@megansmolenyak.com knows a lot about ol Rafael, I believe.
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@megansmolenyak.com knows a lot about ol Rafael, I believe.
I did the lawyers. I ain't got time for all these members of congress. <ducking>
News flash: his ancestors were immigrants.
#askmehowIknow
The Republican Party.
I just actually laughed out loud.
In the space of two minutes he confused Greenland and Iceland four times by my count.
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The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
Would also think now would be a good time for the same media folks who beat the βBiden is old and feebleβ drumbeat to do similarly.
Garrett's on Bluesky here: @vermontgmg.bsky.social
To quote my brother's award-winning 1999 independent film "Judy Berlin," "There's no sub to it. You're all liminal."
Different era of immigration, but sure.
(And to be clear, because there's always one, I meant that they didn't deserve to be branded as rats, either.)
It cannot be repeated enough that branding immigrants as criminals responsible for bringing social ills to the U.S. is as American as apple pie.
Look at this cartoon from 1903.
Those rats in the water are the ancestors of Greg Bovino, Stephen Miller and Howard Lutnick, among many others.
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
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βfor this is a war which we all wage, this time, not for our German people alone, it is a war for all of Europe and with it, in the long run, for all of mankind.β - Adolf Hitler, 1942
This story is gutting.
Six reasons why Trumpβs attack on Venezuela was very wrong:
Well this is awkward π¬
I would pay cash money to watch someone ask Trump to explain the Monroe Doctrine.
Because nothing suggests cognitive competence like being repeatedly tested for it.
Blink twice for assistance, Tony.
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Watching this happen in real-time is...something else.
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Well that explains a lot.
This American has an idea.
Iβm going to go out on a limb and say that Miller knows exactly what heβs doing. The last couple of takes β including the Sinatra/ Martin one βhave been so epically ahistorical that itβs hard to believe he really doesnβt know. (Even though he went to Duke. π) www.irishstar.com/news/politic...
Has anyone here met me? π€