Super Tuesday. If Trump wins 10 out of 11 as predicted, that's it isn't it?

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[redgunamo]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

momentum. All over bar the shouting I'd say.

[Classic Jorge]

I dont know what's worse, the fact that people are actually voting for a man that cant form a sentance or the fact they think he understands them or identifies with them.

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

All the smart people are long since past having to care about politics.

[Berni]

happen - despite being a wearying, trout-faced old termagant.

A Trump administration would have been absolutely huge fun.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

[Ashberto]

to spell the word correctly.

[Berni]

least much less interventionist) than a Clinton one.

[Classic Jorge]

That's just how I role

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I rolled into the Polling thing on Friday evening and was handed my ‘sheet’, at which point I asked the bint who all these people were as I expected other people. She then told me these were the people I was voting for and that I “probably should have better informed myself”.

I entered the booth, started writing down numbers but got bored at 3, exited and went to buy some beer.

I can’t even recall who I voted for or if they won.

f**king waste of time. Not sure I will bother again.

[Classic Jorge]

He's utterly terrifying though. Not from the point of view of my mamby-pamby ****o sensibilities, Bush has already done that before - but in a very real, practical sense.

[Berni]

You don't really think the US President actually runs the country, do you?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Ashberto]

unlike the neocons and their liberal humanitarian mirror-images who between them have been taking turns at waging endless wars for decades now.

Both Trump and the other fella, yer man there, Sanders, are showing that the electorate are getting tired of the old elites.

[Classic Jorge]

He does run the f**k off, massive, blood-thirsty army though.

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

They're not goig to let him nuke anyone. It would make their jobs redundant, for a start.

[Berni]

the other day as though this were proof of how uncaring and arrogant we are.

I pointed out that your two main parties basically have identical policies (being largely divided on historical grounds), meaning that whoever wins it doesn't really change anything. And besides, Ireland is a tiny country of about 3 million people whose impact on the rest of the world in a political sense is bugger all. I also pointed out that Belgium has more than three times as many people in it and we couldn't give a flying f**k who runs Belgium either, so it's nothing personal.

He accepted these points with a good grace.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Classic Jorge]

From the little he has said, or the stuff that's actually parsed, he's shown an alarming attitude to the foreigns though.

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

[Berni]

Even most 'sophisticated' Americans are basically retards when it comes to their understanding of foreign countries. It comes of being a gigantic land mass in the middle of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans thousands of miles from the other bits of the world that matter.

[redgunamo]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

we're still dealing with his legacy now. Or that Osama Bin Laden left us in 2011 and we're still etc, etc. Or that none of this mess is due to the actions of one individual.

[Classic Jorge]

When they heroically liberated all of those people into carbon last time it ushered in a - no pun intended - boom in the nukilar industry.

[Berni]

How are your body clock and bowels today?

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

when all this is over, they still won't know or care what anyone (EU, Russians, terrorists, whoever) was going on about.

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Would you have preferred a ground invasion of the Japanese mainland in order to finish the war, j? What do you think the casualty figures for that little episode would have been?

[Berni]

whitey and ignores all the other bits.

[Classic Jorge]

But you have to admit it didnt hurt the arms manufacturers share price much, did it?

[Berni]

After all, it's not like they were culturally dedicated to fighting desperately to the last man or anything.

[Classic Jorge]

You have to admit that bush f**ked up pretty badly, surely. Surely?

[Classic Jorge]

[Ashberto]

USA, or those trying to get in, but I've missed the bits where he has threatened other countries. I'm more conserned with the constant aggression of the status quo, and especially the antagonism directed against Russia.

Also, Ronnie Reagan was a dribbling simpleton, remember, who quipped down a microphone about starting WW3, but they didn't actually let him do it.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

clearly actually now lost any semblence of sanity you may once have tenuously grasped.

I am now going to rub my forehead repeatedly across an artexed wall in an effort to forget that a grown adult has just complained about the ending of the second world war because 'share price'.

[Classic Jorge]

You cant surely be telling me it wasnt, can you?

[Berni]

through and maintain the place as an effective colony. That was more a failure of will on the part of the American people than anything else. Same with Vietnam. The yanks make lovely weapons and are good in a fight, but they've never really had the stomach for shouldering the white man's burden, I'm afraid.

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The colour is slowly changing to something more approaching a product of the human body; I'd say 'yellow ochre' would be the current shade.

[Classic Jorge]

And, true to their almost pathalogical inability to understand irony, they've managed to make a much worse threat than the one they conjured up in the beginning as a justification.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Not really being a political hound I have no idea how that will work as normally they just tend to vote against whatever the other party has suggested.

[Berni]

Wahabbist muslim ideology, vicious intra-Islamic sectarianism and the relative weakness of various middle-eastern 'hard men'.

ISIS came about not because the Americans invaded, but because they left. It's worth bearing that in mind.

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

bacteria are losing the fight, only time and possibly a stint in an isolation unit will be able to tell us.

[Ashberto]

because we want your stuff" any more. You have to say "Hey, we're smashing up your country because we don't like your leader". We have the right to do this because we are superior and it is our manifest destiny etc. So the violent, jingoist imperialism continues, but without the colonial governance bit which makes it a bit too obvious. So no-one thinks about what happens next (except the pesky anti-interventionists), and you get chaos.

[Classic Jorge]

[Ashberto]

The prior systems of government in Iraq, Libya and Syria that actually *knew* how to run these countries.

Any sane person would swap ISIS for the stability of Saddam, Assad and Ghaddafi in a heartbeat.

[barrybueno]

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

imperialist rhetoric. They made imperialism toxic and thus made it impossible for the West to do what it actually needs to do to make the rest of the world a better place - i.e. run it.

[Berni]

like Saddam used to castigate us for supporting them and doing nothing to stop them behaving badly. The West can't win.

[Ashberto]

that the approach we have seen so far to regime change has not worked. If you think a fully colonial system could work, good luck with rolling that out. In the meantime I'll stick to my position.

[Classic Jorge]