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Posted: June 28 2020 at 13:02
^ Sympathy for the Devil might have been.. umm... slightly more appropriate. Even moron MAGA'r would have hard bubble pressed to not see the humor in that.
Edited by micky - June 28 2020 at 13:03
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^ 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' is such an odd choice for a Trump rally-- it's like he's saying "Sorry folks, I'm probably gonna lose bad".
Trump isn't convinced he will lose. I even saw something on tv where some republican said he "guarantees" Trump will win in Arkansas. Yeah, sure pick one of the most backward states in the country.
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Posted: June 28 2020 at 14:37
For t=rump I recommend a healthy mix of Wagner and Hank Williams Jr. For sleepy joe I recommend "Wake Up" by Funkadelic.
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Posted: June 28 2020 at 14:52
^ hah.. while I admit my rather bleak side of humor relishes the chance to actuallyvote for a corpse for President.. and better yea.. live to see actually one WIN!! Perhaps I'll just to put my Bad Mick 10 gallon and fire your ass John from musical director..
The only more sure to give Joe a coronary than some Funkadelic might be some Sir Mix Alot accompanied by a bevy of buxom babes shaking their money makers and experiencing wardrobe malfunctions a plenty.
70's Genesis man.. is there anymore more Biden musically.. admit it.. there isn't. That gig is mine... since I would last all of 58 seconds as Trump's musical director...
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Posted: June 28 2020 at 15:05
Re Mickey's music gig: Okay, I get it, long winded intertwining 12 string guitars intro and then
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Posted: June 28 2020 at 15:11
right on man so yeah... we do want him to live as long as the finish line... though.. it is 2020... would anyone really be surprised..
year??? It has been that kind of 4 years.. just when you think everything is figured out.... the new normal here has been batsh*t crazy and historically unprecedented..
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Posted: June 28 2020 at 15:17
Re Mickey and 2016-2020: Yes, very crazy, Ive been following politics since the 60s and I've never seen anything close to this. You know, I've been to Germany and the people there are great and I always wondered how did someone that crazy get enough of those people behind him to pull off what he did. Now I see how it happens and I know it can happen anywhere.
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Posted: June 28 2020 at 15:28
^ David Hasselhoff of course.
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Posted: June 28 2020 at 15:32
of course it can man... it's human nature only really needing the right conditions to ignite... and god damn did we get closer to 30's Germany here than I think most might think. or really would ever like to think about or consider...
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Posted: June 29 2020 at 04:45
BaldJean wrote:
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npjnpj wrote:
Just a quick word about the confederate flags and statues. I know about the argument concerning American history etc., but I can't for the life of me understand why they're still there. Descriptive history is in books, not in monuments.
Imagine a world where Germany, in the year 2020, would be thinking about taking statues of Hitler, Goering, and Goebbels down, and additionally debating whether to stop flying the Swastika on public buildings.
It beggars belief.
The Germans lost the war though. Had they won chances are it would be very different indeed.
As a German I am very suspicious of the idea that the Germans have somehow become immune of such things be it by bad experience or (even less credible) by intelligence. You can see things in current German discourse that are frightening. At this very moment it's a minority thing but before Covid that minority grew year to year (not sure to what extent Covid has stopped that). And if the Germans submit to such thought as a majority... well let's say one thing that seems pretty German to me is to do thoroughly whatever we do, good or bad...
Surely being interested in American politics is a good thing also for a German, but there's a lot of stuff going on closer to you that is worthwhile keeping an eye on...
while I basically agree with you I see the situation in Germany a bit different. the rise of the political party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland), which you probably refer to, is especially pronounced in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, the five federal states that constituted the former GDR. they were promised "blooming landscapes" by Helmut Kohl, but the truth is that they are on an economic decline, and many people living there are desperate. and desperate people will take to desperate measures.
this economic decline is what needs to be fought. and the people see very little effort by the politicians to change their destitute situation. they are losing faith in them and thus are easy prey for the far right demagogues of the AfD.
if you want to fight the AfD then you have to put money into the economy of these federal states. but that's not what is happening right now. and, like you, I fear what may come of it.
when politicians are asked about why there is not enough economic support for these federal states they will speak of "practical constraints" and "inherent necessities". but the people are tired of hearing about them. they want a scapegoat. and looking for a scapegoat often leads to xenophobia and racism
This is a late reply and not the German politics thread... anyway, just as a quick reply, I didn't only refer to AfD results, but also (and even more) to what I see is happening on social media, where right wing Germans now more and more proudly and unashamedly throw their hate and racism up in the air even in supposedly innocent places such as music videos on youtube (obviously as good and proud Germans they do it in their home language so who doesn't know it won't see), but even more so they dominate most politics discussions on "neutral" websites such as the ones of national TV and even more or less liberal newspapers. These people are probably still (!) a minority, but they are mightily noisy, so noisy I can hear them loudly and clearly from Italy and before the UK.
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Posted: June 29 2020 at 07:12
Not really a minority. Third largest party in Germany out of seven in the last parliamentary election in 2017. Seeing that Germany doesn't have any party with a total majority, it can't get much bigger than that. Although admittedly, compared to the UK and the US they don't have a leader who has proven he or she can do a push-up or drink a glass of water with one hand.
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Posted: June 30 2020 at 21:01
re: Biden's Presser today...
almost feeling sorry for Trump... who is not a debator nor done well in them. Those debates are going to be must see TV. Great source of jokes for us.. a last ditch hope for Trump... but suspect Biden hasn't taken it well personally...
oh yeah.. surest path to 450... deck Trump with an over hand right on national TV... never forget.. it is 2020.
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Posted: June 30 2020 at 21:20
Biden's press thing was like eating a truck load of lettuce....totally void of calories, no substance at all, just the normal political wishy washy pretty talk.
God when Biden smiles its so fake, like "jeez they actually believe me??"
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Posted: July 01 2020 at 00:18
npjnpj wrote:
Not really a minority. Third largest party in Germany out of seven in the last parliamentary election in 2017. Seeing that Germany doesn't have any party with a total majority, it can't get much bigger than that. Although admittedly, compared to the UK and the US they don't have a leader who has proven he or she can do a push-up or drink a glass of water with one hand.
Several leading members of the AfD proved they can raise their right arm though.
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Posted: July 01 2020 at 02:50
Here, about this business of Russia paying bounties for killing American soldiers: can someone explain to me why Taliban in Afghanistan would need an extra incentive to do that?
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Posted: July 01 2020 at 10:46
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Here, about this business of Russia paying bounties for killing American soldiers: can someone explain to me why Taliban in Afghanistan would need an extra incentive to do that?
It's called war and money, and in this case political focus. These kinds of actions have been going on for eons, nothing new here. I doubt we will know if this is true or not, does not matter I don't trust ANY administration on things like this. The US military has done same things in the past I am sure...Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and the middle East.
But in general you are right I doubt the Taliban or other insurgents in that area need any incentive to do harm to US military.
The terrible part was why did NYT leak this story and possibly cause undue harm, I suspect govt people before the report have been trying to find evidence if true and now it does not matter, any secrecy is in the open.
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right on man so yeah... we do want him to live as long as the finish line... though.. it is 2020... would anyone really be surprised.. 
