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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrench Senator: "A handful of drug addicts and alcoholics have seized power in America".
Wow! Mincing no words...
Link to tweet
Full translation. We are the laughingstock of the international community:
A year ago, right here, I was comparing Trumps presidency to the court of Nero. I was wrong, its the Court of Miracles.
An anti-vaxxer, a former heroin addict, is Minister of Health.
A climate change skeptic is Minister of Ecology.
An alcoholic TV host is Minister of the Armed Forces.
A former agent of Qatar is Minister of Justice.
A Putin groupie is Minister of National Security.
A Turkish proverb says: When a clown moves into a palace, he does not become king, the palace becomes a circus.
This fine team has decided to create a competitor to the UN. Since its Peace Council has existed, Trump has launched more military strikes than Biden did during his entire term.
Every time the Epstein affair resurfaces, bombs explode somewhere in the world and create a diversion.
Bomb more to gain more.
There isnt a single country where Trump hasnt taken advantage of the situation to enrich himself, never forgetting his family. A personal Boeing offered by Qatar, investments in projects across the Gulf and elsewhere, manipulation of stock prices benefiting a select few insiders.
Any one of these conflicts of interest would have triggered immediate impeachment proceedings here.
But we are not here, we are in MAGA America, where public affairs are conducted in the service of private interests.
malaise
(295,968 posts)Rec
bdamomma
(69,532 posts)Pedophiles, and White Christian Nationalists!!!
bluestarone
(22,150 posts)Cha
(318,969 posts)UTUSN
(77,763 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,456 posts)THIS:
A Turkish proverb says: When a clown moves into a palace, he does not become king, the palace becomes a circus.
Alice Kramden
(2,951 posts)Preach!
markodochartaigh
(5,545 posts)But it's more than a handful.
malaise
(295,968 posts)Rec
Beartracks
(14,588 posts)AllaN01Bear
(29,458 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(16,322 posts)Farmer-Rick
(12,643 posts)To say whet everyone is thinking. And to say it with flourish.
BattleRow
(2,437 posts)Francophile..not pedophile.
cbabe
(6,634 posts)American History Central
https://www.americanhistorycentral.com entries marquis-de-lafayette
Marquis de Lafayette, History, Facts, Significance, APUSH
Marquis de Lafayette APUSH Definition The Marquis de Lafayette, born Gilbert du Motier in 1757, was a French aristocrat who played a crucial role in the American Revolutionary War. Inspired by the
SergeStorms
(20,566 posts)our country's democracy.
tRump turned it into a tragic comedy, and now the entire world laughs at our country and the kleptocracy it's become.
hay rick
(9,593 posts)The Trump administration is comical, obscene, repulsive...and threatening. The idea that "it can't happen here" has been thoroughly discredited for any advanced democracy. Europeans need to take a ruthless approach to countering their own "populist," oligarchic, fascist movements. They can learn from America's object lesson. They need to treat MAGA America as a potential enemy.
Our Secret Is Out,,.....................
JustAnotherGen
(38,045 posts)Kid Berwyn
(24,331 posts)Big Picture: MAGA America, where public affairs are conducted in the service of private interests
BattleRow
(2,437 posts)leftstreet
(40,590 posts)JHB
(38,203 posts)They are addicted too, just not to substances.
Botany
(77,294 posts).... a circus.
Btw in this string of fuck ups it was not
mentioned that Michael Flynn who is a
Russian asset, helped to turn Crimea
over to Russia in '14, and is no doubt on
Vlad's payroll is now being paid by the DoJ
for breaking the law.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,158 posts)Who is unofficially involved with Saudia Arabia on trump's behalf. The same Saudis who gave Kushner 2 billion when he opened his financial company.
Botany
(77,294 posts)And who put in the 1.5 billion $ buy order or sell order right before Trump was going to make a speech (well as what he can do).
My guess Don Jr., Eric. Kush-Turd, and some Saudis.
Native
(7,358 posts)Justice matters.
(9,770 posts)Native
(7,358 posts)Talk about wishful thinking.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,493 posts)MorbidButterflyTat
(4,493 posts)I don't think it's funny at all.
flamingdem
(40,886 posts)Joinfortmill
(21,120 posts)live love laugh
(16,378 posts)RockRaven
(19,328 posts)Warpy
(114,602 posts)than this bunch of wrecking balls and ignorant shitbags. Yes, that includes meth addicts.
This is far worse, it's government by social media algorithm, something that favors the most outrageous lunatics and which this bunch of dimwitted and uncreative power drunk assholes take for majority opinion.
This is why social media have got to be regulated as public utilities, to get rid of the algorithms that favor clickbait.
Not only will outrage junkies have to start thinking straighter, it will be fun to see Zuckerberg et al. shriek and squirm.
FakeNoose
(41,579 posts)Or another possibility, maybe there's no word for "pedophile" in French?
Blues Heron
(8,808 posts)Justice matters.
(9,770 posts)And the brainworm moron.
Bluetus
(2,765 posts)as this French Senator did.
surrealAmerican
(11,873 posts)... they're just bad people. They'd be just as objectionable if they were sober.
We have been taking over by fascist assholes!
Clouds Passing
(7,903 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,689 posts)Claude Malhuret is no lightweight! See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Malhuret
From the link:
"Claude Malhuret: (born 8 March 1950) is a French physician, lawyer and politician who has served as a member of the Senate since 2014, representing the department of Allier. A member of Horizons (HOR),[1] he has presided over the centre-right The Independents Republic and Territories (LIRT) parliamentary group in the Senate since 2017.
Previously, Malhuret was Secretary of State for Human Rights (19861988),[2] Mayor of Vichy (19892017),[3] a member of the National Assembly (19931997) and of the European Parliament (19891993)...."
If we only had Semators even half as qualified as he is, our nation would be in MUCH better shape.
jmbar2
(7,976 posts)His oratorical skills are impressive!
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