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- Wed Nov 16, 2022 11:23 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1247
- Views: 150655
Re: The much too early 2024 election thread
Has a serious candidate for president ever launched their campaign this early?
- Wed Nov 16, 2022 8:21 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1247
- Views: 150655
Re: The much too early 2024 election thread
Weren't his first two bids 2016 and 2020?
- Mon Nov 14, 2022 8:25 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2022 U.S. Congressional (and Other) Elections
- Replies: 923
- Views: 152075
Re: 2022 U.S. Congressional (and Other) Elections
I'm still trying to process the outcome of this midterm. It's almost as if the "red wave" couldn't get past the East Coast and even then the results were really spotty. It was more like a high tide that left some pools in spots. So...what happened? Polls over-estimating in the other direc...
- Fri Nov 11, 2022 6:28 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2022 U.S. Congressional (and Other) Elections
- Replies: 923
- Views: 152075
Re: 2022 U.S. Congressional (and Other) Elections
Could we expect Boebert to get primaried in 2024? The GOP shouldn't be under threat in the seat.
- Fri Nov 11, 2022 3:03 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2022 U.S. Congressional (and Other) Elections
- Replies: 923
- Views: 152075
Re: 2022 U.S. Congressional (and Other) Elections
Why are NV and AZ taking so long again? Didn't they learn anything from 2020? Can't they copy whatever FL does or hire the people who count cards in Vegas to count votes or something?
- Wed Nov 09, 2022 7:21 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2022 U.S. Congressional (and Other) Elections
- Replies: 923
- Views: 152075
Re: 2022 U.S. Congressional (and Other) Elections
Warnock beating Walker was my wish for today, so, could be better, could be worse. Not a bad result for an incumbent party in the mid-terms. It's a bit of a reverse of 2020 where it was the Democrats failing to live up to expectations in Congress - having President Trump on the ballot seems to do od...
- Sat Oct 29, 2022 12:53 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2065
- Views: 318531
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
This is probably more of a post for the 'Trump's America' than 'Biden's America' thread, but given that this is the current one, I'll put it here. John Daniel Davidson published an article in The Federalist arguing that the conservative movement has failed , and conservatives need to abandon the ide...
- Tue Oct 25, 2022 9:13 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Not enough Whisky for this Tango Foxtrot
- Replies: 1430
- Views: 420854
Re: Not enough Whisky for this Tango Foxtrot
But have you considered that Putin is a man's man who will never bow to wokeness, even when his army is humiliated in a proxy war with woke countries? :P It looks like a Russian Imperial Eagle. My first thought was that it looks like a stylized version of the HRE banner , but considering the Russia...
- Sat Oct 22, 2022 7:33 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Not enough Whisky for this Tango Foxtrot
- Replies: 1430
- Views: 420854
Re: Not enough Whisky for this Tango Foxtrot
It looks like a Russian Imperial Eagle.
- Sat Oct 22, 2022 6:02 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Not enough Whisky for this Tango Foxtrot
- Replies: 1430
- Views: 420854
Re: Not enough Whisky for this Tango Foxtrot
Note the flags at this Anti-Vaxxer freedom rally outside Victoria's Parliament House (via Twitter).
- Fri Oct 21, 2022 6:14 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: World News Thread
- Replies: 796
- Views: 217958
Re: World News Thread
Very low to be honest - the Conservatives have 356 of 650 seats in the Commons.Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Fri Oct 21, 2022 2:30 am Any chance that Labor will be able to force a quick general election?
- Thu Oct 20, 2022 11:40 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: World News Thread
- Replies: 796
- Views: 217958
Re: World News Thread
A week after Liz Truss sacked Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng, Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been forced to resign after she sent an official document via her personal email . The tabloid Daily Star has set up a livecam seeing if Truss will outlast a lettuce . If Truss does somehow ...
- Thu Oct 13, 2022 11:49 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: World News Thread
- Replies: 796
- Views: 217958
Re: World News Thread
After her first budget was, er, not well-received, the King greeted Liz Truss at their first weekly audience with "Back again? Dear oh dear". HM doesn't quite have his mother's polite reserve.
- Sun Oct 02, 2022 11:41 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
- Replies: 1052
- Views: 134573
Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
The Kremlin: We need to fight in Ukraine to defeat western moral degeneracy.
Also the Kremlin: Releases bizarre propaganda music video ripping off a 2020 TikTok meme:
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Also the Kremlin: Releases bizarre propaganda music video ripping off a 2020 TikTok meme:
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- Fri Sep 30, 2022 4:33 am
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: Discussion about the Discussion about RoP
- Replies: 119
- Views: 56684
Re: Discussion about the Discussion about RoP
I don't have strong views on colour-blind casting one way or the other. It does seem to me to be a bit of a band-aid solution to a deeper problem - the stories which are known in popular culture and attract the most attention tend to come from European or American history, mythology or fantasy, and ...
- Tue Sep 27, 2022 5:49 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: World News Thread
- Replies: 796
- Views: 217958
Re: World News Thread
The good news is that Italy elected its first female prime minister, Giorgia Meloni. The bad news is Giorgia Meloni appears set to become Italy’s most far-right prime minister since Mussolini Apparently she's been smashing glass ceilings in the hard right. From Politico Europe : "In 1992, a 15...
- Sat Sep 10, 2022 11:41 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The Passing of Queen Elizabeth II
- Replies: 119
- Views: 35658
Re: The Passing of Queen Elizabeth II
Stephen Fry made the interesting observation that some of the world's freest and most egalitarian countries have a monarch and an established church in violation of all the principles of the Enlightenment - the principles on which the U.S. was founded. I was reminded forcefully of this watching the ...
- Sat Sep 10, 2022 6:04 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The Passing of Queen Elizabeth II
- Replies: 119
- Views: 35658
Re: The Passing of Queen Elizabeth II
The monarchy is a complex and fascinating institution, particularly now, as it tries to find a way forward in a world which no longer accepts the assumptions it was built on. If you listen to George V’s and Queen Mary’s 1923 Empire Day message to the boys and girls of the British Empire, you can hea...
- Thu Sep 08, 2022 12:55 pm
- Forum: The Rings of Power
- Topic: Lord of the Rings series!?
- Replies: 850
- Views: 425963
Re: Lord of the Rings series!?
I'm still undecided on watching this to be honest. Some of the things I've seen in reviews have piqued my interest, but there's been plenty to dampen it too.
- Mon Sep 05, 2022 11:23 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: World News Thread
- Replies: 796
- Views: 217958
Re: World News Thread
Liz Truss defeats Rishi Sunak to become the U.K.'s next PM (and third female PM). She will travel to Balmoral Castle to kiss hands Tuesday morning local time and then announce her cabinet.