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DFW

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5. Good for him! At least somebody is involved

Reply to Coventina (Original post)

Thu Mar 5, 2026, 02:30 AM

14 hrs ago

Though the number of Americans Abroad (excluding military) roughly equals the population of Virginia, nearly ALL U.S. politicians usually only care about us during election season when they are asking us to “step up” and “rush” our non-tax-deductible contributions to them.

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My husband is currently in Europe. Trying to help coordinate the evacuation [View all] Coventina 22 hrs ago OP

This is Rubio's job. But he's too busy kissing up to his orange God. Walleye 21 hrs ago #1

Trump's evacuation nightmare. Baitball Blogger 21 hrs ago #2

Remember that Trump was pretending that having US civilians mining in Ukraine would mean it was protected muriel_volestrangler 21 hrs ago #3

I'm sorry for what he has to contend with, and all the people. electric_blue68 15 hrs ago #4

Good for him! At least somebody is involved DFW 14 hrs ago #5

the "America First" sentiment doe not seem to include our citizens Skittles 13 hrs ago #6

"Please do not rely on the US government for assisted departure or evacuation..." vanessa_ca 12 hrs ago #7

Other countries flew their people out. America did nothing BlueWaveNeverEnd 10 hrs ago #8

Andir's already gone sideways into hell. ananda 10 hrs ago #9