Ok, not football at all, but it matters, eventually.

[spaldy]

Long,long day. Record turnout. We had 2 plus hours to vote and all machines running

Your comment on 16 billion reflects a lack of understanding of your rulers. Small change when you consider the government spend 8 trillion a year. These are investments by special interests so they can feed at the government trough. They need there minions to make sure they get there cut of the budget

Ever wonder how these congress critters go into DC with no money and come out years later with millions of dollars while making a 150k a year and living in the most expensive city in the country? Not hard to figure out.

Please educate me on where exactly I should move? What country doesn’t have their rulers getting rich on other peoples money and indenting their kids and grandkids with crushing debt?

Trump is not the problem. The system is.

[WTF11]

Not disagreeing that 16bn is small change when compared to the US economy, just suggesting it's 16bn that could have been used to better effect for the US people.

Anyway, all stuff and nonesense now. God help America, God help us all.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Looks like Trump is on course for victory - let’s see if the sky falls in as our resident chicken little seems to be predicting … 🤔🤣

[Monaco_Totty]

Thoughts from me ?

Young voters are facing the unprecedented economic challenges of the information revolution, for starters.
They are entering the working market at a time when market returns are rapidly shifting toward capital via robots, artificial intelligence & smart machines generally, all a very long way from the traditional labour markets.

If Trump keeps peddling cuts in corporate taxes & estate taxes that further benefit the elderly rich at the expense of larger budget deficits then that'll further burden the young then God help America.

Young folks there need the opposite policy like higher taxes on the wealth of the older generation in order to finance post-secondary education, job training, renewable-energy infrastructure & other investments in America’s future, likewise or indeed any country on our planet.

The main issue here now is the mindset & political orientation !

For many Trump has the shortest time horizon & attention span of any President in historical political memory.
So I really hope that his gang is not utterly out of touch with the real challenges facing the younger generation as they grapple with new technologies & hopefully that core- group can help influence his parties way of thinking - if he's the chosen one, which now appears to be the case.

Nothing changes at the 'mo though - as reading today that Offices of streaming giant Netflix in Paris & Amsterdam have been raided by the French & Dutch authorities as part of an investigation into tax fraud, French judicial sources saying in French press, oh well back to work i go.

Just saying

[Tichi1]

Ohhh dear ohh dear

Gnashing of teeth...wailing and moaning, listening to the BBC this morning their whole network couldn't hide their dissapointment, nor Channel 4 for that matter.... the fat ginger mysoginist has swept back into power...by a massive majority - just shows that as usual the liberal left and the elite just cannot gauge how the average working citizen actually thinks and just what it is that gets them out to vote. In the USA as in Britain the "Woke" brigade are simply out of touch with their electorates true concerns and wishes.
Totty worrying about the "Young" in the USA where a right wing regime is now in power, plenty over here - me included - worrying about the "Old" in Britain due to our Left wing regime targeting/punishing them for voting Tory..
WTF predicting the end of the world if the Donald does get back in.. which he now has'.... be interesting to see his ongoing opinion on how Trump does in comparison to how the doddery old idiot preceding him got on over the last 4 years?

Quite interesting that the American people voted in huge numbers on the issues of Immigration and the Economy - the exact things the next UK election will be fought on.

Lets see if Trump can stop the wars in the middle east and Ukrain as he claims - if they are both over by 2028 then I think he will have achieved much more than the liberal left could EVER achieve.

just my twopenceworth.

[Monaco_Totty]

Worrying time for geo-politics & international trade with his unpredictable stance on matters closer to homes this side of the Atlantic, but of course his first task will be his own country woes to fix & delivering them his promised "Golden Age".

Nobody really knows how this will all unfold, even me hopefully with child.

For instance, Trump has promised to slap tariffs on every single European good entering the U.S, obviously the EU has pre-emptively locked & loaded some retaliatory measures. Seems logical — but that only works in a world where Trump is not erratic and impulsive.

It appears Trump’s trade policy is focused more on reducing the sizable U.S. trade deficit than on opening up new market opportunities. Trade policy will mainly be seen through the national security & geopolitical lens too.
So the most immediate stress tests for Brussels & Washington will be to find a solution to the EU’s paused retaliatory tariffs against Washington as the truce presently elapses in March 2025.

No doubt UK will be pondering very similar tasty issues particularly it's own national safety situation, let alone it's trade relations for all it's citizens future young & old. So yep, we'll have to see how it all develops won't we.

Reasons to be cheerful - Tich ? 🤔