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Oh no. The all important Guam vote is in. For generations, political scientists have relied on the Guam vote to predict the outcome of the midterms. It's clear that "History will be in the making this midterm sending a strong rejection to the Dems."

Because you can trust him to tell the truth?

Thanks for the non-explanation.

Well, given that there are several Republicans running for Secretary of State who claim that there was widespread voter fraud, even in the face of no valid evidence in their respective states, that seems to constitute a threat to democracy.

Well, the US economy recovered a lot faster than the EU's.

What Slip wrote. Although I guess i will take your word for it that you feel embarrassed. I suppose that's a fact of sorts. Not even close to dispositive, but thanks for sharing your feelings with us.

Well, it's certainly bizarre that you want to assassinate someone who's been so reasonable and sincere, according to you, in negotiations. I wonder what fate you would wish on someone who was not sincere and reasonble in their desire to negotiate. You don't leave much room for gradation, do you?

What wasn't asked was would she be the first to use nuclear weapons. And that's the key issue. It's been the policy of all the nations, apart from North Korea, that hold nuclear weapons, to rule out first strike attacks. Russia seems to be changing its tune.

Thank you for your reasoned and evidence based argument. Such a valuable contribution. Not at all just mere venting.

First off, you asked for an example. I give you one and now you're claiming that it was reasonable. What is there about the aggressive conduct of North Korea against the South that strikes you as reasonable. Keep in mind that it was the North that originally attacked the South. That it has engaged in actual hostile and murderous activities against the South since then. Infatuated much?

Has there ever been a time when bank rates are lower than gilt rates? What do you think would happen if loan rates were lower than gilt rates? You could borrow from the bank or mortage lender and buy gilts. Guaranteed profit, no? You don't think that the authorities are careful that doesn't come to pass? Am I missing something? And aren't mortgage interest rates also determined by the rates at which the lender pays on the borrowed money? Are you claiming that the cost of money to the lender is immaterial in deciding what the loan rates should be?

N. Korea insists US act first before it gives up nukes https://apnews.com/article/north-america-ap-top-news-north-korea-international-news-pyongyang-9ad490e00ff5458daa98edb9745aa27e

Of course evidence can be shown. He demanded big concessions be granted before there was any talk of him giving up nuclear weapons. He never backed away from that. An obvious nonstarter.

Musk is clearly looking for some magic formula that won't make a liar out of him. On the one hand, he promised to stop censoring tweets and canceling tweeters. On the other hand, major advertisers don't want to advertise in a toxic environment. Right now, 90% of Twitter's revenues come from advertising. And why should advertisers trust someone who's social media presence is pockmarked with trolling?

Interest rates available to the public are governed by the rates that government offer on their bonds. So, if a government can borrow at rates far below that 5-10 percent, it shouldn't in order to keep interest rates payments to its citizens high? And if such high interest rates are available to savers, what does that mean for people who want to borrow for a mortgage?

What do you mean by "they both took those talks seriously"? Where's your evidence that Kim showed any willingness to give up his nuclear arsenal?

What evidence is there that KIm has ever negotiated seriously? It's weird how people who condemn the Chinese leadership for its bellicosity, have their hearts melt when it comes to Kim.

Here's what you wrote: "But we are talking about the Biden administration here. His profligate spending was the major cause of inflation." The major cause? Right now core inflation in the US is at 6.6%. In the EU it's at 5,6%.

At the end of Trump's term, Kim was roundly abusing him and his administration. What evidence do you have that Kim is someone willing to genuinely negotiate?

I can think of another prominent person who put his trust in Kim's words. How did that play out?

You got some evidence that the war games are "where they practice invading North Korea" rather than defending from a North Korean attack. Is South Korea in the habit of making threats against the North?

What do you mean by South Korea leaving North Korea alone? Once North Korea got all that attention from Trump after making wild threats and firing off missiles, it learned that acting belligerently was the best way to weaken the alliance between the US and South Korea. South Korea knows that not showing determination is the best way to encourage North Korea to continue its bellicose ways.

So you think the United States should continue to show the same weakness towards North Korea that Trump did? Remember when he agreed with the North that US-South Korean joint exercises were provocative and he called them off?

Was his "profligate spending" the major cause of inflation in most of the developed world economies?

What's truly bizarre about these people is that they compulsively look for conspiracies. One huge case recently revealed evidence that's about as unambiguous as it can be that crimes were committed. They managed somehow to find that evidence suspect. Here, they're doing it again where the evidence is so obvious.