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I agree with JI that the choice for Americans between Biden and Trump is a bleak one, although the economy recovery under Biden and the job creation in particular has been impressive, his age and apparent infirmity on occasion go against him. Trump at 77, 78 in June, has also been making several speech gaffs of late calling his cognitive competence into question. However since the last election Trump is now a convicted sexual predator, has been found guilty of defamation and guilty of business fraud, all of which beggars the question is this man fit to lead the USA? The fines he has received have been staggering but the facts in all his criminal cases to date have been proven from a point of law, whereas most of Trump’s rebuttals legally have found to be worthless. Now compare that with the amount of conspiracy theory and lack of evidence that is the hallmark of a large part of Trump’s speeches on the current campaign trail leading up to the 2024 USA election. He is constantly fact checked and found to be lying constantly but of course he will continue to get massive media coverage right up to the last vote being counted in November. I personally think he is just digging himself into a deeper hole with every lie he tells and of course there are more legal woes facing him down the line. It’s all a very bleak looking outcome for the American people IMO, they need younger and more truthful candidates to be running in the Presidential race but unfortunately there isn’t any. Nikki Haley will lose eventually in the Republican nomination race and the USA will be heading for more election misery.
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Back to Ms Truss. You have to admire a politician who sticks to their beliefs and principles. One who doesn’t just change views based on what they see as best for their political career. Consistency is the key.
https://www.euronews.com/2022/09/05/liz-truss-journey-from-remainer-to-brexiteer-in-her-own-words
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Truss lacks any sense of the ridiculous. She and those like her are full of their own sense of entitlement, and seek constant admiration to bolster their egos. They have 0% self-awareness, but 100% self-confidence and 100% self-delusion, so they just blunder on arrogantly.
There are lots in public life, Trump, Johnson, Farage… and to some extent it has got them where they are today.
But another thing is the way the religious extremists on here align themselves with the far-right. This is odd, but digging into it, it’s quite logical.
For them, social divisions are part of a wider battle for Britain; one of Christianity v Islamism.
You can see the fear of Islam in their posts. Remember all the Brexit propaganda from Les and the jonnies about an impending Turkish invasion? And the links to far-right websites? JI telling us ‘we’re at war’, as well as the lunacy of BPG’s videos.
For the extremists on here and elsewhere, their religion is a symbol of identity, allegiance, and insurance for an imaginary afterlife. It’s a passcard to paradise. It’s an intense, cultish subscription which is almost impossible to drop or change. They didn’t choose it, it chose them, and giving up would be like giving up football for tiddlywinks, or worse, like an Iron fan becoming a Mariner!
Despite the ridiculousness of all this, rational argument, evidence and facts have no effect, so all the political extremism of the far-right seems justified in order to ‘save’ Christianity.
It’s reinforced and made worse by right-wing politicians and news sources which play up division and lay it on thick in the cosplay of culture wars, to distract the public from calamitous state of everything at present. It worked with Brexit, just, but it won’t again, as the next election will show.
But the oddest thing seems to be the tendency now to talk about Europe v Islam, when a few years back we were being told about the ‘evil empire’, and how those nasty foreigners were responsible for all our ills! Now it seems the great nations of Europe are our allies! Rank hypocrisy or what? What would Jesus say?
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