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      You joke, but that’s basically the White House official response.

      “Absolutely not. My advice to that unnamed low-level French politician would be to remind them that it’s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now,” said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in a press briefing Monday, likely referencing an American-French allyship during World War II that snuffed out Nazi Germany. “They should be grateful.”

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    Hey, France, from an American:

    Insist on it. Every. Single. Meeting. Insist. Return it. Give it back. Fuck you, that’s not what it’s for. Put the screws in.

    Our idiot fucking government wants transactional and splashy. Oblige them.

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      Conservatives love to control the narrative by forcing people to deny their ridiculous claims, so do it right back.

      Force them to keep denying that they owe France the statue so the admin will never stop legitimizing the idea with their pissbaby tantrums.

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      One French MP said the US should return the statue of liberty, probably more to make a rhetorical point instead of an actual demand.

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    Some should tell that dumbass that was sarcasm to make a POINT. Besides, Donald would rather melt down the statue into Trump coins, or replace it with a gold plated statue of himself.

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    Whew! Otherwise, George Lucas was going to have to buy the rights to Planet of the Apes and digitally change the ending.

    There’s a theory that the Statue of Liberty shown at the end was actually the one from Las Vegas. Lucas could have changed that to the Las Vegas Sphere: “GOD DAMN U2 ALL TO HELL!”

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          No harder cutting news than when Kennedy felated her microphone just out of Giuliani’s peripheral vision that one fateful NYE.

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        U2, the band that represents someone else randomly choosing what music I have to listen to.

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    Karoline Leavitt is really annoying.

    She tries to be snarky, but it doesn’t work because she’s completely wrong.

    She’s like an unironic version of Philomena cunk.

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    Trump did not say thank you! What a piece of shit. He would not have a democracy to destroy without the help of the French.

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    If they could read the New Colossus poem would convince them they don’t want it or anything it stands for.