Political Discussions for "Adults"

Trollheart · 09-20-2017, 03:31 PM

It's hard to believe the Spanish govt would "banish" them, as they must bring in huge revenue, through sponsorship, merchandising and player transfers, to say nothing of gate receipts and television rights - the Spanish government must take their cut of all this in tax/VAT, and if they "kicked them out of Spain" they would lose all that surely? I reckon they'd come to some sort of arrangement which will be beneficial to both. Barcelona have to be huge for the tourism industry too, not just the club but the city: isn't La Sagrada Familia there?

The Batlord · 09-21-2017, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Mindfulness

Nelson Mandela is officially a paranoid old man reading too many blogs.

**Frownland** · 09-26-2017, 04:49 PM

Let's change the name to the RIPublican Party. I wonder which nail will secure the Democratic party's coffin, but they're not as predictable and that adds a lot of challenge to the game.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/power...=.d9541ad08853

Wpnfire · 09-26-2017, 05:04 PM

A couple years ago I started seeing predictions about the fracture of the Republican Party, and it's exciting to see it unfold for real now.

Chula Vista · 09-26-2017, 10:07 PM

Alabama senate runoff race.....

Bannon 1. Trump 0.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 09-27-2017, 04:01 PM

Spain to deploy police to prevent Catalan independence vote

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Police will be deployed at polling stations to prevent people from voting in the Catalan independence referendum, the Spanish government has confirmed.

Although the Catalonia regional government has insisted the unilateral poll will go ahead on Sunday, the Spanish government has vowed to stop the vote, which it says is a clear violation of the constitution. Spain’s constitutional court has suspended the legislation underpinning the referendum while it rules on its legality.

A spokesman for the Spanish government’s Catalan delegation said on Tuesday that the region’s prosecutor had ordered the Mossos d’Esquadra, Catalonia’s police force, to take control of polling booths and identify those in charge.

“The order has been conveyed and it will be executed with all normality,” he said.

The Spanish government said the steps it had taken over the past week, including raiding Catalan government offices, arresting 14 officials and seizing almost 10m ballot papers, meant the vote could not take place.

“Today we can affirm that there will be no effective referendum in Catalonia,” the Spanish government’s representative in Catalonia, Enric Millo, told reporters on Tuesday. “All the referendum’s logistics have been dismantled.”

In an order to police issued on Monday, the prosecutor’s office said it would take the names of anyone participating in the vote and confiscate relevant documents.

Anyone in possession of the keys or entrance codes to a polling booth could be considered a collaborator to crimes of disobedience, misuse of office and misappropriation of funds, the order said.

However, despite the words and actions of the Spanish government, not to mention the deployment of thousands of extra police officers to Catalonia, the regional government is adamant that the referendum cannot be stopped.

If I was a Catalan, this would just make me want independence more.

**Frownland** · 09-27-2017, 04:03 PM

Yep. **** Spain.

Trollheart · 09-27-2017, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey

Spain to deploy police to prevent Catalan independence vote

If I was a Catalan, this would just make me want independence more.

Of course it would. Expect blood in the streets.

Idiots. You can't stop a country or region getting its independence by exerting force upon them. They who do not learn from history etc.

The Batlord · 09-27-2017, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey

Spain to deploy police to prevent Catalan independence vote

If I was a Catalan, this would just make me want independence more.

Trollheart · 09-27-2017, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey

If I was a Cat, alan, this would just make me want independence more.

Who's Alan?

09-20-2017, 03:31 PM	#811 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	It's hard to believe the Spanish govt would "banish" them, as they must bring in huge revenue, through sponsorship, merchandising and player transfers, to say nothing of gate receipts and television rights - the Spanish government must take their cut of all this in tax/VAT, and if they "kicked them out of Spain" they would lose all that surely? I reckon they'd come to some sort of arrangement which will be beneficial to both. Barcelona have to be huge for the tourism industry too, not just the club but the city: isn't La Sagrada Familia there? __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

09-26-2017, 04:49 PM	#813 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Let's change the name to the RIPublican Party. I wonder which nail will secure the Democratic party's coffin, but they're not as predictable and that adds a lot of challenge to the game. https://www.washingtonpost.com/power...=.d9541ad08853 __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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Wpnfire Dragon Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Kansas, United States Posts: 2,744	A couple years ago I started seeing predictions about the fracture of the Republican Party, and it's exciting to see it unfold for real now. __________________ Last.FM My RYM Ratings *My Glitchwave Beta Profile*

09-26-2017, 10:07 PM	#815 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Alabama senate runoff race..... Bannon 1. Trump 0. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

09-27-2017, 04:03 PM	#817 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Yep. **** Spain. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x