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Legionista

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On 20/06/2020 at 9:03 AM, sonar said:

Well.....twice this week the SCOTUS......said his laws were wrong.......lol......he hates it when democracy gets in the way of what he wants.

How did DACA happen?

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Cynth

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40 minutes ago, Legionista said:

It's Biden's election to lose, has been for a while, and that's the scary part.

Lol, this is a false narrative. They are well out of the election yet and anything (as we have seen in 2016) can happen. Especially when you have an incumbent with everything to lose. Biden will have a struggle because he will be fighting a team willing to do literally anything.......ANYTHING to win. It’s still Trumps election to lose in these conditions. 

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47 minutes ago, Legionista said:

Team Biden won't do anything to win?

C'mon that's where you lost me.

This has been a horrible 6 months for Donald Trump. He has been dealt a horrible hand and his handling of these tough moments has been comical.

 

 

No not anything. That’s Trumps game. 
 

Trump dealt a horrible hand? Hmmm let’s see. Impeachment? Completely his fault. Virus? Well so has every leader on the planet....could have been an opportunity to show leadership rather than a “poor me” horrible hand moment. Don’t make him a victim. 

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1 minute ago, Legionista said:

He’s not dealin’ anything. 
 

He can’t string a sentence together. 

Lol. But I think his own ignorance, his own complete and utter self serving arrogance is what makes him deal himself these disasters. And yes, he can’t string a sentence together...but thats irrelevant, it just makes him **** up the hand he dealt himself even more. 

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8 hours ago, Legionista said:

Neither can Biden but there will be plenty of time for that. 

Won’t it be fun when Biden puts Hunter in the White House as an advisor?! :rofl:

Trump set the tone....go America! 

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wendybr

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Important though the US is, it's crushingly depressing to listen to/watch most of what is going on there.

But I can listen to these 2 very happily as they sum up the week in US politics on a Weds and Friday night - with lots of data/stats, clips, interviews etc.

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/planet-america/series/0/video/NC2014H023S00

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/planet-america-s-fireside-chat/series/0/video/NC2022H021S00

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curious what people think and it kinda fits here, there is a white voice actor who has played a black character since 1999 is stepping down and being replaced by a black actor because of recent events, for me its pretty ridiculous if you only want to hire black actors for future black characters then nothing wrong with that just feels weird to have a voice actor who has played a character for that long suddenly replaced because he is not the ethnicity of the character

not really important :P but its still weird

 

there are so many voice actors who i dont have a clue what their race is because its unimportant

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The Simpsons recently announced the same. So you've got voice actors who've played that part for 30+ years, now saying they won't play that part any longer. Personally, I feel, if they don't want to do that anymore, that is their choice. And it is up to the viewing public whether they agree with it or not.

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3 hours ago, Carns said:

The Simpsons recently announced the same. So you've got voice actors who've played that part for 30+ years, now saying they won't play that part any longer. Personally, I feel, if they don't want to do that anymore, that is their choice. And it is up to the viewing public whether they agree with it or not.

i thought the simpsons said any new characters of colour wouldnt be voiced by white people, either way that is true, we dont actually know how much of the current climate had to do with their decisions to step down from voicing their characters, there is a chance it had no impact on that

honestly i dont mind who voices who, i mean a female voices bart and she does an amazing job, chris judge is one of my favourite voice actors and he voices Kratos who is extremely white, to me that is the greatest thing about voice acting, they dont need to look anything like their character but at the end of the day its really trivial and i agree with you

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For all their increasing wealth, life is an utter pressure cooker over there, from I see.

Just one issue... "left over women" and the pressures on women in general.

 

One woman's fight could transform the lives of single people all over China
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-28/chinese-women-freeze-eggs-gender-equality-reproductive-rights/12332862

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On 26/06/2020 at 11:24 PM, Midfielder said:

very long and seems to be a bit of a US history lesson... but by heavens about 75% in and to appreciate it you need to watch... but well worth the time if you have it.

 

Wow. 

🤣

Maddow never disappoints. 🤗

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5 hours ago, Cynth said:

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/612250/

Excellent long read, Cynth. Obviously the piece is discussing the number of people simply turning a blind eye or not speaking up for their own benefit. However, I particularly enjoyed the following description.

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His foreign policy has never served any U.S. interests of any kind. Although some of Trump’s Cabinet ministers and media followers have tried to portray him as an anti-Chinese nationalist—and although foreign-policy commentators from all points on the political spectrum have, amazingly, accepted this fiction without questioning it—Trump’s true instinct, always, has been to side with foreign dictators, including Chinese President Xi Jinping. One former administration official who has seen Trump interact with Xi as well as with Russian President Vladimir Putin told me that it was like watching a lesser celebrity encounter a more famous one. Trump did not speak to them as the representative of the American people; he simply wanted their aura—of absolute power, of cruelty, of fame—to rub off on him and enhance his own image. This, too, has had fatal consequences. In January, Trump took Xi’s word when he said that COVID‑19 was “under control,” just as he had believed North Korea’s Kim Jong Un when he signed a deal on nuclear weapons. Trump’s fawning attitude toward dictators is his ideology at its purest: He meets his own psychological needs first; he thinks about the country last. The true nature of the ideology that Trump brought to Washington was not “America First,” but rather “Trump First.”

And the following two excerpts really struck a tone.

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To Americans, this kind of justification should sound very familiar; we have been hearing versions of it since 2016. The existential nature of the threat from “the left” has been spelled out many times. “Our liberal-left present reality and future direction is incompatible with human nature,” wrote Michael Anton, in “The Flight 93 Election.” The Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham has warned that “massive demographic changes” threaten us too: “In some parts of the country it does seem like the America that we know and love doesn’t exist anymore.” This is the Vichy logic: The nation is dead or dying—so anything you can do to restore it is justified. Whatever criticisms might be made of Trump, whatever harm he has done to democracy and the rule of law, whatever corrupt deals he might make while in the White House—all of these shrink in comparison to the horrific alternative: the liberalism, socialism, moral decadence, demographic change, and cultural degradation that would have been the inevitable result of Hillary Clinton’s presidency.

The Republican senators who are willing to express their disgust with Trump off the record but voted in February for him to remain in office all indulge a variation of this sentiment. (Trump enables them to get the judges they want, and those judges will help create the America they want.) So do the evangelical pastors who ought to be disgusted by Trump’s personal behavior but argue, instead, that the current situation has scriptural precedents. Like King David in the Bible, the president is a sinner, a flawed vessel, but he nevertheless offers a path to salvation for a fallen nation.

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The price of collaboration in America has already turned out to be extraordinarily high. And yet, the movement down the slippery slope continues, just as it did in so many occupied countries in the past. First Trump’s enablers accepted lies about the inauguration; now they accept terrible tragedy and the loss of American leadership in the world. Worse could follow. Come November, will they tolerate—even abet—an assault on the electoral system: open efforts to prevent postal voting, to shut polling stations, to scare people away from voting? Will they countenance violence, as the president’s social-media fans incite demonstrators to launch physical attacks on state and city officials?

Each violation of our Constitution and our civic peace gets absorbed, rationalized, and accepted by people who once upon a time knew better. If, following what is almost certain to be one of the ugliest elections in American history, Trump wins a second term, these people may well accept even worse. Unless, of course, they decide not to.

I have said from the outset of Trump being in power that the Republicans will continue to side with him as long as they believe it is worth it to them politically. If they believe they are at risk of losing their jobs, their defence of him may change. The next 5 months leading to the election are going to be incredibly interesting to watch. I do not believe that they will all turn against him, as they are too deep in it now. But will they back peddle?

Trump backed candidates have been getting trounced in local elections lately, his disapproval rating is at a record high. They will do everything within their power to enhance voter suppression. Will it be enough to keep him (and by extension them) in power? It's very interesting to realise that we are experiencing a defining period in history at the moment (both within the USA and the world). Is this the collapse of the empire that has been "world leader" for 70-80 years? That might be an extreme take, but I'm not sure if anyone could've really predicted what the US (both internally and on a global stage) would look like in 2020 looking from 2016. Who knows what it could look like in 2024 if he stays in power. Not having to worry about an re-election, just imagine what he'll try and do.

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