The evil gets more banal every day.

I wouldn't consider them to have become a superpower yet.

New Delhi as in asking the Indian government or as in just asking around in New Delhi?

Modi actively sending Indian citizens to Russia (where they could then be forced into the war) seems really unlikely.

Pretty sure Romney doesn't do caffeine.

Much less whatever it is Trump's been snorting.

I've been wondering why they didn't do that years ago.

The western equivalent of the blank protest sign, more or less.

It's also the MAGA version of the fake McDonalds and Coca-Cola in Russia.

I suspect Trump thinks Putin is *his* asset, all evidence to the contrary.

We don't disagree. They fired a lot of the career experts, who make up the technocratic part of the US government. Similarly the independent agencies like the federal reserve, USPS, etc. are technocratic by design. The tech bro billionaires think they're smarter than the experts. They're not.

Yup. Actually technocracy is pretty much what DOGE was trying to dismantle. The right wing nutjobs call it the deep state.

Wait are those really Kid Rock lyrics? (I'm not even sure I've ever heard his songs.)

I don't think you mean technocrat, it's not at all synonymous with tech billionaire.

This is why I can't key grasses.