http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Do we need an American elections thread? en Sun, 31 May 2026 10:03:09 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=6#post-345792 Sat, 06 Feb 2021 11:43:19 +0000 chdot 345792@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Seditionaries: FBI net closes on Maga mob that stormed the Capitol<br /> Pro-Trump protesters storm into the U.S. Capitol during clashes with police, during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021.</p> <p>A huge investigation has so far arrested 235 people, including far-right militants, members of the military – and otherwise unremarkable Trump fans</p> <p>@</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/06/us-capitol-insurrection-fbi-investigation" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/06/us-capitol-insurrection-fbi-investigation</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=6#post-345720 Fri, 05 Feb 2021 09:31:12 +0000 chdot 345720@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>The US House of Representatives has voted to strip the extremist Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia of her committee assignments, in a stark rebuke over her incendiary and racist statements.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/04/marjorie-taylor-greene-congress-democrats-committees" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/04/marjorie-taylor-greene-congress-democrats-committees</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-345681 Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:25:32 +0000 Rosie 345681@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Downfall style craziness of Trump's last days in the White House bunker are told in this series by Axios.</p> <p><a href="https://www.axios.com/trump-oval-office-meeting-sidney-powell-a8e1e466-2e42-42d0-9cf1-26eb267f8723.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.axios.com/trump-oval-office-meeting-sidney-powell-a8e1e466-2e42-42d0-9cf1-26eb267f8723.html</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-345675 Thu, 04 Feb 2021 15:03:45 +0000 chdot 345675@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/04/donald-trump-revenge-post-presidency-hobby" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/04/donald-trump-revenge-post-presidency-hobby</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-345506 Tue, 02 Feb 2021 20:56:24 +0000 chdot 345506@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Why Mitch McConnell chose *this* moment to condemn Marjorie Taylor Greene </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/02/02/politics/mitch-mcconnell-marjorie-taylor-greene/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/02/02/politics/mitch-mcconnell-marjorie-taylor-greene/index.html</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-345296 Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:02:28 +0000 chdot 345296@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>“The ‘crisis’ over Trump’s legal team quitting assumes that the substance of the impeachment case will sway Senate Republicans,” Zelizer tweeted. “Most already have their answer. Trump could offer no defense or he can go on the floor to read lines from the Joker movie – they would still vote to acquit.” </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/31/donald-trumps-impeachment-defence-in-disarray-as-lead-lawyers-quit-reports" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/31/donald-trumps-impeachment-defence-in-disarray-as-lead-lawyers-quit-reports</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-345200 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 19:11:53 +0000 gembo 345200@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Any truth in the russki trump honey traps? Big Ginger Fellow went back for more even when he knew Twas a trap?</p> <p>Which was how the women hustling the bankers defended themselves. The stock broker returned for more hustling even after he knew he was being hustled. J-lo film based on true story reference. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-345195 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 18:13:13 +0000 minus six 345195@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>reddit still holding firm</p> <p>by end of next week, this could be one of the biggest transfers of wealth in history </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-345172 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 12:15:38 +0000 chdot 345172@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Repeats or a big variety?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-345170 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 11:43:36 +0000 SRD 345170@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>i just said a lot of rule 2 words. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-345168 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 11:37:09 +0000 chdot 345168@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>“Trump was the perfect target in a lot of ways: his vanity, narcissism made him a natural target to recruit. He was cultivated over a 40-year period, right up through his election.” </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-345148 Thu, 28 Jan 2021 23:10:51 +0000 minus six 345148@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>biden's already weighed in to shaft reddit</p> <p>the fix is in</p> <p>this is fascism, here and now </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-345143 Thu, 28 Jan 2021 19:31:44 +0000 minus six 345143@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>probably the best commentary on reddit gamestop</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ToOGrUQ7ME" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ToOGrUQ7ME</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-344976 Tue, 26 Jan 2021 23:52:27 +0000 minus six 344976@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>boogaloo not nazis shock</p> <p>gets very interesting half way thru, don't sleep on this</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZMB9052rEs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZMB9052rEs</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-344911 Mon, 25 Jan 2021 21:42:10 +0000 chdot 344911@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Dominion Voting Systems sues Giuliani for $1.3bn over baseless election claims</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/25/dominion-rudy-giuliani-lawsuit-election" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/25/dominion-rudy-giuliani-lawsuit-election</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-344579 Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:22:37 +0000 paddyirish 344579@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/21/joe-biden-peloton-fitness-bike-cybersecurity-risk">Biden is a (peloton) cyclist</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-344508 Wed, 20 Jan 2021 18:36:11 +0000 chdot 344508@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/20/joe-biden-action-bernie-sanders" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/20/joe-biden-action-bernie-sanders</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-344391 Mon, 18 Jan 2021 21:41:02 +0000 Rosie 344391@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've been finding this account of the last days of Trump fascinating:-</p> <p><a href="https://www.axios.com/off-the-rails-episodes-cf6da824-83ac-45a6-a33c-ed8b00094e39.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.axios.com/off-the-rails-episodes-cf6da824-83ac-45a6-a33c-ed8b00094e39.html</a></p> <p>It really is Downfall - in a bunker and a world of fantasies and only accepting those advisers who pander to them. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-344268 Sun, 17 Jan 2021 15:15:05 +0000 crowriver 344268@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Also:</p> <p>---</p> <p>In the professor’s reading, the incoming administration, notwithstanding the diversity of its appointments, is representative of mainstream elite power. “Think of 2020 as the return of the established elite and separation of dissidents. What’s important is that the incoming administration recognises the root problem.”</p> <p>--</p> <p>Probably not much chance of that... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-344267 Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:58:43 +0000 crowriver 344267@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sounds familiar!</p> <p>---</p> <p>As a result, American politics has fallen into a pattern that is characteristic of many developing countries, where one portion of the elite seeks to win support from the working classes not by sharing the wealth or by expanding public services and making sacrifices to increase the common good, but by persuading the working classes that they are beset by enemies who hate them (liberal elites, minorities, illegal immigrants) and want to take away what little they have. This pattern builds polarization and distrust and is strongly associated with civil conflict, violence and democratic decline.</p> <p>At the same time, many liberal elites neglected or failed to remedy such problems as opiate addiction, declining social mobility, homelessness, urban decay, the collapse of unions and declining real wages, instead promising that globalization, environmental regulations and advocacy for neglected minorities would bring sufficient benefits. They thus contributed to growing distrust of government and “experts,” who were increasingly seen as corrupt or useless, thus perpetuating a cycle of deepening government dysfunction.</p> <p>---</p> <p><a href="https://www.noemamag.com/welcome-to-the-turbulent-twenties/" rel="nofollow">https://www.noemamag.com/welcome-to-the-turbulent-twenties/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-344264 Sun, 17 Jan 2021 12:30:35 +0000 chdot 344264@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>“Societies are systems and they tend to change in a somewhat predictable way,” Turchin told the Observer. “We are on the verge of state breakdown where the centre loses hold of society.”</p> <p>...</p> <p>Turchin’s analysis, of course, is readily applied to Donald Trump who, spurned by mainstream elites, appealed to a radical faction of the elite and to the disaffected masses to forward his political ambition. A similar case could be made for leading Brexiteers.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/17/were-on-the-verge-of-breakdown-a-data-scientists-take-on-trump-and-biden" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/17/were-on-the-verge-of-breakdown-a-data-scientists-take-on-trump-and-biden</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-344254 Sat, 16 Jan 2021 21:55:46 +0000 chdot 344254@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>'I’m facing a prison sentence': US Capitol rioters plead with Trump for pardons </p> <p>Arrested supporters say they were ‘listening’ to the president<br /> Kellyanne Conway: Americans ‘better off’ thanks to Trump </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/16/us-capitol-rioters-donald-trump-pardons" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/16/us-capitol-rioters-donald-trump-pardons</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-344149 Fri, 15 Jan 2021 14:25:55 +0000 chdot 344149@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Guardian analysis shows Club for Growth has spent $20m supporting 42 rightwing lawmakers who voted to invalidate Biden victory </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/15/trump-republicans-election-defeat-club-for-growth" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/15/trump-republicans-election-defeat-club-for-growth</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-344081 Thu, 14 Jan 2021 16:32:30 +0000 chdot 344081@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/14/trump-refusing-to-pay-rudy-giuliani-legal-fees-after-falling-out" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/14/trump-refusing-to-pay-rudy-giuliani-legal-fees-after-falling-out</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-344042 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 22:33:22 +0000 chdot 344042@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Donald Trump becomes the first US president to be impeached for a second time </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jan/13/donald-trump-impeachment-nancy-pelosi-joe-biden-mike-pence-congress-covid-coronavirus-live-updates" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jan/13/donald-trump-impeachment-nancy-pelosi-joe-biden-mike-pence-congress-covid-coronavirus-live-updates</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-343778 Sun, 10 Jan 2021 23:08:55 +0000 chdot 343778@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-final-curtain/" rel="nofollow">https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-final-curtain/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-343768 Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:02:41 +0000 gembo 343768@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Formerly ie last week Ted Cruz thought he could be next candidate by supporting Trump. THis week better position to denounce </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-343766 Sun, 10 Jan 2021 20:36:05 +0000 chdot 343766@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Only 2??</p> <p>“</p> <p>'Descended into madness': second GOP senator calls for Trump to quit</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/10/donald-trump-capitol-attack-impeachment-abc-poll-majority-joe-biden" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/10/donald-trump-capitol-attack-impeachment-abc-poll-majority-joe-biden</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-343696 Sat, 09 Jan 2021 19:17:36 +0000 crowriver 343696@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Dr Amanda Sloat: Former Holyrood adviser handed key Biden post</p> <p><a href="https://www.thenational.scot/news/18995645.dr-amanda-sloat-former-holyrood-advisor-handed-key-biden-post/" rel="nofollow">https://www.thenational.scot/news/18995645.dr-amanda-sloat-former-holyrood-advisor-handed-key-biden-post/</a></p> <p>---<br /> Gary Paterson @MrGaryPaterson<br /> Biden's new NSC Senior Director for Europe is a graduate of<br /> @EdinburghUni where she published a book on 'Scotland in Europe' concerning multilevel governance within the EU. </p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/MrGaryPaterson/status/1347814908868620288" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/MrGaryPaterson/status/1347814908868620288</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20395&page=5#post-343658 Sat, 09 Jan 2021 00:40:50 +0000 chdot 343658@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/technology/twitter-trump-suspended.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/technology/twitter-trump-suspended.html</a> </p>