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[Brent in Az]

We won't be seeing any reports from Barr or Durham before the election.

 

[Wheels]

Seems The Economist is still using the 2016 polling model.

Political Polls

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@TheEconomist
Forecast:

Chance of winning the electoral college: Biden 91% Trump 9%

Estimated electoral college votes: Biden 347 Trump 191

https://projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president…

6:56 PM · Oct 12, 2020·Twitter Web App

 

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[Wheels]

https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee
The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee

Democrat Proposing To His Girlfriend Says He Won't Reveal Position On Adultery Until After The Wedding

 

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[Wheels]

The Economist magazine predicted Joe Biden has an 87 percent chance of winning the general election in November.

The magazine claimed, as of Wednesday evening, that Biden has an 87 percent chance of winning, while Trump has only a 13 percent chance.

 

[Royal27]

The Economist magazine predicted Joe Biden has an 87 percent chance of winning the general election in November.

The magazine claimed, as of Wednesday evening, that Biden has an 87 percent chance of winning, while Trump has only a 13 percent chance.





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Sweet.....

Further conclusive evidence of a Trump landslide.

VOTE!!!

 

[Hogpatrol]

It's amazing how much attention and money a BULLSHIT ARTIST can garner these days.

 

[PARA45]

My new mask

 

[Brent in Az]

 

[Dragan N.]

Not exactly. At least not with respect to the Saudi government’s direct responsibility. the Wahabit doctrine’s poisons are another thing. Along with his political critics, Salman seems to be doing a good job putting the Wahhabi contagion back into the Middle Ages where it belongs.

I would personally argue that the Saudi state has provided a very fertile breeding ground for Wahhabis and has done a rather poor job of dealing with them, so imo a large degree of responsibility for Islamic terrorism and fundamentalism globally lies with them. ISIS if i am not mistaken was using Saudi textbooks for their educational programs. I mean what can do you expect from a country where apostasy and witchcraft or sorcery carries the death penalty and people have been executed for these crimes in recent years. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-16150381

Not to mention until maybe a year or two ago women where legally barred from driving. Plus a large amount of the country's populace believes in Islamic fatalism- essentially everything that has happened, happened because Allah predetermined it so and that "simple man" cannot change this. This belief largely eliminates personal accountability or responsibility. This level of irrationality in a country is very frightening especially given the $$ and the US military hardware they have.

If Saudi Arabia and America did not have mutually aligned economic and by extension geo-political interests, Saudi Arabia would be treated as a pariah state much like North Korea and Iran are. If this arrangement were ever to change I have a feeling Saudi Arabia would become Taliban ruled Afghanistan on steroids.

 

[Wheels]

I would personally argue that the Saudi state has provided a very fertile breeding ground for Wahhabis and has done a rather poor job of dealing with them, so imo a large degree of responsibility for Islamic terrorism and fundamentalism globally lies with them. ISIS if i am not mistaken was using Saudi textbooks for their educational programs. I mean what can do you expect from a country where apostasy and witchcraft or sorcery carries the death penalty and people have been executed for these crimes in recent years. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-16150381

Not to mention until maybe a year or two ago women where legally barred from driving. Plus a large amount of the country's populace believes in Islamic fatalism- essentially everything that has happened, happened because Allah predetermined it so and that "simple man" cannot change this. This belief largely eliminates personal accountability or responsibility. This level of irrationality in a country is very frightening especially given the $$ and the US military hardware they have.

If Saudi Arabia and America did not have mutually aligned economic and by extension geo-political interests, Saudi Arabia would be treated as a pariah state much like North Korea and Iran are. If this arrangement were ever to change I have a feeling Saudi Arabia would become Taliban ruled Afghanistan on steroids.

I would agree with much of this statement during 9-11 and the time immediately after.

Iran fell in 1979. The Wahabis nearly did the same with KSA. Khalid and Fahad to stay in power ceded to the demands of the religious leaders.

The KSA of today is not the same KSA that existed from around 1980-2015. You have alluded to a couple of the changes. A different branch of the house of Saud is running the country. Abdullah made some changes. Salman is making significantly more changes through his son, MBS. Or in reality, MBS is making the changes as his father serves as a figurehead.

MBS took his extended family and other prominent citizens and imprisoned them at the Ritz. He shook them down for billions of dollars they had fraudulently obtained from the country. bin Talal being the most prominent.

KSA in no way ranks with an Iran today. KSA leads the GCC. The GCC is the group that destroyed ISIS. They did it quietly with no press releases. ISIS was made up of Arabs and Muslims from throughout the world. GCC special forces infiltrated and completely dismantled them with no publicity and with ISIS not really understanding what was happening to them.

Look for KSA to continue to become a more secular country as MBS ages and has the opportunity to implement more of his policies.

 

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[Ray B]

Thinking about what BIDEN really is convinces me that his name has been mis-spelled, it is actually BIDET

 

[Brent in Az]

 

[Ray B]

It appears to me that those illegitimate anuses in Portland, Oregon are writing a lot of checks that they are not going to be able to cash and at some point they are going to be met with offers from collection agencies that they can't refuse.

 

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