It was like waving a giant white flag and announcing, "the people on the side of rule of law, democracy, and decency WILL NOT FIGHT AS HARD AS THEIR OPPONENTS. They don't have the grit or guts for it. Act accordingly."

And readers ... they have acted accordingly.

Why did they bother? And aren’t they all paid well enough to look happy?

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Maybe the EU should give itself an AKA and the UK could vote on joining under that name to save face lol

And Italy 🇮🇹 benefits SO much from EU $, Poland EU trade… and they all see Britain’s regrets — lol the folks who pushed Brexit to win are now dead so if the UK ever had the stones to run a vote to rejoin the EU again, many surveys show it would pass

In fact, because 30% approx of Austria’s residents are not citizens (Austria mostly doesn’t allow dual) & thus may not vote in Federal Elections, this huge % — and that this is a big % of working age voters — now becoming an issue in natl political discussion re: voting, citizenship, etc.

Austria’s economy is powered by its residents from the EU — a huge % of its workforce — so yeah nah fam — whoever wrote that is not v knowledgeable about Austria.

I also liked that Tietma Rockets 🚀 kit and some of the French Conti team kits.

I did not like last year’s kit and I like this one less.

My fave men’s kits of recent past teams were Bahrain pre-pearl kit era, Sky ocean charity kit, Bora aqua blue focused kit and the Picnic Post NL kit.

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This presser made me sad. I had hoped to see Primoz do Giro & Vuelta with Julio P. Pfft that Jai is there. I figured they’d do FL & RE to TDF (tho I think that’s not great) — surprised that he’s not doing RVV. Feel like they are not doing as much w Primoz as they could. Think RE quite overrated.

Indeed!