[James]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I don't know that it's that simple really... by "boring" you really just mean "things that don't affect you personally very much".

Was Labour's "new deal" stuff boring? Then the Tories' disastrous transition to Universal Credit? On paper, sure, but not to the countless people whose lives were drastically impacted.

We've also been bombing one area of the middle east or another for, at least, most of my lifetime. Not really boring for the people whose houses are dust, I'd think.

All I know is I spent a decent amount of time worrying about what was happening in America last night, just like I've worried about the possibility of a No Deal Brexit recently, and if the Independence thing came up again I would worry about that. (Corbyn I wasn't fussed about really).

While benefit changes are very important to many people, they are not massive constitutional upheaval. Maybe I'm being a bit selfish there I don't know.

I only vaguely remember the 'new deal' thing - didn't Gordon Brown stand in Downing Street before his first budget with some apprentices?

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DC Mayor on CNN HD

68 arrested yesterday
only one was local

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[Alf]

Another entire day of "Orange man bad" on this thread.

Ever since the media told you to dislike him, it's been a 4 year stuck record.

You're boring.

[arista]

A New 7ft High Non-Scalable fence
is going around round all the buildings
for the next 30 days.

Ch5HDnews

[Alf]

Originally Posted by arista

A New 7ft High Non-Scalable fence
is going around round all the buildings
for the next 30 days.

Ch5HDnews

But I thought walls were racist? Only when Orange man bad suggests them, I'm guessing?

[arista]

[Fortress White House: Crews will begin
building 'non-scalable fence' around the complex
tomorrow as Secret Service prepares for potential unrest]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-complex.html

[arista]

Originally Posted by Alf

But I thought walls were racist? Only when Orange man bad suggests them, I'm guessing?

No silly
it's temporary

[Alf]

Originally Posted by arista

No silly
it's temporary

So it's OK to just be racist for 30 days then?

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Alf

So it's OK to just be racist for 30 days then?

When even Arista calls you silly, it's time to change course

[Alf]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

When even Arista calls you silly, it's time to change course

I decline your advise.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

When even Arista calls you silly, it's time to change course

You cry for years about building a wall being racist, I make one sarcastic comment highlighting the hypocrisy and you try to advise me to stop.

[arista]

Biden is holding a Briefing
it will be Live on SkyNewsHD in a min.

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Alf

You cry for years about building a wall being racist, I make one sarcastic comment highlighting the hypocrisy and you try to advise me to stop.

Not really, I wasn't being serious. You're a grown ass man, you can do what you want. I like the majority of your posts, probably for different reasons but it's a sh1tty time, so I'll take what I can get.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Wednesday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson delivered a monologue about the riots seen at the U.S. Capitol that left four dead and many more injured.

After emphasizing how “horrified” he was by the violence, Carlson said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that as long as the people feel that “their democracy is fraudulent” and are silenced while speaking out about it, the people will act out as seen on Wednesday and in history. He warned that the chaos at the Capitol could be used by the nation’s leaders to strip Americans of their basic rights.

Partial transcript as follows:

As long as people sincerely believe they can change things by voting, they stay calm. They don’t storm the bastille. They don’t burst into the House chamber. They talk and they organize and they vote. But the opposite is also true. If people begin to believe that their democracy is fraudulent, if they conclude that voting is a charade, that the system is rigged and it’s run in secret by a small group of powerful dishonest people who are acting in their own interests, then God knows what could happen. Actually, we do know what could happen. It’s happening right now. It’s happened in countless other countries over countless centuries, and the cycle is always the same because human nature never changes.

“Listen to us!” screams the population. “Shut up and do what you’re told,” reply their leaders. In the face of dissent, the first instinct of illegitimate leadership is to crack down on the population. But crackdowns never make it better. Instead, they always make the country more volatile and more dangerous. The people in charge rarely understand that. They don’t care to learn or listen because all of this conversation is a referendum on them and their leadership, so they clamp down harder. “Obey, I tell you. Obey!” This is the Romanov program. It ends badly every single time. But that doesn’t mean they won’t try it again. Of course, they will because it’s their nature. It’s how we got here in the first place.

Millions of Americans sincerely believe the last election was fake. You can dismiss them as crazy, you can call them conspiracy theorists, you can kick them off Twitter, but that won’t change their minds. Rather than trying to change their minds to convince them and reassure them the system is real, that the democracy works as you would do if you cared about the country or the people who live here, our new leaders will try to silence them.

What happened today will be used by the people taking power to justify stripping you of the rights were born with as an American. Your right to speak without being censored, your right to assemble, to not be spied upon, to make a living, to defend your family, most critically. These are the most basic and ancient freedoms that we have. They are why we live here in the first place. They’re why we are proud to be Americans. They are what make us different, and they are all now in peril. When thousands of your countrymen storm the Capitol building, you don’t have to like it. We don’t.

You can be horrified by the violence, and as we said and we will say it again, we are horrified. It’s wrong. But if you don’t bother to pause and learn a single thing from it, from your citizens storming your Capitol building, then you’re a fool. You lack wisdom and you lack self-awareness. You have no place running a country. We got to this sad, chaotic day for a reason. It is not your fault. It is their fault.

[arista]

Biden is Live
on SkyNewsHD and CNN HD

[The Slim Reaper]

Tucker and the res of fox/rw media have been telling before the election that it was going to be stolen and taken away from them, so I don't get the "these humble folks believe it was stolen so let's hear them out" shtick.

When you brag that you're the most watched "news channel" then what do they think will happen? Tucker is loved by white supremacists and has regularly had them on his show. Tuckers lawyer argued in court that his opinions can't be trusted as either serious or honest.

[Alf]

CNN is loved by Black supremacists.

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