President Trump

I'm confused (nothing new there). I see Robert F Kennedy has suspended his campaign, and has backed Tango man. His family are less than impressed. Hardly surprising, really. Weren't the Kennedy clan bastions of the Democratic party?


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Robert F Kennedy Jr suspends campaign and backs Trump

Trump praises RFK Jr as "phenomenal" at a rally, but members of the Kennedy clan accuse him of "betrayal".
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ChicagoBlue said:
There are tens of thousands of these guys in the far suburbs/exurbs around Chicago. The semi-rural areas to the North, between Chicago and Milwaukee and slightly to the west are generally poor, rust belt towns that rarely have any new construction and lots of older homes in general disrepair.

These guys either have their own small (often manual labor) businesses (Republican) who want lower taxes because even though they don’t recognize the tax breaks THEY get, and feel like their tax dollars are wasted on urban minorities and their problems (Republican) and they’re almost exclusively uneducated, white makes with a macho view of life (Republican), who think their kind of love of America (white make domination of women & minorities) makes them the “real” American patriots (Republicans). They like their leaders to be white, male and to look and sound strong (Republican).

There was NEVER A CHANCE they were going to find almost any guy who looks like them, in that area, who was anything but a Republican who looks like he’s a split second from ‘roid rage at any given moment!

In fact, you’ll notice it took them finding a softly spoken older lady somewhere on the street to get anything like a reasonable take on life (Democrat!).

Thankfully, we are building our retirement lake home out in NW Illinois, well beyond this old, often dying, olde tyme type of town in the rural hinterlands. Yes, there are still plenty of Republicans out there, but they are much fewer and farther in between! ;-) And, much less aggressively macho (because many of them are secure in their manhood because they’re life long farmers tending hundreds of acres of crops for a living and don’t put up with bullshit!), who use please, thank you and wish you a good day when they meet you! In short, good, strong, ACTUAL REAL Americans!

For the record, here’s the Illinois Electoral Map from 2020.

Trump in RED (41%)
Biden in BLUE (58%)

The area of the video is in Yellow.

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It shows you how RURAL, and thus low density population areas, there are in ALL the Midwestern/Middle American states, so don’t be fooled by the red vs blue MAPS, because they say NOTHING about how many people voted how!!!
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Farmers are the salt of the Earth.
 
Dax777 said:
No. Mathematics is singular. It describes a thing—a field of study—not many things. The S on the end doesn't indicate plurality.

Mathematics is a mass noun and usually takes a singular verb. You don't say mathematics 'are' my favorite subject.. You say "mathematics IS my favorite subject."
So when you shorten the noun, it's redundant to add the 's'.

That said, it's a preference thing. Americans and Canadians have the common sense to not add the 's' at the end since the whole point is to abbreviate... The English on the other hand do add it.. But it's just a preference. It's neither logical nor more correct.
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Mathematics covers algebra, geometry, arithmetic, calculus and other fields.

Therefore, it’s not just one field of study.
 
jimharri said:
I'm confused (nothing new there). I see Robert F Kennedy has suspended his campaign, and has backed Tango man. His family are less than impressed. Hardly surprising, really. Weren't the Kennedy clan bastions of the Democratic party?


www.bbc.com

Robert F Kennedy Jr suspends campaign and backs Trump

Trump praises RFK Jr as "phenomenal" at a rally, but members of the Kennedy clan accuse him of "betrayal".
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
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RFK's brain worm now controls him.
 
roman totale said:
This is a good discussion, but I really think you’re over-analyzing. The whole Trump/ MAGA thing is tantamount to new religion being born right in front of our eyes. How is it really any different to Joseph Smith? Some scurrilous bloke, steeped in self-interest, but who has some ability to sell himself, comes out with a ‘vision’ and idiots flock to him.
Just like any religion, it’s full of mad contradictions and things made up on the spot to benefit their temporary needs. There’s no point looking for any internal cohesiveness and consistency.
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Cults always attribute god like qualities to their leaders. America is on the knifeedge of returning to the 17th century.
 
Vienna_70 said:
Will it be the biggest press conference ever, with the most journalists ever in one place?
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“Probably the greatest and certainly the largest, ever. A beautiful thing. Sharks, sharks, many sharks. Prisoners from Congo, terrible people, all coming. Commie Kanal, Kamel, Kamala, terrible person, the worst. I’m hearing her husband may have been involved in the attempt to murder me. Can you imagine that? That’s what I heard. Windmills? They are taking over. If they haven’t already.”
 
Dax777 said:
No. Mathematics is singular. It describes a thing—a field of study—not many things. The S on the end doesn't indicate plurality.

Mathematics is a mass noun and usually takes a singular verb. You don't say mathematics 'are' my favorite subject.. You say "mathematics IS my favorite subject."
So when you shorten the noun, it's redundant to add the 's'.

That said, it's a preference thing. Americans and Canadians have the common sense to not add the 's' at the end since the whole point is to abbreviate... The English on the other hand do add it.. But it's just a preference. It's neither logical nor more correct.
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen you make a post that was correct about anything and glad to see you’ve continued the longest running trend on the forum.
 
SWP's back said:
I don’t think I’ve ever seen you make a post that was correct about anything and glad to see you’ve continued the longest running trend on the forum.
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Always amazes me the confidence with which people will trot out a diatribe on a topic they have no real expertise in, asserting something so obviously flawed as correct. Some people are determined to pretend they are an expert in everything and will not cede the slightest ground on any topic, no matter how meaningless. If they pretend they are an expert in everything, that's how you can be sure that they are most likely an expert in nothing.
 
Dax777 said:
No. Mathematics is singular. It describes a thing—a field of study—not many things. The S on the end doesn't indicate plurality.

Mathematics is a mass noun and usually takes a singular verb. You don't say mathematics 'are' my favorite subject.. You say "mathematics IS my favorite subject."
So when you shorten the noun, it's redundant to add the 's'.

That said, it's a preference thing. Americans and Canadians have the common sense to not add the 's' at the end since the whole point is to abbreviate... The English on the other hand do add it.. But it's just a preference. It's neither logical nor more correct.
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Aloooominum
 
SkyBlueFlux said:
Always amazes me the confidence with which people will trot out a diatribe on a topic they have no real expertise in, asserting something so obviously flawed as correct. Some people are determined to pretend they are an expert in everything and will not cede the slightest ground on any topic, no matter how meaningless. If they pretend they are an expert in everything, that's how you can be sure that they are most likely an expert in nothing.
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So you are talking about @SWP's back then?

As the above applies clearly to him, yes?
 
Just as an aside, and sorry to go off on a tangent, but why do Americans say "He could care less....." when they actually mean "He couldn't care less..."
It doesn't make sense in the context and drives me mad when I read it.
 
mackenzie said:
Just as an aside, and sorry to go off on a tangent, but why do Americans say "He could care less....." when they actually mean "He couldn't care less..."
It doesn't make sense in the context and drives me mad when I read it.
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Because they're stupid cunts for the most part

It's right up there with "a whole nother"
 
mackenzie said:
Just as an aside, and sorry to go off on a tangent, but why do Americans say "He could care less....." when they actually mean "He couldn't care less..."
It doesn't make sense in the context and drives me mad when I read it.
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This video is 14 years old but continues to be relevant for this discussion

 
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