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malaise

(295,305 posts) Tue Mar 10, 2026, 02:20 PM 18 hrs ago

Think about the disrespect involved to name your

daughter’s criminal father in law (the one he sprung from prison) Ambassador to France. If you think Mandelson was a British joke - what was this?
And you don’t expect more grifting?

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Think about the disrespect involved to name your (Original Post) malaise 18 hrs ago OP

Context, please? What's this about? Ocelot II 18 hrs ago #1

THIS - folks are surprised malaise 18 hrs ago #2

What does that have to do with the ambassador to France? Ocelot II 18 hrs ago #3

And then I think about Joseph Kennedy and Walter Annenberg being named Ambassadors to England ... marble falls 18 hrs ago #4

Ocelot II

(130,227 posts)

1. Context, please? What's this about?

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2026, 02:22 PM

18 hrs ago

malaise

(295,305 posts)

2. THIS - folks are surprised

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 10, 2026, 02:23 PM

18 hrs ago

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221085769

Ocelot II

(130,227 posts)

3. What does that have to do with the ambassador to France?

Reply to malaise (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 10, 2026, 02:24 PM

18 hrs ago

marble falls

(71,702 posts)

4. And then I think about Joseph Kennedy and Walter Annenberg being named Ambassadors to England ...

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2026, 02:28 PM

18 hrs ago

... they're trying to buy a stairway to heaven. A bootlegger and the developer of the sports wire for nationwide gambling: out and out gangsters.

Expect grifting? Unnecessary - it's part and parcel of the game.

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