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Right. An outsider who threatened the wealthy by cutting taxes on them and appointing to the judiciary judges who favor corporate interests at the expense of workers. What was his plan? To stuff the wealthy so full of cash that they would explode?

How often are you going to be making empty comments like that?

No, Trump has not been acquitted of attempted coup charges. Not that he would be charged with that. He is being investigated on various grounds for intentionally promoting violence and the invasion of the capitol. And, no, he has not been acquitted of his alleged criminal responsibility in regard to that. Care to acknowledge you got that wrong?

Not just that but MbS, the defacto ruler of Saudi Arabia, overrode his economic advisors who disapproved of investing with Kushner.

Thank you for your detailed and reasoned reply to my comment. Here's a small editing suggestion. Your comment was a bit prolix. You could have dropped the 'No".

What has any of this nonsense got to do with science? Over 99.9 percent of all climatological papers that reference climate change in some way support that human caused climate change is a real thing.

That said, that figure of roughly 27,000 is misleading. It a celling not a median average. So that tells us nothing about the distribution of income. And it's for London, the most expensive areo of the UK to live in. And since this was about determining the extent of poverty in the UK, not just London, there is more useful evidence available. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/bulletins/householddisposableincomeandinequality/financialyearending2021 Now this is disposable income, which means income tax is discounted. But given that the personal allowance is 12,5000 pounds, for the bottom quintile that probably won't amount to much.

Yes, you are correct and I was wrong about those figures. You did not make them up. I apologize.

Actually, if you had followed reports on this you would know that Bragg's original team quit because he didn't want to go ahead and prosecute Trump. He's been very reluctant. Two prosecutors leading Manhattan criminal probe into Trump RESIGN after new DA Alvin Bragg raised 'serious doubts' about case: Probe grinds to halt with NO witnesses questioned for a month Two prosecutors leading the Manhattan District Attorney's criminal tax fraud investigation into Donald Trump and his family business have abruptly resigned, it was reported on Wednesday. Attorneys Carey R. Dunne and Mark F. Pomerantz stepped down from the case after new Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg expressed doubts over moving forward with a case against Trump, the New York Times reported. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10544239/Two-Manhattan-prosecutors-leading-criminal-investigation-Trump-RESIGN-doubts.html

Good thing you linked to that report and not to something that could easily be mocked...oh wait a minute... As someone else has pointed out, Garret Ziegler is the party behind this report which was released 5 months ago. Clearly he is a very sober and rational actor. Ex-Trump aide calls female January 6 witnesses 'hoes and thots' and members of the committee 'Bolsheheviks' who 'hate the American founders and most white people' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11035639/Ex-Trump-aide-calls-female-January-6-witnesses-hoes-thots-profane-rant-deposition.html Ex-Trump Aide Sics MAGA Lackeys on Alleged FBI Agents’ Families Garrett Ziegler posted the personal info of purported FBI agents—along with links to one of their kids’ social media accounts. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-trump-aide-sics-maga-lackeys-on-alleged-fbi-agents-families MAGA!!!

I think the truth is sadder. Dudleysquat actually believes that Hunter Biden's laptop contains proof of criminality or that the Bidens were acting in concert with the CCP. Come to think of it, I think he believes both.

Making stuff up much? https://www.trustforlondon.org.uk/data/poverty-thresholds/ Let me do the math for you: 52 x276= 14352 And that's for the sector of London where living costs are highest. In fact the poverty level for a couple living in the most expensive area of London falls well below the figure you claim: 19708 is the correct figure. Even if you factor in inflation, the number come nowhere near the one that you claimed.

Well, for one thing, Erdogan isn't a country. And no, even if Greece had the capability to restrict naval traffic through the Bosphorus, it doesn't have the right. According the the Montreux Convention, only Turkey does.

Did you check the date on this article? It's Sept 19, 2013.

Only one part of climate change? This is like saying the issue of why my car won't go has nothing to do with whether or not there's petrol in the tank. I

You've already told us that you haven't been following the story. There's a thing called Google you can access put you in touch with all the information you need to bring you up to speed. That done, you can start asking informed questions for a change.

Actually, the story in this forum about Trump's lawyer Corcoran being ordered to testify is really about the lies told by the Trump team to the Justice Dept. It was Corcoran who composed the document attesting that all documents requested by the National Archives had been turned over. It was signed by another Trump lawyer. Afterwards, when Justice dept officials were on the Mar y Lago premises, they requested to see what was in a clearly visible box being held in the storage area. They were refused permission. Ultimately, when the search warrant was served lots of documents were found in the box including some marked classified. Other documents marked classified were found in Trump's bedroom. So, if the judge's order for Corcoran to testify is upheld, as seems likely, he will have to reveal whether it was Trump who told him that no more unauthorized documents remained. Seems unlikely that a lawyer would have composed a false statement without consulting his client. And a deliberate lie is clearly an instance of obstruction of justice.

What's next? Better not make any jokes about Putin, because he's got nukes? Better buy Putin a nice Xmas present this year because he's got nukes?

Not only is putting them in the same basket misleading, but isn't addressing only the issue of poor pensioners as opposed to al the poor also misleading? Poor pensioners constitute only 15% of those living in poverty.

Very few? Are you claiming that the numbers of poor pensioners and billionaires are equal? "There are two million pensioners living in poverty in the UK - a figure that has risen sharply over the past year. A report published this month by the Centre for Ageing Better found there were 200,000 more poor pensioners in 2021. That means nearly one in five now fall below the official poverty threshold." https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2022-03-24/why-is-pensioner-poverty-on-the-rise Are there really 2 million billionaires in the UK? And does the population of the poor in the UK consist only of pensioners? "How many people are in poverty? Around one in six people in the UK are in relative low income before housing costs (BHC), rising to around one in five once we account for housing costs (AHC)." https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn07096/

Has anyone ever died or had their health impaired because they didn't have TV service? And for what it's worth, which is not much, there actually are discounts and even free service available to some pensioners.

Thanks for the silly word game. But the issue is based in science not semantics. It's not about climate change per se, but about rate of change. To make it clear to you, if you had a choice to make 2 equally safe investments, but one paid 1 percent and the other 10 percent, which one would you chose? According to your way of thinking, since both are increasing, it wouldn't matter which one you invested in. Not only is the average global temperature increasing, but it's doing so at an accelerating rate. The last 8 years have been the hottest on record. And that's despite some of those year occurring during a phenomenon called La Nina, which actually make global temperatures lower than they would otherwise have been.

I don't think you get it. BritManToo is the measurer of all things.

"But experts note all vehicles use concentrated power sources — whether gasoline, diesel or electricity — making them all vulnerable to ignition. Statistics compiled by AutoInsuranceEZ found that for every 100,000 EVs, there are about 25 fires each year. That compares to 1,530 car fires in the same number of gas-powered vehicles annually." https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2022/10/26/electric-vehicle-fires-florida-flooding-what-happened/10553207002/ So it's only about 61 times more likely that an ICE vehicle will burn than an EV. Gotta love them odds!

What about pre-covid? What about the years of cutting back on the NHS will lowering taxes on the wealthy? And I would point out that the energy program in absolute terms benefited a Kensington billionaire with a heated pool in his mansion much more than a poor pensioner huddled in whatever it is that poor pensioners huddle in.