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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,337
    Just as a comparison, Watergate was in 1973, Nixon died in 1974, yet look at his citations in books. Seems that being President and a criminal gives you an afterlife. And Nixon was a saint compared with Trump - he even had the sense to resign.


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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    pangolin said:

    There was a lot of chat about how people should stop talking about him after the election. Nothing worthy of discussion has happened since then has it?

    I'm sure things will remain equally 'boring' on the Donald front for a little while to come.

    Stevo why don't you lead by example?

    This would definitely apply in the Brexit thread, where Stevo, a defeated remainer as we all know, should apparently have stopped posting years ago.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,149
    edited January 2021
    Who can argue with a president who has managed nearly a five hundred page thread during his tenure. I doubt Biden will even manage the creation of the honour!

    I don't see a Johnson, Macron or a Merkel thread. He's been in the game with Brexit, Covid from the get go and has battled to the end!

    Bravo!
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    It's time for the Biden thread to be started so Trump can be ignored.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Followed by a Harris thread?
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,149
    TheBigBean said:

    It's time for the Biden thread to be started so Trump can be ignored.

    What do you talk about though? Being predictable and having an ordinary ego is a ridiculous strategy, it doesn't stand a chance!
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,337
    TheBigBean said:

    It's time for the Biden thread to be started so Trump can be ignored.


    I think a lot of people are hoping that Biden will be a lot more boring than Trump. Who remembers Gerald Ford?
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    Slight typo BT, Nixon died in 1994.

    I would hope that, with time and perspective, the US might look at the 'checks and balances' of their system again. A 'democracy' in which an individual can exercise sweeping executive powers e.g. to overturn the justice system in return no doubt for a $n million contribution to the back pocket, is more like an autocracy. Particularly when the single individual is the likes of TantrumDonny.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,337
    I can't think why people wouldn't want us to carry on talking about a right wing populist.
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,162
    Just turn this into a GOP thread. Plenty of lunacy to be found there.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,910
    focuszing723 said:

    TheBigBean said:

    It's time for the Biden thread to be started so Trump can be ignored.

    What do you talk about though? Being predictable and having an ordinary ego is a ridiculous strategy, it doesn't stand a chance!
    Not sure. Interest in US presidents always seems to be much greater and more widely reported than I would expect.

  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,648
    ballysmate said:

    Followed by a Harris thread?

    Why? We don't have a Pence thread.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,337
    pangolin said:

    ballysmate said:

    Followed by a Harris thread?

    Why? We don't have a Pence thread.

    Can anyone name Gerald Ford's VP without looking it up? I've got absolutely no idea.
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    pangolin said:

    ballysmate said:

    Followed by a Harris thread?

    Why? We don't have a Pence thread.
    I was alluding to when she takes over.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,149
    See, he even manged to make Putin a non entity, just a side note in the discussion. Unbelieve, don't get me wrong the maniacal mob boss was inspired, but nobody even managed the effort to create a thread, the poor fella and he tried the top off Rambo thing!
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,143
    Irony thread calling.
  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,648
    ballysmate said:

    pangolin said:

    ballysmate said:

    Followed by a Harris thread?

    Why? We don't have a Pence thread.
    I was alluding to when she takes over.
    OK Bally...
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Has Biden not already said that he intends to serve one term only and being as Harris was being groomed to run in '24 anyway, it seems quite likely, regardless of Biden's health/age.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,143
    ballysmate said:

    Has Biden not already said that he intends to serve one term only and being as Harris was being groomed to run in '24 anyway, it seems quite likely, regardless of Biden's health/age.

    I thought he had said that, but he denied it.

    I read the other day that Senator Diane Feinstein has filed paperwork to run for re-election to a new six year term in 2024. She is 87.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,337
    kingstongraham said:

    Irony thread calling.


    Thank god Stevo hasn't mentioned Corbyn since he lost the Labour leadership to Starmer.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436

    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,143
    tailwindhome said:


    That's amazing. What paper published that?
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,143
    edited January 2021
    On the swamp - Trump made a big deal about an executive order in 2017 that stopped members of his government getting jobs as lobbyists after they have left government.

    Yesterday:

  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,383
    briantrumpet said:

    kingstongraham said:

    Irony thread calling.


    Thank god Stevo hasn't mentioned Corbyn since he lost the Labour leadership to Starmer.
    Not sure how Trump is particularly relevant to us after 5pm today. But you're free to carry on posting about him as much as you like. As are others who felt the need to reply to my point.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,383
    pangolin said:

    There was a lot of chat about how people should stop talking about him after the election. Nothing worthy of discussion has happened since then has it?

    I'm sure things will remain equally 'boring' on the Donald front for a little while to come.

    Stevo why don't you lead by example?

    Thread is dead at 5pm today I think.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    kingstongraham said:

    tailwindhome said:


    That's amazing. What paper published that?
    Hope is on the Telegraph. But that has to be a spoof right? Not even a blinkered Brexsh*t buffoon could believe that. Surely?
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,337
    kingstongraham said:

    On the swamp - Trump made a big deal about an executive order in 2017 that stopped members of his government getting jobs as lobbyists after they have left government.

    Yesterday:


    Given that the Constitution was predicated on righting the wrongs of having a monarch doing things on a whim with no democratic bar to overcome, presidential executive orders do seem to be somewhat antithetical to that aim.
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,149
    kingstongraham said:

    tailwindhome said:


    That's amazing. What paper published that?
    Biden’s great-great-grandfather Edward Blewitt grew up in the old market town, the birthplace of Mary Robinson, Ireland’s first female president. Blewitt emigrated after the Irish potato famine of the 1840s to Biden’s birthplace of Scranton, Pennsylvania, a sister city of Ballina.


    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-ireland/bidens-ancestral-irish-home-celebrates-looks-forward-to-reunion-idUSKBN27N0YV
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,383
    bompington said:

    pangolin said:

    There was a lot of chat about how people should stop talking about him after the election. Nothing worthy of discussion has happened since then has it?

    I'm sure things will remain equally 'boring' on the Donald front for a little while to come.

    Stevo why don't you lead by example?

    This would definitely apply in the Brexit thread, where Stevo, a defeated remainer as we all know, should apparently have stopped posting years ago.
    Did you? :)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,143
    Stevo_666 said:

    briantrumpet said:

    kingstongraham said:

    Irony thread calling.


    Thank god Stevo hasn't mentioned Corbyn since he lost the Labour leadership to Starmer.
    Not sure how Trump is particularly relevant to us after 5pm today. But you're free to carry on posting about him as much as you like. As are others who felt the need to reply to my point.
    The irony was posting here purely to tell people that it was not obligatory to post here.


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