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Mixed feelings.

I didn't rank Momdani. Some of his platform is pie in the sky without any prospect of becoming reality. But at least he was out there doing interviews and raising issues like housing and childcare and food deserts. Cuomo thought he could coast to the nomination, but his experience couldn't overcome his and the Dem establishment's baggage.

At this point I do not have a clue how I'll vote.

Momdani, to me, is like AOC. I probably wouldn't want her in charge, but I like that she is in Congress fighting for the less fortunate and intelligently opposing the endless flood of insanity and bigotry coming from Trump and MAGAland.

The GOP are putting up Curtis Sliwa, again. I used to enjoy his morning radio show, but he's a clown and not a serious option.

Adams has been a huge disappointment and is unprincipled and corrupt.

Cuomo is supposed to be on some third party ticket, but will he can overcome the primary humiliation and go ahead with it? He would still has a good shot with a centrist campaign and a lot of people choosing him as the least unpalatable option.

I was traveling for work this week and was close enough to NYC to pick up the local news.

It definitely seems to have shaken the establishment

Funnily enough he claims to have reached out to former Democratic voters who voted for Trump in November

One thing he said that resonated with me was that (paraphrasing) Democrats needed to start listening and stop lecturing

Anyways-keep well (back into retirement)

J70

Hope you're doing well

What's your take on the Mayors race?

Donegal lad should have kept his feet to himself

Text book black card

Hi all,

Just checking in on this, have been working hard on trying to keep on the right side of drink, I have to admit I messed up pretty badly just after Christmas at a party, it actually scared me a bit..........since then I have been keeping it pretty straight, took the family away for an Easter break to Spain an all inclusive job and actually managed to enjoy a few beers each day without getting piss*d up, the breaks with 0% beers really helped. Also managed to get through the bank holiday weekend of good weather with only having a couple..........it's not easy but by God it makes home life a lot better, suppose what I am saying anyone struggling or thinking of cutting down it really is worth it

Haven't touched a drop in 6 years and don't miss it one bit. God willing I will never touch it again

Best YouTube channel I found was this guy -a retired cop from London.   In one video he talks about ranking yourself in terms of being alcohol dependent on a scale of 1 to 5. "Heavy/binge" drinkers and "alcohol dependent" people are usually a 3....if you go from a 3 to a 4, that's when the real problems start. (I'm not doing it Justice but find that video and watch it-it makes all the sense in the world)

https://youtu.be/PNdg6KR1hBg?si=hYIUf7cI4dFAjzTF

Trump is a fvckin clown and it's actually embarrassing he got within an asses roar of the White House but 77,000,000 felt he was a better option

What does that say about the Democrats-they actually make him look normal-that's saying something.

My wife was just yelling at me asking me what the hell was so important that I was on my phone so much.... I'm going to retire from the board. 

It's been fun and I wish all of you well.

Looks like Mehole might have some company in the Oval Office tomorrow



https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/members-of-the-burke-family-on-plane-to-washington-ahead-of-taoiseachs-white-house-visit-with-trump/a438244273.html

Well I live in  the Usa, This day and age you do not have to live in a country to know what is going on there, Of late  I know everything going on back home , when I came here 30 years ago it was totally different. The internet changed every thing , I think a lot  who voted for Trump regret their Vote already, The ""Tariffs"" are a disaster , Elon is not helping either, And as For Ukraine 

So why do you think 77,000,000 people voted for Trump?

How did he win every single swing state?

How did his share of the vote improve among almost every single demographic in the country?

Why did 89% of counties shift towards the Republicans?

Why did Republicans capture the House and the Senate along with the White House?

If you live here and don't think there is a serious problem with the Democratic brand, then I don't know what to tell you.

Well ffs  75 million voted for Harris , it only takes a small swing to change the outcome, for starters  The dems had a poor candidate, ran a poor campaign , Joe Biden should have being challenged , should  have had a proper primary . The perception was of high Inflation which there was, but largely due to covid, Bidden did a poor job on the Border, Their messaging was poor and  Also  they became for use of a better better word "" Too Woke"",

And for your information there is no ""IF "" I have lived here in Texas since  1994, but everyone back home has the same access to information that you and I have via the internet so refrain from that argument

My "if you live here" wasn't a question

It was a variation of "seeing as you live here"

Whitey I asked earlier but I'll ask again, what has Trump done in either term that will make American great again? And don't give me the Dem's were shite, I get that, I also get the 77 million dafties voted.

Stick to the question

I meant to respond but got sidetracked

He sealed the border

He cut taxes

He cut regulations that were onerous to business

He declared "war on woke"-you can't open your mouth over here without a mob attacking you

And that's just for a start

People saw their standard of living going to shít. Harris was part of the government that made it so as far as they were concerned.

Media blamed it on the immigrants and the new guy offered these same people the sun and the stars, the second coming of Jesus, aided and abetted by the billionaire social media guys who were feeding this narrative knowing they'd have their snouts in the trough once their man got into power.

It's a story as old as time.

Were they dump? Maybe, but the Democrats didn't do enough for these people to make them stick with them.

Ah...so they got hoodwinked

That's as good an explanation as I've heard

Now what are the Democrats going to do to unhudwink the voters?

Well I live in  the Usa, This day and age you do not have to live in a country to know what is going on there, Of late  I know everything going on back home , when I came here 30 years ago it was totally different. The internet changed every thing , I think a lot  who voted for Trump regret their Vote already, The ""Tariffs"" are a disaster , Elon is not helping either, And as For Ukraine 

So why do you think 77,000,000 people voted for Trump?

How did he win every single swing state?

How did his share of the vote improve among almost every single demographic in the country?

Why did 89% of counties shift towards the Republicans?

Why did Republicans capture the House and the Senate along with the White House?

If you live here and don't think there is a serious problem with the Democratic brand, then I don't know what to tell you.

You can bang on about the evil Dems all you want but there is no country on earth that a person like Donald Trump should be elected president.It always seems that you are always trying to justify your support for Trump so you are going the Fox News route by vilifying the Dems and portraying the Lying King as a man of strength.

For 77 Million people who live here who have had it with the Democrats Trump was a better option

Stephen A Smith (look him up if you don't know who he is) said that the Democrats outrageous behavior make Trump look normal

Here's a clip from him speaking just last week

https://youtu.be/zG3n2IeaTPA?si=GRjzgULwYXtZAqaT

https://youtu.be/5Pw65vbgguI?si=-nwakFiTT17mvKFd

Jesus Christ, when you're using Stephen A Smith as a reference for anything you've lost all credibility. The guy is an absolute numpty. Like a dafter version of Eamon Dunphy. 

Haha

Don't like to hear some home truths?

The alternative is not worse. Seems to be a viewpoint that because the alternative is more "woke" they are worse. How could you be worse than this guy - look at the carnage he is causing and he has significant amounts of his tenure to go.

In your opinion it's not worse, but that's not the opinion of the 77,000,000 who voted for Trump

A yoke like Trump wouldn't be voted onto a Residents Association in Ireland or most of Europe (excl Hungary and possibly Slovakia).
Europeans are mainly grown-up adults with developed front lobes.

Yanks on the other hand..   

Lol- and you end up with a clown like Varadkar who got elected Taoiseach having received a grand total of 8000 FPV in 2020

Great system alright

While I didn't love Varadkar, I think your clutching at straws there trying to compare him to Trump. The voting system is the voting system. Trump is a scourge on this planet.

I'm not clutching at anything

As much as people in Ireland hate Trump-the reality is that 77,000,000 people (who live here) went into a polling booth and actually voted for him

They had a binary choice-Trump or Harris-and 77,000,000 of them choose Trump

We know this. That's what us Irish people find so completely crazy. It's a mess of a country at the minute.

The point I'm making (which most of you are missing) is that's it's nowhere near as crazy as you all think when the alternative is even worse

Stephen A Smith on Bill Maher said that the Democrats are so extreme they actually make Trump look normal

But most of us don't agree the alternative is worse. Which is the point we're making.

Exactly-but you don't live here.

Your agreement or disagreement with what I'm saying is based on what you read/hear/see in the media.

The 77,000,000 who voted for Trump do live here and have first hand experience of what the Democrats have done to the country

I think what you're missing whitey is that swing voters clearly include a lot of fairly non-political, uninformed people. Whether that's uninformed about what Trump was promising, or uninformed about the real world implications of what he was promising, I guess will vary from person to person.

If you want to make an argument on the merits that they were in fact correct and that Trump and the upheaval he is currently delivering on are an empirically better option than what Harris was promising and would have brought knock yourself out.

Ah......so the swing voters who voted for Trump were uninformed, unlike the well informed people who voted for Harris

And while the same swing voters were "well informed" when they voted for Joe in 2020, somehow became "uninformed" and then voted for Trump in 2024

Makes perfect sense

77 million chumps voted for Trump, tells you all ya need to know

When the alternative was even worse it's a very sad situation