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Surveys show that Trump is popular with most women in USA, regardless of his reported behaviour and other activities. He must have the personality and power plus wealth that women yearn for in a man.

In a democracy, those who have greater wealth are able to achieve more or less what they desire. If they wish to become a president or prime minister, they can afford to hire the best people to promote their cause. If they have committed any civil or criminal acts, they can usually pay off those who have suffered or been inconvenienced. They have the best lawyers. In the USA, you would think that such a large and powerful country would have the talent available to provide the best leadership. The talent is no doubt there, but without the wealth, achievement to a high status is difficult or impossible.
The best USA can offer is Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The former will no doubt become president again. The alternative choice is someone who appears to have difficulty with his faculties. Forgetful, sometimes looks in a trans like state, unsteady on his feet.
Should the electoral system change and end the wealthy only candidates? Replace with a public funded arrangement with the best qualified individuals chosen?
In an autocracy, if you have wealth and desire power, and if you finance the right people, eg. Police, military, and gather round you a group who like the idea of power themselves, and the freedom to use it, even if it means the use of intimidation and violence to assist them. Elections are never needed or are rigged to achieve the desired result. Examples of this can be found in China, North Korea, Russia and Iran.
Difficult to ever change this form of power, unless the people revolt and risk their lives in the process.
Democracy takes bravery.

Whilst holding meeting in Odessa, Zelensky and Greek PM witness nearby explosion following Russian missile attack. A bit dangerous, because if the Greek PM had suffered in any way, Greece being a NATO member, could have triggered a big response. Yes. War with NATO.

Surely, the Pope has got it wrong here. He is sending out a message to any country that is under attack to give up fighting back for their rights to resist an invader, and negotiate terms of peace. The perpetrator of any invasion would then be boosted by this advice and have added incentive to continue an illegal war. This statement by an authority such as the Pope could have a demoralising effect on the non offending country.

Perhaps an avenue of activity that could be enjoyed by the increasing numbers of obese people around the world is "sumo wrestling." You can eat plenty, up to 20,000 calories per day. You can still be healthy, providing you undertake the appropriate regular exercise. The fat tends to be stored just under the skin, rather than around the organs of the body. This means you would be healthier than the usual obese person who would most likely not be taking the regular exercise nor the challenges of wrestling.
It is legal to slap, shove or head butt your opponent.
Sumo wrestlers may way 150 kg.

Biden gave the state of the union address last night and have to say Joe wasn't sleepy in the least bit. He was clear, powerful and covered many topics stating facts and figures, especially with border security.
Good job Joe...
I didn't expect them to chant "Four more Years, Four more Years"

Lately, I have been commenting on some pretty rabid Right Wing Cristian blogs. This said, I find one of three things generally happen. They are:

1) The blogger locks the comments section, thus preventing any opposing points of view.


2) The blogger selectively deletes any counter arguments (comments) which do not suit their narrative (which is usually to preach, at any one, and any thing). This is particularly true, when the earstwhile Christian Blogger is losing an argument.

3) The blog mysteriously disappears. This happens, quite often, (as a final ploy), when the argument has been lost completely (from a logical debating perspective).

Let's have some Insightful Reasoned Debate, about this topic (if that is possible, here) ....

I was reading an Italian newspaper online today and found it striking that the sheet is about to hit the fan there. Someone please tell me I am not reading these words correctly.

"We cannot continue to feed ourselves with illusions: Europe is going to war.

Tusk: Time of peace in EU is over, we live in pre-war times - Peaceful times are over – EU state's PM -

Tusk: Europes peaceful times are over - tusk time_of_peace_in_eu_is_over_we_live_in


All logical, all expected.

You have to be stupid not to see what's happening.

The real purpose is not to go to war against an enemy who would tear you to pieces.
The real aim is to scare the population in order to transform the nations of Europe into a huge training camp where military law reigns.

This will offer this unfortunate European political class the opportunity to suspend constitutional rights as they did during the pandemic, to strengthen digital control over the population, to line their pockets and those of their friends with military supplies as well as with the usual intrigues in Qatar style.

It is immensely more profitable than vaccine scams and the Covid emergency, and this is why Covid disappeared in three days, from 24 to 27 February 2022, buried forever!

Not even the manipulations of the World Health Organization were helpful, with its rules that require it to take global control in the event of a pandemic, bypassing governments.

With the state of war - declared or looming - of the WHO you don't give a damn. You don't give a damn about all treaties. You don't give a damn about people's consent.
Sooner or later everything will be subordinated to the needs of war. Production capacity, industrial relations, trade union rights, purchasing power.

The population will no longer be seen as voters to be cajoled and convinced but as subordinates to be given orders.

Everyone will be forced to obey, swallow and remain silent.

The militarization of every sphere of society is the perfect solution for the ruling elites to solve the avalanche of problems that they themselves have evoked and forced to general attention and which they now do not know how to solve.

Oh, I know. You don't like this talk, it's better to ignore it, eh? After all, nothing has happened yet, right? For now it's just politicians' talk, right?

And here is the archetype that triggers the conditioned reflex of the species! The invisible threat! The Black Death!

As with COVID, its severity (and even existence) was first denied, then it suddenly became a looming risk of extinction for humanity.

And here again is the archetype that triggers the conditioned reflex of the species! Putin! The devil!

Here the winning pattern is repeated again: let's face the looming risk, let's overcome divisions and let's all rally around authority.

These are all processes that have already begun, but which require a component of political connivance at a continental level and which see the ideal executor in the structures of the European Union - powerful, distant and without control by voters.

“Coercion” is much more effective than “conviction.”
Why spend immense resources convincing people to do something when you can simply force them?

It's a shame that there is that imperfect experiment still underway improperly called "democracy".

In reality, capitalism does not require democracy to exist and prosper (just look at the Chinese experience) and democracy does not require capitalism to exist (just remember ancient Greece).

You can't eat money, you can't walk around sitting on it, it doesn't keep you warm when it's cold and it doesn't keep you cool when it's hot.

Money doesn't fight for you. It doesn't hold weapons, it just lets you buy them.
Therefore it is useful, because it acts as a means of exchange, as long as there is something to exchange. When there is something to buy. Otherwise - in war - it is worth nothing."

Not everyone is cut out for the positions they hold in business. One business owner I worked for often used the term Peter Principal where some people rise to a position where they begin to show incompetence.

One woman I knew was the best draftsperson in the department and received a promotion that put her in a management position. The company did a disservice to her and themselves. Orders began to back up as she trained her replacement and she wasn't knowledgeable with the workings of the company, making a few bad decisions. Happy with the pay increase, uncomfortable with the demands of her new job, she felt she couldn't step down (as there was no longer a place for her) and decided to leave the company.
Lose/lose for her and the company who employed her.

Another boss was nice enough to use the phrase "We're all wired differently" describing how he tried to place people in the best positions they were suited for. We had one cabinet maker who owned his own custom shop. His business failed, not because he was a bad cabinet maker... he was very experienced and produced high-quality work. His weakness was an inability to manage the business end of his company. Working for someone else was the magic formula.

I think everyone has experienced a dyslexic moment now and then and accidentally transposed an address or some part of a phone number. Every week, I get mail in my box intended for a neighbor. In that case, it's laziness or fatigue. Sorting mail and being dyslexic would be a career disaster.

30+ years ago, I worked for a place before they went on computer where the bookkeeper constantly transposed figures. Mistakes were in her typing, hand written notes, especially phone messages, but the worst part was her accounting errors. It frustrated the owner for the time lost going back over ledgers correcting her mistakes. They photo copied all the checks and he had to go back to see there she transposed entries.
The position required multitasking that she wasn't good at, compounded by lots of interruptions of a small office where she would get flustered when things got really busy. It was more than dyslexia as she would often put callers on hold and totally forget them. They would call back angry!

I suppose there is hope for dyslexia.


Dyslexics of the world…..
UNTIE!!!!

Trump teases. Make America Great Again! He is spot on in this interview about other countries taking from the USA.