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I don't have a cult leader and I'm not upset but like most Europeans I'm appalled, on the other hand we are accustomed to the Americans way of thinking, a bible in one hand and a gun in the other.

Why? are you saying that people now have no free speech and will start to fall out of windows as in Russia?

and staying out of prison.

Everyone's a rebel until the police are at the door

When Oscar Wilde said that 'a man who calls a spade a spade should be made to use one' he could have been thinking of someone like Trump. I for my part feel that the leader of my country represents me when he travels abroad (not that I like the current leader of my country) I wouldn't feel flattered to be represented by Trump. Regarding 'slick talking', your post reminds me of an incident in the 1920's when an American diplomat (how could it be otherwise) felt out of his depth with the good manners and diplomacy shown among French politicians while he was in Paris, he gave vent to his feeling to Georges Clemenceau saying it was just a lot of hot air to which Clemenceau replied a car tyre is only filled with hot air but it makes life's journeys so much more comfortable.

You weren't quoting anybody although it's possible you were referring to Clinton's disgraceful behaviour while in office.

I'm sure that you won't be disappointed, there are some here who, no doubt, feel that Harris or Trump would make a positive difference to their lives, I have however no such illusions and although America is losing its earlier power and influence in world affairs I had assumed that the leader of such an important country to have at least some semblance of sophistication, elegance and integrity, it just goes to show that one shouldn't assume anything.

Written with the same eloquence of your preferred candidate

All he cares about is his bowel of food........ which makes him wise.

I have no candidate, I'm not American nor do I live in America. Whether Harris would have been good or bad we shall never know. We do have some inkling of Trumps character which doesn't put him in a good light but the fact that he has no class and is dishonest played no role in why he, or rather his party, was elected, it was a pragmatic economic choice with the vain hope that he could wave a magic wand and make a 35 trillion dollar debt disappear. No matter which party governs for the next 4 years it will be a disaster, a trillion dollars a year in interest payments alone, rising interest rates, unemployment and homelessness issues are harbingers of discontent which will be unfairly laid before the door of the government. These are world wide problems which need solutions from all parties and governments but that wont happen, the house of cards must first collapse before there is a new beginning but waves rise and fall, just a historical footnote from which nobody will learn.

Yes, so despite his life history it has come down to this, boring. When you're dying nothing has any meaning, past triumphs and disasters fade into nothingness which is why I prefer detachment to life's events, waves rise and they fall and rise again, nothing has permanence, events have only the meaning we subjectively attach to them, in and of themselves they mean nothing, a rice farmer in Thailand couldn't care less who is president, a worker in America may find it important, just subjective interpretations.

Democrat is not a name of any species and is therefore not a creature

Oh I wouldn't be so negative with regards to the human race, I believe that conscious awareness is important to the cosmos, we give it qualia, without awareness of it it might just as well not exist. Humanity has survived the worst that nature has thrown at it in the past, even when our species was reduced to less than a 1,000 individuals it bounced back and is now reaching out to other planets, we are an insidious, tenacious species with the quality of introspection and greatness.

Why so angry? I don't take any of this seriously, governments come and go, the wealthy remain wealthy, debts rise higher, wars will always be fought, it's pointless to be emotionally invested as non of this will be important to you on your death bed, as an example....when Winston Churchill was dying, a man who lived a life full of excitement and great responsibility to a nation at war, his last words were, "I'm so bored by it all".

STFU ? Creatures? Democrats belong to a political party, not a species. You must try education, it makes life so much easier.

They should look on the bright side, they will, after many years of immersion with the locals, go home with the ability to speak street Thai.

He didn't believe that a golden age was just around the corner.

55555555555, no golden age for anyone, nostalgia is a poor advisor, debt, demographics, AI, global warming, inequality, hunger and war will ensure more of the same for decades to come, irrespective of who the organ grinder is.

That's usually a MAGA quality. The voters have held their noses and voted more for the GOP than for Trump in the belief that they will be better for the economy even though isolationism (seems to be the general direction) tends to damage competitiveness in the long run. Potty mouth will play golf and watch TV more than govern considering his past. One must admire his tenacity at 78, though it remains to be seen if he can last the full term. The red sweep was surprising but as one American theater critic said many years ago, " never underestimate the poor taste of the American public."

My Wise transfers from Germany to Bangkok bank usually take 24 hours since years, nothing new, sometimes it will take 12 hours, sometimes seconds which always surprises me, it's not a big deal to wait 24 hours surely.

Where does she get her money from?

Why mention these three? they neither pretend to be democracies nor were they the subject of my post. Most news in the world is biased, there are rare exceptions but the listener is now incapable of discerning truth from falsehood and even if, it will be ignored if it goes against ingrained political views. There are swing states in the US because politics has nothing to do with logic in the US, the other states will adhere to 'their' political party regardless of the candidates suitability leaving only a few states who actually think about what is on offer, primitive tribalism. Since the West is basically ruled by the elite, conglomerates, central banks and the military industrial complex, tempered perhaps by the stock market and international events it makes voting just as pointless as the votes given by the central committees in China. It was Americas own Mark Twain who said if elections made any difference they would be banned.

He was just joking to lighten the atmosphere. They look bored stiff, the third one looks as if he's asleep.

No they don't.

It hasn't happened yet, you're as bad as those youtubers talking up WW3.