Brazil could appeal to the World Trade Organization, propose international investigations and “demand explanations”,

Yeah if there’s one thing this administration really respects is investigations.

He’ll never admit it. He’ll blame immigrants or the gays or the trans or the woke or the Jews or the liberals or Biden or Obama or the Clintons.

Never himself.

Olive oil is pretty much the only oil everyone in my house can have. We’ve done butter and ghee but it’s not the right flavor for most things.

Sesame is too expensive. I hate the taste of avocado oil.

Vegetable oil is straight up soy which I’m allergic to.

Basically it’s olive oil or butter for me.

I fucking hate this timeline.

I didn’t know Honda made sex toys.

If you haven’t already, consider rebalancing your retirement accounts to invest in international funds. You may not be able to get international bonds but you can divest in federal bonds and instead support local/state ones. If your 401k doesn’t, consider talking to your HR department to see if you can get funds added.

Edit: thank you for folks pointing out that it was a consulate closing not an embassy. Consulates are a bit different but closing one is still a big deal. I’ll leave my comment unchanged otherwise but keep in mind that closing of any diplomatic relations is always a bad thing.

It’s important for people to understand what the purpose of an embassy is to the host country. It provides an avenue to the guest country where both informal and formal discussions about their relations can occur.

The closing of an embassy is usually the precursor to war. It’s basically the host country saying, “You have committed such a heinous act that we will no longer honor your diplomats here. We will no longer try to deescalate with words.”

I’m genuinely surprised that it took this long for a country to close a Russian embassy.

“David Attenborough, beloved narrator to many nature documentaries as well as a fierce advocate of conservation, turns 99!”

“Achually, she was a journalist, not a prisoner of war. So we can fuck her shit up.”

- Russian propaganda, probably

From your links:

Von der Goltz pleaded guilty in December 2019 to conspiracy to commit tax evasion, fraud and submitting false documents. He has already repaid the government more than $230,000.

Original indictment:

These shell companies and bank accounts made investments totaling tens of millions of dollars.

Make it make sense

“Not world changing” is insulting for the amount of money these people hid to avoid taxes.

History books and the US Government likes MLK better than Malcom X because MLK didn’t advocate violence against the ruling class.

Bearing in that the FBI literally tried to discredit MLK and have whitewashed their involvement.

I mean, that’s sort of a gimmie with swasticars.

This is going to be another Panama files isn’t it? Overwhelming evidence that billionaires are shits and world governments everywhere collectively do fuck all about it.

I have a stupid question: how did El Salvador even agree to this? Like what mechanism allowed Republicans to send people there to begin with?

Right. I was probably being a bit clunky.

Imagine a label under Trump that says “World War 3”

Who would have thought that Trump was being literal here.

We need to stop belittling his actions here. He’s acting like a toddler but he’s doing it because he wants power.

These are actions totalitarian dictators take to flex their power.

Trump sees himself as king and will not stop unless he’s forced to stop.

Comparing him to a toddler, a crazy asshole, or anything other than a dictator excuses his actions.

Trump is trying to show the world that he is a powerful dictator.

He doesn’t care who he hurts or how the world responds. He only cares to secure power.

But…he’s still racist right? Because that’s all I care about. Making sure it’s still okay to be racist.

Yeah. It was reconstruction where we never held the south to account for their treasonous actions.

Ooh I did not know that! Thank you!