I used to go beer drinking with a Vietnamese American kid from Angleton when I was in grad school. His parents and older siblings came over direct from Vietnam. The parents spoke Vietnamese with all the kids. My buddy had the thickest redneck hick American accent you ever heard. Pure Southeast Texas. It was awesome watching people's eyes get big as saucers when he ordered his Milluh Lahts.
Flight back from Guatemala last week on American. Captain just said "our flight over the Gulf."
Easy sidestep. Just trying to get everyone from point A to point B safely.
Yes, I'm sure this will happen.
I'm old enough to remember...shot
https://thehill.com/policy/international/469705-erdogan-visit-stirs-memories-of-violent-protests/
...and chaser;
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/22/596227771/feds-drop-prosecution-of-7-turkish-bodyguards-involved-in-d-c-brawl
Birds of a feather, yada, yada, yada.
My Dad thought he was being patriotic buying an American car when everyone else on our lower middle class block was getting Toyotas, Hondas & Subarus (The Brat was the best!).
Even though GM screwed him on the Chevy, it was replaced with a 1985 Cutlass Brougham, which was a pretty decent car for its time. To date he has never bought a foreign car. After the Brougham, it was back to Fords and that has been consistent to this day.
The shadow of shame of the US for not being there for Ukraine will be cast far into the future. The consequences will be far reaching. I can only hope that when the era of insanity has passed, we can rebuild the relationship with Europe. What an utter embarrassment and catastrophe.
Maybe the public sector workers who need culling are DOGE? I mean, certainly I’m not the first one this has occurred to. There must be literally thousands - laid off public workers perhaps? - who’ve had the same idea?