Is this when he loudly states, "Let me be perfectly clear..." several hundred times?

I tore out my eyes when the James Webb telescope went live. Couldn't live with my inability to keep up.

How is it possible for the UK to have such terrible mobile reception everywhere? Have people not visited 'abroad' and compared?! It seems staggering that this is not more of a political issue.

"I chose not to have some rights. Now I no longer have those rights."

Genius.

You've got to salute the sheer hope-suffused ambition of even attempting to take a photo of a dog at anything less than 1/250 sec

Did they think of having any diplomats present this time?

Every single member of the current administration comes across - to us outsiders - as a rank idiot, a moron who childishly *believes* themself blessed with wisdom and intellect, whilst with every syllable uttered, every action displayed, demonstrating precisely the opposite. It's deeply pathetic.

There's an irreversible and massive realignment going on. Billions of people across hundreds of countries reassessing their relationship with the US. Turns out that when you f*ck around, eventually your abused partner walks. And there's nothing to be done to rescue the situation. Bye bye.

That's what he's done. He's revealed - revelled - in a side of the US we didn't think real. He's insulted us, attacked us, harmed us, & sided with our enemies.

Well, eventually an abused spouse walks. Next time someone flies a plane into one of your skyscrapers, good luck. You'll be on your own.

Is that salvageable? No, I don't think so. Once a partner sleeps with someone else, they show themselves for what they are; you reevaluate past actions in a new light; and you never trust them again.

Meanwhile, I wouldn't even visit the US now. I am actively searching for alternatives to US products and US partnerships. And it's not just me: it's billions of us, across a hundred countries on six continents. All of us realising that the US we thought we knew is gone, and we must look elsewhere.

As a British person, it is abundantly clear that even China represents the better partner. Yes it does a lot of things we object to, and yes it doesn't act for our benefit. But nor does the US, and at least China can be relied upon to act rationally and predictably in its own interest.

Speaking from outside the US, it's an utter tragedy for America's image that the achievements, technical prowess and sheer joyful hope that these astronauts represent, has been utterly overshadowed by Trump and he and his supporters' rank insanity. America's reputation is, I'm afraid, shot to pieces

Like a hundred million other Americans, this man is an utter cunt.

Did he get 1980s Playboy to design his signage?

What a cunt

*an angry toddler with a machine gun

What a missed opportunity this has been for the US. All this period will be remembered for is Trump-Iran, and all the rest of the world can think about now is how to have *less* contact with America and Americans. We will all side with China, because even a bad adult is better than an angry toddler.

Just shows that when you're genuinely open-minded, and make an effort to find real talent - even where societies have contrived to hide it - you can do amazing things and likely build a far better world.

She made a damn good go of it, and very nearly won; she deserves a lot of kudos for that. But that's still just not good enough.

Can everyone please stop excusing the US president by saying that he has dementia.

He's always been like this. It's not dementia. He's a deluded, arrogant, nepo baby, chock full of Dunning Kruger degrees of self-belief and deep rooted stupidity and rich and influential enough to get away with it

Why is he wearing a child's suit?

Sure. But looking from the outside it looks like America just keeps wanting this crass little vulgarian... Would be nice if he weren't foisted on the rest of us.

Maybe when it came down to it Croesus also struggled to run a casino, and was all talk.

100%. Our posts just crossed paths. See my further comment just now. These people are not the ones living unsustainably; we are. Even viewed solipsistically, they are the canary in the mine.

Indeed, the key point from the latter film is that - in environmental terms - these people loving traditional lives are very much the victims of *our* lifestyle, and us lecturing them as to ethics and sustainability, is totally out of order.

The Islands and The Whales | POV | PBS YouTube video by PBS

Even more sensitive subject treated just as sensitively by the same brilliant filmmaker Mike Day of Intrepid Cinema

youtu.be/30YRnTO2FVI

The Guga Hunters of Ness Dailymotion video by Chop Chop Channel

There is a balance to be struck on such things, and you don't do away with a small but culturally important thing like this simply due to outside pressure.

www.dailymotion.com/video/x5a3a2l

A large proportion of the current US leadership take a prurient delight in their power, and cause great suffering. Speaking from outside the US - and echoing a comment I've heard again and again - it is a genuine pity for the US and for the whole of humanity that that bullet missed Trump.