Ok I'll reword "blame" to link. Trying to link him to the crash is silly. From everything available it seems to be just a screw up that unfortunately resulted in the loss of lives. There are plenty of close calls nobody knows about because nobody dies or no damage is done, honestly it's shocking there aren't more air accidents in the US just given the high volume of air traffic in the country. My point was shit happens sometimes and it isn't necessarily the fault of Biden, Trunk, or whoever happens to be President at that time.

Regarding the US government, yeah forcing people out MAY backfire but at the same time there is a lot of bloat in their government, just like here. I honestly don't remember very long X/Twitter outages in the aftermath of Musk's purchase, and really code wise Twitter and most social media is nothing special. Typical CRUD app that just fetches data and displays it. The only thing that may be remotely complex is the algorithm that displays posts, but even then that's not on the same tier as anything scientific or financial that usually requires specific industry expert input to get accurate results with. Infrastructure wise I'm sure they need a hell of a lot of resources to keep it online just to the sheer amount of users worldwide but I don't see why all of those people from the Dorsey era would be needed to do that either. You literally had people bragging about drinking free wine like coffee on the job, if that doesn't scream excess idk what does. Given that it's still active the trimming of staff has not been disastrous for the platform.

I do agree that I think government employees should be treated with some respect but at the same time most of them are probably not needed. Even here we only have such a bloated, useless, and inefficient government workforce because the private sector is not big enough to take them all in. At the end of the day it's the taxpayer subsidizing their salary and government employment (especially in this country) is basically just a giant welfare program that allows the beneficiary to retain some dignity. You can't expect the taxpayer to fund all of that shit forever, there comes a breaking point where it's simply impossible.

Where did I say that only black people funded the number boys? I never said that Pindling was the only person involved with drugs either, I said that he was the most prominent. Read my comment again.

The main point of my comment was that comparing the old white money that got rich from running rum to drug runners or the numbers boys is just stupid because from the local perspective what they did was perfectly legal. Argue the morality all you want but from a strictly legal perspective they were not doing anything wrong. By the times of drug running a lot of them were either dead, left the country, or didn't have a need to get involved with dirty money considering they already had clean fortunes amassed anyways so idk why someone would slander them with that either. The white people that did benefit from the drug trade were lower class that used it as an opportunity to move up and a lot of them then invested into legitimate business ventures anyways.

Again, whatever someone's opinion on the number boys themselves or gambling is irrelevant because the fact is they broke the law for years and then got rewarded by the government for doing so. What the Christie administration did was a national shame. Rewarding criminals is already bad enough, but doing so in defiance of the expressed wishes of Bahamian voters is just a giant slap in the face to everyone in this country. Why bother having laws? What example does it set when we tell criminals its ok to break laws as long as the leaders benefit too? Even better, what does it say when the leaders help them then get away with the crime and clean the money up? We wonder why we have such major cultural problems in this country but look at the piss poor examples of leaders we have at the top. The country is rotting from the head down and it will probably never get fixed because honest people don't last long in politics, especially in a small cutthroat nation like this one.

Agreed. Cruise visitors are good for collecting tax but so sadly most of them don't spend anything worthwhile on shore, which is where all of the local economy is. Air arrivals are much more important because those are the people who rent cars/get taxis, book hotels/AirBNB, support bars/restaurants and support the local economy in general. The Minnis government was similarly obsessed with cruise visitors. I get that governments want tax money but taxes don't build an economy.

Asfaik that plane crash in DC was the heli pilots fault. ATC asked them repeatedly if they had a visual on the passenger plane and they responded affirmatively each time, but apparently they were observing the wrong aircraft...at least that is the account that I read. Like yeah the tariffs are stupid and the ones on China will affect us but trying to blame Trunk for that crash is just silly.

This comment is stupid for several reasons:

1.) Rum running wasn't a crime according to British/Bahamian laws. Making money running booze to the States was perfectly legitimate means of income.

2.) It's rich to slander the "white knights" as drug dealers when the first black head of government was the most prominent individual implicated in that industry. The "white knights" left in the country didn't have a need to peddle drugs either, they were already filthy rich by that point.

3.) The fact is that the numbers boys are criminals because they broke the law for years on end. Our corrupt government, despite the express wishes of the Bahamian voters, then rewarded them for breaking the law. We then wonder why the Americans label us as corrupt. Big mystery.

These are the facts:

1.) An incumbent Bahamian government has not won reelection for the entire 21st century

2.) Brave has literally no major policy accomplishments to define his era

3.) Brave has faced numerous high level scandals

4.) The PHellP could not even increase their vote total by 10k from 17-21 even on the backs of an extremely unpopular Minnis administration (signifying that Brave was a weak candidate)

5.) An election is less than 2 years away

6.) The general, broadly speaking worldwide trend is that first time incumbent governments perform worse on their second election compared to the first

Which of these facts is not objective?

Brave would have to defy a well established political pattern in this country in order to win a second term, and there is literally no argument in favour of him being able to do that. I agree that Pintard is not an inspiring candidate at all, but he doesn't have to be. In fact, I will argue that Pintard is a stronger candidate than Minnis was in 2017 simply for the fact that he has faced no major leadership challenges (unlike Minnis prior to that election), the party is *mostly* united around him other than a few Minnis cult holdouts who are still drinking the Kool Aid. Generally speaking the days of politically astute and charismatic candidates like Pindling and Ingraham are over, and both the PHellP and FNM are a shadow of what they historically were (the FNM more so, they had minimal success before Ingraham and the track record has been absolutely horrible since his retirement, the PHellP at least was able to move past the Pindling era with more grace). Recent Bahamian elections have been about "just not being the other guy".

I have no dog in this race, the country is doomed no matter which party is in power IMO, but if I had to put money down I would absolutely bet on Pintard to win simply because there is a well established pattern of incumbency being a major disadvantage and Brave has given voters no reason to make this cycle any different (and performed poorly in '21 to begin with). I don't believe it will be a 30+ blowout like the most recent elections because public hatred for Brave is not near what it was with Christie or Minnis, but he has not given any reason to believe that he can 1.) retain his existing voters and 2.) attract new voters. This see saw cycle will continue until another strongman politician appears on the Bahamian political scene.

So what? Sir Mosely and Powell have been proven to be almost prophetic in their predictions of what would happen to the UK with mass migration. Do you think Churchill would be pleased at the current state of the UK? Do you think the men that died fighting in Europe, N Africa and the Pacific were fighting for their children to be racial minorities in their own ancestral homeland? Get real. Mass migration has been an unmitigated disaster for the Commonwealth in general, it is the same story whether it is the UK, Cuckuda, Australia, doesn't matter. There is not a single instance where it has been beneficial.

> to the extent that there is continuing local interest in current political developments in Britain which has always been seen as a fine example of the Westminster system of governance in practice.

This quote baffles me, especially in light of the previous mention of Reform. The 2024 UK general election proved what a horribly unrepresentative system FPTP really is. Reform pulled nearly 15% of the total vote yet walked away with 5 out of 650 seats. Is that really "representative"? I think not. We in the Bahamas need to move to abandon this archaic system as well if we ever want to have a chance of breaking the two party stranglehold that is choking the nation to death.

This is just embarrassing.

A sign that silly season will soon be upon us.