It's a common proverb in Portuguese, not just in Brazil.
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"What do you mean 'repeatedly'? My transmission is tricky!"
He almost got Luigi'd, remember. A couple of inches...that was it. Imagine how different it would've been...
We don't really need the power to be able to attack the US. Just enough to be able to defend ourselves and that is far from impossible even in 4 years.
If the US takes over Greenland, whatever the means, there's no way that small population stays. Deportation or gentrification they will be kicked out and replaced by Americans.
I feel your frustration but this isn't a petty dictator with his boot on his people's neck. He was elected. The US, as a nation, chose this. You are choosing your new allies and your new enemies and being quite clear about it.
As an European it's pretty clear now that the US is our enemy. This is just the start. We really need to put our military in order and prepare for the inevitable attack.
Scary US is scary...
It's been four months but I wanted to say here you were the only one close to the solution.
He should grab the flames and take them off the house.
Well, it's better to burn out than to fade away.
Barely. The loss in 2016 and the tight race in 2020 wasn't enough to sound the alarms. They still tried to win with Harris because she wasn't Trump, instead of finding a worthy candidate.
Sorry, man. I despised Harris but still preferred her to win, hands down. But Democrats have only themselves to blame. Trying to blame the voters who refused to vote in Harris just because she wasn't Trump in dishonest and anti-democratic. It's the exact posture that will keep enabling Democrats to come forward with these crappy candidates and (unsuccessfully) blackmailing the progressist voters to vote for them.
Thus, the exact posture that allows Trump to win.
Third party voters didn't cost Harris the election. But if it did, you'd better your ass the Democrats would take the next election seriously. And they would win.