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I thought Canada also introduced some sort of a fixed-term Parliament system. Is there some way to get round that and have early elections?

Biden ran for President also in 1988 and 2008 and wasn't even close to nomination on either occasions. Now when he's a demented oaf he's supposedly the best the Democrats have got. Give me a break. If he is the best there is things are really hopeless.

Isn't the GG selected by a vote in parliament even though that is just a formality? Whatever parliament gives it can also take away.

Are masks somewhere compulsory even outdoors? I can understand that you must wear them in public transport and other indoor spaces where a lot of people are packed in a small area but out in the open air? That's just overdoing it.

I guess that when the primaries began it was considered so obvious that Trump was going to win easily so that more credible Democrat candidates didn't want to bother but then the virus and the economic problems caused by the lockdowns changed the game Biden has become a favourite. Surely things can't be that hopeless that Biden is the best the Democrats have got?

Picking Kamala Harris as the VP-candidate may prove to be a costly mistake for Biden. She is not a likeable person at all perhaps least of all among the black community. Her record in the primaries was quite telling. As people expect Biden either to drop dead or become permanenetly incapacitated during next four years they don't want Kamala Harris to take over as President.

Good or bad times, it's always advisable to have at least 2-3 weeks supplies of dry food at home.

Yeah, me too. If I were ordered to lock myself up at home for an indefinite period I'd die of boredom before starvation.

It was really funny how last March there was the panic-buying when all the dry food was emptied from the super-markets and the shelves were empty except for the vegan and organic food. There was plenty of that on the shelves but nobody wanted it, lol.

It seems that in June and July people kind of forgot about the coronavirus and now as the second wave is coming we have been surprised pants down.

The mother of all recessions is coming. Won't make any difference who is the President other than that whoever is the President will get the blame.

May not be a very wise choice by Biden to pick her as a VP-candidate. Actually she could be a burden who will cost him precious votes because she is not very likeable at all and people realise that Biden can't last four years if elected. Bad VP-picks have previously played a role in elections. It was obvious in 2008 that Obama was going to win but McCain made his chances impossible by picking Sarah Palin. Similarly Bush Sr must have regretted picking Dan Quayle who turned out to be a common laughing stock.

She isn't even black so why does she claim to be black? That was a silly question I know but still she is not black. Unfortunately this American categorisation of people into whites, blacks etc is trying to break through here in Europe as well even though nobody here identifies oneself first and foremost as white or black but by one's nationalities.

Some people are taking Trump's defeat so granted that if Trump still manages to win expect a huge sound of blood vessels bursting in many people's heads simply because people being so pissed off. Imagine the disappointment they had in 2016 and mulitply that by a zillion and you get the level of their disappointment if Trump still wins.

I bought a package of masks today. I think the masks are bollocks but if they will become compulsory for going into shops at least I'll have them. Wearing masks outdoors in the open air is just silly. In some countries even that is compulsory.

In 1975 in Australia the GG dismissed the PM when the PM no longer had a majority to pass the budget. That sparked a constitutional crisis about could the GG really do that. The GG is the representative of the Queen.

I wonder would American democracy work better if they had like in Europe 10 parties in their legislature and therefore multi-party coalition-governments. There are pros and cons.

Now that it seems not only possible but even likely that Trump might actually lose the election there must be a lot of Democrats kicking themselves for not having thrown their hat in the ring. The old demented goofy is actually going to win the election. That was all due to pre-corona times. It was only some time ago it seemed certain that Trump is going to be easily re-elected and therefore many Democrats thought not to bother and instead come in 2024 when it was supposed to certain that a Democrat-candidate was going to win after 8 years of Trump-Presidency. Now all this speculation has turned upsidedown as Trump may lose and Biden's VP will eventually take over as President some time after early 2023.

I wonder how much of an effect can Kanye West have on the elction. Will he snatch some black votes away from Biden. I don't think so. This presidential-campaign is just a way to sell records.

This is all so confusing. There is Trump who is the most hated President ever and the Democrats want to get rid of him whatever it takes so they unite their clever minds and they come up with Biden. They want to get rid of Trump like nothing else and Biden is the best they've got to offer as an alternative? On the other hand, unless you are a true socialist and therefore a Bernie-supporter none of the primaries candidates were any better than Biden.

If Biden wins he won't last four years but he will last over two years. He will be forced to last that long. Expect him to step down on Jan 21, 2023 citing health reasons. Namely, when he has served more than half of his term his VP who becomes President will be eligible herself to be elected twice. Examples from the past include LBJ who became President in 1963 well in the second half of Kennedy's term and he was elected a year later and could have run for another term in 1968 but he didn't want to. If Gerald Ford had won in 1976 he wouldn't have been eligible for another term in 1980.

They probably wouldn't agree between themselves as to which name they should adopt.

The Democrats would keep on trying new tricks in attempts to remove Trump from office. Like all two-term Presidents he will lose heavily the mid-term elections and spend the latter half of his second term being very restricted as to what he can do governing by executive orders instead of laws.

Dual citizenship maybe not so harmful if we talk about countries such as Canada and the UK or Finland and Sweden etc. It becomes a problem when we talk about countries such as Canada and Afghanistan. Or the UK and Pakistan. Or Germany and Turkey. The Turks in Germany who have the German citizenship vote in the German elections for the greens who allow more Turks to enter Germany and in the Turkish elections they vote for Erdogan's hard line islamist party.

Dual citizenships should be banned the world over. Nothing to do with xenophobia but sheer practicality.