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Good thing that Trump's evangelical base is so pro-porn. Because otherwise, your comment would be nonsense.

Elusive Melania ‘living separately from Trump’ but could still be a secret weapon The couple occupy different wings of Mar-a-Lago, remaining apart just as they did at their three-storey Trump Tower apartment. https://inews.co.uk/news/world/melania-living-separately-trump-secret-weapon-2950737 Maybe someone wearing a Melania mask. But Melania herself, doubtful.

I don't know what you think this proves. Here's a shorter entry about Silesia: After World War I, Lower Silesia, having by far a German majority, remained with Germany while Upper Silesia, after a series of insurrections by the Polish inhabitants, was split. Part joined the Second Polish Republic and was administered as the Silesian Voivodeship. The Prussian Province of Silesia within Germany was divided into the Provinces of Lower Silesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Silesia A very ethnically mixed area.

Whatever the accuracy of the casualty figures are for Rotterdam, the gist of your post is misleading nonsense. You don't explain why the mission was meant to be aborted and what that technical problem was. The mission was meant to be aborted because the Dutch had agreed to negotiate a surrender. But because of a glitch in communications not all the bombers were notified in time. Only some continued on. They didn't just bomb a butter factory. A butter factory? Really? They destroyed the entire old city of Rotterdam. And, of course, if the Dutch hadn't agreed to negotiate a surrender, the entire fleet of bombers dedicated to the task would have flown making the destruction much worse. In addition, the Germans threatened to do the same to Utrecht that they had done to Rotterdam if the Dutch didn't surrender. Here's a translation from the German Wikipedia entry: "Between 800 and 900 Rotterdam citizens lost their lives. 24,978 homes, 24 churches, 2,320 shops, 775 warehouses and 62 schools were destroyed. An area of 2.6 square kilometers was razed to the ground within a few minutes. In addition to the medieval center, the eastern suburb of Kralingen was most affected.[5][6] The city then surrendered. When, as a result of this attack, "the city of Utrecht was threatened with the same fate if its commander did not surrender immediately," the Dutch forces under General Henri Winkelman surrendered." https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardierung_von_Rotterdam_1940 Looks like the kind of bombing that the Germans had practiced on Guernica. And the reason that Britain resorted to area bombing was that it failed at precision bombing. "In 1942 Bomber Command received a new aircraft – the Avro Lancaster – and a new leader – Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris. Accepting that precision bombing was proving impossible, the War Cabinet sanctioned 'area bombing' – the targeting of whole cities to destroy both factories and their workers. It was judged necessary to defeat an enemy that seemed on the brink of victory. Harris believed it could win the war and gained much public support when he sent 1,000 bombers against Cologne." https://duckduckgo.com/?sites=ihr.org&q=german+bombing+of+rotterdam&ia=web

Yes The American media,” Vance suggested, “totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes. If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.”  “You just said that you’re ‘creating’ a story,” Bash responded. “You just said that this is a story that you created,” she repeated. Vance replied, “Yes!” https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4886524-jd-vance-lies-maga/

From page 11: In fact, the only bombings of Wilhelmshaven in 1939 were 2 abortive attacks. And the second one was specifically called off because of the danger it posed to civilians. After that, no more attacks until July, 1941 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Wilhelmshaven_in_World_War_II

Being "clear-eyed and cold-blooded" is actually the opposite of "Winning with her is visceral." The former is about being rational and unsentimental and the latter just the opposite. As though the motivation was winning for winning's sake and nothing more.

J.D. Vance actually confessed that he was lying.

A puppet who will brave the wrath of his masters, huh? Those malignant agents who surreptitiously destroy everyone who gets in their way?

Actually it's 3 quarters. And it makes it harder to count the votes? Seriously? Maybe if some loon demands hand recounts, but even then, how hard is "much harder". Basically, it's still arithmetic.

But that belies the assertion that it's Pelosi and some unnamed billionaires in control and that Biden was just a puppet.

There's nothing insulting about the truth if you can back it up with facts and arguments. But if all you've got to offer are insults without such backup then all they are is insulting and otherwise empty.

Why am I not suprised that you don't know what ranked voting is?

I believe you could count all such instances of his politesse towards his opponent on one hand. Even if that hand had only one finger.

Ranked voting, anyone?

Can you share with us a second instance of kind words he had for Harris? What makes this news is that Trump for once didn't behave badly. That's quite a low bar he's just cleared.

More insults and nothing else.

And still, all you can offer is insults instead of addressing policy issues.

Biden was wrong. At least in his case it was out of his devotion to his son. Trump's action was out of devotion to money.

Again with the empty insults. And nothing to address the fact of how utterlly false were TroubledandGrumpy's claims about Trump and Obamacare.

So instead of answering specific points about policy, you just insult Harris. No wonder you're such a fan of Trump.

I can still recall the heartwarming anecdote about he threatened to cut off the health insurance coverage for the gravely ill baby of his nephew over a dispute about Fred Trump's will. It still brings tears to my eyes.

Apparently, you are unacquainted with the facts. The Biden adminstration does have tariffs in place. Harris is in favor of targeted tariffs. Trump's proposed taiffs are lunacy. Up to 20% tariffs on everything and 60% to 100% tariffs on Chinese imports. Where are the workers going to come from to run all these new industries that such tariffs are allegedly going to create? How will this not be inflationary as Trump claims?

And of course, they've been engaging more and more in shameless gerrymandering. Ohio actually defied its Constitution to gerrymander congressional districts to favor Republicans. Ohio Voters Ask State Supreme Court to Hold Ohio Redistricting Commission in Contempt Once again defying the court’s orders, the commission resubmitted a legislative plan that violated Ohio’s ban on partisan gerrymandering. Petitioners in Ohio Organizing Collaborative v. Ohio Redistricting Commission today filed a motion, which asks the Ohio Supreme Court to reject the legislative maps adopted on May 6 by the Ohio Redistricting Commission and hold the commission in contempt of court. For the fifth time, the commission had defied the court’s orders to produce maps that meet the Ohio constitution’s standards and instead submitted districts already found to be unconstitutional. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/ohio-voters-ask-state-supreme-court-hold-ohio-redistricting-commission

Once again, for your benefit: US election officials decry Trump's threat to jail them if he returns to White House U.S. election administrators and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' campaign condemned on Monday threats by Donald Trump to jail "corrupt" election officials if he wins on Nov. 5, accusing him of intimidation and inciting potential violence. They were responding to a social media post by the Republican presidential candidate on Saturday in which he threatened a range of people with prosecution if they were to engage in voter fraud in the 2024 election. https://archive.ph/6657v