Has the US crossed the Rubicon? - Trump thread #142

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Here be dragons.

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Seems the FBI have arrested a judge for saying "he went thataway" when ICE came to snatch a Mexican immigrant.

That will be that government efficiency again.

Possibly might need to mark this as a sensitive image.

I'm still catching up on this thread, but @TulipTiptoer, I'd like to hire you to summarise all communications from this administration going forward. Thank you for your service.

Is it weird that I feel (a bit) sorry for him? He's obviously mentally ill and needing help, but the Republicans were perfectly happy to overlook that for as long as possible to make use of him when they needed that vote.

Nah, don't waste your sympathy. These were Federal charges, I'm sure Scrotus will pardon him.

Forgot to add link:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/george-santos-sentencing-fraud/index.html

Hehe! Happy to! The ramblings are something else!

I'm reading Timothy Snyder's On Freedom. Just got to the concept of sadopopulism. "It activates racism as the substitute for a better future. It creates barriers that block the many, then defines freedom as their absence for the few."

My sentiments exactly, but I think it can only be explained by the “Fuck Liberals” approach which I mentioned some days ago.

Why in French?

I’m assuming because it’s the traditional language of diplomacy.

swiss legion? just guessing...

douze points?

I read that it is in French for political reasons. In Italian, Zelenskyy and Trump would have been seated close together

Most things Vatican related seem to be in Italian.

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Or Latin. But anything European or diplomacy related is traditionally conducted in French. For much of its history the Vatican and Pope have had a distinctly diplomatic role.

In everything EU/Brussels related the dominant language is very much still French. It’s virtually impossible to hold a diplomatic post without speaking French.

I think this is historic and not the case now. English has been the replacement for quite some time.

It's not. French was the Lingua Franca at the EU (my experience is of the parliament and commission) but English took over a long time ago.

Without outing myself from personal experience French is still very much used in day to day working within the EU alongside English and at times German.

I could say the same thing regarding personal experience. Except in my experience English is the predominant language.

Google informs me (because my Italian is very basic) that united States is Stati Uniti but I suppose that wouldn't preclude Trump ending up slap bang in front of Zelenzkyy.

Do we know if there is any political unrest in either Eswatini or Ethiopia at the moment?