Darth Vader is back!

Well folks it is the sequel nobody wanted except trumpites!

The world has just got a more dangerous place. Enjoy it while we can.

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  • Yeah. I know. I voted in the election but unlike 2020, this time Trump carried Nevada. 

    Although I am not a Democrat and am certainly not a fan of Biden or Harris, I voted for Harris because she's not stark raving insane. She's not a convicted felon. She has never sexually assaulted anyone. She isn't a pathological liar. She hasn't embraced project 2025 which if adopted, could cause irreperable harm to our republic. 

    I wonder if this is what the Germans felt like after the fall of the Weimar Republic during those dark days before the *** took control of the government. 

    Harris made a number of mistakes.

    1) She spent too much time focusing on how she represented law and order while Trumpw as a convicted criminal.

    2) She did not address issues with the economy.

    3) She did not address issues with immigration.

    4) While she had grandoise social plans, she never explained how she would fund any of her projects.

    5) She failed to appeal to the the working class and lost too many black and Latino votes. 

    Joe Biden also erred when he referred to Trump supporters as "garbage". Trump capialized on this by appearing at a rally in a garbage truck. This mistake was similar to Hillary Clinton's deplorable comment in 2016. Both of these comments ticked off Trump's base and galvanized his base to vote. 

    I now worry that Trump will follow through with withdrawing from NATO, ignoring climate change, and ending support for Ukraine. 

    The next four years are going to be brutal. 

  • I wonder if it would have made a difference if Biden had stepped aside sooner? Harris had a very short time to get herself together, but even so I would have expected more ideas even if they weren't firm policy. When asked what she would of done differently to Biden and she said 'nothing', was a big mistake, it made her look as though she had no ideas or oomph of her own.

    I think thinking that people with the same coloured skin will behave in a predictable way with no individual variation is racist in itself. I think Labour made the same mistake with Brexit,they had an expectation that working class people would all think the same. Politiicans, along with many others seem to lump peole together into demographic silo's and then get a hell of a shock when people step out of a silo they probably never knew they were in.

    In some ways Trumps victory was predictable, I think Biden let the whole country down, but not stepping aside sooner and allowing there to be a proper caucusus, (is that what you call it?) and debate over who the Democrat candidate would be.

    To be honest I wonder why the US only has two parties still? I know it's easy to say the UK does as it's oten a battle between Labour and the Tories, but we do have other smaller parties who can hold the balance of power in a hung parliament, and seak up for those who don't like either of the main parties and can be an opposition to both of the main parties, which ever of them holds power, they can be an opposition to the oppostion too.

    I don't really understand how the electoral colleges work either and how they decide if a Democrat or a Republican is thier senator/representative?

    The other thing I've been hearing a lot about over the last couple of days, is the effect that Elon Musk will have and some of it has been very interesting. There seems to be a thought that he will try and use Trump to do things like more space exploration and a manned mission to Mars, this could be interesting as it might contain Trump from some of his more malevolent ideas and put his energies into something else? Another flash point could be how Trump and his drill, drill, drill stuff will effect Musk and Tesla, I can see that relationship hitting the rocks over old and new technologies.

  • Biden should never have run for reelection. He was too old. By the time he stepped aside, it was too late for any other candidate other than Harris to step in. Harrris, as you might remember, lost in 2020. 

    I used to be a Republican but left the GOP in 2016 after Trump won the primary. I refused to have anything to do with Trump because MAGA did not represent the traditional core Republican values as they were under Ronald Regan. I also didn't like hearing the Access Hollywood tape in which Trump claimed that when you're rich and famous you can grab women by their privates without consequences. This was around the same time that it became known that he had paid hush money to Stormy Daniels and had therefore broken his marraige vows. 

    The next 8 years have only shown me that Donald Trump is a nasty, mean spirited, selfish person. He is also stupid. He seems to think that foreign governments pay tariffs. He didn't know that injecting yourself with bleach will kill you. He doesn't understand how electricity works. 

    After learning that Harriss had spent a summer working at McDonald's, he worked a partial shift without a hair restraint as required by the health code. People at the drive through were prescreened so that they wouldn't say or do anything unfortunate when they came to the window to get their food. The entire McDonald's event was clearly staged and yet his gullible base ate it up. 

    I honestly don't understand why he was reelected. I don't think that this speaks well of our core values in the United States. I am also now wondering if race and gender was a factor. Are we still a nature where the president has to be some old white guy? 

    I wish Liz Cheney had formed a third party for conservative moderates. Our only two choices in this country seem to be far left or far right. There isn't a middle of the aisle choice. 

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  • Biden should never have run for reelection. He was too old. By the time he stepped aside, it was too late for any other candidate other than Harris to step in. Harrris, as you might remember, lost in 2020. 

    I used to be a Republican but left the GOP in 2016 after Trump won the primary. I refused to have anything to do with Trump because MAGA did not represent the traditional core Republican values as they were under Ronald Regan. I also didn't like hearing the Access Hollywood tape in which Trump claimed that when you're rich and famous you can grab women by their privates without consequences. This was around the same time that it became known that he had paid hush money to Stormy Daniels and had therefore broken his marraige vows. 

    The next 8 years have only shown me that Donald Trump is a nasty, mean spirited, selfish person. He is also stupid. He seems to think that foreign governments pay tariffs. He didn't know that injecting yourself with bleach will kill you. He doesn't understand how electricity works. 

    After learning that Harriss had spent a summer working at McDonald's, he worked a partial shift without a hair restraint as required by the health code. People at the drive through were prescreened so that they wouldn't say or do anything unfortunate when they came to the window to get their food. The entire McDonald's event was clearly staged and yet his gullible base ate it up. 

    I honestly don't understand why he was reelected. I don't think that this speaks well of our core values in the United States. I am also now wondering if race and gender was a factor. Are we still a nature where the president has to be some old white guy? 

    I wish Liz Cheney had formed a third party for conservative moderates. Our only two choices in this country seem to be far left or far right. There isn't a middle of the aisle choice. 

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  • I'm sorry you feel triggered by my words RT, that was never my intention, as spikey said, it's just that for Europeans the Democrats are right wing, more right wing than many of us would consider voting for.

    I agree about gender reasignment surgery for prisoners when it's not available for the general population without paying mega bucks.

    Minimum wage caused some problems initially in this country too, but now most people support it, yes everytime it goes up the same groups complain, mostly small business owners and having been part of running a small business I do understand the problem. But work need to pay and pay enough that people aren't having to work all the hours in the day to keep a roof over thier heads and food on the table. We have universal credit that's supposed to top up the wages of the employed as well as those unemployed, for the employed it's a nightmare as they risk losing so much if they do more hours, it's not that they want to not work for a living. If it were down to me, I'd get rid of in work benefits for all but the very few and use the money over a 10 year period to support business, particulalry small businesses to double the minimum wage and keep increasing it yearly along with at least the rate of inflation.

    There are a few things most Brits and probably most Europeans don't understand about your country, like the lack of public health care and gun control. I get that the right to bear arms is part of your founding consitution, but military grade hardware! Really!, I understand that in many areas you have animals such as bears and pumas that can kill a person, but do you really need an RPG or assault rifle?

  • I think that this is a misunderstanding. It would be a shame if you left because of this.

    I think CW was merely saying that a lot of Europeans find the US definitions of far left astounding when the Democrats are not far off the UK's Conservative party.

    I'm pretty sure she wasn't laughing AT anyone.

  • 'Conservative' is defined as being averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values. It is opposite of the term, 'progressive' and is not the same thing at all. The terms conservative and progressive are polarized opposites. 

    For example, Harris wanted to allow prison inmates to have the option of purusing elective gender changing operations at taxpayer expense. Depending upon the quality of the operation performed, this could cost taxpayers $163,000+ per patient. This service is not available to the average person unless they have insurance and want to pay the deducatable. 

    She wanted to raise Federal minimum wage to $15.00. California raised minimum wage to $16.00 an hour. The end result was that 5,400 people were laid off as businesses either closed or streamlined their operations. 60% of all businesses in California have now raised their prices. Fast food which was characterized as being affordable and quick is now much more expensive. 

     I am going to take my leave of this site for a few days. Being told that you are laughing at my pain has been a trigger because the United States is moving towards becoming a fascist state as Donald Trump continues to erode core democratic principles. 

    He already violated his oath of office to support and defend the constitution when he encouraged an insurrection on Janaury 6th. One of his campaign promises was to pardon all convicted rioters if he won the election, 

    If project 2025 is implemented, the consequences will extend far beyond our borders given how the United States is the world's only remaining superpower. 

    Edit: I have disabled messaging from this site and have blocked it on my email. 

  • Sorry it just makes me laught when Americans refer to Harris as Far Left, to us she's just differently conservative. Why do you think she's far left?