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I had to work hard for my chemistry degree too. In hindsight, I think one of the smartest things I did was change jobs between industries, when I thought i had exhausted their possibilities. I was lower on the academic totem pole than a M.Sc or PhD. However, my experience was much broader than theirs. It served me well when I went into research, because I could think outside the square.

command It's a classic case of quantity overwhelming quality. Back in my day, the hard sciences - physics, chemistry and biology - were regarded as the stepping stones to good jobs. Arts courses were for people who could not cut the mustard. Nowadays, it seems anyone can get a degree in flossing teeth, or making lace doilies.

They vote for him because he makes them believe he will do something for them, when in fact he will throw them under a bus once they have served his purpose. How any unemployed, poorly educated person thinks giving tax cuts to billionaires assists them from the bottom of the ladder, is beyond my comprehension.

I am not sure if your last sentence is undiluted sarcasm. When Trump picks anyone with integrity, it doesn't take very long before they are fired, and the abuse posts on Truth Social go feral.

Wasn't he complaining during one of his rallies that the teleprompter was not working? No, he just talks about Hannibal Lecter, electric boats, sharks, and grabbing women by the pussy.

The defamation statement was aimed at the two sergeants, not you.

Apparently Newsweek has not employed fact checkers since 1996. On record as multiple reporting errors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek#Factual_errors

I guess that's another deflection/evasion. I am not questioning your right to criticize. I am questioning the foundation you have laid for it. I do admire and respect people who serve in the military. Perhaps you should too. I don't know what relevance your last sentence has, except as a non-sequitur.

Which proves what? They had a grudge against Walz? Noted you do not respond to my question on your own military experience. Now let's see - Trump evades military service due to bone spurs. Which do not seem to impede him from playing hundreds of rounds of golf. He calls fallen soldiers suckers and losers. He does not want to be seen with disabled veterans. The Biblical phrase about straining at a gnat, and swallowing a camel, springs to mind. I'm sure you'll find it in a Trump bible.

Deflection, and possibly defamation. How do you know the two army sergeants had no axe to grind with Walz? I am not American. The proposition this thread is reserved for American posters only is egregiously stupid.

Please tell us about your own military service, and the rank you attained, which gives you the right to pass judgment on others.

Some people make mistakes when they are young, make up for it with decades of public service. Others don't do anything remarkable in their lives, then don a halo when they should be old enough to know better.

There is nothing wrong with a communist system in theory. The problem comes when humans try to bend it for their own purposes. In that respect, it is equivalent to fascism. A long time ago, there was an article in "The Economist" which illustrated the problems of a planned economy. It was called " In the lunatic bus factory" Two factories, bus and truck, Soviet Russia. The bus factory supplied the chassis for the truck factory. The bus factory made more profit on the buses than a truck chassis, so supply of chassis was low. The solution of the truck factory was to buy buses, demolish the coachwork back to the chassis, then build the truck. No way anyone can kill the profit motive in humans.

I don't understand the couch reference, please enlighten me. Crime of the century, obviously.

Perhaps you would be so kind as to state what charges were laid, if any. And if any conviction resulted. IIRC, Trump has 34 of them.

"Otherwise poor year for Republicans". Now why is that, do you think? If the best attack he can come up with is "childless cat ladies", thereby alienating every single woman voter with a cat, it does not sound great to me. Poor strategy.

IMO Trump has nothing new to say, it's the same tired old rhetoric about stolen elections and MAGA, although there are no specifics about how that will be done. The only new stuff is attacking Harris instead of Biden, and I bet he wishes Biden was still running. If he is relying on Vance to do the heavy lifting, I think he is going to be disappointed. Vance barely won his Senate seat in A Republican state.

I have to smile when Americans start frothing at the mouth at the mere mention of socialism and communism, it really is so ridiculous. The American stock market and free enterprise system is unbridled capitalism, the complete antithesis of socialism , let alone communism. Check out what the pharmaceutical industry charges for its products. Martin Shkreli ring any bells? Most Americans would not know socialism if it bit them on the bum. In Australia, we have had socialist governments on and off since Federation, they are the ones most likely to introduce major reforms. I agree the OP is extracting the urine, it's quite amusing to see the Pavlovian responses.

I understand it was Walz who first used the weird word. He followed that up by attacking Vance's stance on abortion, saying Vance should mind his own business. He's looking like a strong campaigner, and an asset to Harris. OTOH, Vance is looking like a disaster for Trump.

IME golf courses are one way to connect with other expats.

Master Sergeant is a considerable achievement in itself, tell me who cares whether it is Command Sergeant or Master Sergeant. Except for the military, and nitpickers on ASEAN. NCO's are the backbone of any military, as the Russians are finding out to their cost in Ukraine. How far did you get in the military?

That might well rebound against him when Judge Merchan gets around to sentencing, 5 weeks before the election. Judges don't take kindly to convicted offenders who show no remorse.

IMO this is one of the funniest clips in "Justified" Damon Herriman as Dewey Crowe is brilliant.

He boasts he is a successful businessman. In a certain way, he is right. All of his failed businesses have a common factor - it is someone else who is left with the financial wreckage, while Trump walks away with the lion's share of any cash. Narcissistic sociopaths can be quite charming. To them, it's just a tool to get what they want. It also does not matter how many people get hurt in the process, because they are moral vacuums. People like Trump have the empathy of a scorpion.

I have had carpal tunnel syndrome in both wrists, resolved with surgery 20-30 years ago. The OP certainly does not have CTS, he would know all about it if he did. The pain alternates between a dull ache, burning, and an electric shock sensation, and guarantees sleepless nights until it is resolved temporarily by cortisone injections, or permanently with surgery to relieve the pressure on the nerve.