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Was This The Deciding Factor For Brits To Vote "Leave"?
Zero Hedge ^

Posted on 06/24/2016 2:04:24 PM PDT by ameribbean expat

While the blame for today's historic moment in the collapse of crony capitalism could be laid at many feet - from Brussels totalitarianism to Cameron and Osborne's scaremongering blowback - one look at the charts and it becomes pretty clear when exactly the inflection point occurred...

April 22nd, Obama wrote his "Stay or screw the special relationship" Op-Ed followed by his apology tour visit.

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


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To: seawolf101

Since Mrs. Clinton seems to hate campaigning and hates people, tending to hide in her room, perhaps Obama can be her surrogate.

I have a niece who reminds me of Clinton’s campaign style. She hid in her room during her graduation party because she didn’t want to have to be nice to people.

I’m sure she’s all in for Bernie. The last real conversation I had with her was several years ago where the young skull full of mush was enlightening me on the glories of socialism and the evil NRA. When I responded with measured facts, she cried to my mom. “Grandma, make uncle Cyclotic stop arguing.” My mom elucidated on her the difference between a discussion and an argument.

Perhaps she’s grown up and changed. She’s now married to a med student and has a kid in the oven.


21 posted on 06/24/2016 2:20:20 PM PDT by cyclotic
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To: ameribbean expat; All
.....Obama wrote his "Stay or screw the special relationship" Op-Ed followed by his apology tour visit.

What a sly, silver tongued devil obama is. He apparently hasn't discovered his last day in the big (white) house is rapidly approaching.

And, his over sized ego won't admit that almost every soul on earth is sick of his whine and we are tired of hearing his lies.

Relax, traitor-in-chief, kick off your slippers and enjoy the rest of your short ride.

The emperor has no clothes.

22 posted on 06/24/2016 2:23:05 PM PDT by tntraveler (Pray For The Peace Of Jerusalem.)
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To: sockmonkey

My British friend seemed to feel it was when they dictated they kind of vacuum cleaner you are allowed to buy.


23 posted on 06/24/2016 2:34:24 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: sockmonkey

I forgot about the electric tea kettles!

Somewhere on the world wide net there is a discussion among Brits who visit America and discovered that most of us don’t own one. They almost fainted at that and were forced to acknowledge that most Americans use a Mr. Coffee for their libations.

I had a British pal live with me for 6 months and he was bemused by my kettle which sat on the burner (’the hob’) for the very occasional teacup when I was sick.

Maybe that was the last straw!


24 posted on 06/24/2016 2:35:38 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: Bullish

Nobody ever did but 1) nobody was ever willing to oppose the brown president and 2) the muslin superpowers pwn3d everyone in the governments.

You got to Love Yourselves, people.


25 posted on 06/24/2016 2:36:43 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: cyclotic

You don’t know how she’s doing so obviously that was enough for you of her shenanigans. Really. We can’t associate with people who believe this shite. Family or no. It’s obviously getting that serious.


26 posted on 06/24/2016 2:38:56 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: miss marmelstein

I use an electric tea kettle to heat my water for coffee every day. After the last coffee maker bit the dust I started doing camp coffee every day (a long slow pour over the grounds) and found it superior to what comes out of the damn machines. My electric tea kettle has been with me for over a decade and it kicks @ss. I think I feel the same as Brits about their electric tea kettles.

Only trouble, it doesn’t whistle, so one day I forgot and half the water boiled away.


27 posted on 06/24/2016 2:42:55 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: ichabod1

Still, an electric tea kettle is a rarity in an American household. We just don’t drink all that much tea and so use coffee makers. Most Brits have an electric kettle in their home and in their office.

It does heat up water fast, though!!! I bought one for my mom when she was in her nursing home. She liked tea and didn’t like the water served at the home - it tasted of old coffee grinds.


28 posted on 06/24/2016 2:47:18 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: sockmonkey

It always boils down to tea.


29 posted on 06/24/2016 2:47:19 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Shows you how intimidated they were over our Muslim-Dictator-In-Chief.


30 posted on 06/24/2016 2:48:35 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: SkyDancer

UK dissed stompy foot!

As an American, should I be offended? Stompy foot offends me each & every day.

Thank you UK for telling stompy foot to stick it where the sun don’t shine!!


31 posted on 06/24/2016 3:03:02 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: ameribbean expat

Finally! Jug ears causes something good to happen.


32 posted on 06/24/2016 3:15:43 PM PDT by Bullish (Blame others for your failures? Take credits where none are do? Who made you Pharoh?)
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To: miss marmelstein

I spent a couple of months in India and Thailand last year. They all advertised in-room coffee makers. They were all electric tea kettles. The instant coffee wasn’t all bad though, in a pinch.


33 posted on 06/24/2016 3:20:23 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: ichabod1
My British friend seemed to feel it was when they dictated they kind of vacuum cleaner you are allowed to buy.


And one of Cameron's big concessions he got from the EU was the removal of VAT on women's sanitary products.

That tells you a lot about the EU overlord's power.

34 posted on 06/24/2016 3:22:08 PM PDT by az_gila
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Imagine if a foreign leader came over and lectured us like that? Our cousins have the same bloody-minded streak as we do.

WHICH is why the Scottish paeans to EU socializm ring a bit hollow. True Scots never compromise independence.

Ay God, how subverted we’ve been.


35 posted on 06/24/2016 3:23:12 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: ichabod1

That stance very very much surprised me about the Scottish, from my superficial standpoint. I did spend some time with and befriended some Scottish blokes aboard ship when I worked as a musician aboard a RCCL cruise ship for ten months, and I thoroughly enjoyed my brief visits to Edinburgh, a completely impressive city.

I have generally thought of the Scottish as kind of distilled Brits with their special knack for literature and science although I know that view is probably distorted, not to mention their reputation for sheer toughness. That is why I have puzzled at the Scots’ reluctance to leave the EU. However, perhaps had they left and Britain remained, they possibly saw themselves as being swamped by a larger neighbor who would have had “the advantages” of being in the EU as they struck out on their own. “The advantages” is a complete and total fiction, a brilliantly cunning and predatory piece of propaganda by the Eurocrats. But alone while Britain stayed in, that view is understandable.


36 posted on 06/24/2016 3:37:06 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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To: ameribbean expat

Immigration #1.


37 posted on 06/24/2016 3:58:06 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: ichabod1

The EU looks set to ban certain high-powered kettles and toasters shortly after June’s referendum in a move that has been described as an “assault” on the staple British breakfast of tea and toast.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker revealed the decision to push ahead with the plans soon after the Brexit referendum on June 23, despite some senior EU officials warning the move would bring “ridicule.”

The plans were prepared by Brussels months ago, but were shelved over fears they could be seen as an attack on Britain and influence the outcome of the referendum.

Internet routers, hair and hand-dryers, mobile phones and patio jet-washers are also being examined by Commission experts as part of a wider strategy to dramatically cut energy use in the home.


38 posted on 06/24/2016 4:37:58 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Donald Trump will ban auto-correct with an Executive Order. Go Trump!)
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To: ameribbean expat

Clown Prince nobama = Reverse Midas

Everything he touches turns to s***.


39 posted on 06/24/2016 5:00:06 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: ameribbean expat

I can completely fly off the handle drunk here, on Free Republic, and nobody knows who I am. Pretty cool.


40 posted on 06/24/2016 5:14:28 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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