Donald Trump, the road that might not lead to the White House!

[krtek a houby]

Which wasn't the USSR, and broke up while the USSR was still in existence-and not necessarily destined to break up.

I do have to smile when people on the internet always have 'friends' to illustrate their point. But don't worry, most people seem to have 'friends' these days.

But what did you do to accrue friends from such a wide array of former eastern block states? Put a sign outside your house saying 'Former oppressed of the Communist empire, do pop in for a cuppa.'

There you are, again. "Most people".

I have been lucky enough to have friends and family from many countries and cultures, no signs needed. "Jurrihahay".

 

[Jurrihahay]

There you are, again. "Most people".

I have been lucky enough to have friends and family from many countries and cultures, no signs needed. "Jurrihahay".

Must be fantastic.

 

[Jurrihahay]

At the time when the Berlin Wall fell? It wasn't obvious to me, but maybe I was missing things.

That a wave of 'anti-communist' revolutions and pseudo-revolutions took place when neo-liberal capitalism was in the ascendancy should have told us all we needed to know.

 

[krtek a houby]

Must be fantastic.

Yes, family and friends can be fantastic, lletsa.

 

[andysays]

Yes, family and friends can be fantastic, lletsa.

This will end well...

 

[Jurrihahay]

Anyway, back to Trump-he might win or he might not.

 

[Idris2002]

That a wave of 'anti-communist' revolutions and pseudo-revolutions took place when neo-liberal capitalism was in the ascendancy should have told us all we needed to know.

I remember people saying that the former East would converge on some form of social democracy. How wrong can you be?

 

[krtek a houby]

Depends on what expert you're listening to. It's probably going to be incredibly close. Closest in many years.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I remember people saying that the former East would converge on some form of social democracy. How wrong can you be?

... and Yugoslavia had wisely always ploughed its own furrow, so it would be fine...

 

[Jurrihahay]

I remember people saying that the former East would converge on some form of social democracy. How wrong can you be?

And idiot time-warp trots saying that having 'overthrown' what several generations had had it drummed into them was socialism, and despite what had happened to the Solidarnosc mass movement, a new wave of socialist revolutions was a possibility.

 

[bimble]

Blimey. Remember this bloke who got beaten up for holding up an anti-Trump poster at the Trump rally couple of days ago?
Fox news just announced (wrongly) that he's been perpetrating voter fraud using his dead grandmothers name. But she's not dead, she's fine, and it was all just more insane bollocks.
Fox News wrongly links Republican anti-Trump protester to voter fraud

 

[tim]

I don't know anyone out of my friends from Poland, Latvia, Czech Republic etc who laments the break up of the USSR. Oh, there was one - from Slovakia - but her father was pretty high up in the party & the family enjoyed all the perks that went with it...

As far as the Cold War goes, those living under Soviet influence in the Warsaw pact states had better lives and more freedom than those living under the military dictatorships that the USA imposed on much of Latin America; and those who lived under the post-war European fascist governments in Spain, Portugal and Greece.

 

[Jurrihahay]

Depends on what expert you're listening to. It's probably going to be incredibly close. Closest in many years.

Hope it is. Hope it decimates the US political class.

 

[Idris2002]

And idiot time-warp trots saying that having 'overthrown' what several generations had had it drummed into them was socialism, and despite what had happened to the Solidarnosc mass movement, a new wave of socialist revolutions was a possibility.

There was that Spartacist woman who was assasinated in Moscow in the early '90s, though - so maybe someone somewhere (and not a time-warp Trot) thought that was a serious threat?

 

[krtek a houby]

So, we're agreed then? Best if the US doesn't break up, after all.

 

[bimble]

 

[krtek a houby]

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I'm not the sharpest tool in the box but I'm pretty sure the US isn't part of the EU...

 

[8den]

Hope it is. Hope it decimates the US political class.

I have a sneaking feeling she's going to walk it.

 

[tim]

Of course it's not only Trump who has a problem with internal dissent. Does anyone remember Walter Wolfgang and Jack Straw.



Walter Wolfgang is still around aged 93 and hopefully still capable of mischief.

 

[hot air baboon]

I've often wondered whether we'd be better off if all the US states became individual countries. They'd all probably get equal shares on the nukes though.

...just splitting into Redland & Blueland would probabaly do it...

 

[Idris2002]

...just splitting into Redland & Blueland would probabaly do it...

Or the sane bits forming part of Greater Canada.

 

[Dogsauce]

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Blatantly just a pitch for a future career as a reactionary TV pundit over there, now he's packed in that other job and doesn't want to hang around these shores to own the chaos.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Ashcroft on LBC, "those who say they will vote for Trump, we ask a supplementary question of whether they have told their family and friends, a massive number say NO."

Shy-Trumpists.

 

[gosub]

It used to be Mexico, they should give it back.

and then bulid a wall

 

[TomUS]

It used to be Mexico, they should give it back.

But that would make the wall way longer. Mexico couldn't afford it.

 

[Raheem]

But that would make the wall way longer. Mexico couldn't afford it.

Whaddarya? Some sorta bleedin' heart liberal?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Mexico just need to up the amount of drugs it flogs to the Shermans...

 

[gosub]

Mexico just need to up the amount of drugs it flogs to the Shermans...

thats a drug dealer with OCD

 

[Libertad]

Shy-Trumpists.

Silent but deadly.

 

[two sheds]

Just checking who the wife's voting for

Donald Trump 'sues Nevada officials for keeping polls open'