If that be so then when are United States of Absurdity going to take their first tentative step then?

@Triphid We took that step in 2016.

@JackPedigo Yes, I agree, a backwards step.

The Murdoch, Turdock imo, owned Press started on Albanese with the almost same crap reports here as early as last Sunday morning when the welcome defeat of Happy, Clappy Jesus Chappy Morriscum and his Party of Thieves and Scumbags was announced as an almost certainty so that seems to be the good media -wise these days does it not?

People expect the president to be able to take care of everything. Don't know what changed when tRump took over except the he appealed to a certain mindset with stupid that wanted to blame everyone else except their own habits. When I lived in Germany in the 70's and 80' gas was already much higher and even Canada had prices more than that before the pandemic. $6 is barely keeping up with inflation. We have become spoiled and want to drive gas guzzlers with no sense of guilt. Oil is a limited resource and the peak was around 2000. We Americans continue to live in a dream world and refuse to accept any culpability in our habits.

It's been a long time since I was asked to "swear" that I was going to testify truthfully, the wording has been "affirm" for many years.

Yes, perhaps the ones across the big pond can at LEAST try to learn a lesson or2 from us Colonials.

However in his victory speech he did talk about his mother looking down at him.

@Carbine Maybe he likes to think as did his now late and lamented Mum would have for the sake of her memory.

I keep hearing about ' merica being founded on Christian principles, but even in the past there were men and women who didn't aspire to nonsense. Thomas Paine was one, and I certainly believe Ben Franklin was another.

@Diogenes That may well be so but look where the United States of Absurdity is now.

@Triphid Yep, agreed, but I have a few friends down in the US; they have a firm grip on reality- and are traumatized by all this bull shit from the uneducated. And the word "uneducated"- schooled, regardless of their degree, but they learned nothing.

@Diogenes May one enquire as to whom you are referring, etc, etc, as being "uneducated, etc, etc"?
And as an adjunct, can you show irrefutable proof positive that their levels of education, knowledge, etc, etc, are anything greater or better than those of mine for example?

Ah yes, another one of my f-ups. I was talking about cognitive people verses the type who have paid some back-woods university for a degree.

@Diogenes Well rest assured ALL of my Degrees came from
ACTUAL Studies through ACTUAL and RECOGNISED Universities in Australia.
I also note via your avatar/screen persona that you seem to have stopped short of the title that has always been used in conjunction with your choice, i.e. Diogenes the Cynic.
May one inquire as you reasoning behind such an omission IF, of course there is one.

No idea but it is NOT the first as far as I know.
When our first and sadly short term female P.M. was sworn in she too refuse to swear on the Holey Babble because she was and still is an Atheist.

Plus, IF you check the history behind the DEPOSED Prime Minister you will find the he is a fully fledged member of the Hillsong, or as I call it Hillpong, Church/community and even the religio-tards seemed to have voted to give him the D.C.M. ( Don't Come Monday) order.
Perhaps, just PERHAPS it is high time for the United States of Absurdity to borrow a page or 3 from the book of the Australian way?

There seems to have been not a murmur in Australia. There were some eyebrows raised slightly when Australia's first female PM was sworn in as an atheist, so today's silence fits the mould.

We've already had non religious PMs, so it's nothing new. The outgoing idiot PM was a religious nutter, but not many took his religion too seriously, and for all his religion, his word was his nothing.

@Triphid Hawke was an atheist, wasn't he? Only one God in his life -- him!

@David1955 and alcohol

@David1955 I think Hawley was an on again /off again Agnostic more than an Atheist, Whitlam was a full on Agnostic, Gillard was 100% Atheist though.