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RE: [VIDEO] The Trump Presidency

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Robee J Shepherd says...
"So we have to wait for a journalist from a respectable news source to do some journalism and then we may have a good chance of knowing."
Important to remember when and if we do know.
Hunter Biden was on no ticket anywhere for any election.


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RE: [VIDEO] Arsenal 2020/21 Season

Apparently the idea of the game is to kick the ball into that stringy thing the other end of the pitch.
Who knew.
Having blown the Molde off the club maybe we can go Dancing Round Wolves on Sunday.

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RE: RIP Diego Maradona

Lineker on Maradona

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RE: [VIDEO] Tom and Jerry: The Movie

The only Tom and Jerry were the Hanna Barbera Tom and Jerry which were made up to about 61/62.
I doubt I'd bother with this even when it's free on Amazon or Netflix. 

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RE: Russian Hi-tech Farming

Cucumber: Inefficient water storage system (see French Golden Delicious)

That whole thing is closer to how the world will live with high tech than most big budget sci fi movies.

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RE: [VIDEO] The Trump Presidency

Here’s the latest from Senior Advisor and former White House Counsel Bob Bauer.

I was tempted to post this as a new Biden Presidency thread but it serves well enough to bury Trump a little deeper.

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RE: [VIDEO] The Trump Presidency

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Pete-MK says...
"Just hope he's up to the task. There's 4 years' worth of garbage to wade through."
He seems to be appointing the right people to allow him to be the face and figurehead or just presidential.


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RE: [VIDEO] Brexit

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Robee J Shepherd says...
"wasting anything on a celebration that will be nothing but an offensive spectacle"
29 million for the festival.
20 million they couldn't/wouldn't find to feed kids over the holidays.

Nice to see they've got their priorities right.


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RE: [VIDEO] The Trump Presidency

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Robee J Shepherd says...
"I don't think he is in the habit of listening to people, so he probably believes he can easily survive any legal shenanigans... and the depressing thing is he probably can.
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I don't think you can draw a lot from him 'conceding' because he hasn't, at least in his own mind.
That tweet about the transition was after about 18 hours of not tweeting and was obviously not typed out by him. It took whoever was close to him that long to prise his phone out of his pudgy little fingers.

It is looking increasingly likely that he can't muster enough resistance from the GOP to back his ravings and neither has he been able to influence any or enough Trumpists in positions in the four or five states to go against the norm and cast their votes against Biden.

So it's looking likely that it's going to be a whiney exit, I'd guess unannounced and shortly before the inauguration, which he wont attend.

Whether he tweets about it from a bunker guarded by some of his militias as a government in exile or from a dacha on the Russian steppes remains to be seen.



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RE: [VIDEO] Brexit

Always someone else's fault.

Four years to agree amongst themselves what leave meant and they still can't do it.
Every damn one of them has directly contradicted themselves since 2016. 

They need to own their own sh*t.

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RE: [VIDEO] Brexit

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alfie noakes says...
"The Bank of England governor has admitted today that no deal brexit would be more damaging to the UK economy than the pandemic. And we chose to do it to ourselves! I guess he's just another remoaner, what would he know."
I would love to be proved wrong but I don't expect to be.

When it starts, and continues, to turn to sh*t I will not be cheering and laughing but if you think I wont be saying 'I/we told you so' often and loudly then you can go forth and multiply after all the abuse thrown in our direction.

Let the remoaning continue.



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RE: [VIDEO] Brexit

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Robee J Shepherd says...
"And this is what happens when you don't watch Top Gear and see how fast electric cars actually are. "

Or even the Beeb's Click



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RE: [VIDEO] The Trump Presidency

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Robee J Shepherd says...
"But you know... he played some golf."
But cancelled thanksgiving at Mar a Lago.
He's shi**ing himself.


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RE: [VIDEO] The Trump Presidency

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Pete-MK says...
"I consider this then to be a national cooling off period. Already, I can sense that folks on our side feel a lot less anxious than they did on the night of November 3, or even a week afterward when it was clear Trump would not concede."
You could actually argue that Trump's refusal to concede and the slow realisation of his base as it all falls away has prevented violence (so far).

Let's hope that continues past Jan 20th.


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RE: [VIDEO] The Trump Presidency

An interesting thread on Twitter from Edward Norton

Maybe we're all attributing more abilities to him then he has.

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RE: [VIDEO] They Shall Not Grow Old (Peter Jackson's WW1 colourised footage)

SS Richard Montgomery.
My Mum was from the island and they used to do trips round the wreck when I was a lad.
Never knew it was full of whizz bangs till years later.

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This item was edited on Friday, 20th November 2020, 13:01

RE: [VIDEO] Wonder Woman 1984

So do they think there's no money to be made with a deal for streaming in UK.
Or is that maybe to be announced shortly.

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RE: The Trump Presidency

Interesting latest Americast.

Trump's not spoken to the press for two weeks and has cancelled plans to go to Mar a Lago for thanksgiving. The comment made, only half joking, was that he's scared they'll change the locks if he leaves and he wont get back in.

Also it's now rare for any of his tweets not to carry the Twitter rider that
'This claim about election fraud is disputed' because it's the only subject he tweets about while the death toll from Covid keeps rising.

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This item was edited on Wednesday, 18th November 2020, 23:29

RE: [VIDEO] Coronavirus, anyone starting to get worried?

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Robee J Shepherd says...
"I see them too, it's frustrating, also I don't pick them up for this reason."
In thousands of years any future archaeologists will identify 2020 by the thin blue line in the sediment.


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RE: [VIDEO] The Trump Presidency

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Robee J Shepherd says...
"Maybe Trump won't concede at all, but everything he is doing now is not about holding onto power, it's about setting himself up for when he leaves office. He's basically trying to work out how to steal all the silver he can on his way out."
Agreed he'll milk it all the way and scam whatever he can from his base and the public purse.
Once he is no longer president, Jan 20th, wherever he happens to be he is liable to all the state prosecutions even if he's managed to pardon himself in advance for any national crimes.

I suspect he's thinking about starting a war against someone small enough to beat or foment enough civil unrest to declare a state of emergency and then claim this is no time to change administrations.

It would not surprise me for him to declare himself a government in exile and the States finds itself with another Waco though I doubt Trump would be stupid enough to be on site for the showdown.




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RE: [VIDEO] They Shall Not Grow Old (Peter Jackson's WW1 colourised footage)

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marksparks999 says...
"I was privileged enough to go on a battlefield study of Flanders in November 2017"
On my wish list is a battlefield tour of Monte Cassino which is the one major battle I know my dad was in and that he ever even mentioned.

On that specific subject it's well worth going back to iPlayer and watching Garry Lineker. My Grandads war which covers the Italy campaign.


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This item was edited on Monday, 16th November 2020, 19:25

RE: [VIDEO] They Shall Not Grow Old (Peter Jackson's WW1 colourised footage)

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alfie noakes says...
"I remember hearing a story about a lad of about 12 years old on a bus during WW1 being given a white feather by a woman"
Give the program a rewatch.
White feathers and the 'enemy' being normal blokes is covered in it.


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RE: [VIDEO] Coronavirus, anyone starting to get worried?

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alfie noakes says...
"You need to see the twitter link..."
Clocked it now. 👍
Went past it quick and thought it was a below the line signature.


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RE: [VIDEO] Coronavirus, anyone starting to get worried?

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alfie noakes says...
"Don't be so ridiculous:"
He did have a smiley after it so it was intended as a joke.

To carry the humour on a bit.

Will our chips be Apple or Windows?
If it's Windows we'll all be turning blue when the servers crash. Maybe I could get an extra's role in any new Avatar movie.


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RE: [VIDEO] They Shall Not Grow Old (Peter Jackson's WW1 colourised footage)

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bandicoot says...
"yet likely most suffered PDSD post-traumatic stress disorder"
I dare say it was called many things before PTSD.
My Dad who went all through WW2 always referred to it as 'Bomb happy'.


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RE: [VIDEO] Brexit

The going of Cummings.



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RE: [VIDEO] They Shall Not Grow Old (Peter Jackson's WW1 colourised footage)

This is back up on iPlayer for the next 23 days.

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RE: [VIDEO] Coronavirus, anyone starting to get worried?

...and they say the Germans don't have a sense of humour.

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RE: [VIDEO] The Trump Presidency

An interesting fact check on the The Voting Dead.

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RE: [VIDEO] The Trump Presidency

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