Re: Helping a tourist with STI problems

On Fri, 23 May 2025 12:09:48 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 5/23/2025 9:49 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Fri, 23 May 2025 09:35:14 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
 

On 5/23/2025 8:07 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Fri, 23 May 2025 07:55:13 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
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On 5/23/2025 4:45 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Thu, 22 May 2025 18:40:36 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:
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On Thu, 22 May 2025 19:29:53 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
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By the way, before 2024 Mr Musk was a darling of the left.
Tastes change.

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Prez Trump changed political parties quite often:
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Republican    1987 to 1999.
Reform Party  1999 to 2001.
Democrat      2001 to 2009.
Republican    2009 to 2011.
Independent   2011 to 2012.
Republican    2012 to present
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<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump>
See right side bar under "Personal Details".

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I beieve not permently attaching one self to a political party is a
positive characteristic.
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C'est bon
Soloman

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For one's personal integrity and self respect, sure.
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But the downside is to be ostracized from political power
and efficacy in policy.

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Maybe for politicians, but doesn't seem to hinder Trump.
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C'est bon
Soloman

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Reconsider that.
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Popular independents and 3d party candidates can move the
range of discussion, but cannot win national office in USA.
He's presently a nominal Republican for very good reason and
that reason is not ideological.

 
I believe, and I may be wrong, that Trump was elected on the virtue of
his stated intentions. Many registered Republicans, and some Democrats
don't like the man, but like what he said he was going to do, and
believed that he was going to do what he advocated.
 
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C'est bon
Soloman

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Exactly.  He successfully parsed positions of both parties
to form a slight majority. He's not at all an ideologue and
failed at party purity tests in both major parties.
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But yet, one needs the support of one party or another to
win national office. And here we are.

I don't know if he's an idealogue or not. I never liked him and I
never watched his TV shows, but I've gone back into his history and
discovered that he'd had many of the issues he ran on from way back.

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C'est bon
Soloman