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All the photos I've seen of world leaders with Biden from this summit show faces full of pure joy. Him being not Trump (and for some, like Merkel, an old acquaintance) is doing wonders for Biden and for the US.

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Seems unlikely he'd stay the full two years as agreed, but stranger things have happened.

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I'll just leave this here:





If this is true...

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An update:

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And more

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UGH. The pictures are horrible. I didn't post them.

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^^ Many moons ago when I was in school, we had a guest for one of our lectures that was a member of the British Parliament (don't remotely remember his name) and he was talking about the EU. I basically got into a loud discussion with him in front of the class, after he said some truly shady (expletive) he didn't think he would get called on about admitting certain countries as member states and not others. And it was for exactly this reason. Hungary is in the EU passing a law like this, why?

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SMH.

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Meanwhile Netanyahu won't vacate the official residence and GOP'ers are flocking to meet him there.

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^^ Many moons ago when I was in school, we had a guest for one of our lectures that was a member of the British Parliament (don't remotely remember his name) and he was talking about the EU. I basically got into a loud discussion with him in front of the class, after he said some truly shady (expletive) he didn't think he would get called on about admitting certain countries as member states and not others. And it was for exactly this reason. Hungary is in the EU passing a law like this, why?

Because you can only admit countries, no mechanism to kick anyone out involuntarily. Of course you already knew that.

With some luck maybe they'll vote Orban out next year and if so things will change for the better. I don't think Hungarians are really that massively different from neighboring Slovaks or Croatians.