The Political Thread

[The Legendary Shark]

I must say, I find the fact that a certain presidential candidate* is a friend and great admirer of Henry Kissinger rather scary.

*Clinton.

On May 9th this year, Obama's Secretary of
Defense, Ashton Carter, honoured Heinz Alfred Kissinger (born in Germany on May 27, 1923) at the Pentagon by presenting him with the Distinguished Public Service Award, apparently the highest award the Department of Defense has for private citizens...

[SuperSurfer]

On May 9th this year, Obama's Secretary of
Defense, Ashton Carter, honoured Heinz Alfred Kissinger (born in Germany on May 27, 1923) at the Pentagon by presenting him with the Distinguished Public Service Award, apparently the highest award the Department of Defense has for private citizens...

Henry Killinger: "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."

[Tjm86]

I hope they don't throw the book at him.

Especially not Lance Constable Carrot.

[JPMaybe]

Decent article by the moonbat in the Groundhog on the obscenity that is the common agricultural policy.  Pretty much sums up my feelings on the ref; I'll be voting remain as an antiracist vote but with no great conviction.

[Goaty]

Do you hate it when newspapers try to tell you whose you voting for?

[NapalmKev]

Do you hate it when newspapers try to tell you whose you voting for?

I stopped reading Newspapers a long time ago. Too much personal bias and not enough Facts for my liking. Like having a pub conversation with the resident Alcoholic who knows exactly what's wrong with the World and why immigrants are apparently the cause of all the Worlds ills.

Cheers

[Hawkmumbler]

I'll glance through the I, seeing as it's next too free, every other day but the rest can sod off. Have to roll my eyes when ever me nan tries fobbing off something thats she's clearly quoting, word for word, from the Daily Hate Mail.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Do you hate it when newspapers try to tell you whose you voting for?

It's not as bad as Facebook

[I, Cosh]

I am not petrified. The opposite of being frozen with fear. I am twitchy and enervated and absolutely terrified by the idea of the country I am from deciding en masse to leave the EU.

Nothing I say here is gonig to matter or influence anyone but pretty much everything IndigoPrime wrote in this thread resonates or makes sense.

I know we are all self-actualising media nodes now but how did it come to this? In real life I know precisely one person who is in favour of leaving the EU. Not to dismiss his opinion (he's a fruit loop) but the same guy believes in chemtrails, the MMR conspiracy and the healing power of crystals so I'm pretty happy to discount his views. Online I'm aware of OldTankie. Where does that leave us? Let's say I know (in varying degrees, like the ripples of a stone thrown into a pond) 200 people in the world. This gives us 1.0% in favour of BREXIT. I can accept some bias but where, in fuck's name, do the rest come from?!

[COMMANDO FORCES]

The Socialist Worker

[The Legendary Shark]

When a mummy Brexiter and a daddy Brexiter love one another very much, nothing happens because they insist on pulling out.

[I, Cosh]

The Socialist Worker

No idea what this means.

What's your own position? I can't understand why any working man would vote to leave the EU.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

The Socialist worker wants out of the EU from all the stuff I've read about them lately. Just like Corbyn hasn't been truly on the trail for in, he's not a fan of it!

As for why any working man would want to leave the EU. At my place their are over 1400 and from about the 250+ that I have chatted to and heard talking over the last few months, they all want out and that includes some of the EU workers who now live here.

As for my position, I mentioned it on Channel 4 news and in one of the latest Progcasts.

[IndigoPrime]

Bizarre that EU workers resident in the UK would want out. Here's hoping they enjoy dealing with worker visas and residency permits. (As for everyone else, bizarre people would vote to eradicate worker safety nets and likely economic meltdown that will take a decade at best to recover from. Still, I bet Boris and co. will find another scapegoat—or just blame it on the EU.)

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Are Greece enjoying all the safety nets of the EU?