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Day 1020

Ukraine's pathogen menace

Dec 09, 2024
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Certain nominees of the leading-edge MAGA-ready enterprise in waiting appear to have farted bricks over the weekend as Batta fled to Moscow.

But not Donald.

“I met with Putin. I met with President Xi of China. I met with Kim Jong-un twice,” Trump said. “Does that mean that I can’t be president?” — MSNBC, December 8, 2024.

Which is exactly Tulsi’s rationale for chatting up Assad.

“I think we should be ready to meet with anyone if there’s a chance it can help bring about an end to this war, which is causing the Syrian people so much suffering,” she said 1.

That was 2017. Five years later, Tulsi’s pivot to Donald and pathogens grabbed my attenion, partly out a misty nostalgia for her public service escapades, when I still had a sense of humour2.

c/o Tulsi (March 13, 2022)

Turns out that was just a conspiracy theory amplified by Team Russia, Team China and Carlson Tucker3.

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