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JustAManOnAToilet@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 3 years ago

Bob Menendez: US Senator faces new charges of acting as agent of Egypt

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Bob Menendez: US Senator faces new charges of acting as agent of Egypt

www.bbc.com

JustAManOnAToilet@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 3 years ago
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The new charges accuse Democrat Robert Menendez of providing "sensitive" information to help Egypt.
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  • Iwasondigg@lemmy.one
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    So many times I think about Al Franken having to resign over taking a silly picture.

    • noride@lemm.ee
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      Boy have times changed! That had to be, what, 40 years ago at this point? 🙃

      • Iwasondigg@lemmy.one
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        Dunno. How long ago was Howard Dean ending his political career with an ill-timed awkward scream and Dan Quayle flushing his career down the toilet for misspelling “potatoe?” Was that before color TV?

        • Empricorn@feddit.nl
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          US politics has always been stupid. Now it’s just stupid louder…

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            Stupid louder. I’m stealing that!

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          Ah, the famous “I Have a Scream” speech.

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          Dean’s scream wasn’t ill-timed, just ill-recorded. They were using a noise-dampening microphone, so he was basically shouting over the screams of the crowd. But we couldn’t hear it because it wasn’t part of the recording.

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            Potato, potatoe.

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          How about Rick perry crashing for, in part, forgetting which govt depts he wanted to defend and, in part, from him being Rick perry

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    Can we kick him out, charge him, and move on already?? Dude’s a fucking distraction we don’t need…

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    So, you think each country gets their own senator?

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