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That led the interviewer to immediately cut short the broadcast, saying that there “are limits to political cynicism and sensationalism when it comes to several million victims and their memory”.

Meanwhile, in ‘Merikuh: FREEDUMB!

If Europe backs down every time, Trump will never stop turning the chessboard upside down.

One would think these world leaders had already learned this from their mothers and fathers about bullies. I guess not. When the money is threatened, what little backbone they have just slides right down out of their buttholes.

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Yeah, people say when you’re famous they just let you do it.

While I agree with the goal, this doesn’t make the underlying voter sentiment go away. What is the German government doing to address the underlying reasons for AFD’s rise? Regardless of their veracity, those thoughts are prevalent enough to cause this problem. While they might lessen, they won’t simply go away with the party if it’s banned. They have to be addressed, one way or another. I’m in the US, and I would argue that, out side of his base, most Trump voters don’t like the guy at all. Yet the Democrats’ “We’re not them” message has so far not been an consistent winner!

Butt, since they “have all the cards” why would the US do that!?

I’m beginning to think Trump doesn’t really know what it means to “have all the cards.” I suspect that’s why he was unable to successfully run a casino. More than once.

Meanwhile, Carney will hopefully be signing new trade deals with Japan, Mexico, and Europe, freezing the US out entirely. They should also maybe shut off the oil pipelines coming out of ‘Berta.

Actions, meet consequences! If world leaders are going to ignore multiple reports, not to mention their own country’s intelligence agencies, all saying Iran is not developing a nuclear weapon, why bother letting anyone in to inspect?

Thanks, Trump & Bibi! Working together to make everyone just a bit less safe, and the world just a bit more shitty.

It could be a perspective thing. Children of immigrants possibly don’t see themselves as immigrants or even adjacent.

One other thought I had was about trust fund kids thinking they “worked as hard as anyone else” for their riches. For example, I remember when Bezos was building Amazon. He certainly did work hard to build that site, but the benefits of the loan his parents provided cannot be overlooked or forgotten. Same thing with Elon… most rich people, for that matter.

They need to help him.

So, Russia starts a war and attacks non-military targets time after time. Ukraine attacks Russian bombers, and Putin says Russia “must respond.” Trumps says, “okie dokie!”

Art of the deal, right there. Guy’s a fucking master.

Seconhand smoke from vaping is also dangerous:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4565991/

https://www.healthline.com/health/second-hand-vape#effects

TL;DR: Mainly it's nicotine exposure, but vape smoke has been found to also contain lead, formaldehyde, & toluene.

Someone should explain to him why NATO exists. Then point to his own “truths” calling Putin “crazy*.”

• Not crazy, just an authoritarian doing what everyone who isn’t fanboying over him has known he’s wanted to do since forever because he’s said he wants to do it on multiple occasions: reunite the SSRs, through force if necessary. Maybe if Russia, with their history of staying in/prolonging/winning(?) wars by feeding really stupid numbers of people into the meat grinder (see also: current conflict in Ukraine), and a maddeningly growing number of other countries, wasn’t a threat to democracy in Europe, we wouldn’t need NATO. Crazy, I know.

I really hope they realize this is nothing more than a means of shoveling massive sums of money to the MIC with little to nothing to show for it other than a “strong economy.”

Would certainly explain his willingness to get into bed with Trump. Birds of a feather and all.

That’s a bingo.

Any bets on how quickly these folks are fast tracked to Green Card status?

Yeah, they’re still working on their final solution to this.

Something that comes out after guys like Trump have been in power is the voter regret. When asked why they voted for him they usually say the same 2 things: Either he was the only one talking about stuff the voter cared about, or they figured he would “shake things up” and/or change things. Note in that last part, the voter doesn’t really care what’s going to change or how it will happen, they’re just sick of the status quo.

All of this is to say that yes people are stupid, but that also holds true the politicians who’ve been pedaling the status quo, or minimal change, for generations and ignoring the growing anger of people who’ll eventually vote for craziness in the name of “change.”

I would imagine they have some beautiful, world class couches in the Vatican. I can only imagine what the Pope walked in on!

Right! You see, this will increase global manufacturing’s need for oil for all that extra shipping, thus raising the price of oil, so US oil makes us all* rich!

• “All” meaning all the people already rich from making/selling oil including, and mostly, non-American countries/oil barons. The average person will almost certainly see their overall wealth decrease greatly.