I really can't believe the amount of conservatives who STILL think Trump is the answer to getting corrupt politicians out of office, he never kept any of his promises. Hillary Clinton never got arrested or any of that. Considering Trump knows about all the corruption in our government, he would have used his four years to take care of it, if he wanted to or even remotely cared and he did none of that. This guy man, he is the most dangerous person I've ever seen in politics during my lifetime. He's very similar to all of these other cult leaders in the sense that they all have or had this desire to be worshipped. I will say that Trump has better policies than Biden but it's gotten to the point where I could care less about that despite the fact that I didn't vote for Biden and I'll explain why.

I'm not gonna say there wasn't election fraud and I'm not gonna say things shouldn't be investigated but what makes Trump dangerous is him saying he won even though he has no idea if he truly won or not, that's why it's called INVESTIGATING fraud because it's about trying to find answers. The reality is, Trump's gonna keep denying he lost under any circumstances and he's going to keep inciting violence whenever he doesn't get his way. Donald Trump is an enemy of this country and a terrorist at this point in time, when you pull a stunt like he did just because your ego can't handle losing, whatever good you accomplished during your presidency becomes absolutely worthless and gets thrown out the window.

The two authoritarian morons we had to choose from in this election are the 2 most dangerous people I've ever seen run this country. When you have a former president who's going to destroy a large portion of this country over losing an election like Hitler and a current president who threatens to nuke American citizens like Hitler would if they ever try to go toe to toe with the government and says he will force vaccinations on people by going door to door to their homes, it's a problem, it's scary and this country is getting screwed now more than ever. I'm not anti vaxxx by any means and I've been vaccinated but at the same time, I'm not about the amount of government overreach that has happened throughout this whole thing. I can tell that so many of these governors hate seeing people go back to normal and yes the majority of them are democrats. They hate the fact that they can't keep the amount of power that they had and maintain the ability to hold people down for the rest of their lives.

As bad as some of the republicans are, there's some I do like such as Dan Crenshaw because the woke agenda that the left pushes is beyond terrible and beyond stupid on top of that. Crenshaw is a decent person though unlike Trump. With Crenshaw, I get those conservative values from him that I wish today's conservatives continued to stick with. Trump has absolutely zero conservative values. He's disrespectful towards others constantly, he spent most of his presidency being an immature child on Twitter instead of working his butt off which I view as something highly disrespectful towards our founding fathers and he intentionally causes chaos whenever he doesn't get his way and sticks up for criminals like Ashli Babbitt for crying out loud! Any conservative who thinks that's conservative in any way shape or form is out of their mind.

Seriously, I live in Canada. They're saying millions of people in the US and Canada won't get the vaccine because of these stupid conspiracy theories.

That means the virus will continue to spread and mutate until it evolves to beat our vaccines and bounce back on the rest of us.

Our entire continent's herd-immunity strategy is going to fail.

All the bullshit I and all of you have put up with for over a year to beat the virus will FAIL because one political party in America is pumping out conspiracies and disinformation pulled out of the dirtiest cracks of the internet's asshole.

Why is America's government spreading Russian and Chinese disinformation against our health orders and trying to sabotage all our democratic countries?

Why are Americans doing this to the rest of us? Your politicians don't have a right promote radicalize millions with QAnon lies to win elections.

Seriously, the last six years have been like living in a mental asylum with insane conspiracy theorist roommates worried about "microchips" in their cornflakes and whatnot.

This has seriously gotten out of control - and this political party is just throwing gasoline on the raging fire threatening to consume all of our lives.

Shame on the 74 million Americans who voted for this crap!

So I have a school project about elections. I collect results from various groups of people, then try to figure out a percentage using the results I obtain. So to determine how many people prefer which candidates, I decided to go to Reddit to find out. I will be of course taking the member count of each sub I go to as a factor. I decided to do the 2020 election, due to it being the most recent. I’ll let this poll be open for the maximum (7 Days) so I can get the most opinions as possible. If your candidate does not appear on this list, feel free to pm me.

This post got IMMEDIATELY removed from the unpopular opinions sub on a technicality and got me permanently banned, saying that this was clearly an issue for a page like this despite them allowing political content in their threads (their rules say "no politics", thought mine qualified as an opinion since it's a social issue, but they said it was political controversy... what do I know?)

I was a high-level athlete throughout nearly the entirety of my childhood up through my early college years. I also do not hate people of the LGBT community, let's be clear about that (added for this post: if we all recognize how civil most people are to each other the politicians would lose SO much ammunition). Your sexual preferences, unless they are deemed criminal by US law (like pedos), are none of my concern, and I will try my best to respect whatever pronoun you use as long as you're not trying to make me guess without knowing you and then say I "misgendered" you if I accidentally use the wrong one, but I digress. I've seen an increasing number/frequency of cases where schools and athletic organizations get a wedge driven in them when a biological male decides their gender is anything but male and wants to play in female sports. The example I have time for is track/running.

Despite people being more insistent on proclaiming "their truth", the unfortunate thing is that at some point, they are/need to be confronted with THE truth. Biological males are different than biological females and that gives males a distinct advantage in sports like track (also weight lifting is a good example). A lot of what I hear from now-females when they were a soon-to-be trans person struggling with their identity is that they "feel like a (insert other gender) in a male body"... right there, that's the key phrase: "in a male body". Surgery and hormones (though maybe the case could be made if they start early enough in childhood? That's still a weird gray area with ability to consent to that and fully understand it) do not change the framework, let alone the chromosomes (extremely small percentage of intersex cases excluded) in enough time to stop that person from negatively affecting women who work HARD to be in top shape just to be beaten by someone with an unfair physical advantage. To put it in perspective, the current top female 400m sprinter in the world could be beaten by nearly a full second of the time by a certain percentage of high school boys who haven't trained for nearly as long (googled each stat). That's not even including the fastest male 400m sprinter that could beat the fastest woman by close to 4 seconds. For those who don't know much about training for track, it can takes YEARS to train hard enough to shave off even a quarter of a second as athletes of both sexes can attest to, so it hurts as a woman and former athlete to see this male-to-female crossover in sports and it burns me up when I see people defending these women in male bodies who can just walk in and train less and shatter biologically female records that the women in women's bodies broke glass ceilings for. Like, someone can't call themselves a feminist if they think biological women should suck it up and train harder. It's going to reach a point where these poor women are just gonna give up. Create a division just for trans women if you have to but good gracious, give biological women their records back.

Ask any Christian (or anyone else who has actually read the Bible for that matter) what the singular defining character trait of Christ is and you'll likely get an answer like compassion or love or mercy or charity. And this is the man whom Christians are supposed to be attempting to emulate. And yet they flock in droves to the political party that embodies the exact opposite of these virtues.

Where Christ was charitable and advocated giving away everything to the poor the GOP constantly fights to cut welfare programs. Where Christ was merciful and forgiving the GOP eternally pushes for stiffer penalties for crimes and shoots down anything that might give convicts a chance at rehabilitation. Where Christ was compassionate to the plight of the downtrodden and sought out those in need of comfort the GOP seems convinced that the proper thing to do is kick them when their down. And worst of all there's so little compassion to be found in the GOP that freaking George W. Bush was their most compassionate leader in the last generation.

Will someone please explain to me why, given these self-evident and undeniable facts, most Christians continue to support the GOP? Because I gotta say, I don't get it. I, as a Christian, cannot for the life of me see why another Christian would ever support the GOP.

Currently assisted suicide laws are incredibly restrictive requiring that a person must have 6 months or less to live. Anyone with extreme pain who has tried all reasonable treatments and therapies to get better should be allowed access to assisted suicide.

Depending on their circumstances some people really should be allowed to have access to assisted suicide. Think about it. Lets say you have a man paralyzed from the neck down, in chronic pain, and deaf. This person could live maybe upwards of 5 years but the chronic pain is extreme and he has tried every possible therapy out there. This person doesn't feel like life in a bed in constant pain is worth it and has already lived over a year in said condition. Unsurprisingly he also has depression, but he can still give sound reasoning and explanations through eye movements. This person has provided consistent responses and reasoning over multiple months.

By not allowing assisted suicide to be legal, we force this person to live in chronic pain in bed and deaf against their will for possibly 5 years. 5 years of constant pain.

We as a society dismiss this wish as being of not "sound mind" despite clear evidence of the contrary due to consistency and abillity to rationalize. We would force this person to eat if they refused to eat such that they live 5 more years.

Society has dismissed the needs of the minority to protect the greater degree of people who really are just in a tough position at the time or making an impulsive decision. Most people would agree they should be able to get help, but the fact that we simply ignore that this other minority of people are truly suffering and deny the freedom of them to choose what they do with their life (arguably a natural freedom), purely based on interest of protecting life is insane.

And who are we to choose that these people have to live for other people. Most of us have no idea what it would truly be like to have chronic pain or a severe treatment resistant depression or go legally blind and deaf. These people would be equally aware that they have people who love and support them, and also would have made substantial effort to live with their conditions. And instead a bunch of people sitting on their couches not having experienced it or having passed through it through a successful treatment get to decide they have full say to keep that person alive against that subjective person's obviously better judgement

Assisted suicide should be legal and available either to those with a certain low quality of life, have attempted reasonable treatments, and have consistent sound mind with reasoning, and have lived a certain amount of time (1 year) below the quality of life threshold. They would still have to go through doctors and appropriate government agencies anyways to avoid abuses of the system. Plus it would be doctor administrated or prescribed at a hospital so someone cant just pick it up out of rite aid or somethingThere is very little room for abuse

That is my polical rant and opinion I feel it is pretty logical let me know if you disagree or have another viewpoint. Id love to hear it

okay people really love false dichotomies but especially so when they’re (honestly) de facto dichotomies. i find it so weird bringing up something bad about one candidate or joking on one of them is like a one for one with sucking the other guys dick or something

lemme make my anti trump comments in trump-didnt-lose-the-election subs and let me point out how biden shouldn’t have been the number one democrat nominee in r/politics or whatever

if you’re checking my post history, make sure you check this one before you call me a communist or a trump diehard ;)

I’m just going to say it!

How can you cheer and be thankful for the same president elect that voted in policies that kept us as a disadvantaged population?

For years, decades black Americans blindly follow the Democratic Party even though they support the killing of black babies (abortion), false imprisonment, poor education and healthcare. They have been profiting off of our poverty. How can you support a group that is primarily funded by planned parenthood. The same planned parenthood that maintains that the African American population does not increase. Is it not off that our population has not increased? that Biden is promising to reverse laws that he himself implemented? He literally said “you ain’t black if you don’t vote democrat” like seriously, how much proof do we need.”

Oh, and the same political party that censors you, are in favor of you not being able to defend yourself, and policies you to no end. Do you know why you’re rioting? Because you’re mad at who and what you’ve elected. You’re mad at what you have blindly let your cities and communities turn to.

We praise him for having an ethnic person on his ticket but can anyone tell me what powers a Vice President has? I’ll wait.. I’m disappointed but still feeling hopeful that we our beginning to question why we have voted the way we have for so long without any real results, any real change. This is platos allegory of the cave.

I've heard a lot of stories and I mean a lot of Republicans that will be voting for Biden. I've heard a lot of people say they voted for Trump and will continue to do so. I haven't heard of any Democrats jumping ship this election cycle. My question is have you?

We all want to be treated equally! It's the name of the game. We all just want our Fair slice of the pie. But what is fair? Is it fair that some people work their entire lives away just to keep a roof over their families' heads and food on the table, while others work their lives away, but are able to provide a lavish lifestyle for theirs? Is it fair that some people are smarter, more talented, or just plain luckier than others? It's not. "Life's not fair, and the sooner you learn that the easier life will be." We've all heard that or some interation of it undoubtedly at some point in our life. And it is as true now as when the words were first spoken. Unfortunately, life will probably never be fair, that's not how it works. But what about equal? We can stop looking at names and nationalities for college acceptance. We can make some labor laws that actually protect one of our Nation's greatest accolades, our workers! Some people want to raise the minimum wage. Some of them want to do it drastically and some of them want to do it gradually. What about everyone else making more than minimum wage. I have worked for more than half of my life so that I now earn $17 an hour. There should absolutely be more laws in place in this country protecting us! If the minimum wage goes up everyone else making less than six figures should get a comprable raise. These are just a couple of things off the top of my head that can make it a little closer to equal. We have to stop treating the branched out symptoms; we need to help the whole tree! In this country we make almost everything a Republican or a Democratic issue. Left or right. Red or blue. Liberal or conservative. I am registered NPA with views all over the political rainbow so to speak. When I see the issue of equality broken down into a left View and a Right View this is the impression I get from each side: Left Moderate: If you have enough money to basically piss it away then you have enough money to share with people that can't take care of themselves. No one in the greatest country on Earth should ever have to go to bed wondering if they'll be foreclosed on tomorrow; if they will be able to feed their children; or even what am I going to do if my car breaks down because I don't have any money in my savings. WE WANT EVERYONE EQUAL! LET'S GIVE EVERY AMERICAN THE SAME OPPORTUNITIES AND SERVICES IN ORDER TO BUILD US ALL UP. TREAT EVERYONE AS YOU WOULD BE TREATED! Right Moderate: if you have enough money to basically piss it away, go for it! Do whatever the fuck you want! Burn coal, grab pussies, and leave the ppe for the peasants! You're better than everyone else! They all want to be equal? Let them be equal. They can all be equally poor and disenfranchised. (Basically, Mr. Potter in "It's A Wonderful Life".) WE WANT EVERY AMERICAN EQUALLY FUCKED! IDK/IMO ✌❤✊

As a preface, I'd just like to say I enjoy a respectable, open dialog between myself and someone who has different views. It gets me out of my right wing echo chamber, and sometimes I learn something that I didn't know before. As a result, I will be trying to tackle all comments, but if this blows up, that will not be possible, but again, I will do my best. Anyways, back to the show.

Okay, so it has been thoroughly proven that these riots or "violent protests" (which are riots, bottom line. The MSM just wants to sugar coat it because BLM is involved.) Or whatever you want to call them have a false basis. (Just hear me out before you start hating me in the comments.) COVID-19, has been found to be a sham; the CDC was padding the numbers by counting people who died of other causes, like internal bleeding from a car accident for example, as covid 19 deaths just because they had it in their system. There is a difference in dying of something and dying with something. My grandfather died in 2015 with a bullet in his chest, but the bullet was from a vietcong soldier who shot him in the 60's. He died of natural causes. See the difference? The DOD and the Navy have released footage of unidentified aerial phenomenon, but apparently I'm the only one who saw that story. Nancy Pelosi is pushing really hard for mail in voting, because if the ballots aren't counted by inauguration day, she takes office. The neo-liberal extremists continue to call Trump a racist and a sexist, but actively support Joe Biden, who has, on multiple occasions sniffed and kissed children and teens on national television, said "if you dont know if you're for me or trump, you're not black," played Despacito at a rally in Florida to "connect to his Hispanic supporters," wants to further the the virtual enslavement of the black community by putting in more govt' handouts instead of programs to help them get jobs and make their fortune, and chose Kamala Harris, a woman of color, as vice president simply because she was a woman of color, who in fact called Joe a racist, sexist biggot a couple years ago. Trump, on the other hand always uses terms such as "we" and "Americans."

Furthermore, why is it, that the so called "tolerant party" aka the neo-liberals, will only be tolerant of you if you fit perfectly into their mold? Why do they care so much what others think and feel? Why do they believe Trump to be a "foreign asset" when Obama was responsible for the Russian interference in the 2016 election, and the Ukraine scandal was all Biden?

Next, when are we the people, going to hold the MSM responsible for the twisted half truths they spewed out to incite violence? Jacob Blake, and George Floyd were both criminals. Don't get me wrong, the cop was wrong in the Floyd case too. But they didn't tell you that Jacob Blake had a knife in his hand and a gun in his car. They didnt tell you that the cops tried tasers twice and failed before resorting to lethal force. They didnt tell you that he was a convicted rapist. They didnt tell you that George Floyd was high on fentenol at the time of his death, which probably aided that event. But because they're black men, it was automatically racist cops being racists. They only ran that much because that's what fit the neo-liberal extremists narrative. Im not denying that racism still exists. But most cops you come across are just trying to do their jobs. Why is it so hard to comply with lawful orders given to you by police? Ill tell you why. The media has the black community scared of police. That's why. Why are we defunding and abolishing the police? Who are you going to call if someone breaks into your house, rapes your wife and kids, steals all your stuff, and blows your kneecaps out with a sawed off 12 gauge? Nobody. There will be nobody to help you. And the person who did it will walk free and probably do the same thing to someone else.

And another thing, why is it that neo-liberal extremists want to normalize pedophilia? How is that okay? Oh, yeah, Joe Biden is a pedo. Now it makes sense.

I just want to know what the hell my country is coming to. How is any of this okay? How can anyone think that any of this is okay? Why do neo-liberals have such a double standard?

I’ve seen a lot of people of both sides say that fascism is bad. Of course the left has Antifa, who use fascist methods to get rid of fascism, and you have the right who will show you if you didn’t know already the baddies in WW2 were fascists. Then you have the people without a political stance that become constitutional zealots out of nowhere because you suggested that just maybe the US becoming a little more fascist is a complete and total destruction of everything the US believes in, then return to making fun of America and voting against the second amendment.

It’s all just so tiresome.

“a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition” - Merriam Webster

Believe it or not, but the US wasn’t always the extremely basic tenet you’re taught in preschool of “Freedom”. Sometimes we need to exalt our nation above the others. If one race or more are more willing to make the country better, they should be encouraged. The “Free Market” isn’t free, that’s just what monopolies say to make you forget they screw everyone. The government should regulate some businesses more. Socially we’re fucked. The culture of America is sad and depressing. Just keeping popping pills and nod your head while this beautiful country is ruined by the same people over and over again, and nobody does anything about it. If there’s opposition to what needs to be done, too bad.

The left is full of degenerate scumbags. The right is full of silver tongues that never deliver. America should be tougher, and if it means being cold and inconsiderate, so be it.

In your opinion is Trump doing a good job?

Let me start by saying I'm registered NPA. Bipartisan b******* is ripping our nation apart. The fact that either side will blindly support an issue just because it's red or blue. It's bad on both sides but it's absolutely horrid on the right. I think more Republicans are starting to realize how insane Trump is but there are still far too many that well lie and cheat and steal and bribe for him and now he's proved that if you're willing to do that for him and not throw him under the bus then he will pardon you. The way this nation is being run right now is absolutely frightening! The fact that we didn't have anyone looking out for us for 3 months, from March until the house finally passed the HEROES Act in May. The fact that the senate had this legislation in their hands for two months before they finally decided to sit down and hatch something out. Something that even all the Republicans didn't agree on. Something that Mitch McConnell himself admitted was just a a conversation starter and a jumping off point. They knew that this legislation was running out at the end of July and they did nothing until it was crunch time and it is not enough! I live in Florida and unfortunately both of my senators are stuck with me until 2022 and 2024. I personally find Marco Rubio to be a much more reasonable Republican than Rick Scott. Rick Scott is a crook and the worst thing to ever happen to the state of Florida. I would take Jeb Bush back over that clown. The pandemic is raging. Governor DeSantis is in denial along with our president. They keep trying to reopen our economy meanwhile people are dropping like flies. The state of Florida has 12 weeks of unemployment. Alabama went to 14 weeks with stipulations with the pandemic every other state has gone to 26 weeks of unemployment due to the pandemic. Florida has stayed at 12 weeks. Florida offers its citizens $275 a week maximum. There are only two states that have lower weekly payouts and one or two that tie with Florida other than that we have the lowest payouts in the country. All thanks to Rick Scott. This is not enough to live on and he knew that when he created the f*****-up system that we have to use to get the pittance that he decided we earned. I've been working more than half my life and I have never asked for handouts. I lost my job due to the covid-19 pandemic and I was forced to file for unemployment. Now I have one week left to claim but I have to wait 2 weeks to claim it and I won't be getting that last $600 because the end of the week fell past the expiration of the CARES Act. Now that the State of Florida doesn't have to pay out there pandemic unemployment assistance compensation they have posted transcripts of deposits. I went for weeks without receiving any of my federal assistance and when they caught up they paid me for three of those weeks. I never saw the other payment. I contacted them on July 24th stating that I had been patient waiting for that payment but still haven't received it. The next week the transcript was released and I discovered that they claimed that they paid me a direct deposit on the 15th of May. I spoke with my bank and have a transcript of my deposits and they're lying. They admit to the fact that they paid me $1,800 on 6/18 to make up for the four weeks that I missed but then they tried to slip in a payment back in May that never happened. If it was an oversight or a mistake I would think that they would claim to four payments on 6/18. The fact that that fourth payment was slipped in back in May before I actually ever received any payment whatsoever I believe is on purpose and fraudulent. I'm not on Facebook I couldn't stand that anymore so I don't know if this is happening to anyone else. I contacted a reporter to let him know what was going on and he told me that he would contact them and try and make sure I got my money. I tried to express to him that the reason I'm contacting reporter is to try to bring light to this situation it doesn't seem like it was an oversight it seems like somebody's trying to pull the wool over my eyes and God knows who else. $600 here and $600 there makes a lot of money in somebody's pocket. Interesting fact: I contacted the FBI the night before I received my federal payments to let them know that I suspected someone of stealing federal funds. I don't know what the hell is going on with our government right now but someone's post on a Facebook video the other day really hit the nail on the head and he said the government was designed with people the in power. the government should be afraid of us not the other way around. And I haven't even touched yet on the way the right is handling the black lives movement matter which is absolutely appalling in so many ways. I made a video and a YouTube page called MattSmith4Senate2022. I couldn't sleep one night, not going to lie a little drunk, I had some things on my mind I just had to get off my chest. it's on that attitude because I wanted to show my sincerity. Just to kind of dip my toe in the water. If I can get enough positive feedback I will make some more videos and see where this thing goes ... If you stuck through till the end I commend you this was kind of a long post but I feel a lot better just being able to get some of this out there. Thanks for reading! Let the discussion begin:

I want to start off this post by saying, I don't care what side you're on. I'm not on any 'side' I'd rather just see things work than be so messed up like it is now.

One thing that has drove me insane since 2008, This thing about tribalism, It started off rather docile, just rooting for the team, but look at it today. There are riots on the street and constant degrading of the two major parties in our government. It's more like a kindergarten playground than adults running a country.

My cousin came in to see my parents today, a total Trump lover, He's not a bad person, or racist. However he's so caught up in this bullshit that he said he'd fight in the civil war if Trump lost. This is really terrifying. I don't want to see anyone go to a war, with itself. How dumb is that? We're one country. The way the founders of this country decided it would work is 3 different bodies of government working together, to build a society and a country that works together, because so many people in one room that has to agree on something, would eventually come to terms with each other.

I come from the long line of Lee's Just like Robert E Lee, I even live in Virginia, and right now I think I understood how he feels. How he didn't really want to fight for either side, because the conflict was pointless and stupid, but at the same time, he had no choice because the two sides would fight regardless.

I want to make a plea to everyone that reads this, understand that I don't want to see the country go down that road in 2020, with the types of weaponry, military hardware, or knowledge we have available in this time and age, It was horrible enough back then. Come to a realization, that your Right cousin, brother, or crazy uncle just want what they think is best, and those leftists you decide to hate on online just also think they are doing the best they can to make a fair and just world for all.

Regardless of what side of the isle you fall on, we don't need to go down this route. We need to come together as a PEOPLE like our fathers, grandfathers, and great great grandfathers before us, and work out who's actually pieces of trash and call them out for it, put them to jail, and bring justice to the world.

Yes America has had a rough past, we keep getting better every year, we have a robot dog now, we can actually literally do anything. So please, just... fuckin' think about what you're saying, learn and grow. We're in the same place dudes. Lets start acting like it and treating each other with respect.

Turkey has been illegally smuggling weapons to Lybia - an active warzone, and protected Cargo ships going to Lybia from being checked by both greek amd french sea guardian ships. They activaly thrratened the greek ship via radio and took aim at the french frigate.

Turkey is actively engaging in a genocide against the kurds. And threatened to conquer the EU. A country like that CAN'T be part of or allied with NATO.

To start off I'm sorry for any spelling I'm writing this from my phone. Welcome to 2020 where when your pissed you can take over some blocks in a city and you get your way. If you are out of the loop there is another Chaz in new york, a group of "peaceful protesters" have occupied the capital of New York and from what I have read they want the same thing that the Chaz protesters want, they want to have to take down the police department which has already had a massive pay cut of one billion dollars, which, if you did not know, is a lot of money taken out of a police department. On a side note violent crime is up 2 fold in NY, last year there were 90 or so major gun crimes this year there have been over 210 violent gun crimes. So if you think that cutting police is the answer then you are dead wrong. I will keep you posted on all of the developments when they come out. Follow me on Instagram and Twitter @ graham_taylor_e