badgerx16

Trump appointed judge with a history of ruling in Trump's favour in other Federal cases.

Decay

Are you claiming you know your onions ?

Who decides that we will have your Commission / referendum if it isn't Parliament ?

20 minutes after Pog crossed the line today, only 22 riders had finished.

We must have the most friendly attack in the tournament.

Somerset 80 0, halfway there in less than half their overs.

Today's ride was the coldest July ride I have done. More like November.

Try re-reading the text you quoted; this year would have been the first Presidential election he would have voted in. He was old enough to vote in the midterms, which strangely occur Mid Term of a Presidential cycle, as indeed his voter registration indicates - 'Date of last vote 11/8/2022'. You must try harder to keep up.

But they have also killed the key witness, a la Lee Harvey Oswald.

Yes. It is horrific that a 20 year old can be so mentally screwed up that he wants to shoot somebody, and equally so that he finds it so easy to get access to an automatic rifle so he can act out his delusions. I wonder if this will change Trump's opinion on gun control.

These two pictures on the BBC show the shot came from Trump's right.....

Trump did make a big deal over vote rigging.

He apparently had a 'Stop the Steal' patch on his shirt, and a neo-nazi eagle emblem. The irony of looking at Trump stood on the podium with people behind him holding placards saying 'Your fired'.

If only the people in the crowd had more guns it might not have happened.

Estonia's Foreign Minister says NATO has 'perhaps three or four years to prepare'. Also, from a paywalled article in The Times last month; "Lithuania is preparing for a possible escalation in tensions with neighbouring Belarus, Russia’s biggest ally in Europe, its foreign minister has said. Last month Belarus accused Lithuania of trying to target its capital, Minsk, with combat drones, a claim that was rebuffed as absurd. The allegation came shortly after Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian dictator, openly discussed a potential attack on the Suwalki Gap, a sliver of territory on the Polish-Lithuanian border that has been identified by analysts as Nato’s Achilles’ heel. “We hear things like this almost every week. And I don’t think it’s a coincidence that it’s happening now,” Gabrielius Landsbergis, Lithuania’s foreign minister, said during an interview with The Times on Wednesday." No way is Luka acting without Putin's direction..

Keith

No idea. I have no experience of how the mind of a megalomaniac works. All I can do is read and quote the things he has published, and judge him by his actions.

Apple goes bankrupt ?

How far his intentions stretch is currently a metter of opinion; he has plans and ambitions, these are clearly documented, and should Trump "finish the war in one day" then Putin will feel justified in having initiated the SMO, and have far fewer qualms about turning his eye towards his next target. His justification for attacking Ukraine was that it "is not a proper country", and the same line of argument will be rolled out for the Baltics. What chance of a new wave of 'little green men' posing as pro-Russian independence fighters ?

According to this, only Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Portugal will spend less than 2% of GDP on defence this year; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-44717074

$760Bn in trade says it won't happen.

He certainly has plans for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. He would probably like more control over Finland as well, as part of his bid to rebuild Peter the Great's Russian Empire. If he gets away with his actions in Ukraine he will feel enabled and justified.

"In the poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology between 13 and 18 May 2022, 77% of Ukrainians living in Russian-occupied territory said they did not support any territorial concessions to Russia, even if it would prolong the war A KIIS poll conducted in September 2022 found that 87% of Ukrainians opposed any territorial concessions to Russia, up from 82% in May 2022. Only 24% of ethnic Russians in Ukraine supported territorial concessions to Russia." https://web.archive.org/web/20220626003408/https://www.businesslive.co.za/bloomberg/news/2022-05-24-most-ukrainians-rule-out-any-territorial-concessions-to-end-war/ https://www.euronews.com/2022/09/16/ukraine-crisis-concessions-poll