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@snowy said in US Politics:
@kiwiwomble It could just be to twit - which seems appropriate for that shit show.
I hope that that you didn't say "aaaamen sister" or "you go girl" in your twit, that could end badly.
just the "like"
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@canefan said in US Politics:
next time let's have a President who is 60 or younger? How hard can that be?
Getting a bit limited - got to be minimum of 35 to be POTUS. Don't mind the older guys myself.
I know this is a stretch, but healthy and capable, both physically and mentally, would be a good start (regardless of age).
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@snowy said in US Politics:
@canefan said in US Politics:
next time let's have a President who is 60 or younger? How hard can that be?
Getting a bit limited - got to be minimum of 35 to be POTUS. Don't mind the older guys myself.
I know this is a stretch, but healthy and capable, both physically and mentally, would be a good start (regardless of age).
I don't know about people you know, but CF Sr is in his mid late 70s and I wouldn't trust him operating my TV let alone the most powerful country in the free world
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@canefan said in US Politics:
@snowy said in US Politics:
@canefan said in US Politics:
next time let's have a President who is 60 or younger? How hard can that be?
Getting a bit limited - got to be minimum of 35 to be POTUS. Don't mind the older guys myself.
I know this is a stretch, but healthy and capable, both physically and mentally, would be a good start (regardless of age).
I don't know about people you know, but CF Sr is in his mid late 70s and I wouldn't trust him operating my TV let alone the most powerful country in the free world
Hmm, my Dad is 84 and in the last few years has installed solar panels to setup for his Audi eTron (high tech machine actually), which he has now had for a while. Worked out all of the usage, consumption, etc, etc himself. New computer, phone, iPad - he deals with it all (with a bit of help from me). Finances it all through his self managed investments. Walked the Routeburn a couple of years ago, admittedly he broke his ankle on day one, but he still did another three days on it, and finished. Operations, and a long time in a moon boot afterwards, but he has some guts and wisdom. Actually, continuing wasn't a great move but he did it.
Not sure that I would want him as POTUS, but he wouldn't be any worse than some of the recent ones, and actually neither would some of his mates of similar age.
So older blokes aren't the problem for me. Competent ones are.
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@snowy said in US Politics:
@canefan said in US Politics:
@snowy said in US Politics:
@canefan said in US Politics:
next time let's have a President who is 60 or younger? How hard can that be?
Getting a bit limited - got to be minimum of 35 to be POTUS. Don't mind the older guys myself.
I know this is a stretch, but healthy and capable, both physically and mentally, would be a good start (regardless of age).
I don't know about people you know, but CF Sr is in his mid late 70s and I wouldn't trust him operating my TV let alone the most powerful country in the free world
Hmm, my Dad is 84 and in the last few years has installed solar panels to setup for his Audi eTron (high tech machine actually), which he has now had for a while. Worked out all of the usage, consumption, etc, etc himself. New computer, phone, iPad - he deals with it all (with a bit of help from me). Finances it all through his self managed investments. Walked the Routeburn a couple of years ago, admittedly he broke his ankle on day one, but he still did another three days on it, and finished. Operations, and a long time in a moon boot afterwards, but he has some guts and wisdom. Actually, continuing wasn't a great move but he did it.
Not sure that I would want him as POTUS, but he wouldn't be any worse than some of the recent ones, and actually neither would some of his mates of similar age.
So older blokes aren't the problem for me. Competent ones are.
Nothing like hearing about blokes twice my age who are 3x more competent. Great for the ego...😎
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@snowy I wouldn't put my dad quite in the above category but at 73 he more than capable of dealing with life issues, home maintenance and technology.
What he's completely incapable of though (especially with his mates) is picking up any iota of young / woke vote. According this lot, everything he says is probably racist, sexist or bigoted & his tolerance for bullshit is absolutely zero. I've never had a conversation with him on the trans debate, but I expect it would be hilarious.
Some might say I'm a chip off the old block.
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February: President Biden cancels funding for Trump border wall
April: Construction of Trump’s border wall will continue under Biden, administration admits
Joe and the media must wish it was late-2020 when it was so much easier to virtue-signal, blame everything on Trump and call him a liar, narcissist and blowhard, rather than attempt to understand the issues and engage in meaningful debate.
The real tragedy is that thousands more kids are being trafficked to the US by gangs seeing Biden as weak on immigration and now living in appalling conditions.
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@victor-meldrew Meanwhile, more immigrant children in custody than under the Donald.
This isn’t going to end well.
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So to understand:
- Biden is going to stay tough on immigration via plugging the gaps in the wall
- Gangs and baddies don't believe him, so have increased attempts at illegal immigration
- Bidens goodies have caught some of the baddies and have confiscated the human cargo
- Biden is bad/failing because of this
Do I have it right?
You guys know its only the 1st week of April, right?
I'm prepared to cut this administration some slack here.
I'm far more interested in the response to China. Those dudes scare the shit out of me, so emboldened, so seemingly prepared to do anything to secure their long-term dominance.
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@voodoo said in US Politics:
Biden is going to stay tough on immigration via plugging the gaps in the wall
Yes. That very same wall he and his party spent the last four years denouncing as evil and inhumane and the work of a demented two-bit dictator.
Gangs and baddies don't believe him, so have increased attempts at illegal immigration
Why would they believe him? His party called Trump a racist when he called Mexican trafficking gangs "bad people". Biden told the world separating child refugees from their families was evil and he would stop it. He also said he would stop building the wall and would process illegal immigrants on US soil.
What did he think could possibly go wrong?
Biden is bad/failing because of this.
On this, absolutely. And it's children who are suffering.
He and his party had four years to analyse and come up with a workable Mexican border policy and clearly didn't. They simply retreated into a Trump-bashing comfort zone rather that look at the reality. And he's still doing it - blaming Trump for the huge increase in child refugees rather than try to fix the problem.
I'm far more interested in the response to China. Those dudes scare the shit out of me, so emboldened, so seemingly prepared to do anything to secure their long-term dominance.
I'm equally worried by an emboldened Putin annexing more Ukrainian territory and then some. After Crimea was annexed and Obama/Biden pretty much waved the white flag, he might just have a sneaking suspicion that Biden will unfurl the flag again.
We need a reasonably-united, strong US, led by a bloke who thinks things thru and a searching, analytical media to encourage debate. Instead we've had Trump and now a President who seemingly can't think things thru and gets praised in the media as a statesman for not falling off the lectern at a press conference.
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@paekakboyz said in US Politics:
@pakman Gun lobby is pretty much broke isn't it? He might be going gently gently but the first stuff to come out sounds pretty mild.
Kudos to him for at least having a go.
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