If you think America under the Republicans is unreliable, France under Le Pen or Italy under their neo-Commies or neo-Fascists would be much worse. And neither country can remotely offer the capabili… (View Post)

Then how come Germany and Japan have higher shares of old people than we do but lower taxes as a % of GDP? It's no single item of expenditure, but an attitude. It's lazy and complacent gove… (View Post)

Hancock was the man who proposed ten year prison sentences for people who lied on their COVID travel forms. If it were up to him we'd probably still be in lockdown. Good riddance. (View Post)

Paying my perfectly healthy 30-something neighbours to sunbathe for months to stop a disease that kills mostly 80 year olds with preexisting conditions isn't pragmatic, it's crazy, as is wa… (View Post)

I remember a Froggy relative of mine saying of Chirac vs Le Pen in 2002 that she would vote for the crook, not the fascist. I imagine lots of Brazilians thought the same today. (View Post)