Autopsy US Election Day Thread - Trump 47th President of the United States

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[captain blood 17]

I actually love this guy. He's a savage.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

You can’t believe anything Kennedy says though. He is barking mad.

Dunno. Anything's possible I guess. In all seriousness he has admitted a parasitic worm ate a portion of his brain. That has to have had some effect on his thought processes.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/08/politics/rfk-jr-mercury-poisoning-brain-parasite/index.html

May 8, 2024

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. experienced a series of health issues in recent years, including an abnormality that he said was caused by a worm that entered his brain and then died, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

In 2010, Kennedy, now 70, experienced severe memory loss and mental fog, he said in a deposition two years later. According to the Times, he consulted top neurologists familiar with the medical history of his uncle, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, who had died of brain cancer in 2009. A New York doctor, after reviewing a scan of his brain, told him that his health issues could be “caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died...”

 

[Gethelred]

They rate civility above all else.

In a country where breaking the rules and daring people to do something is idolised, perennial belief in the system to produce just results ahead of all else simply creates a climate in which they will always, always lose.

 

[Sir_Loin]

I actually love this guy. He's a savage.

Brilliant

 

[troybe]

Between golfing it would be hard to hold down a job

 

[King Patty]

Any update on what country De Niro chose to move to?

 

[Episode IV]

The Welcome to Country is actually relevant to the extent we're actually on land that was forcibly taken from others and we should at least recognise that one of the oldest existing cultures on the planet existed, and still exists, here. Whether one thinks it's overdone or not, there's at least some level of relevance to recognising that history.

The Lord's Prayer has no relevance whatsoever.

The Lord's Prayer has specific relevance to the Government of Australia, and Christianity to the formation of the nation.
Look, I agree with you for the most part - I'd find it tedious to be sitting through a reading of the Lord's Prayer if I were to be sitting in Parliament as well.
But if you're aiming for ideological consistency, recognition of history and tradition is either applicable, or it isn't. You don't get to just cherry pick according to your own personal values.

It's a significant part of the problem I have with some of these ideologies - no consistency.

Apologies, prisoner colony.

Which state? Are we talking about the foundation of Australia here, or just a part of it?

I linked to an actual study to support exactly what I said.

Not in the post I quoted. Things move fast in this thread.

 

[Tadpole]

Steele, hey? I think black is White just likes themselves a bit of sidebottom

Who doesn’t?

 

[H00t]

Thanks Hoot, i'll take my understanding of the Republican party over yours. As i've said before, you can relax - they won't be doing this.

I can only imagine you’d have thought Trump starting an insurrection would have been impossible in 2020 as well.

It’s not that he will 100% do these things but that him and his party will be working to enact such things.

 

[Royces Hart]

Celebrity endorsements are cringeworthy and didn’t move the needle at all for Harris.

They voted for a renowned child sniffing 2 brain anasrim dementia sufferer

What evidence do you have that Biden has dementia?

That’s extremely stigmatizing to actual dementia sufferers and their families.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Bloke keeps on getting hired by clowns!

 

[Bluelegs]

What's the alternative? Claim the election was rigged and storm the capitol building like a pack of man babies?

You can accept the results and also say that the result is terrible and maintain the position that Trump goes against all their core values. You can't pivot from saying "this guy is a threat to everything we love and hold dear" to "I wish you luck Mr President-Elect. Your success is America's success."

 

[Tadpole]

Smart guy, that Bernie. Pity he’s not a bit younger.

 

[L_W_P]

He'd get a shock if he moved to Scandanvian nations.....


up to 70% tax there. however education (all levels), transport, healthcare is all totally free.

If it's being paid for with taxes it's not free. It's just being paid for/subsidized by someone else.

Used to joke with a dole bludging mate of my dad's that he had to shout at the pub because my taxes were paying for him to hang out at home all week.

 

[Blue1980]

I can only imagine you’d have thought Trump starting an insurrection would have been impossible in 2020 as well.

It’s not that he will 100% do these things but that him and his party will be working to enact such things.

That is the thing, so much has been normalised.

My guess is they will continue go a bit further and further with their agenda, and his supporters will continue to rationalise it, until it actually has a direct impact on them.

 

[King Patty]

I actually love this guy. He's a savage.

genuinely good summary.
Democrats lost this.

 

[Anzacpaul]

I think one thing to remember is that all empires have fallen. No saying that the US will fall under hopefully 2 years of unchecked Trump (if Dems can win the house in the midterms), but the US will no longer be the dominant world super power at some stage. It's a question as always of when, not if.

Exactly, I'm not even close to knowledgeable on the topics of world politics but I'm hoping Australia will continue to strengthen relationships with India, NATO and Japan going forward with the likelihood of the U.S downhill trajectory.

Though I guess there's always a chance that one of Russia or China actually sort their shit out and join democracy again with a decent leader.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

Exactly, I'm not even close to knowledgeable on the topics of world politics but I'm hoping Australia will continue to strengthen relationships with India, NATO and Japan going forward with the likelihood of the U.S downhill trajectory.

Though I guess there's always a chance that one of Russia or China actually sort their shit out and join democracy again with a decent leader.

Don't think it's controversial to say China is going to be the next World Leader when change does happen. We need to prioritise that relationship more, and i'm sorry Taiwan. I feel for you, but eeekkkk

 

[RubyLovesTheDees]

Any update on what country De Niro chose to move to?

 

[RubyLovesTheDees]

Smart guy, that Bernie. Pity he’s not a bit younger.

They really need to look after the working class, and not corporations/celebrities

 

[Demons09]

FMD there's some morning after experts spreading manure today. To be expected I guess

The only manure that was spread was from Harris.

 

[black is White]

The exact numbers are in the study. They're rates based on population size, not just total. So having more people is irrelevant in this case.

Many, many businesses have low-paid cash employees. Didn't Trump employee a heap of them as maids or some such?

As for your last sentence, you're being ridiculous and making shit up.

Based on population size not just total? You know that doesn't make sense right. Yeah many low paying jobs to people with working visas, citizenships ECT it's currently illegal to hire illegal immigrants and guess what that's been the law longer than both of us have been alive and is the law in majority of countries.

 

[Vassp]

The war in Yemen for starters. One of the first things Trump did as president last time was sign a huge arms contract with the Saudis. Arms the Saudis then used to bomb the crap out of Yemen. In 2018 US Congress voted to stop supplying arms against Yemen due to huge civilian losses. Trump personally veto'd this and signed an executive order to keep arm supplies to the Saudis.

Do you mean the same congress that has stopped supplying arms to Israel this time round?

Blinded by the light, la la la la la........

 

[King Patty]

Exactly, I'm not even close to knowledgeable on the topics of world politics but I'm hoping Australia will continue to strengthen relationships with India, NATO and Japan going forward with the likelihood of the U.S downhill trajectory.

Though I guess there's always a chance that one of Russia or China actually sort their shit out and join democracy again with a decent leader.

Yep, China is our major trading partner. maybe we can strengthen the alliance and possibly get out of AUKUS Deal with US under trump.

But geez, If some aussie came like trump came along and said we should like burn our coal rather than ship it all to china so we can have cheap electricity too, or charge a decent amount of royalties for our natural gas exports like Norway and qatar, plus sell domestically at cost price to lower electricity & gas prices, we might actually have cheaper electricity and maybe be able to manufacture things here rather than buy it all from china.

Australia has loads of natural resources, rather than digging up just to export need to do some downstream stuff as well.

There is room for nuclear as well, we have zero expertise, would be worthwhile to have some expertise in australia and a plant, or even SMR's down the line when they are more mainstream.

we should be making lithium batteries, have a electric auto industry. manufacturing in australia from an Aussie owned car brand. that reduces our reliance on fossil fuels. and shipping in cars from overseas.

could have government building cheap units in regional areas that have solar panels and battery power systems added to housing commision stock then sold back to middle/low income earners / first home buyers.

 

[Episode IV]

It's a tangent for another thread, but the Ten Commandments is considered - academically - to have its roots in the Code of Hammurabi, as there's considerable overlap between them; as such, the claim that Judaism/Christianity appropriated ideas from other religions and philosophies isn't really an overreach.

I know, but I find it quite difficult to combat the ignorance on display in threads like this with anything remotely resembling succinctness.
Having a go at someone for dismissing Judaism (again, in particular) as a "rip off" of earlier religions is quite reasonable, I think. It's just silly, and disrespectful. Judaism is one of the oldest "live" religions in existence.