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2023-12-01 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-01 05:36|| || Front Page|| [25 views ] Top

#1 Unable to focus on an American challenge or "mistake", the ultimate globalist defaults to a much earlier life period and urgency. It's what old people do.

Citizen? Yes. American? I have always had my doubts.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-01 05:46|| 2023-12-01 05:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Tom Lehrer's epitaph for Heinz K.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-12-01 06:21|| 2023-12-01 06:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Kissinger was only repeating what Germans themselves said after one million Turks were counted in Germany.

Posted by Jerens Black9355 2023-12-01 08:39|| 2023-12-01 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 "Chancellor Helmut Kohl officially stated this as the main reason for denying dual citizenship in 1997 when he said the following:
If today [1997] we give in to demands for dual citizenship, we would soon have four, five, or six million Turks in Germany, instead of three million – Chancellor Helmut Kohl, in 1997.

Posted by Jerens Black9355 2023-12-01 08:42|| 2023-12-01 08:42|| Front Page Top

#5 You may disaprove of Kissinger - I do over Yom Kippur ceasefire, but you have to admit he had stature compared to his successors.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-01 08:50|| 2023-12-01 08:50|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ I think the trend of weak, ineffectual "diplomats" is a step forward.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-01 09:09|| 2023-12-01 09:09|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ But did he wear brooches to convey foreign policy aims, like Madeleine Halfbright?

Posted by Frank G 2023-12-01 09:11|| 2023-12-01 09:11|| Front Page Top

#8 I always liked how Mike Savage called her "Meddling Halfbright."

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-01 09:26|| 2023-12-01 09:26|| Front Page Top

#9 But did he wear brooches...

Yes

My dear friend Henry Kissinger and Princess Diana flirted outrageously and he was catnip to beautiful women. No wonder he said 'power is the ultimate aphrodisiac', writes JONATHAN AITKEN

Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-01 10:13|| 2023-12-01 10:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Ref #5: That's certainly not saying much.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-01 11:14|| 2023-12-01 11:14|| Front Page Top

#11 #10 It is if you believe, as I do, that the main trouble with the World today is that most people are emotional and intellectual Lilliputians.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-01 11:22|| 2023-12-01 11:22|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ Reason is a wonderful thing - when dealing with reasonable people...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-01 11:25|| 2023-12-01 11:25|| Front Page Top

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