I am, aren't you? I don't know anyone right now personally that is having a hard time. Several folks I know got better jobs . 1 of my friends that couldn't rub 2 pennys together 2 years ago, thanks to the better economy is making over 30 a hour with some over time because of the large buildings like amazon warehouses going up, he digs footings and works with concrete, has health insurance and is investing now.

Now tell me just what is so wrong for you, other than family health issues and such not affected or caused by the economy, you are retired, should have investments sending you dividends and interest ,a social security check and retirement check. What is possibly so bad about your economy?

Her color has nothing to do with how I feel about her.
You are so ignorant and just automatically assume I don't like her because of her color. it is her ignorance of how America works.
I can promise you had she got in, our borders would be over run by terrorist and illegals. that in and of it's self is evil. not maintaining the nations borders.

Name another man she coulda married that would have gotten her into the White house while still in her prime?
All I am hearing is crickets.
IF Trump curled up and died in the morning, Melania would have a good chance at a place in government simply because of her presence in the White house as first lady.

Um, The autobahn, The Beatle, the Jet engine, even the color of law enforcement flashing lights,all due to hitler. thanks to ananas for telling me about the blue lights

All the places I seem to be unwelcome according to you are places I have no need to fucking go in the first place.
You aint welcome in America far as I am concerned but you know what? If you came here, long as you had money to spend, you wouldn't be ran off. We will gladly take your money.
And your pathetic little kingdom would be more than happy for me to come over and spend my money there as well. It's all about the money.

I approve of this book endorsement.

According to ChatGPT, a moral lesson similar to the one of The Hangman
can be learned from Aesop fables like:
“The Farmer and the Stork”
“The Wolf and the Lamb”
“The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse”
“The Frogs Who Desired a King” (closest thematic Aesop fable)

The Frogs Asking for a King (1884 Aesop’s Fables translation):
The Frogs, grieved at having no established Ruler, sent ambassadors to Jupiter entreating for a King.
He, perceiving their simplicity, cast down a huge log into the lake. The Frogs, terrified at the splash occasioned by its fall, hid themselves in the depth of the pool. But no sooner did they see that the huge log continued motionless, than they swam again to the top of the water, dismissed their fears, and came so to despise it as to climb up, and to squat upon it.
After some time they began to think themselves ill‑treated in the appointment of so inert a Ruler, and sent a second deputation to Jupiter to pray that he would set over them another sovereign.
He then gave them an eel to govern them. When the Frogs discovered his easy good nature, they yet a third time sent to Jupiter to beg that he would once more choose for them another King.
Jupiter, displeased with all their complaints, sent a Heron, who preyed upon the Frogs day by day, till there were none left to complain.
Moral: When you seek to change your condition, be sure that you can better it.

Aesop’s fables are not stories in the modern sense. They’re very short parables, often only a few sentences long. There isn’t a “full-length story” version because they were meant to illustrate a moral quickly, like a proverb. In that sense, they are very much like bible 'stories'.

In historical times, people used parables to teach morality. Humans naturally learn through story, example, and emotion, not pure logic. That’s why parables, fables, and allegories have been so effective across cultures for thousands of years,
they teach without needing formal education or reasoning skills.
It simply tells a short story, and than says: "Do you see what happened to the frogs? Don't be like the frogs!"
That's similar for The Hangman, which only adds an artistic element; poetry.

The problem is that you can do the same for ALL moral lessons, good AND BAD.
In Aesop, the story shows: “This happened → here’s the result → here’s a moral.”
But the same structure could be used for destructive or unethical lessons if the storyteller wanted: Example: “Person X stole from neighbors → Person X enjoyed the loot and nothing happened → therefore stealing is smart.”

Readers or listeners might misinterpret the moral:
"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (also Aesop) doesn't teach to not lie, if you think about it,
it teaches to never tell the same lie TWICE.

To show why an action is right or wrong, link the behavior to its real consequences for people in general. Then generalize it into a principle.
Morals are accurate when the cause → effect → general lesson chain is clear.

She had learned to be dishonest
by virtue of her association
with the authoritarian liar.

Sorry, I am telling the truth on this 1, i fell and got hurt on the ice the other day and have been laid up hurting bad,with little to no desire to turn on the boob tube or internet news.

If your son is dying from cancer....what the fuck you are doing here?

part Cherokee yes

If I used all the added words I guess I would be German-Scottish-Cherokee-Confederate-American.

unless you are lieing, which,you very well could be, Your profile says you live in the uk "living in United Kingdom" copied from your page.
OK, that is British.
Who did we here in America have to fight to get our independence? Britain. Now if we go back in history, many European country's conquered and "colonized" other places.
Here is what the people of YOUR residence did to the Indians further north of me,
" The British give smallpox-contaminated blankets to Shawnee and Lenape (Delaware) communities—an action sanctioned by the British officers Sir Jeffery Amherst and his replacement, General Thomas Gage. Image of a Mesoamerican infected with smallpox."
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By the way, I already knew alot of this history but while trying to address you I am using google to save typing and to provide a broader explanation.

So to think it is so inhuman of Trump just offering to BUY a island with 57,000 people on it, when folks from your country did all this, is quite a stretch,

well, they may not get what they want, they may get what they need. The income they will earn from the natural resources gleaned from their frozen tundra will create jobs and better homes and towns.which would lead to economic independence from the vicious grip of denmark.

what else would I call you all?

Well,what is preventing Others from trying to take it? Would you rather russia attack denmark and then take it that way?

You just have realized that phart is a fundamentalist, and operates much in the same way that Muslim fundamentalists do: need ready to accept anything, even die, rather than refute any word coming from the mouth or ass (it's the same in his case) of trump. Trump, for phart, is god.

Remember the vivid parties where Trump supporters were infecting themselves to prove that trump was right? Well, some of them died and only when they were dying did they regret it. But it was too late.

For phart, if trump says that by giving tax breaks to the billionaires is going to create a great health care system, that's it, he believes that. He has no way to fire those synapses in his brain to produce a rational argument. He can't. It's perhaps not his fault for being brain-damaged, just like all those millions of maga-idiots who follow their supreme leader like sheep.

As for changing topic, phart has no way to respond other than changing the topic. All the time. By using random things he picks from far right wing media on the internet.

Yes, I would trust a for profit company to save my leg over a government run heath system. There is no compassion in government. it is all about cost cutting and who bribed me the most last week.
If a company saves my leg and restored my health, i will tell others about it, enticing investment into that company, other people using it's services. Government doesn't have to advertise it's health care, folks are just expected to use it and cope with the results. I wish I could go to a private hospital with my current heart issues. this shit has drug out now for 8 months and no improvement as the dr has to follow insurance guidelines and what it will pay for as treatment. try this pill 2 months then try this 1. all the while I am sitting here with the energy level of a sloth with the gout.

I'm starting to think Leo was right about you thinking for yourself.. you'll believe anything you are told as long as it fits your agenda. that article is just not true.. Canada is implementing new 6 billion dollar artic surveillance and defense network aligned with Europe and independent from Trump's big beautiful golden dome, because he can't be trusted to do the right thing.. We cut you out, not the other way around.