Karl

See that Avatar Joe ? Did you think it was accidental ?

You realise this was how I see Ralis and not an opinion on people in general ?

I was just checking you weren't distorting it. You appeared to suggest it, so I attempted to solidify it with a touch more detail.

I don't know who Karl Pilkington is, but I'm not him. I just think this croc of shit needs to be ended so we can move on and get the toilet tissue out. A return to the land of the free, it's constitutions and laws not men cannot be too soon in reappearing. It's a process. Obama was a part of that proces and now with Trump we are perhaps on its final gasp. It will be authoritarianism that will eventually strikes the match and blows this current mess to hell and authoritarianism with it. Ralis is an agitator from the hippy era. A kind of James Dean character bent on liberalism by any means. None of it is related to independence, but to a vast hippy commune of tree huggers, poets, artists and academics all benevolent minded collectivists striving for the common good. If that was on offer by way of authoritarianism then Ralis would be for it. Might makes right, or in the case of Ralis it's a kind of freedom less freedom, a utopia governed by minds such as his who will bring love, peace and prosperity to the stupid masses of greedy dumb xenophobic whether they believe in it or not.

That proof will be in the pudding. These things were said about Reagan and he turned out to be quite the liberal.

This is exactly right. I liken it to torture victims in an enemy prison camp who gladly accept the prison being bombed by their own side. When you give people no hope, then people will choose any alternative to their current situation.

Persuade others not to vote if you can. I don't know if Trump will be the president who brings full authoritarianism the the USA, but he is a definite step in that direction. This is the result of the corruption of the entire constitution and the institution of a democratically elected crime family into governance. It couldn't have been worse if the USA had elected Al Capone to office.

Everything is as it must be. :-) Everything bit of matter that comprises the universe has always been and will always be.

Gods are omnipotent and omniscient which I am certainly not. From that perspective there is no necessity to add something into the mix that you cannot prove and is unnecessary to it. 'Everything that is now has always been' is a deliberately vague statement. It lacks context and so it is easy for the unwary to digest. The universe has always existed in some form, but everything in the universe is in causal change. Sure, the raw materials of the universe always existed and are always morphing into new kinds of things as the react and interact with each other. Our raw material always existed, but the parts are not the whole. This is the fallacy of composition and it's twin, parts. Humans are a unique variant of multiple reactions and interactions that have occured throughout the universe. We are not a design. We are not created. We are part of causal evolution with an ever changing universe.

LOL the desperation of those beginning to realise the true strength of Trumps support. The denials are already starting. Well I'm betting that you are going to find out if all those graphs and models are correct. I have suggested that you don't vote at all. This is your alternative. Stop participating in this madness. I don't think of Trump as a saviour, it's more a punishment for immorality. Eventually the electorate will get the Government they truly deserve.

It's simple. I must make the distinction here even though it should be unnecessary. I mean laissez faire capitalism. It's a pity that this is now a necessity to distinguish it from other perversions, but that's the only capitalism I approve of. Man is a volitional animal, he is the rational animal. It means he must determine what he must do at every point throughout his life. This decision is predicated on one single value-his own life which he must choose to hold as a value if he wishes to survive. Nothing on Earth is available to man as a given, he does not have the instinct nor the strength of other animals. Man must produce. He must take raw materials and transform them to be useful to him. In order that he produce he must use his mind and that is all he has apart from a fairly weak kind of physicality. Man must be free to use his mind in order that he stand the best chance of survival, he must produce or he will die. No one can therefore determine better how a single man should go about his survival, or his production. No one man may tell another what they must do to that freedom to choose is destroyed. It is that freedom that is vital if Everyman is to have his chance of doing the best for himself. When he trades with other men free men it is to trade value for value with no interference from other men. This is the moral argument for capitalism. That every mans own life is an end in itself. That reason is his only absolute, production is he noblest activity and own happiness his highest moral purpose. It should be obvious that removing freedoms no matter how well intentioned is a direct attack on man. If he is not completely free to use his mind, then he has lost the freedom to choose survival. No one argues today that slavery is a bad thing, but anti-capitalist thinking is precisely that. It's explicit in many conversations, that man must sacrifice for the common good, he must be selfless and be like a worker bee in a happy colony of identical worker bees. That his life is not his, it is owned by his brothers and sisters, or by a Government. This is slavery. The chains are not so obvious but they still take away mans freedom in much the same way. When men talk of sacrifice to anything, including the common good, you had better run the other way very quickly. Where there is sacrifice, there is someone being sacrificed to someone else and that appalling that any right thinking person cannot grasp the part they are playing by supporting it. Let men free to use their minds, to choose their most rational course of survival and happiness, to produce what they can and to trade freely with other men by value for value. Not because some economic textbook tells us capitalism is good, nor even the strong empirical evidence that shows us that freer men are more productive, wealthier and happier, but because it is the only rational and therefore moral system available.

There aren't any democratic institutions, it's all been corporatised and sold. Hillary is immune from justice and the media are all singing her songs. I think after Trump gets in the GOP will explode just like our Labour Party did. The fire will burn through the Democratic Party forcing them to radically change and that will eventually gut them. You might actually get your country back as we are moving to recover ours.

Les Deplorable's - the manipulated, dumb chicken citizen that appears to the establishment as if it's malfunctioning and walking out of the battery farm. I just watched BBC newsnight and I see the same passion that fed Brexit victory. Essentially it ain't working for a big chunk of the USA and they want change. Hillary can't offer it, just as the EU couldn't offer it. I see the pained faces and hear the voices cracking with that same deep emotion. This isn't the shouting of whipped up extremist, it is the small businessman, the line worker, the mum at home, the father struggling to make ends meet and pensioners that have lost their life savings as a result of low interest rates. These are the same people saying the same things we heard in interview after interview outside of artificially wealthy London. The press have burnt their boats and the politicians are all liars. Only Trump offers something new, something with some risk attached, but nothing worse than Clinton. Ignore the bubble politics of tit for tat mud slinging because that is not where this will be settled. As the young mum said "it's not getting better. Trump might be a risk, but we should let him have four years and see if he can do it because we know Hillary can't" and that's all there is.

I saw that on Guido. Very good. You may have got some of your comedic integrity back :-) no more slipping and posting Hishit propaganda ;-)

Manufactured morality. This has been going on for decades. Actions mean nothing, its all predicated on what is said because it's live infotainment. One smudge to cover a massive ink blot. There are no moral absolutes anymore so the press and politicians just make it up on the run. Kissing a baby can range from paedophillia to a caring democrat. Play the narrative, what gets the young lefty SJW up on a morning, a bit of cash from Soros and making a home made plaque emblazoned with Nazi, Mysogenist or whatever gets the deluded too hot under their cheesecloth shirts. This is the same with Brexit, feed the narrative to the young and they will fix it, but our youngsters were fair weather protesters, there really isn't any glamour about going into a polling booth especially if you haven't bothered registering to vote and the Nintendo and weed are a force stronger than Star Wars force can manage. Hillary isn't popular except in asset bubble America where the wealthy have done spectacularly well and the middle class have been kicked into the gutter. Trump seems to garner massive rallies of people that know how to speak and not grunt' black lives matter, or Nazi.'

For me neither.

When he gets elected he will have to exert some authoritarian power over the corruption if he wants to really do what he says.

I saw the whole thing if was fIlmed once he left the van. It's pathetic tattle and unworthy of inclusion in the campaign, but Hillary will be Hillary. I wonder how much digging they had to do to get that one piece of nothing at all ? I wonder what it cost to trawl through thousand of audio files looking for any little thing and that was all they could come up with. Meanwhile thousands and thousands of Clintons emails emerge which demonstrates her modus operandi - she tells one thing to the public and one thing to Wall Street. Sanders wanted those emails released because it shows she is a Wall Street schill prepared to do anything for cash and say anything for votes. The more I see of this campaign the more I warm to Trump, which is exactly what the voters will feel. The more the establishment closes ranks and tries to smear him, the greater becomes his popularity. "If you strike me down Darth I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine". Clinton should be fighting on policies, but that's all gone up in smoke she is tied to playing Trumps game whilst getting thumped hard. She isn't honest or credible.

Potentially fatal blow, not. I would deliver a potentially fatal blow if I saw some guy molesting a schoolgirl on a bus. I don't think Bill uses the bus much these days so it's not likely.

Which actions ? He got out of the bus and was the perfect gent.

More twisting the knife 'if' 'if' unlike Clinton 'did' 'did'. Asking the question do you still beat your wife to elicit a response is classic rhetorical manipulation. Considering everyone is so outraged by the word 'pussy' it doesn't seem to stop the MSM blasting it all over family time without an ounce of concern that youngsters see this stuff. Somebody talking about grabbing a woman in a private conversation on the way to shooting a scene about a women throwing herself at Trump in the classic sense of prostitute and this gets no mention. Lots of double standards. Trump did not grab and has never shown himself to be that type. He doesn't need to. There are thousand women that would come running if he was available for marriage. You are really scraping the barrel here Ralis.

I'm not laughing. I prefer your jokes. Hislop is a turd. Hopeless would have been better. British press seem to have it in for Trump just as the US press had it in for Brexit-in fact the hopeless One himself had in in for Brexit.

I remember when Hislop used to represent the anti-establishment. How low has Private eye sunk :-/ it was always a left wingers rag mind you, but not radically so. Now it's just pro statist and status quo.

We had virtually the entire parliament against us on both sides of the house and including the far left like SNP, CC, Greens. We had the PM, chancellor, IMF, European Central Bank, CBI, Bank of England, Goldman Sachs, Barack Obama, every PM across Europe and even Australia all arrayed against us and we still won. We won against what looked like insurmountable odds. We had at debates with the pollsters giving it to remain by a wide margin, all the polls said it was firmly in the remain camp. Then we had the awful death of Joe Cox apparently killed by a frenzied Brexiteer. We were accused of racial hatred and division, for being thick and uncivilised. The UKIP poster and Joes killing were used to bolster that awful narrative. It looked like we were done and gone, even Farage had conceded it was going to go remains way. It has to be remembered that Clinton is in power, she represents the power of the establishment. Anything the discredited news agencies or Hillarys little friends say is disregarded as being mud throwing, but anything going in the opposite direction hits it's mark with a solid thud. Robot Hillary, barking dog Hillary, email shredding Hillary, Bernie sanders fit up Hillary, fainting Hillary, coughing Hillary, weird high pitched laughter and Gollum eyed Hillary. Bang, bang bang go the nails into her electoral coffin. Meanwhile ' we are going to make America great again' just like 'take back control' it resonates. It's a message of hope and change and Trump is now unstoppable except by execution.

I shall have the crow brought up :-) I don't have a rude awakening because I wouldn't vote for either, but if I had to, with a gun to my head, I would choose Trump. I had fully expected a Clinton win originally and said Sanders would be sent packing. I didn't see Trump lasting, but if you think about it, the very fact that I had discounted him and his entire party were throwing him under a bus yet here he is like an untouchable winner. Clinton had the easier time of it with only Sanders to fight and Sanders had his hands tied. So Clinton is there through the easy rounds, but Trump has been in the ring with proper fighters. There is a massive change in people, Brexit was the beginning of something that I think will be remembered as a catalyst for radical change.