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If Bojo and the Tory house of lords were running America, they 'd rebel again.

The American political spectrum is somewhat to the right of the political spectrum of Germany (except for the AFD party of Germany). It's almost the same as in France, but in France the right wing are permanent (we hope) opposition and in France there is also a Leninist Moscow party from the old times with some voters. With respect to UK America is on the whole to the left.

Comparing Donald Trump with our Jose, it looks he is now beyond the phase where he could say "I made-a a mistake-a" or "ok Biden - you won", Now either he stays president or he goes to jail.

Reminds me of Greek league 1964. It snowed in Athens and we were playing with the snow. But on Sunday was scheduled the derby match between AEK of Athens and Olympiakos. By Sunday the weather was ok and the sun was out. There was a little bit of snow in the touchline but the pitch was playable. So the Olympiakos newspapers come out with the title "Philadelphia stadium - frozen lake". AEK was in tremendous form and they were beating everyone by 4-0 under Austrian coach Muller. So the association -which was theirs lock stock and barrel- postpones, indefinitely as well ! But that was not the end of it. Sunday week was the other derby match, AEK v. Panathinaikos and by that time we had sunny alcyonide days and the snow was gone and forgotten. Panathinaikos just for the fun of it ask for indefinite postponement and they too get it ! The national football association of Greece is red-green of course since ever. So if you have the judges on your side you can do whatever you like.

An Ovrebo for Trump. Can it happen ?

A historical case where fraud is supposed to have taken place in Greece was 1961. In that election the voters of communist EDA were pressurised not to cast their vote in favour of their party but apart from that numerous irregularities were discovered. And it was not only the communists who complained about fraud, the much more stronger Centre Union under George Papandreou also complained. In the end double votes were found, street adresses that corresponded to trees and also some 200 people who were supposed to live in the same street number, a tiny hut ! Maybe also results that were counted one way in the election centres and reported the other way by the ministry of the interior where the totals are counted. But all those things amounted to some 3000 votes and although the court punished the people responsible for the irregularities, it declared that their number was small to affect the election as a whole. Papandreou of course did n't like this at all but the result stood. Then the military junta of 1967-74 staged two fraudulent referendums with which everyone laughed. The first one in 1968 junta won 95% of the vote, for a so called new constitution the were drafting. I was told by some people that you had to vote openly, without going behind a screen. As those people that I knew were leftists I remained in certain doubt though about doing away with the screen as well. The second referendum was in 1973 again for so called constitutional reforms and the junta "won" by 70% this time (made it look more real). That time I voted myself and there was this trick: You went behind a screen but there was no waste basket for the reject ballot and the little shelf where you placed your envelope was scrupulously clean of reject ballots. In effect you had to let the reject ballott -the "no" ballot really- slip visibly to the floor and indeed the floor under my feet was full of reject "no" ballots as well as it was of course visible to the policemen sitting on chairs around the hall. I made the bold move to put the "no" ballot in the envelope and put the "yes" ballot in my pocket and left. During the same years the elections in neighbouring Albania and Bulgaria were of course farcical affairs. I 'm not sure they were actually calling them elections though. It rather makes me think Trump is making it all up. These things are impossible in America. And not only are they impossible. it's like Karamanlis shouting against Papandreou in 1961 !

Bojo did ?

Fumes. I was about to place a bet Chelsea handicap -2 and the b***dy betting site stuck.

Blah-blah-blah. I imagine that if some people were around when the US went to war over Perl Harbour, they 'd be saying the same things. The "warmongering USA" is the one piece of Soviet propaganda that won the day.

I personally poisoned 25 Trump voters with a non lethal dose of alloperidin - they did n't vote.

I used to frequent a betting shop for the horse races. There was a fat guy there with a less than elementary understanding of the horses and he passed the hours talking nonsense. One day I offered those lads a small pick-4 system and they refused. In the end it won 250 quid at a small cost - 9 quid. None of us had much money really to afford the full price. Then I said "what fools you were - you rejected my plan" and the stupid fatman went berserkers at this. That's exactly what Trump looks like.

First in the group !

All the hubble and bubble concerning this election is the absence of the swingometer. This gives a true picture of what's happening during the counting process. They used to display the swing parameter, now it's gone in our elections too in Greece. Suppose I open the first ballot box and it's 150 ballots, 100 for Biden 50 for Trump . I have to announce Biden 75%, Trump 25%. This may look unrealistic but it's what I counted. The other thing to do is look at the results of the same election centre in 2016. Maybe it was Hillary 90, Trump 60. Suppose the result of 2016 was 49-49. This suggests Biden = (100/90) x 49 = 53.6% and (new) Trump = 100 - 53.6 = 44.4%. More realistic. The counting process continues and both figures are displayed as it proceeds (total count and projection). Both numbers converge to the actual new final result but the projection has significantly lower statistical variance. In other words we know what's happening. But for some reason the swingometer is gone

Nahh. Remember how tricky Dicky resigned ? He didn't want to have any of it then one day he walks into the oval office and finds ... Barry Goldwate sitting on the desk with his feet on the table as well. Barry had abandoned his cow-boy things back then and he was considered a senior rep statesman. Bary says to Dicky "Dicky the ball game is over" and after this Nixon resigned.

PA is considered all but locked by Jo and if so it's over. Trump will be selling Arabian pistaccio nuts in Times square come January.

Well, there may have been. Can't deny this. But the banner was the red banner for as long as we remember.

The communist state is the mother of atheism. Fact is Marx was inspired by Le Robespierre in this, but the communist state came to be regarded as the atheist's Mecca.

Only the crusades were religious wars (11-12th century) and if you look at those objectively the Europeans had as much right to reclaim the old Roman provinces as the Arabs had to conquer Magreb and Spain. There were no other religious wars. It's true though that in earlier centuries Christianity proved incapable to unite the peoples of Europe and further out and to bring an end to wars. But to say that the christian religion caused wars is an insane distortion of history. The muslims were less peaceful -that too is true- but in the 20th ceentury before Bin Laden, islam was not a warlike religion on the whole.

The circle of intolerants was led by Moscow really and some others came along.

Aaaaaa. Then we add a fifth dynamic religion to those we already have: The non-religion. Sovietski-tavarich v. rest of the world.

I did n't say there were n't any sects. In fact Khomeiny's ascendance to power and the capture of the American embassy in Tehran are even earlier incidents to Anwar Sadat's assassination. I was a rookie soldier those days. When the embassy was taken I was in basic training and they told us. When Sadat was assassinated I was an "old hand" and I saw it happening in the colour tv in the commander's office. At about the same time John Lennon too was assassinated in New York. Also I did n't say it's not going to engulf all of the islamic world in the future. This may well happen even though we don't like it. But religious intolerence is like Mauthausen and those places used by the nazis really.

I doubt it. I have known many muslims and never quarreled with anyone really. Anyway most of them were Arafatists really but not what you say. One of them had picked up a fight with an Israeli and the police was called in. In addition those words you use were never heard before 9-11 ! Remember when Hillary Clinton wished us "happy ramazan" at the airport of New York ? She was returning from some place and it was the summer before the 2000 election (Bush-Gore). There have been issues with muslim countries before. The Suez crisis of 1955, Arab-Israeli wars, Greek-Turkish disputes, Saddam and others. It was what it was but no religious angle whatsoever back then. Therefore we are against one particular sect now, admittedly a very dangerous one. But it's not the religion to blame and it is certainly not enough to shift me from preaching religious tolerence.

I never said Islam gets a special pass. It's the same for Christianity, Islam, Judaism and the religion of the Japanese. Also I don't even know the content of the lecture of the French teacher to say he was provoking or not. I 'm against religious intolerence and so is the Orthodox church.

I don't like the idea of making funny Muhammad sketches. I said the same thing back in 1988 with Rashdi and his "Satanic verses". Margaret Thatcher did well of course to stop the executionists dispatched by Ayatollah Khomeini but it was wrong. We got to respect religions and the Muslims are those who decide what their religious rules are - not someone like me who is not a Muslim. Imagine this is happening: You are a Jew and you are in a place where they call you "dirty Jew" and things like that. How would you react ? I would react by saying that the racist talk is rubbish and the peoples of the world should become friends and not enemies. I have nothing else to say till my days are over and also it does n't make sense to say something else, in response to the racialists rantings. Many people would do the same thing as me. But under the circumstances, as I describe them, certain individuals would become violent jihaddists. Can I stop them ? Could I have stopped by myself the communists in Greece in 1943-44 from becoming strong, under the German occupation, so as to threaten the country with their occupation after the war. No, I could n't. One extreme situation fed the other. Therefore religious intolerence is wrong and helps terrorism rather than defeat it.

Bar the unexpected the bonkers is on his way out, come Wednesday morning. What he needs now to turn the tables is a major scandal, one day before the election. Can he find one ? But it looks like what precipitated Don's downfall was his what-me-worry attitude towards the pandemic. Back in February-March the two candidates were level pegging if I 'm not mistaken, now the difference is 7.5 points, which is a LBJ-Barry Goldwater difference really, if true. He said things like bleaches, he ignored the advice of the country's scientists. Now it's true that anyone presiding during such a crisis will have a problem. History teaches us that even national heroes had a problem in the past. Winston Churchill, the father of victory, lost the 1945 election. Eleftherios Venizelos the father of the Greek world war I victory who had the Greek troops march in the Champs Elysees, lost badly in 1920. It's better to preside during a UEFA european cup success, or when Sarbel wins the eurovision. Yet it's strange. I can readily accept that the Don wanted a wall between USA and Mexico ever since he was a kid. But make a corona *ss out of himself ? Why ? What conservative principles dictate that we should make corona *sses out of ourselves ??? Therefore we must accept that he acted on advice. You will lose more votes from the clowns who voted you in 2016 the advisers said than you may lose to the Democrats rallying behind Jo Biden. Such is the mind of the covid 19 denier. A neanderthal species that exists in all of the world's nations really.