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There are a couple in my condo, really weird-looking guys. Never speak to anyone, or make eye-contact.

Don't worry, be happy, OP. Trump will protect you from all the nasty leftists who want to give you cheap medications and Social Security. You can even buy inferior quality goods made in America for higher prices. How benevolent is that?

The Israelis already have nukes, and Hamas regards the USA as the enemy. Be careful what you wish for.

Correct. Lebanese seem to figure prominently in criminal activity in OZ. Why the authorities continue to tolerate them, instead of sending them back to a Beirut slum, is a mystery to me.

IMO the world would be better off without a Middle East.

A bit rich, coming from someone posting out of a Kremlin bunker.

If you were to become infected by any of the diseases you list, you would rely on homeopathy to cure you? As a post demonstrating you are as sharp as a balloon.......SMH.

The Robodebt fraud was facilitated by senior public servants and several government ministers, who drove several people to suicide. In a world of true accountability, they should be in jail.

IMO giving Dutton and the Murdoch press the finger was very sensible. Educating people to avoid junk food is sensible. Hospitals have to buy expensive bariatric beds to cope with obese people, and they are a weight and space debit for airlines. Australia has an obesity rate of 30.9%. America is 40.3%. Japan is only 4%. Japan has the best average life span, and far fewer fast food ( = junk food ) outlets than America or Australia. Draw your own conclusions

What does a chiropractor know about immunology? It's like saying a Formula 1 driver can do brain surgery. Fat chance this idiot will visit Pakistan or Afghanistan, to test his immune system.

The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.2%. Job numbers can be fiddled. Market indices and bond rates can't.

Not a chance. The tariffs are the biggest screw up in American history, alienating allies and impoverishing Americans. The first time in financial history bonds have fallen in concert with shares.

This is pretty mild compared to the anti-vaxxers, climate change denialists, MAGA's and conspiracy theorists infesting ASEAN.

You are coming the raw prawn if you don't think the US Republicans are doing their best to disenfranchise minority groups.

Today, my massage lady was juggling phone bids from two candidates. 300 and 400 baht. She was telling the guy offering 300 baht if he wanted her vote, he would have to go to 400.

I was thinking more of One Nation. Now that's a marriage made in heaven, KH and Pauline.

You have the same traction as a cow on roller skates on a frozen lake.

Shale gas is not much use if there is a moratorium on fracking. While the UK has substantial reserves of shale, how much gas can be economically recovered is a vexed question.

Under a scanning electron microscope, the image of a flu virus is totally different to that of coronavirus. IMO it's a matter of individual choice whether to continue with COVID jabs, as mutations seem to be getting weaker with each iteration.

This is what Trump world fails to understand. Alienating allies with no justification in reality is self-defeating. America has a positive trade balance with Australia. It's a safe bet the Australian exporters will be looking for other buyers, and importers for other suppliers. Big Pharma's lobbying of Trump, to force Australia to pay full price for medications covered by the PBS, outraged the electorate. Every political commentator in Australia agrees the Trump effect was a significant factor in the Coalition wipeout. Voters effectively said screw you, America.

Does Dr. Redfield have factual evidence to support his claim, or is he expressing an opinion? Argumentum ad verecundiam only has some validity with consensus, not individuals.

Wants are different to needs. What is it that America makes which is needed by any other country in the world? Who wants to pay more money for a product which is inferior in quality? Car buyers all over the world have already answered that question.

Obviously the OP has exceeded your attention span.

No, he will not. "The Art of the Deal" was ghostwritten.

People board aircraft on a daily basis. They trust the science and engineering of the flight industry, and the skill of the pilots, to get them to their destination safely. Yet some of the same people won't trust the science behind vaccinations, because some populist looking for an audience to grift tells them what they want to hear. Vaccinations bad. Nobody would trust a person who has only driven a car to fly an aircraft, but when it comes to medical science, they think a chimpanzee in the cockpit is OK.