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Not interested in the focus on SoG, but thanks for the link. The fella speaks well.

Yep, I don't agree with the "awful candidate" line that duck has thrown out. She struggled due to her ties to Biden which the hard if thinking couldn't look past, and that chunks of the US just couldn't bring themselves to vote for a non white woman. The issue is Americans, not her.

Now there's a sentence!

I agree that there's something in that, although I'm struggling to get my head around people being so irked by that they'd be willing to look beyond Trump's wrongdoings. Different and incomparable admittedly, but I just can't understand the willingness to forgive Trump's misgivings to the extent that the American's have.

If they can't see the reasons why, and the reasons why many prices for them will now go up, then people calling them thick may have a point.

She wouldn't have lost Pennsylvania. J Lo as her running mate, and a bit of singing and dancing at all the events, and America will be great again.

Good post. I'm not going to disrespect his voters by joining the 'thicko' line of attack, but there's a real selfishness in looking at the money in your own pocket, and a lack of understanding in failing to grasp that inflation in the states will increase if everything imported is tariff'd to the max.

Yep. On the choice of leader point, I think anyone credible who had been through the usual selection process and been at the helm of the campaign since day 1 would have won this. Harris, for me was a decent candidate, but the delay and the connection to Biden damaged her chances. That's over and above the reasons why some Republican's would never have given her their vote. Ukraine will be tucked up, I think that's a given sadly.

Ha! Nowt we can do though, but an interesting next 4 years for world trade, women in America, any country in Russia's line of sight, and all NATO members.

For Russia and lunatics, yep. Not sure who else is a winner.

Gathering

447 PL minutes, but yep, only 4 starts. I don't think he's ever been played to his strengths in any of that time. Like you, I'd like to see him playing up top with Archer. Feed him crosses and I think he'll do ok.

Cheers. Pyongyang and Ibiza on the same latitude. Who knew.

True story. Nearly 70% apparently.

Reduxx. The new authority on all things bigoted. Jeez.

Solicitor

Thanks. Searching Khelif and looking at news articles doesn't take you to it the reduxx. You've gotta be pretty obsessed/determined to seek out loopy websites like that.

You came across as a bigot, and your pursuing it months later confirms that. As I say, crack on mate if it's that important to you. I'll wait for a proper report from somewhere credible, and see what people with knowledge of this complex issue decide should be the fate of this woman.

Hypo, you crack on, you're plainly excited by this possible news. I really couldn't give a monkeys. I'm just here for the jokes.

She doesn't have testicles. Read it again. Regardless, I'm not going to rely an a report from that website, and I'm not here to define her sex. She competed as a recognised woman. Let's see what people who know what they're talking about decide.

There was no link so I had no idea whether it was credible.

Where have you sourced this? The recent credible news reports about her are all about her starting her professional female career. That suggests that she is welcome to continue to compete as woman.

Nurse

On your first point, yep, there appears to be a perception that businesses can just do this and the people won't get hurt. That ain't the reality. On the rest, they had to raise this money as we're skint and public services are on their knees so I'm not sure that an if should attach to the raising money question. Where people's views vary on this is whether they consider it necessary to support increased public expenditure through increased taxes. I do. The issue is the how to go about it. They should never have boxed themselves into the corner of not being able to reverse the daft Tory NI give away. Madness from both parties but Reeves should have just reversed it and been done with it.

Roses