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Mark Everest's avatar

Great as always. As a Brit, perhaps obviously, I’m particularly drawn (no pun intended) to the Hegseth/Chamberlain comparison - Absolutely on the money. There is a lot of anger both here in the Uk and in mainland Europe. Putin is clearly playing on Trump’s vanity. This is appeasement. At the risk of stating the obvious, I cannot overstate how dangerous all of this is. M

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Steve Brodner's avatar

Oh we have no idea.

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Dee Cee's avatar

Never forget Helsinki. This has been in the works since then.

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Jan Frederick's avatar

Loved the way you worked those tattoos in! What was the quote, "peace in our time", for 5 minutes maybe. Hegseth obviously does not have a clue what he is doing. Thank you, Steve.

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Steve Brodner's avatar

It was too much even for Trump!

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Dee Cee's avatar

A little off topic, but I never thought I'd live to see the day that I started rooting for other countries to take actions again my own. I'm not talking about violence. I'm talking about things such as Mexico possibly suing Google over renaming the Gulf of Mexico. Or countries putting travel bans on Americans (akin to trump's former Muslim travel ban).

It makes me sad that I feel this way.

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Steve Brodner's avatar

The feeling you get when you realize that your country has actually been invaded.

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Dee Cee's avatar

As a Californian, I wouldn't mind being invaded.

By Canada. Sending the Mounties to our rescue.

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Abbe Alpert's avatar

Google did that?!

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Dee Cee's avatar

I hope it's okay to post a link from another publication here. Mexico is considering suing Google:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/bristling-at-gulf-of-mexico-name-change-on-maps-mexico-says-it-might-sue-google/ar-AA1z0yrs?ocid=BingNewsSerp

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Abbe Alpert's avatar

I don't understand how mass resignations of honest attorneys is resistance. That's exactly what the Trump administration is hoping will happen so they can replace the attorneys with loyalists.

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E.R. Flynn's avatar

Is what I heard about the Doge douche crew zooming into the National Nuclear Security Administration and firing 300 people, and thereby making us even more at risk of nuclear accidents or war isn't true, is it? Please, please, please, let us hope it isn't.

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lin•'s avatar

And the winner in the category of Lick Their Boots and They'll Kick You in The Teeth is ... Susan Collins!

Former Elon Musk worker challenges Susan Collins for US Senate

https://www.pressherald.com/2025/02/14/former-elon-musk-worker-challenges-susan-collins-for-us-senate/

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