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Matt Gaetz is now giving pep talks and holiday wishes on Cameo

The former Florida congressman began selling personalized video messages on the platform just a day after withdrawing from consideration as Trump's attorney general.
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“I served in Congress,” his Cameo page r'eads.... 'Trump nominated me to be US Attorney General (that didn’t work out). Once I fired the House Speaker.”'

"As of Sunday night, Gaetz is charging a minimum of $550 per video, which so far have averaged about a minute and a half in length."

I wonder what George Santos charges on OnlyFans.
 
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Angela Merkel rejects criticism over Russia gas deals

The former German chancellor, who quit politics three years ago, speaks to the BBC in a rare interview.
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The sick man of Europe. Germany.

"Under Angela Merkel, Germany not only became reliant on Russia for energy, but on China and the US for trade. Those decisions have not stood the test of time."
 


Some of you people outside of the US might appreciate this as a lens to look at the election results.
 
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How meddling blamed on Russia exploited real grievances in Romania

Romanians are still stunned by the last-minute cancellation of the presidential election after allegations of "massive" meddling by Moscow.
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"Georgescu's Trump-style pledge to Make Romania Great Again helped him perform particularly strongly among the vast Romanian diaspora. Many who left because life was so tough are now getting by abroad rather than prospering.

'He's corrupt? He's with Putin? No, he's not. He's with the people. With Romania,'"
 
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Leger poll suggests 13% of Canadians think Canada should become the 51st American state

The demographic breakdowns show there’s higher support among men, at 19%, compared with only 7 per cent of women
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"The demographic breakdowns show there’s higher support among men, at 19 per cent, compared with only seven per cent of women.

Conservative party supporters came in at 21 per cent, while one in 10 Liberal voters said they were in favour of the idea. The People’s Party of Canada showed the highest level of endorsement among the federal parties, at 25 per cent, while the NDP was the lowest, at six per cent.

Among the overall population, 82 per cent opposed to the idea, the highest of which comes from Atlantic provinces, women and Canadians over the age of 55."

They never asked me...also what kind of American?
 
Elon Musk, the elite unelected powerbroker of the incoming administration met with autocrat Orban today.

He is now using his own children as human shields, following the recent CEO assassination.

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Sen. Mitch McConnell is 'fine' after medical personnel spotted at his office, GOP senator says

McConnell, 82, tripped following Senate Republicans’ weekly lunch, his office said. McConnell also "sustained a minor cut to the face."
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Brazil’s President Lula undergoes emergency brain surgery

The leftist leader, 79, is recovering in the ICU after undergoing surgery for an intracranial hemorrhage, according to e medical note published on his social media Tuesday.
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The 79 and 82 year old leaders are bouncing right back up.
 
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigns from Trudeau's cabinet

The Finance Minister resigns on the day she was to give an economic update...long delayed because of filibusters that have paralysed parliament since returning from summer break.

This was with rumours all week she lost confidence of the PM and the PM again reached out to someone else to replace her whilst the Finance bureaucrats gleefully leaked to the press they didn't agree with what the PMO forced them to do.

On top of that she is deputy PM and will now sit in the backbench and brood.

....slowly approaching the insanity of the Boris/Truss/Sunak premierships.
 
Fwiffo said:
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigns from Trudeau's cabinet

The Finance Minister resigns on the day she was to give an economic update...long delayed because of filibusters that have paralysed parliament since returning from summer break.

This was with rumours all week she lost confidence of the PM and the PM again reached out to someone else to replace her whilst the Finance bureaucrats gleefully leaked to the press they didn't agree with what the PMO forced them to do.

On top of that she is deputy PM and will now sit in the backbench and brood.

....slowly approaching the insanity of the Boris/Truss/Sunak premierships.
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he might just resign later today.

Hopefully, her resignation does result in his downfall. I think she will smile not brood. Last Tuesday, Justin called himself a feminist and cited Freeland as evidence. On Friday, he told her he wants to shuffle her to another portfolio.
 
Thruth said:
he might just resign later today.
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Didn't happen again. Maybe people will pray Ottawa will have snow during the parliamentary break and he goes for a long lonely walk like his father.
 
Fwiffo said:
Didn't happen again. Maybe people will pray Ottawa will have snow during the parliamentary break and he goes for a long lonely walk like his father.
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he is so out of step with the country, it is not surprising he hasn't resigned yet.
 
AOC ate shot once again and got beaten out by a 72 year old man with throat cancer for leadership. What a failure.
 
Pelosi applying pressure from her broken hip recovery bed in Germany.

If the Democrats are going to double down on someone like her they will just get more and more losing.
 
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Who do you want in there instead? I remember you’re not a big fan of Singh.
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Peckerhead Poilievre. Look, the Liberals have run their course with a decade in power. It would be time for a change without the current shit show anyway. But the abscess has popped. The NDP will never win a federal election so it is time for the Conservatives once again. Singh canceled the supply and service agreement that prevented non-confidence votes. Everyone is calling for him to resign after the Freeland blowup.

He is trying to limp into the Christmas break without resigning. He somehow sees his cockup as equal to his papa's end in '84. That is where the urban myth about Pierre's walk in the woods during a parliament Christmas break convinced him to resign. We need a change in leadership especially with Trump signalling he will be extra cunty towards Canadia post Trudeau's "unplanned" suck up visit.
 
Grand Potentate said:
AOC ate shot once again and got beaten out by a 72 year old man with throat cancer for leadership. What a failure.
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Dying Congressman to Lead Watchdog Committee

The gerontocracy wins again
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He's got esophageal cancer. Its just about a death sentence. This is who she lost to for fucks sake.

edit: and he's 74 not 72. this is just gold:

“Gerry’s a young 74, cancer notwithstanding,” a top ally, Rep. Don Beyer, reportedly said.
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Grand Potentate said:
He's got esophageal cancer. Its just about a death sentence. This is who she lost to for fucks sake.
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Pelosi Won. The Democratic Party Lost.​

In sabotaging Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bid for leadership of the Oversight Committee, party elders have doubled down on a failed strategy.​


They left Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee which couldn't break a nomination deadlock for months because she had shingles and other stuff. I don't think whether you can actually physically attend the committee is part of the requirement of being a Democratic appointee.

At least we haven't descended to the levels of the Afghanis who had a government paid army of people who were dead or didn't exist.
 
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Batshit Delusional Canadian Conservatives – Ian Welsh

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Thruth Thruth you might like this
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Batshit is as batshit does. A patriot should be insulted by Trump's insults towards the country. His insults towards Trudeau and Freeland are coarse, and I have no use for either of them.

Only a fool says or thinks Trump wants to make us better. It is inconceivable that he does not understand the balance of trade with Canada or what sanctions actually do. Yes, there is a $17 billion trade deficit with Canada on goods and a $25 billion surplus on services. Add'em together and the US has a net $12 billion surplus. So he lies.

Ian should stop lamenting the post-war de-coupling from Britain and the attachment to the US as it was inevitable. Plus Ford built its first car in Canada in 1909. The Autopact was established in the 60's. Canadian manufacturing started dying in the 60's and 70's and off-shoring started. NAFTA was Reagan's idea.

Nukes? Given Canada's historical dithering on military purchases, that would take fornever. Plus we would have to source from the UK and France because we would need French nukes in Quebec and New Brunswick.

Running Canada for Canada means tit for tat economic sanctions for 4 years. We've basically sold 99% of what we export to the US whether we had free trade or not.
 
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French President Emmanuel Macron swears in angry exchange with residents of cyclone-hit Mayotte

Nearly a week after the storm hit, the lack of potable water was testing nerves in France’s poorest overseas territory
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“'Seven days and you’re not able to give water to the population!' one man shouted at Macron.

'Don’t set people against each other. If you set people against each other, we’re screwed,' Macron told the crowd in the Pamandzi neighbourhood on Thursday night. 'You are happy to be in France. If it wasn’t for France, you would be in way deeper shit, 10,000 times more, there is no place in the Indian Ocean where people receive more help.'"

Be grateful for your less shitty aid.
 
Penny Mordaunt just shooting the sh*t about the Tory meltdown on a Sky podcast. I thought she would be working harder on her comeback.
 
Grand Potentate said:
This Kay Granger story is absolutely insane. How the fuck can you be a sitting member of congress when you’re in the dementia ward for six fucking months and no one knows where you are or has seen you?

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Missing Congresswoman Transferred Home Deed in July

Rep. Kay Granger is reportedly in assisted living
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If it she was Democrat I could understand but the Republicans have been counting every single vote to pass their legislation. You need to be in DC to vote no?
 
Fwiffo said:
If it she was Democrat I could understand but the Republicans have been counting every single vote to pass their legislation. You need to be in DC to vote no?
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Voting isn’t mandatory. People miss votes constantly. But 6 months worth? On top of no one knowing where you are or what you’re doing?
 
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