Current Affairs General US politics (ie, not POTUS related)

[Ruairi77]

The Chair can say whatever it likes but it is incorrect. No one other than the U.K. and ROI are guarantors of anything. Clinton did a great job in being an honest broker, but that’s it, it was good foreign policy, but it gave the USA no other part in respect of NI and it’s border with ROI. Some Americans may imagine it does but it doesn’t. Neither the U.K. nor ROI want any kind of border, only the EU wants a border to ‘protect’ their single market, completely ignoring the fact that the U.K. also has a single market, a single market established long before the EU came into existence. But Biden and Pelosi value the EU and the Irish vote more than the U.K. and that’s fair enough, that’s their choice. If they don’t wish a trade deal with the U.K. then fine. However it would be nice if they actually understood the situation. Try to help by all means, but merely taking the EU position and ignoring the fact that NI is part of the U.K., just like Alaska is part of the USA does no one any favours. The sooner they are both gone the better…..

it's a tangent
but what a load of waffle, still waiting for your really simple satellites.
And as for your comparison of NI and Alaska, that just shows how little you understand the GFA and why Biden, who's government ratified it originally, is so concerned that UK brexit policy may jeopardize it.
A blindfolded monkey could tell you that the Tory party shouldn't be let near any international agreements.

 

[TN Toffee]

So Tulsi Gabbard has announced she’s “no longer a Democrat” (as if she ever was in anything but paperwork).

Anyone want to set the over/under on how long before she’s peddling The Big Lie?

Would honestly be surprised to find out that she hasn’t already been doing that.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Would honestly be surprised to find out that she hasn’t already been doing that.

Her statement was so painfully predictable... going on about a "cabal" and "wokeism". Yawn.

She's like 5mins from posting WWG1WGA

 

[peteblue]

it's a tangent
but what a load of waffle, still waiting for your really simple satellites.
And as for your comparison of NI and Alaska, that just shows how little you understand the GFA and why Biden, who's government ratified it originally, is so concerned that UK brexit policy may jeopardize it.
A blindfolded monkey could tell you that the Tory party shouldn't be let near any international agreements.

The USA ratified nothing. They hold and have no legal input. You seem to forget that the GFA was to bring peace in NI, a part of the U.K. , why would the U.K. seek to jeopardise the GFA. Even the ROI are suggesting that the current arrangements are not satisfactory. It is the EU that is being intransigent on this issue and Biden is blindingly tagging along. It would not matter which party was in power in the U.K. the issue is that the NI protocol doesn’t work and it needs to be fixed….

 

[Martin Alvito]

So Tulsi Gabbard has announced she’s “no longer a Democrat” (as if she ever was in anything but paperwork).

Anyone want to set the over/under on how long before she’s peddling The Big Lie?

Guaranteed House pension for service > 5 years at age 62 (not large, but probably more than Social Security), plus whatever she can rake in from the House of Murdoch in the interim. Not bad work, if you can get it.

 

[Ruairi77]

The USA ratified nothing. They hold and have no legal input. You seem to forget that the GFA was to bring peace in NI, a part of the U.K. , why would the U.K. seek to jeopardise the GFA. Even the ROI are suggesting that the current arrangements are not satisfactory. It is the EU that is being intransigent on this issue and Biden is blindingly tagging along. It would not matter which party was in power in the U.K. the issue is that the NI protocol doesn’t work and it needs to be fixed….

They did ratify it and are a guarantor.
Again, wrong thread but the Unionist part of the Conservative and Unionist party would quite happily see the back of the GFA and they govern the UK.
Biden is protecting an international agreement that he helped broker. One of very few recent US bipartisan foreign affairs successes.

 

[peteblue]

They did ratify it and are a guarantor.
Again, wrong thread but the Unionist part of the Conservative and Unionist party would quite happily see the back of the GFA and they govern the UK.
Biden is protecting an international agreement that he helped broker. One of very few recent US bipartisan foreign affairs successes.

Biden didn’t help to broker anything, Clinton did. It was between the U.K. and ROI. It has nothing to do with the USA other than Biden‘s mum being Irish and hating the U.K. so he and Pelosi think they can push their nose in. Show me where the USA is legally identified as a ‘guarantor’.….

 

[Charlie Sweet]

There are two guarantors to the GFA, the U.K. and the ROI. There are two signatories to the GFA, the U.K. and ROI. Neither the USA nor the EU have any legal part of it. Neither Biden nor Pelosi have anything to do with it other than cultivate the Irish vote…..

Once again your ignorance is astounding. The EU element with US support was critical in getting a deal. EU membership (pre Brexit) allowed everyone to think they had what they wanted. The horribly undemocratic Brexit vote changed all that. And again the Tories are now making a bad situation worse with their antics over the Protocol.

Back on topic - you clearly hate how the US is as one on the Irish issue. However all.they are doing is stating the obvious.

 

[peteblue]

Once again your ignorance is astounding. The EU element with US support was critical in getting a deal. EU membership (pre Brexit) allowed everyone to think they had what they wanted. The horribly undemocratic Brexit vote changed all that. And again the Tories are now making a bad situation worse with their antics over the Protocol.

Back on topic - you clearly hate how the US is as one on the Irish issue. However all.they are doing is stating the obvious.

So if the EU element with US support was critical, why have the EU done everything they can to put a barrier in the way of NI.

By ‘undemocratic’ you actually mean that you ignored the actual result of a democratic vote. Leave won by 1.4 million votes, slightly more than the whole of the NI electoral roll… I don’t really care how the US is on your Irish issue, because it has nothing to do with them, I just wish they would mind their own business or at least try and understand the issues before pronouncing on the subject……

 

[MrPerfectNot]

Guaranteed House pension for service > 5 years at age 62 (not large, but probably more than Social Security), plus whatever she can rake in from the House of Murdoch in the interim. Not bad work, if you can get it.

and still pulling some $ as an officer in the Army Reserves - not sure how she stays in with some of her outbursts, but she is serving - did tours in Iraq and Kuwait, so there is that.

 

[Martin Alvito]

and still pulling some $ as an officer in the Army Reserves - not sure how she stays in with some of her outbursts, but she is serving - did tours in Iraq and Kuwait, so there is that.

Her case is interesting there because she jumped from the Hawaii National Guard to the California Army Reserve at something like seventeen years, presumably to accommodate the TV gig. Military retirement is complicated enough that I'm not sure what the implications are, from 'she gets nothing in retirement because she didn't hit 20' to 'she gets everything once she leaves', and I'm not particularly interested in trying to sort through the details on that one.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Watch the Disturbing Kanye Interview Clips That Tucker Carlson Didn’t Put on Air

Motherboard obtained footage of Ye making bigoted statements about Jewish people and bizarre claims about "fake children," as well as describing visions of "kinetic energy" cities sent to him by God.

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Fox News recently aired a two-part interview between Tucker Carlson and Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West. Motherboard has obtained portions of the interview that were edited out of the final broadcast. These include numerous antisemitic sentiments from Ye, a strange and lengthy digression about “fake children” he claimed were planted in his house to manipulate his own children, and a statement that he’s vaccinated against COVID-19.

 

[Ruairi77]

Biden didn’t help to broker anything, Clinton did. It was between the U.K. and ROI. It has nothing to do with the USA other than Biden‘s mum being Irish and hating the U.K. so he and Pelosi think they can push their nose in. Show me where the USA is legally identified as a ‘guarantor’.….

From his seat on the Senate foreign relations committee, he helped push the Clinton administration into committing resources and political capital to brokering the agreement

 

[Martin Alvito]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/politics/mitch-mcconnell-interview-midterm-cliffhanger/index.html

I don't think there's anything truly new here, but I do think the interview does an excellent job of getting inside the head of someone who truly believes in winner-take-all at-all-costs.

 

[Rook]

So Tulsi Gabbard has announced she’s “no longer a Democrat” (as if she ever was in anything but paperwork).

Anyone want to set the over/under on how long before she’s peddling The Big Lie?

The grift on the other side is much easier and much more lucrurative.