Seymourkid
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽He can't go a single day without being an international embarrassment. https://www.comicsands.com/trump-takaichi-pearl-harbor-joke?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram
Chris
Aho@georgetakei wasn't that why he was elected? Everyone did know he was a lair, a failed business man, and a lazy scammer.
@georgetakei without getting into politics but rather the Second World War: actually Japan DID try declaring war but they were defeated (by encryption as I recall).
This is little known and FDR kept it secret to rile up support from the public.
That only made people more furious even though in time of war embargoes are not exactly neutral.
@georgetakei and obviously the public did need to be riled up. It’s unfortunate that victors write history. Not that those who lost - including Japan - have not written their own versions but the victors have more success. It also doesn’t even matter if they were ‘good’ or ‘bad’.
Because it’s a very human trait.
Nonetheless it would be better if some of the lesser known facts about the Japanese in the Second World War were actually known.
@georgetakei unfortunately all sides lied and covered up things. The US had Nazis land on the east coast during Operation Drumbeat.
And the Japanese occupied Attu Island. Which resulted in real tragedy when an American shot a Japanese American doctor (who absolutely loved America).
The place is almost entirely inhospitable but of course they still would care.
The Battle of Attu is one of the most tragic battles of the war.
Obviously Axis Powers also covered up etc.
WooShell@georgetakei Other presidents had to resign for doing only ONE of the things he keeps delivering on a daily basis.. times surely have changed.
Tim Zee@georgetakei
Foreign leaders need to come to the White House prepared to "joke" back.
Daddy Fred Trump's arrest at a 1927 KKK rally is hilarious.
Bringing up Trump's status as a frequent flyer on Jeffrey Epstein's Lolita Express will always produce a few chuckles.
Foreign leaders need to come to the White House prepared to "joke" back.
Daddy Fred Trump's arrest at a 1927 KKK rally is hilarious.
Bringing up Trump's status as a frequent flyer on Jeffrey Epstein's Lolita Express will always produce a few chuckles.
Cosmic LibrarianI'm sure she could have made a tasteless joke how Japan was warned by the USA about a new weapon that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but she had more taste than that. I would have immediately walked out of the room without saying a word, which is why I could never have been a diplomat, let alone Prime Minister of any country. So, kudos to Takaichi for having tact and nerves of steel.
Sister Lucy Fur@georgetakei Sadly, that pathetic nasty PM is just smiling and eating up his shit because she's a fucked up right wing psycho asshole like Trump..
Pam C@georgetakei Not even accurate because Hawaii wasn't even part of USA at the time.
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