The Nicaraguan and Israeli flags do look pretty similar though. They both have blue, white and blue horizontal lines with a blue symbol in the middle. Looking at that emoji I can't even tell the difference, let alone if I were looking at this on my phone.
Which makes me wonder: When politicians tweet, do they do it directly from their smartphones? Or do they draft their tweets, think of what to say, go over it with an advisor, and then post it from a government computer?
They're pretty distinct on my phone, the Israeli flag has darker and thinner bands and the Star of David is evident. Might be explained by different phones having differing emojis.
And I do know that during the campaigns, candidates generally have their tweets checked by a bunch of advisors (Hillary is notorious for this), but no idea for in general, or in VP Pence's case.
Europeans still have yet to elect xenophobic madmen to power
uuuuuuhhhhhhhhh
In recent history, I mean. Situation was different before that. Before 1970s-1980s, America was actually the more developed/more civilized one out of two. But Europeans have managed to pull themselves (with some help from USA's better parts) out of the quagmire of xenophobia, racism and stupidity and become enlightened, while USA has started to embrace those vile values around that time, though it has managed to keep said process relatively under the wraps and suppressed away from the outwards-facing parts until recently.
I've heard the phrase applied to this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Orb%C3%A1n
He was elected before Trump, but close enough.
One relatively unhinged governor does not really change the overall picture in Europe, especially since the province in question is also one of the poorest and least significant ones within the Union.
Orban is the Premier (Prime Minister equivalent), not the Governor.
He's not a young man, and it's very small.
True enough.
Also, it could be worse, there's another flag that looks ALMOST EXACTLY like the Nicaraguan flag, not sure what country it is, somewhere around N. There's also Argentina which looks similar. Edit: No wait, THAT one is Nicaragua, then what's the one close to Israel on my phone? edit2: Oh,
Honduras. Funny that I was mistaking Honduras for Nicaragua.