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So Kevin gets some payback now? Big deal! Let him act out in public for awhile. Didn't Billy Bob Shakespeare once write so eloquently about this? I can see Our Kev quoting these lines from Macbeth:

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsthe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

Of course Kev should remember that just about ten minutes later McDuff barges in and cuts Macbeth's head clean off so he can wave it around.

I think casting Hakeem Jeffries as McDuff makes sense. He's mighty motivated.

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Agreed - but, ultimately, the losing side in that argument ended up being the Germans.

I’m also reminded of how, several times, Germans tried to bring lawsuits against Poland, claiming that they were owed compensation for the land they ‘owned’ in Poland - land that was, of course, returned to its rightful Polish owners once the German occupation was driven out:

https://www.irishtimes.com/...

Funnily enough, these lawsuits had a habit of quietly going away not long after a Polish diplomat would remind a German one what reparations for the damage done to Warsaw alone by the Nazis might look like, adjusted for inflation.

Yes, the Poles, especially on a per capita basis, suffered horribly during the Second World War - and that’s precisely why they know that Germany cannot even begin to push them around now. Imagine the optics. As big a player as Germany is within the EU, the collective as a whole still very much remembers, and will nip that shit in the bud.

ETA re-reading your comment, I think we’re both saying the exact same thing.

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Gonna stop apologizing for CA residents who forgot how to mark their ballots and ended up sending McCarthy to Washington. Only good thing about that is ol’ Kev spends a lot of time away from our state.

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And tanning lotion?

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(Not violent though. Maybe he could just be a Hakeem Jeffries shadow with his arm raised... )

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Soon the two ladies who love to cuddle up to Matt Gaetz will be leaving him forlorn and cuddling the muscles and gazing in the big brown eyes of our Versatile George!

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It's interesting how rarely any of that pops up (as far as I know). Because Germany handled itself pretty righteously afterward, in a way no country ever has thought of formally doing, right? I used to think all Germans alive in the 30's and 40's must be bad people. I was such a fool. When Trump was elected the veil was lifted.

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At least you know Lady Macbathos Taylor Greene is dead by then.

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"I was drivin' home, early Sunday morning, near Bakersfield..."

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I graduated in 1979. It was the thing. I am NOT going to post my senior picture in my own beige corduroy three-piece suit, made in Rumania. All I can say is I had friends who wore leisure suits, so it could have been worse.

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Mine makes me look like I would be angling for a job with Ben Shapiro, so you can't never tell.

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"Clean-up on aisle three!"

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Recently showed his "12th-Street Rag" to some students, they loved it.

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That it was also funny as heck, and called Mr. Orange-Mouthed GQP out so righteously his head would spin if he had it screwed on straight..

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The Rise of the Young Republicans that year, I believe....

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