That’s a great sketch. I was just watching it again the other night. I’ve long known we were the baddies to a lot of the world. Now, we’re the baddies to pretty much everyone.
By that standard, I can tell you where Armageddon will begin.
Sweden. They love skulls as decoration so much they’re even worn as part of brides’ dresses, used to decorate baguette handbags (those tiny ones which are barely good enough to hold a hotel keycard, a keychain would make the handbag look pregnant), formal footwear… it’s like el día de los muertos but with more black, more death metal and year-round.
I’ve already seen the spin. It is - and I am neither kidding nor exaggerating - “Democrats want to give free tuition to illegals”, often paired with some claim about how Democrats hate veterans.
No it doesn’t make sense, but that’s the norm now.
Only the best people. See Trump rationalize:
Trump admits his Cabinet had ‘some clinkers’
“The finest Cabinet”
I guess that settles that. Although, this was interesting:
I’ve always wondered how much Erik Prince was involved in that. Prince was trying to establish back-channels to Russia. Was “Oh, by the way, my sister gets to be Education Secretary.” part of the deal?
You’re right, of course. *<ThelmaLou slaps her own hand> * A girl can fantasize though…
Sign which has also appeared in protests during the current visit (the linked sample is from 2 years ago).
Leave your jaw at the door, please. Shitgibbon visits Ireland, shows his keen grasp of international affairs and issues and stuff.
- “[COLOR=“DarkOrange”]I think it will all work out very well, and also for you with your wall, your border,” he said at a joint press conference.*[/COLOR]
Build a wall between Ireland!
No, just between NI and RoI. It will definitely work out very well and is quite a novel approach that no one has thought of before.
As someone who grew up in Sweden:
… What!?
As regards the Mexico tariffs, I feel like the odds are pretty good that Mexico will simply decide to say, “Fuck it”, and tank everything.
To offer a simile, we might China like a competing salesman. The US decided that they’d rather just raise their price on their customers, hoping that will cover their expenses while they take more time off to stay home and masturbate to porn. And so China just swoops in and steals all of those customers. They don’t give a fuck. Sure, they’re also one of the people to have gotten stiffed by the US, and that hurts for a while, but long term it’s all gravy.
But the relationship between the US is more like a husband and wife. Hubby has turned abusive and the wife has been trying to work with him to get him to calm down and stop drinking so much. But she doesn’t really have anywhere that she can go. Either she has to take the abuse or…not.
There is some chance that Mexico will simply cave and do as its told. And a very good chance that the Senate will override the Emergency Declaration (if it comes out). But we’re probably pretty close to Mexico just cutting off everything - making it illegal to ship anything over the border or allow any person through.
If that happens, I guess say goodbye to toothpaste, beer, cars, and everything else:
Woman in England delivers a strange and confusing message as she stabs a baby-shitgibbon balloon with a pair of scissors and rants about how he is the greatest american president ever. Medics treated her bleeding hand.
…and she’s going through his briefcase looking for technical information to steal.
I didn’t think the British said “fucking” in public. It’s not English. It’s Simply Not Done.
Seriously?
“Aw fuckin’ 'ell” is practically the national motto.
The Brits say “fucking” on broadcast television. They are not prudes like those stick-up-the-ass Americans.
That’s China (and, probably, Russia given the history of the KGB).
I’m not sure that Mexico is thinking in terms of boning up their technological capabilities. Their business is to provide cheap land and workforce to the US.
And, granted, I don’t know much about Obrador - his policies do seem to be fairly reasonable and forward looking - but I haven’t heard anything about Mexican theft of technology and it seems like a more significant shift than seems likely.
That would be a great response.
“Fuck you. China is very interested in trading with us.” It would of course hurt, but might, just might get the attention of Trump supporters and make sure he is soundly defeated. It would be unfortunate that it takes a neighbor to tell you that your yard stinks of dog shit.
Mexico could gain all the damage that Trump is doing to them by putting a $50 dollar entry tax to any American that flies into the country. Few that can afford a beach vacation in Mexico, and has it all planned out, will not pay it.
OR! Make great incentives for Americans to vacation in Mexico and spend their money.
Someone said “Seawall” and Dummy the Don thought they said “See? Wall!”
In other news
When’s the last time you were there? For me it was 4 years ago (for 15 months), and there were Día de los Muertos-inspired notebooks, coloring books, jewelry… Skulls both “Euro-style” and “Mex-style” decorated dresses, blouses, skirts, shoes. And yes, bridal and bridal-party dresses.
And one of their biggest complaints about the relationship is precisely that many US companies treat them banana-republic style: Mexicans get hired as peons, shift-leader on up are American. Even if your engineering degree is from an American university, if you’re Mexican you’re not good enough. (#notallUScompanies)