 YOU SAID YOU WERE AGAINST/FOR SAID POLICY YOU ARE ADVOCATING FOR!! This accounted for hard hitting questioning in Washington and made Tim a star. The thing is this stuff really worked....against democrats. Many democrats were bat@#$^ terrified of being called out for something they wrote in a college English essay. Dems would literally start stuttering (we lose a lot of elections).

So anyway Dick Cheney (gawd bless his evil black heart) would just go on the show, just look at him and say "so what". Soon Cheney was on the show almost every week, "tim let me control the narrative, while tim got to bring up his weekly quote I made in the Nixon admin that had nothing to do w/ anything"

 

[carolinablue232]

There doesn't seem to be any forum in the States where politicians are encouraged to explain policy and answer questions.

I mean BBC Question Time and its radio equivalent ain't much but at least you get the impression there's some debate going on here and members of the public are engaged.

At the moment, Trump is just allowed to rant and rave at will before his own whooping supporters. It would be great to see him regularly having to explain himself in a proper debate. No doubt he'd dodge it, like Boris used to do.

I've been following the US news networks lately and it seems to me the journos are more concerned with looking slick on screen ("Always great having ya on, Dan") rather than collaring politicians and demanding answers.

I actually think trump will want to debate Biden. I’m not sure Bidens camp will go for it though. And even if they do debate it’ll turn into a circus within 10 minutes after Trump shoots his mouth off about something stupid. We are a disaster.

 

[gonetomorrow]

I actually think trump will want to debate Biden. I’m not sure Bidens camp will go for it though. And even if they do debate it’ll turn into a circus within 10 minutes after Trump shoots his mouth off about something stupid. We are a disaster.

Well presumably there will be some pre-election "debates" on TV which neither candidate will find easy to swerve but I'm talking about the sort of weekly engagement which involves "we the people" firing questions at their elected representatives.

I'm increasingly worried at how the USA is fiddling while Trump rages. My hope is that he comes out with a real whopper - even bigger than his encouraging Russia to invade NATO countries. Perhaps he'll insult God, or Taylor Swift or something and slowly the sleeping majority will wake up and say No Way.