OT: Current Affairs and Politics

[Gary Gutful]

Even aged 96, Queen Elizabeth II showed up to greet a new British prime minister two days before she died.

Unfair comparison. She had more leadership capabilities in one of her corgi's shits than most pollies do.

 

[ImTheMan]

I don't see Dutton being the long term solution for the Coalition. I think someone else from the hard right can become PM again but Dutton doesn't have enough of a personality.

Fair enough, I think he still wins. A bit stoic sure, but as long as you don't have Miles personality you are good to go with current circumstances imo, but we will come back to this post in a few months. It's closer than the other race, you could be right that it's a minority Albo government but I will back myself.

*Sips Suntory*
Cheers!

 

[the phantom menace]

I'm only getting it hard under Dutton, with a strong penis*

Um... did you read that comment back before posting?

 

[ImTheMan]

 

[Gary Gutful]

Fair enough, I think he still wins. A bit stoic sure, but as long as you don't have Miles personality you are good to go with current circumstances imo, but we will come back to this post in a few months. It's closer than the other race, you could be right that it's a minority Albo government but I will back myself.

*Sips Suntory*
Cheers!

I vote Liberal and will vote Potato, but I just cant see it I'm afraid. He is like Gutho. A solid 7/10 but is ultimately playing checkers while his opponents are playing chess.

 

[ImTheMan]

I vote Liberal and will vote Potato, but I just cant see it I'm afraid. He is like Gutho. A solid 7/10 but is ultimately playing checkers while his opponents are playing chess.

Fair enough take, I naively believe in the voters to look at policy in a party at the given time. But with compulsory voting in Australia in 2024, low attention spans produce with some people an ambivalence and it may as well just come down to the memes they consume on the day. Which is good in some ways that (up until now) we could be so blasé as a country. Life is for living and enjoying, but I feel more people will tick the opposition as a compulsory casual voter that is usually ambivalent. These ones may do so as a protest to the current economy. Every average rando is angry about it these days.

I will add that I'm sure some new policies are being withheld until the election is called, don't want Albo stealing more beforehand like allegedly slashing immigration in half.

*Sips Suntory*
Cheers!

 

[Gronk]

 

[ImTheMan]

Nuttier than a squirrel eating squirrel shit

 

[ImTheMan]

Michigan man, 80, run over for putting Trump sign in yard, say police

The 22-year-old suspect in the vehicle-ramming called police to confess before apparently taking his own life.

www.bbc.com

"A Michigan man used an an all-terrain vehicle to run over and critically injure an 80-year-old man who was putting a Trump sign in his yard, in what police have described as a politically motivated attack."

#Unhingedviolentleft

"Before targeting the elderly man, police say, the suspect vandalised two parked vehicles, smashing the windows of one that displayed a Trump sticker, and damaging the tyres of another that had a sticker supporting police."

*Sips Canadian Club*
Cheers!

 

[Gary Gutful]

Fair enough take, I naively believe in the voters to look at policy in a party at the given time. But with compulsory voting in Australia in 2024, low attention spans produce with some people an ambivalence and it may as well just come down to the memes they consume on the day. Which is good in some ways that (up until now) we could be so blasé as a country. Life is for living and enjoying, but I feel more people will tick the opposition as a compulsory casual voter that is usually ambivalent. These ones may do so as a protest to the current economy. Every average rando is angry about it these days.

I will add that I'm sure some new policies are being withheld until the election is called, don't want Albo stealing more beforehand like allegedly slashing immigration in half.

*Sips Suntory*
Cheers!

Yep. Economy is a definite factor. Its certainly one area where Albo could be vulnerable, even if the current shit sandwich isn't completely his fault.

A lot of shit to go under the bridge before the next election though. Hopefully a few more people will cotton on to Albo being a dirty f**ken rabbits fan. But in fairness, at least he supports a team. Dutton looks like he spends his past time wearing his mother's skin.

 

[ImTheMan]

Hopefully a few more people will cotton on to Albo being a dirty f**ken rabbits fan.

Absolutely disgusting

*Sips CC*
Cheers!

 

[Gary Gutful]

Absolutely disgusting

*Sips CC*
Cheers!

He should be assaulted with a ball of his own feces.

*Sips Russell Crowe's Boob Sweat"
Cheers

 

[ImTheMan]

'House of Cards' Producer Dana Brunetti: Democrats in 'Chaos,' 'Many Do Not Want Kamala Harris as the Nominee'

In a rare moment of Hollywood candor, Dana Brunetti -- who has produced "The Social Network," "Captain Phillips," and the "Fifty Shades of Grey" movies -- revealed that many Democrats in the entertainment industry secretly don't want Kamala Harris to be the party's nominee but won't say so...

www.breitbart.com

"In a rare moment of Hollywood candor, Dana Brunetti — who has produced The Social Network, Captain Phillips, and the Fifty Shades of Grey movies — revealed that many Democrats in the entertainment industry secretly don’t want Kamala Harris to be the party’s nominee but won’t say so publicly for fear of being called racist and sexist."

Tale as old as time.

"Despite her numerous cheerleaders in the news media, Harris has remained stubbornly unpopular with voters on both sides of the divide, consistently polling lower than the massively unpopular Biden. Her 2020 presidential campaign was a notorious flop, with Harris forced to bow out early in the primaries after failing to ignite interest from her own party."

*Sips Gronk's Fear*
Cheers!

 

[the phantom menace]

Lol.

Harris was the obvious alternate candidate under these circumstances for many reasons. The lack of other quality options in the primaries is why the Democrats were left with Biden, and gave them no other choice than Harris with less than four months left.

The Trump campaign is right to be scared - she'll do better than Biden would have, and will bring people who didn't want to vote for geriatric white men into the voting equation.

But given Biden's f**k-up in hanging on for a second term for way too long, Harris will be doing good if she can stop the Republicans winning control of Senate/Congress, even if Trump prevails to the White House.