On 3/24/2017 12:04 PM, Bruce wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:57:25 -0700, Taxed and Spent
> > wrote:
>
>> On 3/24/2017 11:01 AM, Bruce wrote:
>>> On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:57:30 -0700, Taxed and Spent
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3/24/2017 10:50 AM, sf wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 09:58:52 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> He has a point. It's bad form for disinterested parties to go on about another country's business. OTOH, the president has pretty much raised the bar on bad form. So you got that happening...
>>>>>
>>>>> That's for sure. In any case, Angela Merkel is leader of the free
>>>>> world now - not Trump.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There is no such thing as the free world anymore.
>>>
>>> Yes, there is. You can go stand on a street corner and tell people
>>> that Trump's an idiot. And you won't end up in jail. Same for me here.
>>>
>>
>> But you cannot do the opposite on a college campus these days.
>
> No, probably not. Nor should you praise the benefits of socialism at a
> Tea Party.
>

not quite the same thing.