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Teddy Eagle Flag 27 Jan 24 6.45pm Send a Private Message to Teddy Eagle Add Teddy Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle

Not when dealing with the type of brass nosed Trumpkin Republicans he has to contend with.

Whenever I hear them express opinions on almost anything I wince with the nasty underlying attitude.

So his policy is determined by the views of others. Truly a statesman for the ages.

 

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Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 27 Jan 24 7.04pm Send a Private Message to Wisbech Eagle Add Wisbech Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by the silurian


except from the BBC?

There was incontrovertible condemnation of Hamas by the BBC when it entered Israel, killed so many innocents and took hostages. Less now, because that’s not where the current focus is.

 


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Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 27 Jan 24 7.07pm Send a Private Message to Wisbech Eagle Add Wisbech Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Teddy Eagle

So his policy is determined by the views of others. Truly a statesman for the ages.

Of course not. Reaching pragmatic decisions in order to get things done doesn’t mean that your own view is determined by others. It just means that when power is shared compromise becomes necessary.

 


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Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 27 Jan 24 7.14pm Send a Private Message to Wisbech Eagle Add Wisbech Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Houston Eagle

When I applied for work I had to have a US company sponsor, show proof of education, apply for visa, biometrics, valid passport, full vaccinations etc. then after 5 years of tax returns apply for citizenship which then took a further 2 years followed by US law testing and pledge allegiance to the flag plus many more hoops!

I found that a demanding but normal immigration process!

The vast majority who are crossing the border now are economic migrants looking for a different life! The current process doesn’t need any of the above! That sounds broken to me!

Why not enforce existing policies would be a good start to solving the issue! Maybe that would be considered stupid today!

I think everyone agrees with that. Illegal immigration is never welcome. Proper controls and management are essential.

It’s not the objective that’s disputed, it’s the means to achieve it that is.

 


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Teddy Eagle Flag 27 Jan 24 7.17pm Send a Private Message to Teddy Eagle Add Teddy Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle

Of course not. Reaching pragmatic decisions in order to get things done doesn’t mean that your own view is determined by others. It just means that when power is shared compromise becomes necessary.

This determination to see American politics as a Manichean battle is leading to some strange conclusions.

 

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Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 27 Jan 24 7.25pm Send a Private Message to Wisbech Eagle Add Wisbech Eagle as a friend

Trump has predictably appealed the fines he was given yesterday, but the opinions I have read is that they are very unlikely to be overturned and that it is highly unlikely for the Supreme Court to agree to consider it as they try not to get involved in civil litigation.

Apparently he will now be required to deposit money with the Court pending the appeal but once that process is concluded they will pass it on to the Claimant. Should he not comply he is in danger of having his assets sequestered and then sold to meet the debts.

He might think he is above the law. He isn’t.

 


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eaglesdare Flag 27 Jan 24 7.34pm Send a Private Message to eaglesdare Add eaglesdare as a friend

Trump is worth 2.6 million. Why on earth would he care about 86 million it's pennies.

They go after trump for somthing that may or may not have happened in 1995 but won't go after anyone on the Epstein list. Tells me all I need to know....

Edited by eaglesdare (27 Jan 2024 7.34pm)

 

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Stirlingsays Flag 27 Jan 24 7.55pm Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

No one really cares what a TDS troll thinks.

I'll just say that what will come to pass will come to pass and personally I don't think it's gonna work out for your politics.

 


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Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 27 Jan 24 9.59pm Send a Private Message to Wisbech Eagle Add Wisbech Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Teddy Eagle

This determination to see American politics as a Manichean battle is leading to some strange conclusions.

I tend to agree with that. I have regarded the way the USA handles politics as unfit for purpose for many years. The era of Trump has only confirmed this opinion.

Any political system which depends so much on the capacity to raise money and not on the character of the candidate is unfit.

The way the Constitution is held as being inviolate when it was written for circumstances totally different to today is crazy.

Most of all any system which permits someone as transparently unfit for high office as Donald Trump to even run for President, let alone succeed, desperately needs reform. There must be some checks and balances introduced to ensure that anyone running meets basic standards of truthfulness and accountability.

This ought to be capable of being done by the electorate aided by a watchful media but in the USA it isn’t happening.

 


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Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 27 Jan 24 10.08pm Send a Private Message to Wisbech Eagle Add Wisbech Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by eaglesdare

Trump is worth 2.6 million. Why on earth would he care about 86 million it's pennies.

They go after trump for somthing that may or may not have happened in 1995 but won't go after anyone on the Epstein list. Tells me all I need to know....

Edited by eaglesdare (27 Jan 2024 7.34pm)

Who cares if he cares? What matters is how he behaves. This issue has nothing to do with any historical event. It’s to do with his current behaviour of bad mouthing people, and angering his supporters to the point where some threaten violence and cause disruption to lives.

I guess that if he doesn’t curtail his behaviour that the punishments will keep getting bigger until he does.

I have no idea whether enough evidence exists to indict anyone on the Epstein list. Or whether, if it does, what indictments are in preparation. Do you?

 


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Houston Eagle Flag Houston 27 Jan 24 11.33pm Send a Private Message to Houston Eagle Add Houston Eagle as a friend

You have more faith in the US judicial system than I do! My sense is political incumbency and money directly or indirectly influences outcomes and that’s been the case for decades!

 

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Stirlingsays Flag 28 Jan 24 3.02am Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

The Democrats and their supporters have lined all this crap up.....it's so transparent that only the thick can't see it or the TDS who just don't care.

These weirdos act like Trump is the devil himself. They don't care what they get him on. They will lie, invent and try any means they think they can get away with.

You literally have Maxwell convicted and in jail for being a sex trafficker on Epstein island.....but no one convicted for having sex with minors or the trafficked on that island.

Yet here are the Democrats billing Trump for eighty million dollars for supposed hurt feelings of some women on the make.....from a court in a deeply blue state.

If any independents out there are stupid enough to vote Biden based on that stuff they deserve all that voting Democrat gets them.

From all accounts the plan they have chosen seems to be blowing up in their face but whatever. They will pull anything because they fear the retribution.

Not that it matters that much who wins as the other side won't accept the result.....what's coming is inevitable and it's just a question of how America splits and when.

 


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