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Good, and well done for calling out the US "unpredictability".

Nice alternatives! Betting against Saints is something I never usually do, but a defeat was inevitable and Smallbone as a DM had yellow card written all over it. Or so I thought.

Agreed. I'm more annoyed that he didn't get booked as that messed up my accumulator.

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I didn't expect that from the tombola. 460 with a false nine or two perhaps. Bizarre.

Lowe's been using linkedin as a political tool for a while now. Fair to say he doesn't get masses of engagement. Anyways, he posted this late last night.

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The irony of you dredging up an old post, and using it to single out a poster calling him a "narcissist", whilst whining about being harassed on the forum, appears lost on you.

Jesus wept. I didn't post what I posted as a discussion piece. It was my opinion. If you want a response, it's that you responding to a post from last month, and expecting to draw me into something, is pathetic. I couldn't give a monkeys what you think of people and/or what they think of you, save that the spats and name-calling are boring/stupid/needless.

Indeed. All while Israel are playing havoc in the West Bank, and settlers are doing their bit too. The fire needs dampening, not Trump's fuel added.

Hamas are now threatening to kill hostages, and appear to admit murdering some. https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/global-affairs/hamas-threatens-to-kill-hostages-in-chilling-video/video/461bd6aab27385f007c8754b5ebad0c1 Horrible situation for the hostages and their families. Not sure how this ends, but these threats alongside Trump's earlier this week, suggest not very well.

When you find yourself applauding french blokes, and the Chinese Foreign Minister who said this, you know the world's gone nuts: “There are more than 190 countries in the world,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday in response to a question from CNN’s Steven Jiang about US President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy. “Should everyone stress ‘my country first’ and obsess over a position of strength, the law of the jungle would reign again, smaller and weaker countries would bear the brunt first, and international norms and order would take a body blow,” he added. “No country should fantasize that it can suppress China on the one hand and develop good relations with China on the other.” “This ‘two-faced’ approach is not only not conducive to the stability of bilateral relations, but also unable to establish mutual trust,” he added “A big country should honor its international obligations and fulfill its due responsibilities. It should not put selfish interests before principles, still less should it wield the power to bully the weak,” Wang said, adding that China “resolutely opposes power politics and hegemony.”

Superb speech, says it all perfectly.

You 2 are as tragic as each other. Quick point - people are interested in what mad Donny is doing/saying, not whether you and SoG want to get it on in a Travelodge.

Christ not what he's got in mind. Spotting someone 2 miles away who's about to cross the border will involve some kind of next step to prevent them. Probably a legion of AI Muskbots beating the shit out of them on the border or something.

Vance has said this about the wall. Interesting re AI from the US keeping an eye on the Mexicans. Musk made cameras perhaps. "I think the president's hope is that by the end of the term we build the entire border wall," Vance said. "And of course that's the physical structure, the border wall itself, but we even heard today, there are so many good technological tools. So many great artificial intelligence-enabled technologies that allow us, for example — a camera, not a person, but a camera picks up somebody two miles away who's about to come across the southern border. ... We're using artificial intelligence to make us better at the job of border enforcement, but we've got to make sure that technology is deployed across the entire American southern border. We're going to do it as much as we can, as broadly as we can, because that's how we're going to protect the American people's security."

And if you want the detail, the new sentencing guidelines are below. Being female or transgender are also specific reasons. The detail: A pre-sentence report will normally be considered necessary if the offender belongs to one (or more) of the following cohorts: at risk of first custodial sentence and/or at risk of a custodial sentence of 2 years or less (after taking into account any reduction for guilty plea) a young adult (typically 18-25 years; see further information below at section 3) female (see further information below at section 3) from an ethnic minority, cultural minority, and/or faith minority community pregnant or post-natal sole or primary carer for dependent relatives Or if the court considers that one or more of the following may apply to the offender: has disclosed they are transgender has or may have any addiction issues has or may have a serious chronic medical condition or physical disability, or mental ill health, learning disabilities (including developmental disorders and neurodiverse conditions) or brain injury/damage or; the court considers that the offender is, or there is a risk that they may have been, a victim of: domestic abuse, physical or sexual abuse, violent or threatening behaviour, coercive or controlling behaviour, economic, psychological, emotional or any other abuse modern slavery or trafficking, or coercion, grooming, intimidation or exploitation.

Sadly there's a complete lack of intelligence of a different kind in the white house.

The ex ones. Denmark will be interesting - how do the EU deal with that? If it's boots on the ground, what do NATO do? We're only getting started with watching Donny's circus.

His ex allies, or his new one with imperialistic ideas?

Donny has confirmed his commitment to taking Greenland, "one way or the other", all with Congress lapping it up. The message his messages are sending to other nations with imperialistic ideas is frightening.

I'm not sure the US will ever be ready for a non white female president. Biden bailed too late, and they picked the wrong candidate. And the rest will be unpleasant history.

Sounds like a plan!! The fentanyl point is bollox anyway. The US need to figure out why their people are so keen on becoming zombies.