NPR

Caley_Red wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 8:28 am

Carter's Choice wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 7:09 am

Caley_Red wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 7:04 am To be fair, there are loads of posters who never post about rugby, too exercised by the US Politics and Brexit threads usually.

Name five.

I should change my wording to "c90% of posts" as I couldn't possibly have read everything they posted.

I don't want to be going down the road of naming these people as I don't think it's particularly high-minded and, in any case, I'm sure someone would be able to pull up an example where they posted regularly about rugby in the past. I only joined the old board in summer 2018 so I didn't know the PR world before tedious obsessions with all things Brexit, Trump, Culture Wars etc would have come to the fore (given that they're fairly recent phenomena).

My point on the above being, mass non-rugby posters are hardly without precedence.

Sinkers wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 4:56 am Seems to be a domestic thing as George is stepping down from the Lincoln project also?

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 7:08 am Would that make the odious Miller the only non-family member to have lasted the Administration?

Line6 HXFX wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 2:24 pm Kelly Anne was the administration, she wasn't some bit part player, she single handedly inspired others with her warped bullshit, and glued it all together in times of severe crisis.
This isn't about jumping ship.
She didn't hitch her wagon to trump. If anything he hitched his to hers.

.OverThere wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 2:18 pm

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 7:08 am Would that make the odious Miller the only non-family member to have lasted the Administration?

Pence too.

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 4:34 pm I found this to be a good read: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... ion-400039

Essentially, what the GOP stands for (or doesn't) under Trump

Fat Old Git wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:27 pm Trump is saying the only way he can lose is if the election is rigged. He though he appears to have been the one trying to rig it by suppressing votes.

Fat Old Git wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:27 pm Trump is saying the only way he can lose is if the election is rigged. He though he appears to have been the one trying to rig it by suppressing votes.

notfatcat wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 9:09 pm

Fat Old Git wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:27 pm Trump is saying the only way he can lose is if the election is rigged. He though he appears to have been the one trying to rig it by suppressing votes.

What's his conspiracy theory and is it any more lamentable than the dems' USPS delusional hysteria?

Ali Cadoo wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 1:12 am

Kiwias wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 1:44 am WATCH OUT, THE MARXIST LIBERAL RADICALS ARE COMING!!!!

Slick wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 8:28 am I'm kind of in a state of suspended belief that Trump really is whipping up the population to not accept the result of the election. It just seems incredible that this is happening in a modern state, the leaders of the free world no less. The fact that lawmakers on his side are happy to sit and twiddle their thumbs and not make a stand is beyond contempt.

Is 4 years enough to bring down an empire? I guess it is. The best bet is that this passes into history and we march on, but I don't think it is beyond the realms of possibility that this will cause civil war and the end of the USA hegemony

Rinkals wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 8:56 am

Slick wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 8:28 am I'm kind of in a state of suspended belief that Trump really is whipping up the population to not accept the result of the election. It just seems incredible that this is happening in a modern state, the leaders of the free world no less. The fact that lawmakers on his side are happy to sit and twiddle their thumbs and not make a stand is beyond contempt.

Is 4 years enough to bring down an empire? I guess it is. The best bet is that this passes into history and we march on, but I don't think it is beyond the realms of possibility that this will cause civil war and the end of the USA hegemony

I said as much a few years ago. Namely that there was a danger that Trump would try to spark a rebellion if he failed to win a second term but was derided as being a conspiracy theorist at the time.

The point is that there are enough small heavily armed militia including that Bundy Boys outfit that instigated an armed insurrection in Navada to make the scenario plausible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign ... n_movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_Keepers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_of_Montana

The fact that these groups are legally heavily armed must leave a trail of touchpowder to a potentially dangerous tinderbox, should Trump not win. And Trump is clearly lighting matches.

I'm not saying that it will happen; merely that the potential exists.

Who knows, maybe Trump will be re-elected by landslide rendering the possibility moot.

notfatcat wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 9:09 pm

Fat Old Git wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:27 pm Trump is saying the only way he can lose is if the election is rigged. He though he appears to have been the one trying to rig it by suppressing votes.

What's his conspiracy theory and is it any more lamentable than the dems' USPS delusional hysteria?

Fangle wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 2:46 pm Whoever wins the election, I honestly see nothing serious happening. There might be a bunch making some noise, but not even a fraction of the size of the recent marches and damage caused in say Portland or Seattle.

ticketlessinseattle wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 3:26 pm

notfatcat wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 9:09 pm

Fat Old Git wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:27 pm Trump is saying the only way he can lose is if the election is rigged. He though he appears to have been the one trying to rig it by suppressing votes.

What's his conspiracy theory and is it any more lamentable than the dems' USPS delusional hysteria?

hysteria about undermining a system of voting that was used by 20% of the voting population last time out and which will be the only safe way of voting in a pandemic - that hysteria ?

“The mob takes the Fifth,” Trump said after Hillary Clinton aides invoked their right against self-incrimination. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”

He added at his first debate with Clinton that pleading the Fifth is “disgraceful.”

Fat Old Git wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 8:52 am Mrs Trump says in her speech that you want "total honesty" in a president and claims that what you get with her husband.

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 11:02 am

Fat Old Git wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 8:52 am Mrs Trump says in her speech that you want "total honesty" in a president and claims that what you get with her husband.

Clearly she has no pre-nup in place. Unlucky.

Yer Man wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 12:24 pm

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 11:02 am

Fat Old Git wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 8:52 am Mrs Trump says in her speech that you want "total honesty" in a president and claims that what you get with her husband.

Clearly she has no pre-nup in place. Unlucky.

Isn't the rumour that her citizenship will be revoked if she divorces him?

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 1:04 pm
How is that in any way legally enforceable?