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#pnut4prez: Candidates Forgot Their New York ValuesBernie Sanders won the Wyoming caucuses over the weekend, marking his eighth win in the last nine matches with Hillary Clinton. But Wyoming already felt like a distant memory as he and the other candidates prepared for the upcoming New York primaries, touring the boroughs in their best efforts to appear hip. While Clinton slowed everyone down at the turnstile and Cruz tried his best to pronounce matzo, it still wasn’t as bad as when Kasich ate pizza with a fork and knife. How does that Sinatra song go again? “If I can fake it there, I can fake it anywhere.”
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Ukraine’s Prime Minister Calls It Quits After Not Doing MuchAfter barely surviving a no-confidence vote in February and watching his party’s approval rating plummet to 2%, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk finally took the hint. We’re sure it was a very loyal 2%, but that other 98% have been much more vocal when noting Yatsenyuk’s inability to tackle state corruption. Government stability is expected to remain in tact seeing as his presence hadn’t effected much change anyway. The party of President Petro Poroshenko has already nominated the speaker of parliament, Volodymyr Groysman, to fill his post. No word yet if the 2% will throw him a farewell party.
Quick refresher please?
Ukraine is caught between a Europe that is playing hard to get and a Russia that really isn’t. Huge pro-EU demonstrations in January 2014 toppled a corrupt pro-Russian leader in order to install a corrupt pro-EU government. Europe, initially excited that someone wanted to hang out with them, quickly got less excited when it realized they would have to pay for dinner (and Russia was flexing its muscles). Meanwhile, reform has stalled and a civil war in the east has turned into a stalemate. |