seeing potentially the 2nd "I don’t need a ride" level fearless leader emerging this century

because I'm in Team Putin

Correct. And the scale of the betrayal: comparable to the biggest ever, like the sack of Constantinople in 1204. But carried out in a uniquely sneaky and backstabbing way, making it the ‘greatest’ (of course).

only Trump can save him, and he’s going to make the attempt.

why is Swiss Re still not collapsing?

translation: signalling to Ru his full readiness to parrot Ru propaganda, and the secretly agreed Ru-US divide-the-blood-money deal is going ahead as planned

first we require a "thank you" and generally insult you, then we cut the aid anyway, and finally we sell you into death and torture, for profit

A clenched jaw means something human wanted to slip out - but he knows it’s forbidden.

and to think that even hardened criminals have some sort of code about harming children. This is evil as in dictionary definition. Which has now made a nest in the US public life, as someone just noted.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

besieged by barbarians, the Roman Empire fell. Can Europe hold the line this time?

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I don’t know what that ratio was for Pharaoh-to-his-slaves, but what gets me is that at least the Pharaoh looked majestic. Meanwhile, this belly-flashing, jumping idiot & Co. who honestly think they’re some kind of geniuses…

DT recently told a female reporter 'quiet, piggy,' which carries an element of inflicting pain for fun - technically, sadism. Judging by the silence of his base, this impulse might extend beyond him. Asked the machine how Buddha would address victims and perpetrators of sadism.
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watershed moment it is, even as some may have come close to saying similar things: Mussolini, Franco, Tito, Khrushchev, Castro, Idi Amin. (not Hitler, turns out)

Facts.

open.substack.com/pub/amindfullofthoughts/p/quiet-quiet-piggy-a-watershed-moment

The people most facilitating it (MAGA voters) will be the most cushioned from its effects. “I am your retribution,” and retribution on a global scale it is. What did we ever do to deserve this from them?

Drilling a few holes into the Earth is a small price to pay for never having to face medieval dentistry again. (sorry, I know we're burning the planet down, and really could’ve advanced without wrecking it. But that's an optimisation problem, not the root cause, which is ourselves seeking comfort)

we're collectively discovering we have said all we had to say