Trump

[Easy 10]

Presidential debate, border control:

"You have 525 kids not knowing where in Gods name they're gonna be, and lost their parents"

"GOOD"

I had to rewind that 3 times to make sure I caught that right. I'm not kidding. He said that. He ACTUALLY said that.

 

[Klaas]

Presidential debate, border control:

"You have 525 kids not knowing where in Gods name they're gonna be, and lost their parents"

"GOOD"

I had to rewind that 3 times to make sure I caught that right. I'm not kidding. He said that. He ACTUALLY said that.

Seriously?

 

[seagullwedgee]

I watched the whole debate live. I have no particular allegiance, but It became increasingly noticeable the longer it went on, the more Joe dithered over his words, almost like mental exhaustion or maybe unable to focus on his prepped notes after being under bright lights for 75 minutes. Any undecided voters would at least want him to come across as Presidential material and calibre, and I think he missed an opportunity to really convince people because of the obvious mental dithering.

 

[Easy 10]

Seriously?

Yup. They moved swiftly on to the next question, it wasn't even acknowledged. But before they did, THAT was Trumps response. During the questioning, he said that these kids "are bought over by coyotes".

Mind. Blown.

 

[Easy 10]

I watched the whole debate live. I have no particular allegiance, but It became increasingly noticeable the longer it went on, the more Joe dithered over his words, almost like mental exhaustion or maybe unable to focus on his prepped notes after being under bright lights for 75 minutes. Any undecided voters would at least want him to come across as Presidential material and calibre, and I think he missed an opportunity to really convince people because of the obvious mental dithering.

I think Biden, for the most part, responded swiftly and robustly to counteract the shite Trump was peddling. There were occasions where he paused to find the words, but on the whole I think he came across well, and was never cowed by Trumps bullshit and bluster.

He's not the ideal candidate, but he is 10x more presidential than that orange buffoon. I still find it astonishing that in a nation of 350m people, THESE are the 2 they have to choose from. If there was a younger, articulate, yes "better looking" Democrat in the opposite corner, then Big Mac Don would get utterly SHREDDED in this election. Hard to believe Biden is really the best they could come up with.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Highest black and Hispanic vote ever for a Republican President. WATCH THIS SPACE

He's not winning though dude.

The Establishment has had enough and they need puppets they can control back in power.

No surer bet than Biden wins.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

I think Biden, for the most part, responded swiftly and robustly to counteract the shite Trump was peddling. There were occasions where he paused to find the words, but on the whole I think he came across well, and was never cowed by Trumps bullshit and bluster.

He's not the ideal candidate, but he is 10x more presidential than that orange buffoon. I still find it astonishing that in a nation of 350m people, THESE are the 2 they have to choose from. If there was a younger, articulate, yes "better looking" Democrat in the opposite corner, then Big Mac Don would get utterly SHREDDED in this election. Hard to believe Biden is really the best they could come up with.

He's not, he's the easiest to control though. In every sense he is a Corporate Democrat puppet.

And Harris would sell herself to the highest bidder to gain an ounce more of power.

 

[Music City Gull]

He's not, he's the easiest to control though. In every sense he is a Corporate Democrat puppet.

And Harris would sell herself to the highest bidder to gain an ounce more of power.

People on this board don’t like you but you are the closest poster not living in America to have similar thoughts to professional political people on the states. I find it weird that if you took away the accents, almost every interaction I’ve had with Australian’s (including being stuck in an elevator in Times Square) I can’t differentiate the Australian and the American. Even on this site the Australians are extremely similar. I have wondered if it is because we are both post colonial rule or something.

So far I’m back to page 718 on the site because I genuinely like the people and I want to get to know them. But in the various threads I’ve read they think Americans and Australians largely wish to be British. To the average middle to upper middle class American they couldn’t give a damn about the thoughts of people from England. Not to say they wouldn’t like meeting and getting to know people at all, as they would but we don’t have an inferiority complex at all.

Back on topic (and again, I am not a fan of either candidate and think Biden will win big) Trump’s best chance of re-election was the debate tonight and Biden’s comment on eliminating oil. Democrats running for local elections are already walking that back and saying they don’t support Biden’s position. It was a major blunder. Biden simply didn’t look good tonight, he looked old and tired. He just did and Trump needed that to have a shot.

 

[knocky1]

People on this board don’t like you but you are the closest poster not living in America to have similar thoughts to professional political people on the states. I find it weird that if you took away the accents, almost every interaction I’ve had with Australian’s (including being stuck in an elevator in Times Square) I can’t differentiate the Australian and the American. Even on this site the Australians are extremely similar. I have wondered if it is because we are both post colonial rule or something.

So far I’m back to page 718 on the site because I genuinely like the people and I want to get to know them. But in the various threads I’ve read they think Americans and Australians largely wish to be British. To the average middle to upper middle class American they couldn’t give a damn about the thoughts of people from England. Not to say they wouldn’t like meeting and getting to know people at all, as they would but we don’t have an inferiority complex at all.

Back on topic (and again, I am not a fan of either candidate and think Biden will win big) Trump’s best chance of re-election was the debate tonight and Biden’s comment on eliminating oil. Democrats running for local elections are already walking that back and saying they don’t support Biden’s position. It was a major blunder. Biden simply didn’t look good tonight, he looked old and tired. He just did and Trump needed that to have a shot.

Fake news. If you can’t tell the difference between an Aussie and an American you need to experience more of the world. Who on earth thinks they wish to be British? Read some history and watch an Ashes Series.

 

[Music City Gull]

Fake news. If you can’t tell the difference between an Aussie and an American you need to experience more of the world. Who on earth thinks they wish to be British? Read some history and watch an Ashes Series.

Lol,I’m trying my best with with ashes series. Baseball was my sport so I’ve literally watched hours of cricket since joining this site thinking I could understand it. I mean I’ve genuinely downloaded instructional videos I’ve watched on work flights, etc. Apparently some Australian batter has died but he was an asshole who didn’t wear proper equipment and that was in retaliation for very aggressive throwing of the ball from Australian pitchers the year before. And then some Australian captain cheated about something. All I learned is I don’t understand the cricket stuff at all (though I’d genuinely love to).

 

[W3 BHA]

Lol,I’m trying my best with with ashes series. Baseball was my sport so I’ve literally watched hours of cricket since joining this site thinking I could understand it. I mean I’ve genuinely downloaded instructional videos I’ve watched on work flights, etc. Apparently some Australian batter has died but he was an asshole who didn’t wear proper equipment and that was in retaliation for very aggressive throwing of the ball from Australian pitchers the year before. And then some Australian captain cheated about something. All I learned is I don’t understand the cricket stuff at all (though I’d genuinely love to).

It reads like you are being deliberately obtuse. Even the slightest exploration of cricket and the rules, even just watching one over, and you would know we have bowlers who bowl. Not pitchers. We do throw but only when fielders are throwing the ball back to the wicket keeper, bowler etc. I am surprised it's that hard to understand but then the US have a habit of creating their own World Series of games that very few other people play except, in this case, our girls do play rounders (your baseball!) at school

 

[Hugo Rune]

So far I’m back to page 718 on the site because I genuinely like the people and I want to get to know them. But in the various threads I’ve read they think Americans and Australians largely wish to be British.

I’ve never heard anyone in my life accuse Brits of thinking that Aussies & Americans want to be British?

Where on earth did you get that from, it’s utterly bizarre.

My example is that you hear many many Americans define themselves and associate themselves with their ancestor’s Country of origin. You constantly hear about African American, Irish Americans, Italian Americans etc. I have never heard the term ‘Anglo American’ or ‘British American’.

My assumption has always been that being ‘British’ is almost the last thing an American or Australian would want to be.

 

[Bakero]

Yup. They moved swiftly on to the next question, it wasn't even acknowledged. But before they did, THAT was Trumps response. During the questioning, he said that these kids "are bought over by coyotes".

Mind. Blown.

I'm not shocked at all by Trump's callous attitude. He's a sociopath.

By the way, a coyote is a people smuggler. Although I wouldn't be surprised if the president believed the kids were coming over on the back of wild dogs.

 

[Music City Gull]

It reads like you are being deliberately obtuse. Even the slightest exploration of cricket and the rules, even just watching one over, and you would know we have bowlers who bowl. Not pitchers. We do throw but only when fielders are throwing the ball back to the wicket keeper, bowler etc. I am surprised it's that hard to understand but then the US have a habit of creating their own World Series of games that very few other people play except, in this case, our girls do play rounders (your baseball!) at school

Maybe it’s my age or something but cricket rules is very difficult. I was trying to be funny but truthful. I know cricket sometimes takes days and sometimes doesn’t. I know reading here that one of the mods had a legendary cricket dad. I know there is a controversy between county cricket and something else. I know test cricket means something I don’t understand. I know I’ve googled “cricket tea food” for when my wife take our honeymoon to England and that’s an experience want. I know the best cricket player had 334 runs but I don’t understand what that means. I know there is strategy but I don’t know enough to understand it.

 

[Music City Gull]

I’ve never heard anyone in my life accuse Brits of thinking that Aussies & Americans want to be British?

Where on earth did you get that from, it’s utterly bizarre.

My example is that you hear many many Americans define themselves and associate themselves with their ancestor’s Country of origin. You constantly hear about African American, Irish Americans, Italian Americans etc. I have never heard the term ‘Anglo American’ or ‘British American’.

My assumption has always been that being ‘British’ is almost the last thing an American or Australian would want to be.

You’ve described what I meant better than I did. I’ve even googled your name before to know it’s reference to an author and character that is local to Brighton. I’m not trying to create a international argument. My only point was I’ve read very far back on this site and there are threads where people say Americans and Australians wish to be brits.

I fell in love with the soccer pyramid in England and it took me years to decide more than that. My mom, who is very big into genealogy, found out one of my grandfathers from Lewe’s is one of the first ten brits to the new world and is very important to both the US and had a painting of him seen Lewes, so I chose BHA as the team important to my family.

 

[Music City Gull]

I’ve never heard anyone in my life accuse Brits of thinking that Aussies & Americans want to be British?

Where on earth did you get that from, it’s utterly bizarre.

My example is that you hear many many Americans define themselves and associate themselves with their ancestor’s Country of origin. You constantly hear about African American, Irish Americans, Italian Americans etc. I have never heard the term ‘Anglo American’ or ‘British American’.

My assumption has always been that being ‘British’ is almost the last thing an American or Australian would want to be.

Regardless I’m not trying to win something here. Like I said I’m currently back to page 718. I don’t remember the page number but in between the current page and page 718 there are threads where people think Americans wish to be brits. I’m not trying to win something saying that. It does exist.

 

[Insel affe]

I’ve never heard anyone in my life accuse Brits of thinking that Aussies & Americans want to be British?

Where on earth did you get that from, it’s utterly bizarre.

My example is that you hear many many Americans define themselves and associate themselves with their ancestor’s Country of origin. You constantly hear about African American, Irish Americans, Italian Americans etc. I have never heard the term ‘Anglo American’ or ‘British American’.

My assumption has always been that being ‘British’ is almost the last thing an American or Australian would want to be.

This, marrying an american and visiting regularly over the past 17 years I can confirm from experience that all americans love to tell you their heritage, usually they detect the accent ask you where you are from and then tell you they are irish/american / german/american or give you along list of ancestors from various countries and end with american such as irish/welsh/german/swedish/american. I get the impression because they are speaking to someone from one of the motherlands they too have to prove they can trace their family back to history if you will or understand what i mean. I love america and their like every country great people, idiots and bigots, you can't make sweeping generalizations about a nation so big and diverse. Sadly their is a lot of racism in america and i have seen it first hand, parts of america are third world there is a lot of poverty and not much if any help if you fall on hard times, unlike the social and health care systems we have in europe (which are not perfect).
We all have a long way to go in improving the world in equality, poverty, health care and the environment, unfortunately the world at the moment is driving by either power, money and religion, over time hopefully humanity will adjust and hopefully there will be a light for the future generations.

On Australia, I visited for 4 weeks about ten years ago, and on driving down the coast from Sydney to Melbourne my first impressions was, this is so much like america, the roads, the malls, the attitude. the biker gangs, the blatant racism maybe the reason they have malls and the cars and houses are so big is because of the vast expanse of the country, maybe I just saw a small part of Australia and i am totally wrong on this but i got the impression australia is a poor version of america.

The australians have no real interest in being anything other than an ozzie, it is fashionable to hate the english, they are proud to come from every other home nation.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Regardless I’m not trying to win something here. Like I said I’m currently back to page 718. I don’t remember the page number but in between the current page and page 718 there are threads where people think Americans wish to be brits. I’m not trying to win something saying that. It does exist.

Fair enough & understood. I do think that is a minority view though (of which you’ll always find on NSC!).

Glad you picked our team to follow though! [emoji106]

 

[Thunder Bolt]

It reads like you are being deliberately obtuse. Even the slightest exploration of cricket and the rules, even just watching one over, and you would know we have bowlers who bowl. Not pitchers. We do throw but only when fielders are throwing the ball back to the wicket keeper, bowler etc. I am surprised it's that hard to understand but then the US have a habit of creating their own World Series of games that very few other people play except, in this case, our girls do play rounders (your baseball!) at school ������

Don’t mention stoolball or that would really blow his mind!

 

[Bodian]

I even struggle to explain stoolball to my friends and colleagues up here in the north. Shame really - because it was the only sport I was actually much good at!