The dotard should send pollsters to the 668 psychiatric hospitals operating in the US to give him better numbers than 0.00. And I don't mean the staff.

@#19

Not just your view, LAMPLIGHTER. I knew several people at GE as well as an outside consultant who oversaw its re-structuring a few years ago. The post mortem was both eye-opening and terrible.

Where would you rank Neutron Jack? Somewhere between Bernie Madoff and Armand Hammer?

Good shot! DeSantis is another elitist hypocrite! And how about coward Josh Hawley caught running away for his life on video on 6Jan2021? Hawley graduated from Stanford University in 2002 and Yale Law School in 2006.

You're welcome, Corky. But I'm not sure about the less regulated part of your statement. Besides national laws, European companies must adhere to EU laws. I'll have to look into that.

BLUF: There is just less tension in these unarmed societies where the wealth gaps are minimal.

And LL: You worked for Neutron Jack?

The elite Yankee Connecticut Bush Dynasty that attended the best Ivy League schools with all of the best connections possible in the US made a fortune with oil, but adopted this "Aw shucks I'm a regular guy from Texas" persona. Elitists attended church and spoke like rednecks. Now we see that here with J Dunce Vance, Yale Law School alumnus.

After J Dunce Vance loses this November, he'll re-write his memoirs:

"Hillbilly Eulogy: A Memoir of a Yale Law School Grad and Failed Hypocritical VPOTUS Candidate."

There is less stress and anxiety in many of these European countries because they have universal health care, low citizen access to firearms, living wages, robust social security nets, as well as affordable pharmaceuticals and free college. And in some countries, the police are unarmed (e.g. the UK and Ireland).

Financial problems and debt (school, home, or medical) causes stress.

A 2015 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that medical bills caused one million US adults to declare bankruptcy every year and that 26% of Americans age 18 to 64 struggled to pay medical bills. Medical bankruptcies are mostly unheard of outside of the US.

Lastly, when you walk into a penzion in Germany, the TV might be set to a soccer game. In Paris and Vienna, people eat and drink on the sidewalk terraces without TV. But walk into a bar or hotel room in Florida, and the TV is already set on Fox News.

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The term for the dotard is "blatherskite."

If Canada appears behind other NATO countries in budgets, they contribute to US defense through NORAD (which doesn't appear in the NATO budgets). NORAD just intercepted two RU and two PRC bombers IVO Alaska (posted on DR several days ago).

And please don't forget US aid to Israel. Adjusting for inflation, US aid to Israel from 1951 to 2022 totaled $317.9 billion, making it the largest recipient of American foreign aid since World War II.

Now let's examine the other recipients of hard-working American taxpayer dollars:

In Afghanistan (OEF): 157 Canadian, 2 Finnish, and 10 Norwegian Soldiers KIA (as well as other casualties from our NATO partners in ISAF).

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) KIA or WIA in Afghanistan = 0.

In Iraq (2x) Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF): 318 KIA from Coalition partners.

IDF KIA or WIA in Iraq = 0.

During the Vietnam War: 521 Australian Soldiers KIA and 3,000 WIA. 5,099 South Korean Soldiers KIA and 10,962 WIA.

IDF KIA or WIA in Vietnam = 0.

As for Finland, the US is bolstering their defenses against he Kremlin. The Finns have become a front-line defense for NATO, sharing a 830-mile long border with Russia. And Helsinki gives the USG carte blanche in their country.

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#46 Concur 100%.

The link below is the official USSS press release on the 13 July 2024 incident in Butler, PA:

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In Finland, a millionaire caught speeding on the road is fined 100K Euros because they link fines to income. Finland also has one of the lowest prison populations in the world " the number hovers around 3,000 " and one-third of its prisons operate as open.

Remarkable that such a utopian nation shares an 830-mile border with its polar opposite, an aggressive dystopia run by oligarchs, gangsters, and the security services, with an enormous gulag system, kangaroo courts, and military press gangs to boot.

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The GOP and the Kremlin are trying hard to keep Americans from escaping the "Matrix."

The GOP and the oligarchs see us as their food.

Two centuries ago Napoleon said:

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

Lamplighter: When you read "The Road" (2006), Cormac McCarthy doesn't tell the reader how the world became a terrible wasteland. Instead, he describes a grey-colored world full of ash where flora stopped growing and some survivors are observed wearing gas masks. By his prose, I interpreted that tremendous forest fires filled the atmosphere with particulates, smoke, and ash, blocking out the sun, while simultaneously ruining the soil and crops.

ZED:
Yes, dotard is an actor who had a SAG card and reality TV show. But who wrote that "there should be a significant hole in Trump's ear?"

I'm analyzing the imagery of #45 and the video from the Butler, PA rally. We don't have access to the criminal investigation report or any medical findings, so this is just armchair detective work from hundreds of miles away.

#45 is so vain, perhaps he had plastic surgery done immediately.

Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear in a 1997 bout. See image of the bitten ear after the fight:

#30: There are three small arteries that feed blood to the outer ear. See image in link below.

#45 must have rehearsed plenty for his NBC show "The Apprentice." Now all the scripts he had rehearsed in his aspartame-addled brain for the campaign against Biden are useless, so his feeble mind is groping for ad hominem attacks against Kamala.

Somebody has to do the scullery work in the restaurant kitchens, manicure the lawns, work the slaughterhouses, clean the Port-a-Potties.

Here's a recent case:

#2: Thank you.

"Grey Zone's" family should receive a ~$60,000 death benefit from the Wagner Group for being butchered after doing some butchering.

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REINHEITSGEBOT:

"Yeah, I know, but she's one of the good ones."

You got my vote, Doc!

Doc

After the indigenous pacification process was complete, American politicians wanted to use the 1890s World Fairs held in Chi, NYC, Atlanta and the Spanish-American War (1898) to finally heal the North-South wounds of the Civil War in order to compete with the European imperial powers.

Note the Union and Confederate officers shaking hands in this 1898 propaganda poster. They might be Civil War veterans Generals Joseph Wheeler (CSA) and William Shafter (USA):

Thanks, Doc, but I warned readers not to look at the pix. I averted my eyes and read about the horrific deaths of those defenseless (and rare) animals at the hands of Don Jr.

The peculiar psychopathy shared by the Trump Crime Family (TCF), J Dunce Vance, and the GOP is a lack of empathy for other living creatures. In essence, they are missing the "empathy gene."

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Mornin' Doc! How are ya?

Between all of the shootings in Texas and Florida, I can't decide which state my wife and I will avoid the most. Unfortunately, we are forced to occasionally fly thru FLL/MIA to board our cruise ships.