Izzyeviel
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Post by Izzyeviel on Jan 20, 2021 21:46:51 GMT
If it were real, there'd be several spelling mistakes and it would be written in orange crayon |
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Post by Peter Wilkinson on Jan 20, 2021 21:56:51 GMT
I am not saying it warrants sackings but the election night call of Arizona was a bad call and the fact that Biden did eventually win Arizona doesn't change that. There is no way that they had enough information to call it when they did and had they believed it was going to be anything like as close as it was they wouldn't have called it. Yes, the call was at best wildly premature, and the available evidence for several days afterwards indicated a substantial probability (though most likely never an odds-on one) that it would eventually prove wrong. And Murdoch certainly won't have liked reputational damage with the target audience for his product (and who else would Murdoch worry about, rather than simply attack?). But if so, the timing of this move looks incredibly off - why wait for over two months after it became obvious that the call had been made on inadequate evidence, particularly when it meant that Fox couldn't credibly line up behind "stop the steal"? Of course, for the past two weeks, platforms and outlets that lined up behind "stop the steal" have been having some severe reputational problems with advertisers and service providers - but that consequence wasn't particularly obvious beforehand, which may actually mean that the bad call was a blessing in disguise. So why, in effect, disown it just now? |
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Post by Izzyeviel on Jan 20, 2021 22:10:23 GMT
The Qanon numpties are taking this well.
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Izzyeviel
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Post by Izzyeviel on Jan 20, 2021 22:15:06 GMT
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on Jan 20, 2021 22:38:38 GMT
Good news.
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mboy
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Post by mboy on Jan 20, 2021 22:40:17 GMT
Lol
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Post by yellowperil on Jan 20, 2021 22:42:07 GMT
Just a little thought as I ruminate about todays events.
Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States.
He is my personal 15th POTUS, just about a third of all of them have happened in my lifetime.
American history is a very short timespan, isn't it?
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on Jan 20, 2021 22:44:46 GMT
Biden is my fifth. The fact that three of them served eight years pads that out a bit.
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Post by mboy on Jan 20, 2021 22:48:08 GMT
Just a little thought as I ruminate about todays events. Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States. He is my personal 15th POTUS, just about a third of all of them have happened in my lifetime. American history is a very short timespan, isn't it? Someone else noted that Biden himself has been in US politics for 1/5 of all US politics. |
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Post by Izzyeviel on Jan 20, 2021 22:59:54 GMT
Just a little thought as I ruminate about todays events. Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States. He is my personal 15th POTUS, just about a third of all of them have happened in my lifetime. American history is a very short timespan, isn't it? Someone else noted that Biden himself has been in US politics for 1/5 of all US politics. Hasn't the Bush family been in politics since the civil war? |
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Post by greenchristian on Jan 20, 2021 23:03:44 GMT
Well, now I am confused about something else. It had never occurred to me to pronounce her name in any other way than that which it transpires is the correct way, until the furore about the pronunciation began, causing me to wonder, then I came across a piece that quoted her pronouncing it "comma-la" It's not a name I had come across before, but the pronunciation seemed obvious, and it turns out, is obvious. No idea why this was ever a story. Maybe the pronunciation is less obvious to those with certain accents? |
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Post by timrollpickering on Jan 20, 2021 23:09:07 GMT
Americans don't pronounce "comma" the way we do which makes it confusing.
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Post by john07 on Jan 20, 2021 23:17:56 GMT
Well they are wrong. Full stop. Correct. Period. |
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Post by CatholicLeft on Jan 20, 2021 23:19:32 GMT
Someone else noted that Biden himself has been in US politics for 1/5 of all US politics. Hasn't the Bush family been in politics since the civil war? Gosh, they aren't such ingenues - Thomas Hinckley, 14th Plymouth Colony Governor (1680-86) is the 8x great grandfather of President George H. W. Bush. |
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on Jan 20, 2021 23:34:31 GMT
Again, good!
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Post by johnloony on Jan 20, 2021 23:40:19 GMT
Just a little thought as I ruminate about todays events. Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States. He is my personal 15th POTUS, just about a third of all of them have happened in my lifetime. American history is a very short timespan, isn't it? I've already had 11, only 4 more than you. Your first 4 POTUSes got you up to the age of 25; my first 4 only lasted until I was 12. My first memory/awareness of American Presidential elections/inaugurations was when Carter became POTUS on this day in 1977, when I was 8. I remember him becoming President, and I knew in advance that he was going to become President, but I have no memory of Ford *being* the President, and no memory of the 1976 election. |
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Post by CatholicLeft on Jan 20, 2021 23:51:58 GMT
Just a little thought as I ruminate about todays events. Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States. He is my personal 15th POTUS, just about a third of all of them have happened in my lifetime. American history is a very short timespan, isn't it? I've already had 11, only 4 more than you. Your first 4 POTUSes got you up to the age of 25; my first 4 only lasted until I was 12. My first memory/awareness of American Presidential elections/inaugurations was when Carter became POTUS on this day in 1977, when I was 8. I remember him becoming President, and I knew in advance that he was going to become President, but I have no memory of Ford *being* the President, and no memory of the 1976 election. Lordy, I remember Nixon. |
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Post by J.G.Harston on Jan 21, 2021 0:07:36 GMT
that is the mirror image of that numptie woman weeping over Brexit that I posted a week back They should be pen pals The lamentation of their women blah blah blah |
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Izzyeviel
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Post by Izzyeviel on Jan 21, 2021 0:07:44 GMT
I understand the words... basically, he's saying he still believes in Q and to hell with the others for letting non-chaners into his hobby. I know. |
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Post by J.G.Harston on Jan 21, 2021 0:17:13 GMT
Just a little thought as I ruminate about todays events. Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States. He is my personal 15th POTUS, just about a third of all of them have happened in my lifetime. American history is a very short timespan, isn't it? Yes, I was projecting ahead and realised I'm highly likely to be alive to see the 50th President. You must be younger than me, Biden's my 16th. (wow!) Wait a mo.... inauguation day in January. obbly 'ell! 17th! |
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