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    POTUS 2024 America wrestles with choice

    Seems despite all his travails trials Trump may not only be GOP choice but win

    Will Old Jo run? or that Loopy Kennedy

    Having had a cock and a jock how about a ROCK or Rockwomble even

    Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson: I was asked to run for US president by multiple political parties | Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) | The Guardian

    Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson: I was asked to run for US president by multiple political parties




    Actor and former wrestler says unnamed parties approached him ‘one after the other’ in 2022 after a poll revealed 46% of Americans would support his presidential run

    Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has revealed that multiple political parties approached him last year to see if he would run for US president, after a poll revealed 46% of Americans would support his campaign.


    Appearing as the first guest on Trevor Noah’s new Spotify podcast What Now?, the actor and former WWE wrestler said a 2021 poll of 30,000 American adults led to “the parties” contacting him to ask if he was interested in running at the end of 2022.

    “That was an interesting poll that happened and I was really moved by that,” Johnson said. “I was really blown away and I was really honoured. I’ll share this little bit with you: at the end of the year in 2022, I got a visit from the parties asking me if I was going to run, and if I could run.


    “It was a big deal, and it came out of the blue,” he added. “It was one after the other, and they brought up that poll, and they also brought up their own deep-dive research that would prove that should I ever go down that road [I’d be a real contender]. It was all very surreal because that’s never been my goal. My goal has never been to be in politics. As a matter of fact, there’s a lot about politics that I hate.”

    However, Johnson, who has described himself as a “centrist” and “political independent” and publicly endorsed US president Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign, has openly shared his interest in running in the past. In 2016 he told GQ: “I can’t deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring.” A year later he told Variety the 2024 presidential campaign was a “realistic consideration”.
    His sitcom Young Rock even hinges around him running for US president in 2032, with Johnson playing his future self as he gives interviews about moments in his early life that structure every episode.
    Responding to the aforementioned poll in 2021, Johnson wrote on Instagram: “I don’t think our Founding Fathers EVER envisioned a six-four, bald, tattooed, half-Black, half-Samoan, tequila drinking, pick up truck driving, fanny pack wearing guy joining their club – but if it ever happens it’d be my honour to serve you, the people.”
    But last year he seemed to have changed his mind, telling CBS Mornings it was “off the table” because of his duties as a parent of three daughters, who are now aged 22, seven and five.
    “The most important thing to me is being a daddy, number one, especially during this time, this critical time in my daughters’ lives,” he said.
    On Noah’s podcast, Johnson said his job as a wrestler often took him away from his eldest daughter, Simone, “and I don’t want that for my little ones now”.
    “That was one of my primary discussions with the parties, who were ultimately like, ‘Yeah, but the other ones have done it like this’,” he added.
    Johnson didn’t rule out running in the future, telling Noah: “If that’s ultimately what the people would want, then of course I would consider it

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    IMHO Crazy as it seems at first reading could he be any worse than Trump?
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    Johnson unlikely, but given the alternates of Trump or Biden ………….

    Declare anyone who is not eligible for a state pension as qualified.

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    Yes you would think with over 300 million they could find someone better

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    A significant percentage of the US public has gone stark raving bonkers, so representing them is getting a bit tricky.

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    Would Shirlee Crabtree Jnr have won against Thatcher and Neil Kinnock, and/or run the country better?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    A significant percentage of the US public has gone stark raving bonkers, so representing them is getting a bit tricky.
    Nikki Haley would be my choice if I had my druthers. But, I de-registered when I left the states to prevent any absentee ballot being mailed out in my name.

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    Well they don't have to worry about Token any more. Although I don't think voters said "Not Now" as much as "Get Fucked".

    Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott has announced he is dropping out of the 2024 race, saying voters have been really clear in telling him: "'Not now'."
    The South Carolina senator's departure shocked his own campaign staff.

    Several told Sky's US partner NBC News they had no prior warning and only found out he was ending his White House bid while watching his surprise announcement on TV.
    Mr Scott entered the race in May with high hopes, with millions spent on his behalf by high-profile donors.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    A significant percentage of the US public has gone stark raving bonkers
    Have you seen the streets of London lately?


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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Have you seen the streets of London lately?

    YES, it’s mostly occupied by foreigners, trying to avoid work, and looking forward to a Labour government.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Have you seen the streets of London lately?


    Protests against genocide and a sprinkling of right wing drunks hardly compares to the fruitcakery of Trumptards.

    Your silly 'whataboutery' is misplaced.


    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    it’s mostly occupied by foreigners, trying to avoid work.
    What utter bollocks you post.

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    MAGA cuz the way that it is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post

    Protests against genocide and a sprinkling of right wing drunks hardly compares to the fruitcakery of Trumptards.

    Your silly 'whataboutery' is misplaced.




    What utter bollocks you post.
    Oh my, the irony is strong in this one. When was the last time you were in London, and how did you know all the drunks were right wing? We’re they labeled?

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    Why tf are you asking when I was in London when you are posting from Bali, you wittering buffoon?

    Well, you are if the authorities haven't caught up with you yet, anyway.

    And watch the news. Many were filmed screaming at non-whites nearby about how they were from 'fackin' England' and other English people who weren't white should 'fack off 'ome', you dribbling halfwit.

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    It truly is a testament to the utterly gormless stupidity of the average Septic redneck Republican moron that they still support a seditious, fraudulent, lying pig of a rapist for a POTUS.

    These Yanks are fucking dumber than your average jungle monkey or a Russian.

    Fucking savages actually. Truly, we are all doomed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    YES, it’s mostly occupied by foreigners, trying to avoid work, and looking forward to a Labour government.
    That’s a damned lie, you frazzled geriatric loony moondancing Naafi clerk. There were hardly any Welsh at that march.

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    fyi barely a third of Londoners are white British according to 2021 data (wiki link below)
    I am in London every summer to unjetlag before visiting nicer parts of UK and Irleand, Chittystan, Cheshire sLYme REGIS Surrey etc

    I am lucky to stay in realtively leafy suburbs which actually seem cleaner than my youth and a far wider vatiety of take away food compared to the Fish and Chips, Wimpy, KFC, Chinese or Indian (in fact Hong Kong or Sylheti cuisine ) of my youth.
    I enjoyed watching Spurs first game and a few days in CAmden, Lambeth and Hendon due to tube strikes and National Rail cancelling my 130 pounds tickets to Wales ( I was refunded but rail travel was a haphazard nightmare all summer)

    However as you travel into the city the litter and graffiti increase and a visit to the Imperial War Museum showed me places I would never venture after dark. There were unending Tube strikes so I walked through wealthy Pimlico across Lambeth Bridge and through the housing proojects called council estates.I took a bus back to Waterloo mainline staion as Lambeth tube closed and was the only white person on a standing room only bus, perhaps all the white people have cars and bikes?
    New hazard are bike lanes, interestingly all teh cyclists seem to be white!

    The White British population, historically the overwhelming majority, had fallen to 36.8% of the population - down from approximately 90% in 1971, 60% in 2001, and 45% in 2011. The 2021 census indicated that 40.6% of the population were born outside the UK. Over 300 languages are spoken in the region.


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    Fuck me, whoudda thunk it, one of the foremost capital cities in the western world is cosmopolitan and full of immigrants!

    And they’re mostly not white! Fuck me !

    David, why do you post that utter shite.

    The world is becoming homogenised, it’s called an inevitable progression.

    And I know it’s fucking bizarre but most Africans are black.

    And Lyme Regis is a fucking awful ghetto of insufferably smug white middle class day tripping twats and their godawful spoilt over indulged brats.

    Beer is far, far better. That is Beer the town, not the drink.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    YES, it’s mostly occupied by foreigners, trying to avoid work, and looking forward to a Labour government.

    I read you and Cy and sigh

    Occupied is a rather loaded term

    You are correct the white Brits ae but 36%
    Of course proably and I have no exact data irish Canadaians Americans and Anzacs are invisible
    Most of the foreigners are working age and working hardly ever see an English person runnig a corner shop

    Many EU and Chinese staff in NHS, many maybe British born Africans and West Indians on the transport network and the cabs I use from the station in Surrey seem to always have Asian sub continent drivers , having lived in India for a year so used to some Hindi I think thses Urdu speakers are from Punjab either Pakistan or Kashmir

    Lots of Eu partners of UK citizens or the many Italains, Maltese and E Europeaans Portuguese (Stockwell) Cypriots (N London) who have "dug in"

    As to avoid work harder to be sure mnay women of course do the npaid stuff, and like their white equivalents there may be a proprtion who are unemployed of course the illegals and asylum seekers have no recourse to public funds. Lots of Arabs Kurds and in Seeven Sisters Colombians .

    This raises the issue of the Black economy , there have always been the Arthur Daley spivs and cash only tradesmen.
    The big change is crime, nail bars every where to launder cash take aways, delivered food, massage and vape deliver adevrtised eerywhere plus of course drug mules, drug and people smugglers

    I heard there was German family living in free council house at the end of teh Mall with a well know pedo but that maybe gossip.

    As to lookin forward to a Labour government , they could hardly look back.
    I think jewish wife Sir Keir will have lost the muslim vote over his refusal to back a GAza ceasefire while the polls still show he can win esp as SNP and Tories are in even worse disarray

    London is a wonderful multi culturalplace like Bangkok Paris, Copenhagen and Dublin.
    I have chosen to retire in sleepy Mt backwater similar to my origins but were I a youngster looking for career, action excitement would certainly be happy to give it a go , it is in many ways better than the swinging 60s which of course hold happy memories of youthful fun and games when we ignored the smog pre Aids !

    I hope both you and Cy have the chance to see London again first hand for what it is and no need to agree with me but equally recall the press and social media focus on extremes. London is like most places full of adults who
    Get up h, feed kids cat/dog do school run and or public transport to the best job they can find to pay for the tiny piece of real estate they rnet /buy or squat

    On reflection the largest change since 60s is the affordability of housing, students and the unemployed used to live in Islington and Notting Hill Gate, Battersea which have all been gentrified!

    Even teacherss nurse Policeman without rich parnts cannot get on teh ladder yet council hosuing association lsts decdes so tehy musy pay top whack rents.Where i saty in Surrey modest suburban semis where I grew up are 3k a month and with poss of a buy to let Landlord no fault evictions meaning people have n incentive to improve nor security with a family, As no regime plans to deport the last 5o years of immigrants folks will have to build on green bel, massive high rises like China, accept smaller grubbier untis move to extra long commutes or live with room mates into tehir 30s and 40s when it won't all be like tv show "friends" when you are sharinga room with other folks screaming babies as is the norm in the 3rd world.

    From vists to LA SF Toronto and Sydney the housing pressure the same for similar reasons folks want to go to boom towns
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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    New hazard are bike lanes, interestingly all teh cyclists seem to be white!
    In my recent experience it was not 'bike lanes' as such that caused the problems, it was cyclists careering around pavements, ignoring traffic lights and riding against the traffic that nearly killed me a few times. Fortunately, I am trained, I live in Isaan so the behaviour is familiar. The main difference here is that you can usually hear the motorcycles coming.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shutree View Post
    In my recent experience it was not 'bike lanes' as such that caused the problems, it was cyclists careering around pavements, ignoring traffic lights and riding against the traffic that nearly killed me a few times. Fortunately, I am trained, I live in Isaan so the behaviour is familiar. The main difference here is that you can usually hear the motorcycles coming.
    Correct yes on the pavements ignoring the lights etc

    Near the Imperial war museum there are bike Lanes made error of thinkinh they would be one way

    In many places the bus stops are now on an"island' between the cars and a 2 way cycle lane!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    nail bars every where to launder cash
    I noticed a lot of nail bars and was told by someone "in the know" that they are cash laundering ventures. However, my own observation was that they seem quite busy and my daughter told me it can be difficult to get an appointment so I am reserving judgment on that one.
    To keep this thread resolutely off topic, which is a boring subject, the other thing that is absurdly busy in UK is the NHS. My grandaughter started school this autumn. She still has not been registered with a dental practice because none locally is open to new patients, she has been wait-listed for over two years. My ex-wife travels from Shropshire back to Essex to see the dentist where we used to live because she cannot register in Shropshire. My grandaughter has never seen a doctor, she suffers from eczema every winter and of course Covid made things difficult but I was there when my daughter was trying to arrange an appointment and was refused. Point blank. Apparently A&E is the only option. Bizarre.

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    Especially with all those new Hospitals the tories have funded.

    Oh, I forgot, actually half of them weren't new and others closed because they were jerry-built and unsafe.

    13 years of Tory mismanagement. What a shambles.

    And all numpt, our resident 'true blue', wants to talk about regarding the topic is David Lammy.

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    What's got Symp all excited. The NHS is a mess of the managers making and paying doctors sums which allow them pensions sizable enough to go part time and retire early, all the while managers have overseen them increasingly being allowed to work from home. The current crop of doctors are so entitled that they are content to strike knowing it forces already spiraling waiting lists higher and are well aware that the consequences wil be patients dying whilst waiting for diagnosis or treatment. That ain't the Tories Symp, that is NHS management or mis- management and Doctors.

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    And anyone who believes that drivel by our resident drunken fuckwit is perhaps in need of some serious mental heathcare.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seekingasylum View Post
    And anyone who believes that drivel by our resident drunken fuckwit is perhaps in need of some serious mental heathcare.
    oh here is the pound shop Gerry Adams, the forum clown.



    anyway this about your Oirish leaders across the pond who graciously let you carry on with your corporation tax scam.

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