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Also stopped the longstanding annual practice of making a statement of remorse over the massacre of thousands of Korean residents after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923. Because she’s a right wing revisionist.

ask Herzog to work on easing tensions surrounding the Palestinian enclave Gaza, ruled by Hamas, demonstrating Japan's desire for the situation in the Middle East to improve.

Wow. Bold leadership.

Too bad Santos doesn't have Trump's "charisma". Then he'd be a MAGA hero.

“While we take no pleasure in the proceedings here, we have a responsibility to do it,” Johnson said

responsibility = worshipping at the feet of their Lord 'n' Savior Donald Trump

Johnson's comments came just over a week after he traveled to Mar-a-Lago to meet with former President Donald Trump, who has been publicly pushing his Republican allies in Congress for months to impeach Biden in retribution for Democrats’ two impeachments of him.

There you have it. Doing the golden calf's bidding.

--What MAGA world means by "swamp" is the people and institutions that keep a check on absolute presidential power. 

So you're basically saying the government which has never pretty much listened to its voters, thinks that it knows better than its constituents, wants to increase the government, never just anything for the people

No, that's not what I'm saying.

If you want to have a discussion about the size of the federal bureaucracy, fine. But that's not what this is about. I hate to break it to you, but Donald Trump does not give a fig about what you or "the people" want. He's in it for himself. That's all it's ever been. He wants total loyalists so that he can run the country like a dictator. All of those former members of the Trump administration who Trump once touted as "great" are now "vermin" because they didn't do what HE wanted for HIMSELF. It had nothing to do with policy or conservative principles.

You've been royally had, friend. If you're a true red conservative, you're better off going with Nikki Haley.

wants to keep the swamp intact

What MAGA world means by "swamp" is the people and institutions that keep a check on absolute presidential power. MAGA world hates that because, quite frankly, they have a distaste for real democracy.

--Only fascists say things like this.

Nothing fascist about saying the truth.

Calling one's political opponents "vermin" and enemies of the people. Claiming only one man can fix all of America's problems. Blaming an entire segment of America's population as the root of all evil. Discrediting verifiable fact as "liberal bias" and reputable journalism as "fake". Promising to prosecute one's political adversaries and install in the federal bureaucracy only those who pledge loyalty to the leader. Propagating lies about the 2020 election to discredit trust in electoral processes and election workers. Should I go on? Fascism.

At least Nikki Haley isn't that.

I’d never vote for Haley, but she seems the most responsible and qualified of the GOP candidates. At least she wouldn’t do a wholesale dismantling of democracy, like the fascist front runner has pledged to do.

tackle the negative impact of recent price hikes by achieving wage growth in collaboration with the public and private sectors.

Kishida’s pledge will be realized through strong urging.

Hopeless.

Lower the gd consumption tax already.

“No amount of shady money from George Soros, Democrats and Never-Trump RINOs in partnership with endless-war swamp creatures in Washington will stop the MAGA movement or President Trump from being the Republican nominee and defeating Crooked Joe Biden,” Cheung wrote

Only fascists say things like this.

“We are now fighting for the freedom of not only Russia, but the whole world,” Putin said 

That’s a joke, right?

Russian authorities have intensified their crackdown on dissent

That’s not a joke.

Kishida said in response, "I would like to think about concrete responses after carefully considering the circumstances surrounding the retraction" of the governor's remarks.

Stop being such a weasel, Kishida. Investigate the allegations. Why in the world would Hase just make up the story?

impose a more radical form of income redistribution siphoning as much money as they can from the middle class and largest taxpayer base 

Wealth inequality continues to expand worldwide. The rich are getting richer and richer. If "socialism" were really as rampant as you claim, this wouldn't be happening.

socialism did indeed play a role in the downfall of a once great nation as well as most of Latin Society.

Latin America has long been plagued by vast inequalities between the lower classes and the elite upper classes, whose power has predominantly been protected by right wing dictatorships, military coups and governments, and right wing death squads. Is that your golden age of "Latin Society"?

Your characterization of socialism as applied to Argentina is inaccurate, as are your frequent blanket characterizations of socialism in general.

socialism did indeed play a role

Did socialists in Argentina throw political prisoners out of airplanes?

the influx of migrants, it’s just ruining a once beautiful country.

The Netherlands needs labor, just as the U.S. does. This ain’t the 1950s.

Wilders’ ancestry is half Indonesian, by the way, a fact he likes to downplay to appeal to his white nationalist base.

And the Dutch should look at what Brexit did to the UK before attempting a similarly stupid move.

He won’t last long. He can’t build a stable coalition.

He won the aggrievement vote.

BTW, he’s not “the Dutch Trump” . He’s been in politics way longer.

“It is regrettable that such incidents have caused public misunderstanding and confusion. We vow to work tirelessly to restore public trust in politics.”

/s

the only remaining credibility is “I know Biden is mentally deficient and ineffective, but I just am sooooo triggered by the mere existence of Trump that I am still voting Biden.

Vivid imagination. Have fun with that.

there definitely seems to be an increasing groundswell to get Trump back in that Whitehouse

Huh?

Because the entire media left or right and the entire world sees Biden’s rapid daily decline.

Yep. It's a FACT! Daily decline!

Biden is a day older. Wow. Big news. Do we need weekly reminders about people’s concerns about Biden’s age?

His mental acuity is still fine. That’s what matters. Not how entertaining and physically peppy he is. It’s not pro wrestling.

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Guess Xi gave some orders on his trip.

Ooh, another conspiracy theory!

—The article is about Trump vs Biden, not Trump vs Dems, libs, and the left.

Same thing

Clever.

—Constitution, not to demand utter loyalty.

So if that is true, what’s this administration’s excuse then??

Biden is demanding utter loyalty? And I thought you said that’s what the country needs. Get your story straight.

And got 5 million more votes than Barack Obama ever got, 9 million more than his 2nd time.

yeah math is cool.

Trump also got more votes than Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt combined!

Look! Math is cool, Mom!

Here’s more scary fascistic prepping, in case you thought team Trump is just joking:

Hundreds of people are spending tens of millions of dollars to install a pre-vetted, pro-Trump army of up to 54,000 loyalists across government to rip off the restraints imposed on the previous 46 presidents. 

The screening for ready-to-serve loyalists has already begun, driven in part by artificial intelligence from tech giant Oracle, contracted for the project.

Social media histories are already being plumbed.

and

The most elaborate part of the pre-transition machine is a résumé-collection project that drills down more on political philosophy than on experience, education or other credentials.

Applicants are asked to "name one person, past or present, who has most influenced the development of your political philosophy" — and to do the same with a book.

Another query: "Name one living public policy figure whom you greatly admire and why."

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/13/trump-loyalists-2024-presidential-election

the Dems are doing it

The article is about Trump vs Biden, not Trump vs Dems, libs, and the left. I don’t recall Biden talking about rooting out an entire group of political opponents.

You’ve already admitted that you admire authoritarians who demand absolute loyalty above all else, so no need to paint the other side with that color. It just weakens your argument.

—you’re fine with authoritarian strongmen who demand utter loyalty above all else. 

*To keep our adversaries in check, absolutely.*

‘nuff said. You’ve been had.

Presidents have a duty above all else to serve the nation and uphold the Constitution, not to demand utter loyalty.

—And are you OK with the rounding up of suspected undocumented immigrants

Yes

’nuff said. You’ve been had.

The rounding up of suspects without warrant is unconstitutional.