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🇺🇲🇪🇺🇺🇦Myxomycete specialist, finance refugee; fighting disinformation one post at a time.

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Its about proving to Joe himself that he should retire with the gratitude of the nation for his outstanding presidency.

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I am. And: no. And I am Joe's biggest fan.

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I was for Joe Biden since the beginning in 2020 primaries. It pains me, but I agree with you. Nothing wrong with his brain, but physicality is no longer there.

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I am a dual national and have lived in and off in Europe for many years. A lot of racists there. Not sure if worse than US.

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JFC

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Yep

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That's what its like here in the belly of the media beast.

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Me too. It's a lot worse now, because the institutional structure is being compromised. Then it was merely controlled opposition.

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LOL. 'House of Greg' would be slightly more nuanced translation.

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That the bloody for profit media just can't let go of a story they use to hook viewership. We do not live in an reasonable, information neutral society, we live inside the belly of the stinking media whale

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Seems like it should be pretty easy for the Dems to simultaneously affirm Biden’s place at the top of the ticket *and* start getting Harris in front of the camera more ASAP to reinforce her competence & bona fides & send the message that you’re voting for both of them. What am I missing.

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As someone who has been caregiver to cognitively impaired folks. No. One knows.

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I've always said that if RFK got on my elevator, I would try to get off before the doors close. He is creepy af.

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Switch test brands. Check the dates as well.

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I hope her friends know what it's like to grow old and die in a country where 1) you don't fully master the language, 2) have no family to rely on and 3) have no really safe legal status.

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Escapism works. I say that as a long term experienced expat, but not completely sure its the morally best choice. And that also assumes there is somewhere to run. Also not sure at this point.

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THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Romania vs Netherlands 🇷🇴 A slang Romanian version of “every cloud has a silver lining” translates to “a kick in the ass, a step forward” vs 🇳🇱 A very old (16th century) way of saying “it is what it is” in Dutch is “who knows why the geese go barefoot?”

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US rarely bothers to understand Europe. This bs happens every french election.

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I went to local NC chain CookOut and had a hot dog and a double chocolate milkshake. Feel better already.

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I have lived never lived in Spain. And I wasn't talking particularly about weddings. And there is no need to get insulting.

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Could be, or maybe peas and watery mashed potatoes. And that was one of the better dinners. On a compartmentalized aluminum tray with tin foil you peeled back. We finally begged my mother to stop making us eat them.

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I am sorry if it was bad for you, was just saying we were all in that same leaky processed food boat. I remember the first Swanson frozen tv dinners. Some chopped thing callef Salsbury steak. I can still taste the salt level.

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I am 75 and we all ate that way when I was a kid.

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I was thinking preferences not serious allergies. (Which also do not seem as prevalent overseas). There are major cultural differences operating in food ways in US v France / Belgium that I genuinely don't understand.

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In Europe kids just eat like everyone else. I don't get the kids special food thing in the US.

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I think about what the US would look like today if there were no Covid 19 vaccine.

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Everyone loves a "grab 'em by the x" headline.

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Americans do not understand first versus second round vote.

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No. The second round will be consequential. This first is performance theatre.

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NYT full of bs. We knew far right would win first round. The Second round is what counts.

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Nice. I will also add tremendous progress in medical science. Unfortunately all of these to some extent pale against rising world wide right wing authoritarianism and the not unrelated start of tremendous dislocations from climate change.

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A president is a whole Team. Didn't it come out later that Reagan had actual Alzheimer's at the end in office? And it's remembered, rightly or wrongly, as a Golden Age of presidencies.

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We are electing an administration even more than a President. Joe is okay at his age. You may not remember Reagan had actual Alzheimer's and its (mis) remembered as the Golden Age of Presidencies.

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Rolling along the Mississippi River in an Amtrak train, watching for bald eagles and listening to a group of Amish women singing "This Land is Your Land." Feels like I've unlocked the highest level of America.

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Look at that beautiful spire! In France, they still know how to make things.

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Dems now look like they need defending. Rallies the troops.

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Unfortunately, fatal to Dems. With Biden people know the team they are getting. Accomplishments. Harris is unknown quantity as a stand alone administrator. I'm a blue dog Dem and tbh even I have doubts. Better Klobuchar, Whitmer etc.

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