They put him on the television!
They put him on the television!
Yeah it does make you wonder about some people.
did we learn nothing from sarah palin
Or third grade social studies?
She could see it!
You betcha!
You see, Sarah was right! She’s gained a new fan. If he wasn’t one already.
From her kitchen! ;)
From her house!
Since a couple of days ago, she's IN it.
No. We became exponentially dumber...
My sentiments exactly
How old is Kingston? He may be too young to remember that campaign. It was 17 years ago, after all.
sometimes I post things that are jokes
yes, I was about to post the same joke and then it genuinely occurred to me that I have no idea whether he is old enough to remember Palin does anyone know how old he is?
"Я вижу Россию из своего дома!"
Sometimes they aim to dumb 'em way down.
Wait until he learns how the Native Americans arrived here.
(actually they didn't come through beringia, they probably came by canoe along the "kelp highway" or some other route)
Wait until he learns how Alaska was acquired by the US, and from whom!
Any interest in how "Russia" acquired everything East of Oka (river) up to and including Alaska?
Russians SUCK!!!
tbh I never realised Alaska was quite so... thicc.
If memory serves, the gap is about 2.5 miles. The Date Line splits the distance between the two Diomede islands.
Oddly enough I take more issue with him not knowing he shouldn't tell people he didn't know this than with him not knowing it.
Yes, that. That exactly. It's blithering levels of "I am too dumb to know how dumb I am."
All of us are ignorant about something sometimes but most of us don't telegraph our most embarrassing stupidities to the world after we've learned better. P.S. If you are one of the people I'm talking about, telegraphy was a form of communication predating telephones. If you know what THOSE were.
It’s almost like integration of Alaska was a strategic geopolitical maneuver, not just something on a whim
Too young to remember the famous Palin line about Russia?
He's not alone
Definition of almost.. He almost has a brain...
Dude is a recent Prager U grad.
This guy hit the triple word score of being wrong
It's also a CLASSIC troll post. The FB design language on the screenshot is old enough to vote.
I fear you’re really living up to the Bluesky reputation for not getting jokes here
It will be sometime before this guy understands the blue part is where boats go—baby steps.
No this has to be a bit.
I'm just relieved he's not an American. Despite appearances, it seems we haven't yet cornered the market on abject stupidity.
He's Canadian, isn't he?
Australian
What a dope.
It’s like there’s just that little creek separating us from Russia.
Wait until he finds out the Governor “chowderhead” Palin could see Russia from the Governor’s mansion front porch in Juneau. Spoiler: she couldn’t even see Gastineau Channel from her front porch, let alone the Gulf of Alaska. It’s 1200 miles to Russia, not 2.4 miles like from St Lawrence Island.
She didn’t actually say that, that was an an SNL skit. Her answer was true but dumb because the fact that citizens of Diomeded Alaska can see Siberia does not give the governor of Alaska any foreign policy insight , which was what the question was about.
Christ, some USians are dumb as fuck... 😥
This asshole is Australian.
Then he’s especially stupid because in Australia world maps are Pacific-centered
He went to a posh all-boys day/boarding school, an all-male residential college, and has a JD from the University of Sydney. I suspect that his ignorance is feigned, though to what end, I'm not entirely sure.
I blame their education system - for everything.
I don't. It's cultural. Their education system sucks, but when a 20-something yank goes "I hadn't even considered that they might have cities in Mexico", that's more than just bad education. It speaks to a deep incuriosity about the world in general.
I think it comes from all the "US is the best at everything" propaganda. They are fed this trope from the time they are old enough to sit in front of a tv. They have ended up with a huge over inflated ego, and complete disdain for anything not USian.
I've seen good rational people surprised that they (US) are NOW the bad guys, ignoring all history since the beginning. They are fed the propaganda from young age, along with the Pledge of Allegiance in schools. In many ways, this is not far from any communist countries, they just don't realise it.
yep. americans aren't just uneducated, we're taught to wear our own ignorance about the world as a badge of honor and a symbol of superiority
but its education that should awaken curiosity about the world in children and once awoken would stay with most throughout life.
Isn’t this guy a Brit?
Sorry… but a Brit… an Aussie
Our education is not that bad, but for many humans it is a waste of time and resources. Maybe his dad didn't love him, I don't know. My country seems to amplify these particular voices on our way to the bottom, that's all.
Lol they decided to be retards and not educate themselves, and more importantly, they decided not to be liberal democrats.
Bill Gates had a lot to do with it.
And I blame our media.
Yes, it's been underfunded for decades, but it doesn't take much to do some research as an adult. Even the over the privileged trump doesn't bother to learn, with his ignorance on constant display, "who knew..."
It takes curiosity, and curiosity needs to be encouraged and enabled. You need to have an outward view, most Americans never look outward at anything.
He’s English, sweetie.
...and yet, it doesn't change a thing.
I mean, it makes your comment kind of a weird non sequitur. And also a little ironic, since you’re discussing people not knowing something while confidently making an inaccurate assumption. But whatever.
Who is he? GB News? GB News is Farage,far right. Yes we have assholes here too.
Now have to listen to a dodgy podcast & check accent to verify. Australian based in New York according to ze inter web. Only came here to discuss Risk the board game 🙃
my quick google search says he is a nobody
😂
You can tell by the spelling of "realise" that he's not US-educated.
I thought he was Australian (based on tweet where he said he was ashamed of Australia recently).
Ha, so he is. The man has crossed the world for work but hasn’t seen a globe.
I don’t know where he grew up but born in Sydney. Works for Sky News Australia, amongst others, according to his bio.
Sky News is far right crap.
Yes, he's Australian. Went to an all-boys Anglican day/boarding school & has a law degree from Univ. of Sydney.
Australia is ashamed of him and people like him.
Not only that, but it shouldn't even be necessary to "do some research" to know that if the earth is round, Russia and Alaska must therefore be right next to each other. That's just like... basic spatial reasoning.
Even if you've never seen a globe in your life, you'd either have to be a flat-earth conspiracy theorist, or have some kind of brain damage that affects your spatial logic lobes, to not be able to figure that out.
He's a limey
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As a USian, I can confirm that “dumb and oblivious “ are currently culturally sanctioned.
He's in London, UK. His geography books would have centred Great Britain, not the USA. Still, he seems to have been away the day they took World Geography 😏
Turns out he's Australian. And never scrolled the map to see what's just a little northeast of his home.
isn't he from Australia?
So are people that think this guy is from the US.
yes of course, not knowing the nationality of a random guy is just as bad as never having looked at a map
Actually, you can easily tell from the spelling of "realise" that he wasn't educated in the US.
that would require me knowing random shit about americans or proto-americans (english people) which i have no reason to know. again, you people really overstate your own relevance
Not you specifically. But I do think that a person making blanket statements about a nation's education system based on the idiocy of one individual deserves to be mocked for not noticing that the individual was not educated in that nation.
What I find telling is that the dumber someone seems to be, the more everybody else in the world assumes he's USian, me included. 😉
Well, sure. But I have a cousin who has dual US-UK citizenship, and who moved from the US to the UK when her kids were nearing school age specifically because she believed they would get a better education there, only to be bitterly disappointed.
I think it is becoming a more common problem everywhere.
In the US, the quality of public education varies a lot, both by state and by location within the state.
That's the same up here.
I didn't say stupider than the guy who doesn't know the US and Russia almost touch. Since he's not a 'USian'. But I'll add 'USians' - not as stupid as one who thinks tasty was the point.
Maybe massdebate is more apt.
Sigh.
This current timeline makes the Dark Ages look like the Enlightenment.
I guess up until now he subscribed to the “thar be dragons” school of thought when it comes to Alaska’s Western frontier
Strait up.
Google Earth is going to blow his mind!
Did you tell him we basically are spooning with Russia, cause that's what I think he is hoping for...
she tried to warn you. you didn't listen.
Even Sara Palin is smarter
Never....
What a dweeb
He's never looked at a globe, only maps? Not even Google Earth?
😅
He's never heard of the bering straight?
Maybe he has heard of the Bering Crooked. Definitely not the Bering Strait.
HE HAD PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF GREENLAND BEFORE THIS YEAR
...or Canada.
When you’re dumber than Sarah Palin…
Actually only 2.4 miles for those counting at home.
Are kids allowed to grow up without having once played Risk these days?
On the other hand I always can appreciate someone admitting to being wildly stupid and uninformed about obviously basic facts
Holy fuck he’s stupid
if this is real talk about bonkers
i know we all have our own personal experiences but every classroom in my elementary had this crazy device called a “globe” and i thought they came pretty standard
Wait until he finds out that is how N America was populated, by people just walking in and not in the 15th century by boat.
Admitting your ignorance is not a pretty sight.
How are maps normally drawn?
This is not a ringing endorsement for our educational system. Or, he's just an idiot.
Both...
I guess he didn’t know Alaska used to be Russian
How did he miss the “I can see Russia from my house” joke of 2008?
guys posting Ls online
Dumbass. I learned about the Bering Strait in 5th grade.
A fact any 12 year old European school vhild would be aware of - what a dim dipstick.
he must be a flat earther by nature
Jeez, Palin told everyone she could see Russia from her backyard.
What a dumbass.
So….he’s an idiot?
Clearly, he's never been invaded from Kamchatka before!
And Sarah palen can see Russia from her house
Open the schools
JFC… the average conservative commentator lol
But, but! Trump says it is a big beautiful ocean between. So this must be an ugly fake map made by the crazy, communist, woke, leftist retards!
Not the brightest star in the night, is he?
Tru, dat!
What an utter moron.
He'd shit himself if he saw a polar projection.
Is the debate about how high his IQ actually is?
hey Will, it's only 40 miles away. oooh, scary!
Sports debate show?
“The way that maps are normally drawn” bro never even used a paper map in his whole life let alone you know . Google Earth
"American exceptionalism" at its best! The only map that matters is the map of North America with the entire top half of Canada cut off. Or worse, they have no idea where Alaska is. 🙄
He has apparently also never seen one of those round things that has the earth on it aka a globe.
Just what I was thinking 🌎 🌐
Wait until he learns how the Native Americans arrived here.
😎👍
US education standards suck.
He's not American, although he apparently lives here now.
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Anyone can find a map in 2 seconds.
I knew how close Alaska is to Russia when I was in grade school. And that was at a time that Russia was known as the USSR! US education sucks.
I can see Russia from my back yard!
I love how people just climb onto the tallest mountain to shout into the valley, "I am a giant dumbass!"
Par où pense t'il passer quand il vole entre LA et Tokyo?
Don’t tell him the earth is round!🤯
Imagine being as blisteringly ignorant as that guy apparently is, but still thinking people should care about your thoughts on anything.
Sarah Palin, not a heavy hitting intellectual, told us, way back when she ran for VP that she could see Russia from Alaska & you somehow missed that? 🤣
Admitting as an adult with a job that supposedly requires me to be informed about the world that I simply do not understand the concept of a globe
Has he never watched Tina Fey's impression of Sarah Palin?
Wait, Palin was right?
She would have been if her house was on Big Diomede Island.
Periodically I’ll learn something that I should have known all my life (not as major as the Bering straits but still) and I tend to not tell the entire world
🤣
A flat earther??
He’s shook by something that I’m pretty sure it was pointed out in my fifth grade geography class?
I bet Sean Kingston knows this.
Good fucking GOD. Fucking idiot.
Get that man a globe.
Russia is so close; Sarah Palin can watch Putin pee from her front porch.
Trump didn’t know where Alaska was
Uh, has he never looked at a GLOBE ?!?
Incurious idiot that’s never just roamed around on his maps app? Also did he not wonder why Russia was sooooo scary to America in the Cold War 😅
“I didn’t realize the earth is round” is quite the confession.
Never learned about the land bridge that humans used to populate the Americas?
Did he forget about Sarah "I can see Russia from my house!"* Palin? *okay so that line was from Tina Fey doing her Palin impression on SNL. I think. Still.
wait what he's fucking australian??
Tell me you failed geography without telling me
These are the dumbshits driving the debate on the right
You see, Fox News never played that Palin quote, so…
I mean, even Sarah Palin knew. Sarah Palin!
"I can see Russia from my house" (Sarah Palin claimed that Putin, who she claimed to oppose at the time had to cross Alaska first) youtu.be/vSOLz1YBFG0?...
At first, I thought why would anyone admit this? Then I realized he thought he would get positive engagement from his followers. Probably got hundreds of likes from equally stupid people.
Another homeschooled murican And they wonder how we can tell
Australian.
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www.newsweek.com/palin-revive... Yep...
He is the master of the show
A midlife revelation on what most school children know.
New debate topic - Is the earth round or flat?
Random Fact Equus originally evolved in North America 4 million years ago … they then crossed the land bridge into Asia, Africa & Europe and completely died out in the Americas … All the wild horses & donkeys currently in the Americas are feral domesticated breeds reintroduced by humans.
« You mean when I reached the left end of this drawing I should appear on the right side? Amazing »
Yeah. It truly makes you wonder why the whole Greenland thing became a thing, right?
Someone was homeschooled
Someone's parents faked the home schoolinng paperwork.
Does he debate his own frontal lobe? I'm guessing it's a lose/lose if that's the case.
Watching these sloppy white boys fail up decade after decade is so f*cking tiresome.
mEriToCrAcY
Oh dear god.. this is a grown man declaring that he doesn't know the difference between 2 dimensions and 3.
OMG FFS.
There’s even the story of the swimmer Lynne Cox :
"As a peace gesture"... Well, maybe that's what we are actually missing. Trump should have swum to Russia. He'd certainly receive the Nobel prize for that!
Obviously not a SNL fan… This skit is classic 🤣
That's the first thing I thought of too. 🤣👍
Clueless
At least, unlike the US president, he knows Alaska belongs to the US.
Currently....things can change....
Ohhhhhhhh. Sky News. That explains it.
Never heard of him. And now I’m mortally embarrassed he’s Australian.
A direct representation of the failure of education in the USA. I’m not saying it’s because he wasn’t told. I’m saying it’s because they failed to inspire his curiosity. And maybe self-awareness too.
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Ah. Thanks for the info. I’m sure you can understand my assumption.
if you think the united states has a monopoly on ignorant fuckbuckets, you haven't traveled much, read or watched media from elsewhere, or talked to people from other countries
PS: I grew up in Canada, the next door neighbour of the beast, and am a legal citizen of three countries. I currently live in my third continent. I have travelled across North America, Europe and Asia.
I never said they had a monopoly. I will say that it seems many people in the USA are stuck in binary perspectives. Saying there are _some_ ignorant fuckbuckets, _many_ ignorant fuckbuckets, or _millions_ of ignorant fuckbuckets, does not claim that the USA has _all_ the ignorant fuckbuckets.
"i'm sure you understand my assumption" says it all. parochial!
What in that statement says that stupidity is exclusively American? It does say that’s an understandable assumption in the land of alternative facts and Jewish space lasers
I can't
Seriously? 🤣
I just let him make my point for me. 🙃
Are they not talking about the Bering Strait in school anymore? Because the land bridge and ancient peoples walking across was right up there with dinosaurs in the cool sciency stuff that we lear--oh I see what I did.
So I got some pliers and I pulled really hard and the tooth came out! I thought these were permanent?!
Jesus! How can anyone be that ignorant?
OMG look at a world map, idiot. Read some history. And, maybe think a bit?
Just wait til he discovers that Alaska used to be Russian territory.
Right???!!! Get a globe already.
Good grief. Does he, uh, like, know that the earth is round?
Uh, like obviously maps are square dude, wtf are you going on about
😂👌👍🏼
that is first grade curriculum, learn the globe 🌏 smh 🤦🏻♀️ no wonder
Seriously? This guy is a total dumbass!!!!! Did he nit talk to sarah palin🤯😐
Sorry….. “not” But- I totally understand what you’re saying! I just don’t consider her a female/ woman. Just a total piece of shit you could “see russia from Alaska”🤬😡
His kind do not talk or listen to women. His kind think women exist for *other* reasons.
Exactly😤
Well - Putin just came over to check the level of defense 😎
I guess he never looks at the Flight Tracker when flying from Australia!
Home schooled I bet
Does he not realize that coastal Alaska was colonized by imperial Russia? And that the US bought Alaska from Russia?
Seward's Folly It was in all the history books
What’s a history books?
I've already said too much!
What's a book?
Imperial Russia had outposts all down the Pacific Coast, as far as Northern California (Fort Ross).
Oh Kanada, the North Pole stark und frei!
Foul globalist sorcery, man
😆🤣
How does that come as a surprise to anybody who went to elementary school?
What a profound moron.
"I know less than Sarah Palin, who's with me?" -Will Kingston
🤦♀️
Not only is he admitting to never looking at a globe even once, but my man is admitting he never once had a friend to play risk with during his childhood. It would be sad if he wasn’t a pathetic racist hack
Bro never learned about the land bridge
“shook”? i think the words you were looking for is “ignorant to an incredible degree”
I want to jump into a hell portal
Sarah Palin could see it from her front porch in Wasilla.
Well, after all, Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house in Alaska. That should’ve been all the information a guy like this needs.
“Debate” doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Part time village idiot I assume.
You can see it out the window...
Wait until he hears this is how the US was originally populated..
Trump's entire political career was made possible by people like this.
We learned this in first grade. 😂
Maybe not in his homeschool
He's Australian. He went to an expensive boarding school in Sydney & has a law degree from the Univ. of Sydney.
Which is even worse in this case. Aren't some international maps Australia-centered in Australia?
I'd never seen one before, but it makes sense.
😂😂 I'm sure
Right. We bought it from them you dipshit.
He forgot that Palin could see Russia from her toilet?
Is he famous?
He’s more than famous, he’s infamous
It’s not his fault all the other maps are Woke
Mr. Kingston should go to that point in Alaska and jump over to Russia. I bet he can do it.
Wait until he finds out that glaciers are melting, and the sea ice that keeps Russia from having an all year water route through the Arctic to the west coast, is now melting sooner and not freezing as solid, and Russia is the nation with the most icebreakers in the world.
we need a globe stat.
Actually that is just a part of the United States, not the entire country. Canada has more to fear them Alaska.
What the fuck? This is like elementary school stuff.
The education system is so F'd
AMAZING. Is it not ?
I'm old and remember looking at globes.
He and Palin should hook up.
I try and be supportive for people finding out something new to them. I like to encourage curiosity and wonder. But seriously, never heard of the bearing strait?
Geography was not taught at his school.
How hard is it to search out a map?
maybe he's never seen a globe flat maps with the US on the left and Russia on the right don't make it clear where the two edges meet
Wait till he sees a map of the northern hemisphere centered on the North Pole...
Me too. I debate with a mutt every morning about his toileting needs versus my sleep needs. So much barking.
Twinned with Dominic Raab
I’m pretty sure my first grade classroom had a globe.
We really need to bring back shame and embarrassment
He didn’t know why Sarah Palin could see Russia from her house?
What normally drawn maps does he look at? 🤪
He’s only used those maps in malls and amusement parks that say “you are here” with an arrow. Right now he’s looking for the food court betwixt Alaska and Russia
ones that just show the USA
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Yikes you're right - but that sorta makes it worse - as an Australian I would expect the world maps he's seen to be split over the Atlantic rather than the Pacific
the ones where alaska is a little box down next to hawaii
I guess ones that split on the dateline so Alaska is on the left and Russia on the right. But even so, did he not know they connect at the edges? They're still right next to each other
Must not have heard Palin say she sees Russia from her house....
Is he serious? This has to be a joke right? Like he didn’t even stop to think when SNL did Sarah Palin parodies back in the day where Tina Faye dressed as Sarah would say, “I can see Russia from my house! “
My Gosh!!! Did he skip High School???? He must have!!!
Fuckin eejit 'murcan....'I never realised'...indeed. And there are over 190 countries that aren't America! Probably didn't realise that either!
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"I actually just assumed to the left of America was just a massive, massive table that we were all resting on."
Do people just not look at maps for fun wtf!?
globeless behavior
It's flat
I guess he’s never heard of Sarah “I can see Russia from my house” Palin. (she didn’t actually say that, it was an SNL skit, but she has said you can see it from Alaska).
She definitely did say it.
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The video is even linked in this article. youtu.be/JXL86v8NoGk?...
Which you can, from one island to another.
Never said you can’t. Situating what she did and didn’t say.
Yeah just wanted to say it.
I swear to God I didn't see your comment before posting mine, which was almost word for word. Please have mercy.
Also, how’s Berlin these days? I spent some time there in 2002 but I suspect much has changed. I’m waiting on my German citizenship application to be processed and depending on the next few years might be getting the hell out of dodge.
I can just about guarantee it is very different than it wiuld have been in 2002. I like many aspects of the city, but it is getting more and more expensive and it is getting harder and harder to find housing (and it was hard to begin with). German citizenship? May I ask how?
By ancestry. There’s a ten year window when people who have direct descendants who lost citizenship between 1933 - 1945 can apply to restore it without having to qualify in any other way. There’s I think 5 years left to do it. The processing time can be around two years from submission.
Also for some other categories. Ie German citizen married and had children with foreign citizens in foreign country. Law original was only if German citizen was father. Was amended to be gender neutral. I need to get going and apply , my brother already did.
It’s a very long waiting period so if you need a sign that you should just get started, consider this it.
Yes, thanks.
That’s a very cool cat in the pic btw.
It’s Fannie! We adopted her when she was eleven , her owner unfortunately passed away . Took her a while to adjust.
I had a hunch that's the program you were aiming for. I didn't realize there was a time limit on it; first I heard of that provision was some years ago, now. Best of luck with the application. The wheels of German bureaucracy can turn slowly.
Thanks, Everything was submitted in December 2024 so I’m hoping by late 2026 early 2027 🤞, maybe it’ll line up with the midterms…
Much more crowded but still Berlin. On the upside: Much (!) better food than twenty years ago.
The food is better now than even just ten years ago, when I was pretty new here, you're right.
I’ve long since learned that as clever and original that I’d like to believe I am, if I’m thinking it, I’m probably not alone. The SNL qualifier is pretty uncanny though.
The fact that we both presented the sentence as if it were her nickname is what did it for me.
Sarah is to busy reading every newspaper and magazine in America.
This is some Republican gaslighting that she got away with because she didn't specifically say "from my house." Watch this clip and tell me it's not essentially the same sentiment. youtu.be/JXL86v8NoGk?...
I know the interview and sentiment, doesn’t change what she did and didn’t say.
This is real "it depends on what your definition of 'is' is" energy. You're being a moron on purpose. Listen to the words she said and tell me how it is functionally different from the accusation.
Wow so aggro. Did you even read my original comment where I literally said she has said you can see Russia from Alaska? I just refuse to misattribute quotes. Have a nice evening.
You can, in fact, see part of Russia from part of Alaska
I know. I never said you couldn’t.
No. You don't. Neither island is a part of Alaska or a part of Russia respectively. The islands were divided, along with the people, by the same treaty that finalized the purchase of Alaska.
The islands are on the state of Alaska and the country of Russia so I don’t know what you are talking about.
Like it is literally in the Little Diomede Wikipedia page that one island is in Alaska and the other is in Russia and you can see them from one another. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_...
Totally swimmable, not for me, but for someone…in a wetsuit.
And this stunt was done at least once. Only, the RF owned island is a military base, cleansed of all the native population, and even other civilians, so I am not sure about any practical use or even the symbolism.
Only, hilariously, it is not what the Wiki page says. Literally. It says "two Diomede Islands located in the Bering Strait between the Alaskan mainland and Siberia."
Scroll down a little further
Buddy I am reading the English one.
Not everyone who disagrees with you is a russian asset, schizo Get over yourself
Or the main article. Still, no language the previous geography challenged sarahpalinite insisted was "literally there". It is not to imply that you are assets of any kind. You ain't.
And I don't know what the construction "an island is on(!?) a state" means. From what's geographically Alaska, you can't see even Kamchatka, currently a subject of the Russian Federation, let alone historically Russia proper. If you want to say, "но поделенные острова Гвоздева!", then say that
🤦♂️
dudes never looked at a map beyond the noted states obviously. i thought that crap was common knowledge e
She can probably see her toilet from her house too!
he's wrong about the reason he didn't know that.
What an idiot.
Red Dawn really hits different after Putin strolled a red carpet with the prez in Alaska at a military base.
HAS HE NEVER LOOKED AT A FUCKING GLOBE?? Holy fuck I knew people could be stupid but this is just...ugghhh...
Lesson #2398 why we need to teach kids how to play Risk in school.
He is "shook"?
He didna lern da geogramaffy good in skool. 😝