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Also in the News - Part 2

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Alf Bentley

Alf Bentley

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5 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Their conviction rate is staggeringly high and they've gone at him with an insane number of charges in an absolute salvo. All the while he keeps committing further offences just by fvcking tweeting. Man's own lawyers pulling their hair out. 

 

He's buried if he can't stall long enough to try and get elected and pardon himself. 

 

I just think the Republicans are lining up an own goal. The overwhelmingly silent majority of their voters aren't actually Trump's extremely vocal base, they just know they need the MAGA crowd because otherwise he WILL run independent and split their vote. 

 

But I think they'll lose a LOT of the people that voted Trump last time because they thought he might be competent and decent even if they found his antics obnoxious. He's been exposed as a crook and a simpleton and while the Qult might be blind to it, the average American isn't. 

 

Biden gets in on a bigger majority next time IMO and Trump goes to jail (or some absolute kop out house arrest.) 

 

You can tell he's desperate because he's all over his socials ironically trying to incite Jan 6th 2.0 to help him out which is Trump levels of audaciously stupid. 

 

 

Unlike the other 3 sets of charges, apparently he wouldn't be able to pardon himself for these Georgia charges, if convicted and elected President. Because they're state level, not federal.

So we could presumably see the US President removed from the White House by the Feds and carted off to the clink. :blink:

 

I hope you're right about this "overwhelmingly silent majority" who won't back Trump this time......but the polls are pretty close, aren't they?

Oddschecker has Biden 7/4 and Trump 9/4, for what it's worth. I have too little knowledge of US politics to make any worthwhile predictions, but it all seems a bit close for comfort still..... 

leicsmac

leicsmac

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23 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

On the subject of American politics, Ron Desantis tapping out and begging Disney to drop their lawsuit is pure /chefskiss

He should have known better than to pick a legal knife fight with Disney. Their lawyer team is the stuff of nightmares.

Alf Bentley

Alf Bentley

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said:

Piss up in a brewery

 

 

 

 

Sounds like they got pissed up in a brewery before organising their campaign literature. :D

Paninistickers

Paninistickers

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This Captain Tom woman. 

 

I couldn't stand her from the off. She always appeared to be enjoying her tenuous link to fame - and enjoying Stalinist COVID restrictions - far far too much. (And, frankly, well meaning Captain Tom himself was as boring af anyway. Cheering up the nation? Lol) 

 

First building herself a spa and now fingers in till. Awful woman.

 

 

Lionator

Lionator

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I think in any other generation, Biden romps home at the next election. From a distance I feel he’s done well and the metrics are all pointing in the right direction. Been spot on with Ukraine, got their economy on the right track etc. but the country is SO divided that Trump, who delivered absolutely nothing in his time as president and is a criminal, has a 50% chance of winning. 

Lionator

Lionator

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1 minute ago, Paninistickers said:

This Captain Tom woman. 

 

I couldn't stand her from the off. She always appeared to be enjoying her tenuous link to fame - and enjoying Stalinist COVID restrictions - far far too much. (And, frankly, well meaning Captain Tom himself was as boring af anyway. Cheering up the nation? Lol) 

 

First building herself a spa and now fingers in till. Awful woman.

 

 

https://x.com/shashj/status/1691503928578285578?s=46&t=XzXtyl311-twukZdC5F7gA 

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Bellend Sebastian

Bellend Sebastian

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, Paninistickers said:

This Captain Tom woman. 

 

I couldn't stand her from the off. She always appeared to be enjoying her tenuous link to fame - and enjoying Stalinist COVID restrictions - far far too much. (And, frankly, well meaning Captain Tom himself was as boring af anyway. Cheering up the nation? Lol) 

 

First building herself a spa and now fingers in till. Awful woman.

 

 

Is that a perm, Hannah? A perm paid for by CAPTAIN TOM?

 

I'm sure it's what he would've wanted etc

ozleicester

ozleicester

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7 hours ago, Lionator said:

I think in any other generation, Biden romps home at the next election. From a distance I feel he’s done well and the metrics are all pointing in the right direction. Been spot on with Ukraine, got their economy on the right track etc. but the country is SO divided that Trump, who delivered absolutely nothing in his time as president and is a criminal, has a 50% chance of winning. 

With my rose tinted glassses I still strongly believe that Trump "brings out" the Democrat voters, so while he gets his 70million , he loses to the 80 million, "we hate Trumpers" (plus the increasing numbers of new voters that lean heavily left.)

A bigger possible risk is a DeSantis type, who is worse than Trump getting the nod ahead of Trump and the Dems not bothering to vote against him.

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also, as with 2020.. there is no Cambridge Analytica (If you havent read or seen "The great Hack", I recommend it) this time and the Russians have other areas of focus.

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Jon the Hat

Jon the Hat

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14 hours ago, Alf Bentley said:

 

Unlike the other 3 sets of charges, apparently he wouldn't be able to pardon himself for these Georgia charges, if convicted and elected President. Because they're state level, not federal.

So we could presumably see the US President removed from the White House by the Feds and carted off to the clink. :blink:

 

I hope you're right about this "overwhelmingly silent majority" who won't back Trump this time......but the polls are pretty close, aren't they?

Oddschecker has Biden 7/4 and Trump 9/4, for what it's worth. I have too little knowledge of US politics to make any worthwhile predictions, but it all seems a bit close for comfort still..... 

Utter Nonsense!!  Its the US Marshalls who cart people off when it is state charges.  I saw it in The Fugitive :)

 

Lets really hope so, I dread to think what another 4 years of Trump does to the world.  Last time I expected him to win, but this time I really have no idea.  I do know that mid-term polls are usually pretty brutal to US presidents, but they have a long term history of winning a second term.

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Jon the Hat

Jon the Hat

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9 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

This Captain Tom woman. 

 

I couldn't stand her from the off. She always appeared to be enjoying her tenuous link to fame - and enjoying Stalinist COVID restrictions - far far too much. (And, frankly, well meaning Captain Tom himself was as boring af anyway. Cheering up the nation? Lol) 

 

First building herself a spa and now fingers in till. Awful woman.

 

 

Its a tricky one, no evidence in the public domain at least that she did anything illegal, but certainly appears to have maximised every possible angle to enrich herself which is pretty shitty in the circumstances.

leicsmac

leicsmac

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7 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

Utter Nonsense!!  Its the US Marshalls who cart people off when it is state charges.  I saw it in The Fugitive :)

 

Lets really hope so, I dread to think what another 4 years of Trump does to the world.  Last time I expected him to win, but this time I really have no idea.  I do know that mid-term polls are usually pretty brutal to US presidents, but they have a long term history of winning a second term.

To add to this, I reckon that the degree of polarisation in the US is now so stark that any president, no matter which party, is going to poll over 40-45% for long for the time being. The days of everyone including or excluding their own party being shocked and condemning Nixon for a criminal act and standing in solidarity with Dubya post-9/11 are over. Now the truth itself is subjective, whatever truth you want is delivered to you via social media every day, and as such criminal acts are just "made up for political purposes".

leicsmac

leicsmac

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1 minute ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

https://news.sky.com/story/andrew-malkinson-police-and-cps-knew-another-mans-dna-was-on-the-clothes-of-the-woman-he-was-convicted-of-raping-13-years-before-he-was-released-12940898
 

 

Horrendous all this is. I hope he takes GMP to the cleaners 

Terrible miscarriage of justice. Hopefully he will be compensated for every minute as well as his pain and suffering.

 

As an aside, this is why arguments for the death penalty are flawed - absolute punishments require absolute proof and while there are miscarriages like this, the system isn't good enough for it.

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Jon the Hat

Jon the Hat

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3 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Terrible miscarriage of justice. Hopefully he will be compensated for every minute as well as his pain and suffering.

 

As an aside, this is why arguments for the death penalty are flawed - absolute punishments require absolute proof and while there are miscarriages like this, the system isn't good enough for it.

Another thing which strikes me as shocking in this case when I read it is this bit:  was jailed for life with a minimum term of seven years, but he served a further 10 for maintaining his innocence.

 

What the actual ****? So if you are found guilty and admit it, you get out in 7 years, but if you are found guilty and maintain your innocence you serve 17 years?  Insane.

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Torquay Gunner

Torquay Gunner

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16 hours ago, Alf Bentley said:

 

Unlike the other 3 sets of charges, apparently he wouldn't be able to pardon himself for these Georgia charges, if convicted and elected President. Because they're state level, not federal.

So we could presumably see the US President removed from the White House by the Feds and carted off to the clink. :blink:

 

I hope you're right about this "overwhelmingly silent majority" who won't back Trump this time......but the polls are pretty close, aren't they?

Oddschecker has Biden 7/4 and Trump 9/4, for what it's worth. I have too little knowledge of US politics to make any worthwhile predictions, but it all seems a bit close for comfort still..... 

Think the Stormy Daniels case is also state ie New York - although the least serious of his indictments. 

leicsmac

leicsmac

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1 hour ago, Jon the Hat said:

Another thing which strikes me as shocking in this case when I read it is this bit:  was jailed for life with a minimum term of seven years, but he served a further 10 for maintaining his innocence.

 

What the actual ****? So if you are found guilty and admit it, you get out in 7 years, but if you are found guilty and maintain your innocence you serve 17 years?  Insane.

It's the ridiculous US-style system that gives incentives for plea bargains and punishes people for maintaining innocence. The only utility I can see it has is saving time for the CPS bureaucracy.

urban.spaceman

urban.spaceman

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10 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

Their conviction rate is staggeringly high and they've gone at him with an insane number of charges in an absolute salvo. All the while he keeps committing further offences just by fvcking tweeting. Man's own lawyers pulling their hair out. 

 

He's buried if he can't stall long enough to try and get elected and pardon himself. 

 

I just think the Republicans are lining up an own goal. The overwhelmingly silent majority of their voters aren't actually Trump's extremely vocal base, they just know they need the MAGA crowd because otherwise he WILL run independent and split their vote. 

 

But I think they'll lose a LOT of the people that voted Trump last time because they thought he might be competent and decent even if they found his antics obnoxious. He's been exposed as a crook and a simpleton and while the Qult might be blind to it, the average American isn't. And Biden has proven to, unsurprisingly, be a milquetoast centrist (shock) and not really do anything all that radical or left wing that might put them off. 

 

Biden gets in on a bigger majority next time IMO and Trump goes to jail (or some absolute kop out house arrest.) 

 

You can tell he's desperate because he's all over his socials ironically trying to incite Jan 6th 2.0 to help him out which is Trump levels of audaciously stupid. 

 

Completely agree with the whole post but just to pick up on the bits in bold and mostly to do with the use of 'tweeting'; he's not actually tweeted since he was let back on in November 2022, so he's tweeted nothing since he was banned on 8th Jan 2021. He seems to do most of his ramblings on Truth Social but does still use Insta and Facebook.

 

To break it down at a very quick glance, it looks like this:

 

Truth Social - 2m active members; 5.4m followers at last count.

Instagram - 2.5bn active members; 23.4m followers - he posts every couple of days, mostly video clips from favourable news twatlets, rallies and promotional shite.

Facebook - 2.95bn active members; 34m followers - posts every few days, mostly the same as Instagram.

 

On Twitter he has 86.5m followers. He's free to post when he wants thanks to Space Karen but has chosen not to. I do wonder if he's figured out that he can reach his base more effectively like before and it just waiting for the right time to unleash it again? Especially with his claims of "explosive evidence" apparently up his sleeve. 

 

Watch this space basically. 

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