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"Forget about intelligence": Fellow Americans, the worst and least relevant Secretary of State since John Sherman (if you have never heard of him, now you know why), actually finally gets something right in characterizing this Trump "administration."

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So a 34x convicted felon, who tried Mussolini-1922 style to overthrow the government on Jan 6, 2021, and therefore should be in prison and nowhere near the presidency, has decided (without congressional authorization other than “briefing” sycophant House/Senate leaders) the US is at war with Iran.

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He has publicly stated he does not rule out military action against… NATO ally Denmark. We have long passed such a threshold of impeachable offense with this felon fascist. He could have used nuclear weapons on Tehran overnight and not faced “impeachment” with this sycophant majority in Congress.

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No more pandering to all those foreign types. English is the ONLY language of the REAL America. Fox “News,” and on the assorted motley bunch of other even more far right outlets, are now the new “Voice of America.”

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He looks scared. I would be too if I were president and had no idea what I was doing.

submitted 2 days ago • 412 comments

About 8pm today on the Brittany Ferries “Amorique,” in Plymouth harbor, nearing the end of the six hour crossing from Roscoff, France.

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His appalling manners, his incredible stupidity, and above all else, what comes out of his ugly mouth are an ongoing disgrace to the dignity of the office of the presidency first held by George Washington.

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The next non-felon president with a brain (assuming there is one) will have to recreate VOA.

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He has always done this. He does what ignoramuses/fakers do. Fearing questions on actual details, he knows if he keeps rambling and blathering no one can pin him down and ask about specifics on the first idiot thing he said or the third or sixth because he is by now on the seventeenth idiot thing…

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These are not concentration camps, just camps where people are concentrated.

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I'm having to explain to foreigners that in the folkways of our culture "two weeks" means we're not doing this. #infrastructureweek #Geertz #nothappening

submitted 4 days ago • 119 comments

He went to college 60 years ago and his grades are “sealed.” His “job” after was “tycoon” in the, err, “family business.” He has no additional qualification - JD, PhD, not even a real estate license. His bedtime reading (other than Hitler speeches) is anyone’s guess. We have no idea what he “knows.”

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Mairie d’Ars-en-Ré, earlier today - before the heat REALLY hit. Had to be over 30c.🇫🇷🥵😂 #Arsenre #iledere #France #scenic #holiday #vacances #travel #tourism #cycling

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“Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.” Okay.🤔😁 21/20. P.S. My (late) uncle’s novels get an honorable mention. #booksky #bookchallenge #books #readersofsky #20daybookchallenge

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🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

submitted 5 days ago • 812 comments

This is not Iraq 2002-03. The US has NO international support at all - no UK, Australia, or Poland - (Israel, which started this, does not count) and there is not even a pretense of looking for UN approval. An attack on Iran is just Trump fascist aggression aiming to further his power grab at home.

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It’s also silly. A story gets the “point of view” best suited to the tale. “The Big Sleep” is fine in the first person. But try to imagine “War and Peace” written in the first person. Through which single character’s eyes only should we have “witnessed” Napoleon’s invasion of Russia?

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The grabbers are not grabbing them. They are fine with those they don’t like getting hauled off. It’s sadly that simple.

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Today is the 210th anniversary of Waterloo. A U.S. footnote. A Wellington aide, Colonel William De Lancey, had been born in New York in 1778. His loyalist (“Tory”) family had fled the U.S. in 1783 for England. He was wounded and died on June 26 in a Belgian cottage, nursed by his Scottish wife.

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“Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.” Okay.🤔😁 20/20. And I guess that is that then. #booksky #bookchallenge #books #readersofsky #20daybookchallenge

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#5amWritersClub On holiday, I’m reading this 2023 version of “From Russia With Love.” Removing, as I understand it, “1957” slurs, got some critics annoyed. I don’t have any problem with an author/estate revising a book: They own it. And as a writer, I admit I am careful. The 1780s? Good grief.🙄

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“Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.” Okay.🤔😁 19/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #books #readersofsky #20daybookchallenge

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The old line comes to mind, that media doesn’t cover all the planes that land safely, only the crashes. Suppose that rather makes some sense. Problem is, now, they don’t seem to be much covering even the crashes either.

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An English friend here in France yesterday told us of a US Trump supporter she knows who pretends, visiting Europe, she’s a Canadian. I scoffed: “She doesn’t even have the guts to admit she backs him? I have even less respect for that. If he’s so great, why not say why he is [to stupid Europeans]?”

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“Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.” Okay.🤔😁 18/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #books #readersofsky #20daybookchallenge

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At Mass Saturday, we saw here in the church in Loix, Île de Ré, France, two plaques listing the village’s dead in WWI and WWII. About 7 men in WWII and 35 in WWI. 7 in WWI had the same surname. One from WWII had the same surname as one in WWI. Chilling and unbelievable. A small village like this…

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It’s always about how the question is posed: 1) “Do you think there should be deportations for those who overstay visas?” “Yes, ma’am, I do.” 2) “Do you think your friend Phil, from England, who violated the terms of his ESTA, should be sent to a prison in El Salvador?” “No, that’s ridiculous.”

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Worse, it’s also idiotic. What happens? They dress as a cop to shoot Democratic officials and family? But aren’t Democrats the Marxists? It’s the thought process of a doorknob or a fascist trying to re-direct blame for a fascist thug’s personal US version of a “Night of the Long Knives.”

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Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

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🤣🤣🤣🤣

submitted 9 days ago • 181 comments

In 1776 my greatX4 grandfather Jacob Foust fought against a king in the Continental Army. His son Henry Foust again fought against a king in the War of 1812, on three separate occasions. This is our U.S. legacy, you orange draft-dodging pos. If you don't understand your job, resign.

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Some additional background history we Americans tend to forget: British forces attacked Washington DC in 1814 essentially in response to we Americans having sacked and burned the capital of Upper Canada, York (founded in 1793 largely by American loyalist refugees), today’s Toronto, the year before.

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“Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.” Okay.🤔😁 17/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #books #readersofsky #20daybookchallenge

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📣 DISSENT IS OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT 📣

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

We know the line that we all become “more conservative” as we age, but I find myself going the opposite way. The more I see of felonious fascist Trump and his clear abuses of our Constitution, the more liberal I am getting. I think I am now more liberal than I have ever been in my entire life.

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