Carlton Supporters Club

Unless you live there really what would you know?

What I find most depressing is the fact that when faced with the clearest choice at the election between a candidate promising to restore normality to the country and a self absorbed, lying, narcissistic president clearly prepared to tear up the constitution to remain in power, more than ninety million voters could not be bothered getting off their backsides to cast their vote.

When that number is added to the seventy million angry white, gun toting, illiterate and semi-literate Trumpers , the magnitude of the task facing Biden appears almost insurmountable.

It's not a clear choice, that's the problem.

I post on an American sports forum and last election a poster there who was one of the first members of the BLM group shocked the whole forum by saying he couldn't vote for Hillary as she was despicable and that he wasn't voting. Another member asked gun to your head Trump or Clinton and he said Trump.

There's little in Biden's history to suggest he has even a mildly progressive agenda. I'll be watching with interest.

So far he’s making our Scotty from marketing seem like a pillar of the religious right rump

Yes perhaps, but that's not a great standard.

I listen to Chris Hedges, Richard Wolff and Noam Chomsky as much as I can. Both Hedges and Wolff say there is limited scope for improving the lives of most Americans under Biden. Chomsky seems to believe that Biden is pliable, and with enough pressure from the average American (protests etc.), he can be pushed in a more progressive direction. If this pressure doesn't occur, Chomsky believes he will follow a similar path to the Clintons and Obama (i.e not great).

I think Trump was right about the WHO and its role in the pandemic, slow to react, whitewashed China's slow response to sharing data and also took their time to admit there was a world crisis. On China's demands they ignored Taiwanese Doctors who were blowing the whistle on what was really happening ,of course China is the WHO's second biggest contributor and looking for a big stake in the world of big pharma. Trump might have been playing games to cover up his own failings but the WHO needs an overhaul and the umbelical cord to China cut and Biden should have waited IMO before re-committing to such a dodgy organisation.

Aurangzeb pulled out of WHO simply because it wasn’t in step with his agenda and doing so helped fuel his COVID conspiracy theories and cover up his inadequate response.

The WHO might have some problems but I would put my trust in WHO well before Aurangzeb’s administration and the PRC, as well as Brazil and the other unfortunate nations with populist rulers, and Sweden for that matter 🙄

I think Trump was right about the WHO and its role in the pandemic, slow to react, whitewashed China's slow response to sharing data and also took their time to admit there was a world crisis. On China's demands they ignored Taiwanese Doctors who were blowing the whistle on what was really happening ,of course China is the WHO's second biggest contributor and looking for a big stake in the world of big pharma. Trump might have been playing games to cover up his own failings but the WHO needs an overhaul and the umbelical cord to China cut and Biden should have waited IMO before re-committing to such a dodgy organisation.