Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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I feel the last election Harris versus Trump was like we had to vote on dinner for a get together. The choices were dog shit with glass pieces or vegetarian patties. Of course there are people like me who love a vegetarian patty, but people who wanted meat said "I don't want no vegetarian stuff, >

No, the world doesn't respect us with Trump in office. They thought we were crazy in 2016, we were the laughing stock of the world. They think we're f-ing nuts for re-electing him, nobody is laughing anymore. The damage Trump is doing to the US and the world is immense.
Cartoon from The Netherlands.

I see some birds on here, so I thought I'd share one of my favorites. Prairie falcon, a bird a falconer in CA had.