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Official award day was weathered out. So, well, I'll have my own ceremony... I didn't join USPA until I was off student status I think, or at least on 15 second delays or something like that. Wendy P.

Back to school shopping!!! This should be a must watch.

Spot on…. I completely agree.

Well you just said Fauci created the pandemic, so yeah I for sure think that. Why wouldn’t I?

Let assume he has a grudge. Let’s also assume it’s not against NWA as he said. What entities could he be getting back at by skyjacking a plane? Outside of the airline industry or banks there’s aren’t many. And skyjacking a plane because you have a grudge against the manufacturer is to removed. If you had a grudge against BMW would you carjack a BMW for revenge? His grudge can’t be personal, he didn’t target a person. If his grudge was political he sure didn’t act or talk like it and ultimately wouldn’t have had any negative impact on it. There is no evidence he was acting to support a specific political cause. His grudge IMO is more general. He has a grudge against the system. He is sticking it to the man and getting what he sees as his in the process. This does have value in identifying him. He isn’t a political radical. He isn’t a NWA or Boeing employee. He isn’t carrying out the act against an individual. He has a grudge against society and this is a high profile, and high profit, way to stick it to the system.

President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa made a harsh statement about US President Donald Trump. In his opinion, the American leader is "objectively a Soviet or Russian agent," reports Euronews. "The supreme leader of the world's largest superpower is objectively a Soviet or Russian asset," said de Sousa on August 27 during a speech in Castelo de Vide. Trump's efforts to present himself as the main mediator in reconciling Ukraine and Russia did not make a good impression on the Portuguese president. De Sousa noted that Trump's attempts to "settle" the war were not beneficial for Ukraine. "Objectively, the new US leadership strategically contributed to Russia," he added. I've never been prouder to be a Portuguese resident.

Dunno about that. If anyone intelligent were planning a 25th Amendment remedy, they'd be kissing ass the hardest right now so that Trump trusts them, and won't wonder why they are walking around collecting signatures. Of course, Trump has done his level best to keep any intelligence out of the White House, but one might have slipped in accidentally.

Thom Hartmann wrote recently that it's time we make real the effects of guns by showing pictures of the murdered kids, as Emmett Till's mother so bravely did after he was killed. I agree.

The question should be. Does anyone think Trump's secret service protections lasts 30 minutes into the next democrat administration?

Without a doubt this. Also, I do think being from Oregon helps. We seem to have a favorable reputation amongst Europeans and Scandinavians. (No clue if being from Texas or speaking with a southern accent are problematic) Could be not flying a giant American flag like the bubbas fly on their trucks or starting right in on politics gives a positive first impression, too. We have no languages impediments, usually. Even in groups with mixed nationalities everyone naturally defaults to english, even helping each other for our benefit.

Well, mine doesn't say "liberal," but I do speak French and Spanish, and am polite. Never had an issue (yes, not even in France). I have a feeling it's that polite part that really helps, and not thinking that we have the solutions to all of the world's problems. Wendy P.

Sorry the sarcasm got lost in translation. Trumps answer to everything is an executive order.

Yes exactly - and that’s what they tried to do with Trump. They just asked for the documents back. Over and over and over again they just asked for them back. He refused. Even when the DoJ first got involved, they just privately asked for them back. Then Trump not only continued to refuse, he deliberately lied to the FBI about what he had. If Trump had done what is usually done in private with discretion, the Mar a Lago boxes wouldn’t even have become a story, let alone a legal case that required a deeply corrupt judge to save him from the prison sentence he deserved.

White nationalists feel threatened. Hard working and more intelligent immigrants are a threat. They fight a losing battle.

I am not laughing either. Some pity, some concern and a whole lot of wondering just how far the madness will go.

Regarding the title of this thread. I don’t think we see the US as a laughing stock. I think there’s generally a sense of pity and concern for US citizens and also a recognition that the US is too dominant and a bully in the international community. There’s lots of introspection going on about how we should relate to a rogue nuclear state that is in a rapid state of decline. Trump is definitely the laughing stock along with his cabinet members, but not the US.