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Jeremy Clarkson attacks democracy

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 FoxForce5
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    Benign dictatorship, the only true form of government.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,789 SuperBowserWorld
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    I am glad I've never watched any of the "boys driving cars" show he and his sidekick idiots ever made. I can not and could never stand that mouth piece.

    Edit ..

    I didn't even really read what he said 😝... But he just annoys the crap out of me.

    Post edited by SuperBowserWorld on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,116 archer22
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    In fairness he has a point.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,144 Suckler
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    Attention seeking journalist seeks attention.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,297 erlichbachman
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    He’s bang on the money, people are idiots



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,985 Montage of Feck
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    It seems to be an attack on populism not democracy.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,004 bucketybuck
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    People are idiots, nothing new about that. But it is moronic that out of all the options it is apparently Joe Biden that is the "terrifying" one. What a troll.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,297 Count Dracula
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    The dog on the street knows that US democracy is a fallacy.

    Geriatrics make poor presidents.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,890 AMKC
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    I wonder what it is that this gool finds so terrifying about Biden. Trump is the one he should have been terrified of.

    Emmanual Macron is a good President and is neither of the words he said also Micheal D Higgens but sure Jeremy Clarkson probably does not know who he is.

    He is right about the other two do but neither of them are as bad as Putin but then Russia is not a Democracy so I understand why the tool never mentioned him.

    I am surprised he did not mention the Ukrainian President maybe because he is a great and brave man. Probably go down as one of the best Presidents of any country in the World and certainly one of the bravest.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Posts: 8,532 [Deleted User]


    Well until the shinners are in power. A lot might agree with him then.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,855 Nabber
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    Democracy is not the problem.

    The ease at which voters are swayed and the inability to be open to different viewpoints allows the unqualified and lunatics to gain power.



  • Posts: 6,246 [Deleted User]
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    Sounds exact same taught process, as nearly every liberial said post Brexit referendum,


    A worryingly large amount of people across spectrum,dispise democracy,if it geos against their views


    The fact he would choose joe biden as a reason to justify monarchy is a brain-fart nearly as large as clarksons ego



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,449 nigeldaniel
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    Jeremy and a few others who think like him don't really get what democracy is... they only understand their idea of what politics should be.

    Dan.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,355 joseywhales
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    He understands that foreign presidents aren't elected to represent his views rights?



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    Considering the popularity of the absolute scutter that he produces for television he might have a point here..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,734 seenitall
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    This is what happens when you pay vast amounts of money to smug dunderheads whose intelligence is limited to basically going “vroom vroom”, to do just that, on tv. They start getting notions that their going beyond vroom vrooming in public somehow won’t show them up as utter morons. A big fail there, Jeremy, and as unexpected as a rainy day in Ireland.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 894 Bayonet
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    Just wait until the TikTok generation get to vote.

    I'd be happy to go back to a monarchy taking over politics or even a benign dictatorship like some of the Gulf states. Not an authoritarian one like the Biden admin.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 664 MakersMark
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    He's absolutely right.


    Look how many stupid people here think that Sinn Fein will solve their problems!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 Annd9
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    He also fails to acknowledge, in most western democracy's the choice of candidates "The people" are given seem to be getting further and further disconnected from society .

    In the states you have to at least be a millionaire to even stand a chance of entering a primary .

    Britain is run by graduates of 1 or 2 universities , we have political "families" here ourselves who have serious sway in communities .

    South Park hit the nail on the head , it's either a douchebag or a Turd sandwich .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,363 super_furry
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    Oh no, is Jeremy being deliberately 'controversial' again?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,725 Overheal
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    To quote Jeremy Clarkson:

    ”Oh no! … anyway”



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,856 osarusan
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    He is harldy, at this stage of his life, angling to become one of those 'tells it like it is' sh!t-merchants?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,153 Citizen  Six
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    No one else is solving the problems, so it's easy to see why people are willing to give someone else a go.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,904 Loafing Oaf
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    OP would you be getting all hot and bothered if Sean Moncrieff or Oliver Callan wrote an article 'attacking democracy'? Because that would be an approximate Irish equivalent....



  • Posts: 13,753 Eva Mealy Spokesman
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    The right trying to subvert democracy and limit freedom of speech?

    I, for one, cannot believe it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,108 elperello
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    Never had much time for him since he clocked Oisin Tymon over missing his dinner



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    All processes of power, democratic or not, are based on how much finance you have to persuade people to adopt your views and plans. Simple as that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,274 EOQRTL
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    When you look at the absolute state of the present and last president's of the supposed greatest country in the world America you do indeed begin to question democracy in it's present form. The UK also to a very large degree.



  • Posts: 756 [Deleted User]


    I wasn’t aware I was hot and bothered. But I defer to your psychic abilities. To answer your questions: Clarkson has much greater audience in a leading European power already struggling with issues of rule of law, judicial independence, executive supremacy, media manipulation and toxic hard right ideology. I’m quite overcome now and must lie down with a damp cloth on my face.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,904 Loafing Oaf
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    Okay okay 'hot and bothered' is (attempted) humorous exxageration. But it's a category error to treat anything a guy whose stock in trade is amusing car reviews says about politics any way seriously. If Jimmy Carr or Sacha Baron Cohen said it was better not to give people a say in the running of the country would you cite that as part of "a growing hard right trend to seek to make democracy more exclusionary."



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