You poor slob. I have no idea where you get your BJs from? Possibly a Temu industrial blower-vac?

Sounds like it anyway?

Thanks Mate. I’m forever guilty of generalisation. Soz.

Obviously the French police have never met a French protester before.

What exactly is the deterrent, anyway?

There were pickpockets working the crowd at public executions in London when theft was a capital offence.

The US is fucking barbaric.

All this debate about the best way to kill a fellow human being. I know that she was a piece of shit, but there is something twisted about the practice of state authorised execution. I don’t trust the state to have moral clarity on setting parking fines.

I am sincerely pleased that I am not a citizen of the United States, and I would imagine that Americans would find that circumstance mutually pleasing.

If course, you are also right to say that. Every generalisation is wrong.

Ok, thanks for your question.

Ok, I’m not American, I’m Australian (getting that out of the way up front).

But… But, we are saturated with US culture, American social norms and politics. I could say with a large degree of confidence that an average Australian (or European) could pass a pop quiz on the United States probably better than an average American. This isn’t a boast, it’s a fact of life due to the relative size of our comparative social footprints.

So when I say that the US isn’t one country, but many, I’m not being facetious. Your federal system consists of a bunch of little fifedoms comparable with Germany in the 18th century. On the face of it, yes, you are, of course, ‘United’. In reality you guys seem fundamentally Balkanised.

Culturally, socially, religiously, and very much politically, you might as well have hard borders.

That’s what my casual one-liner meant to convey.

So just charge him. Oh, wait, the SCOTUS sez you can’t do that.

So, anyways…

And the US is?

The US also wants it stopped.

In Australia. Our government’s bargaining over the price of pharmaceuticals under the PBS has caused massive pressure by big US drug companies. A great many drugs have their prices capped in this country. Trump’s boys have been jumping up and down threatening this and that for us to adopt a more lethal regime.

However, it was the same under Obama, so it’s the US system at fault not just the present adminstration.

10 million, if true, it only a spit in the ocean. You guys really need to learn to stop blaming other countries for your continued social crisis.

The US is still the most wealthy country in the world. And it’s, I believe, the only Western country in the world without universal healthcare.

You already have the cash, you just need to decide to spend it in the right way. Every dollar you spend on other countries has a hook embedded in it, just like China does. Believe me, it’s not altruistic generosity.

In a democracy Biden shouldn’t attempt to influence any action against Trump. That’s the job of the Justice Department. Trump has made political judicial activism so normal that people just expect this kind of political interference.

Thank you, extremely comprehensive reply. I will actually check it out.

Ta

Can anyone comment on the quality of his music?

I’d rather not listen to it myself to find out. Someone must have accidentally tuned in at some point?

Fox “News Stars”.

Americans have a very low bar in describing “stars”.

I’m Australian and last night the wife and I was watching something on YouTube and a flashy tourism add pops up encouraging us to visit the US. Without prompting we both started giggling simultaneously. Right, as if…

It does. It’s been around for well over a decade. The thing is, even when I first saw the photo, I couldn’t understand what the graphic was supposed to be.

So enjoying a decent coffee counts as elitism nowadays?

The guy who orchestrated a full-blown insurrection -and got away with it - shouldn’t be underestimated.

So much high school bully energy in this one.