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I don't think Down East is a troll and I welcome his perspective. His rebuke was based on fact. Yes, he went aggressive on it, but no one has so far disputed that fact. It is easy to blame the US for everything, but as I have mentioned on the What has Putin Done now feed, the Europeans also caved in.. The "insult", IMHO doesn't detract from his point, although I agree, we should purely play the ball and not the man. "That is complete crap".. would be better but remember, the US have different cultural norms and the term used, "you are full of it" is in context of what you have presented usually, and not a general aspersion (although, yes it cane be in certaincircumstances)- but that was predominiantly the west coast for me. East coast could be different. And I am sure some will say I am full of it now 🙂 You forgt the role the fourth pillar of government - the press - plays. The press today is increasingly partisan and and misleading in their approach, and this is the primary method of informihng the public, who are increasingly time pressed just keeping their heads above water - exactly as the politbureau want it, I would suspect. so... IMHO, is spot on and applies to others I can think of - ScoMo, BoJo, and even Putin when it was more ore less democratic in Russia for that very short window.

I reckon I could do a better job of predictions with more accuracy, than his airy shots in the dark. But I would not be in the least surprised to see Trump fabricate a National Emergency, so he could declare elections suspended, and make himself President on a continuing basis.

Yeah ... Predicting the death of a 96 year old. Amazing!

Well they haven't said anything that isn't true. Unlike the prick in the pic

The inmates have been running the asylum since 2016, with a 4 year break

They look ready for the front line.

My entire point was that the Euro's have been constantly calling the USA warmongers for the past 50 years, but they are always the first ones to call the US President whenever there is a situation in the world that might affect their economies. They have been been neglecting their own militaries knowing that the Americans are stupid enough to keep bailing them out. The Euro's had a royal meltdown when Trump called them out for not keeping their pledge of committing a few percentage points of their GDP to military spending. The EU should be its own power. There are 29 countries in the EU and there is no excuse for them not making a joint effort to protect their economies and sovereignties. The US has done 75% of the heavy lifting in keeping the Persian Gulf open to world trade while Europeans and many other countries reap the benefits. Then the Europeans turn right around and bash Americans to appease their left wing voters. As far as my fellow Americans go, we should not be trusted any longer because there there is no continuity in foreign policy from one election cycle to the next. On top of it all, we are in a non shooting civil war right now. Might sound crazy to some but it's very true. We used to be country first.........but now days we are party first.

There is Plenty of History going back more than BC. The Old Testament has some really scary stuff in it, so to believe everything there would BLOW your Mind , somewhat. Religion considers the Universe to be about 6200 Years old and WAS created in 6 days. Science has a much more likely suggestion.. FAITH requires you Believe a lot of things, one being that not ONE hair of your Head will be Harmed without God Knowing about it. That Would make He/her/ IT a very BUSY entity. He is god of the Universe and HE MADE us in his own Image but we turned out Imperfect so that Christ, his only son who was conceived with Mary (the Virgin no less).had to DIE on the cross with 2 common criminals so that we could Live forever AND He is coming back to be with the faithful and they go to heaven where there ARE many Mansions. IF you don't believe all of that you are Godless and a HEATHEN and going to a Place CALLED HELL. where there WILL be Weeping and Wailing and Gnashing of teeth. Ronnie Raygun believed "WE are in the Last days" and therefore Have no need to do a lot of things to Help the Planet/. GW Bush was a reformed Born again drug addict, who falsified the reason for attacking IRAQ (It wasn't ABOUT OIL. Not much it wasn't). Nev

I rather like OME's analogy - the old bible was a compendium of ancient writings, sprinkled with some ideology.