Including, apparently, supporting a political movement that wants to exterminate them.

Just a slob like one of us

They’ve always bragged about making bad financial decisions simply because the results of those decisions amused them.

Bread and circuses still works.

you guys are gonna also have a hard time with this spreading virus,

The American example is proving to be a bit of a wakeup call for the more passively progressive people in my country.

When I wrote this, the Middle Eastern conflict wasn’t happening,"

So, he wrote it long before any of us were born?

The US doesn’t need any of Trump’s fucked up vanity projects, but they seem content to allow him to do it anyway.

For the sake of argument, what would you call a seat that was not next to the aisle?

Cabin view.

The fascists in other countries are taking notes after seeing how easily Trump and the MAGAts are managing to get away with this bullshit.

The rest of us need to wake the fuck up and push back agaist thw faccists before it gets too late in our countries.

Growing up on a farm we killed, plucked and processed a few hundred chickens each year. Kept us and several families in town fed with good quality meat over the winter.

It’s not a bad thing to be that close to your own food production.

I find that the the same authoritarian, isolationist, and anti-intellectual mind-viruses that permeate through society in the United States (especially in rural communities) have a beachhead here in Western Europe

America’s worst export.

Nobody else appointed the US as “world police”.

It’s a role that they gleefully took on so they could go around telling others what to do.

The “libs” get angry.

Rolling your eyes and muttering “what a fucking idiot” isn’t the same as getting angry.

He’s not going to live forever

And, I would assume, if anyone had done that training it would be FBI agents.

As if anyone trusted Patel anyway.

The US has a freebie wildcard

It’s called the “who’s gonna stop me” card.

Bullies like to play that one as often as possible.

We come in peace

^shoot to kill^