Bill Clinton has been diminished by the Monica Lewinsky affair
The only reason Clinton didn't get into deeper water over this was that when they did testing on the infamous blue dress, the results were deemed to be inconclusive because everyone from Arkansas has the same DNA..... :-)
Trump won’t be the first outgoing President to try to salt the fields out of vindictiveness. Trump shows it isn’t sensible to trust that outgoing Presidents will follow a tradition of promoting a smooth transition of power.
I've got a feeling the Whitehouse shredding machines will be working overtime before we get to Inauguration day....
I think an absolute landslide win would be required by either candidate if there is to be any hope of avoiding serious civil strife .
Apparently, if Trump has a lead in swing states like Wisconsin or Pennsylvania on the evening of the election, he can 'declare' victory then and there before most of the millions of postal votes can be counted. If the electoral officials in the state are happy with the call (and amazingly enough electoral officials in the US are partisan), they can ratify the win and hand the electoral college votes to Trump.
This next few days/weeks/months could get very ugly.......
The media have largely ignored the hypocrisy in the Trump diagnosis and treatment, it isn't like the flu, he was rapidly, radically and aggressively treated when first diagnosed. People should do the very opposite of what he stated and be quite scared and careful, because the vast bulk of general society won't get his treatment no matter how wealthy they may be!
Do we really even know if he had it? Remarkable recovery for a 74 yo, really, only 3 days, with virtually no apparent lingering issues (and his driver didn't even wear a mask when Trump was taken for a drive-by in his hospital gown). That, together with so many conflicting stories of how he was treated, make me wonder if he hasn't pulled a massive pre-election stunt. His spin doctors would be only too aware that Boris Johnson's approval rating skyrocketed after he was hospitalised with COVID. Just what a flagging Presidential candidate needed.
And now he can stand up at rallies and debates and say he knows exactly what it's like to have COVID and it's not so bad.....
I think the master of the universe every day for Cam Smith and the Storm. He proved to me that a higher authority exists, as though Cam he smote the infidel Vlandys and sendth him packing
I particularly liked it when he rubbed the Big V right in their faces! I'm sure Teddy Whitten would have been looking down with both thumbs raised.
I'm not the only one who's over the Corporate Oligarchies that determine what we are supposed to think. They print any crap that serves their purpose and are rarely if ever held accountable for the damage it can cause, because they have Governments in their pockets.
It's a horrible problem to solve, and the medicos have to walk a tightrope made from the Hippocratic oath which states "Do no harm", including not worry people when they do not have to be worried, and not enabling the prosecution of people who do not warrant prosecution. They don't get to operate on the "Smeller is the Fella" rule of investigation and detection like the media does regularly!
Problem is, if a medico doesn't reveal a potential outcome in any given situation, no matter how remote the likelihood, they can be sued for not communicating that miniscule risk. And then, as suits, media and lawyer types get hold of the information and turn it into something far more sinister than it actually is.
There should be a Royal Commission into the role the Media have played during this pandemic. Their desire for cheap headlines and stories with a minimum of background checking have contributed significantly to the misinformation and confusion. The truth that we all want to hear is buried somewhere in a barrage of fog, because there is too much political point-scoring going on, and the Media have been only too accommodating to give oxygen to the latest whacko theory about what's going on. And don't forget, the Media have their political agendas as well.
Donald spent far too much time trying to hang labels on Biden.
When it came to policy, it was almost laughable - he trades on cliches, eg he said his new Healthcare plan to protect the 22 million on Obamacare and protect those with pre-existing conditions was going to be 'an amazing healthcare package'. He said exactly the same thing 4 years ago. This guy is a snake oil salesman who has minimal credibility as a democratic leader.
Unfortunately, Biden is no Nelson Mandela either.....
On Panahi I don't know what has happened to her, a mortgage maybe?
She wasn't always like this but she has well and truly sold out any rational line now. she seemed reasonable back in the Harf days. But I suspect in reality in recent times she saw the end coming for Bolt and decided she could grabbed the Bolt gig as he slides off into rural oblivion!
Once you join any Murdoch outlet, you are expected to unclip your left wing and inject steroids into the one on the right.
So, if you have only one wing, apparently you see just one version of the world because you can only fly in a circle.....
There has been numerous times that she's shouted at the tv, telling the female reports to stop asking stupid questions and let it go. If my wife was anymore feminist she'd be shacking up with another chick, so for her to say that it was clearly about what she was saying, not what was between her legs (or not).
Have to agree with Mrs Kruddler - numerous times where statements have been made from the podium (not just by Andrews), only to have a female reporter ask a question that had just been answered.
If we are being really super honest, as mightily courageous as it was (John Brown and Nick Riewoldt like), it wasn't mark of the year in the vein of Jeremy Howe, Shaun Smith, Andrew Walker (Mark of the Year that was robbed) etc. Kane is a knob but as he said, there were probably better high marks (ie spectacle). But lets not begrudge the kid, it was super.
The thing that probably got him over the line was that the body heading in the other direction was Charlie Dixon, on a day when he was treating Liam Jones like a ragdoll.
That mark marked was a turning point for Sam's season. There was talk around then of Walsh being overtaken by Smith and Rozee. The doubters shutup after that game and I was half thinking at the time that it may have been in the back of Walsh's mind when he went for the mark.
Amongst all the hype for the other young ones doing well, it's easy to forget Walsh because he has been so good from his very first game. Has now played 39 out of a possible 39, and I think his Brownlow nights will only get better from this point onwards....