Indeed. But thats not what I get from this picture.

He should go and make it clear we no longer recognise the declaration of independence, and demand he hands the USA back to us.

You can get that by reading words. I dont get that from the painting.

Am I the only one to find this unsettling? The lady has head, shoulders and hips away from the knight signalling 'no' and yet he persists.......

All very strange. Another occasion when Americans speak American rather than English i guess :-)

Sounds pretty good, but spoiled by the meat

Eh? But pancakes and flapjacks are utterly different things. Different shape, different thickness, different ingredients

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

Also, thou shalt not kill.

If you were expecting that the sensible thing would be to prepare the way by securing future oil production from a nearby country with plenty of reserves. You could maybe abduct their leader and install proxies

They'd would need lengthy training to work out which side they were fighting for

Which side would ICE be on? Presumably the authoritarian government prepared to see deaths of protesters?

Will he agree to correspondents going too, or will he insist nasty piggy ones are banned?

Its both. Too much policy announcement is low key and without explanation or reaoning; so as soon as any push back from media or opposition they are on the back foot. They should be leading the agenda, not following that set by others.

Still think infantino sounds like trump's mob name.

At least he appears to have a plan. The Iran war risks upsets in the oil market. Clearly in taking control of Venezuelan oil by force he was thinking ahead.

I see it was intended to promote unit bonding. I can see that: pulling together and supporting each other when exposed to conditions of extreme adversity.

White House frustrations with Venezuela’s Machado grow after elections comments “None of this is ‘Operation María Corina Machado.’ It’s ‘Operation U.S. national security,’” said a White House adviser.

'Selfish' because she doesn't put US security interests ahead of her own people? Trumps white house redefined the concept of 'selfush' to justify the fact they are ...erm.... Selfish Source: Politico
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Photo i saw in Santiago Chile today. Never thought parallels with USA would be so stark.

Melania Trump humiliated as just one person buys ticket for UK premiere The new documentary Melania, featuring the First Lady, premiered in UK cinemas on Friday but struggled to attract audiences at its opening screenings at Vue Islington

Apparently if you want to see the film #Melania in the UK you can still get tickets. At the uk Premier in Islington ticket sales amounted to just the one.
www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...

Will this have retrospective powers?

Kennedy as president? The one person even madder.....

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

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White House insists Trump didn't confuse Greenland for Iceland despite video of him doing so multiple times The White House insisted that President Trump didn't confuse Greenland for Iceland at the World Economic Forum, despite video of his remarks clearly showing him make the mistake at least four times.

Relax folk. Apparently trump didn't confuse Greenland and Iceland. Phew, that's a relief! For a moment I thought he had gone mad!
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National security of UK is threatened by usa. We demand trump hands the country back to us.

I think that's a poor idea. He should be called Mr mango mussolini. Donald us giving him too much status

Let’s remember he told us he would be a dictator, beginning on day one.

Personally I think the uk should be very concerned about the security threat posed by the usa. We should cease to recognise the war of independence and regain sovereignty over it.

From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

Trump claiming that Greenland should be grateful for being saved from the nazis in ww2, and should show their gratitude by giving themselves up to the nazis now. #trump #Greenland