Boojum tell us how you really feel 🥴. I hear a lot of he ain't Trump, he won't do this he won't do that, but I don't hear a lot of Biden wants to do this or that which is really good for the people in the US. I take it you don't like Boris either. As far as the US people feeling it's the greatest country, I would hope we all love our country and want or think it is the best or I'd be looking to move. You seem to have a high opinion of England if that's where you are, and I'm not sure my country is the world's greatest but those of us loyal to it, like to think it's pretty damn good and those in the USA have not only the right but a responsibility to think that way. If not just fold your cards and walk away from the game or would you rather everybody put all your chips in the center and we'll just split them up evenly. That's only a good game if you didn't bring much to table to begin with.
If you were genuinely interested in learning what Biden wants to do, it isn't difficult to find out. The Republicans didn't even bother to create and pass a platform at their convention this year; essentially their platform was, "We'll support whatever Trump decides he wants to do today!"
On the other hand, Biden has put a lot of effort into developing a sensible, detailed program which, amongst other things, includes:
· Creating a national test and trace program for coronavirus
· Universal pre-school and expanding free college
· Expanding Obamacare
· Restoring the USA's international reputation (and maybe taking on China)
· Criminal justice reform
· Grants for business support in minority communities
· Incentivising states to decriminalise pot, and expunge pot convictions
· Raising the minimum wage
· Investing in green energy
There's nothing there that I see as evil, but then I'm one of those liberals who the Trump cultists lump with commies, Satanists and baby-killers, so I'm sure they wouldn't agree.
As for Boris Johnson, he's a dickhead who has never been subtle about letting people know that he believed he deserved to be Prime Minister. Yet once he managed to claw and plot and worm his way into that position, the only thing he's proved is that he's nothing more than hollow ambition. The job is way beyond his level of competence, he doesn't really know what he wants to achieve and he picked a bunch of second- and third-rate people to run the government departments, so he and they have fucked up over and over. He differs from Trump in that he's more articulate and his privileged education means he's able to drop vaguely apropos chunks of Latin and quotes from classic literature into his meandering speeches. But he's a populist rabble-rouser just like Trump, and he doesn't have much greater intellectual depth.
I absolutely agree with you here. Trump was hard at work ruining the relationships between the US and Europe. There has never been a better time for us to strengthen our relationships in today's world, plagued by terrorism, climate change, pollution and Russia and China.
Bring back incandescent lights, tax cuts for the mega rich, more coal industry and power plants, backing out of the Paris agreement, the idiocy that is "Space Force", his stupidly expensive wall idea that still won't stop illegal immigration...
These are things you'd expect a parody of the real president to do in a movie, or in GTA, but not in real life... In the same country that sent man to the moon!
BTW: My girlfriend's father was ecstatic when Boris Johnson won and Brexit was a go. He's one of those Brits that believes Great Britain will once again rise from the ashes and be the greatest empire in the world and the rest of us should either serve England, or die.
He still can't get over the fact that not only did his daughter chose a European as her man, but an Eastern European... a Bulgarian (where everyone is either mafia, or a gypsy)!
Worst scum of the world, right? I think he can go and drown himself in the Thames!
You have my sincere sympathies about having a father-in-law to-be such as him.
Trumpists and Brexiteers have a lot in common. The mindset also has a lot in common with those of who bore different labels and caused a huge amount of death and destruction during the twentieth century.
Among the British left, people like your girlfriend's father are called 'Little Englanders'. That's shorthand for people are xenophobic, extremely nationalistic, completely deluded about the significance of the UK in today's world and cling to a fantasy that the Great Britain of the past was a noble, wholly benign force in the world and therefore respected (or at least feared) everywhere.
Such people tend to be not very bright, not very well educated and generally older. Rather like another demographic in another well-known country, in fact.
As I'm sure you know, the UK has now officially left the EU, but the big change in the rules will only hit on 1 January. Johnson and his clown posse are still farting about and trying to throw their weight around as the negotiations for the next set of rules comes down to the wire, but I have a feeling that they might be finally realising that they actually don't have that much weight to throw. It seems entirely possible that the EU might finally be about to shrug, say there can be no agreement on most things, and walk away from the table.
Maybe things won't be as dire as the worst-case no-deal scenarios that some have suggested. The absolute worst-case rarely happens (Trump didn't go to war against China, the coronavirus didn't have a lethality rate of 20% and so on), but I still suspect there's going to be quite a bit of shit hitting various fans in a few weeks. And, as is usually the case, Murphy's law means some of that flying shit will be coming from directions nobody has really thought about.
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Boojum tell us how you really feel 🥴. I hear a lot of he ain't Trump, he won't do this he won't do that, but I don't hear a lot of Biden wants to do this or that which is really good for the people in the US. I take it you don't like Boris either. As far as the US people feeling it's the greatest country, I would hope we all love our country and want or think it is the best or I'd be looking to move. You seem to have a high opinion of England if that's where you are, and I'm not sure my country is the world's greatest but those of us loyal to it, like to think it's pretty damn good and those in the USA have not only the right but a responsibility to think that way. If not just fold your cards and walk away from the game or would you rather everybody put all your chips in the center and we'll just split them up evenly. That's only a good game if you didn't bring much to table to begin with.
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If you were genuinely interested in learning what Biden wants to do, it isn't difficult to find out. The Republicans didn't even bother to create and pass a platform at their convention this year; essentially their platform was, "We'll support whatever Trump decides he wants to do today!"
On the other hand, Biden has put a lot of effort into developing a sensible, detailed program which, amongst other things, includes:
· Creating a national test and trace program for coronavirus
· Universal pre-school and expanding free college
· Expanding Obamacare
· Restoring the USA's international reputation (and maybe taking on China)
· Criminal justice reform
· Grants for business support in minority communities
· Incentivising states to decriminalise pot, and expunge pot convictions
· Raising the minimum wage
· Investing in green energy
There's nothing there that I see as evil, but then I'm one of those liberals who the Trump cultists lump with commies, Satanists and baby-killers, so I'm sure they wouldn't agree.
As for Boris Johnson, he's a dickhead who has never been subtle about letting people know that he believed he deserved to be Prime Minister. Yet once he managed to claw and plot and worm his way into that position, the only thing he's proved is that he's nothing more than hollow ambition. The job is way beyond his level of competence, he doesn't really know what he wants to achieve and he picked a bunch of second- and third-rate people to run the government departments, so he and they have fucked up over and over. He differs from Trump in that he's more articulate and his privileged education means he's able to drop vaguely apropos chunks of Latin and quotes from classic literature into his meandering speeches. But he's a populist rabble-rouser just like Trump, and he doesn't have much greater intellectual depth.
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This!
I absolutely agree with you here. Trump was hard at work ruining the relationships between the US and Europe. There has never been a better time for us to strengthen our relationships in today's world, plagued by terrorism, climate change, pollution and Russia and China.
Bring back incandescent lights, tax cuts for the mega rich, more coal industry and power plants, backing out of the Paris agreement, the idiocy that is "Space Force", his stupidly expensive wall idea that still won't stop illegal immigration...
These are things you'd expect a parody of the real president to do in a movie, or in GTA, but not in real life... In the same country that sent man to the moon!
BTW: My girlfriend's father was ecstatic when Boris Johnson won and Brexit was a go. He's one of those Brits that believes Great Britain will once again rise from the ashes and be the greatest empire in the world and the rest of us should either serve England, or die.
He still can't get over the fact that not only did his daughter chose a European as her man, but an Eastern European... a Bulgarian (where everyone is either mafia, or a gypsy)!
Worst scum of the world, right? I think he can go and drown himself in the Thames!
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You have my sincere sympathies about having a father-in-law to-be such as him.
Trumpists and Brexiteers have a lot in common. The mindset also has a lot in common with those of who bore different labels and caused a huge amount of death and destruction during the twentieth century.
Among the British left, people like your girlfriend's father are called 'Little Englanders'. That's shorthand for people are xenophobic, extremely nationalistic, completely deluded about the significance of the UK in today's world and cling to a fantasy that the Great Britain of the past was a noble, wholly benign force in the world and therefore respected (or at least feared) everywhere.
Such people tend to be not very bright, not very well educated and generally older. Rather like another demographic in another well-known country, in fact.
As I'm sure you know, the UK has now officially left the EU, but the big change in the rules will only hit on 1 January. Johnson and his clown posse are still farting about and trying to throw their weight around as the negotiations for the next set of rules comes down to the wire, but I have a feeling that they might be finally realising that they actually don't have that much weight to throw. It seems entirely possible that the EU might finally be about to shrug, say there can be no agreement on most things, and walk away from the table.
Maybe things won't be as dire as the worst-case no-deal scenarios that some have suggested. The absolute worst-case rarely happens (Trump didn't go to war against China, the coronavirus didn't have a lethality rate of 20% and so on), but I still suspect there's going to be quite a bit of shit hitting various fans in a few weeks. And, as is usually the case, Murphy's law means some of that flying shit will be coming from directions nobody has really thought about.