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The nearest thing we have to a world government now is the United Nations, and they're not. There's no way that the countries of the world could ever be corralled into a functioning World Government. Feeding the poverty stricken is a worthy aim that most countries try to do. Controlling our travel and carbon footprint is a non-starter. If that's what radical leftwing extremist ideology is, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

Incidentally, what do you mean by `radical leftwing extremist ideology'? What do you see as its main aims?

It won't correct words it thinks are probably correct, even if you know you meant something different.

The problem is Trump won't restore law and order because he is intent on undermining it for his own benefit, and his associates are working to ensure that future administrations keep his right wing agenda going. Hopefully, if the pendulum swings the other way soon it will knock him off his perch.

If you left out the `h' it would probably look at the context and guess you either meant `were' or `we are', shortened to `we're'.

The radical elements of either side are a threat to the "well being" of any country, which is why Trump and his MAGA cronies are such a threat to America's well-being. The direction it's heading in under Trump is a reflection of himself - division, incompetency and chaos.

What's his block worth?

Can't imagine dull as dishwater George `partying hard', but no doubt he cracked a smile at losing his place in history.

One of our daughters had an Astra. Good little car.

Not even 4,000km per year. Bargain! Must be the proverbial one lady owner model. Check for handbag strap wear on the choke knob.

It's not just Trump. He's enthusiastically signing the orders, but a lot of this is the work of the Project 2025 fanatics working in the background and pushing him to do it.

Trump will more likely side with Putin against Ukraine. He doesn’t like Zelensky. Putin has no respect for Trump and Trump is out of his depth against Putin but doesn’t know it.

Yes, it’s about 48% and likely to be going down soon when the voters rediscover what a moron he is. Not much to brag about.

I don't hate Trump personally and he won the election fair and square. I just think he is a lowlife. Even that wouldn't matter if he didn't have so much power.

My brother lives in Victoria and has plenty of tiger snakes on his property. One fell on him one when he opened the roller door to his shed. It must have been perched up there. Not sure who got the bigger fright.

‘“There’s a thin line between genius and madness”. I think that old saying might apply to Musk.

That will be another load of rubbish. That fighter plane footage supposedly showing a UFO turns out to be an artifact of the gun camera imaging system. There's a explanation on the net somewhere.

It's on the tip of my tongue

Won't be long before the Cubans announce that it's now called the Gulf of Cuba on all their maps.

Pete Hegseth has just made it over the line to become Secretary of Defense after Vance cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate. Should be interesting to see how that works out.

Trump doesn't care about being constitutional, and unfortunately half the population doesn't either. There are plenty of red flags to go around.

I think she simply meant differently to other US presidents, and I don't see any lack of respect for the election results. She was just acknowledging that Trump is not your typical US president, which he would agree with.

I just see that as her stating the obvious and stroking Trump's ego at the same time. Nothing to do with her politics being better or worse than his. It was a shrewd answer.

That's very good advice, Marty although like OME, I've also been thinking about this. I lost my wife a few months ago and I now have a house that's far too big for one person and a dog. We seem to have accumulated so much stuff over the years, that I really need to cull a lot of it while I'm still around, rather that leave it all to the kids to sort out one day. Not that I'm thinking of departing any time soon, but I don't want to dump it all on them. As far as tools go, my son already has more than I do, although he said he'd like to have my my shed.

He's just pardoned Ross Ulbricht who ran the Silk Road on-line illegal drug marketplace: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/21/ross-ulbricht-silk-road-trump-pardon Note his reason for the pardon: Trump said he had called Ulbricht’s mother to tell her he would pardon her son “in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly”. As long as you vote for him, you're in the clear no matter what kind of a scumbag you may be. He's also let all the J6 criminals convicted of serious crimes out, no doubt because they supported him and he wants to re-write the history of what happened.