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Russia has halted all flights into and out of the country

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Re: Russia has halted all flights into and out of the country

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Wow I wish our executive branch actually did take orders from Russia, per the fantasy we all enjoyed for three years. They're certainly taking the situation more seriously than we are. After several states held disastrous primary elections over the last two weeks, Wisconsin is set to hold another one this week!

Re: Russia has halted all flights into and out of the country

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Lots of countries have.

I was on one of the last flights to transit through Taiwan. Here in the UK, the government have been talking about a program to get brits back from Australia because many of the places you have to stop and refuel are closed even to transiting passengers.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/coronavirus-travel-re...

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/australia/return-to...

Re: Russia has halted all flights into and out of the country

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Wow I wish our executive branch actually did take orders from Russia, per the fantasy we all enjoyed for three years. They're certainly taking the situation more seriously than we are. After several states held disastrous primary elections over the last two weeks, Wisconsin is set to hold another one this week!

Amazing, in the same paragraph, acquiescence of power to a foreign state and a plea to end democracy.

Re: Russia has halted all flights into and out of the country

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post #5

Wow I wish our executive branch actually did take orders from Russia, per the fantasy we all enjoyed for three years. They're certainly taking the situation more seriously than we are. After several states held disastrous primary elections over the last two weeks, Wisconsin is set to hold another one this week!

Amazing, in the same paragraph, acquiescence of power to a foreign state and a plea to end democracy.

"Democracy"? Is that what we're talking about? Read the transcript: "We're gonna, you know, choose our standard bearer, and we're gonna follow these general rules of the road, which we are voluntarily deciding, we could have -- and we could have voluntarily decided that, Look, we're gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way. That's not the way it was done. But they could have. And that would have also been their right, and it would drag the Court well into party politics, internal party politics to answer those questions." [0]

Are you advising your aged parents to work at the polls this week? Why not?

[0] http://jampac.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/042517cw2.pdf

Re: Russia has halted all flights into and out of the country

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I suspect this is to deter Russians from coming home for the Orthodox Easter which is way more important than in the West.

I am a Russian living abroad. I know literally no one coming back to Russia for Easter. It's the first time I even heard of this idea.

Summer or New Year are the times when Russians are more likely to go to visit their relatives and friends.

Re: Russia has halted all flights into and out of the country

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I suspect this is to deter Russians from coming home for the Orthodox Easter which is way more important than in the West.

I am a Russian living abroad. I know literally no one coming back to Russia for Easter. It's the first time I even heard of this idea. Summer or New Year are the times when Russians are more likely to go to visit their relatives and friends.

same here. what a weird idea

Re: Russia has halted all flights into and out of the country

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazing, in the same paragraph, acquiescence of power to a foreign state and a plea to end democracy.

"Democracy"? Is that what we're talking about? Read the transcript: "We're gonna, you know, choose our standard bearer, and we're gonna follow these general rules of the road, which we are voluntarily deciding, we could have -- and we could have voluntarily decided that, Look, we're gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way. That's not the way it was done. But they co…

A troll linking to a pdf file. Not suspicious at all.
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