Joe Biden defeats Trump to win US election

[2023]

Says who? You see what municipal managers and co earn these days? As for dirty - yes. Dangerous? I'm assuming you mean here in SA. Elsewhere, it seems pretty ok, as long as you don't splurge on your allowances and then have media investigate you.

Do municipal managers need a degree in politics?

EDIT:: huh, look at that, they do too: https://www.bitou.gov.za/position-municipal-manager-1

 

[C4Cat]

Back then MLK Jr was often cast as a radical socialist/communist by Conservatives.

The likes of Cruz and McConnell virtue signalling, by invoking MLK Jr, would have him turning in his grave. If he were alive today, they would be pearl clutching bevok to call him a socialist/communist.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1351089397584846849

 

[daelm]

The mind boggles with these people...

In what world is better healthcare, better environment, better infrastructure and less war a "harsh reality"???

It's like they have lost all common sense in the name of being anti-left.

dude, where have you been?

this has been the right wing rhetoric forever, and it's been more and more overt since they formally pinned their flag to the Tea Party and evangelicals. they're just riding the tiger. noone is steering.

edit: it's why you're going to see a lot of schizophrenic back and forth from the Republicans over the next year. a majority of them would like to be uncoupled from the crazies, and they'll be wondering whether this senate trial gives them enough cover to do so. at the same time, they'll be keeping their hand in with the usual loony public rhetoric, just in case it's not.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Fox Settled a Lawsuit Over Its Lies. But It Insisted on One Unusual Condition. (Published 2021)

Why did the network insist an agreement with the family of a murdered young man remain undisclosed until after the election?

www.nytimes.com

But there was one curious provision that Fox insisted on: The settlement had to be kept secret for a month — until after the Nov. 3 election. The exhausted plaintiffs agreed.

Why did Fox care about keeping the Rich settlement secret for the final month of the Trump re-election campaign? Why was it important to the company, which calls itself a news organization, that one of the biggest lies of the Trump era remain unresolved for that period? Was Fox afraid that admitting it was wrong would incite the president’s wrath? Did network executives fear backlash from their increasingly radicalized audience, which has been gravitating to other conservative outlets?

Garbage outlet.

 

[Splinter]

Lets not make it sound like you spent a year on each But why did you do it then? And where did you do these courses? It might make a big difference.

And refer my post above.

I see @The_Right_Honourable_Brit has just quickly left this discussion. Cynical me makes me wonder if he is looking up places he could have potentially got these "one or two" political courses.

 

[Splinter]

Do municipal managers need a degree in politics?

EDIT:: huh, look at that, they do too: https://www.bitou.gov.za/position-municipal-manager-1

Not a bad salary, hey. And I'm sure I've read articles where the salary is far higher. In fact, iirc, there are some municipalities that pay more than the president of this country earns.

Maybe that's why Zuma sold the country to the Gupta's.

 

[daelm]

Fox Settled a Lawsuit Over Its Lies. But It Insisted on One Unusual Condition. (Published 2021)

Why did the network insist an agreement with the family of a murdered young man remain undisclosed until after the election?

www.nytimes.com

Garbage outlet.

good article. glad they had to confess to the Seth Rich stuff, but in a decent society they'd have been required to run apologies 24/7 for a decade. they and the whole Murdoch stable are the gutter press writ large.

 

[ForceFate]

That EFF guy, Ndlozi, has a PhD in political science so yeah, a degree in which waffling is awarded.

Sometimes party politics can reduce one into a waffling moron. Look what happened to McEnany during her time in the White House.

 

[daelm]

Sometimes party politics can reduce one into a waffling moron. Look what happened to McEnany during her time in the White House.

or what's happened to so many qualified professionals just in this thread...

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Lets not make it sound like you spent a year on each But why did you do it then? And where did you do these courses? It might make a big difference.

And refer my post above.

Well 6 months on each (that was the length of each course), so a year in total. I did them because outside my 'core' courses, I needed to do some elective courses to complete my degree. As I was interested in politics as a teenager, I thought I might try my hand at a few courses in political science. I did them at UCT.

 

[daelm]

Well 6 months on each (that was the length of each course), so a year in total. I did them because outside my 'core' courses, I needed to do some elective courses to complete my degree. As I was interested in politics as a teenager, I thought I might try my hand at a few courses in political science. I did them at UCT.

What were your majors? Genuine curiosity, btw.

 

[chrisc]

Who is going to succeed in getting Trump in court first?

His bankers, his niece, someone he swindled?

 

[daelm]

Who is going to succeed in getting Trump in court first?

His bankers, his niece, someone he swindled?

SDNY

 

[stefan9]

Who is going to succeed in getting Trump in court first?

His bankers, his niece, someone he swindled?

New York AG. Been steadily building a rico case against the trump family.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Tapper should be careful about using the term the Big Lie as it's most associated with an infamous Austrian painter...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1351162920365907968

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

What were your majors? Genuine curiosity, btw.

Just economics.

 

[Splinter]

Well 6 months on each (that was the length of each course), so a year in total. I did them because outside my 'core' courses, I needed to do some elective courses to complete my degree. As I was interested in politics as a teenager, I thought I might try my hand at a few courses in political science. I did them at UCT.

okaay...

 

[Splinter]

Just economics.

Did you get your degree?

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Tapper should be careful about using the term the Big Lie as it's most associated with an infamous Austrian painter...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1351162920365907968

A big lie (German: große Lüge) is a "gross distortion or misrepresentation of the facts, especially when used as a propaganda device by a politician or official body".

Seems perfectly apt.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Last Trump Job Approval 34%; Average Is Record-Low 41%

President Donald Trump's last job approval rating is a personal low 34%. He averaged 41% job approval in office, a record low by four points.

news.gallup.com

As President Donald Trump prepares to leave the White House, 34% of Americans approve of the job he is doing as president, the worst evaluation of his presidency. His 41% average approval rating throughout his presidency is four points lower than for any of his predecessors in Gallup's polling era.

lol.