I know we talk about Trump and his Meidas Touch, but JD seems to be able to make people hate anything he touches. Needs a name.
- Vance Advance?
- JD Faceplant?
- Chesterfield Cringe?
Eyeliner Decliner
Again, sticking fingers in other people’s pies.
Allies? I would call us Europeans client states.
Welp, he’s not wrong.
Right.
“If the president is impeached and the opposition leader is elected, our country will become one with North Korea and Kim Jong Un,” Jeong-min said, citing a theory popular among President Yoon’s most fanatical followers: that the left-leaning opposition party wants to unify with the North and turn South Korea into a communist country.
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Even some who had never given North Korea or communism much thought are now convinced their dynamic democracy is on the brink of being turned into a leftist dictatorship – and that their leader had no choice but to remove people’s democratic rights in order to protect them from both Pyongyang and Beijing.
Yeah, but it was convenient for previous US administrations to pretend we were allies.
German comedian and late night host Jan Böhmermann has submitted this video commentary to the NYT’s comment section. In addition to being funny it’s actually a pretty good explanation of the AfD’s role in current politics for those that don’t follow German politics closely.
Direct link to the video, so no soft paywall
Sobering comedy. (And as he repeatedly implies, so many well-explained parallels to how white USians whitewash their history.)
I wish that could change people’s minds.
Two trips ago to Germany (for work), we went to Berlin. My guides were very somber about the war and very explicit about their role in it. Emotionally so.
I don’t think I’ve ever met an American who displayed that level of emotion on our issues of slavery, what we’ve done in wars, or even the Civil War (what we did to ourselves). And I know when I was in school, even the topic was fairly lightly covered. My kids got a much more intense version, which I felt was more appropriate, if painful to learn.
If there were a communist revolution in the south, I think that would destabilize the Juche regime in the north.
GODDESS.
