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"Paid protesters" apparently!

It is definitely proven! After all, everyone knows - it is the brown peoples fault!

Anyone who is living in Thailand on Social Security disability, double dipping, claiming benefits they didn't earn, dead family members still getting paid SS and so on would really be very silly indeed to be commenting on this forum or similar, now wouldn't they? Far, far better to keep a low profile don't you think?

It rather occurs to me that attempting to commit fraud by claiming to be 140, ( funny but it was 150 last week!) is a spectacularly silly thing to try, and a remarkably easy fraud to detect.

No, a 10 year old Honda Wave with purple lights and a modified exhaust!

Come now @josephbloggs, do you not understand that nothing is as important as, all solutions to any problem can be found, and all opinions can only be validated, in the vacuous brainfarts triggered by MAGA slogans!

We're OK Jack! Well, until they come for you.

Fascinating watching a racist thug under the spotlight.

Utterly pathetic. Having plumbed new depths of incompetent buffoonery by discussing the matter on a declassified and insecure phone app and copying in a journalist (!) on the conversation, now they respond by discrediting the journalist and his publication. But then it is Hegseth, is anyone really surprised?

Kind of racist? Don't be so bloody silly! Pardon my French!

In a few years she will be established at that "adult table", not least because so many currently seated at it are proving to be spectacularly gutless and unable or unwilling to challenge a self serving and increasingly corrupt political establishment. As for her voice, well that could be levelled at just about any young lady from New York! She makes no secret that she seeks to succeed Bernie Sanders. He seems to have no objection to that. Like Sanders, personally, I like much of what she says. She has, unlike the various freaks in the cabinet and upper echelons of Congress she has political "bottom" - rather a nice one as it happens. I hope she goes far!

An alternative caption (unlikely to be recognised in the US but certain to be recognised in the UK and Australia) might be "Donald, who ate all the pies, who ate all the pies?"

If you count them can you tell her age, or is that just horses? More sensibly, Bernie Sanders is 83 and admits to being "tired". He will certainly be aware that his "progressive movement" is going to be in need of a new leader - perhaps (likely) she is being prepared for that role. When she first appeared on the US political scene there were many sneers ( on here and elsewhere) that she was a jumped up bar tender! That has now gone quiet, perhaps because of Donald Trump's imagined apprenticeship with McDonald's?

I did. You may call me a cynic, but I don't share your conviction that this school, or more specifically it's headteacher, will face up to "cancelling" Eid or Divali. As I said, let us wait and see.

I always assumed that it was quite simply a case of the thought process being transferred to another set of organs a couple of feet below the brain! Silly old me, I never in my wildest dreams imagined it involved stoned mice dancing. I will try and translate the theory into Thai, and see if it impresses favourably next time I go out for a drink! Is the consensus that I should report back? Bear with me though, it may take a few days to recover!

Have you any idea just how ludicrous suggesting that Bernie Sanders is a "commie", overt or covert, makes you look?

Neither, might I suggest, did Bernie when he started out all those years ago. She is starting out. Judging by the reaction to her in certain circles, she is posing a threat! She certainly seems popular with a large segment of the population!

Yet it claims on its website to celebrate Eid, Diwali, Christmas and Easter. It is only a "strawman" (itself derived from a pagan celebration) if Eid and Diwali are also to be no longer acknowledged. That rather remains to be seen.

Of course one can. It is entirely possible to hold left of centre views on things and yet not espouse terrorism or the violent overthrow of society; just as it is possible to hold right of centre views and not yearn for the trappings of fascism. One can combine the two, I hold views on some subjects, human rights, universal healthcare, grotesque income inequality and the place for unions in the work place which some would regard as left wing, whereas on other matters, the rule of law, moral behaviour of leaders and national sovereignty for example, I would be condemned by some as irredeemably right wing. That is absolutely normal, in my case the product of a liberal education, professional training, life experience and (particularly as I enter my last decades of life), my religious faith. The question in the OP is posed, and many of the responses, written no doubt on spittle flecked keyboards, are driven by the particular cult which appears to have seized power in a particularly frothy mouthed way, in the United States of America.

If you weren't blinded by your xenophobic nationalism, and apparent ignorance of history, you would know that the 82 Airborne Division of the US Army fought in Holland in September 1945. Further, if you were to look into it, you would perhaps understand that one of the most remarkable and generous traits of the Dutch is the reverence and care with which they look after the graves of the Allied Soldiers, including those of the 82nd Airborne Division. They even visit and tend them when it is raining, unlike certain US Presidents. But you don't, preferring to mouth off your offensive and pointless nonsense - a real piece of work!

After reading the posts and looking at some of the responses to posts, on this forum over the last week, I have rather concluded, sadly, that there are many on this forum who actually approve of a political leader (the one they espouse) being put above the rule of law. 80 odd years ago their counterparts in Europe enthusiastically loaded men women and children into trains bound for camps. Terrible thing to say isn't it, yet let us look at exactly what is happening. Back then in Germany they were rounded up arbitrarily, herded onto trains at railway stations and at their destination met by men in uniforms who beat them made them wear distinctive striped pajamas and herded them again into an anonymous incarceration. No real record kept, no judicial involvement. Now, in the USA, they are collected arbitrarily, shackled, and herded into chartered aircraft, and at their destination met by men in uniforms ( including balaclavas, they tellingly don't want to be recognised) brutally herded into anonymous incarceration where they are made to wear distinctive white shorts and tee shirts. No real record kept, no judicial involvement. What, apart from the method of transport, has really changed?

Yes. 25 of them died in the American led war in Afghanistan - you do revel in fatuous yet deeply offensive xenophobic ignorance don't you?

When that perspective becomes clouded by (or arguably driven by) slogans such as "America First", "Make America Great Again", silly stunts such as unilaterally renaming international bodies of water, and claims on the territory and sovereignty of other countries, then selfishness on the part of us "untermenschen" is perhaps relative?

Treason is defined by "Oxford Language" as the act of " the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government." I don't think that extends to disagreement with the policies or actions of one's own (or in this case) another country's government. Now personally I quite simply (and perhaps naively) believe that all governments should adhere to the rule of law and basic human rights. This is particularly the case of those countries which aspire to be democracies; very very many of course fail miserably in this. But the USA claims to be the world leader in such matters, so I criticise; and the USA's current government, in this matter, has particularly egregiously failed to follow law or basic human rights. As I said, I am not an American, so it cannot be treason, not that it fits the definition anyway. Were I an American it would still not be treason, simply legitimate and well founded criticism.

Oh, if you actually read my posts on a variety of things, you would understand where I stand on a most matters. I think that I try to be consistently fair, apply and adhere to fundamental rights, and a abhor racism and discrimination.