No shit, Sherlock.
They picked the ugliest, nastiest motherfucker to keep us distracted.
Agent Fuckfaced Krasnov.
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Completely irrelevant, but I live in an area with a lot of Hispanic and Brazilian people, and I overheard this conversation in the grocery store between a mom and her elementary school age daughter, and the little girl said:
"Yeah, she has a crush on him, but he doesn't speak Spanish, he speaks Pork-a-cheese."
It makes me laugh every time I think about it, and every Spanish person that I tell it to cracks up.
Who has a crush on him?
I live in southwest Ontario and in Strathroy there's a large Portuguese community and our small town caker asses call them "pork and cheese". They take it in stride lol
I think every world leader worth their salt knows trump kowtows to putin. Portugal got to say it out loud. I'm buying some of their wine this weekend.
Ok, "major world leader" is clickbait, they could've just said Portuguese President.
While i wouldn't describe Portugal as major, it isn't irrelevant either: early member of the EU (was the ECC back then), treaties with a lot of countries (Brazil being one on account of being an ex-colony and sharing the language), founding member of NATO, emigrant communities all over the world (US included), a few high-ranking politicians are Portuguese (President of the European Council António Costa, secretary-general of the UN António Guterres, ex-president of the European Comission Durão Barroso who now works for Goldman Sachs...). There's also that Cristiano Ronaldo guy.
The US also has a military base in a Portuguese island in the Atlantic.
Why this fascist fuck who likes taking selfies with his voters decided to criticize another fascist fuck is a mystery to me though...
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is center-right, so more alligned with the democrats in the US, not with the Neonazi party that calls themselves conservative.
I wouldn't vote him, but calling him a fascist is pretty far off reality.
Why do you mention so many people but not him? Wtf does Ronaldo have to do with anything?
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Here we see a homo sapiens partaking in Whataboutism. He thinks bad stuff cancel each other out.
He also thinks unless you are a "VERY NICE AS A PERSON" master chef, you cannot critize food since what would you know, with your personality?
Fuck that headline. It was the president of Portugal.
Would be funnier if it was Putin.
“The top leader of the world’s foremost superpower is, objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset,” de Sousa said, according to the Portugal Pulse’s report. “He operates as an asset.”
This president is no joke, remember his epic handshake? https://youtu.be/sfrbogBg9dA
Before even clicking this I already knew Trump ain't for the grip. Sure enough he proves 100% bitch made.
The President of Portugal, one of the parties of the treaty of Tordesillas, ruling country of half the New World with the benediction of the pope, top sardine fisher, main exporter of Cristiano Ronaldos, and foremost port wine producer.
Dammit he is going to jeopardize our supply of Ronaldos
Good. That will drive the price up of all my Ronaldo's, muhahaha {twists mustache then steeples fingers evilly}
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Furthermore, PPD/PSD is not the Socialist Party (that's PS), it is the Popular Democratic Party/Social Democratic Party, but Montenegro's wing (current PM of Portugal) is neoliberal, unlike Rio's wing that still lived up to the name social democratic.
Not a single traditional party in Portugal has a name that matches the political ideology the practice:
- The "Socialist Party" (PS) one of the two dominant "center" parties is Neoliberal (as seen from their love for Privatisation and "Free Markets").
- The "Social Democrat Party" (PSD) the other dominant "center" party is slightly more Neoliberal (roughly similar to the US Democrat Party mainstream, so PSD is actually to the Right of the Progressives in the US)
- The "Communist Party" (PC) love Putin, a Fascist and even their "leftwing" thinking is little more than Soviet Union slogans.
- The "Social and Democratic Center" (CDS) are the conservatives which in Portugal means the yearn for the previous regime (which were the Fascists)
Like in pretty much all other countries in the West the Overtoon Window has shifted rightwards, though even at the very beginning right after the Revolution in 1974 that overthrew the Fascist Dictatorship, the Socialist Party were never Socialists (it was the Communist Party that wanted a Revolution Of The Proletariat, not the Socialist Party) and similarly the Social Democrat Party was never Social Democrat (for example, they voted against the creation of a National Health Service in Portugal, the exact opposite of the Social Democrat ideals).
And also he defined that term very specifically. He said only that Trump is acting in the best interests of Russia. When someone normally uses that language, they mean they are in the employ of a country, like a spy.
So, it's meant to be inflammatory and spur action on the part of the US and Europe.
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They know a duck when they see one, and he ain't no duck! He's a fascist.
Fun fact: Xi today couldn't be assed to greet Pooty personally at an airport and sent deputy finance minister instead.
Compare that to how Taco Don received Pooty.
So Putin is a Chinese asset?
What, they didn't have chinese soldiers on hands and knees rolling out a red carpet?
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I would like to point out to everyone underestimating Portugal's influence in world politics that, while I agree it hasn't been a military or economic major power in centuries, it has great diplomatic outreach:
- Part of the EU and has been used as an example of how to handle drug abuse
- Part of CPLP which seeks to align the interests of all Portuguese speaking countries (in Europe, South America, West and East Africa and Oceania)
- Vast naval territory in the Atlantic and the Azores which have hosted a US military base for decades
- Good relations with China especially after the return of Macau
- The current secretary general of the UN is an old portuguese Prime Minister
So while no longer a major country, it still has sway on how relations between some countries develop
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I was expecting that leader to be Putin like, "yeah, he's my bitch."
Xi wouldn't like that.
Trump is Putin's, but
Putin is Xi's.
You all remember the Cabal from The Blacklist. I guarantee you this shit is not made up. He called him a Russian asset not because it is how it appears, he called him that because it’s a fact. And all the world leaders know it.
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