OT: Don't let Peanut Die For Nothing

Trump managed to attract a significant fraction of the Jewish-American, Muslim-American, _and_ neo-Nazi/white supremacist vote simultaneously, a rather remarkable feat in its way. Maybe he should get a Nobel peace prize, lol..

What you are actually expecting is that I'm just as demented as you are because I'm of a similar age. Dementia doesn't work that way.

Lunatics like you have a wide variety of silly idea. People who haven't developed the disorder don't.

As expected, Team Trump have announced they will not be supporting Ukraine, thank god. That could have turned *very* nasty indeed. In fact it's interesting to note that the price of gold fell substantially on the outcome of the US election. Gold has been rising of late due to the increase in international tension. When Trump won, that was interpreted as a positive signal for peace by the precious metals markets. Of course you'll have damn fools like Bill Sloman who'll try to tell you differently, but investors are staking their own cash on peace with Russia and you can't get a more reliable and genuine guide than that.

Universal health care is *hugely* expensive. The only reason those Europeans can - just about - afford it is because the US has been paying for their defense for decades. When they finally have to pay for their own, you can expect vicious cuts to those benefits.

So Trump masterminded a reverse takeover of a fake opposition movement? What a guy!

He won't. These days they only dish those out to warmongers. I would suggest Zelensky would be the next recipient.

Especially since there are 75 million developmentally subnormal people in the US, as Bill believes. The pandemic did *not* cause the inflation. THAT was generated directly as a result of the ludicrous response to the pandemic by various governments across the world who should have simply let the damn thing rip. But that's governments for you: always sticking their noses in and making everything 10X worse. The Gipper was dead right.

No need to keep proving you're a psychopath, Bill; we already know that.

Twaddle. Universal healthcare is cheaper than what the US has - their system costs half as much again per head as the most expensive European systems, and doesn't work as well as the appreciably cheaper English NHS. The vicious cuts are in the most expensive procedures - most of the money is spent on the last eighteen months of life, and you can save a lot by going over to palliative care somewhat earlier.

There was no master mind involved. Trump ran for the Republican nomination as an ego trip, and was vastly surprised when he won it.

It's the *UK* NHS actually - and it's barely functional in most areas as the demands upon it from an aging population are cripplingly expensive. Like Europe in general, it's only - just about - funded by running a massive public sector structural debt which can never be repaid. I believe France and Germany are in an even worse fiscal hole at present (France in particular has a massive problem with unfunded pension liabilities)

And even more by allowing voluntary euthanasia - which is currently under discussion.

I don't know how you come by the idea that Trump is an egoist. He's always presented as extremely modest and unassuming IMO.

I don't. The US population hasn't got any obvious developmental problems. They do have a problem getting a decent education, because the primary and secondary school system is funded by very small school districts, some of which have a lot more money to spend per pupil than others.

That would have killed a lot more people than ended up dying. Look at the Covid-19 deaths per million column in the worldometer data.

That's "The Big Myth"

I like the noticeboard. :-)

Or think you do. Your ignorance is rather more profound than you seem to be capable of realising.

The situation in the Ukraine has been very nasty for years. Even before the invasion, the Russians had set up fake separatists movements to try to take over the bits of the country they fancied. Trump doesn't like spending money on frustrating Putin, presumably because Putin has got some dirt on him.

Not exactly a signal for peace. More like a signal that Russian oligarch's will be able to get away with more now that Putin's pet is back in the White House.

They aren't staking their cash on peace with Russia - rather on an international environment that is going to be more oligarch-friendly because Donald Trump is an amoral creep.

I used to hurry home after school to see Rocky and Bullwinkle in TV.

Boris: Vell, ve iss foiled again by moose and squirrel.

Natasha: Vat ve do now, buy tickets and go home?

Boris: No, ve STEAL tickets and go home.

Yeah, that was a classic cartoon for sure. Still enjoyed it as an adult.

Just give the witless government bureaucrats a badge and gun and call them "police" and MAGA is all for it.

They seem to want their papers checked more often, not less. I expect they'll get their wish..

John Larkin is of roughly the same opinion - and he's another narcissist.

Cursitor Doom imagines that he is an adult. He's old enough that he ought to be, but - like Jan Panteltje - he never made it.