[talaniman]

We would be hyper polarized no matter which candidate had won to be honest, and the loonies would still be coming out of the woodwork. I think your parliamentary system allows you to check yourselves within your parties and allows for meeting whatever challenges to the country in a more orderly way. Our way is challenged and bound to get uglier than it is now before we get a grip on our own insanity.

[paraclete]

We would be hyper polarized no matter which candidate had won to be honest, and the loonies would still be coming out of the woodwork. I think your parliamentary system allows you to check yourselves within your parties and allows for meeting whatever challenges to the country in a more orderly way. Our way is challenged and bound to get uglier than it is now before we get a grip on our own insanity.

I think we need to get a grip on our own insanity, you need a certain ego to be a politician but we don't have as many as you do so those that we do have can get carried away without the other checks. Power corrupts, it certainly did with Turncoat, who had that born to rule thing going on

[talaniman]

LOL, you will either rise to the challenge or drown in your own crap, like most nations that face a challenge. Isn't that what any election is about? In our case it's a pile of crap of our own making with the DUFUS's pile of crap. We have the next 90 days to rise or drown.

[paraclete]

LOL, you will either rise to the challenge or drown in your own crap, like most nations that face a challenge. Isn't that what any election is about? In our case it's a pile of crap of our own making with the DUFUS's pile of crap. We have the next 90 days to rise or drown.

And of course we wish you well in your endevours as neither of us wishes to live in a pile of crap

[paraclete]

taken down

[talaniman]

Glad someone deleted that troll? Or is the coup over?

[paraclete]

The coup appears to be over, although in this volatile system it is never truly over. The next blood letting will occur at the election where failure on either side will lead to decapitation

[talaniman]

I get you Clete, lots of bloodletting over here too as we get closer to the elections. Everything is all hyped up. What a circus.

[paraclete]

Yes we are watching, what happens over there seems to mirror here and vise a versa

[talaniman]

I think I have expressed that semantics can be weaponized to divide and conquer ones perceptions of the other side and with humans there is always another side. Very fascinating human behavior and understandable to think we are UNIQUE within our class or society or GROUP we identify with.

Having said that it should be a great show as we approach the election with everybody getting in there last licks. Me I have popcorn and Netflix, for after the televised presentation of a "hearing by our elected officials" between a Supreme Court nominee and his accuser of personal wrong doing way back in the days of youth.

Will we get truth from this made for TV sham? I seriously doubt it, but one side doesn't want the truth, just a furtherance of their agenda before the BIG election. Things could change after that as one election leads to another and they are all big nowadays. The sad part is we constantly ignore or don't learn a darn thing from the LAST elections once they have past.

I laughed my arse off at the dufus warning China to not interfere in our election at the UN meeting yesterday, while he made no mention of the documented Russian interference of the last. That whole thing was yet another laughable public episode to remind us of the consequences of the last election.

Can't say we didn't deserve what we got, but still a sad commentary for us. Luckily there will be more elections. Can MY side affect a coup against the dufus regime to counter his coup of our democracy? I sure the heck hope so.

[paraclete]

After his performance at the UN I think we have to count Trump as either a comic genius or a pathetic moron

[talaniman]

After his performance at the UN I think we have to count Trump as either a comic genius or a pathetic moron

The evidence for your description of the dufus was present long before the UN meeting. This was just MORE confirmation of his lunacy.

[paraclete]

In his mind the is the greatest thing that has ever lived but being fat and loud mouthed doesn't make you a genius

[talaniman]

He's the greatest lying bully ever elected. Deny, attack, and make it about him being a victim works for him.

[paraclete]

It is sad Tal, well, we are fortunate here, we got rid of Turncoat, didn't like the way it was done, but poetic justice for the times he sank the knife into others. Our forms of socialism are doing well, the New PM has increased funding of non government schools and withdrawn some of the obnoxious policies of his predecessors. The French are playing silly buggers on the submarine contract, he might give them the boot too

[talaniman]

Shinzo is hopping mad, but if you want submarines, we got submarines!

https://www.howmuchisit.org/how-much...ubmarine-cost/

[paraclete]

Shinzo is hopping mad, but if you want submarines, we got submarines!

https://www.howmuchisit.org/how-much...ubmarine-cost/

Yours are nuclear, we are not up to that technology unfortunately. I doubt you would transfer the technology to us, you would not give us the F22, we had to make do with that flying brick, the F35. Who knows Shinzo, may yet get the contract if the frogs stuff about

[talaniman]

Like Shinzo we have to make a profit and maintenance is costly over years. Talk nice to Dufus and he may cut you a deal for floating a few subs in the south china sea. Yeah we just had an F35 malfunction and crash recently.

[paraclete]

We want our subs for defence not offence, you stuff with China we will watch Indonesia, anyway you will be at war with China before the first sub is delivered

[talaniman]

We are already in a financial war with China over tariffs. They may need a bailout soon, unless our investor class starts to get antsy. You better sign a deal for those subs quickly though as the price will continue to rise. I noticed you guys have also invested pretty heavily in other parts of your Navy also. I may have to move to Adelaide next year. Scratch that idea, let a young guy have those great paying jobs.

Begs the question though of maybe you would be better served investing in your own military infrastructure technology. Nuclear subs are expensive as hell for us and sure budget busters.