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12 Jul
2:01pm, 12 Jul 2024
14,497 posts
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sallykate
Sarah Smith (BBC US reporter, and daughter of John Smith) said that was about his only slip in around an hour of the press conference. But it was a pretty bad one!
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12 Jul
2:03pm, 12 Jul 2024
5,835 posts
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paulcook
I've read he called his own VP Donald Trump (!) but I've not seen a clip of that. So it might not be real.
As you say, something of a sizeable slip.
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12 Jul
2:04pm, 12 Jul 2024
30,821 posts
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fetcheveryone
Didn't he also refer to 'Vice President Trump' at one point?
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12 Jul
2:04pm, 12 Jul 2024
30,822 posts
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fetcheveryone
x-post.
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12 Jul
2:04pm, 12 Jul 2024
7,568 posts
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ThorntonRunner
Whether he's losing it or not, the perception is widespread that he is, and that's making him an election liability. The thought of another Trump presidency is terrifying
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12 Jul
2:18pm, 12 Jul 2024
5,836 posts
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paulcook
Yes, media perception is potentially more important than the reality. Especially among large tracts of any electorate
A 90-minute pitch perfect speech and that one mistake will strike more chords than the rest.
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12 Jul
2:30pm, 12 Jul 2024
20,584 posts
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Dave W
They can take a packed lunch like a lot of other shift workers have to. The fact that they work "odd hours" or "long hours" is neither here nor there. So do a lot of other people.
It wouldn't matter if it was £6mill, £6 hundred thousand or sixty quid. It's the fact that there are people just outside having to use foodbanks. Why is there any subsidy at all? They get paid well in the first place. How many poor people could that £6mill feed in the course of a year.
And if a private company wishes to subsidise its canteen, crack on I say. But this is public money.
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12 Jul
3:01pm, 12 Jul 2024
25,100 posts
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larkim
The fact that it's a non-privatised provision actually makes the subsidy make more sense; the catering there is not in the "business" of making a surplus, so providing the service "at cost" means there is no cost to the public purse (assuming that over a say 10 year cycle the "at cost" properly accounts for all overhead costs, equipment etc).
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12 Jul
3:04pm, 12 Jul 2024
22,668 posts
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rf_fozzy
Seriously there are more important things to worry about.
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12 Jul
3:10pm, 12 Jul 2024
5,837 posts
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paulcook
But worrying about both things is also okay.
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