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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.

1) I'm not an American 2) I don't think you understand what treason is!

Absolutely - well put; some of them aren't even white for crying out loud! Even worse, one hears rumours that some have to sit down when they take a pee!

Oh for crying out loud, did you bang your head when you fell down Mr Trumps immigration rabbit hole?

What is the essential difference between VAT which is levied on many (but not all) purchases throughout Europe including imported goods, and Sales Tax which is levied on purchases in the US, including imported goods?

With the amount of money deployed to ensure Trump's election"free" is hardly the " mot juste"! Then of course one could move on to considering widespread vote suppression targeting poorer people and coloured people, ludicrously gerrymandered district boundaries and "legal" moves to disregard huge tranches of votes...

No, they were from Venezuela, they were sent to a third country, El Salvador, which is being paid to imprison them, for an indeterminate period, without legal representation, in savage conditions. The US, in abusing an obsolete and discredited law, which was not intended for this purpose, shackling them, denying them "due process", paying a third party to imprison them outside of US jurisdiction, deliberately ignoring it's own courts, and whose President, having boasted of ordering the deportations now claims it "was done by someone else"; are showing a disregard for law and basic human rights which is distinctly "third world"!

You are of course entitled to pursue whatever is your current obsession! Perhaps AN could introduce a new sub forum, "The Echo Chamber" (?) where you and others similarly inclined could howl at the moon as much as you like, leaving the rest of us to get on with debate and discussion?

I haven't "ignored" anyone. There are a few on here who have announced, as if it had great consequences, that they have " put me on their "ignore list". Rather a badge of honour I always think! Funnily enough, they usually pop back up soon enough in response to my disgusting, left wing, socialist, Stalinist, Anti-American, woke, outrage provoking opinions. Perhaps the "ignore system" is a bit leaky?

A bit like the Department of Education or USAID then?

Bitcoin - it is a classic bubble.

Absolutely, invest in a bubble!