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Queen Elizabeth has died. RIP.
I am not a royalist but I like and respect her.
With arrogant Charles next in line then maybe this is the end of the monarchy? Hope so.
But I admire Queen Elizabeth.
I admired Queen Elizabeth very much. She lived a long life and stayed true to her promise made when she was very young. She carried herself with dignity and grace. She was a class act!
RIP dearest Queen Elizabeth.
How I agree with you on both counts!
I respected the queen and her lifelong devotion to duty. But enough is enough.
RIP, Queen Elizabeth 2.
Agree with NNY and
Margot – Enough is enough.
PS HELLO Alison!
LOVE and all the best to you. I might try posting on TX again Because this blog site is such a pain to get on!!!
Gen Z!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
F#ck Trump and the fascist GOP.
Is Ron DeSantis any improvement? I’m beginning to feel “the devil you know thing” coming on. What do you think, NNY?
I’m hoping Joe Biden does not run for re-election. I like the guy but he’s JUST TOO OLD. I’m 83, so I know something about it. Also Pelosi is amazing but she’s had enough, I think.
Ramara,
I haven’t been here because I was involved with the midterm election. I have been a nervous wreck! This is neo-fascism. Our country was really at great risk. I had no idea what to expect, but I was hoping for a miracle. We got one! As I stayed up in the wee hours I watched everything unfold. I almost cried with relief as the fake red wave never materialized.
DeSantis is Little Hitler. He is just a younger version of the Orange Menace. He is running Florida like a dictatorship. The Democratic party here is very weak. Blacks did not turn out. Overall turnout from the Dems was not good. We lost Miami Dade county to the Republicans! Unheard of! The Republicans have the Latinos believing that the Democrats are socialist and they left their countries because of that.
DeSantis is a piece of garbage. People are so stupid here. We have a lot of Republicans who moved down here from up north to escape taxes and regulations on Covid. They have driven up rental prices and made it a nightmare.
The country rejected what DeSantis is peddling. The idiots down here like it because he goes after the liberals. He has banned abortion, signed an anti-gay law. Also that stunt where he took immigrants from Texas and flew them up to Martha’s Vineyard. He also had people arrested who were former criminals but who paid their debt to society and were allowed to vote now.
He is as bad as Trump!
Thank God for the people who were too smart to be fooled by the Republican lies. The young people woke up and turned out. But we still need more of them. People really stood up for democracy!
Today I could breathe because the Democrats have the Senate! Finally we got Nevada! Now we need to get Georgia to have an extra seat and lose that idiot Herschel Walker! The House is going to be tough, but the Republicans don’t have it yet. I am just praying for the Dems to pull off an inside straight! No matter what, the Republicans will have a very small majority.
I am concerned about all this talk about Biden not running in 2024. Who is going to run in his place? He may be old but he’s done a damn good job. That speech about democracy being on the line was pure gold. Oh and Obama just killed it with his speeches! He made the case for the Dems. Brilliant! Maybe his finest hour.
I think Nancy has had it after what happened to her husband. But age is not necessarily a bad thing. What about Trump? Why is no one talking about how old he is? 76! And he is a criminal! Then need to induct the sob and put him in jail. The problem is that the Republican Party is too far right and will only nominate another MAGA moron! Like DeSantis!
Oh autocorrect!
They need to INDICT the sob!
Let’s not forget the women of this country who made their voices heard! Don’t tell us what to do with our bodies!
Thanks for everything you have done nny!
I may not be American but I have been absolutely obsessed with the mid terms as well. If American democracy were to end then the consequences for the planet/ war in Ukraine and so on would be catastrophic.
I know you hate deSantis. He is just as evil as Trump but Trump is more dangerous as he controls the GOP base who are all in on fascism. Desantis has none of Trump’s media savvy and demagogic control.
Have had very little interest in tennis just deeply anxious about the mid terms. Plus the election in Brazil just before which was also incredibly important and it does look like Bolsonaro, yet another fascist, is handing over power.
Am still very anxious that a GOP controlled House will limit aid to Ukraine. It’s absolutely infuriating that the House is probably going to be lose because oflosing seats in New York of all places. Progressive s are furious with the N Y Dem establishment.
Thanks again nny!!
PS if Trump had been in power Bolsonaro would not have conceded. That’s how dangerous all this stupid election denying is. I force myself to read pro Trump accounts so I know what they are saying. They spend all their time saying the election was stolen in Brazil and that the military should stage a coup. They are all fascists. Of course they are now saying the mid terms have been stolen. The Big Lie is all they have.
amy,
Great to hear from you! I had a decent night’s sleep finally! I’m is that Trump is more dangerous than DeSantis. He will take down the party. He is a monster. I never said this here, but until recently I didn’t think it was like Nazi Germany in the 30’s. But as the election got closer, I really did feel that this was exactly like Nazi Germany in the 30’s. The rise in anti-Semitic here in the states has been especially disturbing. That is how it starts. There were these idiots dressed up in camouflage with guns watching people drop off their ballots. Then a judge had to intervene to stop it. I think it was in Arizona. But the violence, the intimidation, the threats were all scary.
Florida is a disaster. The Democratic Party has to come down here and get it organized. We need help. The lack of turnout from Dems was discouraging. DeSantis is a poor imitation of Trump. He is spewing hateful rhetoric all the time. But he can’t win nationally because the voters repudiated the Republicans.
I heard that there were fake polls being circulated showing a Republican red wave to discourage Dems from voting. There was a lot of propaganda on FOX news about a Republican wave. It was all bullshit. Lies.
I heard about Brazil. Any time we can defeat a fascist it’s good news. My father told me a lot about the Nazis. He knew so much about how they operated. I am glad he talked about it because it helped me to recognize that the Republican party was becoming fascist. He thought it could happen again in Germany. But I don’t think he ever thought it would happen here.
Hitler’s big lie was the Aryan race. The superiority of the German people and the inferiority of the Jews. There never was an Aryan race. Just like the election being stolen from Trump is a big lie. That’s how they work.
I am trying to keep up with the House races. They say the Republicans only need to win 7 seats and the Democrats need 14. So we have to win twice as many. It will be tough but that would really put a dagger in the hearts of the Republican Party. They were stupid and McCarthy trotted out the wish list if they took over the House. Impeaching Biden. How about getting rid of social security and Medicare. Cutting off aid to Ukraine. They were so dumb to do that. You never show your hand. My father always told me that when it came to surviving in corporate America. That is the big mistake Trump makes. Hitler never revealed what he planned to do. The Germans never saw it coming.
I am just hoping we can manage to hold the House.
Thanks for your thoughts! I love hearing from you!
Nny, thanks darling!
I have been so consumed by what is going on. One rather delicious outcome is that deSantis, Trump, MAGA, GOP elites and Murdoch are all now at war with each other! They will do enormous damage to each other and weaken themselves. The dream outcome would be DeSantis winning the nomination and Trump standing as an independent because that would lead to each cancelling the other. The GOP would be destroyed and the Dems would win everything. But the MAGA base will never abandon Trump so he would win the primaries. They are a cult and he is God. They are completely untethered from reality and worship lies and propaganda. DeSantis is weak sauce for them and he’s utterly hopeless away from his narrow base. I am still very very very fed up with Garland and if he won’t indict Trump he should be fired. I am not very hopeful.
I know there is still a very narrow path to victory in the House so 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Are there Republicans who would vote with the Dems? Is Kinzinger still there? Any others?
amy dearest,
Hang in there! I know it’s frustrating waiting for Garland to make his move. But the DOJ is hiring some very big guns to add to the team. Experts in their area of legal expertise. They are trying to get the best of the best to take down the Orange Menace. I think they need to get their ducks in a row before they indict Trump. They have no choice. He has to be held accountable. That’s why the moron is going to run for president again. To avoid going to jail!
I would love to see Trump and DeSantis tear each other apart. Trump will burn down the party if he can’t get his way. What bothers me is the idea that DeSantis would be better than Trump. They are two sides of the same coin! He has done so many terrible things here in Florida. The good news is that his crap will not play in a national election. The insults, the bullying, the attacks on woke, the culture attacks. He went after Disney for not going along with him. Property taxes are sky high. He us banning books. If he starts burning them, then that will be exactly what happened in Nazi Germany.
If the base sticks with Trump, the Republicans will continue to lose. The voters sent a message loud and clear – don’t fuck with our democracy! To be blunt about it. The people know what the Republicans are trying to do.some of the election deniers who lost were planning a coup to throw the 2024 election in some states. We dodged a bullet.
Liz Cheney lose her seat. Kinzinger is resigning. The problem is that whatever reasonable Republicans are there will be drowned out by crazy town. Otherwise known as nut jobs, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Louis Gohmert, Lauren Boeber, Matt Gaetz and of course Jim Jordan.
It will be a freak show if the Republicans get control of the House. They will have a very small majority if they get control. McCarthy is a dumbass. He is weak and can’t stand up to the far right crazies in his party.
I am keeping my eye on the Governor’s race in Arizona. Kari Lake cannot win.
Red State Idaho election results for Governor
Brad Little 358,585 60.5%
Republican Party
Stephen Heidt 120,158 20.3%
Democratic Party
*Ammon Bundy 101,837 17.2%
Independent Party (militant)
He is notorious for his active part in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol in WA. D.C.
Paul Sand 6,714 1.1%
Libertarian Party
Chantyrose Davison 5,249 .9%
Constitution Party
It is Bad enough that Brad Little is a Trump Republican, but Ammon Bundy’s numbers are scary and belong to 2020 militants and election deniers. Add up Brad’s numbers and Ammon Bundy’s to see a low estimate of election deniers here.
As midterm elections go, it was a large midterm turnout, even topping the 2018 Fall midterm. Republicans retained their Senate Seats and House Representatives seats.
Incredibly annoying was Trump’s acolyte, Senator Mike Crapo’s fifth consecutive Senate seat win.
Why do I stay here?
Finally! It took me forever to scroll through non tennis forum from 2013!!
But this is the end so hopefully we can post here.
F7ck Trump and Putin.
Margot, nny, Elizabeth please post here!!
It took me 20minutes to scroll through from the inception of the thread in 2013.
We will have to post here regularly!
Amy: One problem I had was for weeks and weeks I couldn’t post on here at at all, leave alone non tennis.
My lap top still tells me its “not secure” too.
Really Margot? Concerning. I never use my laptop to post here or use the interne t. I just use a tablet which is cheap and which won’t pick up viruses…
However, I still have software which registers unsafe sites. This one used to register as unsafe but now comes up as secure. Is that not slightly reassuring? Sometimes software registers sites as unsafe when they are ok. I don’t think it’s crazy about WordPress.
Hooray!
Now I can vent about bloody Tories and how they are destroying the country while enabling their pals to drain the UK dry.
Power to the people! Give key workers the pay rise they deserve. Clapping doesn’t put food on the table.
The strikes give me hope Margot. Finally people are standing up and saying no to these bloodsucking leeches who want to take our rights away. I wish people would understand how sadistic some of the Tories are and how I they actively enjoy harming people. It’s no coincidence it’s full of sadistic bullies like Braverman, Raab, Williamson, Patel.
The passivity of this country has depressed the help out of me but finally people are standing to fight back..!
Get rid of the Tories!
Bin the monarchy!
Bin the House of Lords!
Bin first past the post and introduce PR!
depressed the hell out of me!!😀
amy,
So we are back in business! Thank goodness!
Great work to get us up and rolling again!
I really wish the Democrats could have kept control of the House. McCarthy gave in to the far right wackos to get elected speaker. It is going to be crazy town for two years with these nuts in charge.
I’m back baby!!!😀😀
Just had to scroll.through over 3k comments! Please nny and Margot and Elizabeth plus anyone else not called Stanley add your comments…!!
Leaving a nothing post here so it will come up in the comments list and people can link to it.
Nothing!!!!
Elizabeth, I ‘m sorry but I can’t open the WTA page. I have tried several times today and it’s not accessible.
We really ought to have one!!
Hi Amy, keeping the thread open, I hope!
Did you see some techie millionaire, based in Thailand has given Johnson a million to aid his PM vamaign. Also gave 5 million to Brexit fund.
*spits with rage and disgust*
I didn’t see that Margot! I thought he was doing a deal with Sunak where he agreed not to challenge him if Sunak gives him a safe seat.
I know he’s been raking in large amounts with his big fat trotters.
Why are tech millionaires all, or mostly all, self styled libertarians who inhabit the far right?
Thinking Thiel, Musk and Sachs..among others..
Thiel has just been given another big contract for data in the NHS. Surveillance capitalism at its finest! Thiel should be nowhere near the NHS or any of our data. Many think he is in it with Musk to deliberately destroy Twitter because of its activist networks across authoritarian states. Sounds plausible!
I am just posting again here to keep the link on this forum open.
Will.do this on and off.
Margot have you seen the appalling footage of Braverman confronted by a Holocaust survivor telling her her vicious language is what led to the murder of her family. Braverman refuses to apologise and treats her with contempt.
I absolutely loathe Braverman. She’s the worst of the worst and an idiot to boot.
She is loathesome. Sacked/resigned/re-appointed. Sunak is too weak to get rid of her.
Here you go nny!!
Repeating the link!
I am repeating the link!
Speaking of repeating the link, the new WTA page will need to repeat the link if Ricky does not add it to the drop-down menu.
Great historian Timothy Snyder has raised nearly 1.25 million dollars for anti drone defence for Ukraine. He is acting i n coordination with Zelensky.
If anyone can contribute or knows someone who might then the link is on Snyder’s Twitter page. I can’t post links on this device.
Long live Ukraine and Zelensky!
Amy, there is a link to open the WTA thread Ricky created on the full AO prediction thread. I will find it. And post it around this place.
Anyway, I also want to send you and all Rafa fans my heartfelt commiserations for Rafa, and I mean it sincerely. I don’t know how bad the hip injury is, and I hope it heals soon so he is ready to win RG and keep playing tennis for however many years he wants!
Greetings to Andi Mira and Alison – nice to read you guys here today.
https://tenngrand.com/australian-open-womens-draw-swiatek-a-heavy-favorite-but-contenders-abound/
Here is the link to Ricky’s WTA thread!
https://tenngrand.com/category/wta/
The above link is a better one to get to all Ricky’s WTA writings.
Alison, I am not sure I thanked you for your posts to me here and there, but know that I love hearing your opinion on WTA, ATP, and most notably, How are you? How is your hubby? Is everything okay? Life is just plain harder for me, but I am adapting the best I can in 2023. The truth is, I belonged in the 20th Century! I’m not a fan of cell phones, and I hate getting old! That is how it is, but music and getting out in nature keep me alive.
I still love music from the eighties and nineties the most, and of course, a bit of Tibetan singing bowls still calms me down.
It must be hard on Rafa Fans waiting for him to return, and I miss the Rafa fans, seriously. Do you ever hear from Andi Mira?