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Some folks have an idealized picture of a British culture that was always essentially late Victorian/Edwardian that had been unchanged for centuries until the 1950s. In fact, it's always been dynamic, ready to adopt foreign customs, like tea drinking, and drunker, lewder, less deferential, more emotional, and more violent than some would think.

Or perhaps there have always been evil nurses, but they're being caught more often now with better forensics.

Israelis are occult Baal worshiper? Yeah, Owens is an antisemite.

So what leads you to be she despises Catholics.

Some Orthodox Jews are Zionists and dress in accordance with the tenets if their faith. Why is that worthy of mention?

Apparently they are. Comparability was an absolute requirement.

Regardless of which aircraft we choose, there's a chance the USAF might have to expand operations, as permitted by the NORAD agreement because we may not be able to keep the CF-18s flying until we replace them

What exactly was the Ramadan activity the child refused to do?

Much of Africa is a shit hole. It's not polite for a Head of State to say so, especially so bluntly, but it's factual. Pretending they aren't is neither enlightened nor helpful. Somalis in particular have a poor reputation for honesty. Note he included some non African countries on his list of shit holes.

I don't think Trump is racist, but he is a narcissistic jerk. Trump is responsible for content going out in his name, even if a minor minion actually posted it. Whether the poster realized it or not, the caricature was racist. Trump should have had the integrity to admit the error and apologize, but that kind of graciousness is alien to him. Trump won't admit he's wrong.

It is an outright lie that Trump equated white supremacists with the monument revisionists. Instead, he specifically criticized them. Nor did Trump start the claims about Obama's citizenship, that was the Clinton campaign. The early seventies housing discrimination was unfortunately SOP among NYC landlords at the time, predating Trump's time in management. Find a similarly hyped by media gang rape case in NYC with White suspects that Trump ignored. And the bizarre claim about Black workers at the casino in the eighties seems to come from a single source claim first made in a Socialist magazine.

Trump will be gone by the time a second tranche of F-35 can be delivered. His potential successors are all far less mercurial. And if they did ground or degrade an F-35 fleet, so what? Russia isn't going to attack just us. We can bask in a few minutes of schadenfreude while the US screws itself

The US simply cannot withdraw from NORAD and Canada should be spending more on defence anyway, and is planning do so

It seems a high proportion of the Border Patrol officers are Hispanic.

Trade negotiations are hard enough. Choosing Gripen certainly won't help. As for the long term, Trump is a blip and no matter what, we're going to be closer than just about anyone else. We also can't divorce ourselves militarily because our defence is America's defence and vice versa. The US can't seriously disrupt our defence without disrupting theirs. Defence procurement and interoperability might be enhanced if we were even closer to the US.