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Baitball Blogger

(51,652 posts) Mon Jul 18, 2022, 10:44 AM Jul 2022

isn't snogging the correct way to greet a Saudi prince?

I think the right is making hay over a Covid precautionary fist bump is the same stupidity they did to Obama over a tan suit.

https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/RESPONSE-TO-A-PSEUDO-HUB-ATTACKING-MY-KNOWLEDGE-OF-POLITICS-AND-HISTORY

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isn't snogging the correct way to greet a Saudi prince? (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Jul 2022 OP

The right wing doesn't care. And Fox News is actively destroying this country from within. Initech Jul 2022 #1

Pisses me off that the American press was excluded from this photo op Walleye Jul 2022 #2

Yeah, W was always kissing his Saudi Prince. Farmer-Rick Jul 2022 #3

Initech

(107,286 posts)

1. The right wing doesn't care. And Fox News is actively destroying this country from within.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Mon Jul 18, 2022, 10:47 AM

Jul 2022

So it doesn't matter what we do, the white wing AM hatemongers are always going to find ways to talk shit about us. But that's all they got - talk.

Walleye

(43,758 posts)

2. Pisses me off that the American press was excluded from this photo op

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Mon Jul 18, 2022, 10:49 AM

Jul 2022

Yet all the major papers felt they needed to run the pic on the front page. It was a total set up by the Saudis. Oh and they top the news with it two or three days in a row

Farmer-Rick

(12,420 posts)

3. Yeah, W was always kissing his Saudi Prince.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Mon Jul 18, 2022, 10:50 AM

Jul 2022

And yet a fist bump is a problem?

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