Because he joked about fixing the superbowl with Taylor Swift? Slight overreaction there
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More with him being an unelectable doddery old liability.
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Heās literally the elected president already. Trump is no more coherent than he is. Those who love trump will vote him regardless, same for Biden. The middle ground is being won for the left by how awful the right is being, not how good the left is being
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I hope youāre right but Trumps incoherence is baked into his persona.
Biden is in his eighties and seriously appears to be losing it a bit. Stand him down, replace him some young coherent go getter in their sixties and move on.
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Tone deaf under the circumstances? What circumstances? When is there ever not bad things happening? US politics has been fucking ridiculous for ages. I quite like that heās poking fun at the republicans frothy mouthed bullshit. The idiots who believe thereās some deep state cabal who rigged the superbowl or whatever deserve to be taunted
How is that any different than the endless jibes and raucous laughter of every weeks PMQs?
Iām going to dispute that, purely because barbarity isnāt anything new, nor is a more advanced power hammering at a considerably weaker one in a completely one-sided way thatās unfair to anyone with an ounce of critical thought.
Where I do think itās new is itās unlike anything weāve seen publicly in āthe western worldā before, and the way that itās generated such divided, vociferous opinion in people detached from the situation. Thereās no unified narrative, only a clusterfuck of racism, xenophobia, misinformation, apathy and panic with precious little realpolitik to balance it out.
Sorry I misunderstood your argument, and thought you were talking about the actual conflict itself, rather than the secondary factors. I quite often forget this place is an echelon above most other places when geopolitics comes out.
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100 would feel like quite a few to me but 1000 seems nuts, maybe I just donāt understand the scale of it all.
Nah, one of the biggest events in the whole world. Iām surprised it was only 1000 private jets.
āFace-value tickets usually cost anywhere from $950 for a ānosebleedā seat to $9,500 to be just behind the teams, overlooking the 50-yard line. Thatās a fraction of what Super Bowl tickets were selling for online.ā
And here I am moaning about Ā£50 for a ticket to the Villa!
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Does anyone think the coverage the Super Bowl gets in this country (or any that isnāt 'Merica really) a bit odd? Seems to be getting more hyped each year too.
As a sport itās unwatchable.
How can anyone in this country give one tiny shit about any aspect of it?
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most of the UK conversation around it this year seems to be around the Taylor Swift aspect of American football (lol) and the adverts in the breaksā¦?
yanks seems to think its a bigger event than the world cup or anything else. you couldnāt pay me to watch it
Seems now that itās just āan event to be seen atā for celebs. Canāt imagine Kim Kardashian and John Legend are likely there to tot up the running yards the 49ers made during the game.
One positive though is that the āSwiftiesā who tuned in based mostly on TayTays involvement shows that she is likely to be a massive motivator for young voters in the upcoming election nonsense, and Swifts not exactly shy in stating that sheās not exactly Pro-Trump. If she backed Biden then Trump might be more embarrassed than the time Putin reminded him he was filmed during his last visit to the Moscow Piss Bonanza
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The average American doesnāt care what the rest of the world thinks. They donāt even get the irony of still referring to it as the World Championship or having the World Series in Baseball. To a lot of Americans, America is the centre of the world and anything or where else isnāt worth bothering with. They have a very self obsessed world view.
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Americans are weird. I heard they donāt even own kettles and boil their water on the hob?!
I think you heard that on this very forum very recently 
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have you ever met someone from this country thats well into american football?
its certainly a ātypeā.
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I lived with one in my second year of Uni. He fucking stunk and was loud.