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That's self-parody.

Who needs to. When somebody is as obsessed with getting the Nobel Peace Prize as Trump is, you know he's going to be equally interested in a whole bunch of other empty titles. At the moment he is still probably sane enough to know how badly it would play with his supporters, but his senile dementia is rapidly getting more florid.

Burger King has missed the opportunity up to now. Just imagine what a brass crown with 2 um chemical gold over Ni could do for them!

Ok, it must look impressive. Big, beautiful, really impressive!

Official health food provider for the National Olympic team, Super Bowl, soccer championship, the NHS... Possibilities are endless.

Gerhard

Am 28.02.26 um 05:01 schrieb john larkin:

Yeah! What do you expect from a bunch of slave owners who wanted to be free? Consistency?

Gerhard

FFS it was a JOKE!

We do hope so.

US have largely solved this problem. You have noisy and expensive compaign and unlimited donations. Rich donors choose whom to select. About 5% of citizen have no voiting rights. Other who may vote in undesirable way are discouraged from voting by distance to voting stations and time needed for voting. "First past the post" system means that minority votes get effectively thrown away. Add senate where states with large popilation have no more seats than small states and filibuster rule. And if all that fails supreme court will find a pretext to block unwanted decisions. So voting does not upset domination of ruling class.

OTOH voting have some advantages. In my country, during communist era when we had largish street protest it was clear for everybody that government had lost support (society has pretty homogeneous, so once there was sizeable sample againt it was clear that society is against), and that led to change of government. When there are elections with split vote goverment can claim "democratic mandate" and ignore protests.

Jonathon Israel, in his book "Democratic Enlightenment"

Since then nobody else has made the same mistake.

Slavery has been usual for as long as humans have existed. It's still around.

What's unusual is that the brits and then the americans decided that it was immoral and should be abolished. Both spent lives and trasure for the cause.

Whether political parties have any official function in government is a different issue.

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OK, they made it up.

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Ah. Humor.

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One might usefully reflect also on the immediate origins of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

The American Revolution was remarkable: no-one was executed. Well, maybe one.

I think that was unusual, as revolutions go.

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of course someone made it up - it was a joke - one that obviously went way over your head.

No:"humour" - it was an English joke.

Phlegm, blood, black bile, yellow bile.

Sounds about right. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

You forgot the stuff that oozes from a punctured eyeball.

Both my eyeballs have beed drained from their native ooze. They were filled with freon, which the body slowly refills with, basically, saline for some reason.

Cataract surgeries gone wrong.

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It was a joke at at Trump's expense, so some joker no doubt.