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Civic Platform has pulled their presidential candidate Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska from the race after she tumbled in the polls over the last month. Her "let's boycott the elections" message was so weird nobody knew if she was boycotting them herself. They got postponed anyway but now could be held in late June or July. Anyway, this kind of nonsense is the main reason why Law & Justice remains in power. Civic Platform hasn't offered anything positive over the last five years and their bitching about Law & Justice has worn everyone down. Kidawa had worse polling results than literally all the main candidates including the far-right Krzysztof Bosak. CP's spectacular fall from grace reaches new lows every month and even their co-founder and knight on white horse Donald Tusk doesn't want to save them anymore speaking from the outside. Word is, Warsaw president Rafal Trzaskowski will be the CP candidate now - literally one year after he won the Warsaw elections with 70% of the vote. However Warsaw is a liberal bubble that doesn't define the whole country. Ex-foreign affairs minister Radoslaw Sikorski wants to steal the nomination for himself but he's been relegated to second row years ago and can't be taken seriously anymore.

If they're looking for the new Barrichello, that's the absolutely right decision though.

Somewhere out there Nico Hulkenberg must be furious. He was shoved out for Esteban Ocon while Daniel Ricciardo wanted out of Renault all along

Two injuries actually. She tore the ACL in her right knee again in January 2019 and she really struggled for pace last season. She was more or less competitive after the first ACL but no longer a consistent threat for the overall and basically quit doing giants slaloms after that.

Anna Veith (nee Fenninger) will announce her retirement very soon according to Austrian press.

Yeah, I remember that scandal. Several political careers have ended with a lesser issue. An affair with a staffer is something that Bill Clinton got away with but not someone like Hill who can be replaced much easier IMO.

In Poland when the council tenure expires within the next six months, the seat remains vacant until the proper elections.

Republicans can still win in California: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/13/california-election-winner-mike-garcia-christy-smith-katie-hill-seat

It's funny, Sainz owns his F1 career to Vettel who shocked Red Bull by choosing Ferrari in the summer of 2014. It happened after Red Bull said that Jean-Eric Vergne will be released from Toro Rosso at the end of that season. This meant Red Bull had to elevate Daniil Kvyat into Red Bull and left a vacant seat at Toro Rosso which Sainz filled on the rebound (the other option would be Vergne coming back but that would look stupid since they said he's out). Red Bull's original plan for 2015 was Vettel/Ricciardo and Verstappen/Kvyat in Toro Rosso.

Motorsport.com Italia claims Carlos Sainz will be announced as Leclerc's teammate within the next 48 hours: https://www.planetf1.com/news/carlos-sainz-ferrari-4/ That makes most sense, watch Ricciardo become a front runner for the McLaren seat next.

No way Ferrari puts anyone from F2 or their Academy straight into their F1 team. They like the guys to show their skills in one of the satellite teams. They can either bring Giovinazzi from Alfa Romeo or maybe Ricciardo who apparently is frustrated at Renault. Or perhaps Sainz from McLaren which would then allow Ricciardo to move in his place. Thanks to his name Mick Schumacher will be in F1 sooner than later. Quite frankly I see him at Alfa Romeo as early as 2022 or maybe 2023 pending on the superlicense points.

Yeah, it's only taken Leclerc one season to show supreme speed compared to Vettel. One can only wonder if Vettel would have signed with Ferrari but for Jules Bianchi's death in first place.

Cigs and alcohol were one thing, there was also Penthouse & Durex sponsoring F1 back in the day: Guy Edwards & model Suzanne Turner at the Hesketh car launch in 1976. Rupert Keegan during 1977 Canadian Grand Prix.

I told you before both Dems and GOP will NEVER accept a third major party in USA. Two-party system is perfect for them, either you're in charge or the chief critic. No third door. And the society thinks it's all about liberalism, conservatism or some abortion rights. BS. They hold the power and they won't let it go. And of course they tell the entire world how the US democracy is the best in the world and everyone should learn from them

So you're telling me Democrats can bypass or bend the system just like the Republicans are accused of doing? That's a brand new information! Though I understand Bernie's loyalists remain in a tunnel vision overall.

Liberal left has moved away from classic labour blue-collar workers though. It's all about ideology now. Industrialization has given way to environementalism and the production has been shipped to cheap labour markets in Asia. Capitalism & free market is more important than democracy in the Anglo-Saxon world IMO

It was a much simpler time. Photos? Who wants photos? Like smoking cigs was still common. I believe only Kimi Raikkonen is a smoker from current drivers and then Fernando Alonso from what I know. Vic Elford Brothers in-law Alfonso de Portago. You won't see a cigarette this close to a fuel tank in 2020! Jose Froilan Gonzalez (left) would probably have a very hard time fitting in a modern F1 cockpit too!

What Vic Liu said, basically a bigger population means you can find immediate replacement if one complains over a lower salary. So you hold onto a job or else there are like 15 ppl ready to take it. It doesn't work that way in less populated country. An uncle of my friend worked on the high cranes in USA back in the 90s. He said even African-Americans didn't want to work for the salary that was offered and also Mexicans (Latinos). This was a job for people from Eastern Europe like Poland who accepted lower pay that was still huge if counted on Polish money. And that was over 20 years ago (in Nevada and Arizona).

Denmark's population is roughly Manhattan, Brooklyn and Bronx combined I don't believe even such a left-wing tube like New York Times can be that ignorant to compare a country of 330 million to a country of 5.8 million. Or maybe they are? If Denmark had a population of 330 million I bet the McDonald's job would be paid less than 7 bucks/hour

League announced it's schedule yesterday. First game is Chiefs vs Texans so a rematch from last year's AFC Divisional Game where Texans blew a 24 point lead in like ten minutes. As usual teams make some funny videos that reveal the schedule. Jacksonville Jaguars who are widely tipped to have the worst record in 2020 have produced this gem:

53 years since Lorenzo Bandini's crash at the 1967 Monaco Grand Prix. He passed away three days later from severe burns

On the other hand just about every Slovak player - not named Ondrej Duda or Jan Mucha - who arrives in the Polish Ekstraklasa is at least 30 years old

Earl Thomas might be the best free safety in the league since Ed Reed but well, this is how he bid farewell to Seattle Seahawks in 2018:

Laura Robson's slut-o-meter would probably say "true"

Sounds like a very poor man's version of Bay of Pigs invasion?