Db,

How do you explain the fact no countries other than the usual two are coming to Iran's aid?

Now Iran is urging (probably forcing) people to form chains around power plants.

There are no limits to the number of people they are willing to martyr.

This sort of rhetoric coming out of Iran is dangerous to the world.

I see that, and so do many others.

How do you deal with homicidal religious fanatics who deliberately kill their own people?

Japan was changed only after the emperor was stripped of real power.

Iran will not be normal until it is no longer run by religious lunatics.

Censor,

You're now resorting to combining words extracted from different posts and giving them a new meaning.

You're actually kind of scary.

Leave me alone.

Snoofy,

I don't want to pursue discussing Trump, except it was creepy hearing the SNL audience hoot and holler about killing the president.

Snoofy,

"A normal person would start with asking Trump's ex-wives."

I'm won't comment on his divorces.

Besides, what does his ex's have to do with anything.

I didn't vote for them and don't care what they think.

You need more to do than just sit around thinking about Trump.

Censor,

But you didn't quote me.

Db,

"James Dobson?"

He's not running the country.

Censor,

"I wager tRump was referring to the North Pole."

NO! He's not going to blow up Santa Claus!

qcp,

"Or will Trump chicken out again?"

Is that what Trump is doing? Chickening out?

Or is he deliberately giving them repeated chances to back down before things escalate further?

This doesn't look like hesitation to me. It looks like applied pressure.

The problem is clerics whose authority depends on never backing down, regardless of who pays the price.

I was looking at a picture of the bridge recently bombed in Iran.

It is interesting that the bridge was hit in 3 places.

Each end of the bridge and the very middle.

What was left alone was all the concrete columns that support the bridge. I am quite certain that was a precision strike.

It was decided to not totally destroy the bridge but just take it out of commission.

Just throwing that out there.

For some reason I thought it was interesting.

Censor,

"At least, not nearly as much as the faux outrage you express at an audience clapping for the child-epsteining, adjudicated rapist enjoying a musical."

You're dishonest and devious. I can see that clearly.

In my earlier post I stated it was disturbing how the audience was clapping and laughing at the joke about Trump being assassinated in the theatre like Lincoln. Had nothing to do with rape.

I will not stop responding to you. I am looking forward to calling you dishonest and devious every chance I get.

Snoofy,

"What's your answer?"

I didn't give an answer in the first place. I only asked a question.

Then I went on to say I'm not going to discuss rape or the accusations being made against Trump.

Rape is wrong. Period.

Zed,

"This is the sort of comment that makes me think that you aren't human"

You are referring to my comment, "Tell me why people hate Trump."

The way you are presenting this, you make it appear I am asking why do people hate Trump, as if I am defending him.

You overlooked Snoofy asking me, "Do you know why people hate Trump?"

My response to him was "Tell me why people hate Trump".

That's always the problem with these sort of threads. Just reading one line and not seeing the full dialog.

I'll give you some slack and figure you just didn't know.

I'm not going to get into a discussion about rape.

Obviously it is wrong. To imply I believe rape is ok is just your basic typical smear tactic.

I've read various accusations made against Trump and have no interest in responding to any of that. That's for the courts to decide.

Censor,

"About five months ago, you made a reference to Trump getting "his fingers stinky," when he raped that woman in the dressing room and that it was no big deal."

You're referencing something I said last November. I went back and pulled the actual post.

Here it is, word for word:

"You'll have to direct that question to the men on this site. Is getting your finger stinky rape?"

That's the full extent of it.

Now compare that to how you're describing it.

I asked a question. I didn't defend anything, and I didn't say anything about acting without consent. That's something you've added.

So let's keep this grounded in what was actually said, not a rewritten version of it.

If you want to argue my actual words, go ahead.

If you want to argue something else, don't put words in my mouth.

Censor,

I'll look back at that and see the context.

Censor,

"You said you would continue supporting Trump if he Epsteined a child on the front lawn of the White House and then decapitated him/her"

Saying I said something I never did, will get you on my "time out" list.

I resent liars and will not communicate with them.

I won't respond to you if you do it again.

Snoofy,

I won't get into back and forth debating...just write it and I'll read it.

Snoofy,

Tell me why people hate Trump.

Go beyond basic Republican vs Democrat differences.

What is it about him specifically that drives that sort of reaction?

No strawmen.

For example before he was elected, I've criticized how he conducted business and apparently considered bankruptcies a business plan.

But I never saw that as a reason to hate him.

Snoofy,

"Do you know why people hate Trump?"

Because he's the current GOP president.

The next one will be hated just as much.

Fact.

Censor,

"SNL audience cheered joke about Trump theatre assassination"

Talking about the joke doesn't do it justice. Looking on Youtube I can only find references to the joke, without the audience's response. You need to heard the audience to get the full effect.

The response is what I found more disturbing than the joke itself. The audience clapped and yelled with enthusiasm and for an extended length of time.

Yikes....

Donner,

"Too bad we don't spend even a fraction of that much money on saving civilian lives."

What are you talking about?

America spends astronomical amounts of money feeding and housing people.

The pilot was grateful.

The people being fed aren't and most see it as an obligation. No gratitude.

Censor,

It was money well spent, which is more than you can say about a LOT of other things the US blows money on.

Censor,

"Glad they got him back, but this sounds moderately pricey. We should probably cancel school lunch programs and midterm elections to help recoup the costs."

Cost was likely astronomical.

So what?