Unfortunately, when electorate picks a defective president, the public media has a duty and an obligation to point this out.
As you keep reminding us, you hear fair comment as a stream of insults - it's not the stream of praise that you'd like to hear so you experience it as insults.
The Left doesn't believe in democracy.
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They don't work all that well, but we are used to the side-effects.
It is an expensive luxury.
They are remarkably difficult to control. Electric ovens do offer stable and predictable temperatures, and a microwave oven heats food rapidly and uniformly, if that's what you want.
Gas cookers have a nasty habit of leaving a layer of soot on every surface in the kitchen, and that probably includes your lungs.
The big point is to keep Iran from nuking Israel and maybe europe, which they would do even if it martyred millions of Iranians in retaliation. Actually, they would welcome that.
Well, life is chaotic. And it's hard to de-thuggify a government.
It's shocking how intensely "progressives" hate Enlightment values, and how intolerant they are.
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And probably the first death.
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Iran needs hot dogs and beer.
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In fact it does, but what the US has isn't all that democratic - everybody in the US can, in theory, vote but it isn't compulsory, as it is in Australia, and there's a tendency in the US to make it more difficult for poor people to cast their votes.
Then there's the Supreme Court's persistent habit of making it easy for rich people to buy advertising for the candidates they like, and their unwillingness to let anybody check that advertising for accuracy.
John Larkin doesn't care that Donald Trump lies non-stop - he doesn't seem to notice - but it does put a crimp in the "democratic" process.
They? The Theocracy, probably. At least the surviving leaders, if not the rank-and-file ~priesthood.
The rest of the Persian population (90 million)? Probably not at all.
It turns out to be a very old but fundamental issue:
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It's easy to vote here and it costs nothing. There are polling stations in peoples' houses and garages. I sometimes bring snacks to the volunteer workers.
In the US we have the freedom to not vote too.
We have that pesky freedom of speech thing.
Lots of countries have a dominant political party that arrests opposition members and supporters and reporters for various reasons. Or kills them.
He solidly won election. Democracy involves respecting the choices of the people.
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I never noticed any soot or gunk from our natural-gas range. A good non-smoking oil is recommended for frying, pecan or sesame. Cheap oils like corn or canola smoke.
We have fan vents over the range too.
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Trump's ankles are getting puffy - an Australian TV show, Planet America, milks him for comic content, and some American they interviewed pointed this out. Since I now have to wear "flight socks" to combat the same problem, I'm aware that this is just one more symptom of getting old, but he'd be unlikely to last long if he got transferred to Mars as it's first citizen. Of course it would win him a peace prize - his relocation to Mars would make the earth a lot more peaceful. If he took Netanyahu along, that would help even more.
When you open this link, it looks like a paywall, but on the lower left box, you can Create Your Free Account. Where they will collect an email address and verify that its's real, and try to convince you to subscribe. Which you can ignore. This is the price to avoid the full subscribers-only paywall.
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This one?
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I stopped using gas decennia ago. An other advantage is that if gas or electric supply is cut I can use my solar panels, 250 Ah lipo battery pack, and 2 kW pure sinewave battery to mains converter.. Tested on the microwave and other stuff, works perfectly, keeps the fridge running too. And satellite TV! Fiber will be dead..
Amazing, 10 minutes microwave can do a lot! Not much power used! Water cooker, few minutes for a liter boiling water. You do not even have to skip your coffee...
When the majority is a bunch of religious fanatics wins and then comes up with a criminal nutcase as president that then forces his way on normal people..
See the problem?
On top of that big weapon manufacturing clubs all for profit making wars all over the world, far from their bed, for profit.
Profit above moral. And still it has the largest deficit in the known universe. Printing its way out with pieces of paper with the nutcase leader's signature on it.. Fake, snake oil sales clubs, just wait for the next bubble bursting. Stealing, robbing, killing, lying... Such a small place on the world globe Easy to evaporate
Keep asking?
When is-a-hell attacks and kills negotiaters in Pakistan.. Like they did in other countries It could nuke 3 places in is-a-hell
And peace would fill the world.
? For a while at least ;-) Darwin applies.
3 nukes on US weapon and shipping manufacturing places and try learning Russian and Chinese.And do not forget mar-a-lago.
If you listen to Trump talking or posting, chances are you'll hear a lot of people being insulted by name in less than 5 minutes.
I've never heard another adult leader talking like "open the f****ng strait, you crazy bastards". Have you?
Your being facetious, right?
This is a felon following the Project 2025 playbook to turn America into a white nationalist theocracy. He issues fatwas that are unconstitutional or illegal all the time. He silences opponents by regulatory intimidation and frivolous legal action. This never happened before in America. If that's democracy, you'll love Iran.
Seems unlikely. The US is the only country that has used nuclear weapons in war, and even they used them on reasonably small cities.
The intent is primarily to stop the enemy from attacking you.
And the US is going to have quite a big job to do when it comes to cleaning up after Trump.
John Larkin doesn't know what an "enlightenment value" is - he has claimed that Magna Carta and the Ten Commandments reflect "enlightenment values" though both predate the enlightenment by hundreds of years.
Quite how getting rid of a bunch of murderous thugs is supposed to demonstrate a hatred of "enlightennment values" is hard for me to understand, and John Larkin isn't going to bother to explain how.
And a limited range of candidates who frequently make "none of the above" and attractive option.
Australia has a single transferable vote system for lower house candidates, so if the candidate you find most attractive doesn't get enough votes, your vote gets transferred down the list to people yoy]ui liked progressively less.
Which doesn't extend to "shouting 'Fire' in a crowded theatre".
Joe McCarthy comes to mind.
It also involves giving them a real choice.
The problem was notorious in the UK. Extractor fans are rare there, and not easy to fit. We did have one over the island cooker in our big house in the Netherlands, and the fumes collected above the electric cooker got piped up to the ceiling and piped across to an outside wall, but we spent a lot of money reworking the kitchen and dining area. That house had been originally been built in 1936 for a prominent member of the Dutch national socialist party, on the foundations of a much older farm house, so the reworking was pretty much essential. My wife - as the director of a Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen - wanted house where she was seen as the hostess rather than the cook.
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