gowlerk

People in groups can act so stupid.

28M for a high quality piece of asset like her is a pittance. The Dotard paid far more than that to acquire it, he needs a return on his investment.

The obvious is of course the $3 bill.

Since you asked, so far this. At President Donald Trump’s first cabinet meeting on Wednesday, he deferred a question about the measles outbreak in Texas to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services. “We are following the measles epidemic every day,” Kennedy said.

111 years is a very long freefall.

They will not even attempt to balance the budget. They may possibly somewhat reduce expenditures, but likely not. They will for sure increase the deficit by cutting taxes. Especially corporate taxes.

I've read several stories about her and her cult and the shooting of the officer on CNN. Is CNN not part of MSM, as is BBC?

Many nations have put off elections due to a declared "state of emergency". I am not predicting but I can see a possibility of the MAGA madness going in a direction that leads to such an emergency being created. And the Supreme Court although not completely co-opted does lean in favour of Trump.

What makes you so sure there will be a presidential election in 2028?

You are correct this time. The expression that comes to mind is “shit or get off the pot”. And yes, that goes for Canada too. If NATO wants to remain a valid set of allies it needs to push Trump aside and get on with it.

Only 1,998,000 to go!

Be careful Bill. The NSA is still fully staffed.

Didn't the Cheney-Bush-Rumsfeld neo-con gang try to impose pretend Christian values some offending nations? I think that may be one of the key things the led you to where you are now.

Now you're just talking nonsense and pushing buttons. Like I said earlier the US does not have to conquer us to get our natural resources. They are for sale and being extracted by large multi-national companies with a huge proportion of US ownership. Besides we have been doing our best to make our population unpalatable to our neighbours by admitting huge numbers of brown skinned immigrants for the last decade or so. That is somewhat on pause at the moment while we catch up on infrastructure. But soon enough we will be poisoning our blood to discourage you. We aim to be like Mexico, an anathema to US expansion. We already have Quebec and its insistence on French language and culture. Let's see you deal with them for a change.

So....you accept that the USA can not afford to pay down what it owes except by nibbling at the federal civil service? Most nations have both higher income taxes and some form of VAT. Like you most western democracies are also running deficits. Unlike you they are not led by ineffective showmen bent on performance art. It is interesting that you list war as an income opportunity. Your last set of middle east adventures is a large reason for the debt you have accumulated so I'm not sure where your head is at on that. Your nation is so controlled by people who don't want to pay their share that they squeeze the taxation collection agency so hard that it can not do audits.

The something that needs to be done is simple.Raise taxes to pay for the things you want and voted for. DOGE is theatre and nothing else. Both the left and the right want the same thing. Someone else to pay for the cake they are eating.

No one I know was afraid for themselves. We were afraid we would get it and pass it on to vulnerable family members. We were concerned about the hospitals that were overflowing with the ones among us who were the unlucky. We wanted everyone to do everything possible to bring the event to a quicker end. To me and those I know it was about doing the right thing for others. My wife was drafted as a nurse into working ICU and watched as many patients died. Fortunately most lived due to the extreme measure that artificial ventilation is. Not once did she complain about having to switch from her regular job in outpatient cataract surgery to 12 hour overnight weekend shifts in an environment she never trained for but was needed. The healthcare system is still not fully recovered from this event. People did not get hysterical, they got on and did what was needed to be done. Except for a subset of self entitled complainers who got hysterical when they were asked to make the sacrifice of wearing a mask and helping to protect the vulnerable. I have not forgotten and will likely never forget who refused to help and only complained about the inconvenience.

Let me answer that one if I may. It is one of the latest attempts at baiting and triggering good people. I've been seeing it on FB the last little while. Some lame attempt to be be "clever" in the usual insulting right wing way. A successor to "cuck". Not something base698 made up on his own but something his tribe as given him as a new code word.

In other words "because the boss told me to".

It has been renamed. It's now officially known as "The Shame Flag". The White House will ask Google to comply and being the cowards that they are they will.

Nearly as unlikely as South Korea sending troops to Ukraine is the US sending aid and solace to Russia. Yet.....here it is now.

Who will defend the constitution if the POTUS and the SCOTUS and the Congress all seem bent on upending it? Will the well armed populace rise up? Not as long as the parts of the constitution that seem important to them are not threatened. It will just be someone else's problem.

We wouldn't do that. Power grids are interdependent and we all give and get for one thing. And besides, the problem doesn't really come as much from the upper mid-west. Doug Ford has called an unneeded snap election in Ontario to take advantage of the situation and is big time pandering.

Did you know Stephen Miller is jewish? He is also a white supremacist.

Have you noticed yet that he is the only person engaging with you?