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@victor-meldrew 'Mr. Schoen is founder and partner in Schoen Cooperman Research, a polling and consulting firm whose past clients include Bill Clinton'
I think we can add current clients include Bill and Hillary.
What a good way to ensure that Trump runs again.
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@tim I look at this, the tales of woe coming from San Francisco, blackouts, economic migration of companies and high net worth individuals to other States, and it's not difficult to see California is becoming a failed State. Not bad considering it was the world's 5th biggest economy in 2020.
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The Leader of the Free World, Jan 20 '22
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@mick-gold-coast-qld I'm sure you picked his best photo from that event.
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@paekakboyz said in US Politics:
@mick-gold-coast-qld I'm sure you picked his best photo from that event.
I have no idea why you are having a go at me for posting a single photo with no comment - if you don't like it write to the New York Post - it's address is in America somewhere - and tell them what they are doing wrong, publishing and revealing horrid things to easily offended eyes on their front page.
Here are the other two "from that event", go ahead and choose your own favorite; plus their headline. Try not to cry.
I routinely check what the press is dishing up to their readers around the world, in an effort to understand what is going on. It helps to be informed, not merely opiniated don't you think?
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While the New York Post is on the right, I've just watched a fair bit of the Biden presser and, bugger me, is was painful to watch.
He really looked and sounded like a bloke who's no longer mentally fit for his job. If he actually is mentally fit, the problem is even worse.
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@mick-gold-coast-qld try not cry? I'll do my best.
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@victor-meldrew said in US Politics:
While the New York Post is on the right, I've just watched a fair bit of the Biden presser and, bugger me, is was painful to watch.
He really looked and sounded like a bloke who's no longer mentally fit for his job. If he actually is mentally fit, the problem is even worse.
End stage Ronald Reagon
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@kirwan said in US Politics:
End stage Ronald Reagon
Reagan left office at the age of 78 after 8 years as POTUS. Looked tired at times but still more than capable. Here's his last presser:
Contrast with Biden who assumed office at the age of 78..... Frightening
What the US could do with someone like Reagan (or even Clinton) right now.
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@victor-meldrew yeah Reagan was a great president. I see the Twitter generation tries desperately to smear him.
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@kirwan said in US Politics:
@victor-meldrew yeah Reagan was a great president. I see the Twitter generation tries desperately to smear him.
The weirdest are those who accuse him of homophobia when he was the polar opposite and detested it.
He and Nancy had many openly-gay friends and their kid's have said their favourite "Uncle and Aunt" growing up were a lesbian couple. Doesn't fit with the progressive view that everyone on the Right is evil personified, I guess.
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I remember at the time the thought of Reagan as POTUS seemed horrifying. An actor ffs and a warmonger. Time to build your shelters everyone. But he actually turned out not so bad, got good people around him, listened to them and let them do their jobs. Seemed to work.
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@victor-meldrew said in US Politics:
@kirwan said in US Politics:
End stage Ronald Reagon
Reagan left office at the age of 78 after 8 years as POTUS. Looked tired at times but still more than capable. Here's his last presser:
Contrast with Biden who assumed office at the age of 78..... Frightening
What the US could do with someone like Reagan (or even Clinton) right now.
As an aside: "or even Clinton" - he was one of the most accomplished public speakers I have seen.
On the morning that we learned of the World Trade Centre attacks, past President Bill Clinton was surrounded by Australian reporters at a golf club car park in Port Douglas. Without specialist advisers and media scribes present he delivered thoughts, wisdom and advice as powerful and as reassuring as you could imagine. His personal calm and focus was extraordinary.
Bill was good at that, outstanding.
On President Ronald Reagan - he left office at the same age as li'l joey biden entered office! He had governed California for eight years, an economy with a GDP about the size of the tenth biggest country in the world, and had led his industry and union organisations from age 30 onwards. He earned his degree whilst working as a lifeguard. By age 26 he had launched his successful acting career and six years military service, during World War II.
By comparison, by age 28 the degenerate kiddie sniffer had scraped through law school in the bottom 10%, avoided the military draft a half dozen times until he discovered the fabulous impairment afforded by asthma, worked about two years in a solicitors office (his only lifetime employment) and wriggled into political representation where he relaxed for life. He did nothing much from that point on, other than drawing a public salary while building a bank of favours and corruption - became known as the "big guy". His financial fortune was built on Chinese and Eastern European interests who need favours.
President Reagan went on to forge extraordinary change in domestic and international spheres, notably in the company of Pope Saint John Paul II, Lech Wałęsa, Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev. These are foreign, unknown names all, and unimportant - I know. He survived been shot by an assassin, which is also little known.
Expert critics typically lose interest in him soon after sighting someone old looking like John Howard, who is therefore stupid. That assessment is locked in when they learn he suffered Alzheimer's and decide that he deserved it.
References to his grand legacy, readily demonstrable in objective terms, invariably attract such uneducated ignorance from smart people.
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@victor-meldrew said in US Politics:
While the New York Post is on the right, I've just watched a fair bit of the Biden presser and, bugger me, is was painful to watch.
He really looked and sounded like a bloke who's no longer mentally fit for his job. If he actually is mentally fit, the problem is even worse.
Even more concerning given his clear decline is who in the background is making decisions? With an appalling first 100 days and approval rating, it's clear to me that his administration are amping a possible conflict in Europe. One most European countries don't want. Germany for example which needs Russian gas.
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@mick-gold-coast-qld said in US Politics:
As an aside: "or even Clinton" - he was one of the most accomplished public speakers I have seen.
On the morning that we learned of the World Trade Centre attacks, past President Bill Clinton was surrounded by Australian reporters at a golf club car park in Port Douglas. Without specialist advisers and media scribes present he delivered thoughts, wisdom and advice as powerful and as reassuring as you could imagine. His personal calm and focus was extraordinary
Bill was good at that, outstanding.Bit of a tarnished record on domestic economic policy but he was very good at foreign policy - no question. He also tried to unite people - unlike Obama, Trump & Biden.
President Reagan went on to forge extraordinary change in domestic and international spheres, notably in the company of Pope Saint John Paul II, Lech Wałęsa, Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev. These are foreign, unknown names all, and unimportant - I know. He survived been shot by an assassin, which is also little known.
The thing I recall was he was always graceful and with a warm touch. He said to the surgeons, as he entered the operating room after being shot: “Please tell me you’re Republicans.”..... He was putting them at ease even then.
Reagan, Clinton, and to a lesser extent Bush, tried to bring people together and reach out across divides. The likes of Obama, Trump & Biden seem to want to build political walls rather than bridges.
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