US Presidential Election 2024

[Derek27]

Republicans came close to a punch-up with one congressman having to be held back by another, before finally electing a speaker. Trump being credited for pulling the strings!

[Naffman]

Republicans came close to a punch-up with one congressman having to be held back by another, before finally electing a speaker. Trump being credited for pulling the strings!

Was basically proven again the past few days that Trump's power is waning, I imagine there's a queue to smack Gaetz and that was before all this

[Derek27]

Mark Stone: Kevin McCarthy has given away so much it's worth checking he's still got both his kidneys.

[Archangel]

Scenes in the House of Representitives look like something from a failed banana republic !

[greenmark]

Apparently it hasn't been this difficult to to elect a speaker since 1860 in the run up to the US civil war.
Anyone get the feeling that humanity in going into reverse?

[Derek27]

Trump's company fined $1.3M for tax fraud, providing luxury benefits to employees without paying tax.

[Naffman]

Trump getting into a layable price again

[Derek27]

Trump getting into a layable price again

I had a look thinking he might be in the 4s. Still a wee bit high for me.

[Derek27]

Republican headcase claims Biden has covered up 100 UFO sightings and there's proof of his allegations in the bible.

[sionascaig]

I always liked the story of the US congressman justifying the removal of foreign language books from schools on the grounds that "if english was good enough for Jesus, its good enough for me".

That and congress deciding that pizza is a vegitable.

[Derek27]

It's a level of stupidity you couldn't make up.

[Derek27]

In the UK, Sunak, Truss, Johnson, etc. can stand up in front of the camera, and speak their bullshit with their front bench standing behind them clapping and cheering.

In the US, Biden gives his State of the Union speech with Kamala on the left, smiling away and occasionally standing up and applauding, with the Republican speaker of the house, whatever his name is, sitting on the right with a face making it clear he's thinking, what the flipping hell is this dickhead talking about?

[Derek27]

Nikki Haley, whoever she is, is running for the Republican nominee. The more challenges to Trump the better.

[Naffman]

Nikki Haley, whoever she is, is running for the Republican nominee. The more challenges to Trump the better.

Problem is these candidates will split the anti-Trump vote making it actually easier for Trump to get over the line. I would imagine, Youngkin, T. Scott, Sununu, Pence are still to announce too.

But with Trump already losing a h2h with RDS despite already announcing and no legal troubles in the media the past few weeks it can only go downhill for him from here imo.

[Naffman]

Biden looking a good thing to run now, down into 1.45 to be the nominee.

More money for Trump now too, back down to 2.22 which was where he was just before the midterms, imo DeSantis deserves to be clear favourite as he's making all the moves to make a run.