– Life in America is a circus! Seems like everything on TV is invented, the movies and shows have nothing to do with reality. It's all coming from the heads of Hollywood and the H2O gang, and as it goes back in ...
– HBO.
– Haven't you been following the adventures of Mr. Canary Head? I'm laughing out loud.
– Mister-what-head?!
– Haha, the guy with orange hair who wants to be president of the United States.
– Trump?
– You have to laugh. Did you hear what's been happening? Total hilarity. We Portuguese are running out to buy a phone so we can hear about greedy old fogies who only concern themselves with suitcases full of laundered money! Meanwhile for Americans it's pretty much a forró.*
– Forró is in Brazil.
– The Brazilians are crazy too, but this is way better. There's no comparison.
– Listen, if I were the father of that married woman he tried to grope, I'd slap him upside the head. That pig thinks that if you're rich and famous you can do anything.
– It goes both ways, she's no saint.
– Why?
– Because it's one thing when you're offered a pair of shoes (or a lobster dinner), and entirely different when you get something like a wardrobe (or a mind) for free. Every woman knows it's coming too easy! Even in America.
*Editor’s note: Forró is a genre of Brazilian music that encompasses various dance styles.
[A] weak yen and rising interest rates have continued even further, with the primary cause being the increase in crude oil prices due to U.S. attacks on Iran.
[T]he relationship between Mexico and the United States is going through moments that are, yes, both tense and complicated, but above all, quite strange.
[T]he relationship between Mexico and the United States is going through moments that are, yes, both tense and complicated, but above all, quite strange.
Bell argued that [the rise of far right factions] should be understood less as a straightforward product of economic conflict than as a response to social dislocation and anxiety over status.
If American democracy is wavering under pressure from authoritarian impulses backed by the power of the digital world, the consequences will be felt far beyond Washington.
Bell argued that [the rise of far right factions] should be understood less as a straightforward product of economic conflict than as a response to social dislocation and anxiety over status.