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Biden trails Trump in polls by one or two percent on average, according to what you posted yourself previously. It's peanuts, and has no predictive value.

When you have nothing to defend Trump, just evoke conspiracy theories! 5555 Trump did what he did.

And It's not only an anecdote, it also shows in statistics! Republicans' excess death rate spiked after COVID-19 vaccines arrived, a study says https://www.npr.org/2023/07/25/1189939229/covid-deaths-democrats-republicans-gap-study "More specifically, the researchers say, their adjusted analysis found that "the excess death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters" after vaccine eligibility was opened." Dumber than dumb! 😃

Right! It's not like, under Trump, Iran and the Houti would have attacked oil tankers, Shia proxies would have attacked American bases in Irak, or Houti would have bombed oil facilities in Saudi Arabia! Oh! Wait a minute!

Your post is a good example of how Russia's propaganda is efficient!

Surely not. The U.S. has been drawing the other countries up! https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn02784/

Ok, a little bit: from 1.48% in 2017, to 1.54% in 2019.

You are right that Europe (not necessarily restricted to the EU: the current NATO members) has the means to defend itself, even with the current budget. The problem is that It's just an addition of armies, each targeted at defending its own country. It raises several issues: - Expenses are not optimised at the European level, I.e. there are unnecessary duplications of the same means in each country, and some common investments may be missing, - There is no strategic sovereignty as European countries depend to a large extent from American suppliers. They have the technology but there is no policy. There are also no European level strategic arms stocks. - There is no European nuclear shield. France or UK likely won't send nukes to defend other countries. It would be necessary that at least Germany would become a nuclear power (interesting).

And It's not like anyone in the U.K. would be worried about this issue... Oh wait! 😅 https://news.sky.com/story/donald-trump-re-election-could-threaten-uks-national-security-claims-ex-mi6-boss-13048148

Actually, only Trump's pal Putin made them pay their fair share....

He said Europe, It's not necessary the EU. In particular, a European defense would be meaningless without UK. A European defense organisation could be like NATO without the U.S. Then there are industrial policy issues which could be dealt with by the EU.

The theory you have in mind has been debunked.

I think Trump supporters could be classified in two categories in relation to the big lie (and other lies too): - those who are too dumb and sincerely believe It's true, - those who perfectly understand It's a lie, but think It's a good political argument for their camp (or a good way to annoy the other camp). I guess we have both categories represented on this board.

The two companies serve different geographical markets. How can the merger increase market power in these markets?

So you have nothing, as usual.

I tend to disagree. The spread of conspiracy theories is not particularly an indicator of a banana republic.

Nothing new either. According to him, he already won the 2020 election! 😁

And, of course, Putin is supporting his pal! Putin says past U.S. elections were rigged https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-says-past-u-elections-160219651.html

How is trying to overturn legitimate elections "hugging" the flag?

So continuously claiming legitimate elections have been rigged, and getting his supporters excited about it, is not dividing the nation? Slogans such as "Fight like hell" and the continuous flow of insults and smear from Trump is not dividing the nation?

Stinky Superman?

For the time being, it's Trump crying! I won the election! I did nothing wrong!

I acknowledge it's a problem. Down to 27% Democrats are now as few as Republicans!

Neither registered Republicans nor Democrats will decide who is the winner. It's the Independent voters who will de facto decide.

But nit anti-dumb! 😃