You have to keep in mind, he only has to win over more than half of the voting US citizenship 
Only 66% of the population voted in the 2020 presidential election, really marginally just over half… and that was a record high. That for me puts the US presidential election in the same bucket of credibility as the TV Week Logie Awards. 
If he loses….he disappears from the spotlight, mind, thought, and word.
If he wins… 4 more years….
Of me , bitching about him here…!!
Sleep well, all…
Yeah, but you do one of the best vocal impressions of Trump I’ve heard in a long time. 
It’s up there with Alec Baldwyn’s. 
But not as good as Jamie Foxx…
Its not like trump, to give, long, rambling, incoherent speeches…
"Jamie Foxx…?? More like Jamie Dog, cause thats what he is, he’s just a dog…
I wish someone would eat him, like all the dogs they’re eating in springfield…
Springfield, home of the simpsons, great guy , monty burns, lives there, lots of great tax deductions…too bad, all the blacks moved in…
Blacks are great people though, like my friend P.diddy…he throws the best parties…
Lots of jobs and parties, in springfield…great times, fantastic, everyone said they’re the best parties, except justin beiber who was a minor and we cant talk about it, cause nothing ever happened…
P.diddy has lots of jobs in springfield…hand, blow, rim, all the good stuff…
See, i can remember it all , just like man, woman,camera , tv, i have the highest IQ of all time…
TV, i 'll be watching TV on election night, if i win, its all real, if i lose, its a Ji-na communist fake news hit job…
But Ji-na loves me, no wait they’re scared of me, they know how crazy i am, so if they dont want crazy trump, dont rig my election, like a dog…
Did i tell you, about the blacks eating the dogs, in Ji-na, with hannibal lecter.?.?
If you go there, dont go by electric boat, cause you might have to jump in the water, by the sharks…"
Listen to that, in trump voice…
And, half the US want to vote for him…
God help us all…
and now a few words from Mel Gibson
We don’t really want to be comparing IQs between the candidates, do we?
Because we all know Donald Trump knows words… he has the best words.
Just ask him, he’ll tell you.
Opinion is swaying Trumps way…
I’m just throwing fuel on the fire 
Talking to my mate in the industry yesterday…
He said he’s seen a big decrease in people coming in for HPA refills and HPA conversions, he’s of the opinion that maybe HPA’s dropped off a fair bit in popularity recently. 
Same with GBBR… bugger all sales of them.
Yet sales of AEGs are as strong as they’ve ever been.
I guess that old chestnut “It’s the simple things in life that bring us joy” really is true.
In other news Israel began strikes on Iran earlier this morning. Glad I filled up yesterday.
I still technically work for a retailer so I talk to people in the retailer and customers a lot, and a local field owner quite a bit, and a couple that aren’t so local to me too.
The local field owner especially cringes when he sees someone newish in the hobby getting HPA, purely because a typical HPA owner seems to have relatively short shelf life in the hobby. They spend thousands on HPAing a couple of blasters, getting tanks and compressors etc.
…They then have a bad night, or have a gear failure because rather than learn how to maintain the expensive thing they bought they expect that for the price it is going to be awesome forever with no work. HPA is NOT maintenance free. Actually I think Polarstar Jack is recommended to be lubricated every 10-20,000 rounds. Which is basically a day at an outdoor field!
After this minor setback, they leave the hobby and sell it all for little in comparison to what they paid and are never seen again.
I personally think that HPA owners have more focus on being competitive than having fun, and I don’t mean having fun just on the field, an AEG enthusiast has plenty of fun tinkering off the field and then larps and is there to just have a good time on the field. They also talk and interact more with others swapping experience and information more and are generally a bit more involved in the community. More involvement and enjoyment means more longevity in the field and the hobby.
The GBBR thing, well, that is someone that wants the feeling of replica realism, has plenty of disposable income and is quite happy to spend a bit of time and possibly money on keeping it working. You have to love a GBBR if you own one and want it to last. I wouldn’t use one on a field (as discussed I think a pistol is far more effective indoors and cheaper) but I would like one for shiggles round the house. But I can’t justify the cost so don’t have one.
I guess the other side of HPA is there is plenty available on the second hand market all the time, it would be hard to justify a conversion or a build, when there is plenty available cheaper on the second hand market, likely just needing a service and tune.
Mmm David Crisafulli for the Queenslanders. What’s the opinion on him?
Totally agree with all of your comments, which really sum up the type of owners/players in this hobby.
HPA dudes really seem to be the GUCCI players who are all about the image and rely upon stupid FPS and RPS to measure their dick size with, not really deeply involved in the fun of the hobby or the games themselves 
I’ve never been a GBB person, much more interested in the challenges of getting AEG’s to their pinnacle of performance through tinkering and learning things 
After being sent that pre production FB GLOCK G18C Pistol, I must admit that I can totally understand where such a thing has a very useful place within any gameplay as a sidearm, but also learnt the same headaches of how much maintenance and many other precision steps were involved to be able to simply load and fire the bloody things 
Good quality and tough AEG’s are definitely where the bulk of the hobby/industry is at.
The proof in the pudding is the amount of basic old Gen8 powered stuff that’s still popular and kicking arse out in the fields compared to more expensive and more technical modern blasters on the market these days.
A young kid with an old UMP45 or J12AK is having a great old time compared to the latest Johnny on the spot with his $2k HPA East Coast Customs build with all the gear and no idea 
Well, anyone coming from Campbell Newman’s cabinet gets a big no from me, I remember those jackboot days too well.
It’s interesting that Newman’s government had the so called bikie gangs to contend with, this government has the youth crime issue… seems the only way they can get elected is to have a nemesis, then whip up a media frenzy to get public opinion on their side at election time. Although I will admit the youth crime problem is very real and needs to be addressed. Miles didn’t seem up to the task, came across as a daggy dad. Whether or not Crisafulli can pull it off or not we’ll know in time.
They gained a lot of support with their proposed stance on that issue, but with a less than 8% swing, it would seem they lost some support as well due to the vagueness of their position on abortion laws. They still haven’t ruled out a concience vote on it.
Now we’ll have to sit through months of excuses while the incumbent party blames their tardiness on addressing these issues on “the mess left behind by the previous government.”
But that’s just my opinion, I don’t expect everyone to agree… and that’s the way democracy works.
Pfftt elections.
1 down, 1 to go…
The next one has more far reaching, global consequences…
At least all the ads on tv, are stopped…
I think this could be a case of the Qld majority voting against their interest all because Labour had the misfortune of being in charge for the last 3 terms that had a global pandemic and a global cost of living rise.
Hearing a lot of health workers being unhappy with Labour (did they forget the last LNP government laid off more than 4000 Qld Health workers?).
Some pretty f###ed up policies, but maybe those will be the worse (knowing the LNP track record though I’m sure it will get worse).
What’s their position on gel blasters?
I have wondered about that.
Cracking down on youth crime could be the perfect vehicle to put the kybosh on gel blasters up here. Hopefully not.
I hope gel blasters, end up in the same position as replicas, in the govt’s mind.
Not an issue, leave it alone.
The previous police minister (truthfully and sensibly) said words to the effect gel blasters weren’t a major issue at all, with very low rates of misuse.
Hopefully, they wont be on anyone’s radar, anytime soon.
Being put into legislation, should be a little more difficult to remove.
The real problem is the kids using knives, bats , machette’s etc during home invasions…
Hopefully, they’ll just leave us alone, and concentrate on bigger issues…
Best not to bring it to their attention…