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[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

Kavanaugh is a low life - trump likes to have people that are a lot like him around. He's a liar and avoids giving a plain answer to questions. You are buying the republican defense.

[easyrider Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close easyrider]

If Kavanaugh is a low life what does that make Ford, Feinstien and the rest of the gang ? It is pretty obvious to me and most voters what is happening regarding Kavanaugh. I can see what Trumps dealio is and even though he might be many things his policies have put money in the bank for me and many others.

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

Didn't know you were rich and greedy - but as a trump supporter it was either that or a deplorable.

[rapmarks Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close rapmarks]

I don’t know what happened, but I know many republican senators felt something did happen to her.
He had my sympathy for awhile but he sounded like a defensive functioning alcoholic as his questioning went on. I certainly don’t feel he is impartial.

As far as trump putting money in the bank for you, I made a lot under obama too and under trump but His term isn’t over, anything can happen.

[easyrider Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close easyrider]

You know that Kavanaugh wasn't Trump's first pick. It would be karma if Joan Larsen gets appointed because Kavanaugh had a few beers while while at school. They should of went with Larsen off the get go, imo.

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

Brazil just elected a candidate dubbed The Trump of the Tropics as its new president by a wide margin

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...trump-tropics/

Earlier this year, the Czech Republic gave a landslide in its parliamentary election to the party of a populist nationalist billionaire who was dubbed "the Czech Trump" while the country's traditional center-right party finished second, and a new populist right party calling for a referendum to leave the EU and for a ban on Islam in the country was tied for third. The previous largest party, the Social Democrats sank to 6th place among the parties.

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

Kavanaugh is a low life - trump likes to have people that are a lot like him around. He's a liar and avoids giving a plain answer to questions. You are buying the republican defense.

What about Al Gore? The allegations on Gore being a sexual predator are much more recent and more credible.

https://www.businessinsider.com/two-...assault-2010-7

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/...tland_mas.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-masseuse.html

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

Doesn't the rise of nationalism remind you of the 1930s ? Still believing all the stories in the National Enquirer ?

[easyrider Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close easyrider]

Doesn't the rise of nationalism remind you of the 1930s ? Still believing all the stories in the National Enquirer ?

I would say no. The Nationalism today seems more like the Patriotism of the 80's that took the Soviet Union out. btw, Al Gore was either looking for a quick buck or a complete idiot regarding his global heating claims. Al Gore was also implicated in sexual assaults and other inappropriate actions that received little to zero media coverage. Probably because the media backed Al's global warming dealio and his political affiliations. Other than being a lying philandering hypocrite, Al seems like a good guy.

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

Doesn't the rise of nationalism remind you of the 1930s ? Still believing all the stories in the National Enquirer ?

Different animal. Today's nationalism in Europe is a reaction to the European Super State, and it is the latter that is the threat to democracy and individual rights. Indeed, in eastern Europe where the Soviet empire is remembered, the EU is increasingly being known as the "EUSSR" after Hungarians coined that term. The EU is not organized on democratic principles. Its parliament in Strassburg is a mostly toothless debating society while the real power is in the unelected eurocrats in Brussels. The dictation of policy by the eurocrats to elected national parliaments is an affront to democracy. The EU, for instance, signed up all its members to the Paris Climate accords as a block, not giving each country its own choice.

The media sources I cited on Gore include the largest circulation newspaper in Oregon and the largest circulation broadsheet (non-tabloid) newspaper in the UK, not the National Enquirer. However, the media in this country has fallen so low that the National Enquirer has about the same credibility as most of them.

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

In the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing, the most ridiculous grandstanding was by Cory "I am Spartacus" Booker. Not only did Booker admit in writing some years ago to himself having sexually assaulted a female classmate while he was in high school, but since the hearing, allegations have emerged of a sexual assault he made of a homosexual nature in a bathroom since he has been a senator. Booker also supports his colleague Robert Menendez, who has had allegations published in the European press about his sex tourism trips to the Dominican Republic to cavort with underage prostitutes, including an interview with one of those underage prostitutes. To avoid being a hypocrite, with a background like this, maybe Booker should just resign his own Senate seat. Instead he seems to think it is a good background to run for president, hence the grandstanding.

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

What impact will the Ontario provincial election earlier this year have on Canadian politics? Ontario is Canada's largest province by population and a place where the national parties have traditionally been competitive. Canada has a national parliamentary election next year, with the Liberals currently in power at the national level.

Prior to the election the Liberal Party of Ontario had been in power 15 years at the provincial level, and held 55 seats in parliament, a majority. A major focus in recent years had been wind and solar energy which it heavily promoted. This caused pushback on a number of levels, but was a major issue going into the campaign.

The Conservatives had been adrift, but elected a hard-charging new leader, Doug Ford, who took the party farther right and adopted a populist approach. He took a strong stand against illegal immigration and against the wind and solar projects of the Liberals. The Conservatives went into the election with 28 seats.

When the votes were counted, the Conservatives emerged with 76 seats to the Liberals 7, the biggest defeat of a sitting government in Canadian history. Since then, the new Conservative government has cancelled hundreds of wind and solar projects, including some big ones, that were in the pipeline when they took over. They are also in the process of repealing the Green Energy Act that provided for subsidies of wind and solar, and have returned planning power on energy projects back to local governments, something that had been taken over by the provincial government under the Liberals..

Doug Ford now has national ambitions.

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

Predictions for today's election

My own prediction is for a 2 to 3 seat Republican gain in the Senate and a 16 to 40 seat Democrat gain in the House.

In the Senate, likely GOP gains are North Dakota and Missouri, and possible GOP gains are Indiana, West Virginia, Montana, Michigan, Florida, New Jersey, and Wisconsin. Possible Democrat gains are Nevada and Arizona.

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

Predictions for today's election

My own prediction is for a 2 to 3 seat Republican gain in the Senate and a 16 to 40 seat Democrat gain in the House.

In the Senate, likely GOP gains are North Dakota and Missouri, and possible GOP gains are Indiana, West Virginia, Montana, Michigan, Florida, New Jersey, and Wisconsin. Possible Democrat gains are Nevada and Arizona.

Republicans will strengthen control of the Senate, while control of the House could go either way.

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Today I’m riding the Blue Wave