🇷🇴 ROMANIA'S TOP COURT ORDERS BALLOT RECOUNT as "Moscow-friendly ultranationalist", Calin #Georgescu (pictured) wins election.

How can one be an "ultranationalist", by default holding only pro-Romanian views, AND allegedly be friendly to what the EU perceives as an unfriendly state?

Officials allegedly detected online efforts to influence the vote.

CORRECTION: Polling stations are open today across the country to select parliamentary representatives.

A 2nd round of presidential voting will take place on 8 December. There is no turnout threshold in #Romania, so the #elections will be recognized as valid regardless of how many show up the 2nd time.

What a brilliant democracy! 👏

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🇬🇧 PARENTS HORRIFIED AS BRITISH CHILD FORCEFULLY REGISTERED A WRONG GENDER: The British bureaucracy apparently can no longer correct the mistake.

The young couple are in despair as their daughter is listed as a boy on her birth certificate. They are unable to correct the error in Laila's documents, despite complaining to the National Registry.

The Nottinghamshire registry says that they can offer a correction in the form of a statement at the bottom of the page: "Male changed to female."

I don't think that's a solution. It's like a #transgender baby who was born a boy & we decided to make him a girl at 5 weeks - the parents are aghast!

How long does it take to print a new piece of paper?! Gee, and the Westerners wail about Russia's bureaucracy!

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🇺🇸 "IT'S A DEEP STATE MUSEUM" - Trump's new FBI Director Patel (speaking) suggests shutting down the FBI Hoover complex.

The FBI's footprint has gotten so frickin' big! The biggest problem comes out of its intel shops.

I would take that component out. I would close the Hoover FBI building on day one and open it the next day as a deep state museum!

And I would take the 7,000 people who work in that building * send them out to catch criminals all over America. Be cops! You're cops! Go be cops.

Why do you need 7,000 people there? Same thing with the Justice Department. What are all these people doing? - Patel on large government.


A large government creates jobs for itself, some of which are useless & overzealous services - others can be done by a portion of the staff. Drain the swamp!

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🇸🇰🇪🇺 EU HAS THE WRONG IDEA - I'M A SOVEREIGN PM OF A SOVEREIGN STATE - Slovakian PM #Fico on attempts to disrupt his trip for the 80th anniversary of WWII Victory day in Moscow in 2025:

Opposition members tried to cancel my plans to visit the Russian Federation with the help of the European Parliament. But they have a wrong perception of reality. No one can tell a sovereign PM of a sovereign country where he can and cannot go. Victory over fascism would have been impossible without the former Soviet Union - Fico.

Earlier, Fico suffered an assassination attempt for being "pro-Russian" & publicly stated he forgives the assailant.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 PUTIN ON THE REJECTION OF THE #DOLLAR by countries of the global South:

One of the colossal mistakes of the U.S. administration is that they prohibit the use of the dollar in international settlements and make it an instrument of some kind of struggle (sanctions etc.)

Complete nonsense, they themselves undermine confidence in the dollar. It's simply absurd. They have to grit their teeth - "Whatever, just take care of the dollar. Take care, don't touch it, raise its value, raise its authority!" No, they are simply killing it with their own hands - Putin.

Earlier, Trump issued a warning to BRICS countries not to issue their own currency & undermine the "mighty U.S dollar!"

You're doing it all by yourself, dude!

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