THE ERA OF TRUMP

[BjornP]

Nah, that's Ukraine. That's to the south of Russia, Belarus is its western neighbour.

[SuburbanFarmer]

My dad and his Italian wife visited some distant relatives there a few years ago. They couldn't figure out why American Italians talk like southern peasants

Apparently a lot of the popular "Italian" phrases we use here are gutter-speak to the northerners.

Yup, it's also why if you tell someone from Sicily that they are Italian or visa Vera's you'll be lucky if you don't get something thrown at you.

My father made that mistake with his mother, we are Sicilian. To say otherwise got a cast iron pian or rolling pin across your head or thrown at you. In many cases the food will still be in the pan am it be your fault it was on the ground.

same thing with germans in bavaria. i think it probably correlates to people who don't have anything they can be proud of on a personal level, so they latch onto whatever they can find at the group level...like their accent.

Read that in a fake-ass 'country music' southern drawl.

[TheReal_ND]

"We do not get our opposition research from spies. We do not collaborate with Russian spies, unless we want to be accused of treason."

#resist

[TheReal_ND]

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[SuburbanFarmer]

Vice President Pence, as mentioned, will chair the new council.

Some who learned this remembered that when Pence was a congressman, he once chaired a Republican study group that recommended canceling NASA's space exploration program — no moon or Mars trips — to save money.

But Pence's 2005 plan didn't go anywhere, and on Friday, he said he was “honored and frankly enthusiastic” about leading the National Space Council.

Trump assured those gathered that “Mike is very much into space.”

“At some point in the future, we’re going to look back and say how did we do it without space?”

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[ssu]

Nah, that's Ukraine. That's to the south of Russia, Belarus is its western neighbour.

Actually nuke is right. Belarus is also in the exclusion zone from Chernobyl, even if Chernobyl is in Ukraine.



And basically that would be one of the positive things in Belarus for leftist. A wonderfull wildlife area!

[TheReal_ND]

Was gunna say, learned that from a vid ssu posted for me

[BjornP]

Ah sorry, nuke. I should have looked up where in Ukraine Chernobyl was actually located, before making a dumbass "correction".