Donald Trump

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Killer moves

Smooth criminal.

 

[moomba]

A bloke that knows he can say what he likes, and there isn't a person within his campaign or supporter base that won't nod their head and blindly agree with him.

 

[threespires]

Every single one of those issues has been around with modifications my whole life, and my parents' lives. I'm American so my context is narrow, but . . .

Nuclear threat? We used to do "duck and cover" drills in school in the 70s.

Climate/pollution? Try the air in LA in the 1970s.

Poverty? The poverty rate in the US is near an all-time low.

Demographics? Has opportunity expanded or contracted for non-whites in the US over time? For women? For LGTBQ people?

Lack of factual science? Do we know more or less about the world and the universe than we did? Church attendance in the US is near an all-time low.

The data doesn't support the hand-wringing, writ large. Everyone has their own experiences and circumstances, and there's always plenty to be worried about, and I am frightened by Trump and MAGA, but every generation of old people have thought things were worse than 50 years ago since the 1800s. They've nearly always been wrong.

The UK is an outlier though in a number of areas compared to many of its developed western peers. Our politicians and population might not look as mental as yours but between us we've f****d up our country big style. Social equality gaps have widened at a rate that simply hasn't happened with most of our peer countries.

Studies show satisfaction with your lot isn't a function of how much you've got but how much control you believe you have in improving your lot. In the UK that level of belief that with hard work you'll have a fair crack of the whip to make something of yourself has fallen off a cliff with younger folk. Their belief in this is now significantly lower than pretty much every other developed nation. They didn't wake up one morning and lick these attitudes off a stone, their elders created the problems by doing things like completely f*****g up our housing market.

A lot of older people in this country who say I'm glad I'm not a youngster aren't shouting at clouds about the good old days, they're either explicitly or tacitly acknowledgeling that through shit decisions we've made in relation to our politicians we've made it harder for their kids than they ever had it.

 

[SWP's back]

A bloke that knows he can say what he likes, and there isn't a person within his campaign or supporter base that won't nod their head and blindly agree with him.

It’s the stage where I can happily say only cunts support him at this time. They’re either thick, racist, a combination of the two and very rarely there’s the Trump voter who knows he’s a **** but think they can get a tax break out of him although that last category doesn’t apply to anyone on Bluemoon.

 

[SWP's back]

 

[JASR]

The UK is an outlier though in a number of areas compared to many of its developed western peers. Our politicians and population might not look as mental as yours but between us we've f****d up our country big style. Social equality gaps have widened at a rate that simply hasn't happened with most of our peer countries.

Studies show satisfaction with your lot isn't a function of how much you've got but how much control you believe you have in improving your lot. In the UK that level of belief that with hard work you'll have a fair crack of the whip to make something of yourself has fallen off a cliff with younger folk. Their belief in this is now significantly lower than pretty much every other developed nation. They didn't wake up one morning and lick these attitudes off a stone, their elders created the problems by doing things like completely f*****g up our housing market.

A lot of older people in this country who say I'm glad I'm not a youngster aren't shouting at clouds about the good old days, they're either explicitly or tacitly acknowledgeling that through shit decisions we've made in relation to our politicians we've made it harder for their kids than they ever had it.

Yep. I may be limited to a small bubble, but when 4 JASR juniors , from a level of privilege that say 75+% of the uk population haven’t got a cat in hells chance of reaching, come out with an overall ‘yeah the futures a bit fucked’ - they aren’t lashing out as anti-parent emo’s. They are plainly stating facts that my generation of leaders, and more particularly the previous generation, have made many godawful short term decisions that many decades later are arriving at their adult door, and the pot to fix any of it, is empty of ability, money, foresight or acknowledgement.

 

[moomba]

I fear I know the answer to this, but is there any context here that makes this any less offensive than it appears.

Any other election, any other candidate and there would be talk of him having to step aside.

 

[SWP's back]

I fear I know the answer to this, but is there any context here that makes this any less offensive than it appears.

Any other election, any other candidate and there would be talk of him having to step aside.

If there is then I’ve not seen it.

 

[law74]

Who is the white candidate?
I am only aware of the Black and the orange ones standing, though the last black president was a lot better than his successor

 

[SWP's back]