Also, who wears a basebal cap and a T-shirt, and brings his four-year old who - like any four-year old - can’t shut the hell up in the oval office? I mean honestly, who is this guy? Just because he has money doesn’t give him the right to turn the presidency into a fucking daycare center. He could at least pretend to respect the institution a little bit…
The reenactment would be more convincing if they arranged the aircraft to look like train cattle cars and packed the deportees more tightly inside.
I mean someone actually shot at drump so it can’t be that complicated.
The first thing you can do is not buy anything that makes the tech billionaires more money. All they care about is money: don’t give them any if you can help it.
That’s just for Americans. They get to see only the orange propaganda name. Mexico gets to see only the regular name, probably because Google figures Mexico is really salty about the stupid renaming, and the rest of the world sees both name because imperialism.
I don’t have anything against renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, the Gulf of Cuba, the Gulf of Michael Jackson or anything really… provided that 1/ there’s some sort of desire for a new name, 2/ it makes more sense and 3/ everybody in the region agrees.
Trump’s Gulf of America doesn’t meet any of those criteria: nobody asked for this, it makes no more sense to attribute the name of this gulf to any one of the countries bordering it than to Mexico (and it doesn’t concern the whole of the American continent) and nobody agrees to do this.
Trump’s Golf of America is strictly a low-effort attempt by Trump to pander to his racist magaque base. And of course, the tech monopolies like Google just ro-ro with that because money.
The magaques demand genuine respect for slavery, not pretend.
Basically Finland asked for military assistance from Nazi Germany to keep the Soviet Union at bay. German troops fought the Soviets on Finnish soil. And then when the war turned sour for Germany, Finland turned against Germany and kicked them out - more or less at the behest of the United States.
Finland’s problem has always been its gigantic aggressive neighbor to the east - and it still has that problem today. It explained its cozy relationship with Nazi Germany by the need to keep a bigger problem at bay. And it was completely true and completely rational.
But what was also true - and I know it for a fact because I talked to Finns who lived through the war and housed Germans - is that the German troops behaved impeccably in Finland and left a very good impression, even today. The Finns aren’t too proud of that but it’s a fact, and it’s even understandable from the point of view of individual Finns of the time.
After the war, not wanting to lose a potential ally in the newly-established Cold War, the US sort of accepted Finland’s rationale and let it slide. Kind of like they did with France too, which equally deserved a lot more flak than they got.
I would take any story of a scandal involving Pakistan reported by an Indian newspaper with a giant salt crystal.
Steve Bannon can rot in hell.
He might start rotting before that: he dresses and looks like a tramp who doesn’t shower too often…
Wow, if Steve Bannon is being the reasonable adult in the magade, that says something about how out there the maga-in-chief is…
Zelensky should agree: he can always renege after the war, claiming he did what he had to do to stay independent like the Finns did after WW2 to justify inviting the Nazis in, and pointing to Trump himself as the quintessential untrustworthy ruler who readily goes back on his word.
Wouldn’t be funny if Russia interjected “Hey, we have rare earths. Want some?”
I was seven years old, we visited the Vatican
That’s a scary thought right there.
Here’s an idea: if the Vatican is so concerned about the fate of the poor, how about it uses its own obscene wealth and assets to step up to the plate?
Fucking hypocrites…
Who knew a hick from Appalachia would become the first American Reichsmarschall and an obscenely wealthy South African the first American Reichsführer… What a weird bunch.
attacked the legitimacy of judicial oversight
But of course. All dictatorships eventually reach that stage.
The Nazification of America is proceeding apace.
Don’t just roll over and disappear
If I’m drawing a salary from you and you don’t give me proper notice and a pink slip, I’ll be all over you like a fly on a ripe turd. I don’t think anybody who’s lawfully employed by the agencies that have been taken over by Trump’s goons are going to let the matter slide and sulk in their corner. It’s just that a job isn’t worth physically resisting said goons.
people still showing up to work and expecting to get paid are all following the law.
People aren’t going to risk putting up a fight to defend their job. If Trump and Musk post goons at the entrance, no employee in their right mind will try to force their way in because they’re legally supposed to be at work. They’ll all stay at home and demand to be paid their salaries, because they were willing to work but were prevented to.
Poor kid is named X. What stupid assholes his parents are: he’s gonna have to bear that stupid name all his life.
Then again, he could have been called Twitter I guess…