You are a good student of US politics, richietog . The saying in Washington is that Pompous Pompeo is the 2nd most ambitious person in Washington. And that the most ambitious is Mrs Pompeo.
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I’m not sure I understand. Chameleons blend in with their environments. But Cristina?
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Cristina certainly sings a different song than she did when Macri was president - -
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What a horrible campaign to discredit these men who actually did the work of the Argentine government for them. And how could the govt possibly claim that they knew the identities of the dead, who unbelievably were not even provided dog tags by the military?
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Nice photo. Looks like a lead-in to a Western movie.
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When the World Seems Like One Big Conspiracy
Understanding the structure of Global Cabal theories can shed light on their allure — and their inherent falsehood.
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Alarm is growing in Sweden that its light touch approach to managing the pandemic has failed as the per capita infection rate rises above Britain's.
Source: The Times, November 20, 2020
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True. Also that 3-adjective description of the Royals by Dennis Thatcher. Dead on.
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What? The Royal Family? Or my addiction?
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My obsession with The Crown has made me more interested in Lord Mountbatten. This article looks fascinating, but the Telegraph won’t let me read it. Can anyone cut & paste, please?
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Why am I not comforted to have US govt leaders compared to Argentina’s? But yes, I take your point.
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Can’t help my addiction to The Crown. Watching the newly released Season Four now.
Yikes! I can certainly understand why the Royal Family hates their collective portrayal. But for all us commoners, it is a fabulous escape from 2020.
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China, Germany, and Poor Pitiful Putin:
China has seized on claims that Covid-19 was circulating in Italy last September as evidence that it may not be to blame for giving the world the virus.
German police used water cannons to try to break up an illegal rally of up to 14,000 protesters around the Brandenburg Gate during a furious parliamentary debate over the government's pandemic bill. One prominent right-wing MP described the bill as the doorway to a "health dictatorship".
President Putin is desperate for human contactafter spending the majority of the year in near isolation at his coronavirus-proof residency near Moscow, the Kremlin has said.
Source: The Times, 19 November 2020
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And, richietog , the madness is not confined to him alone:
The NYT's Jonathan Martin asked House minority leader Kevin McCarthy: "Doesn't Biden cool the country’s political temperatures, at least at first?" McCarthy responded: "It depends how it turns out. If you have 70 percent of Republicans who thought he cheated, he's still going to have a hard time."
McCarthy may have been referencing this new Monmouth poll, which found that 77% of Trump backers "say Biden's win was due to fraud..."
As Chris Cillizza wrote, that poll "is *exactly* why Republican leaders need to speak up against Trump's election lies..."
So my question is this: Why don’t these congressional and Republican Party “leaders” who KNOW there was no fraud, love their country enough to speak the truth?
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I couldn’t find a thread about dogs, so decided to integrate this cat one with the good news for canines this holiday season: their own Christmas music!
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Not so ironic when viewed as part of the scorched earth policy he is laying out to hobble his successor, thus making his own achievements seem better in comparison. But all the more troubling that he has announced to the Taliban how many troops are being removed and how many will remain.
Add to this, yesterday’s revenge firing of the Homeland Security head of cyber security, who oversees not just elections but also the nation’s power grids, and you can’t prevent your mind from drifting into conspiracy theory territory.
Would he possibly welcome a terrorist attack on the US at the beginning of his rival’s administration? Remember, this is not a man of sound mind, who is driven by self-interest, ego, and retribution against any who cross him. -
Oh! Yes it is!
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That’s a duck at the Serpentine, and not a fuzzy microphone?
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Don’t you Brits have ANY standards?!
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How funny!
