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Afghan Freedom (from the US).

Tony Blair

"That one shows our office cliques."

State Budget.

"I know he's funny, boy, but he’s also the president of the United States."

"Goodbye, Cruikshank. We leave you to contemplate the wisdom of messing with big dog!"

Upon graduation, all of the clowns would gather to find out where their assignments would be.

Flushing Democracy

Biden Ignores the G7 Leaders on Afghanistan

"So you want to give yourselves a pay raise and change term limits so you can continue to ignore voter mandates and introduce ridiculous legislation?"

Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Schauble

"On the one hand, I'm glad they're cutting the school year short...on the other hand..."

The End of Trump?

'...need to design something to bridge the generation gap.'

London merchant telling a young employee that if he does not change his behaviour his career will go badly and he may end up becoming mayor

Their bubble-boss seemed completely unaware of the toxic work environment.

"I beg your pardon," said Alice, "but which of you is the Democrat?"

"People think the government has a bottomless pit of money....but sometimes we have to make sacrifices!"

Black cloud over Statue of Liberty

Charles P. Muckenspucker - Mission Creep.

"It was just a little setback - but the boss had away of making seem much larger."

'Okay, maybe I was defeated for re-election, but at least I beat the point spread!'

"Hundreds jailed, many hurt as police in riot gear use tear gas and pepper spray to break up large number of protesters..."

'That's a very good question - Are you trying to make trouble?'

"I'd like an application form for the position of minister, please!"

"They heard about the 'Party Hearty' legislation."

Stimulus bust

'Why don't you try Luxembourg? -- I'll bet you could conquer THAT!'

"Sooner or later you just knew it had to come to this. . ."

"...But then it turned out there weren't any WMDs on the moon after all."

'It's 10 P.M. do you know who's in charge of Egypt - the Muslim Brotherhood or the military?'

Voter Suppression

'Oh, I worked hard on solutions for a time but finally realized I was cut out to be part of the problem.'