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Re: [OM] Handmade Trump Sign on US-30

Subject: Re: [OM] Handmade Trump Sign on US-30
From: Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 13:22:28 -0400
David, I'll trade you one ale quaffer for two sociopaths.

Charlie

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:27 AM, David Thatcher <plusphoto@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 06:23:22PM -0700, Chris Trask wrote:
>
> >      I for one will certainly be glad when this election is over.
> > I've never seen one that was so thoroughly stripped of all civility such
> > as this.
>
> It's interesting that in my 'voting lifetime' I have seen Australia's
> primary mode of election campaigning move from 'Hey, look how good WE
> are', to 'Wow, look how ratsh*t THEY are'...
>
> This can backfire... prior to Australia's 2007 election, our (then)
> conservative government's puppet media rubbished the 'Leader of the
> Opposition' (Kevin Rudd) for going to the Scores strip club whilst on a
> diplomatic visit to New York in 2003. When questioned, he indicated that
> he didn't remember what happened as he had 'had too much to drink', but
> there were some suggestions in the media of inappropriate behaviour. I
> think he immediately picked up five points in the opinion polls as many
> Aussies went "'Onya, Kev!!!!" It goes without saying that he was elected
> Prime Minister at the next election.
>
> Similar feats of prowess, such as being able to down a yard of ale in
> record time, are probably as good a measure of ability to govern a
> country as any :)
>
> It will be interesting to see what the US voting public think of similar
> allegations of inappropriate behaviours that have been made recently. :)
>
> davidt
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