MrsDoyle

Thanks! You’re right, it doesn’t make sense. But Norway played it smart with their oil wealth, didn’t they? Tiny country, and there they are lending money to the US.

Who actually owns this debt? Who is getting the interest payments? It seems like every country runs on some kind of deficit - where is all this money coming from?

They’ll be broken down, metal smelted, gems recut if necessary. They’re gone, who cares. It’s not like they were the actual crown jewels, just a few baubles.

Is Antifa an actual organisation? I always thought of it as a vague lumping together of leftish people by … well, by people like Trump.

I saw the xkcd comic first and thought it was, you know, a JOKE. https://xkcd.com/3131

“Insurrectionists carrying foreign flags are attacking immigration enforcement officers, while one half of America’s political leadership has decided that border enforcement is evil,” Vice President JD Vance said in a post on X Saturday night.

Big yikes. “Insurrectionists”? Bloody hell.

In my experience the people in the back have their fingers in their ears and are going “lalalalalala”.

Oh fantastic! My ancestors are mostly Scottish, I didn’t realise when I moved here to Scotland that I could just TAKE some land! Off to appropriate my next door neighbour’s back garden, they aren’t using it much. Next week: taking over the house my great great grandfather built. It’s by the beach!

Twenty-one bum salute.

Oh dear, I didn’t read them! Little England xenophobia at its finest.

That’s true actually - they are escalating pretty hard already.

As a long-term peacenik though, I hate the thought of gun battles on the streets. I wish you all the very best. I first visited the US in 1976 and have toured around a lot since then. My one single bad experience was Homeland Security when transiting through LAX. We’re tourists not terrorists, jeez cool your jets! I can’t imagine how bad ICE is.

I suspect your government would love it if you started shooting. They’d declare martial law. Goodbye elections, hello police state.

This happened in my country in 2021: https://youtu.be/ZZcoXdZeabA No guns involved, just a load of people prepared to stand around all day blocking the vans.

Get yourselves organised.

Erm, more than a few arrived in chains, entirely against their will.

Keep an eye on the Bering Strait though. A lot of Magats in Alaska, they might leave your back door open.

I don’t hate you.

It’s not antisemitism, it’s anti-Zionism. And accusations of Zionism being fascist aren’t new. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun

An extract: ‘Albert Einstein, in a letter to The New York Times in 1948, compared Irgun and its successor Herut party to “Nazi and Fascist parties” and described it as a “terrorist, right wing, chauvinist organization”.’

But what would a genius German Jew who escaped the Holocaust know about fascism, right?

Do obnoxious stuff for “librul tears”.

Cry like a baby when people do obnoxious stuff back.

Combatting AIDS isn’t dumb.

We protect it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill