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And Kamala sleeping with someone, or Biden being overly "touchy", is worse than Trump raping and assaulting multiple women over the years and yet still becoming president? Any chance you can talk about that or is it basically "anything goes for the people whose politics you agree with", when it comes to your morality? Or your, erm... utter immorality, I mean.
Has Trump ever been sentenced for rape?
I don't like the guy but even in Switzerland freedom of speech is limited.
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I find it pathetic that this mentality continues: "Any woman who is successful must have slept her way to the top, but any man who is successful did it on his own merits".
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Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got?

Over a year ago AG Barr appointed prosecutor Durham to investigate Trump's claims that the Russian investigation was somehow a criminal affair targeting Trump led by Obama, FBI and CIA.

Now Durham has announced a criminal charge against a low-level FBI lawyer. Sometimes they target low-level people to do a deal to obtain information against more senior people. Seems unlikely in this case as the lawyer has said he will plead guilty.

So far the Durham investigation looks like a damp squib using a battle tank to crush an ant.

Meanwhile the conservative group Judicial Watch has been trying to revive the Hillary email business but the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, 3-0, against them.

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“Secretary Clinton … provided eleven hours of public testimony before the House Select Committee, and has answered countless media inquiries on the matter,” wrote DC Judge Wilkins, an appointee of President Barack Obama.
“These facts underscore both the impropriety of the District Court’s Order and the appropriateness of turning the page on the issue.”
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Old 15.08.2020, 13:39
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But she did
The positive side of the nonsense attacks on Harris is they push evermore women voters from Trump to Biden.

The latest Fox News poll published yesterday had Biden 12 points ahead of Trump among women voters.
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Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got?

Well then. I guess that the only child of DJT eligible to follow in his footsteps would be Tiffany. The rest (Don jr., Ivanka, Eric and Barron) are all children of immigrants.

Tiffany?
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The positive side of the nonsense attacks on Harris is they push evermore women voters from Trump to Biden.

The latest Fox News poll published yesterday had Biden 12 points ahead of Trump among women voters.
That's the same lead Clinton had over Trump....

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...der-education/
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True that.

Someone even made a song about it, Smoking Water or sumpting.
Makes a change from what Ritchie Blackmore usually smoked in the early 70s.
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But she did
Are you talking about Willie Brown? The guy who was single (separated for 13 years from his wife) when he openly started a relationship (which was frequently reported on) with Kamala Harris, a relationship that lasted over a year and ended when Brown decided to go back to his wife when he won the mayoralty of San Francisco? Brown appointed her to a couple of commissions in California -- something he did for a lot of friends and acquaintances, perhaps not the best look, but certainly nothing new (Ronny Jackson for Secretary of Veterans Affairs, anyone?). But Harris won her first political election (San Francisco DA) in 2003, more than eight years after her relationship with Brown ended.

So no, she didn't have an extramarital affair with Brown (you didn't suggest that, but the Tea Party did), and she didn't benefit politically from her relationship with him. Or do you have some other gossip for us?
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That's the same lead Clinton had over Trump....

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...der-education/
Really great news, a male candidate with the same lead in women voters as Hillary.
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Old 15.08.2020, 23:37
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Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got?

So this is really it? The Americans have only the choice between Trump and Biden .... or of course to shut up?

Why would I not feel being taken seriously if I were an American?

However, time to move all this geriatric gear and staff into the White House. And hope these boys have health insurance (as it's not standard in the US ) or the next four years are gonna be even more expensive than normally for the US-taxpayers (oh, that's many of you folks, eih? Hope you're all still on 120K+ per year then.)
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Hah this is genius! One of many brutal videos on this adminstration... https://www.youtube.com/c/TheLincolnProject/videos

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So no, she didn't have an extramarital affair with Brown (you didn't suggest that, but the Tea Party did), and she didn't benefit politically from her relationship with him. Or do you have some other gossip for us?
So let's forget about how Kamala "got" there - and sorry, 22 Yards, from what I have read, "Slick Willie" and their relationship played a part in her rise politically. During their relationship, she gained three significant appointments in a very short time from Willie (The California Medical Commission in 1994, The California Unemployment Appeals Board - even more money! - and finally, The California Medical Assistance Commission - despite having no medical background).

Instead, let's focus on her completely abysmal campaign for presidency. I defer here to Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal who writes well; her article on Kamala's nomination as VP may be behind a paywall but I will attach a link (PS..google Strassel and Kamala Harris and one should be able to should gain access if my link does not work).

https://www.wsj.com/articles/kamala-...gn-11597360619
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So let's forget about how Kamala "got" there - and sorry, 22 Yards, from what I have read, "Slick Willie" and their relationship played a part in her rise politically. During their relationship, she gained three significant appointments in a very short time from Willie (The California Medical Commission in 1994, The California Unemployment Appeals Board - even more money! - and finally, The California Medical Assistance Commission - despite having no medical background).

Instead, let's focus on her completely abysmal campaign for presidency. I defer here to Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal who writes well; her article on Kamala's nomination as VP may be behind a paywall but I will attach a link (PS..google Strassel and Kamala Harris and one should be able to should gain access if my link does not work).

https://www.wsj.com/articles/kamala-...gn-11597360619
So, lets get this straight... you think Kamala, even if she had political advantages from a relationship and ran a bad campaign... is a worse person than Trump? A pathological liar and psycopath who is a known racist and mysoginist, accused of many serious sexual assaults and who has caused many tens of unnecessary thousands of deaths from his erratic bungling of the Coronavirus pandemic? Who attacks basic freedoms and press and is trying to subvert democracy by purposefully damaging the postal services ability to function so that people can engage their right to vote by mail during a pandemic? These are multiple TERRIBLE and HEINOUS things.

I really have to wonder at the levels of rationality of some of the people who post in these threads if they are not able to put these things into any sort of real perspective.
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Apparently Mr. Trump believes that if the US adopts universal mail-in voting the US will become the laughingstock of the World.

What absolute and utter Rubbish, the US is already the laughingstock of the world because of him.

Only 5 states use universal voting (where the ballots are sent automatically to all registered voters) and it’s unlikely that any of the others will get their act together in such a short period of time. So they likely will require voters to request an absentee ballot, something every state is capable of doing.

It does suggest that Mr. Trump may know something we don’t know, perhaps that states voting lists are not accurate.

Switzerland has been using universal voting for decades and we are not the world’s laughingstock.
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No other gossip, just the part you mentioned and seem willing to gloss over:

'Brown appointed her to a couple of commissions in California -- something he did for a lot of friends and acquaintances, perhaps not the best look, but certainly nothing new.'
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So, lets get this straight... you think Kamala, even if she had political advantages from a relationship and ran a bad campaign... is a worse person than Trump?

Did anyone write that Harris is a worse person than Trump?
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So this is really it? The Americans have only the choice between Trump and Biden .... or of course to shut up?
In essence, yes. But - If you want to go with wild times in 2020, if either Trump or Biden dies after accepting their party's nomination but before the election then their respective parties would need to choose a new nominee. Logic would dictate that the Rs would choose Pence and the Ds would choose Harris. But this year is anything but normal.

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...It does suggest that Mr. Trump may know something we don’t know, perhaps that states voting lists are not accurate.

Switzerland has been using universal voting for decades and we are not the world’s laughingstock.
State voting lists are always inaccurate in the USA, because people move around a lot and don't bother to update information. Women get married or divorced and don't update name changes. State databases do ping against law enforcement and social security, but there are often delays between when the data is entered in one place and when it's compared in the other. Thus why you still have felons and deceased people on the rolls.

There is a new, multi-state partnership of information exchange that helps try and reduce these issues, but it only includes 30 states and the District of Columbia so far. It will be more useful once all states are on board.

In Switzerland, everyone is registered with a municipality, making it easier to keep track of people. There's no central registration of residence in the USA.
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In essence, yes. But - If you want to go with wild times in 2020, if either Trump or Biden dies after accepting their party's nomination but before the election then their respective parties would need to choose a new nominee. Logic would dictate that the Rs would choose Pence and the Ds would choose Harris. But this year is anything but normal.



State voting lists are always inaccurate in the USA, because people move around a lot and don't bother to update information. Women get married or divorced and don't update name changes. State databases do ping against law enforcement and social security, but there are often delays between when the data is entered in one place and when it's compared in the other. Thus why you still have felons and deceased people on the rolls.

There is a new, multi-state partnership of information exchange that helps try and reduce these issues, but it only includes 30 states and the District of Columbia so far. It will be more useful once all states are on board.

In Switzerland, everyone is registered with a municipality, making it easier to keep track of people. There's no central registration of residence in the USA.
But everybody has a Facebook account.

US is a basketcase.

China and Russia just need to stay put and wait it out before it implodes and then share what is left.
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I don`t accept the question because they are both total gits, but OK, I prefer Trump because with a bit of luck with a Trump USA vs China possibly continuing in the future there is the chance that those two will screw each other, stop vampiring the rest of the world and we can go back to a alltogether new normal.
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Did anyone write that Harris is a worse person than Trump?
Give Harris a chance to show her swamp qualities first please. I suppose anyone within the swamp bubble has a chance of turning a new leaf.

What might the chances be? safe odds for any bookie. 0.0000001% is my odds on this 1.

Still, there is a chance that she might be possessed by a demon or something and suddenly turn a new leaf. I have seen leaves like this in the past you know. Yeah I have. after a sydney bush fire years back I saw burnt out leaves falling from the sky...

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