• BillyClark@piefed.social
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      All of those cars and probably planes causing god knows how much pollution, just to get one of the world’s most despised men to a meeting where he’ll be too incompetent to have any effect.

      Seriously, why do we even have ambassadors anymore?

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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      Seriously. There’s no value literally at all in protecting him in any way. This is… Insane. If he died the entire country would immediately improve.

      Fingers crossed the big stroke or heart attack is coming soon! Fuck you, old man.

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      Not even a drop in the bucket compared to the $300 billion being surrendered to Iran.

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    This has been the norm for high ranking US politicians for decades. About 10 years ago I attended a talk by former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. She described how, as PM, she would regularly take walks along a river in Perth and talk with the folks she would encounter. She had a couple personal security guards who would be with her, but it was all very informal.

    When Hillary Clinton visited as US Secretary of State she came with an escort of a dozen or so Secret Service in her entourage. On a whim Gillard suggested going for a walk like she usually did. The Secret Service freaked out that this hadn’t been planned weeks in advance, that the walking route hadn’t been scouted out ahead of time, that they didn’t have agents pre-positioned along the route, etc.

    I recall that Gillard said they actually did go on a short walk, but the entire Secret Service entourage was very nervous the entire time.

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      Yea it’s insane. We need to get back to the idea that anyone is replaceable. That’s the safest they can be when people realizes any successful attempts wouldn’t even matter.

      Security industry is incestuous

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    Apart from the French police in that convoy, how many are needed to wipe Trumps ass and change his nappies?

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    Did you know that the length of the column is inversely proportional to the length of… ah, nevermind

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      Man, there’s a throwback. This is the first time I’ve seen that game referenced in the wild lol

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    Hey where’s the Beast? Oh right in the middle of a bunch of potential roadblocks to form a kill box. Missed opportunity