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If you hand your licence in now you’ll save heaps.

Agreed he deserves some credit but he could have done this six months ago.

The winner of the Nobel Peace prize is due to be announced tomorrow. Trump will be glued to the TV.

I wonder how many of them are on social service and rely on Medicare and the public health, education and transport systems.

Not much improvement. I've read somewhere that he uses makeup to hide a skin condition. Come to think of it, a guy applying makeup to his face is a bit woke isn't it.

The best thing likely to come from Trump and Hegseth's pep talk to 800 senior military personnel assembled in one room will have been to confirm that they have a pair of morons as Commander in Chief and head of the Pentagon. It should have been quite educational.

That's why I said he hasn't started any `so far', although you could argue he's busy fomenting civil war in the US. He's also not averse to bombing other countries when it suits him, and his efforts to stop the wars in Ukraine and Palestine have been pretty weak and inconsistent. His claims to have stopped 7 (or maybe 10?) wars also don't stand up very well to scrutiny.

They would be intended for the typical American FB user.

Abe Lincoln was president during the American Civil War which killed at least 700,000 soldiers on US soil and he is generally revered. All American presidents have blood on their hands to some degree but I'm not disagreeing with your statement in terms of US casualties and responsibility for the Vietnam war. You can also include the Bush's efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. However Trump is in a different league in almost every other way (so far).

I read that he wants to give them a lecture on the `warrior ethos'. That should go down well.

Well said.

The problem is they have to take the buffoon seriously.

Apart from my first phone, a Nokia 3310 which was great, I’ve always had iPhones starting in about 2015 when I wanted to run OzRunways. I like the iPhones but refuse to pay more than $750 or sign up for one on a plan, so currently have an iPhone 11 which I bought about two years ago and is fine for what I want and will last me until it finally dies and I need to buy another one.

Angus is a bigger dill than she is.

Cheer up. It could be worse. Hawthorn could have won.

As if pretending he had bone spurs to avoid the draft makes Trump smart and a winner and qualified to pass judgement.

He did, but there was more to the story.

And he was subsequently exempted from National Service on the basis of his beliefs, as were most of the other conscientious objectors at the time.

Ross’s grounds for noncompliance, as described in the interview, were his strong opposition to conscription and a belief in the rights of individuals to exercise choice. At his court hearing, Ross also voiced a moral objection to killing and to Australia’s involvement in Vietnam, which he believed was an unjust war. The Vietnam War was the first conflict to be extensively reported live on television and the impact of its coverage contributed to the strong civic action against the war. Ross was sentenced to two years jail under the Commonwealth Crimes Act, but released after mounting public pressure and press coverage prompted an ACT Supreme Court enquiry into his case. Justice Smithers found Ross to be exempt from military service under section 29A (1) of the National Service Act and he was released after the Governor-General granted him mercy, possibly alleviating some of the political pressure on the Government to soften its stance. Under section 29A (1) of the National Service Act, a ‘conscientious objector’ is a person who sincerely believes that it is wrong to engage in any form of military service. Between 1965 and 1971, just over 1000 men applied for this status. Of the 1052 applicants, 733 were granted total exemption from any military service, 142 were exempted from combat duties and 137 had their applications rejected.

After being handed down for 3000 years the message probably got a bit muddled. It probably started as 'Only a fool thinks that sticks burned today will still be there tomorrow'.

Of course there are, but it would make a difference.

It would be higher if they got rid of the guns, but that won’t happen

That wouldn't work. He would just wait for them to catch up. He clearly thinks the Brits are putting on this show for him because they respect him so much. The truth is quite a bit less flattering but he's so egotistical he can't see it.

The question is, what comes next? He has become a martyr to the Republican cause and we could well see more violent incidents. Trump is stoking the flames as usual.

Or maybe the need to lift a leg against a tree.