Exactly. I may have my complaints about FIFA, but sucking up to Trump so that he does not cause the logistical headache of yanking games from cities that have Democrats is just good business practice. I am sure that, in the security of their private offices, FIFA officials described Trump in all sorts of words that have nothing to do with peace. But business is business.
During the Kennedy Center awards, Trump "misspoke" calling the center the "Trump Kennedy Center." Later, when asked if he was going to name the center after him., he said he did not know, but there was talk about it happening. Ya, right.
Once he is removed from office, I propose anything named after him should be renamed for someone else.
During the Kennedy Center awards, Trump "misspoke" calling the center the "Trump Kennedy Center." Later, when asked if he was going to name the center after him., he said he did not know, but there was talk about it happening. Ya, right.
Once he is removed from office, I propose anything named after him should be renamed for someone else.
The Kennedy Centre - after being fumigated - should have its honourable name restored. The White House ballroom? Bulldozers.
Exactly. I may have my complaints about FIFA, but sucking up to Trump so that he does not cause the logistical headache of yanking games from cities that have Democrats is just good business practice. I am sure that, in the security of their private offices, FIFA officials described Trump in all sorts of words that have nothing to do with peace. But business is business.
When John Bolton was still a free man in the early days of this 47 period, he was going on TV shows all over the anglosphere analyzing Trump's personality and indirectly advising governments on dealing with him(*). One of his bits of advice basically amounted to "Stroke Trump's ego".
Pretty sure that's what the Koreans were doing when they gave him the Village People serenade and the fake crown(mentioned last page). And that particular government(basically the Ship Of Fools membership with political power, mutatis mutandis) is likely far more inclined against Trump than the kinda people who run FIFA.
So yeah, FIFA brown-nosing Trump is probably a pretty do-able strategy.
(*) Bolton's a scumbag, and probably the least sympathetic of the people victimized by Trump's authoritarianism. I do think he's probably accurate in his assessment of Trump's personality, though.
Donal it seems is going ahead with proposing a few things the tourist industry will not like, just in time for the World Cup. You will need to declare 5 years of social media and other things. I can see tourism to the US dropping even more
Not only do visitors have to submit five years of social media posts, if they are planning to immigrate to the US and want their paperwork to be expedited, they can pay $1 mil for a Trump Gold Card to move the process along. For African immigrants there is also a $15,000 processing fee.
Three more years? I hate to think what we will become.
Not only do visitors have to submit five years of social media posts, if they are planning to immigrate to the US and want their paperwork to be expedited, they can pay $1 mil for a Trump Gold Card to move the process along. For African immigrants there is also a $15,000 processing fee.
Three more years? I hate to think what we will become.
It's not "will become" that bothers me. It's "has become".
Not only do visitors have to submit five years of social media posts, if they are planning to immigrate to the US and want their paperwork to be expedited, they can pay $1 mil for a Trump Gold Card to move the process along. For African immigrants there is also a $15,000 processing fee.
Three more years? I hate to think what we will become.
It's not "will become" that bothers me. It's "has become".
It's going to get worse before it gets better. If it gets better.
Not only do visitors have to submit five years of social media posts, if they are planning to immigrate to the US and want their paperwork to be expedited, they can pay $1 mil for a Trump Gold Card to move the process along. For African immigrants there is also a $15,000 processing fee.
Three more years? I hate to think what we will become.
It's not "will become" that bothers me. It's "has become".
It's going to get worse before it gets better. If it gets better.
Will take a revolutionary change.
I personally am glad I do not have to submit my last five years of social media to enter the country, not that I have been all that radical, but you never know what standard the T administration is using.
A good news spot, the Maimi mayor election went Democrat. Maimi has long been a deep red city in a deep red state. She won by 19 points. Her election gives local Democrats something to hang their hat on: It's the economy. stupid.
Maimi has long been a deep red city in a deep red state.
Huh?
2024 was the first time Miami-Dade County went red in a presidential election since 1992. Prior to DeSantis in 2022, the last time the city-county went red in a gubernorial election was for Jeb Bush in 2002. The most recent Republican mayor was elected in 2004.
The recent mayoral election marks a break from the move toward Republicans that Miami-Dade has seen over the last 3 or 4 years, but Miami-Dade hardly has a long deep red history.
Maimi has long been a deep red city in a deep red state.
Huh?
2024 was the first time Miami-Dade County went red in a presidential election since 1992. Prior to DeSantis in 2022, the last time the city-county went red in a gubernorial election was for Jeb Bush in 2002. The most recent Republican mayor was elected in 2004.
The recent mayoral election marks a break from the move toward Republicans that Miami-Dade has seen over the last 3 or 4 years, but Miami-Dade hardly has a long deep red history.
And yet Ms. Higgins is the first Democratic candidate to be elected mayor of Miami this century. (Manny Diaz was elected as an independent.)
Maimi has long been a deep red city in a deep red state.
Huh?
2024 was the first time Miami-Dade County went red in a presidential election since 1992. Prior to DeSantis in 2022, the last time the city-county went red in a gubernorial election was for Jeb Bush in 2002. The most recent Republican mayor was elected in 2004.
The recent mayoral election marks a break from the move toward Republicans that Miami-Dade has seen over the last 3 or 4 years, but Miami-Dade hardly has a long deep red history.
And yet Ms. Higgins is the first Democratic candidate to be elected mayor of Miami this century. (Manny Diaz was elected as an independent.)
Ack! Thanks for the correction. Yes, you’re quite right. I was looking at a list of mayors of Miami-Dade County, which isn’t the same as the mayor of Miami.
FWIW, Democrat Daniella Levine Cava was elected mayor of Miami-Dade County in 2020 and reelected in 2024. (And yes, that also made her the first Democrat elected mayor of Miami-Dade this century.)
Maimi has long been a deep red city in a deep red state.
Huh?
2024 was the first time Miami-Dade County went red in a presidential election since 1992. Prior to DeSantis in 2022, the last time the city-county went red in a gubernorial election was for Jeb Bush in 2002. The most recent Republican mayor was elected in 2004.
The recent mayoral election marks a break from the move toward Republicans that Miami-Dade has seen over the last 3 or 4 years, but Miami-Dade hardly has a long deep red history.
And yet Ms. Higgins is the first Democratic candidate to be elected mayor of Miami this century. (Manny Diaz was elected as an independent.)
Ack! Thanks for the correction. Yes, you’re quite right. I was looking at a list of mayors of Miami-Dade County, which isn’t the same as the mayor of Miami.
FWIW, Democrat Daniella Levine Cava was elected mayor of Miami-Dade County in 2020 and reelected in 2024. (And yes, that also made her the first Democrat elected mayor of Miami-Dade this century.)
From El Paiz, Ms Eileen Higgins is the first woman mayor, of the City of Miami. The Republicans have held that office for 30 years, though officially it is a non-partisan. And, in a city of 60% Hispanic (read mostly Cuban), she beat the odds. Trump also called her a Communist. That did not get far.
Maimi has long been a deep red city in a deep red state.
Huh?
2024 was the first time Miami-Dade County went red in a presidential election since 1992. Prior to DeSantis in 2022, the last time the city-county went red in a gubernorial election was for Jeb Bush in 2002. The most recent Republican mayor was elected in 2004.
The recent mayoral election marks a break from the move toward Republicans that Miami-Dade has seen over the last 3 or 4 years, but Miami-Dade hardly has a long deep red history.
And yet Ms. Higgins is the first Democratic candidate to be elected mayor of Miami this century. (Manny Diaz was elected as an independent.)
Ack! Thanks for the correction. Yes, you’re quite right. I was looking at a list of mayors of Miami-Dade County, which isn’t the same as the mayor of Miami.
FWIW, Democrat Daniella Levine Cava was elected mayor of Miami-Dade County in 2020 and reelected in 2024. (And yes, that also made her the first Democrat elected mayor of Miami-Dade this century.)
From El Paiz, Ms Eileen Higgins is the first woman mayor, of the City of Miami. The Republicans have held that office for 30 years, though officially it is a non-partisan. And, in a city of 60% Hispanic (read mostly Cuban), she beat the odds. Trump also called her a Communist. That did not get far.
Good to see someone else eat their hat this time.
If you mean me, I’m not eating my hat. And I’ll willingly acknowledge when I got something wrong.
But a city that has gone for the Democrat in seven of the last eight presidential elections and four of the last six gubernatorial elections isn’t a city that “has long been a deep red city.”
But a city that has gone for the Democrat in seven of the last eight presidential elections and four of the last six gubernatorial elections isn’t a city that “has long been a deep red city.”
Ms. Higgins seems to have bucked a trend toward Republicans at the mayoral level that has existed since 1996. So if we wanna make it sound dramatic, it's not an inaccuracy to say that she has reversed a trend that is almost three decades old.
I personally know next-to-nothing about Miami civic politics and their relationship to DC politics, so I have no idea if this election can be regarded as a rebuke to Donald Trump, or if it's entirely down to local concerns, or whatever.
Trump associates invested very heavily in keeping a Republican in office. He put out a lengthy endorsement of her opponent. I think it goes to show how shallow the Trump machine really is considering at the grass roots level the people of Miami repudiated him. Not only that, but the Indiana state Senate Republicans have rejected Trump's push to redraw the congressional districts to favor their party. And the DOJ has failed a second time to gain a new Grand Jury indictment of Letitia James. The first indictment was thrown out because the attorney submitting it was not authorized to do so. Technically, the DOJ can continue to try to indict her, but I think there should be a way the courts should say enough.
Note to @Nick Tamen even though the city of Miami voted for Harris in the last election, you know as well as I do the turnouts for national elections are much different than the turnouts for local elections. Only the diehards turn out for local elections until there is a wave that swamps them.
Note to @Nick Tamen even though the city of Miami voted for Harris in the last election, you know as well as I do the turnouts for national elections are much different than the turnouts for local elections. Only the diehards turn out for local elections until there is a wave that swamps them.
No argument at all there.
But I still say a city that has gone for the Democrats in six of the last seven presidential elections and in four of the last six gubernatorial elections can’t be described as a city that “has long been deep red.” That was my point—that Miami politics exhibit something other than a longstanding Republican monopoly.
More photos have been released showing Epstein's connection to Trump, Bannon, and Clinton as well as others. One alleged photo shows a bowl of condoms with Trump's image with the words: "I'm HUUUUGE." Doesn't prove he ever took advantage, but the Eeech factor is really high.
I once had a friend who would say, in regards to something like this, "Where there's smoke, there's fire." Sure getting smokey around here, IMB.
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Once he is removed from office, I propose anything named after him should be renamed for someone else.
The Kennedy Centre - after being fumigated - should have its honourable name restored. The White House ballroom? Bulldozers.
How long, Oh Lord, how long?
When John Bolton was still a free man in the early days of this 47 period, he was going on TV shows all over the anglosphere analyzing Trump's personality and indirectly advising governments on dealing with him(*). One of his bits of advice basically amounted to "Stroke Trump's ego".
Pretty sure that's what the Koreans were doing when they gave him the Village People serenade and the fake crown(mentioned last page). And that particular government(basically the Ship Of Fools membership with political power, mutatis mutandis) is likely far more inclined against Trump than the kinda people who run FIFA.
So yeah, FIFA brown-nosing Trump is probably a pretty do-able strategy.
(*) Bolton's a scumbag, and probably the least sympathetic of the people victimized by Trump's authoritarianism. I do think he's probably accurate in his assessment of Trump's personality, though.
"We want to make sure we're not letting the wrong people come enter our country."
I think we have an idea who he considers to be the 'wrong people'.
Three more years? I hate to think what we will become.
It's not "will become" that bothers me. It's "has become".
It's going to get worse before it gets better. If it gets better.
Will take a revolutionary change.
I personally am glad I do not have to submit my last five years of social media to enter the country, not that I have been all that radical, but you never know what standard the T administration is using.
I think I have heard this one before.
2024 was the first time Miami-Dade County went red in a presidential election since 1992. Prior to DeSantis in 2022, the last time the city-county went red in a gubernorial election was for Jeb Bush in 2002. The most recent Republican mayor was elected in 2004.
The recent mayoral election marks a break from the move toward Republicans that Miami-Dade has seen over the last 3 or 4 years, but Miami-Dade hardly has a long deep red history.
And yet Ms. Higgins is the first Democratic candidate to be elected mayor of Miami this century. (Manny Diaz was elected as an independent.)
FWIW, Democrat Daniella Levine Cava was elected mayor of Miami-Dade County in 2020 and reelected in 2024. (And yes, that also made her the first Democrat elected mayor of Miami-Dade this century.)
From El Paiz, Ms Eileen Higgins is the first woman mayor, of the City of Miami. The Republicans have held that office for 30 years, though officially it is a non-partisan. And, in a city of 60% Hispanic (read mostly Cuban), she beat the odds. Trump also called her a Communist. That did not get far.
Good to see someone else eat their hat this time.
But a city that has gone for the Democrat in seven of the last eight presidential elections and four of the last six gubernatorial elections isn’t a city that “has long been a deep red city.”
Ms. Higgins seems to have bucked a trend toward Republicans at the mayoral level that has existed since 1996. So if we wanna make it sound dramatic, it's not an inaccuracy to say that she has reversed a trend that is almost three decades old.
I personally know next-to-nothing about Miami civic politics and their relationship to DC politics, so I have no idea if this election can be regarded as a rebuke to Donald Trump, or if it's entirely down to local concerns, or whatever.
Note to @Nick Tamen even though the city of Miami voted for Harris in the last election, you know as well as I do the turnouts for national elections are much different than the turnouts for local elections. Only the diehards turn out for local elections until there is a wave that swamps them.
But I still say a city that has gone for the Democrats in six of the last seven presidential elections and in four of the last six gubernatorial elections can’t be described as a city that “has long been deep red.” That was my point—that Miami politics exhibit something other than a longstanding Republican monopoly.
I once had a friend who would say, in regards to something like this, "Where there's smoke, there's fire." Sure getting smokey around here, IMB.
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Since the reports were put out by CNN with one going through MSN (Microsoft Network), they are quite reputable.
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