Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bill Sloman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,us.politics Subject: Re: Exploding pagers Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2024 20:24:47 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <36prej9i23etotp04kkbv59bmlf03ra5m4@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2024 11:24:48 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="84a7847671494d848427fd7ca10f1248"; logging-data="1258507"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18NmgLIsNxgyd8+gTOczrQhD86KlAvh/UY=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:HmfFxg9qhanxkLy5r3+A9Oocw84= In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 241006-0, 6/10/2024), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3077 On 6/10/2024 7:02 pm, Cursitor Doom wrote: > On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 00:07:44 -0000 (UTC), Jasen Betts > wrote: > >> On 2024-10-04, Cursitor Doom wrote: >>> >>> This is why it's so important that the US gets Trump back in charge. >>> He's the only one talking about ending all these foreign wars >> >> Talk is cheap, he has a history of not delivering on his promises. > > At least he doesn't salivate and fake an orgasm when he talks about > war, unlike all the others. One of Cursitor Doom's more fatuous claims, and that's a very high level of fatuity. >>> and the extreme cost of those adventures in blood and treasure has >>> been close to runious. >> >> Really, what is close to ruin? US economy is now stronger that it ever >> was under Trump. GOP may be close to ruin, but it seems to be mostly >> filled with idiots and grifters. > > Close to ruin is when the bond markets force up interest rates for > dollar-denominated sovereign debt, forcing government repayments into > unsustainable territory and risk of default. There's no obvious risk of default. > If you believe the US economy is "stronger than it ever was under > Trump" you must be getting your news from CNN or MSNBC/New York Times > or WaPo. Which is to say newspapers that report actual facts, as opposed to the fatuous fantasies that Cursitor Doom seems to be addicted to. -- Bill Sloman, Sydney