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FormerOstrich

(2,841 posts)
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 12:08 AM Sep 2

Goings on I haven't seen discussed at DU

I apologize if I have missed these at DU...things move really fast sometimes and seemingly slow at other-times. I think these are worthy of note, if not discussion.

Tony, Tony, Tony....how I misjudged you so. Yet you don't have to rub my face in it year after year after year...

Scoop: Tony Blair and Jared Kushner brief Trump on Gaza post-war plans

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/28/trump-gaza-kushner-blair-plan

Poor, poor, DJT doesn't get to be a guest at this parade. He might need to fire more people responsible for his weak spectacle as the big boys club is going to have a real show of a military parade

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un to arrive in Beijing for military parade on special armoured train

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/02/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-to-arrive-in-beijing-for-military-parade-on-special-armoured-train

and Kim Jong is the guest in this group hug

Car rides and hand-holding: Putin, Modi and Xi send Trump a pointed message

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/putin-modi-xi-trump-china-summit-russia-ukraine-war-tariffs-india-rcna228356

and in other news....Brazil says US not the boss of us

Trial of Brazil's ex-President Bolsonaro enters final phase

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzgq9n8xjo

another son-in-law following in Kushner's footsteps? Oversighting while they can...credit where credit due. One source cited in the letter: He Asked Tiffany Trump to Marry Him. Then the Deals Started Coming, New York Times (Aug. 21,
2025) (online at www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/world/europe/michael-boulos-tiffany-trump-business-deals.html).


https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-oversight.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-08-29-garcia-to-boulos-allam-frangi.pdf



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Goings on I haven't seen discussed at DU (Original Post) FormerOstrich Sep 2 OP
They know TACOs on headed to the big hamberder joint in the sky. marble falls Sep 2 #1
Yes NJCher Sep 2 #2
Those nitwits probably don't even have a new ball-cap made in China designed yet. ... marble falls Sep 2 #5
something is going to happen quickly mikenash54 Sep 2 #3
Tony Blair was always a shit. AloeVera Sep 2 #4
Most have been noted somewhere or other muriel_volestrangler Sep 2 #6

NJCher

(41,356 posts)
2. Yes
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 02:18 AM
Sep 2

This is power rushing in to fill the vacuum.

This is why you don’t elect an aged has-been to be your president. An easily manipulated sad sack. Got that MAGATs?

marble falls

(68,344 posts)
5. Those nitwits probably don't even have a new ball-cap made in China designed yet. ...
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 07:55 AM
Sep 2

... which begs the question: how much has the price of a MAGA cap gone up with the tariffs?

AloeVera

(3,712 posts)
4. Tony Blair was always a shit.
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 07:13 AM
Sep 2

From Bush's Poodle and war criminal to ethnic cleanser is not a big stretch.

But yeah, at first he had me fooled too.

muriel_volestrangler

(104,632 posts)
6. Most have been noted somewhere or other
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 08:07 AM
Sep 2
Chief brown-noser will be Tony Blair

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is taking part in a meeting in Washington, chaired by US President Donald Trump, to discuss plans for post-war Gaza, the BBC has confirmed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gmrxd8ryno

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un travels to Beijing to watch military parade alongside Putin and Xi Jinping
and an update on Boulos:
Democrats launch probe into Trump son-in-law over alleged wedding deal
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