US election 2020 thread
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Well, that and your own serious choice (who you know won't win but anyway). Write in campaigns are a thing there, occasionally people do win under them (but not for President)
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I suspect that a lot of people thought their protest might be better expressed by expelling Trump...
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Yeh that's my belief
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
All dogs are good boys compared to the wretched tree of the House of Saud and its rotten fruit.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
He loudly supported Biden over Trump, which made such a difference in his home state of, uhhh, Ohio.
Indeed. He did nothing to affect anything in Ohio for the Dems while strong left candidates were getting their vote out in Detroit and Minneapolis
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Biden made a big play for the so-called 'McCain Republicans'. When it all comes out in the wash, I don't think that part of his imagined coalition is going to have amounted to very much. It might, just, have won Biden Arizona, and that's probably about it. A lesson that the Democrats may or may not learn from.
You're sweet.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
I fully expect the Biden WH to be a lot more critical of the Saudi's than the Trump WH was but as to actually 'doing' something rather doubt that.
maomao
普費斯
What do you want them to do?
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Personally I would like the USAF to carry out strategic missile and drone strikes on Riyadh aimed at the Saudi Royal Family but failing that I would certainly like to see a much more balanced policy towards the Middle East, there needs to be rapproachment with Iran. The Iranian regime is a fucking awful one but I don't think Trump's policy of starve the peasants till they rise up was ever going to work. Obama to give him the credit was willing to take the long view and accept that the Iranians had to be given something to get them to the table, Get Iran to start opening up and the people might start to realise just how much they were being screwed over.
As for the Palestinian question and Syria fucked if I know but then Trump didn't even care (not I think that Biden will get anywhere)
maomao
普費斯
I think the US should just fuck off and stay out of other countries' business and that people that expect them to 'do things' about other nations are most of the problem with that. Got a problem, go to the fucking UN. And when do you think the people of the US will 'realise just how much they're being screwed over'?
Fuck liberal mass murderers.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
This election was a reminder of the scale of the situtation. A quarter of a million US soldiers are stationed abroad and they haven't even started any new invasions recently.
I don't know what the total is for the rest of the world put together, but it won't be much more that that.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Democrat on C4 news just now - "In 70 days the US will go back to being a functional democracy"
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
Omg you mean you literally support covid you vile scum.
bendeus
Bellend Tagline Generator
Oh, I don't know. Nothing projects political gravitas quite like a ride on mower.
So I've had a bit of an amendment to the story. Apparently the Trump camp did book the Four Seasons Landscaping in error thinking it was the hotel. They then realised their error and tried to book the Four Seasons Hotel, which was declined by Four Seasons (not sure why). They then had to tough it out as though they'd booked the landscaping service all along.
eoin_k
Lawyer's fees, beetroot and music
I guess I'll have dedicate myself to disseminating the virus from now on in the hope that it will reinfect him.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Much to be said for that point of view but it hits the problem that the US isn't the only nation meddling in the affairs of others and would require everyone else to do the same, what use was the UN when Russia invaded Ukraine? What use would it be if China decided to take back Taiwan by force? The conflict brewing between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Nile dam? The US is the worlds premier superpower, It has a huge military, economic and technological lead over the rest of the world.
Even if it wanted (which it clearly dosn't) to not meddle in the affairs of other nations it would get dragged in.
As for the Americans realising they themselves are being screwed well given 70 million of them voted for Trump, not any time soon is the answer to that.
maomao
普費斯
So you're actively seeking world war three then?
Raheem
Well-Known Member
What use was the US?
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
You do realise that I am not the President of the United States right? I'm some random nobody on the internet swapping my insigificant opinions with other random nobodies and that nothing you or I think matters in the slightest.
As for your question no of course not, I agree the world would be a better place if the US, Russia, China and of course that shower in Westminster didn't meddle in other people's business so much but the world is a lot more complicated than it would all be fine if the US called its troops home. Most of those troops (not those in Afghanistan or Iraq and the odd other place) are not there as invaders, they're there because the governments of their host states have invited them there because they consider it in theit national and strategic interests to have them there.
Not a lot much to the great disappointment of the Ukrainians but I don't think it will deter other governments from making deals with them.
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