Posts made by Frank

There's a tendency with the public to want it to be true that powerful rich men are pedos.

Not just the political angle, but the anti-elite angle.

I think, that unless Trump changes tack soon, he will lose the election.
Relying on Joe Biden fucking up is a dangerous strategy.
The election is all about independents in swing states.

Incessantly playing to the base is not the way to win.
Going on about statues, China's and WHO's role in Covid' and Biden's dementia are not winning strategies.

He is now the incumbent and has to lay out a 2nd term agenda.
He hasn't done that.

He needs a national address in prime-time to rise above the tit for tat blame game and deliver a properly unifying speech. A story of America kind of thing where he gives hopes and stops playing partisan games. Show some, dare I say it, humility. Admit to mistakes , admit to frustration. Right now, he is coming across as a caustic individual and I think independents are sick of it.

Can he show a human side?
Very tough for him.
He is from the ultra macho Roy Cohn school of attack, attack ,attack.
That's not what people want right now.

I used to find him entertaining. Now I don't.

I want to see him re-elected, not because of him, but because of the danger of the radical left getting a foothold in the Biden government. I am absolutely sure Biden has made some deals behind the scenes with these crazies as a condition for their support.

Fuck

Mitchell Drummond.

Fuck, off Talea and then Plummer but none seen.
Blues lucky.

Patty T is the strongest ball carrier in NZ.

@No-Quarter
No.
That's a real account by the looks.

https://twitter.com/WestVanPolice

So Harry Plummer is better than TJ Faiane??

Finlay Christie has a very good quick game but I think he'll be targeted.

Some members of the Democrat party have put forward the BREATHE ACT.

This is a summary of its proposals.

Section 1: Divesting from police

• Divesting from agencies like the DEA and ICE as well as moving federal resources away from incarceration and policing
• Eliminate ankle monitors
• End civil asset forfeiture, which even some conservatives say is readily open to police abuse
• End life sentences and mandatory minimum sentences
• Develop a "time-bound plan to close all federal prisons and immigration detention centers"
• Decriminalize and retroactively expunge both state and federal drug offenses

Section 2: Community safety

• Offer a 50 percent federal match for projected savings when states and/or local jurisdictions close detention facilities, including jails
• End cooperation with immigration authorities
• Ban "pretextual" police stops and searches, even where police obtain consent. It's not clear how the lawmakers would define a "pretextual" police stop
• Abolish police gang databases, as well as armed cops and metal detectors in school
• Forgive all outstanding court debt
• Tie state grants to intervention programs that involve specialists other than police responding to some 911 calls

Section 3: Allocating new money

• Create a plan to close youth detention centers
• Pilot programs for universal basic income
• Develop curricula that examine the political, economic, and social impacts of colonialism, native genocide, and slavery
• Create tools to promote environmental justice, including by subsidizing "community" energy solutions
• Provide lifetime education for illegal immigrants and the currently incarcerated
• Ensure all communities have safe access to water
• Eliminate state laws that bar formerly incarcerated people from serving as guardian for their own children or others in their community,

Section 4: Holding officials accountable

• Pass the Commission to Study Reparation Proposal for African-Americans Act and establish commissions to "design reparations" for mass incarceration to include those caught up in the War on Drugs, border and police violence and the "systemic violation of the U.S. Government’s treaty obligations to Tribal nations"
• Enfranchise all incarcerated individuals
• Guarantee private right of action for recovering damages when a federal official has committed a constitutional violation
• Allowing local and state resident voting for illegal immigrants

I guess Don Lemon would say his views have "evolved".

@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus - Australia:

I wonder willing is the populace going to be going back to house arrest after only recently tasting freedom? Might be a fair few saying "fuck it, I did my part and government still fucked it up, not going to do that again"

What if lockdown fails again?
How many times before they have to say fuck it, a lot of (mostly old) people will die but we have to get back to work?

I have a solution for NZ's Covid problem.

@No-Quarter said in Black Lives Matter:

@Frank said in Black Lives Matter:

Texas Realtors Stop Using 'Master Bedroom' Over Slavery Connotations.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/texas-realtors-stop-using-master-bedroom-over-slavery-connotations

This one is weird. In this context, the abbreviated form of Master is Mr, and it is referring to the owners bedroom. As the owner was always male back in the day, the term Master Bedroom was used.

If anything it's sexist, not racist. But, who fucking cares about this shit anyway? Does anyone in the real world actually give a shit?

It is strange isn't it. Normal people don't care.
Why is it even proposed in the first place?
What do they stand to gain?

I am so surprised this is backfiring and also a little suspicious that the only reason they are now writing is because their views (as opposed to conservatives' views) are being attacked.

Liberal writers, professors and activists have come together and signed an open letter in the hopes of ending "cancel culture."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/liberal-writers-activists-open-letter-call-to-end-cancel-culture

Texas Realtors Stop Using 'Master Bedroom' Over Slavery Connotations.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/texas-realtors-stop-using-master-bedroom-over-slavery-connotations

God damn it would be beautiful if the Blues win.
Reignite the rivalry - BIG TIME!!!!!!!

@JC
No idea mate.

@MiketheSnow
Is an "influencer" like a socialite without the money?

@voodoo said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:

@nzzp sure, I'm not really talking about his Super form this year, more his body of work in black. Has it really been that impressive? Last RWC for example?

One of the few players who played well in our loss to England.
Same solid self. Unflustered.

@JC
It went quiet because they couldn't pin it on Trump.

Not a useful story anymore.

@Crucial
I agree with you that there is a tendency for one side to highlight the crazies on the other side and that this is inflammatory.
I should know, I do it myself.

However, this far left wokeness seems a lot more than just a fringe view and a lot more than just trying things out as you say. It is a system of control of free speech that is becoming increasingly embedded in all sections of US society.

It has permeated corporations, the entertainment industry, formerly mainstream liberal newspapers, the education at the University level and the anti-Trump news outlets are all hopping on board because its a great angle from which to criticize him (amongst other things).

I see it as very dangerous precisely because so many influential forces are getting on board with it. It is becoming mainstreamed at the higher levels of society.

This is Not Fucking Around Coalition (NFAC)

Armed black militia marching through the streets in Georgia.

https://www.newsweek.com/armed-black-demonstrators-challenge-white-supremacist-militia-georgias-stone-mountain-park-1515494

@antipodean said in Black Lives Matter:

@voodoo said in Black Lives Matter:

@Rembrandt @antipodean I'm not defending her actions, but the day we stop caring about people dying is a pretty fucking sad day. Do we care about a drug addict dying any more? An alcoholic? Someone with a criminal record?

According to WEF, 150,000 people die per day around the world. I don't give them a second's thought and I don't believe anyone else does either.

Honest.

I think the biggest surprise of the tournament post-Covid is how shit Gatland's Chiefs have been.
Can anyone say they expected this?

@canefan
I predict he either changes his mind within a few days or drops out later, declaring victory because he "opened people's minds".

@canefan
Could be a ploy with Trump to take away some of the black and youth vote from Biden. Still reckon he's full of it and is wanting attention for some other reason.

Another potentially crazy guy supports him.

@canefan
I reckon he might be trolling.
I think there are registration requirement deadlines, signatures to be collected etc., and he is rather late.

Kayne West.

@Stargazer said in Chiefs v Hurricanes:

@Tim I'd have Jordan and Havili ahead of McKenzie and Barrett.

Edited.
I dump George Bridge and replace him with Will Jordan.

This is the kind of strategy I think Republicans and Trump will follow.
Link Democrats to this kind of behavior.
This is an ad from the Senate Majority Leader

Holy shit.

China Never Reported Existence of Coronavirus to World Health Organization
WHO backtracks on original claim that China self-reported, admits this never happened

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-never-reported-existence-of-coronavirus-to-world-health-organization/

Wonder why she didn't flee to a country where she couldn't be extradited from?

I actually think the far left defund the police, statue destruction, looting, burning of flags, cancel culture, problems with the BLM movement etc has handed Trump a potentially persuasive message to run on against Biden.

He will attempt to position himself as the defender of America and Biden as passive on these issues. While Biden is actually centrist, Trump will attempt to convince the public that Biden is too old, passive and dottery to know what the fuck is going on with these SJW groups. He will use the fear that these groups will take over if he is not re-elected.

Not saying the message is true, just that I think this will be the campaign's central message. And it might explain why the National Guard was not federalized to quell the rioting. Let the Dem Governors fail to contain it and try to pin it on them.

@MiketheSnow said in Jeffrey Epstein:

Not saying all are culpable, but the rumour mill is sayig some are capable

What is the source of this list?

@Crucial
Biden looks 106 years old and slurs his words.

If you can ignore his obvious mental decline - which is huge worry given he is aiming to be in charge of the most powerful country in the world - and you have no qualms with the fact that in order to get their support he would have made deals behind the scenes with the radical left, then I guess he will be alright.

Dr Trump.

Hydroxychloroquine helped save coronavirus patients, study shows; Trump campaign hails 'fantastic news'. Drug touted by Trump was mocked by media

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hydroxychloroquine-helped-save-coronavirus-study

@Nepia
You a Blues fan yet?

Attorneys for Virginia Giuffre, who publicly accused Jeffrey Epstein of sex trafficking, must destroy files they obtained on Epstein after a Wednesday ruling by a federal judge................

https://www.newsweek.com/judge-rules-virginia-giuffres-lawyers-must-destroy-jeffrey-epstein-files-1514909#:~:text=Attorneys for Virginia Giuffre%2C who,to engage in sex trafficking.