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#5721 Post by John Hill » Mon Nov 25, 2019 4:54 am

It's not even your language.
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#5722 Post by boing » Mon Nov 25, 2019 4:57 am

Sorry John,
As a reflection on your comments of quid pro quo I couldn't resist this education.


Quid pro quo has been a fact of life since before memory so the Democrats need to grow up.


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#5723 Post by barkingmad » Mon Nov 25, 2019 9:00 am

Pop across to Amazon books and have a look at the reviews of the books by Greg Palast on the subject of democracy?

His observations are just as valid in UK as they are in the good old USA.

Still, it’s therapeutic to toddle along to the voting station and pencil an ‘X’ in one or all of the proffered boxes.

One gets that warm wet feeling that change might just occur and one has done one’s democratic duty.

After which settle down with a glass or 5 and hope oblivion sets in quickly?

P S. “And another one bites the dust”!;

US Navy Secretary Richard Spencer fired over Seal case https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50541045 ~X(

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#5724 Post by boing » Mon Nov 25, 2019 6:08 pm

It may seem reasonable to belittle the power of the ballot box but consider that the two most controversial topics in western politics today, that are splitting nations apart, are Brexit and Trump and both situations were precipitated by ballots.

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#5725 Post by ricardian » Mon Nov 25, 2019 7:46 pm

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#5726 Post by BenThere » Mon Nov 25, 2019 9:46 pm

I'm heartened to see some rumblings for independence in Alberta.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... separatism

When you look at the whole, the overbearing federal dominance of a too centralized government, dominated by an entrenched bureaucracy dominated almost always by Leftists, rubs a lot of people, like me, the wrong way. It's a factor in Brexit, too.

When the US ultimately breaks up as a result of Left and Right no longer being able to get along in a federation, I expect Alberta and maybe a few other Canadian provinces, 'yearning to breathe free', to join the new Constitutional States of America. The rest of Politically Correct North America can go to hell, where they belong.

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#5727 Post by John Hill » Tue Nov 26, 2019 4:39 am

BenThere wrote:
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When the US ultimately breaks up as a result of Left and Right no longer being able to get along in a federation, I expect Alberta and maybe a few other Canadian provinces, 'yearning to breathe free', to join the new Constitutional States of America.
I hope that will not mean the end of your socialist state paid pensions.
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#5728 Post by BenThere » Tue Nov 26, 2019 6:41 am

Me too. At last we can agree on something.

A minor quibble, though. My pensions were earned. They were funded by my contributions. None of them were given to me for sitting around and doing nothing, which seems to me to be the aim of socialism.

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#5729 Post by John Hill » Tue Nov 26, 2019 7:58 am

Interesting reading at https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB3005.html but I dont see where your contributions are mentioned.
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#5730 Post by Alisoncc » Wed Nov 27, 2019 5:13 am

News clip showed Trump pardoning two turkeys for thanksgiving day. But there was no mention as to whether they got to keep their Trident pins.
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#5731 Post by Boac » Wed Nov 27, 2019 2:07 pm

The audience in Florida at Humpty's rally apparently chanted 'BullSh!t' as he spoke. The truth will out.

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#5732 Post by boing » Thu Nov 28, 2019 2:00 am

Do you have a date for that BOAC? I have been trying to find it.

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#5733 Post by John Hill » Thu Nov 28, 2019 4:16 am

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#5734 Post by Boac » Thu Nov 28, 2019 8:33 am

An easy Google search, boing? https://lmgtfy.com/?q=*****+Florida

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#5735 Post by Boac » Thu Nov 28, 2019 3:50 pm

Have y'all noticed how much like Putin he has become physically? The sincerest form of flattery. All that plastic surgery too.

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#5736 Post by OFSO » Thu Nov 28, 2019 4:03 pm

Actually Alison he pardoned one actual turkey, while looking in a mirror...

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#5739 Post by boing » Thu Nov 28, 2019 7:32 pm

BOAC,
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I think you misinterpreted the report you read (or it was a deliberate distortion by the media involved?).
“They’re pushing that impeachment witch hunt and a lot of bad things are happening to them,” Trump said. “Because you see what’s happening in the polls? Everybody said that’s really *****!”
The crowd cheered, and apparently there were chants of “*****!”
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-rails ... s-bullsht/

He went so far as to call the impeachment proceedings “*****,” prompting a new audience chant containing the expletive.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/fl ... nes-487768

In case you need an explanation Trump called the impeachment proceedings BS and the supportive crowd echoed his assessment.
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#5740 Post by Boac » Thu Nov 28, 2019 8:38 pm

Glad you found it. It was posted TiC but I still like it./ Even Faux News agrees he lies.

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