RANT!

Yankee_Jack

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When Biden was benched, a plan fomented in mid-2023 as I understand it and finally executed when opportunity arose, Harris was the only logical and practical choice. There were politically better candidates, white males as opposed to the black female, but there was no means practicable to engineer their appointment as a candidate replacement. Harris suffered as low key vice president despite being gifted the politically power ball issue of reproductive rights, then she is black and female … and latent bigotry in America knows no bounds.

Trump was a candidate because the GOP /Republican party collectively and individually lacked the balls and values to refute and replace him.

In elections for local state assembly where i live, GOP/Republican candidates did not disclose their party affiliation when communicating to voters … such is their shame and embarrassment in their own brand.
 

Yankee_Jack

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T.R.U.M.P. = The Russians Ultimate Master Plan 😁
No shit!

So the most damning piece of data I have heard so far is comparing 2024 to 2020. In round numbers:
  • 2020: Biden had 81 million votes; Trump 74 million votes.
  • 2024: Harris 71 million votes; Trump 74 million votes.
10 millions voters went AWOL.
 

ivoralljack

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Seems Harris and/or her policies didn't appeal to the electorate. The UK and the US have similar requirements of their government and that is to deal with illegal immigration and the economy. The UK is fast finding out that Labour is incapable of sorting either and look an even worse bet than the Tories who were pretty pathetic in office themselves and paid the price at the ballot box for their complacency. Right now Nigel Farage and Reform are licking their lips. Like them or loathe them they'd find it pretty difficult to be as useless as the two main parties should they ever get into office.
 

ivoralljack

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I read today that Gareth Southgate is to receive a knighthood in the New Years Honours List. For WHAT exactly????????????? He failed to win anything as England's manager but will now become a 'Sir'! What a gravy train football has become. Managers flop, get sacked, receive a monster contract pay-off then relax in the sun until some other idiot trundles along with another lucrative offer. As for the players don't get me started....... :mad:
 

ivoralljack

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So here we go again with the question being raised about bent/incompetent officials. This time it's not the referee but the linesman who didn't flag Maguire's winning goal offside in added time for United against Leicester in tonight's FA Cup game. VAR wasn't in use (not until the 5th round it seems) so this incompetent clod won the game for United with his decision.

But here's the thing. As Leicester manager van Nistelrooy pointed out, this offside was so obvious it beggars belief that it wasn't flagged. It wasn't even close as Maguire was about a yard in front along with THREE other United players who were homing in on a free kick. It was nothing short of disgraceful. As it happens, earlier in the game that same linesman flagged a throw-in for United but was OVERRULED by the referee who was much further away. So how come that linesman got it wrong when it happened right under his nose? I know what I think.

Granted that United might well have gone on to win the game anyway in extra time as they had begun to get on top. But that's not the point. The point is that Leicester might have won but they were never given the chance because that decision made sure they didn't. The Leicester players, manager and fans have every right to feel that they were cheated. Let's be charitable and say that it was merely a wrong decision and nothing more sinister. My opinion on that is that the linesman showed such crass incompetence he should be immediately demoted and not be appointed to any Football League game again this season.

Officials keep making mistakes. Bad ones. Obvious ones. And in doing so have deservedly earned themselves a stinking reputation. It's long past the time when their governing body put their house in order because, if they don't, then allegations of incompetence will quickly turn to allegations of corruption. Again, I know what I already think, irrespective.
 

ivoralljack

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Other descriptions I've heard on the media: 'Massive mistake': Unbelievable decision': 'Dreadful decision' amongst many, many others. Is this man still going to be in a job by Monday? Imo he deserves immediate dismissal as a warning to the rest.
 

ivoralljack

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Other descriptions I've heard on the media: 'Massive mistake': Unbelievable decision': 'Dreadful decision' amongst many, many others. Is this man still going to be in a job by Monday? Imo he deserves immediate dismissal as a warning to the rest.
PS: I omitted to point out that tv showed that this linesman was DIRECTLY IN LINE with the incident. He couldn't have been better placed to correctly flag for offside. He has to be thoroughly questioned about his reasons for not doing so.
 
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