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At first glance, sure. But then, strength in conviction and leadership mean nothing if you’re strongly leading your people and your country into ruin.

Good call. They unprinced Andrew, they can unlord Mandy.

Sure you can, but why fabricate evidence against someone when you can trick them into making real evidence?

The hard job of fabrication begins if and only if that fails.

Nah. He has other tricks. Sending in armed goons and cheating at golf are a couple of them.

I suppose you could go to the root of all these for the real lone trick: being a self-serving piece of [redacted]

And Israel only need bring up that Australia did something similar with their own brown people a while back, so why can’t they do it right now?

“That was then, this is now.” is not the greatest of arguments.

Which is why I said we should leave that can at the back of the cupboard.

Tricky prospect. If they admit Australia on that criterion, they’d have no good reason to not admit Israel if they asked to join, and that’s a can of worms I don’t think Europe would want to open. Best leave that can at the back of the cupboard.

Now, if we could find some other criterion, I don’t see why not. Sticking it to Britain by accepting all of the Commonwealth except Britain could work as an argument, and might even be popular on the continent.

It would have to be couched in cleverer language, of course, for the sake of plausible deniability.

I wonder how likely it is that the Mafia would like and respect ICE agents. And if that’s not likely at all, whether they know of any very deep holes.

Putin considers Ukraine to be part of Russia and thinks that anyone with a differing opinion is wrong. I hadn’t really thought about that previously, but it does somewhat patch the hole you found in my logic.

Vat is problem. Is job.

(Too dark?)

Well, Richard Stallman is an archetypal greybeard, so there’s a tenuous link there.

The anti-Christ that doesn’t know or is pretending that he doesn’t know he’s an anti-Christ, seeks to warn people of people like him, but not him specifically because he’s warning them about it, so it can’t possibly be him.

There’s something ironic about real bears being repatriated to a country run by a toy one.

They asked, and were refused, in 2012 according to this article: https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/germany-gold-reserves-us-storage-repatriation-concerns-13878824.html

Heck, it wasn’t even a Republican government at the time. That gold is gone.

Oh thank f–k. I don’t think I could have handled there being a war with the US over Greenland.

Now all I have to worry about is the Online “Safety” Act and the rise of authoritarianism and the far right in my country!

Strong odds he’s the next Prime Minister. Unfortunately at least 50% of my countrymen are (still) stupid enough to believe the lies.

Trump and his family have gladly accepted Russian money and one of the world leaders he most admires is Putin because of the way he “handles” his political opposition, so they’re very much influenced by what Putin says, does and asks them to do.

Frankly both Putin and Trump can get in the sea.

You sound like the sort of person who would say “it’s for their own good” if Russia did lean into its patently obvious expansionist plans and try to take land from other countries. “But Belarus is OK and that would be easy”. There’s a Russian puppet in charge there, just like there’s a Russian puppet in charge of the US.

I don’t think many countries have room to talk on that one.

Trump has already called Canada the 51st. None of his yes-men would dare be caught altering the big man’s numbering. Even if they do appear to be trying to obtain 52 first. Edit: Or possibly 53. Got my wires crossed between Greenland and Iceland.

(Trump hasn’t quite grasped, or is refusing to acknowledge, that Canada is already split into state-like provinces, nor that those are split into counties in much the same way as US states are.)

doesn’t care how many die

He’d have to understand in order to care. I don’t think he’s capable of fully understanding the harm he does. Anything that doesn’t harm him is incomprehensible to him.